Author's Note:-
From now onward all the chapters will be in Third person.
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Enjoy.
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Third person's P.O.V:-
Minie followed his command and transferred the skill books from the waste bag to his inventory.
But then she saw him and noticed that instead of learning the skills, he was more concerned with the layout and design of the second floor of their dungeon and she felt a warm current coursing through her body.
For her Rocky was like a kid, a kid who was very eager to learn new things, but had the tendency to forget important topics and older information, but now that she saw him doing his duty so passionately and dedication, she truly and really felt happy.
Her happiness would have continued and maybe even increased, if she hadn’t thought about this.
‘Did he not level up? Even after killing 5 humans, he still didn’t level up? Why is that? Don’t tell me, the experience he requires to level up is actually much- much greater than in normal cases!’ she thought, as her face cramped and her eyebrows crumpled. She couldn’t help but ask rocky about it.
“Rock did you level up or not?”
“Huh, that… I don’t think so? I didn’t hear any notification regarding level up.”
“But how is this possible? Don’t tell me; he will have to kill them with his own hands to get the reward!”
She was seriously spending her brain to learn about the reason, when Rocky suddenly said something funny.
“Maybe the system forgot about it?”
They were just casually talking about leveling up and all, when the sweet rhyme of gods music started ringing in their dungeon
*Ding*
Dungeon master Level Up x 5
Buff ant worker level up x 2
“Oh! Looks like… they system was calculating the rewards.”
*…….* “I am sure it was.”
Minie stared at the ceiling after saying that, but her eyes were clearly cursing and firing daggers at whoever was controlling the system.
*Hah…*
Anyways, they called the buff ant to see its progress and saw that its newly gained 2 points had been automatic, but equally added to its strength and resistance stat.
Mine shrugged her shoulders, as if she knew that its points would be automatically distributed, but Rocky was fascinated by the idea of automatic distribution of skill points according to an individual's potential.
“This is good, but manual distribution of points is still the best. Who knows if I also had this system of automatic distribution of points, then hoe they would have been distributed?!”
“Forget about it, its useless worry. Just do as I tell you and we’ll make it.”
“Sigh… so what should I do now?”
“Firstly, add all of your newly acquired skill points in your knowledge stat and then melt all the items inside your waste bag and reclaim materials.”
The first task was easy and rocky also knew about it, but he didn’t know anything about melting the items inside his waste item bag and it confused him a little.
“Melting the items? For what?”
“You know, we can melt all the useless items and reclaim raw material from them.” She excitedly said, and when she saw that she had gotten his attention, she added, “Like, if you melted an iron sword, then you’ll get crude iron or iron ore from it. The main advantage is that it saves us from spending dungeon credits to buy raw materials, as we could easily get them by melting the useless items.”
She thought he would get happy hearing this information, but then she understood what exactly had taken his attention.
“So, if I want to reward the humans with items and weapons, then first I’ll have to buy the raw material from the system? Can we even buy that kind of stuff?”
But for her it was good too, because him figuring things on his own meant that she would have less things to teach him.
“Yes, yes. The resource corner, which is still locked; I don’t know why it is locked? That is the place where we can buy anything and the best part is that once it got unlocked, then all the restrictions will be removed and we’ll be able to buy anything, anything that we wanted!” she emphasized everything because what she said really was true and she was waiting for the day it would get completely unlocked.
“You mean, buy all and anything till our money lasts?!”
“Yes, yes! Won’t that be just great!?” Her face was glowing with expectations and excitements, as it gave an amusing feeling, a kind of assurance to Rocky.
‘She is not only small but her heart is pure like kids too.’ Rocky thought thinking about her tendency to easily get frustrated and then even quickly getting excited.
*Sigh* He sighed and controlled his dungeon interface to take a look at his newly acquired skill books.
He felt lucky, when he remembered the time when Minie had told him that the chance and the possibility of a skill book to drop from a dead human inside the dungeon was extremely low, but for him, those skill books were dropping left and right. Every one that died presented him with a skill book, as if they were thanking him for killing them and then giving him their skills as a present.
Even he got excited. While Minie was excited about melting the items, which he felt was unnecessary; He was excited about his future and when he couldn’t control his excitement anymore, he opened both of the skill books at the same time.
And they also opened in front of him midst a shower of rainbow colored light.
*Ding*
Skill : IllusionRank : DWhen the skill is used the users environment will distort and change according to need.Restrictions:
Can only affect one sense at the rank.Affinity: DarknessMana Consumption : 20/HourCool down : 0secIllusion : VisionaryWould you like to learn: Yes/No
Skill : SneakRank : DProvides a limited time of stealth allowing the user to go undetected by hiding in the shadows. Decreases the amount of vigilance of enemies around you.Restrictions:
Doesn’t work on equal and higher ranking individuals.Class: Bandits, ThievesMana Consumption : 50MpCool down : 10 minDistance : 100metres.Would you like to learn: Yes/No
“Yes, Yes, Yes.” He shouted like a maniac.
He couldn’t control his happiness because he was learning so many skills, even though he was only a small time low ranking individual.
But there was also a bit of sadness because he couldn’t directly use them, but that bi tof sadness was only for a moment because it was not like he had to personally go for the kill.
What he really wanted the illusion skill was not for some petty magic show, but to enhance his dungeon.
Skill "Illusions" Learned.
Skill “Sneak" Learned.
“Hahaa, I am a genius, a genius, haaha.”
“Now, now, come out, out of your delusional and illusionary world. We still have a lot of work to do after all.
“AH! Yes, Sorry, my bad. I got a little too excited, Heehe.”
“Don’t worry, carry on. Complete your tasks for now and then we’ll see what to do next.”
“Okay, but… what was the next task again.”
And he trembled as she shuddered. ‘She fired a stone missile at him and his crystal was blasted to smithereens’ is what came into Rocky’s mind when the truth about him having forgotten his task ran out of his mouth, but unlike his co called fake ‘Premonition’ she turned back and again politely told him his next task, but not without a cramped smile and twitching eyebrows.
“Hur hur.” Rocky nodded his head vigorously, as he hurried to get back to work.
Firstly, he distributed his newly acquired skill points into his knowledge stat.
Knowledge - 63(15), Mana increase-150, Total mana - 666.
Watching the result of his endlessly increasing levels and mana pool, a clown like smile unknowingly formed on his face.
Then he again opened his waste item bag.
Waste BagArmor'sDark attributed clothes, Wind armor, Boots of haste, Low quality Leather Chest Armor(3), Daggers(2), crude iron short sword(1),AccessoriesNameless Bracelet, Eye of the bewitcher, Earrings of tenacitySkill BooksPotionsGreater Health Potions(5), lesser mana potion(2), lesser health potion(1)HerbsBlazing Frost Mushrooms(128)Would you like to melt them all: YES/NO
He looked at them for a minute before he directly gave the command to melt all the items inside the bag. He didn’t give them another look before giving his command because he had no knowledge, information or experience regarding grading items and said weapons. This was also the first time that he thought about the limitations of his dungeon interface.
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Though his dungeon interface was able to provide him most of the information about the targeted object, but the information provided never went deeper than giving surface knowledge. As it never told him the attack power of his spells, neither did it give an in depth view into the stats and skills of his enemies and acted more like unskilled probing and nothing more.
But, his thoughts got interrupted when the system asked him a question.
*Do you want to melt all the items inside your waste item bag?
“Yes, melt them.” His impotency/Ability for not being able to use his or any kind of weapon also played an important role in him being so lackluster and patient regarding melting, which might be a potentially important item.
He gave the order and the system accepted his command as it started processing the data.
*Ding*
Process in progression...
0%... ... 1%... ... 1.1%... ...
‘Looks like it is going to take some… No, not some, but a lot of time!’ He thought when he saw the progression bar increasing at the pace of a snail.
“Minie~, Minie~,… Now, what should we do?” He sang to tell her that he had completed his mission.
“Did you do what was asked of you?”
“Sir, yes, sir.” He said in a stern and solid voice, imitating a soldier’s response to his commander.
“Hahaa.” Minie laughed hearing him speaking like that.
“Okay, then… Haha…” She shook her head to get her thoughts straight and said,
“You should give the design plan to your chief engineer, so that he wouldn’t bicker with you at the end.”
“Chief engineer? Who?” He tilted his head as he asked her, but then he understood who she was talking and replied back, “Oh! Are you talking about little larva… No Buff worker? Ha-ha, well, actually you are right. His ability is suitable enough for him to be called our dungeon engineer. Well, at least until an even more powerful worker comes along.”
“So Rocky, how exactly do you have in plan for the second floor? I mean what do you have in mind? Surely we could repeat the layout of our first floor with it, but I am sure you don’t want to do that.” She asked him, while playing with a petal of her green flowery dress.
“Um… about that, It wasn’t sure to me, what I wanted to do with it, but not that I have gained the illusion skill; I think I can implement what I really had thought about it.”
“But you can’t use the skills, they have class restrictions right/ Moreover, what use could your personal skills have in a dungeon?”
“Yeah, you are right. I can’t use the skills normally, but the thing is; I’m not going to use them normally. I can use fusion skills after all and what I really right now to complete my plan is a fusion skill, which can adapt itself to the surroundings.”
“Adapt, there are no such skills which can adapt? Also, What do you mean by adapt?”
“There might really be no such skill which can adapt according to their surroundings, but don’t forget, I am a dungeon master and this skill creation panel is actually an ability related to the dungeon and not my personal skill. Just watch.”
He said that and opened his dungeon interface. He went directly to the fusion skill creator under the workshop panel and used two skills to fuse.
Dungeon InterfaceCreationStatus/Floor/Store/Monsters/QuestWorkshop : Fusion Spell CreatorSPELL A: IllusionSPELL B : CreationWould you like to fuse the spells with the provided condition : YES/NO
And he said, “Yes.”
Unlike before, the result came almost instantaneously and he received the notification for his newly gained skill.
Skill Fusion complete.
Skills creation and Illusion combined to create "Illusion Craft."
Fusion Skill : Illusion Craft (Lesser)Fusion : Illusion + CreationLevel : 0Rank : DCan create Arrays, which block and mold sensory data. Possible to Implement and project illusion over a very large area.Restrictions:
Can only mold one of the senses.Illusion’s area: 5 meterMana rate: 60Mp/hour.No of illusions: 5Sense: Vision
“Its, aliv… No, it’s a miracle.”
When she saw the skills successfully fusing without any problem, her mouth gaped and eyes opened wide in astonishment, because according to the known information; creating or fusing skills an extremely dangerous and difficult process it was impossible to create them like him.
“Yo-you, how did you fuse those skills so easily? Don’t tell me this is also a function of the dungeon interface? I didn’t know this skill creator was so godly? It’s a good thing that you are a dungeon master and not a human; otherwise no normal human could have had the ability to compete with you.”
“Well, it is how it is. Forget it, let’s just start with the dungeon construction.”
“But…”
“No, if and no but, only… me!”
“Minie, can I buy a buff ant worker? And while we are at it, I think we should also buy some eggs. What do you say?”
“Yeah, let’s buy… a What? We can buy him from the system? Really?”
“Yes, we can. Although he is a bit costly, but I think if we do get him, then our second floor will get ready in a day. His work efficiency had already been great, but now that we have seen his attacking power, I am in awe. So let’s just buy one or two, maybe three of them. We have enough to sustain ourselves after this much expenditure after all, I think.”
“Wait, wait! If we can buy him from the system, then doesn’t this mean that whenever one of our ants naturally evolved, then we would be able to buy others like him directly from the system?”
“Huh, I didn’t think so deeply about it…heehe. But now that I think about it, then yeah, looks like you are right.”
She had already stopped her breathing when she had uttered her hypothesis, but when Rocky also confirmed it, at that time she completely forgot to breathe for a minute. Her dam of emotions and restraints finally broke, as she came back to her original avatar.
“Fuck the humans. Now, we’ll see who drop the bomb on whom.”
“Ah, Minie??”
“Now, we’ll lay the rules and draw the boundaries and then they will have to follow.”
“Look minie…?”
“No, there is no need to be afraid. Until we have enough credits on hand we’ll be able to…”
“MINIE!!”
She got so engrossed in her own little monologue that she completely disregarded him and continued on releasing her pent p anger on the walls and his mind, But she was also soon brought back to the land of calm minded people by Rocky.
“Huh, what happened? Why are you shouting?”
“You were scaring me… No, actually though you were a bit scary there, but I already know how you really are, so it didn’t scare me, but… forget it, just look here. Where do you think this came from?”
“Hum, what are you talking about?”
“No, not on the ground, on the monster store, Minie. There Minie, there, You see?”
Dungeon InterfaceMonstersStatus / Floors / Store/Creation/Quests---NameRankMana ReservedPriceAnt egg05Mp25DcAnt Worker010Mp50DcBuff Ant Worker(U)175Mp175DcAnt Soldier(UQ)?????????Ant Queen(S)3100Mp500DcIBee Worker160Mp300DcBee Queen(S)3350Mp1750DcNameless Soul10Mp, {Needs Greater Mana Stone}
+ ???0Dc---------LOCKED----------
“Oh, yes! You were right we can really buy the buff ant worker now. He is bit expensive though. So, what about him…”
“No, not him at the end; the last option!”
“HUH, what last op…”
But when she looked at it, her eyes cramped and she squinted her eyes, as she cursed,
“What the hell. What is this?”
“That is what I am saying. From where did the option to buy a soul come in our insect type dungeon?