Asher, Owen, Stephanie and I just sat in the gaming hall like lifeless dolls. We didn't have the strength to do anything.

No one tried to snap us out of it...

Our lives were already condemned to be punching bags to a devil worse than satan himself.

Still after a while the most clueless person snapped us out of the daze.The lizard head princess that didn't fear sensei.

"Hey hey, why have you guys been sulking?" She asked with an innocent tilt of her head.

"Why are the dumb ones have to be so cute." I said in a quiet voice for only the three near me to hear.  I got a chuckle from the others but Nova continues confused.

I sigh and sit up from my depressed seating position.

"It’s because Belladona-sensei will train us seriously as soon as she feels we can handle it. Just thinking of the nightmare that WILL happen is making us like this." I said before letting my body slide back down into the same position that was more laying down than sitting.

"Hee~~? But she will make us strong!~ I can't wait to start!!~" She said enthusiastic.

I turn to look at the others and it was Asher who replied my question.

"Dragonoid, dragons, lizard kin as well as many other beastmen and demi human races don't fear many forms of training. They dive in head first because their mentality is, the strongest rules. It's only because of her family's blessing that no other race can overpower them." He said and like me, flopped back down on the sofa.

"This is no fun~! I played with the others but besides Emily who gives me an ok game it’s boring." She whined.

We have been watching Nova which clearly showed how overpowered those with a blessing are compared to normal people.

She uses mostly lizard races and is quick to claim the chief spot in the clan and start building.

There were several people who tried the slime but they simply attacked other slimes and ate everything destroying the nucleus as well. Unless I tell them, slimes will never be used much. Still can't tell them since it would jeopardize the guilds income.

I bet she already got the title for lizard based creatures.

I seriously fear what she will make of them in her dungeon.

Since it was starting to get boring watching her beat everyone I nonchalantly asked the others.

“Want to try a 5 man race? It’s boring watching Nova beat them easily.” I said with an unmotivated voice but the entire room froze at the mention of it.

“Hey, are they going to play again.” “I heard five man race. Is it the top five including rank one?” “Seriously is there going to be another epic showdown?”

There were many people who started talking and some were ready to run after the journalist club again.

The others frowned at this.

“I think it's best to leave all that excitement for another day” Stephanie said getting up and walking to the door.

“Yes, let’s have that game next week. Maybe we can have a ten man game between the top ten then.” Emily said.

Everyone who was listening except us 5 got excited and went back to playing their games while bickering for the upcoming epic race.

“Let's play some other time, I want to make sure I have enough mana for my dungeon bud.” Owen said getting up and leaving.

“Hey don't leave me behind! I also want to play as well!” Zachary said while speeding off behind the demon prince.

“So? What will we do?” Kumi asked.

Of the group besides the snot nosed princess in rank 10 there was four people remaining. Kumi, Nova, Margaret and me were left.

“I agree with the others, I want to have my full mana capacity when I go to sleep so I can feed my dungeon bud” Margaret said but she didn't leave.

“Then want to play a different game that doesn't need mana?” I asked

The three nodded and I went to look at the cabinet.

My eyes landed on a fighting game worth its money.

"Goblin Fighters: Survival of the Fittest". This game is chaos and it's because of this that the game is popular.

It’s controlled like the first game but we don't use magic.

The game is in a barren wasteland turned arena filled with nearly 500 goblins. You fight it out and try to survive.

One life, one death, you die you lose. The first five minutes has the biggest massacre but stop after that point because by then the number is greatly reduced.

After that the game skips ahead one day in the game. If you were lucky your goblin would have ranked up.

From there another battle royale begins but this time with armed goblins.

This round ends when only 100 gobs are left.

At this point a gob survived it would definitely rank up and if a hob killed enough it could rank up into something. An npc hob would normally rank up into either ogre or a shaman. If by chance a gob or two, copies someone who is playing if they use proper fighting styles then it will rank up differently.

There are many rank ups. It’s said that next to slime a gob has the second best evolutionary rank up system. The most diverse i guess.

In most game worlds and in fics it is said that goblins and orcs were attempts to copy elfs. Obviously it was a failure but only in part. As a goblin goes up the ranks. If it chooses human like forms such as the rare Lord species it will gain human like characteristics or even looks that go in par or beyond that of an elf’s.

Lord race is rare and it's a specialized race depending on what kind.

Anyway, when i showed my choice I got two grins and a facepalm. Others who were near and saw the game started laughing and asked to join.

The best part about crystal controller is that it allows for up to at least 20 people to play at once.

We accept and soon the number was capped.

We spent the rest of the day fighting it out.

Up to the third round we all survived but since beyond that they release monsters it killed off many but those who survive ranked up to third rank and brought chaos to the game.

We don't use our mana for this game but the mana in the player's character so if someone is a mage they can use the magic of the gob to fight.

Me and Margaret dominated the first round and got skills worthy of a magic fighter.

The others took their own routes.

Only in the third round did anyone meet and by then we were dangerously armed with skills that could kill mid level adventurers.

By the time the game ended, it was already late, so we all went to the bed accompanied with a grin.

It’s a game so no hard feelings.

For the last bit of time we looked over our class works before feeding our mana into our dungeon buds and then going to sleep.

In the morning we were woken up by the mini maid-which-functions-as-an-alarm-clock and got ready for class.

For the slimes I had them put on the slime chestplate and greaves to keep their modesty and keep boys and girls for over reacting.

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They can't be unsummoned or even left behind since they need to remain near me.

Again this was given permission since a certain amazon needed to train us.

After a quick breakfast we all head to class where we were met by what we are calling the death king professor, obviously not because of his face though.

His classes are magic, magic studies and though he speaks in a monotone voice he teaches pretty well.

We all gained a small wooden wand for training purposes during the first week and must demonstrate what we know.

For the first half of the year we were to learn and train all basic level spells for all magic systems. The second half we would enter to the harder spells.

Talented mage would be able to master at least the first half of the spells this year.

Magic study class told us about the principle of all the elements. Think of it as physics class but about magic.

The first half of the day sums up to either coping what is written since it's all theory classes.

The second half was tamer and mage course class. Then the optional classes.

The tamer class talked about a lot of things that involved autonomy and affinity to monsters. It also taught us that different monsters can be tamed differently.

From befriending to saving it to beating it until it serves. There are many different kinds of methods and each monster has to be tamed differently.

Animals, like I did, can be tamed by simply treating them nicely and gaining their trust. On the other hand, if someone tames a creature like a harpy and trains it with weapons it could separate its arms and wings and become a valkyrie. At that point the loyalty could be tested because they are proud warriors and don’t just serve anyone.

The second half of class had the dungeoneering teacher join us and the two began to teach us about dungeon creatures and how we can affect them.

It was more into the evolutionary part of it all but in all it was informative.

Monsters grow taking several things into account. Skills, combat abilities, environment, past experiences, diet.

The skill are its abilities that are recognized and you can see in the status and skill windows using the ID plate. Combat ability is how well it’s in fight. Environment can cause the rank up to form a variant due to natural adaptivity, a goblin that lives near a desert will have more chance of getting heat resistance than a goblin in the other climated areas. Past experiences can range from trauma to seeing a hero fighting which would cause the monster to gain admiration towards similar things that its role model did. Diet is self explanatory, what it eats can change its form. Feed a hobgoblin rotting meat and it might rank up into a ghoul, feed it high quality meat from some magic beast it could become a variant Ogre with more intelligence or extra strength.

Putting all these together makes the complex system that involves a monster's rank up. Only slimes divert from this because their rank ups are specifically tied to their diet.

After the afternoon classes were over I had cooking and then Dungeoneering.

Cooking was just as you expect. We try out some basic cooking such as rice and other common home dishes.

In dungeoneering we talked about the other side of what was learned during taming class.

For making dungeons everything that is possible for a dungeon must be learned or discovered.

A dungeon is known as a Den of monsters because it houses creatures born from its magic, but for a creature to be spawned inside a dungeon it must first be known to the dungeon. A regular dungeon would normally be born and the small bit of mana it has is used for making its first minion the dungeon first learned about, which then used to dig.

As a cave gets bigger bugs enter and die inside allowing the dungeon to make bug monsters which it can use for attacking bigger creatures.

These are normally weak at the start but should it develop them correctly they can become very powerful.

As more animals die the dungeon could convert them into their minion or absorb them into mana for it to make more things.

Wild dungeons as they are called normally sustain the lower chain of monsters with mana and lets the rest feed off of them but a tamed dungeon being smarter can make an ecosystem and wastes even less mana by sustaining the lowest part of the food chain which is vegetation.

Now the thing about tamed dungeons is that besides the actual dungeon conscious, the owner of the dungeon, or dungeon master, can also alter the dungeon. By feeding their own mana into the core they can spawn a new creature the dungeon doesn’t know of or gives it the knowledge to do so by itself.

Normally tamed dungeons follow a theme such as a skeleton dungeon which is made out of spawned skeletons or a slime dungeon having more slimes of different kinds.

Normally the first spawns the dungeon makes will always be the monster that best represents a person.

Elfs would obviously get the sapling as representation, while the dungeon are inclined to nature which attracts other nature beings.

Demons normally spawn imps first and later on making demons from animals instead of monsters, like demon hounds and so on.

Humans are the most varied and it completely depends on our affinities. If one person has ice magic resistance and affinity, the dungeon would naturally attract creatures of that kind and even change the area around them to match that theme.

The teacher told us that this was being taught earlier than expected because of the top 5 since we would have our buds ready in at best 3 weeks which is the end of next week.

After that class was a lot of training with Belladona-sensei. She didn’t care about waiting for her day and came to pick the five that were her prey now and put us through a drill run and told us what to do. Any pets were also tortured and we got to our rooms at around 9 pm and only had a short time to do our class work before going to sleep after the buds were fed, as we fell exhausted on the bed.

The next two weeks were all like this. Wake up, eat, go to class, lunch, afternoon course four o clock optional class, six o'clock break followed by second class ends at eight, training with Belladona-sensei, do homework and sleep.

If it wasn’t for training after all the classes we would have been alright but no that didn’t go well with sensei.

Which is not missing even one day...

About the dungeon buds. It seems tuesday night Nova completed hers and the buds ego was born into a bubbly girl similar to Nova. Wednesday was  Stephanie's turn. And today was mine, Saturday at night along with the other three.

After this weekend we will be taken to the location where dungeons are placed so I can’t wait.