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As the Goatmen were living in their new village I learned a few thing from observing them.
1st) Goatmen can survive just by eating grass but it seems they prefer vegetables/fruits. As I had guessed they started prepare the soil for planting.
2nd) In total they had 4 elderly, 3 adult men, 3 adult woman, 3 young adults, and 8 children.
3rd) They did not eat meat, I had left some fresh meat outside their main house and when they saw the meat they took it and added it to the cultivated land.
When I found out they were not meat eaters I wanted to see how they would react to me so one day when the children on both sides were asleep I went outside with 5 fridges in my inventory. If they became hostile the fridges would be used as weapons but if they were friendly I would offer them some vegetables from earth so I may have a better experience with them. Since I am a dungeon I realized me and Molly might live for hundreds or thousands of years so we needed to communicate with them when there were few of them. I also didn’t know if the other Goatmen would come back and if they did I didn’t want to have a bad relationship with my current neighbors.
Walking out cautiously I went towards the goatpeople. The person in charge was Granny A since she was the only one who looked straight at me without fear in her eyes unlike the others.
Granny A: So you finally come out huh?
I waited for her to say something more since I thought it was a rhetorical question but found out that she was waiting for my answer.
JJ Dungeon: Recklessness will cost you your life, while caution will save it. I know this from personal experience.
Granny A: Good answer lad, at least you are wiser than these young ones who let the children play on top of a door, which can swallow them in mere moments.
JJ Dungeon: If you knew it was a door why in the world would you allow the children to play upon it?
Granny A: I’m too old to be yelling anyway on to more important issues. Why have you chosen to contact us now?
JJ Dungeon: I would like to know more about your race and more about this world since me and my people have been in seclusion for a very long time and don’t know anything related to the world.
Granny A: What will we get for providing you with the information?
Shoot she thinks like me!
JJ Dungeon: Okay, we’ll negotiate, I’ll tell you about my history for yours.
Granny A thought about the offer for a while and spoke again.
Granny A: The offer sounds reasonable but let’s make it fairer and go question for question bases.
JJ Dungeon: My first question, what is this land called?
Granny A: This is Galdaria. My question, how many of your people are there?
When I heard her short answer I groaned inside and knew this was going to be a long exchange of questions.
After a whole week where we talked for 40 hours a day we ended up getting some information about each other and ended up on friendly terms. A few days after we had started talking Molly figured out that I was going outside and threw a tantrum until I took her with me. The Grass Eater village, as it was called, kids didn’t treat Molly differently and instead actually included her in their plays. By the end of the week Molly was begging me to allow the other kids to come to our house. Molly wanted to impress them since they were currently showing her their homes and she could not show them ours. Even with her persistent puppy eyes and crying I could not relent since it would be a detriment to our lives.
What I learned from Granny A was that we were currently on a continent about ten times the size of the Eurasian continent and there were legends of other lands across the sea. With just this information I realized that most likely that even if all humanity had survived and got transferred here I might not make contact with them my whole life. I learned that a year is divided into 18 months and each month contains 30 days, each day contains 120 hours and each hour 100 minutes unlike my 60 minutes on earth. From my deduction I guessed that there were 100 seconds as well. Later on when I had gone back to the house I used a calculator to do the math and found out that for every 3 Mauro years 62.5 years passed on Earth. I had thought I had spent a total of 2 months and a week here but in actuality I have spent a total of two years and 7 months of Earth years on this world. When I did the math I was astonished at first but realized that I most likely had the Immortal effect where time moved faster than what really happened.
I learned that they lived in a small city with a population of a 1 million humanoid population. This city was populated with 16 races which ranged from meat eaters to herbivores. Since I need to get used to this world I stopped converting the time from Mauro to Earth since I would feel too old after a few Mauro days. Six Mauro months ago their city got attacked by 20 Behemoths and 10 giant Gorillas. The 30 Ancients as they were called attacked the city for a week but failed to break down the cities barrier but as the Ancients were leaving the city, the barrier fell. With the barrier having fallen the Ancients turned around and attacked the city. With the city in ruins people ended up running in all directions. The races ended up running in different directions from the city. The Goatmen race headed east towards my home. Granny A told me that the shield should not have fallen since the dungeon core was still new. When I asked her by what she meant she told me that dungeon cores are used to power city shields. The more cores used for the shield the bigger radius of the dungeon. The older the dungeon from which the core was taken, the stronger the dungeon and allowed the shield to withstand stronger monsters. Each core can last at most for 10 years and needs to be replaced otherwise the shield will grow smaller and weaker.
In most small cities like the one the Goatmen had lived in contained 10 cores and a core would be replaced per year. With this system shields would never fall but in their city it did. In fact one of the Goatwoman by the name of Lorena had been near the area which contained the cores and said that she could see green mist escaping the area when the shield fell.
As they escaped the city they brought the clothes on their back and nothing else. Some of the more wealthy people took all their wagons from storage and gave some of them away. The wealthy did not do this for the good of everyone but instead so that a lot of people would pack into the other wagons and the Ancients would chase the more packed carriages. Granny A, Lorena, and Ozona (another Goatwoman) all were given a wagon each. They each picked up children and other people that were on the road and a month later they joined the Goatmen convoy. Overall only 5 percent of their race had survived the carnage and destruction of their home. As they traveled some would stop at places they believed they could start a new life.
Overall I learned
1A year on Mauro is over 20 times longer than on Earth.2Dungeon cores are very valuable so we need to not let anyone know we are dungeons.3Cores can be used to create shields to protect an area from monsters.4Cores can be used together to enhance the shield5No one knows Granny A’s name and everyone just calls her Granny6This continent is ten times as big as Eurasia.
I had to twist the truth a bit when Granny asked me her questions because I didn’t want her to know that I am from another world nor that Molly and I are dungeons. I did tell her that I come from an intelligent race so I can later cover up for all the tech within my house, if they do visit our home sometime in the future.
We coexisted for six months and during these six months their new town flourished. Their crops had grown tall and some small trees were starting to form. During these six months I trained my control over mana waves and even started to be able to trace a dungeon’s mana signature to their dungeon. At first I had failed badly at being able to track the other dungeon’s signatures but with Molly’s help I was able to learn the ability to trace them.
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Ability Signature Trace learned
While I trained my Signature Trace, the dungeon that yelled Kill ended up going quiet and before it quieted down all the dungeons yelled Hunter and stopped talking for an hour. When the Kill dungeon had been cleared I felt its signature disappear and a new weak signature appeared in a new area. Even though I could not sense the dungeon’s signature anymore I could tell where it was located. The Kill dungeon was the closest located dungeon to my dungeon about a six month ride from my location via the beasts the Goatmen use. I decided to go to the Kill dungeon later when the hunters have cleared it. I had two reasons for going later to the dungeon, the first thing is that I wanted to see if I could incorporate the dungeon rooms into my own dungeon. The second thing is about the monsters that resided within the dungeon. If the hunters allowed a few of the dungeon monsters free than I might be able to make them my own as well.
Another thing I did these past six months was try and buff myself up and I had to push myself to the breaking point. For strength I used weights to train, speed was trained on the stairs where I ran up and down for days. My stealth was trained by the kids when we played games and they were really good at tracking me so I never won a game. Through these I ended up raising the stats by 2 each. Wisdom on the other hand would not raise no matter what I did and I realized that if I wanted to manually raise it I would have to have gain insight into profound laws like in those wuxia novels. The reason for this is because my wisdom is too high. If I had known this previously I would have trained all my stats through back braking work and when I could go no further I would then have used my unassigned points.
One night I was woken up from my sleep by a shriek within my head, the shriek sounded like a child’s shriek. My inner Gaia screamed to help the child and I felt my body move on its own. I ran up the stairs and when I ran outside giant monsters heading towards the village. One such monster had entered the village and had cornered a child by the name of Max. It seems that Max was the child that had screamed for help. I ran towards Max and while running I told the other goatpeople to run towards my cave and that Molly would let them in. Through the mana waves I told Molly to expect them and close the bottom door behind them.
While running I tried to taunt the giant monster which looked like a deformed dog. I knew that mother’s fury was active and that how I even was able to make it here in the first place but I knew I could not reach in time. I chose to actively use mother’s fury and ended up running 10 times as fast towards Max. I knew that even if I sacrificed my body I could not kill the dog monster, so I grabbed max into my arms and raced towards my home. I had dogmon on my tail and it was gaining up on me. I summed a freezer behind me and heard a crash. When I reached the open dungeon door I closed it behind me and I jumped down the stairs. When I reached the bottom of the stairs, Molly opened the door for me and we entered inside. When I got inside, my legs gave up and I passed out from excruciating pain.
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Name:JJ DungeonLevel:18
4,000 exp/10,000 expRace:DunmanTime:Mauro 120h –
Current: 01:70:90JobGaiaUnassigned Points40Health:23/23Mana:25.4
.25 per kill
Growth per month,
2.9 ManaStrength:24Speed:24Stealth:24Wisdom:62Fame:-52,200Endurance:108 Abilities Quick Thinking
Able to come to a solution in seconds
Aura Masking
Being able to cover up all traces of yourself.
Dungeon Eye
Allows you to see everything within yourself and 1 ft. outside for every level
Dungeon Expand
Allows you to expand yourself with more rooms and levels. Each expansion of 1ft by 1ft costs 1 Mana
Dungeon Remapping
Allows you to move already constructed rooms, corridors, and stairs wherever you want. Each minute costs 1 Mana
Dungeon Looting
All who die within you will have all their items moved to your Loot Inventory. Cleans all bloody messes as well and even packages the bodies.
Dungeon Spy
Allows you to see any beings Name, Level, and Job
Mother’s Fury
When a child is in danger you may exert feats of unimaginable strength but at the price of an unimaginable cost.
Signature Trace
Using mana waves to track down a dungeon down.
Job Gaia
You can’t withstand crying of the innocent young and will help them at whatever cost even at the cost of your own body
Titles Ruler of the World
If any being sees you they will fear you for a few seconds due to your conquest.
+3 in all stats
One of a Kind
There are no others like you in the galaxy so you will stand out wherever you are.
+10 HP
– 6 Stealth
Butcher of Animals
Animals at or below your level will run at the first sight of you
-2,00 Fame
+ 2 Speed
+ 1 Strength
+ 1 wisdom
Dependent Molly Dungeon
5 year old little girl of the Dungeon race
- 0.1 Mana per Month
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Example of approximate rank of monsters compared to others.
RaceStar RankJJ Dungeon2 - 5Animal0giant monster/beast10Goatmen
(normal people)1 - 3Ancient30 - ?Hunter2 - 50Dungeon0 - ?