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Chapter 164 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Pov Enn

"We will be in port in 30 minutes," a sailor informed me and immediately went to inform other passengers. I watched as he went. There was something pleasing about sailors and how unapologetically efficient they were.

It kind of reminded me of home, but I still had many months before I could get back. Packing everything up in my cabin, I felt the weight of the full bags when I walked to the deck to see my destination: a port town that was nearest t...

Chapter 163 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Pov Dungeon Core

I watched as more and more of my creatures left my dungeon. It was nice that I could still see them, but soon they would be out of my range. Why did this feel so sad, yet I was also proud of them for wanting to go out and experience the wider world.

Hopefully, eventually, I could be so big that no one would want to leave me, but even then, I know that some would, simply because it would be something different than being inside my dungeon....

Chapter 162 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Pov Dungeon Core

The 26th floor was officially done. Everything is triple-checked, and while I’m sure we will find mistakes when adventurers start testing everything, that's part of the process of making an excellent experience for them. The real problem is that they haven't even reached the end of the 25th floor yet, though they are getting close.

Even on the 25th floor, only the truly powerful adventurers push forward. Currently, the main mass of adve...

Chapter 161 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

The second bug playroom was shaping out to be a true mix of biomes. In fact, this was the first time that I actually made magma caves. It seems that a few species evolved to live in such environments.

My main focus still remained on the large dungeon room that’s meant for the adventurers. While my mind wasn't fully focused on it, it still took me about a month to find the perfect sand grain size and the different mixtures of sand types that would make it a nightmare for a...

Chapter 160 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

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Had some technical problems but finally got them fixed.

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It hadn’t been long since I finished expanding the 26th floor. My work was interrupted by bug guy. He had been incredibly busy helping set up the Academy because of all the changes we needed to do thanks to the knowledge he brought.

He was now helping out with our guild. In doing so, he once again started to fight inside the dungeon, and with his healed body, it didn't take long for him t...

Chapter 159 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Pov Dungeon Core

My design team was scrambling. From my estimation, we needed nearly 2000 instances of floor one and a lot more instances up to floor 11. After that, I would like to keep the number of rooms the same as I currently have.

There were so many way stations not occupied by guilds but by parties with five members or less. With the number of new adventurers projected to come, this should be fixed in the next few decades.

Curren...

Chapter 158 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Pov Ace

I looked out from my balcony. There was just something so relaxing about viewing the world from so high up. Once again, there was peace as I wasn’t in the middle of a huge city. The location in the mountains where I had my manor built still had a view of the city, which I was appreciative of.

It was a good thing to remind myself why I was doing all of this. It certainly wasn't for myself, not anymore. I already had everything I ever would have w...

Chapter 157 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Hiring bug guy has been the best decision for the Academy I’ve made. In just two weeks, he has advanced the purpose of the Academy by about two or three years. We were doing things so slowly before, step by step, as we didn't have any reference points on how to actually do what we wanted to do. But now we had perhaps one of the only experts in this field that existed.

He had been retrieving and observing patterns his entire life, and for quite a while, working on getting ...

Chapter 156 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Everyone started to slowly vacate the room that the bug guy was in. He would still need a little bit of time to properly recover, but it was now only a question of time before he was fully recovered.

I kind of wanted to hear his story, as there were a few things that I didn't understand. Now I could ask those questions by communicating what I wanted to ask to my creatures or monsters, but I wanted to be more direct.

I knew there were skills that would all...

Chapter 155 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

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I can't believe it but we have reached the start of book 4. Thank you all for all the support. It's wonderful having the opportunity to write stories that so many people enjoy,

I would also like to ask for help. The map I uploaded for the end of book 3, well that is the best I can do. If some of you are interested I would love to see a nicer version of the map.

While I know the name of the fourth book I need help coming up with the name for the third book. If y...

Chapter 154 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

While I was expanding the 25th floor, life in my dungeon and around it didn’t stop. It was absolutely wonderful. I could never imagine how boring it would be if I just had adventurers to look at, and a lot fewer of them than I currently have. Thanks to everything I have achieved, I have a tremendous amount of adventurers to observe, not only during delving but also while they were living their normal lives.

It could be argued that their normal lives would be boring compar...

Chapter 153 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Finally, the terrain of the 24th-floor playroom was done. Overall, it took less time than I was expecting, but I guess with every advancement, even if I don’t enhance my skills, I got better at doing everything. The 24th floor ended up being a bit over 13,000 kilometres in length, a bit over 11,000 in width, and 1,900 in height.

Now it was time to start bringing over plant life. About 50% of the plant life would be coming from the other playrooms, while the rest I would b...

Chapter 152 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Pov Dungeon Core

So, that didn’t go as I thought. But I understand why the orcs decided to join in on the fight. Safe zones were really valuable in the 19th-floor playroom.

It did take them quite a while to figure out where all of the safe zones were located. When they chose a location, I decided to grant them mercy and make that first destination the end of their quest.

It's still a bit annoying that I need to micromanage multiple-ch...

Chapter 151 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Pov Carl

Ziiipe was busy doing her own thing, and I hoped that she was able to copy everything down before whoever guarded this place made their entrance. The stone structure continued to shake, but there didn't seem to be any reason for why it was shaking so much.

A particularly loud crack brought our attention back to the map. We could now see just above the floor a large crack that had formed and was widening.

There was something wro...

Chapter 150 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Pov Carl

I was still nervous about these giant orcs. It was hard for me to understand why they were called that because they looked nothing like the few orcs I've seen who are adventurers. Their skin was a lot darker, and only in the light can you see that it's actually dark green; otherwise, you would think they were black. They are on average larger than humans, but not like these huge beings walking beside us.

We all entered the forest early in the mor...

Chapter 149 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Pov Dungeon Core

I needed to pull back my focus on this historic event. Vinny seems to be quite good at sensing when I focus too much on them, but I’m pretty sure that Sandy and Ziiipe were able to feel me as well. It's just that this is so exciting. When their first conversation finished, they started to walk back to their kills. The orcs guided them, which helped their party learn how to deal with proper corpses.

This also helped me see one of my mist...

Chapter 148 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Pov Sandy

"Carl, handle the six-legged one!" Caspian yelled. I took a look towards Carl and winced. Another one was joining the fight. It was hard to tell what that monster originally was, but it might have been a dog of some sort.

I could sense how Caspian broke his hand once again defending against the boar-type monster. I pulled on my magic and quickly cast a spell to mend bone and then another to help heal his flesh.

I needed to be ...

Chapter 147 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Pov Vinny

I watched as the flames danced. It had been a long time since I had time to simply look at a fire. There were four sleeping bodies near me. One of them was currently snoring like an old man. For a brief moment, I looked towards Sandy and wished she could sleep quietly so I wouldn’t have to hold two spells.

It sucked having to be one of the two who had to be on guard during the night, but they were good enough to let us sleep longer so I could ...

Chapter 146 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Pov Dungeon Core

After having brought back my core floor guardians and watching the last of the rebellion's strongholds being destroyed, it was time to start properly expanding the 24th floor. However, there was one large distraction remaining: the five adventurers on my 19th floor, more specifically in the playroom of the 19th floor.

Carl, Ziiipe, Vinny, Sandy, and Caspian have been surviving in a place more dangerous than themselves for a bit over two w...

Chapter 145 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

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Book two is now live on Amazon

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Pov one of the five

I had a moment to breathe, a moment to collect myself. Looking around the room, we were not doing too well. The twins were in bad shape, and I didn’t think they would last long. The others weren't doing much better, except for the beetle.

Th...

Chapter 144 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

I had already started the mana-gathering process to advance to the next floor. There was a need to be careful because, from the amount of mana I was generating, if I focused on keeping all of it, I would break quite fast from the overload.

I have now done this quite a few times, going over my maximum, but even now I couldn’t store a lot of mana after that, and I really didn’t want to feel the pain of cracking my core once again.

I was distracted near ...

Chapter 143 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Pov Dungeon Core

Ace came and wanted to talk to me, but I didn’t answer as I didn’t want anyone to know that I was able to fake a breakthrough. He had expected this, but they were still incredibly worried.

Almost all of them were certain that the Pixies had taken control of me. Ace wasn’t so certain because he still told everyone that the connection with me was whole and he didn't feel anything wrong.

The majority of the war died ...

Chapter 142 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Pov Dungeon Core

When I was finally able to destroy the fake core, I could actually relax. That was way too dangerous, yet it was necessary. Seeing the panicking pixies was so satisfying, but this could have been so much worse if it wasn't for a little bit of luck. I wouldn’t have even got a lucky break if I hadn’t been so interested in using adventurers to gather information.

It was quite a while ago when one of the adventurers stole an interesting p...

Chapter 141 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Pov Faris

It was so satisfying. It must be so painful for the dungeon as we melted its very being. Too soon, the beam cut off as the device cracked and then started to melt.

"Move in," I commanded. It might have been a good idea to take a larger break, as everyone was a bit exhausted, but no matter how satisfying using the melter was, we were still racing against time and who knows what might happen.

This was still something that annoye...

Chapter 140 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

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From the announcement feedback I have decided that for a bit, there will not be homesteading chapters. This way I can hopefully finish that story in a good way.

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Pov Faris

I watched as teams of Pixies took off their rings so they would return to their original bodies. We were stronger fighters like this and more importantly, could move through water as if it were air. We were also not going to play fair as multiple teams charged in, the only rea...

Announcement

I have a big worry. I think I need a break from writing Homesteading in a fantasy world for a little while. The story just isn't flowing like I am used to and I don't know how to fix it. There might also be a bit of a block because the story is coming to an end. I have never liked when stories end even if I understand why it's needed. What do you think if I were to take a bit of a break from this story?

In other news, I will soonis be adding the second book of Dungeon Core to Am...

Chapter 139 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Pov Ace

Informing the general and a few other people about the second entrance was a little bit nerve-wracking. Fortunately, right now they didn't question anything and were just glad that we still had access to the dungeon. Almost immediately, supply lines were set up between the two hub stations so we could get supplies and, more importantly, fresh soldiers to those places.

Time seemed to be crawling as the fighting continued. Still, I found myself surp...

Chapter 413 Homesteading in a fantasy world

Pov Rich Dirt

Goose and I enjoyed watching how the Fort was built. Unfortunately, we couldn't stay here for long as I needed to go to an important meeting. Fortunately, our destination wasn't far, but with Goose, I guess nowhere was truly far. That reminded me of a conversation long ago about us going on a flight to see all the continents. We should do this as fast as possible.

After talking to Goose a little bit, he agreed, but that was for after the mee...

Chapter 138 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Pov Adventurer Guild Master

It didn't take us long to reach the entrance, only to find it barricaded. They were impressive enough, but I kind of had the urge to simply make them disappear along with everyone inside the entrance hall. It was a nice morning, and then all of a sudden, things had to go off the cliff.

Looking up, I was still surprised at how uninterrupted the operations of the airship port were. No matter who you were, absolutely everyone knew...

Chapter 137 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Pov Ace

"It looks like we have to cut this short," I said to Aylin. "Ah, so that was the dungeon. Ours is quite a lot further away from the palace." I looked at her gentle smile and wished that this nice break didn't have to end, but it was time to get back to real work.

Well, actually, this time it shouldn't be too bad as the new floor was already opened. Still, it was nice to feel young once again and to do things for me, although I think I truly went o...