Nanya’s words kept me up for a while, but eventually, I came to the conclusion that she was simply joking around. Unless Tuberculus was the ugliest old hag in the existence of all known Universes and Nanya was a trap, then there was no way for something like that to be possible.
The following day, I was woken up with a gentle knocking on my crystal body by Shanteya.
“Yawn! What’s up?” I asked with a half-asleep voice.
“Pardon my rudeness, master, but one of the first-year students destroyed Zertan’s alchemy lab. He filed a request to be fixed before the beginning of next class.” she explained politely.
“Who?” I asked again and focused on the honorifics.
“Zertan-sensei. He teaches Alchemy and Potion brewing.” explained my lovely el’doraw.
“Ah! Old guy? Big glasses? Glares at everyone and keeps a dryad hidden in his room?” I asked with a yawn.
“Yes, but I do no believe he holds a dryad… why would one agree to such a thing?” she asked a bit confused.
Was it a secret? I wondered.
“Let’s just say it’s not for decoration.” I explained.
“Oh my! That’s revolting!” commented Shanteya as she covered her mouth with the tip of her fingers just like a beautiful and graceful lady would do.
“Huh? What’s revolting about playing chess and trying to find a cure for her condition?” I asked confused.
“Ara? I thought… that he and her… Eh…” she looked at me confused.
“You thought what?” I asked, although I could guess already in which gutter her mind sank into.
“Never mind! Never mind! The good teacher is waiting for you!” she said and looked away from my crystal body.
Her cheeks were flushed. She looked adorable like that. Who knew Shanteya had a bit of a pervert in her as well?
Since there was no point in doing any morning exercises or brushing my nonexistent teeth, I flew out of my body and accompanied Shanteya to the old man’s class. The el’doraw wasn’t kidding. The place was a mess, and more than half of the vials were broken or spilled all over the place. A few of his alchemy tables looked half melted by something corrosive, and another was blown to bits. Zertan wasn’t looking too happy either. I had a feeling someone was going to fail his class.
“Well?” he asked when he saw Shanteya.
“Master is here. Please be patient.” she replied in a cold manner.
I found her tone a bit odd, but didn’t let it bother me for now.
Let’s see… Skills… Construction… Ah! There it is! I thought.
[Create Alchemy Table with: [Basic tools]
Looking at the cost, I could probably replace all of the tables around here. Just how many exactly are there? 1…2… 4… 6… 8… 10… 12. Hm, manageable. If there were 30 or 40, I might have had a problem, but this is a cinch! But Nanya did tell me to keep my Godlikelyness a secret for the time being, so maybe just 6 max? Yeah, 6 is good. 600 Magic Energy is manageable for a presumed level 250 Heroic dungeon! Right? while I debated with myself the right amount of magic energy I should spend in front of Zertan, Shanteya was standing at the entrance, waiting patiently like the cute maid she was.
“Zertan, I can make a basic alchemy table, but it’s costly, so please tell me how many exactly you need for your class tomorrow.” I asked politely while lying through my teeth about what I could do.
“All of them!” he shouted lifting his hands up in the air, and at the same time earning Shanteya’s glare.
“Zertan-sama, don’t be unreasonable, please. I have to fix the bathrooms too, this much is a little bit…” I told him, hoping the honorific would help in my negotiations.
He grumbled something under the breath and then crossed his hands at his chest.
“Can you replace four tables?” he asked.
“I’ll try.” I said and then approached the first one.
If this was Nanya’s class, I doubt I could have escaped without repairing absolutely everything and even dusting off the place. I’ll just fix these tables for now and then return later to finish the rest. Hm, or maybe tomorrow? Speaking of which, why is he here when it’s a free day for the students? It’s Sunday! I thought as I began to work.
By absorbing the damaged goods and then replacing them with the ones created by my magic, I was able to complete this job rather quickly. The grumpy Zertan reluctantly thanked me and then I followed Shanteya out of there.
We went to the clogged bathroom on the ground floor and began where I left off yesterday. Merion remains weren’t just going to clean themselves up, after all. My trusty plunger and metal brush worked hard and did a wonderful job. Luckily for us, these last two bathrooms weren’t as messy as the others, so when it was an hour or so past noon, we were done with the last one. All that was left to do was fix some of the pipes in the sewers, but the toilets were functional, so I decided to do that another day.
“I’m going to go now and build the thingy Nanya asked me to.” I told Shanteya.
“Very well, Master. If you need me, I’ll be in your room cleaning it.” she said and bowed respectfully.
I flew away, but before I got started with that thing, I decided to do quick a perimeter check, just in case I wasted too much Magic Energy and then needed to fight someone or something.
Thinking about it, these skills of mine are starting to be a bit inconvenient, though. Magic Energy wise I’m handling it for now, but I only have costly elementary and beginner skills. So far, I didn’t used too many skill points, but I feel like I will get overwhelmed one of these days by the sheer amount of work I’ll need to do and the lack of quality I’ll be able to offer in return. I have a feeling other dungeon lords don’t work hard on scrubbing Merion guts out of toilets for two days… I pondered while flying around the academy.
Speaking of skill points, so far, my status looked something like this:
[Name]: Illsyore (Nickname: Illsy)
[Species]: Dungeon Lord
[Race]: Godlike
[Level]: 23
[Strength]: 0+1000
[Agility]: 0+1000
[Intelligence]: 135+1000
[Magic Energy]: 7670
[Magic Energy Regeneration]: 25 Magic Energy Points per Second
[Divine Protection]
[Divine Aura]
[Divine Perception]
[Available points]: 230
[Alternate bodies]: 0 Max 1
[Skills] > List all skills? Y/N
[Available skill points]: 185
[Allegiance]: Holy God of Big Boobs!
[Spouses]: None
[Slaves]: Shanteya Dowesyl
[Pets]: None
[Minions]: None
I didn’t use any of my attribute points because I had no idea what sort of path I wished to take. Besides, it appeared as though I had strength and agility, but the fact that I didn’t had any physical body meant that putting points into those was useless, however, what if in the future I gained one and had no points to add there? Gaining levels wasn’t as easy as it was in an RPG. As far as I knew, I needed to either kill something, have one of my allies kill something, or build/repair lots of stuff.
From level 1 to 18, I reached by killing the assassins. From 18 to 23, I got there in the past few weeks by working myself to the bone, however, I had the feeling that regular monster attacks and a bandit getting himself beaten up by one of the teachers allowed me to gain XP to level up as well. The strange thing about my leveling system was that no matter where I looked, there was no XP bar. I literally had no idea how far or close I was from my next level.
As for how many points I gained, in general it was 10 of attribute points and 10 for skill points. Initially, I had 240, but I spent a lot on useless construction skills needed to repair and maintain the school. Luckily, they didn’t require an exaggerated amount of points. I was a bit greedy with using these points because I didn’t know what was going to be more useful for me on the long run. I wanted to avoid as much as possible ending up as a character with 1 good skill and the rest junk. However, I was starting to feel like I needed to do something about my construction skills. They required insane amount of magic energy. Although I had a bunch to spare, I couldn’t help but feel that it wasn’t normal.
Well, I can always just spend until I’m left with 100 skill points, then it will be easy when I need to used them for useful skills if I find any. I thought while scanning the edge of my territory for enemies.
Shanteya already arrived in my room and began her cleaning duty like a proper maid.
After I was done with that, I began to search for a good place to build something for Nanya’s party.
I believe I shouldn’t make it too far from the academy’s main building and if possible for student use as well. I thought.
Unfortunately, I was in the middle of a mountain. I had the following options: grass, rock, tree, and did I forget to mention grass?
In the end, I gave up and decided to start from scratch. First of all, I built a small pond about 200 m or so from the building and right next to the forest. I used the [Create a Moat] skill and expanded it for a bit. Surprisingly, this wasn’t in the Trap category of my skills. Using weak Fireballs and by absorbing the ground, I was able to give a more natural feel to it.
Oh, the part about the absorb ground thing, I found that out by accident. Frustrated with the square appearance, I wondered if I couldn’t just dig it the old fashioned way. The moment I thought about absorbing a square with a 10 cm height and used my ability, it happened, the dirt vanished. However, it didn’t work on living things or constructions. When I tried to take a bite out of a rock, I grabbed the whole rock instead, but water worked just fine.
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I filled the freshly made pond with water I gathered from a nearby river I found right at the north edge of my territory. It was the same one that passed near Therion City. Once that was done, I began to build a big, spacious gazebo as I once saw at many hotels back on Earth. Of course, I couldn’t achieve the same level of architecture, but it was worth trying.
When I took a look at my skills, I noticed that none of them allowed me to make it as I pleased.
[Construction Skills]
Elementary:
[Create a Room with
[Create a Ceiling]
[Create a Moat]
[Create a Hole] [Destroy created Areas] Intermediate: [Create Furniture: [Create a Door: