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Chapter 219 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

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Feeling good enough to write again, most likely should have waited a bit more but I literally needed to write the next chapter.

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Pov Dungeon Core

I concentrated a bit more on Ace and his hideout. It seemed like he was finally starting to fix his skill problem, and it seemed like Ziiipe was willing to help. They will need the resources in the coming years as the adventurer situation was starting to heat up.

Smaller guilds, newe...

Announcement

No chapter today for sure as I am sick and it feels like it's not going to be something I recover in a day or two. I hope I am wrong.

My overall health has been getting worse so in the future there might be more interruptions in the upload schedule.

Also if I am going to miss a day or two on uploads I will announce them on my discord for anyone new who didn't know this.

Chapter 218 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Pov Ace

My minder was starting to get suspicious. Fortunately, he seemed to be quite busy with something they weren’t talking to me about, and a lot of diamond ranks have left my city. Fortunately, I have made some contacts that can keep me informed of things. It seems that some faction or group is determined to reveal the diamond ranks’ secrets, and honestly, I’m all for it—less focus on ETG and me.

It did seem a bit too convenient, but I wasn’...

Chapter 217 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Pov Chy

I watched as she walked away, curiously looking every which way at new things she had never seen before. Her real form was quite powerful-looking, but it was quite weird to see a creature with six legs. Father tells me that she’s the first to reach platinum rank in his new playroom, but honestly, I can’t imagine how she could be so childlike after having gone through all the struggle to even survive.

I think she likes the human body as it can ...

Chapter 216 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

It was time for another breakthrough, but I was so fascinated watching what was happening in the 47th playroom. The adventurers were also starting to worry, as I hadn’t even opened up the 45th-floor dungeon rooms.

It was all part of our plan, and I hoped that it would work as intended. I was getting kind of frustrated that I needed to change my plans and how I operated just because there were forces out there stronger than me. Fortunately, in the grand scheme, it shouldn�...

Chapter 215 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

With the floor guardian done, it was time to move on to the skill section of my breakthrough. I slowly increased the Planned Evolution skill until it finally reached S rank. That was my biggest worry, and I even had a few percent left to put into Creature Making. I finished my breakthrough and reconnected with my dungeon. A breakthrough was always wonderful, but right now I had other things on my mind.

Still, I didn’t start to expand the next floor immediately but did my ...

Chapter 214 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

The 46th floor, and more specifically its playroom, was going to be for platinum ranks, but it was going to be a nice place to live. While there would be dangerous areas for those who would want it, this playroom was mainly for the creatures who have already reached platinum rank from the two next following playrooms that I will designate Farm One and Water Farm.

I started work on it immediately after I finished expanding it, but this time I didn’t open up the 45th-floor ...

Chapter 213 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

The 45th floor was coming along nicely. The only problem was that it was a bit too big. I was definitely going to have to increase the height soon so most of the volume of the floor would simply be air, which was a lot easier to manage and meant that I wouldn’t have to spend so much time on a single floor.

Currently, the height is 14,500 meters, the length is a bit over 124,000 kilometers and the width is close to 106,000 kilometers. The playroom was going to be filled wi...

Chapter 212 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Time continued to march on, and it had been many years since I stopped my work on the 44th floor. Changing my main pathway that I connected to the outside world, which allowed me to continue living, was way more difficult than I ever expected.

There wasn’t a good way to explain this feeling, but it sort of felt like I needed to switch from normal breathing like an adventurer did, and all of a sudden switch to start breathing through the skin.

My core ro...

Chapter 211 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Pov Dungeon Core

I was still not completely sure about what would happen in the future with the ants and their colonies outside of my dungeon, but it seems like that was the start of many problems.

More and more platinum ranks were not just arriving but also advanced from gold rank inside the dungeon rooms. It was a good distraction to focus on, to get my mind off the ants and the endless making of rock in the underground world of the 44th playroom.

Chapter 210 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Pov Vib Ci

I was moving towards the descent tunnel with the words of Father still rattling around in my mind. I do not know if I would have been able to give such permission, to purposely let go and weaken yourself. There’s so much to learn from this decision, and I now kind of don’t want to do my job, but it is my job, and I have my orders.

I am to descend below Father to the colony of the underworld, get everything I need from there, and then start ...

Chapter 209 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Pov Dungeon Core

The sky playroom was slowly starting to develop an ecosystem while I was working on the next playroom. This one was going to take longer as it was going to be entirely underground. At first, I didn’t realize I had missed such an important part of this world’s ecosystem, but to my credit, how could I have known that there was a whole world of its own under the ground?

At first, the missions to discover more dinosaurs underground went s...

Chapter 208 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Pov Carl

I punched away a stone guardian and was pleased to see that it had only small cracks. More and more of them were waking up around these ruins. Every floor seems to have a type of ruin or a few different types, and almost always there's some sort of stone golem.

While they don't give much loot, they usually guard some quest or treasure. This time, I’m not after those rewards. I pulled up my hands in the position I was taught for fighting unarmed...

Chapter 207 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Pov Rafe

It didn't take long for my presence to be noticed and for a patrol ship to start approaching my location. These creatures were highly regulated, and hunting them without permission had quite a severe punishment.

Even though a lot of resources were put into hunting and protecting them, it was still profitable despite all that expenditure, as the flesh of these creatures was truly valuable not just to platinum ranks but even to diamond ranks.

Chapter 206 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Pov Rafe

The wind was sweeping past me fast as I got closer to the trade wind, letting me accelerate towards the west and a little bit to the north. I was going basically parallel to the trade wind, but unfortunately, I wouldn’t be able to enter it as that would take me in the wrong direction.

I loved my small airship—it was damn well built—but it took a lot of muscle to work the sails, and mana crystals that were full of mana were quite expensive t...

Chapter 205 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Pov Ace

"Stop being so glum. None of the pirates were stupid enough to attempt another attack, even if you offered them so much gold. If you were in their shoes, would you have done it?" My wife made another reasonable and completely logical statement, and I just looked at her, still in complete denial.

"I understand that, but still, it would have at least made the return trip worth it. That meeting was literally just a dick-measuring contest, and we were...

Chapter 204 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

I finished expanding the 42nd floor, which meant it was now time to decide on how I wanted the floor to look. This was going to be a warmer world, but there was still going to be a bit of winter in some places.

The oxygen levels also needed to be a bit higher, but not as high as my bug playrooms. For plants and creatures, I was only going to use the ones that would have been alive during the periods when dinosaurs were one of the rulers of this world.

I h...

Chapter 203 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

I have been just observing my latest playroom after having finished it nearly three weeks ago. It was simply so relaxing to view. How the floating islands slowly moved, and how the rivers meandered through the sky, slowly going downwards.

Life here seems to be growing at an exponential rate, as there are so many base resources for life to keep growing. I even brought some of the plants from my ocean world that grew underneath its continents, changed them a little bit so the...

Update for homesteading

So I am still struggling to write homesteading and feel that even when I finish it it will not really be the ending it deserves. It feels too short. I did come up with a different approach but there's also a huge problem with that.

So right now the story simply continues where it left off where the written stuff ends I have everything planned out and how it will end. It feels fast and is shorter than I expected I suspect a big problem is I am not that existed to write it as it's not r...

Chapter 202 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Pov Dungeon Core

I watched how some of my most brilliant creatures interacted with each other after just completing one of the most dangerous missions they have ever been on. It was necessary to send them with Ace to that meeting out there in the Black Ocean, and we did get some good information that has helped me connect more dots. But I’m even more glad that they all came back alive.

What I’m worried about is the recommendation to start influencing ...

Chapter 201 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Pov Claw

"Hello, Father. It’s good to be back," I said to a human who wasn't acting quite normally. Father was, once again, using one of his monsters to talk to us. He had already taken all my memories using some new technique, so he knew everything that happened, but I understood why he would want a report from us. I’ve also come to learn that context can be vital, and you can only learn so much from memories.

"All of your journeys have been wonderfu...

Chapter 200 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Pov Ace

The dark ocean wasn’t what I was expecting. I expected a world of shadow, and while I guess it somewhat is that, you can't really see the shadows up close. It seems like the sun has no trouble piercing this shadow-like fog at least this high up.

We still had to fly entirely with instruments, but my ships had the best technology, which means that in a few minutes we should come out of this shadow fog and see the meeting spot for the most powerful...

Chapter 199 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Pov Ace

Why was there so much paperwork today? Just report after report that I needed to read and give orders on how to act upon them. But I guess things have been busy for quite a while now. It's because so many adventurers are coming here, which means a lot of management is needed to keep everything functioning properly. Thankfully, we have many towns where we can send a huge portion of newcomers, so we don’t crowd up the main city.

That being said, w...

Chapter 198 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Pov Carl

Our camp went silent when we all felt the rumble. Back in the day, we celebrated when this happened. Now, I saw faces of disappointment and frustration.

"Damn it, we just finished the 38th floor, and we're just two weeks into the 39th, and the 40th floor is already open. It’s just so fast, and it's not like we're behind anyone. Was it like that back in the day? I heard y’all talking about vacations—how did they feel?" one of our younger cla...

Chapter 197 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

It took a bit of time for the news to spread about a strange ant colony being discovered on both sides. The Ant Nations were the first to react with an expedition, but the United Ants weren’t too far behind.

They both sent their best champions who were close by, although the Ant Nations had a lot more strength. Overall, they also had more power as their civilization spanned multiple floors, while the United Ants only had one before this.

That didn’t m...

Chapter 196 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

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Dungeon Core: “The Machinations of the Pixies” reached in GameLit & LitRPG Fiction eBooks category on Amazon in the 35 spot. This is incredible and something I did not expect I want to thank all of you for your continued support from the bottom of my heart, Thank You.

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The small pattern continued to do its thing. Sometimes i...

Announcement

So even when sick amazon does not stop so Book 3 is now out on Amazon with a title that hopefully fits.

Dungeon Core: “The Machinations of the Pixies”

Here the cover art

Announcement

I am sick and I am afraid this will last longer than a day or two. Ps. don't go swimming even during summer when the temperature is too low. Hopefully I will get better soon but from previous experiences this might last a bit :(

Chapter 195 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

While all of the undead stuff happened, I was expanding the 40th floor, and I decided to shrink both the length and width so I could make the height 14 kilometers. While the volume remained the same, the length of this floor was now 70,000 kilometers and the width 60,000.

I also knew what playroom I wanted to make, and for that reason, 10 kilometers of this playroom would be underground, as I wanted to see what the ants could do if they could truly delve into the depths. 2024-08-09 07:01:38 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 194 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

I finally finished expanding the 39th floor. It was a big one, and I think on the next floor I will reduce the size but increase the height. Currently, the height is just 3400 meters, and while that’s plenty big, I have some vertical floor plans and perhaps I would even mess with the direction of gravity, but I think it might be a bit too soon to push myself so far. Whatever the case, it was time to start making this playroom and the dungeon rooms above.

With a length of ...