This was a long day at work. They really suck at organizing the tasks they want me to deal with >_<.

Might need to take a break for a few days depending on how it proceeds from here. But we will see.

Hope you will enjoy the little twist today!

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A cold edge was pressing against the side of my neck, it had cut just slightly into my skin and I felt some drops of blood begin to slide down along my throat.

Oh shit I am so dead.

But let's start at the beginning of the day. After we had returned to the dungeon I let the goblins return to their caves and rest while i parked the avatar in its tank. A quick glance over my area told me nothing was wrong so far and I went to rest myself since it had been a long day. On the next day I was welcomed by a new screen.

Absorption of the dungeon core completed

You the following evolution was integrated:

Insect dungeon

You gained the following evolutions for your servants:

Horde Mother

Bladed Spider

Poisonspitter Spider

Mother Spider

You leveled reached level 4

You gained:

3 Skill points

1 Evolution point

1 Expansion range increase

1 Additional Floor

Skills available:

Spawn earth's resources

Added construction options

Insect Home small

Insect Home medium

Insect Home large

Woa! That is some addition! Seems it paid off plenty to go through all those bothersome events.

I went through the various informations curiously and the first things I got hung up on were the evolutions.

Wait so i get all of the conquered dungeon´s evolutions?

You can only absorb evolutions that do not

conflict with your already present ones

Makes sense otherwise it would be a cheat bug. Anyway what's the new skill about?

Spawn earth's resources lvl 0

Morphs a certain area of your dungeon to contain a certain resource.

You have not yet invested in this skill,

nothing is available.

Higher levels of this skill enables higher value resources to be spawned.

Huh so it is the turn for things like coals and such to take the field? maybe i'll even get some gems and stuff. Would be awesome but not very useful. Show me the current skills.

Spawn insects -

Spawn plants -

Growth lvl 2

Universal language max

Spawn Ore vein lvl 1

Appraisal lvl 2

Dungeon Radar lvl 2

Spawn earth's resources lvl 0

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4 Remaining skill points

Right, I had the one from before still left over. Well i guess i should still keep it this way. Invest one in earth´s resources and growth each. Show me the details afterwards.

Spawn earth's resources lvl 1

Morphs a certain area of your dungeon to contain a certain resource.

Currently available resources:

Coal

Low Gems

Growth lvl 3

Accelerates Growth of infant and young beings. Simpler beings will go through growth faster than more complex ones. Will not affect fully grown beings or incorporeal ones. Beings affected by this will have reduced i lifespan. You can select which beings are affected and which are not. Activating Growth in a room will cost a certain amount of mana continuously supplied according to the rooms size.

lvl 2

Can now target specific species to reduce the cost of upkeep

lvl 3

Increased effectiveness on more complex organisms

Hmph seems the resources skill will also be useless until we somehow get better mining tools. But the addition to Growth is awesome. Hopefully it will help the insects to regain their numbers soon. Let´s see the status now.

Name: Goblin Cave  Rank: F Mana: 878400 M Mana recovery: 8870 M/h Level: 4  

Well well the mana is coming along nicely. I guess i can build some more growing areas. Especially with me opening the new floor. But before that I have to take some organizational matters.

Satisfied with my changes I switched back over to my Avatar. I had deposited my clothing close by to the tank last night and swiftly got dressed before walking out of the cave.

“Lord!”(Gob)

Holy! That surprised me…

It seemed like gob had waited next to the entrance already and jumped out as soon as he spotted me leaving. How bowed in a slightly clumsy way but after getting over my startled heart i could not help but to smile at the silly goblin. Besides it was pretty convenient to have him here.

“Gob I have a little mission for you. Find me Gobar, Gorin, Gobuta, and Gobtar. Bring them to the firecrystal oven there” (Me)

“Yes Lord! Gob will bring!”(Gob)

Gob waddled off right away and i had a moment of doubt if he could do it. But then again it would not hurt this time if something went wrong. So i shrugged and went to the center of the goblin home and sat down next to the warm oven where some goblinas were busily preparing food for the other waking goblins. Of course they hurriedly prepared my share which I ate in all leisure. There were still too few spices, but that was not important right now. One after another the goblins I had called for came and finally Gobar was accompanied here by Gob.

“Well done Gob, stay close by I might need to relay orders again later on.”(Me)

Gob was smiling from ear to ear and settled down a little bit further, but close enough to be able to react to any order. He really was a zealous minion alright.

“How can we serve, Lord?”(Gobar)

The old goblin and the others were looking at me curiously right now and I smiled slightly before I answered.

“All of you present have contributed in his or her own special way to this dungeon. In the future there will be many more goblins hopefully and I will need leaders to keep everything in order. As such I intend to promote each of you into a special position.”(Me)

On my words their expressions changed from curiously to a sparkling excitement and I nearly had to laugh out loud. But i kept myself together and continued on.

“Gobtar, you will from now on be the leader of the scouts. You will organize the scouting mission everyday and take part yourself. Rotate the goblins through and find the best scouts among them to give them special training. ”(Me)

“It shall happen as you wish, Lord!”(Gotar)

I nodded, as I hoped, in a graceful manner and proceeded on with the next ones.

“Gorin, you will be in charge of the insects as it was until now. Recruit some of the more adept goblinas to help you out and show them how to train the insects to partners. Gobuta, you will be in charge of everything that concerns production of tools and constructions. For now you will also delegate the cooking until i see fit to appoint a separate leader for that.”(Me)

“I shall do my best !”(Gorin)

“There will be no problem with this, Lord”(Gobuta)

With a pleased smile I turned my attention to the last but probably most important one.

“Gobar, you will of course be in charge of the mages. But from now on I also want you to teach more goblins about mana and your wisdom. Also you will be declared as my representative. The only one that is to give you orders am I myself. ”(Me)

“It is an honor, Lord. I shall work these old bones to dust for you and my brethren. ”(Gobar)

“This may seem like a strange thing to do as it more or less has always been like this since my birth. But from now on it is official and if anyone disobeys you, punish them or report to me in grave cases and i will decide their punishment myself. Do not make a mistake though, you also bear a greater responsibility from now on. ”(Me)

The goblins were still looking at me with an almost worshipping expression and nodded their heads repeatedly while assuring me that they would do their best. I had of course said these things for the younger ones as Gobar had been doing his job for a long time already.

“Well then you can leave now. There are still some matters to take care of and I will need to build some things.”(Me)

“Oh, if you would please remain for a while longer. There are some matters that I would discuss with you and your new leaders.”(???)

At those words we all were startled. I especially because I realized that this had not been spoken in the goblin language. Just as we all started to get up and look around in alarm i felt a sharp pain at my neck and looked down just to see a black blade pressed against my flesh. Cold terror seeped at once through my whole body and I could not move at all.

“Lord! ”(Goblins)

The goblins noticed what was happening and I could even see their eyes widen in fright. Other goblins noticed what was happening which caused a series of calls to echo through the cave. I even heard an angry screech from close by, which I was sure would be Gob, but something black suddenly shot out from behind the recently appointed leaders and the screeching stopped abruptly.

“Well then, Sir Dungeon Lord. If you would please instruct your vassals to not make a fuss and sit down again we can talk in a more appropriate way. It would be a pity if your Avatar lost it's head as it is still so new no ?”(???)

I could now make out that the voice was coming from the place where the black thing had come from. I just hoped it had not killed the poor Gob whatever this new threat was.

“Sit down all of you, it seems whoever this is wants to talk.”(Me)

Reluctantly the other goblins sat down again and Gobar motioned for all the other goblins in the surroundings to stay down as well. Right after things had calmed down there was a sudden shift in the light at the place that the voice had come from. I looked almost like the flickering air above a flame. Slowly a dark figure came into view. From it's body it looked like a human. But i could not tell for sure as the whole body was clad in black leather armor. That armor looked to be of very good quality and hugged the figure of our unwelcome guest very tightly. There was a similar sword hanging from his hip as was currently pressing into my neck as well as an impressive bow and quiver on his back. From the voice and the now seen figure i judged it had to be either a very masculine woman or a rather athletically thin man. Even from here i could see the muscles under the tight leather.

Oh shit I am so dead.

Was the only thought that i could muster right now. This guy looked like a very dangerous assassin. His bearing alone made me feel small but he also emitted a certain aura of threat that made my hair stand on end. Even I could tell that he was no pretender and I was pretty sure he alone would suffice to kill everyone here.

Alert, detected intruders inside the dungeon.

Seriously ?! You are saying that now ?!

I nearly yelled my thoughts out but I managed to keep my tongue in check barely. Now was not the time to get emotional.

“You have my thanks, it would be unpleasant to have to slaughter your servants. Now then if i may introduce myself. I am Gulagh Aleanth and I am here to have a talk with you about absorbing our spider dungeon.”(Gulagh)