Dear readers, you will probably find more than a few grammar errors in my novel and I want to apologize for that. So far I normally proof read every chapter at least 3 times but even then there are tons of errors still in there.
Right now I switched from open office to grammarly.com, thanks to Saphyron, and it display´s me 91 critical issues and 75 advanced issues in this chapter alone after open office already corrected it.
I already slightly improved my English while using open office, but now with grammarly it should improve more thanks to the error explanations.
Have fun reading the novel now with fewer errors!
ps:
(Grammarly sadly did not pay me to write this!)
Just finished the correction and now I understand why one would think that I never proofread my chapters.
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The Retreat to the dungeon is finally completed. The old city of Luxor is alive like never before since millions of refugees taking shelter in it. Sadly the cost of this was my treasured town that I had to build up for over a 100 of game years. But there was nothing I could do to stop the Russians after the alliance had lost a battle they should have won! We were 4 : 1 stronger than them and still had lost what a shame.
Causeria on of the top ten towns in the upper plane is going to burn. My guild is furious with my decision of complete evacuation. But I am not stupid there is no way to stop an army of a 100 million and with 30 flying emperor dungeons.
Sure I could sacrifice my dungeon and deal a huge blow to the rebels but I rather leave the guild than to sacrifice my NPCs and the dungeon.
After checking the status on the main monitor in my old command center I was sure that it is time to teleport to the lower planes.
I stand up and look at my 30 underlings who are pretending to do something in front of their hologram computers. They were carefully selected and they give a different bonus to the coherent department and each is of a different race which caused me a lot of trouble. Sadly this command center is way to small and could only manage 10% of my gigantic network of dungeons. Nodding to myself I teleport directly to the heart of the dungeon.
“Welcome Father”(Rose)
Ignoring the greeting of the AI, I step to the lonely console in the mountain size room that was filled with the heart of the dungeon. The heart was a beautiful crystal-like structure similar to a city in which several forms of energy are swimming. But I am only focused on searching the right command. Finally satisfied with my settings I activate it.
“Are you sure to transfer the dungeon to a random newer lower plane and lose 10% of the Rosentals dungeons?”(Rose)
“Yes”(Rarion)
“Closing Entrance”(Rose)
“Disconnect from the guild network”(Rose)
“Disconnecting from the world”(Rose)
“Starting isolation Protocol” (Rose)
“Powering Spell eta 8 hours”(Rose)
“Activate mana connection from me to Rose”(Rarion)
Now I start playing the famous mana mini-game where I have to weave a pattern of colored mana threads. Each thread would react different to its neighbors based on color and change its tint, some colors could only be achieved by combining certain threads, some colors looked extreme similar and then there were even special mana threads with special abilities to block reaction or change color over time. It was a complex logic puzzle.
Of course, I unlocked a few cheat abilities which were sometimes even needed to solve the spell.
And so I Rarion did speed up the spell to 15 minutes. The Automatic casting was of cause extreme slow but the time it took would rank me around the top ten for this spell.
At that moment, I did not know that the blinding light that was cast with the spell was the last thing I would ever see in this world.
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A long time since than.
A thundered voice range through the hall“Intruder please wake up father!”(Rose)
Would there be any sand or stone on the floor it would jump up by the volume of that voice. Of cause me the sleeping dragon that was bedded on a crystal structure would wake up from it.
As I slowly open my eyes I can't stop noticing that I am in my dragon form? Did I miss something?
Roaring with slight fear in her voice “father sorry for waking you but we got intruders”(Rose)
Slowly I stand up with my 7 meters long dragon body that is mainly dark blue with black strips, looking confused around.
Intruders? How is that possible, first I should go back to my human form and check the console.
Focusing I activate my morph skill, which normally feels like taking a dump. All inherent skills feel just like you would use random muscles. It took years getting used to having wings and then when back out of virtual reality losing them and it feels like you still had wings and could fly. It is just one more reason not to go out of VR!
“ahhh!!” (Rarion)
surprised by the pain I am trying my best to continue, don´t want that debuff on me.
“Are you ok?”(Rose)
Hee? what did rose get a vocal update? Well, whatever first let's check the situation of the intruders.
“disconnect the connection from me to Rose”(Rarion)
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Oh, auto spells are not working?
A bit confused the voice of the core calls “Father are you ok?”(Rose)
Ohhh, I have to do it manually, thank god for the overlay library function I have unlocked that makes it easy to find the pattern I need. Finally, the connection is cut with the help of my fast mana weave.
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Still ignoring Rose I step to the console and look at the overview of the dungeon.
What the hell is going on 70 000 sub-dungeons and only 106 control nodes seems to work! I should have only around 10 000 subs. This is bad, the mana is at critical mass all the buffer are overflowing no production node works anymore, what happened?
In the Game, you had to build nodes in your dungeon to manage the mana output by connecting them similar to a production line. You need to carefully balance the nodes and manage them, then built factories so you could build for example a mana hologram or millions of other useful stuff for your civilization.
Well first let's check the log regarding the seals. Oh, the first of the seals has been broken... by Riva?! What does my commander of the Air Force doing breaking my the seals! And not even alone there is an army in the door hall of around 80 000! what is going on?!'
With a spinning head I am opening my inventory, I equip my best equipment, sadly there never was an auto-equip for the sake of realism in the game even so you had an inventory which does not cry out realism.
And so under the watchful female face of Rose which is formed by yellow particles inside the crystal city I dress. My best armor has multiple of layers: first, there are the leggings with undershirt which needed alone over 70 dungeons to produce plus special machinery, factories and workers and it could count as one of the top in the game. Sadly I could not say that for its looks, the colors of the rainbow on it change over time that is definitely not my kind of style!
Not that you could see it over the rest of the metal leather looking armor in a color of blue and black with a few buttons here and there and with my cloke over it, it made me look like a rouge. I am ready for a fight even so I have no chance against an army of 80 000 alone!
“Father stop ignoring me and tell me what´s going on!”(Rose)
Taking a closer look at Rose I realize just how strange she is behaving. No way, could she be an advanced AI? But those are never allowed in VR!
After a few long seconds of silence, I try to test a voice command.
“Status Rose”(Rarion)
with a slightly angry voice, I get my answer: “how should I know the status I am not even connected thanks to you!”(Rose)
Seemingly surprised by the answer I again focus on the console and after a few minutes, I finally activate the command to connect Rose to Rosental.
Looking at the face of rose I can see a full facet of emotion in her face from surprise to being perplexed and angry.
“*sigh* well it looks like we did sleep around 100 years and the whole dungeon is in total chaos it will not be that easy to gain control back. It seems most of the warden can be activated and were not destroyed”(Rose)
“Status Rose”(Rarion)
“What?! we have to rebuild the network in order to get more information all I can say is that we have a lot more dungeons under me but without connection that´s all I can say”(Rose)
Where the hell is the info window? And what is with Rose complex answers? Log out! Log out damn! What´s going on why can't I log out!
Nervously I answer her “Give me a second ok?”(Rarion)
First, the extreme pain while using morph and now this! Can it get any stranger? I can't even check the net for information where is the internet?! And now that I think about it everything feels slightly different! The seals should hold at least a week so first let's figure things out here.
“So Rose are you a advanced AI?”(Rarion)
“What? do you really think this is the time to make fun of me?!”(Rose)
Nervously I answer “that´s a no I guess?”(Rarion)
“Are you not going to greet Riva and fix my nodes? Do you have any idea how I feel without it or should I start now doing it myself? And than the mana pollution we have to open the entrance or everything is going to explode sooner or later. What about your so holy civilisation that you brought in me I am not taking care of them since I have all the wild dungeon running wild to take care of!”(Rose)
Oh man I am getting a headache from her. I have no idea why she can talk back like she has a consciousness? What does that mean, and why can't I log out? I am having the feeling that is only the tip of the iceberg of changes. I should investigate Riva and her army now that I know that the guardian army works I should be fine.
“Well wait before you activate all the warden or else it just adds to the chaos well I guess I take a closer look at River”(Rarion)
“Ah right, you can activate all guards in the door hall I will be right back Rose”(Rarion)
And so after a quick weave I turn invisible and teleport to the door hall.
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POV Riva
Finally the expedition arrived at the famous grand Tor hall. The first army holds the defends at the entrance just in case. Thank god my fear that the guardians would protect this place was false without our equipment from the armory it would be impossible to win since the entrance to the hall was a narrow pass easy to block.
I am getting goose bumps looking at the gigantic stone army standing at the walls with all sort of weapon before them from swords to rifles.
But then again every royal ward stopped working after the fall why should here be any different? And it does look like here is also no monster well the numbers of traps were hard enough for us to overcome let alone a group of monsters it would take them a few millennia to get here!
“6th army move on!”(Riva)
the sound of dozens off trumpets echo through the hall to signal the order to march and the beginning of a new era in the world.