Chapter 2: The Greatest Twist of Fate

The next day, I made sure to check the progress of the Seed of Wish. I can’t afford to make any mistake about this certain seed since it will affect my life for a whole year. I don’t care about the invaders coming here and there trying to make it rich blindly and some of them did won the lottery.

I wish to borrow their luck.

It’s always this tense for the last 891 years of me trying to succeed. Sadly this wish of mine has gone on for so long without any ray of success but I feel that this time will be a strike! I can feel it so strong!

Though I feel this way every time. Surely this time will be different right?

I am trying to get positive thoughts so that the will of the world will follow. I must make this work or there will be another 365 days of misery waiting for the next chance to plant a Seed of Wish. If only there is a trick to this.

Now I feel nervous. No! I need to think positive.

I carefully tended with the little sprout already starting to show itself. The chances are fixed with 1% chance but maybe the heavens will take my actions in consideration and make it just 90%? I think they will since I am great and I really want a Dragon.

I hummed as I carefully do some work around the seed. Clearing the wild grass and some little insects are quite tedious work to do but I think it will be worth it in the end.

Hmmm little bug get out of here….

Hmmm hmmm little worms come here…

hmmm hmmm… grow grow gently down the stream…

I spent my whole day watching over the new sprout as I wacked the little butterflies trying to lay their not so ugly caterpillars. I know they are beautiful but not today.

I wonder how the heavens will grant me if I somehow succeed this wish. Will she just magically appear out of thin air? Or maybe fall from the sky? Wait… those were all nonsense and I think dumb. So intriguing but I don’t know too so I am stuck here waiting for the next… 28 hours.

Time passed by so slowly as it is still only two hours until I noticed I have some visitors. My dungeon is not a cave going deeper and deeper but like a real forest. It only expands wider and wider and somehow I can estimate that the dungeon is wide enough to cover a kingdom or two but only some mid-sized kingdom.

I reluctantly walked away from the sprout but not before putting some safety net to keep those butterflies away. I would really cry a river of tears if I came back and find out that I lost my chance due to caterpillar. That will just be so sad.

I walked towards the highest tree in the dungeon which somehow serve as the heart of this all. It does not have any function aside from expanding the land which the dungeon can cover. It needs to cover the area with its roots underground before a land can be considered as part of the dungeon and only those lands have the possibility of having monster plants on them.

When I arrived at the platform, there is a little fruit with a clear crystal inside it which shows the new intruders. They are all wearing expensive equipments and seem to be well off compared to most of the challengers.

Let’s see… a few vanguards, two archer and one fancy swordsman.

What the heck is this composition?

No healer, no mage, and no summoner. How can they even pass at this rate?

At this point, I somehow feel bad for them to the point that I want to give a chest to them and let them go home. So far the most successful ones always have mages on their party since the monsters inside the dungeon will be weak against an element always. There is no monster immune to all element since that gift is only for the True beings in this world or the Origins.

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I am going to explain again right? Sigh….

So, Origins can be called the ancestor of a certain race. The first one is the best description and they basically have all the best trait a race can have.

The True beings are those beings which transcended their original race and like those True dragons.

There done.

I watched the party struggle to make it deeper inside the forest. Somehow the fancy swordboy is doing the work of the magicians and can cast some really good spells. Even though he is still a greenhorn he has some merits so maybe this party will have some results. Though conquering this dungeon will be out of the possible results since the last wall for me, is nearly impossible to climb unless they are True or Origin type and they will need to be of a certain element to do so.

The party relatively cleared the 9271st layer of the forest quite easily as only C-Grade plant monsters are in there. The challenge will only turn up when they reach the 9000th layer where some Terror spawn randomly drift. The chances of one encountering them is low but the massive numbers of plant type monster in there is good.

“Where are these people from? Let’s see...”

“Janice Empire?”

Those people never learn.

The Janice empire is a powerful empire around this continent as they have large lands under their control and a few kingdoms they conquered. Their emperor a.k.a naughty child, dreams of ruling this empire forever with the help of the Fruit of life. Basically he is a naughty child who wants to play forever.

Seriously… grow up dude.

The party made it to the next layer but somehow started to struggle a bit as the two archers’ fire power had been limited due to the presence of those hard and scally monsters called Squash. As their names which somehow sounds cute, they are not by the way, they love to squash. They are covered with scale like plates of hard materials which greatly reduce piercing and slashing but made them weak against blunt damage. Somehow these monsters greatly hindered their advance due to their massive numbers and their specialty skills mad rush. They only rush by leaping repeatedly until they reach their targets and squash them with their great mass.

Five hours passed by but the party started to get some injuries and some of them are really inconvenient ones. One archer got his right arm’s tendon to be damaged and now he can’t pull the bow efficiently. The vanguards are relatively fine since two of them were paladin class and have some basic healing spells but those damaged tendons will stick for a while unless they have greater heal.

The fancy swordboy seems to be the one leading since I can see that he keeps barking even though I don’t hear him. The Plant of Crystal Image which I use to check the dungeon is quite limited as I can only interpret what is going on by lip-reading and sometimes it does not work because I only know a few language. If it’s a language I am not familiar then I can only watch as they work.

Seeing them clear the monsters along my dungeon makes my heart somehow burn. If I place all those SSS grade monsters in every layer then there will be no more intruders but that will also cause attention and might cause massive misunderstanding that the dungeon has gone Abyss mode. So this systematic weaker monster going to stronger monster system was created among dungeons. Those who did not follow this system, well… most of them were conquered and got themselves to become a farm without freedom.

Should I also explain the fate of those conquered dungeons? So much hassle….

Well, those unfortunate ones were forced to produce rare monsters only which the conqueror wants or needs. If not then there will be the termination following by breaking the dungeon heart. Those broken dungeon hearts have no value but many weird races loves to collect them as trophies to show off to others.

Though sometimes those braggarts gets smited as some idiot dungeon masters send some minions to also break their homes or their rice bowls. Pretty much termination too so not many has the courage to keep those broken dungeon hearts.

Back to the adventurers or so how most of the races call them, they cleared 72 layers before giving up and managed to get two B grade chest and one A+ grade chest. They traced their way back with displeased expressions on their faces since I somehow know what their original goals is. Due to their lack of power to progress, I guess they will be hearing a lot of nagging from the naughty child of Janice Empire.

Speaking of chests, why do we even have them? If one consider it carefully, aren’t dungeon masters idiots for making them? It’s just like asking for thieves to come. The reason behind it is quite simple. Dungeons need some quota of invaders every year or else the grade will slowly deteriorate. So unfair right? I even know one SSS dungeon which the human race neglected until it deteriorated into C- grade. Thinking that it will be an easy clear with SSS loot but C-grade monster strength, the human race invaded and really conquered it but they never got to taste the fruit of their labors as the dungeon master exploded the dungeon into smithereens and wiped out a few kingdoms around it.

So yeah, they can neglect a dungeon and let it deteriorate but once they do, they should constantly fear of when the dungeon will explode. It’s a simple rule to keep things balance. They can neglect the dungeon but they will be living in constant fear on when the dungeon will explode. One fun fact about this world is there will always be a few civilization around dungeons. Due to this, the idea of neglecting a dungeon became forbidden by every race across the lands.

"Next time when people from that naughty child comes I should give them a poop of carnivore plant and disguise it as a Fruit of life." I said still unhappy about the event as it only made me remember bad memories about them,

That naughty emperor managed to get one Fruit of life a thousand years ago since I willingly conceded it due to the massive amount SSS grade personnel he has under him. That era is of blood and fire as wars ravaged the entire continent making lots of people shoot their grade off the charts. Now, he is back testing the waters again if he can still get one because a thousand years ago my dungeon is only around SS rank and so little SSS grade monsters which will only result into mutual destruction if I fight head on so I only made easier challenge and let him have his way. Now that I am SSS grade dungeon, even if we clash head on I will wipe the floor clean with his old face.

Maybe he only have a few years under his belt so he is trying to get one again. Not my problem though as I don't want to give anymore Fruit since I need them now to keep my dungeon in good shape. The total number of my Tree of life is only still around a few thousands after so long and you can see how hard it is for them to reach maturity.

The crappy adventure only lasted around eleven hours so I went back to my spot to watch over the Seed of wish. I sit down under a shade of a normal tree a few meters away from the sprout with safety nets around it.

Hmmm hmmm. grow well little one

Grow grow and grant my wish

So happy and it will come true

la lalalala lalalalalala

I hummed as I watch over until I suddenly felt a chill run down my spine as I saw something falling from the sky with great speed. I will not be worried if it fell into something else.

"Not there!" I shouted as I ran towards the little sprout of Wish.

"Noooooo!"

I screamed as something fell straight towards the sprout and turned the surrounding into a crater.

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