//All System Users, please be advised. Initiating Floor Restock.
//Advisory: Remain stationery. Sitting or lying down is recommended.
//3
//2
//1
//Floor Restock Initiated.
…
Bug follows the advice in the message displayed on her HUD and sits down. As soon as the final message displays, the Dungeon starts to shake a bit as a wave of energy smashes its way through the halls of the Dungeon.
Like a flood of fresh blood pumped by the heart, the wave of energy rolls over everything and moves through the Dungeon, plowing over Bug where she sits and continuing on until it disappears from sight. In the wake of the wave of energy, the Dungeon glows with new life as the walls and floor hungrily absorb the lingering energy into themselves.
Bug picks herself up as she was pushed a little from the energy, much like a hard shove, but all in all, she is unharmed. If she was standing when the wave came, she might have been knocked on her ass.
Watching the walls and floors, the last bits of energy gets absorbed and disappears.
Almost immediately, a plant bulb starts to grow in a corner, rapidly increasing in size until it is almost as tall as Bug is.
Inside, a figure starts to grow.
Huh… Was this how I was born? Ooh! What is that!?
She immediately gets distracted as off to the side, something blue and shiny starts to grow on the wall. Bug runs over to it and watches as it grows instead.
HUUUUUUH! It’s a mana crystal! It is growing from the wall!
Standing below where the crystal is rapidly growing, Bug watches, mystified as it grows until it is about as big as the other three that she already owns. With a little clink, it disconnects from the wall and falls to the floor.
Bug quickly scoops it up like it might try to get up and run away from her.
Mine!
Holding it up into the light, Bug lovingly admires her new treasure from every angle, marveling as the blue light of the glowing mushrooms shines through its surface.
Once she has had her fill, she stores the crystal and confirms that it is stacked with the other ones.
I should hurry up and explore more. I need to hurry before the mobs are birthed. Get as many of them as possible before anyone else has a chance to grab them!
Happily running through the halls, Bug moves through the rest of the first floor as she navigates around the birthing pods, peeking into rooms as she goes to see if she can spot any more mana crystals growing.
After a couple of hallways, Bug finally comes across a room that has one. Much like with the first one that she had found, this one is in a room filled with birthing pods. She runs in and snatches up the crystal excitedly.
Hmm, second time that I have found one like this… Is this supposed to be some kind of ambush room for the humans? Just a bunch of mobs in a room protecting a treasure?
Bug looks around the room and approaches a pod. It won’t be much longer until they hatch.
“Hmm…”
Bug takes out her spear and lines it up. With it aimed at the chest of the unborn mob, Bug runs it through and pierces it. The pod immediately burst and falls apart, its contents getting spilled to the floor in a mostly formed mess.
Bug waits… The thing is most definitely dead but…
No notification… So, I don’t get any experience for killing them in the pod then. Well, that sucks…
Storing the spear, Bug leaves the room and gets back to walking, leaving both the pod and the body behind as they are rapidly dissolving into a mush and getting reabsorbed into the Dungeon.
Hmm, I’ll just have to wait until they hatch then. It would take a while for me to reach Level 10 from just killing mobs, but I might as well get as much as I can before the Dungeon opens again. Then I can try heading down to the next floor and check it out.
Continuing on her way, Bug finally finds the stairs to the next floor as her map reaches 80% complete. Looking it over, the only places that she has missed should be a few dead ends and some hallways that connect between places that she has already been.
Overall, the first floor of the Dungeon isn’t all that big. It would take Bug about five minutes to run back to her hole that she marked and maybe a little longer to get back to the entrance. Really, it is almost a straight shot from the entrance to the stairs. So those that want to just hurry and skip the first floor seem to be able to just walk right on through.
Considering what Bug knows of the Dungeon’s purpose for the first floor, she considers that maybe the other hallways are mostly just for low level humans to get to fight and earn experience in the Dungeon, with the central path being for the higher level people that just want to hurry up and get to the next floor.
Did you know this text is from a different site? Read the official version to support the creator.
Checking the marker that she left for where she encountered that first group of humans, she finds that it is practically on the central path, helping to confirm her thoughts.
Hmm, so as long as I stay away from the entrance, the stairs, and the path between them, I should be able to avoid running into any higher leveled humans then… Good to know.
Bug leaves the stairs behind for now, deciding to remain on this floor for now and get a couple more levels first.
Making her way back to one of the birthing rooms, Bug sits on a boulder and waits as she watches them gestate.
They are almost done, so it thankfully doesn’t take much longer until the process starts and the mobs are born. Bug watches with fascination as she sees the process unfold. The plants bulging and then splitting apart into a flow of fluids as a newly born creature is dumped unceremoniously onto the dirt covered floor. The umbilical cords that connected them to the plant, and by extension to the Dungeon, comes loose as they roll off of the plant.
Their bodies come out weak and wet, and after a cough and a gasping breath of air, they all slowly wake. Crawling on their hands and knees, they work their way over and devour their birthing pods until nothing is left but a withered stem that is slowly falling apart and getting reabsorbed into the Dungeon.
Bug watches, fascinated by a process that goes beyond her meager magic knowledge.
Eventually, the plants are all eaten and the newborn mobs start to clean themselves. Bug grimaces as she watches them lick clean their naked bodies, realizing that she had probably done the same herself when she was born.
Looking at their naked bodies, she finds herself more and more thankful for the clothes that she is wearing. Honestly, the sight of their naked bodies are starting to make her feel uncomfortable.
Bug want to kill them all already, but she still wants to see it. She wants to see the moment that they start doing stuff aside from what was preprogramed into them. To see if any of them end up smart like her…
The results end up being rather disappointing…
Almost immediately, two of the males start fighting over a patch of moss despite there being more than enough to go around. Another one just sits there in the corner and stares of into space. One just walks off without a word, leaving the room to go and wander off somewhere.
Those are the rather harmless ones that Bug just ignores for now. Her immediate attention is occupied by the male that picked up a rock and decided to run at her, murder clearly showing in his red eyes. Bug has no idea what his problem is, or why he woke up and chose violence today. But honestly, she doesn’t care.
Taking one of her shoddy throwing knives out, Bug tosses it from where she sits and nails him in the eye. He falls like a sack of rocks and dies instantly.
//Congratulations! You have earned a Skill!
//Throwing Weapons lvl 1 unlocked!
Oh nice! Finally got that one. Thanks idiot.
//Killed lvl 1 Gremlin – 5 exp gained!
//Congratulations! You have reached lvl 7! – Your stats have been increased!
//You have earned 3 Free Stat points!
//You have earned 1 Skill point!
…
Also nice! Thanks again idiot!
With Bug not technically being in combat anymore, despite the other mobs being in the room, Bug’s body starts to heat up as the Level-up increases her stats. Bug quickly allocates her points like she planned, bringing her Endurance up to ten and then putting the other two into strength and Magic, copying the stat growth of her level-up this time and bringing her stats to some nice numbers.
----------------------------------------
Stats
Name – Bug
Age – 0
Race – Gremlin
Class – None
Level – 7
EXP – 3/80
Free Stat Points - 0
Heath – 66/66
Stamina – 30/30
Mana – 130/130
Vitality – 11
Endurance – 10
Strength - 10
Dexterity - 13
Magic - 13
Intelligence - 13
*Luck – N/A
*Note: Luck is a work in progress stat. Points cannot be put into this stat at this time.
----------------------------------------
Ok, from here on out, I am just going to keep pumping everything into Dexterity, Magic, and Intelligence. I want to try and get the best Class that I can once I hit level 10.
With her body still warm and sweat soaking into her shirt, Bug keeps watching as the mobs come into consciousness and start doing stuff. Mostly they’re just messing around and being dumb, or fighting each other over stupid things.
As Bug is watching the room, one of the females tries to go for the knife that is still sticking in the eye of the first dead one. She gets rewarded with a knife thrown into the side of her head. Her body collapses onto of the first one.
//Killed lvl 1 Gremlin – 5 exp gained!
Dumbass, I’m still sitting right here…
A cheer calls out from the side as a second female watches the other die, a look of pure excitement in her eyes.
“Oh? You liked that, did you?” Bug ask with mild interest and a hint of disgust.
The female turns to Bug with a weird smile and walks towards her. She is tempted to kill her on the spot, but curiosity compels her to see what is about to happen.
The female reaches the boulder that Bug rests on and starts acting even weirder as she climbs it. Bug just watches, ready to take out her dagger and kill the thing at a moment’s notice.
“Why are you being weird…?”
Sitting right next to Bug on the boulder, the female starts playing with herself while looking at Bug with hungry eyes.
Bug gawks at this, stunned by the sudden display of lust and freezes up. She was not expecting this. Not one bit. It would have been one thing if she had attacked her or tried to steal her stuff. But this! Bug has no way of knowing how to respond to this.
She just watches as the thing sitting beside her starts making some concerning noises, shocked frozen by the display.
It isn’t until the female reaches out a hand to try and touch Bug’s chest that she finally snaps out of her stupor. She slaps the groping hand aside and pushes the female away. She lands on her back, something of a laugh escaping her mouth as she spreads her legs for Bug, practically begging her to come forward.
“What the hell is wrong with you!?”
Her memory goes back to that first group of mobs that she had killed. The Alpha of that messed up group had been mating with a female in the back of the room…
Is this nasty thing mistaking me as the leader of this room? Is that why it is doing this? Seriously, what the fuck is this? Why would the Dungeon make us like this!!?? This is fucked up!
Bug stands up as she looks at the thing that is pleasuring itself, a look of disgust on her face as she watches it. The thing on the floor gets excited and starts to shake her hips.
“What the hell is wrong with you? Do you think I am just going to... I-I DON'T KNOW WHAT! Ju-Just because you presented yourself to me? I’m not some mindless animal in heat! I’m not like you! I’m different!!!!” She screams at the thing, but it just seems to get more excited by her words.
“Fuck you!” Bug yells as she takes out a sword. Before the female can realize what is happening, Bug rams the sword through her chest and pierces her heart, the tip of the blade striking the boulder bellow her and rattling the handle in Bug's grip.
//Killed lvl 1 Gremlin – 5 exp gained!
She dies with her hand buried between her legs and a stupidly surprised look on her face. Bug spits, trying to rid her mouth of the disgust that is filling her.
In the room, the rest are either still doing their own thing or are clapping and making calls as they cheer excitedly. They must think that the boss of the room had just put on a show for them or something.
Bug’s disgust increases ten-fold as she looks them all over from on high. Looking at their naked bodies and the way that their eyes don’t shine with the light of life. The difference between them and the humans, of there actually being something there, is even more obvious than it had ever been before. These things are empty. Nothing but shells filled with the bare minimum and set to do whatever desire drives them forward.
There is no complex thought, no emotion, just bodily desire.