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Chapter 109 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Pov Tristan

Carl and Anna had been called to the 20th floor; they had found a new raid room that needed 200 people. I have only gone to a few such rooms, but they're always really dangerous and can be really chaotic. I am not strong enough to join the fight, and neither is Anna. She will be outside in the waystation, waiting to help anyone who comes out too injured.

Carl, on the other hand, would be one of the frontline fighters. I have been hearing some people calling him a monst...

Chapter 383 Homesteading in a fantasy world

I was in my office finishing up some paperwork when I could finally see that the sun was slowly rising. In about a month, it will be the winter solstice. It wouldn't be long after that before I have been on this world for another year.

The last month and a half has been really busy, but as I looked at my achievement page, it has also been really rewarding. A lot of my abilities and skill levels have gone up, and more importantly, I've gained two class levels in my Homesteading and Arche...

Chapter 108 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Pov Ace

I watched as the airship that carried my chosen representatives for my nation departed towards the United Nations. The United Nations required people to be present to vote on issues; otherwise, you abstained from any decision.

Initially, I wasn’t planning on playing an active role. However, our presence was required to fulfil some of the favors I gave out to secure the votes needed to claim full membership.

There was also the so-called friendship with the Cerulean ...

Chapter 382 Homesteading in a fantasy world

It had been four very long days, but fortunately, this part of the process was about to end. I had plenty of coals left, which was excellent news.

The temperature started to drop once again, so I started to use the bellows to make it start climbing again. Keeping the temperature stable and being up for four days straight while constantly using energy was exhausting.

Then I felt the click; it was time. "Get ready," I yelled to my apprentices. A large sledgehammer, one of the tools ...

Chapter 107 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Pov Carl

I stepped out of the gateway and was immediately bombarded with the sounds of a busy market. The entrance room to the dungeon had changed quite a lot since the war. Now, almost every piece of free real estate was taken up by stores where people were selling all kinds of things. The only seemingly empty areas were the routes that were used to move heavy things onto the lifts or out of them.

My first destination was to climb to the airship port so I would have a good overvi...

Chapter 381 Homesteading in a fantasy world

I was in my office in the capital, and I had just given all the gear to my company members. There was an obvious problem: my office was way too small to have this many people all trying to test out their new equipment.

Taking a new piece of parchment, I quickly wrote down that I needed a plot in the capital where I could build a modest-sized building for my company. I should have thought about this a while ago, but everyone makes mistakes.

That's why it's important to have people ...

Chapter 106 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Pov Dungeon Core

Flexing my new capabilities was awesome. Literally, everything about me was better. The only problem was I was quite certain that I could now make my floors a lot larger. To confirm this, I took some time to enlarge the first three floors.

I made sure that none of my inhabitants would see that I was expanding the floor. It didn't take long, only about a week before I was done, and the results were mixed.

The first floor I was able to double in size, the seco...

Chapter 380 Homesteading in a fantasy world

With a proper belt made for my tiny hammer, it was time to test out my new ability. Before I started to make weapons and armor for my company members, I needed to know the limits of the item set ability.

For starters, I tried to make my current armor into a set, and it worked perfectly fine. Adding the chainmail and gambeson was a bit more difficult, but in the end, they were made part of a set.

The ability gave me feedback, so I knew that I could add more items to this set even l...

Chapter 105 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

POV Ziiipe

"Hey, don't fall! We still have many crates after this one. Why do you think this crate has air holes? It wasn't with the other animals. Wait, what if it was accidentally placed in the wrong section and now whatever creature was inside is now dead?" The voices slowly woke me up, and then I felt a large jolt as the box was roughly placed back on the ground.

"We have traveled for months; if there was something living inside, it would have died and smelled terribly. Stop t...

Chapter 379 Homesteading in a fantasy world

The next morning, I walked for quite a while before I reached the place where I planted my new tree. The planting timing wasn't the best, as it was winter, but for a tree that was close to second-rank strength and seemed not to mind the cold, it was not really a problem. It was already soaking in the nutrients in the rich soil and absorbing the ambient energy and mana.

It needed quite a lot, but that was a good thing. Because of my high rank, my land wants to follow my example, and over...

Chapter 104 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

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Ace was marveling at the sight below him. He was currently on a passenger airship flying above the cerulean sea. It was the most beautifully colored water Ace had ever seen, but currently, it stretched beyond the horizon. Just two hours ago, things, however, were a bit different.

They had been higher up, using the western trade wind to sail through the air a lot faster than normally possible. Back then, Ace could barely see his home continent towards the south and the Black Oc...

Chapter 103 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

The start of the breakthrough was the same. As soon as it started, I felt the wonderful feeling that I have never felt anywhere but during a breakthrough. Usually, now I should be able to start allocating my breakthrough mana percentages, and while I felt could do it right now, my mind was bombarded with new memories from my parent that have finally been unlocked.

It was less information than I was hoping to get, nothing really earth-shattering. However, there was a quite vivid memory o...

Chapter 378 Homesteading in a fantasy world

The trip back to the fort was quite uneventful. Goose, however, looked a bit tired. I guess it made sense; the sun was about to set, and he had been doing a lot of flying and fighting. The descent into the fort was the same as last time, but this time we headed straight to the company headquarters. As soon as we made it there, Goose immediately curled himself up and went to sleep.

I did not need to sleep this night; instead, I went towards the quartermaster's building. There, I needed t...

Chapter 377 Homesteading in a fantasy world

Goose and I were once again flying. My riding skill was slowly leveling up, but I don’t think I will be able to get to the basic rank during this outing. We headed towards the general direction of our next target.

We hadn't flown for too long before both of us could see a really obvious trail. It seems that these creatures could eat quite a lot of trees as they had basically created a straight line through the patches of forest in this area.

That was a bit peculiar because the i...

Chapter 102 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Pov Carl

I walked into the tunnel, taking a few steps before I stopped and slumped against the wall. From the pouch on my side, I pulled out the hovering glowstone. It immediately started to shine, giving off a bluish-white color. The person who made this is making so much coin. They are now basically one of the required pieces of equipment for a delve that is past the 18th floor.

Not only are they incredibly useful because they follow you around, but the light they give off also ...

Chapter 376 Homesteading in a fantasy world

I walked out of the quest hall holding only two quest slips, but with a big smile on my face. It turns out that not every quest counts the same for the quest requirement quotas. One of the quests actually gave me 6 points, so I could have just picked that one and been done for the month.

However, I picked up the second one as well because they were really close together and would give me a good opportunity to gauge two different types of opponents.

The harder quest was to extermin...

Chapter 101 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

I don’t think I have ever pushed myself as hard as I did during this breakthrough. Now I can take things a little easier, and messing with Carl helped with that quite a lot.

The timing was just too perfect, and I only needed to wait about 10 minutes after I finished all the dungeon rooms before I could open them up at the perfect moment. Ace was already trying to contact me, but currently, I was ignoring him as I just wanted to relax.

He wanted to know if I was going to break th...

Chapter 100 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

It took two weeks, a little bit longer than I was expecting, before the news of the two big changes was announced. The tattoo information went out all around the world, but I had no idea how they were reacting to that.

Here, people were having mixed opinions. A lot of people just saw this as the more fortunate ones with bigger mana pools getting even stronger, while the weaker adventurers were now even further behind.

The portion that was excited about this news were the people wa...

Chapter 375 Homesteading in a fantasy world

The building I entered inside the Fort was a bit run-down but a lot better than the one I got in town. There was even furniture, and it seemed that the whole building was heated by some sort of heating system that worked on ambient energy.

It would have never worked if we weren't in such a high-density area. What made me even more curious was that this was the outer ring. By how much would the density rise closer to the inner ring? It was hard to imagine what madness might be living the...

Chapter 374 Homesteading in a fantasy world

POV Bruce

I looked at the World Council report. They were sending me two new starting companies. I was a bit disappointed; I was hoping we would be able to get some more established companies, but I guess this will have to do.

We will be back up to five companies then and should be able to comfortably continue operating, but those two last spots don't seem to want to stick. One of them disbanded not too long ago, and the three before that were each lost on a mission with no one re...

Chapter 99 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

POV Adventurer Guild Master

I looked at the numbers on the paper. It's official: the number of adventurers has now returned to the pre-war amount. From here on, it will simply keep growing.

The city itself still needs some work, but it seems that young fellow Ace is doing an excellent job. I’m always glad to see that he’s willing to spend the coin to fix problems and not just hoard wealth for himself. Today, however, seems to also be an auspicious day.

This morning's mee...

Chapter 373 Homesteading in a fantasy world

We made it close enough to the fort that I could see it with my own eyes. At this point, Goose and I heard many bird calls coming from the forest below. The next moment, we saw many dog-sized birds taking flight and heading straight towards us.

Most were rank one, but there were definitely rank two birds as well. They looked kind of like ravens, but they seemed to have two pairs of wings instead of one.

They closed in fast, really fast. I had only gotten my sword out before they w...

Chapter 98 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

POV Dungeon Core

It was finally over. Things could get back to how they used to be, the way I liked it. Not to say that the war above wasn't interesting to watch; I just couldn’t appreciate it the same way I could when something happened inside my dungeon.

The city above also needed quite a lot of work, and from the meeting Ace had with his department heads. The positions he just created to help him run his nation, they were saying that it would take a few years to get the city ...

Chapter 97 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

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It was close to sunrise in a city now called Eternal. When the sun sets and the sky is colored blood, it has been said that this happens because a large battle had occurred and much blood was spilled. This day, however, the sky was already blood-colored, as if the world was already certain that a lot of blood was going to be spilled.

Inside the city walls, a lot of people, the defenders of this place, visited a dungeon entrance and walked out with small crates full of items. S...

Chapter 372 Homesteading in a fantasy world

The first place I was led to wasn’t actually the City Hall; instead, it was the Beast Hall. There, I could register Goose and leave him, so he would be taken care of and safe. The registration was quite standard overall, but it took a bit of time, which allowed me to observe my surroundings.

There weren’t as many beasts as I expected, but compared to other places, it was a zoo. The most common ones I saw were medium-sized felines, but there were also a lot of bird-type beasts, usual...

Chapter 371 Homesteading in a fantasy world

I was glad about two things: one, it was winter, and the second was that I could take Goose and go to Breach and its connected City. Thanks to it being winter, I had a lot less to do at home, and the government work I needed to do for the United Freeholds wouldn't take much time, again thanks to it being winter.

It was honestly my favourite season. For me, at least, it had always been a time that was less busy, and I could do things that I liked to do. Now, however, it will give me enou...

Chapter 96 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

It was the night before the large battle, the last one before the first peace talks were to happen. Ace seemed quite worried, and I could understand why. Was there a chance that they could survive the next battle?

I would say it's 50-50, but they would also lose quite a lot of people, and I really didn’t like losing my adventurers. So, I needed to do something about this. If they could defend better during the next battle, they would also have a stronger position during the peace talk...

Chapter 370 Homesteading in a fantasy world

I could feel my heart starting to slow down. The fight was over, and my opponent was dead. I was still breathing heavily, and I could feel my muscles burning from exertion. There was some elation from my victory, but I never did like killing.

What came before it, that was enjoyable: the fight to see if you survive or not, but I couldn’t let him survive. Now, I don’t know what his true goal was. Was it to actually get me into a duel and kill me, or to get me in some other way? But no...

Chapter 95 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

It was four days after the battle when the news came of the Kingdom surrendering. At first, I was quite surprised, but it seemed that everyone was expecting this to happen. It was also a significant day in another way, as the bombardment started once again.

They did not have the strength to try to breach the walls once again, but reinforcements were on the way, almost 100,000 soldiers. It was a significantly larger number, especially if combined with the soldiers still sieging. However,...

Chapter 94 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

POV Ace

"Holy shit," one of the generals said as we watched from the central tower at what the cylinders that the dungeon gave us did. I was in complete shock, and we could still hear screaming from the people who hadn't yet died from being made into a sieve.

Fortunately, it seems that a lot of the enemy did die. This should give us a fighting chance. The shock was only felt for a few more moments before the head general spoke in a commanding voice, using his skill so every person...