2 days after the attempted Core shattering.
I tried to summon the Young Guard to defend the artillery crews and uh, yeah I went over the limit and I sacrificed a soldier. Look, I’m not getting rid of the fifer, but that does mean that I’m not gonna have a second Nockgunner, which is a pity.
As for the Young Guard’s description it reads: The Young Guard, much like the Old Guard are part of the Imperial Guard. The Old Guard consisted of veterans whereas, the Young Guard consisted of the best of the best from among the fresh recruits and conscripts alike.
In 1809 the Young Guard appeared unofficially in the form of two tirailleurs-grenadiers and tirailleurs-chasseurs, this changed when in 1810 the Imperial Guard was officially divided into three sections, the Young, Middle, and Old Guard.
In 1812 during the battle of Krasny the Young Guard fought valiantly, but perished afterwards, during Napoleon’s arduous retreat from Moscow.
During the events of 1813 Napoleon recognized the Young Guard as effective shock troops, and by 1815 the Young Guard consisted of volunteers, retired men, corsicans, recruits and even deserters.
Oof, the Grand Army never truly recovered after the invasion of Russia.
I also got curious and took a gander at the Russian Partisan’s description. Here’s what it read:
During the French invasion of Russia, Napoleon’s Grand Army faced little resistance from local populations in territories inhabited by Polish, Byelorussian, and the Baltic peoples. This changed the further the Grand Army marched into Russia as they soon faced heavy resistance from local populations in territories inhabited by Ethnic Russians. Another catalyst for Partisan warfare against France was when the Grand Army engaged in looting Smolensk.
Partisan warfare came into three forms, either cossack or light cavalry raids on French supply lines, or picking off lone units. A Hessian Captain Roeder who was stationed at Vitebsk observed an incident saying “Everything was suddenly thrown into ridiculous uproar because a few Cossacks had been sighted, who were said to have carried off a forager. The entire garrison sprang to arms, and when they had ridden out it was discovered that we were really surrounded by only a few dozen Cossacks who were dodging about hither and thither. In this way they will be able to bring the whole garrison to hospital in about fourteen days without losing a single man,” or as is the case in Spain fierce resistance from local peasants and civilians, and lastly Scorched Earth.
Uh yeah, Tsar Alexander I referred to the French Invasion for the first time as the ‘Patriotic War’ and the tsar called for all peoples of Russia to resist, the phrase was then used by Stalin referring to WW2 as the ‘Great Patriotic War’.
Moving on to the Young Guard themselves, they sport a blue coat with red collars and red cuffs, and red epaulettes on the shoulders, paired with white trousers and black knee-length boots. Their shakos feature the French imperial eagle at the front, adorned with a gold-colored band wrapped around the top edges. Above the eagle sits a white, red, and blue cockade, with a long red plume extending from the top. Finishing off with a red string and tassel wrapped around the sides of the shako.
The officer who I named Marie, her shako has a gold colored string and tassel, and gold colored epaulettes.
Yes she’s wearing the pre-1815 uniform, otherwise her coat would be entirely blue without the white vest underneath. While I wished I summoned the Old Guard instead, I guess I’ll settle for the Young Guard. Though I’d much prefer the Old Guard.
After giving her the rundown of her regiment’s assignment, which is to as I said earlier, defend the artillery crew from any stragglers coming over. The crews themselves have begun shelling the city, mostly centered around the town hall, which I was right when I predicted that the town hall would be the epicenter of the fighting. The barracks had mostly been quiet, save for some curious cannibals.
Now to make it fair, I added gunpowder, and cartridge boxes inside the barracks and town hall that would refill when empty. I spent 37 Mana in total for the boxes.
Another thing I did was lower the time limit for adventurers who’ve already ventured into the first and second floors down to 30 minutes, but I added an alternative way to beat my dungeon via a sign informing newcomers. Instead of having to comb through the first floors, they can instead opt to survive for 3.5 hours against increasing waves of cannibals. Adventurers are teleported to the basement, they must navigate the city to the town hall or the barracks, all while under constant cannibal harassment. The timer starts if one of the locations is reached. Now regardless if adventurers trudged through the first two floors or not they’ll still receive that Old Guard badge I created, except now I created another badge given to those who ‘died’ on this floor. The badge features a bloody and an image of a zombified Old Guard soldier with glowing red eyes, the words ‘The Guard Has Fallen’ inscribed under the soldier. This ended up costing me a whopping 150 Mana! So now I’m waiting for my Mana to trickle up again.
The difficulty depends on the levels of the people in a party. For example, if there is a party of five and all are around levels 25-30 then the zombies/cannibals that appeared will average to around level 27 somewhere in the middle. If it’s just one person who is level 25 then they will also be level 25.
What if the party of five are, let's say level 5, then the zombies/cannibals will all be level 5 with less variety of types appearing and bloaters will not appear. My regiments will provide no assistance.
Should I add a difficulty setting? I’ll think about it in the future.
Another thing I noticed was people who look like farmers and or regular civilians, going into the first floor, and harvest the crops there. Which I don’t particularly mind, these crops reappear anyway, if my farmers tend to them that is, and besides I’m mostly likely helping feed some local community out there, and that makes me feel good.
Besides, the Landwehr and National Guard leaves them alone. You know it was funny seeing their reactions to seeing humans as dungeon creatures when entering for the first time, but now those same people just either ignore them or stop to talk to them. I even saw a pair of old farmers, what looked to be a married couple, hand an apple pie to Helen and the rest of my farmers.
That was very sweet and wholesome!
Now to find a willing tes-I mean volunteer, yeah a volunteer to try floor 3. I’ll have to ask either Ellen or Emile to request a quest through one of the visitors.
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Outside. Newly developed Dragdville.
Outside Amelia’s dungeon a town is beginning to take shape, though not quite big enough to be called a town per se, more like a hamlet, considering its current size, though that will soon change as more and more settlers from all over the UoK arrive en masse to this burgeoning settlement.
Dragdville itself resembles a temporary tent city, with the sounds of saws and hammers echoing as buildings, essential or residential, are under construction. However, in time Dragdville will resemble a proper city.
Inside the Dragdville Adventurers Guild tent, a trio of adventurers can be seen standing in front of the quest board. All are female—two humans and one foxkin subspecies of the Animalkin. The first human is garbed in red Nimai-Do armor and a matching red kabuto helmet with no faceplate. She brandished a naginata with a katana and wakizashi sheathed on her left hip.
The second human dons green leather pants and a matching green shirt, over the shirt is a set of Haramaki-dou armor, as well as a black pouch by her left hip, complemented by an olive bycocket adorned with a red feather at the back. She has a rifle slung on her left shoulder, a katana and wakizashi sheathed to her right hip. She has kozane plates on her arms and legs.
As for the foxkin, she looks like a human except that she has fox ears and a fox tail. She is wearing brigandine lamellar armor and a kettle helmet, modified with holes to accommodate her ears and tail. She wields a kite shield and scimitar.
All three are indecisive on which quest to take from the board. “Taira, nothing good is available here.” The Warrior exasperated.
“Hang on Minase, I’m sure we can find something.” Taira said, then turning to the foxkin, “Maya, you spot anything?”
Maya pointed to a quest pinned at the top right. “Says, ‘Need Challenger for floor 3, reward 100 gold pieces, plus additional dungeon reward, requested by Ellen.’ Maybe we can take that? We do need the money.”
“Yes! Let's take that!” Minase exclaimed. She swiftly took the paper and made it over to the receptionist desk. Both Taira and Maya followed suit. “Um, can we take this?”
The receptionist smiles, stamps the quest, “What is your Party Name? If there is none, then tell me your names?” The Receptionist asked.
“Oh, we don’t have one, in order it goes me/Yamakawa Taira, Miyahara Minase, and Maya Von Seltzuneberg.” Taira said.
“The three of you must be from the Hoyashi Shogunate and the Earthian Kingdom respectively.” The Receptionist remarked. “Would it be alright if I write down just your first names?”
The Hoyashi Shogunate is a country ruled by 7 clans with the 8th being the Hoyashi Clan ruling as the Shogun from the capital of Hisomiya. The country itself is an island nation that's sandwiched between the Maryura continent to the left and the Varigny continent to the right. The island itself is named after the current ruling Shogun.
The Modernist Hoyashi clan ousted the ruling Magic Tradionalist Taizho clan after a grueling 20 year long civil war between the Modernist clans and the Magic Traditionalist clans.
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The Kingdom of Earthia is a country ruled by Animalkins, located on the smaller continent of Tamnis just below Hoyashi Island also sandwiched between the two aforementioned continents.
Ever since Earthia's declaration of independance 200 years ago from the Kingdom of Grire, they have been at war with their neighbor. Borders constantly shift to the point that map makers have given up on trying to keep up and have instead split the continent in half on maps, as of now the both kingdoms have agreed to a ceasefire, but it's unclear how long it will last. Currently Earthia diplomatically isolated, save for trade relations with the UoK disregarding the combined Laziran and Ergonese embargoes.
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The Kingdom of Grire is a country ruled by Human supremacists who've for over 1,000 years the country have oppressed the Animalkin populations inhabiting the western portion of the continent.
“Yes, write down Taira, Minase and Maya.” Taira responded.
The Receptionist finished writing the Trio’s name on the form before depositing it in the desk drawer. “Oh and one more thing this quest was requested from a dungeon creature, thought I’d let you know.”
The trio gave the Receptionist confused looks as she just chuckled, “Oh, believe me I had the same expression when I first got here.”
The trio nodded at the same time offering no more words as they walked out.
After a couple minutes of walking the trio arrived inside the first floor and were greeted by a farming countryside with the sun rising in the background.
The trio marveled at the sight, before noticing a bulletin board and a sign next to it.
“Rule 1. No posting memes in #general.
Rule 2. No takesy backsies
Rule 3. No slap fighting in the dungeon. Thank you :), Huh? What do they mean?” Taira asked as she read the rules posted on the bulletin board.
“I don’t know, but since this is a dungeon they could mean anything, plus that last one is odly specific.” Maya said. “Anyways let's not dwell on it, we have a quest to complete.
“Look!” Minase said as she pointed to the sign next to it.
Maya walked to the sign and crouched to be at eye-level with the sign. “Tapping this sign will bring you or your party to Floor 3 where one must survive 3.5 hours without dying or suffering a TPK. Failure to survive will net half of the rewards.”
“Well the quest says that they’re only looking for challengers to floor 3. It didn’t specify how we arrive there.” Minase reasoned.
And so Maya tapped the sign and all three were transported to the barracks of floor 3.
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The Yokakko Dungeonator
I know I said that adventurers must navigate the city to reach either the town hall or barracks, but I’m too excited to see this work. Plus this is only a trial run, just to see if everything is running as intended, and make tweaks if need be. The next time they arrive, they’ll be teleported to the basement, I promise.
Anyways as for the trio themselves, I can definitely see that two of them are Japanese based on their samurai-esque armor. Though the girl holding her naginata is clearly a samurai, the other is wearing a mishmash of Japanese armor and Robin Hood’s fit. The last girl is a beautiful fox girl.
Achem, moving on she’s definitely got this Eastern Roman/Byzantine inspired lamellar armor.
Oh yeah, they’re getting their situation explained by both Vaeri and Sasha, of course I watched the three do a double take when they saw line infantry night elves.
I know even I’m still surprised and I created the regiment! Anyways it shouldn’t be long before the zombies arrive.
At this point I’m just using the word zombie and cannibal interchangeably.
And oh? The first cannibals have arrived! Here comes a shambler climbing over the wall, aaand they’re dead! Killed by the Naginata samurai girl.
If I was there in person I’d keep an eye out for bloaters. The description said that they explode when they die, so I would operate on the assumption that their deaths can destroy barricades, and also the Zombie sappers as well, purely for their axes.
In any case so far with the aid of the Dungeon Regiment and the Opolcheniye they’re making short work of the zombies that arrive. Even clearing them from the barricaded gate.
Now to be fair this is pretty early, it's going to get tougher from here on out. Now while they try to survive I’ll relocate myself to the church bell tower nearby. It gives me a pretty good view of the barracks.
Now time to try this dungeon communication thingy. Oh there’s a new tab underneath floors called ‘communication’ so I pressed it, err well, look I accessed it ok!
The exact moment I enter the tab, I’m immediately bombarded with a huge list of Dungeon Cores! There’s so many! Is there a way to filter this? Like setting it to only show nearby dungeons? Oh wait, I’m dumb there's a triangle arrow right next to the search bar that says ‘filter’.
Filter to nearby dungeons please! Almost Immediately the long list disappeared, only showing 20 dungeons instead.
As I scanned the list, one caught my eye ‘Karland Dungeon’. Where have I heard that before? Oh yeah! I overheard some of the visitors harvesting crops mention this dungeon. And- oh Jesus 100 Floors!?!? Well looks like nobody’s gonna be beating Karland!
Let's see, location Union of Kurz, east side of the city of Kurz. Let’s pop them a message!
“Hi! :wave_emoji: My name is Amelia Yokakko! What’s your name? I hope we can be friends!”
Alright, hopefully I didn’t come out too strong, an-oh, oh! They’re typing let’s see their response!
“Ara, ara, a young dungeon wishes to befriend little ol me? Oh I’ve been so lonely with nobody to talk to, since all the other Cores outside the Union are… how should I say this nicely… mean.”
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Oh no please don’t tell me they’re going to be those ara ara characters from anime! Oh wait they’re typing, let’s see, let’s see.
“Oh where are my manners! I didn’t introduce myself while you did, how unladylike of myself. I am Lady Karland, but please refer to me as Karland.”
Ok, so they’re a she, whew! Didn’t want to misgender and anger someone I’m trying to talk to! I gotta send a reply.
“Oh it’s no problem! :thumbs_up_emoji: Please refer to me however you like! I don't mind!”
Wait, I'm not done typing!
“Is there any way we can do a video call?”
Feel like that’s a fair question to ask. Don’t you agree?
“Yes, but since you haven’t manifested an avatar I’d only be seeing your orb”
Man, I hope I’ll level up after this trio leaves. Speaking of them, time to check on their progress, I believe it’s only been an hour.
Huh, the gate is busted wide open and the barricades destroyed, I’m seeing runners, zombie cuirassiers, and zombie sappers moving in. Yeah they’ll be fine, just gotta have some faith is all.
“Sorry, I had to check in on the progress of a trio of adventurers.” And send.
I check back to the trio while I wait for Karland to finish typing. I see that the artillery have shifted their focus onto the barracks now. It seems that everyone has retreated inside.
I’m rooting for the trio to survive and earn that badge!
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Minase POV:
I swung my naginata, swiftly beheading an undead. As it collapsed, I heard growling behind me. Turning swiftly, I blocked the undead's attempt to scratch me, but now it's got a tight grip on my naginata.
If this continues I’ll be sure to get knocked down! Now I hear more growling behind. Craning my head to the left I see more undead climbing through the window.
Bang!
The undead that gripped my naginata fell, revealing Sasha with her pistol pointing at me, smoke coming out the barrel.
“First floor is about to be overrunned! Retreat upstairs!” Sasha yelled. “Go! I’ll be right behind you!”
Without hesitation, we sprinted, leaping over overturned tables and racing up the stairs. As we approached, I noticed three pikes pointed downward, but as Sasha and I drew near, they were swiftly raised before being lowered in acknowledgment of our presence.
I immediately spot Taira and Maya, in the corner alongside Vaeri.
Sasha and I both walked over to them.
“That was a close one!” Taira exclaimed.
“We’re not in the clear yet.” Vaeri the Moon Elf reminded. “You three still have to survive twenty more minutes.”
Sasha after she finished reloading her pistol walked to Vaeri, “What are our casualties?”
Vaeri pondered for a moment, before replying. “We lost 6 Opolcheniye and two of my soldiers are trapped in the top right watchtower.”
Sasha winced at hearing that number. “That’s half of my unit.”
Vaeri nodded. “Although, keep in mind that five of those killed were from bloaters.”
“Maya, how is your shield?” I ask, approaching Maya.
Maya looked at her damaged shield before replying. “I reckon it can withstand one more bloater blast.”
We were interrupted when we heard a shout from one of the pikewoman yelling, “They’re Coming!” Followed by multiple gunshots going off simultaneously.
“This is going to be a long twenty minutes.” I commented.
Clutching my naginata tight. I rushed forward to the stairs, stopping myself just short as I spotted an incoming bloater explode on the three pikewoman guarding the stairs, killing them instantly, plus another ten undead behind it.
“Guys!” I heard Taira yell. “I’m out of crystals, I have to resort to my katana.”
Vaeri stepped forward, saber in hand, “Gather around we’ll make our stand here.”
Then Vaeri proceeded to let out a warcry pointing her saber towards the growing crowd of undead, after which I became invigorated in some way, like I’ve been invigorated and all my fears washed away and filled with an intense bravery. If I were to describe it, it’d be like I’ve been given a strength and speed buff.
I watched as Vaeri suddenly charged at the growing number of undead as she cut down 8 undead and counting.
I followed suit, slicing 5 undead and prevented one runner from tackling Maya. My charge was halted when I came face to face with one of those undead sappers that Sasha and Vaeri talked about.
This one is a Moon Elf wearing the same uniform as Vaeri’s soldiers except that she’s wearing a bloody tan apron, and carrying an axe.
It swung its axe downward, almost hitting me as I dodged, the result was the axe had been jammed into the floor and was almost impossible to remove.
Using the undead’s inherent focus in its attempt to retrieve the axe, I swung my naginata sideways, prompting beheading the undead.
That was then that I felt this surge of energy wear off, as another appeared this time wearing some kind of chestplate and a helmet that’s got horsehair attached to the back. It was slow, and I used the reach of my polearm to pierce through the undead’s head.
I heard screaming to my left and I bore witness to Maya surrounded by undead as they swarmed her, dragging her to the floor.
I rushed forward to help her, swinging wildly in an attempt to rescue Maya by killing the undead on top of her.
As I cleared the undead, I saw that Maya was still alive, breathing heavily. Extending my arm, she grabbed hold of it and got back up.
“Thanks Minase.” Maya said, “My armor prevented me from being bit, however had you taken longer, I would’ve ‘died’ there and have had to deal with sensations of being eaten alive.”
I shuddered at that thought, “Well, it's a good thing I arrived, where’s your sword?”
“Dropped it.” Maya stated.
“Oh.” I said, before I unsheathe my wakizashi and handed it to her, “Here use this, we should be almost done… I think”
Maya took the wakizashi from my hand, and we stood back to back as more undead poured through from the stairs and surrounded us.
An explosion was heard on the roof causing a huge chunk to fall on a crowd of undead, crushing them.
Then I received a system notification.
Clear the remaining undead.
In my vision I see the remaining 20 undead highlighted in red. It was the same ones that surrounded Maya and I.
I hear a warcry ring out from the other end of the room and I witnessed 10 being cut down as Sasha, Taira and the 5 remaining soldiers charged.
Maya and I exchanged looks and charged at the last 10. I raised my naginata and swung downward, only to realize my mistake as I had killed a bloater, and the ensuing bloody explosion dispatched 9 undead nearby.
I on the other hand didn’t make it out unscathed. Not only do I have guts on me, but my left arm has been bent backwards, causing me to drop my naginata.
Taira rushed over, “Minase! Are you alright?”
“Tch, these damned bloaters, despite being big, they easily blend into crowds.” I sneered, as I clutched my left arm.
The last undead was easily dealt with after Maya and Sasha tag teamed it.
I received another system notification.
Quest complete! Return to Ellen to receive your reward, she’ll be waiting at the dungeon entrance.
All undead cleared.
Rewards:
Survived Badge
350 Gold coins
500 silver coins
1000 copper coins
1 musket and cartridge pouch.
1 Belgic Shako
1 Saber
1 fife
2 grenades
Rewards will be received upon exiting the dungeon.
This is a bit much! Especially for a floor 3 challenge.
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Back to Amelia!
My conversation with Karland came to an end as something came up on her end. So I ended watching the trio survive the last 20 minutes, I nearly winced when that samurai girl, Minase was it? Anyway she almost died when she melee’d that bloater now fortunately she got away in time with a bent left arm, but man those bloaters, despite being chonkers they do blend in really well within crowds.
The trio was teleported back to the entrance where Ellen is waiting and handed each of them a pouch containing 100 gold coins, as I promised in the quest.
After they exited I received some notifications.
Yamakawa Taira level 27 Gunner successfully beat the dungeon, 500xp
Miyahara Minase level 30 Samurai successfully beat the dungeon, 650xp
Maya Von Seltzuneberg level 36 Knight successfully beat the dungeon 700xp
Dungeon Core leveled by 1.
You are now eligible to manifest an avatar.
No new themes unlocked.
Mana regen increased to 45
Mana capacity increased to 210
3 new regiments unlocked
Austrian Infantry Regiment Nr.34
Austrian-Hungarian Grenadier Regiment
British Coldstream Guards
2 new summons
Axe-Gunner
Hand Mortar Crew
I immediately wheezed hard when I saw the axe-gunner, which is a pistol that has an axe head attached to the barrel, a gun that may sound impractical, but was used by Polish cavalry in the 16th century all the way to the 18th century, and by the Swedish Navy from the 18th century till 1840. Very surprised to see them here, but then again Sweden did participate in the Napoleonic Wars, fighting against Napoelon in the Pomeranian War/Franco-Swedish, fought the Russins during the Finnish War, fought the British in the Anglo-Swedish War of 1810-1812, and was even present at the Battle of Grossbeeren, and the Battle of Leipzig during the War of the Sixth Coalition. So if I were to guess I'll be seeing the Swedish Navy boarding axe pistol.
I was also surprised upon seeing the hand mortar on here since they weren’t in use by the time of the Napoleonic Wars, since they weren't that useful in manuever warfare, but maybe the system thought that hand mortars are useful in my dungeon.
Scratch that! I can finally manifest an avatar! As much as I trust the system let me just confirm that those changes took place.
Status!
> Name: Amelia Yokakko
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> Dungeon Name: Yokakko Dungeon (Temporary)
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> Exp Req: 7,562/10,783
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> Level 10
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> Mana: 210/210
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> Mana Regen: 45(70) per hour
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> Floors: 3/10
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> Traps: 2
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> Puzzles: 2
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> Titles: Early Survivor
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> Avatar: Off
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> Avatar Editor.
Looks like I can edit my avatar anytime if I’m not satisfied with it.
Creatures!
> Creatures:
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> Shambler: 5 Mana
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> Runner: 10 Mana
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> Undead Sapper: 35 Mana
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> Bloater: 20 Mana
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> Undead Cuirassier: 35 Mana
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> Undead Soldiers: 15 Mana
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> Axe-Gunner: 25 Mana
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> Hand Mortar Crew: 35 Mana
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> Nockgunner: 10 Mana
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> Militia
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> Prussian Landwehr: 15 Mana
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> Austrian Landwehr: 15 Mana
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> British Fencibles: 15 Mana
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> Russian Opolcheniye: 15 Mana
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> French National Guard: 15 Mana
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> Line Infantry
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> British 42nd Regiment of Foot (Black Watch) 35 Mana
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> Austrian Infantry Regiment NR.1 25 Mana
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> Austrian Infantry Regiment NR.34 65 Mana
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> Bavarian 5th Line Infantry Regiment 25 Mana
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> Yokakko 1st Dungeon Infantry Regiment 45 Mana
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> Ottoman Nizam-I Cedid Infantry 50 Mana
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> British 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers) 55 Mana
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> Elite Infantry
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> French Old Guard 650 Mana
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> French/Polish Vistula Legion Grenadier 50 Mana
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> French Young Guard 100 Mana
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> French Dutch Guard 100 Mana
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> Austrian-Hungarian Grenadier 110 Mana
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> British Coldstream Guard 120 Mana
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> Skirmisher
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> Prussian Silesian Schuetzen 25 Mana
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> British 95th Regiment of Foot (Rifles) 45 Mana
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> Cavalry
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> Russian Cossacks 60 Mana
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> French 4th Hussar Regiment 60 Mana
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> Irregular
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> Spanish Guerrillas 20 Mana
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> Russian Partisans 20 Mana
(Non Hostile, passive, or domesticated creatures such as pigs, sheep, and chickens are free of charge and won’t count for the creature capacity, however they won’t attack outsiders)
Alright! Time to head to the core room where I can manifest my avatar! I wanted this to be a surprise when I finally introduced myself to everyone!
I entered the gray room where my core resides, and it just dawned on me that I have no idea on how to manifest my avatar.
Umm, system how do I manifest my avatar?
To summon your avatar, simply utter 'Avatar Manifest.' Should you wish to revert the manifestation, simply say 'Avatar Unmanifest.' Should your avatar be destroyed, then you are unable to manifest it for one week.
Ok! Avatar Manifest!
My perception shifted from an ethereal existence to inhabiting a physical form. Initially unsteady, I regained my balance after a moment. Inhaling deeply, I exhaled slowly, centering myself. With a deliberate motion. I have a body now!.
Smiling widely I created a big mirror using up 25 mana.
The reflection before me depicts a woman with short brown hair, standing at around 5'6" tall. She's adorned in a dark blue coat adorned with red cuffs and gold epaulettes. Beneath the coat, a crisp white vest complements her attire. White trousers and knee-length black boots complete her ensemble. At her left hip rests a saber with a gleaming gold hilt. Crowning her appearance is a Black Bicorne hat, adorned with a tricolor cockade of red, white, and blue, with a vivid red plume trailing behind. Lastly she wore a pair of white gloves.
And that woman is me!
I walked over to the entrance of the Core Room, which now that I’m actually paying attention to is a tall iron double door that depicts a Napoleonic Battlefield. As I walked, at first it was slowly with careful balancing, then as I grew more accustomed to walking I continued on with a steady and confident pace, reaching the double doors and pushing it open.
I entered Floor 3 and I had to cover my eyes as it adjusted to the sunlight that greeted me. I caught a whiff of the fresh air, that's mixed with the scent of blood, but let's not talk about it, and no one but Marie, and her sergeant noticed me. Good, now to strike a pose and unveil my grand entrance!
“GOOD MORNING, VIETNAM! I mean GOOD MORNING, FRANCE! I mean, arghh.”
I’ve now curled up into a ball and am now dying of embarrassment as everyone gathered around me.
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Several seconds earlier, Marie’s POV.
I was having a conversation with my sergeant Jean, when suddenly we heard the door to the Core Room open outward.
“Hey did anyone get past us?” Jean asked, removing her shako, scratching the back of her head.
I shrugged, “No I don’t think so, it’d be impossible for an outsider or a cannibal to sneak past us”
Then the most beautiful woman that I’ve ever laid eyes on stepped out. Jean and I were both mesmerized.
The woman placed one hand on her hip, the other extending outward with her palm outward and her fingers forming into a V shape.
The woman yelled, “GOOD MORNING, VIETNAM! I mean GOOD MORNING, FRANCE! I mean, arghh.” Safe to say that whatever this woman was doing, messed it up.
Her yelling caught the garrison’s attention as all eyes were on her. She blushed heavily, her face becoming as red as a tomato.
The woman proceeded to get on the ground and curl into a ball. This whole time the entire garrison has surrounded this woman that came out of the Core Room.
Later we learned that the mystery woman was our very own Dungeon Core, Amelia Yokakko, the one who’s given us life, yes even those cursed cannibals.