Two days later, Five had now collected a total of 1500DP including those naturally generated.
"Five, come! It is the moment you've waited for!" said Harriet as she entered his room with a smile.
"Alright! I am excited, let's go!"
It was finally time for Five to get in charge of the lower floors. He sounded excited like a child that was given candy. Since his death, Five acted as casually as possible. Aside from collecting DP, he behaved as passively and obediently as possible. He was always listening to Kroff and Harriet without leaking his real intent.
The past two days could be considered peaceful; no incident happened as Five stuck to the schedule and Harriet. The lessons were not very interesting, but he now had a good understanding of his responsibilities as a dungeon master.
The only thing he said to Harriet was that he was really looking forward to taking charge of the first few floors. Even though she was her friend, there was no way he would reveal his plan to her. After all, even though they talked openly, he still had doubt that she was just a double agent sent by Kroff and if she heard what he was planning, there was a risk that she would not keep quiet.
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"Hello Five, I've heard that you have been looking forward to this moment. Here, this is a pseudo-dungeon core that you can use to control the first few floors. I trust that after our lessons, you already know how to control such things," said Kroff.
"Yes mentor, don't worry," excitedly answered Five as he grabbed the purple orb floating towards him. The orb was clearly different from his. He did not feel comfortable with it; it was not repulsive but if he could, he would stay away from it. But there was no way he would let go of this opportunity
"Alright! You can do whatever you want. Your budget is 10000DP and all the DP you gain will be added to this amount. Try to make some profits from them. I will just take occasional looks at your progress but in the end, the decision is yours. I will only act in extreme cases," said Kroff.
"No problem, I'll have a look now."
Having obtained what he wanted, Five activated the dungeon core and instantly, the first 10 floors appeared in front of him. But this time, it was different. There was a lot of icons to the side which represented the different modifications he could make.
Five smiled. Now was time to get some DP back. As he looked at the dungeon, Five immediately found something strange; even though it was early in the morning, there were no guards inside training by fighting the monsters. "Strange! Did Kroff give me the command because the source of revenue was gone?"
"Nevermind, I'll consider that after I abuse the system for a moment!"
...
Guided by Harriet, Five went back to the first floor to hunt some slimes.
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"Did you really just do that? Kroff will be furious!" exclaimed Harriet.
"Relax, I will only do it once. He won't say anything if I don't continue to abuse it. In fact, he should be thanking me for showing him this loophole. I am sure he will share it with his Cyclone Alliance," answered Five.
As he was about to enter the first floor, Five grabbed the Harpy's Blood and pressed the "Confirm" button on the interface of the pseudo-Dungeon Core.
"Here I come!" shouted Five as he barged through the opening.
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In his room, Kroff suddenly frowned upon looking at the first floor. He did not know why Five did not immediately start to modify the Dungeon since he looked so excited about it. Instead, Five chose to go hunting slimes as usual. Upon hearing that, Kroff thought that it was normal that he would want to regain his lost DP and only internally chuckled.
But as he swept his glance at the floors, he immediately noticed something different on the first floor. The population density of the slimes just instantly tripled and more importantly, they were more concentrated near the entry.
"This guy... Don't tell me he is planning to use all the 10000DP to summon slimes and kill them... That's crazy," exclaimed Kroff.
It was something he did not foresee; how could such a huge loophole exist? 10000DP was not a substantial amount of DP for Kroff. He watched Harriet and Five through his own interface. He focused on them and heard their conversation.
"Hmmmp, that guy! I shall allow it if it is only once... It is true that it is a valuable information for the Cyclone Alliance..."
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Back on the first floor, Five was mercilessly killing the slimes one by one. After a few days, he had already gotten used to the Harpy's Blood and was using it at its best. 2 to 3 strikes were enough to kill a slime regardless of its level.
Two hours went by as Five already collected 400DP which was already twice the usual amount he would take daily. He used 1000DP to increase the population but naturally, there were some losses occurring in the process of killing. It was impossible for him to regain the 1000DP, at best, he could only obtain 500 DP from them.
But even just 500 was already a lot for him, especially considering that his personal DP only amounted to 1900 now.
As he was about to stop killing slimes, Five suddenly heard loud steps followed by curses.
"F***! Why are there so many slimes. These monsters are not even worthy of being killed by me!"
"Tskkk, you two, deal with them."
Five and Harriet immediately turned their attention to the newcomers. It was a group of 10. From one look, Five immediately knew that they were not NPCs. First, from the way they spoke. Second, their equipment was clearly different from what he had seen till now and third, the newcomers were all Asians! So far, all the guards he had seen were Caucasians.
"Hmmm. So the players are finally there," said Five. At his side, Harriet curiously looked at the newcomers.
"Are they the ones that always revive after their death? They look really weak," said Harriet to herself.
Having confirmed the arrival of the players, Five simply went to slay the last few slimes of his quota, completely ignoring them.
"Hey look! There is already someone there!" exclaimed one of the players. His name was Wang Hao.
"Someone was faster than us? Strange..." answered the player named Wang Chong. At the same time, the rest of the party turned their attention to Five who was busy killing slimes.
"Hmmp... He is probably just an NPC, look! He is only level 1... Shall we approach them? We might trigger a quest," said another player whose name was Wang Lin.
"We can try. There's nothing to lose," said Wang Chong as he led the way towards the young man they saw.
Noticing them approaching, Five immediately stopped his killing. He had just completed his quota. At the same time, Harriet moved in front of him to protect him.
The players took a deep breath as they noticed Harriet standing in front of them in her tight assassin suit. They did not see her at the beginning as she was using a skill giving her partial stealth.
Wang Chong paused for a moment upon seeing the mature beauty. But he quickly recollected himself and said," Good morning miss. My party and I just arrived there and could not help but notice your presence. I see that you are protecting this young man here, do you need our help in doing so?"
Harriet lifted her eyebrows sending a questioning look. She could not help but feel irritated, "What does that guy want? Can’t he mind his own business?" said Harriet to herself. She could feel the lustful stares of the other players wandering around her body.
Five was internally laughing. It was clear to him that they were looking for opportunities to obtain quests; talking to NPCs was a normal thing to do in games. He found Harriet's reaction quite funny, she was after all a monster whose job was to kill humans and now, ten of them were coming to chat with her. This was a first for her.
"Thank you, sirs, but we are done here. We can go back on our own," intervened Five.
Hearing his voice, the party immediately looked at him. "Alright! Be safe on your way back. Guys, let's go!" said Wang Chong as he ordered his party to follow him to higher floors.
The party dejectedly followed their leader. They would naturally have preferred to keep company to Harriet. Even the team leader, Wang Chong was not indifferent to the harpy queen, but he came here with a task. If he went back without results, the elders of his guild would definitely punish him.
The players could only look at Harriet and Five in envy, "Why is that NPC so lucky to have a beautiful bodyguard at his side!?" shouted the players in their heart.