POV Clare
I got used to being in the army long ago and I really do not want to repeat the whole experience of being kidnapped again, but a part of me hopes that after we see the sun again and I can escape my Valkyrie fate.
I want to be a real artist and draw pictures like in the hall of fame! I even would draw my mother as the sun bringer if that is what it is going to take!
The soldiers are calling her sun bringer what a joke, she is now working 20 hours on the seal and it is still not broken! I would have broken it twice by now, thanks to all the seal making and breaking that I went through in order to sneak out of her prison to draw blue dragons all over the city! I wonder what kind of face mother will make if she ever finds out I am the blue dragon paint-slinger!
Oh, finally it looks like she is ready to break it.
Hehe, I see that there is another Seal! I must not laugh! Think of my old squad ahh, the good old times. My years of emotion control show again since I did not laugh. But I have to draw this face of my stunned mother it is just too funny!
*rumble*
Oh did the stone army activate?
No...
Well, time for war counsel and time to hear mothers questions and questions like always in the counsel. I really hope the stone Royals wakes up, I have already made plans with the first Army, we can't destroy them, we can't even end warden no chance we can defeat guardians but that does not mean we can't trap them!
Oh mother, I have my own name flying around. Since I can't practice my creativity on the canvas I had to do it on the battlefield and that earned me quite the reputation. Oh mother, wait for me Blood Wing, I will be the one that steals your dream like you did with my dream and I will the hero´s name that will echo forever up to the sun!
POV Rarion - One week later.
I am looking now outside from my half dusty villa into the barren desert that was once a beautiful garden.
*Sigh*
Today is the day I can finally start the rebuilding process, the negotiations are hard and slow but we could at least find a temporary solution. The main problem is that Lux wants me to open the dungeon first and see how the outside world is, should we be in an asteroid field than they would want a different cooperation than should we start on a rock floating in the void.
The more I try to explain to them that we are probably on a mana rich planet where it will be impossible to not find live the more they don't believe me!
Rose did not only explain that to me, she also investigated the two consuls. She can't observe everything, but she can focus on 2 places the same time. And turns out my first hunch was correct, one Consuls is my child.
*Sigh*
Making love to an egg was certainly not one of my proudest moments but for each race, I gain a small evolution bonus of their race and my partner also gains one of me. Also, a child gains the grates bonus out of both of us. Naturally if I do experiments I do it with my children since they have a greater chance of success since they have the bonus.
Jule Seager one of the current consuls is one of my more successful experiments, an Insectomind. After seeing the top ranker Early Pearl beating 5 other top ranker on stream as an insect swarm everyone tried to recreate the Race. Recreating a hive mind and adding genetic memories to a small fly race was the easy part. Creating out of them the highly specialized different races of the swarm itself was the hard part but Early Pearl's real genius was his miniature equipment like a 3 cm small cloning machine wich so far nobody was able to recreate.
Jule Seager´s swarm steadily grows till it's time to split and so Seager is both male and female. But it does not look like a swarm. Most of the time it is in his human form where its skin looks like it has scales and it even created a fake nose, mound and eyes that it doesn't really need. The Face looks quite strange since it is drawn with the backs of his colorful insects.
This story has been stolen from Royal Road. If you read it on Amazon, please report it
So it did not surprise me that he demanded that I stop using poison gas since this is one of most effective weapons against him. But what really shocked me was when Rose told me that 22 years ago he slaughtered most of the upper class that opposed his military reforms that turned everyone into the military.
But the bigger problem in the negotiations is Mason Bankston, a small gnome looking men. I smelled immediately that he was actually a Dragon, most bigger dragons morph into smaller humanoid forms so my guess is that he is a bigger dragon.
His ex-company took control over the media 40 years ago and somehow did not get culled from Seager, now he is the head of the foreign affairs, and Head of Commerce.
Lux turned somehow in a form of communism with a command economy.
*Sigh*
Well, it should be time to teleport to the meeting with my new second in command and my daughter Clare.
The now named Layer Quator had once one of my main malectricity plants now it is one of the most secure Outpost of Lux. But my biggest trouble is that the water is gone! This place is 298 Layer from the heart and is a 100 km by 100km square, it was filled up to 100 meters with sweet-water and it is now gone!
My plants were in a huge cave at the sides of the dungeon and now I can look down around 70 meters and see a sea of mushrooms.
"I wonder where all the water went."(Rarion)
"We were told that the mushrooms ate it."(Clare)
"They ate it huh? Could they be even intelligent?"(Rarion)
"So far there is no proof for that. But some here believe in the mushroom god and that they have to sacrifice water to him."(Clare)
"I kind want to burn it down and fill it with water again."(Rarion)
"If that is what you wish to do."(Clare)
Ah, I am optimistic about Clare's future, River truly raised her well. Only her nickname Bloodwing is a bit much.
"So they build a town here, how many do live here?"(Rarion)
"When we came here 4 years ago here were 40 000 mostly goblins kobolds and gnomes but now here live more than 100 000 and they started settlements in the mushrooms.(Clare)
"Would that not make my burning the mushrooms problematic?"(Rarion)
"Yes."(Clare)
It took us some boring 3 hours to get everything organized. I miss my menu, they use paper for everything! I can't wait for the first PC´s to run! The first improvised plant is for just for a small command center will take only 1-2 days to built and will start getting built after the mana strings are gone, later I plan to build some real Plants!
"Did you find a crew with the needed experience?"(Rarion)
"Yes the crew is ready, so the opening will be tomorrow?"(Clare)
"It should, are the preparation finished?"(Rarion)
"It will be in time"(Clare)
"Ok then see you tomorrow."(Rarion)
I am beeing shocked as I teleport through all the Layers of Rose, I have seen some changes but there are just things I did not expect like a whole Layer full of weird slimes type creatures.
The main dungeon has over 1200 floors, with Rose at zero Quator at 298 was the last industry node, the floors from 1 to 300 were installed after I joined the guild, I was afraid that they would betray me so they are for pure defense. The next 600 Layers were the real industry, here are all the sub-dungeons are connected. The last 300 Layers are for pure defense against outside forces.
I have also some special floors beneath Rose Core like a Storage layer and the Archive.
All the entrances to the subs are now secured by the warden, they still have incomplete weapons but it should be enough for now.
Rose said that most of the dungeon dwellers from other dungeons retreated and are out of Rose. Seems like word got around that the dungeon is opening.
I wonder if outside a princess is waiting for me to save her and her kingdom.