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Chapter 369 Homesteading in a fantasy world

"Who let the country pumpkin like you eat here?" the Queen's bodyguard said. I immediately stood up and pushed him back. The surprise on his face was satisfying.

"How dare you. I want this person kicked out, and I want him to buy everyone in this establishment a free meal and a drink for disturbing us all," I said in a loud but not screaming tone.

He recovered quickly and smiled at me. "You were the one to disturb us, and I demand compensation. Your smell ruined our mood, and I wa...

Chapter 368 Homesteading in a fantasy world

"So rich, can I call you, Rich?" Mr. Blue asked, and I gave him a nod. "Thank you, Rich. I understand that it's not very comfortable talking about your past. Many can’t handle it, but I hope you can explain to us a bit more about your experience that allowed you to be so proficient at, well, everything to do with bureaucracy."

To me, it was still a little bit weird that everyone seemed so unwilling to talk about their past. I guess I could understand it could be quite traumatic, espec...

Chapter 93 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

POV Carl

I looked towards the east where the sun was slowly rising. It had been a few horrible days amongst many bad ones. I could feel the itch of wanting to go back into the Dungeon, but I couldn’t leave, and let someone I didn’t know take control of this place.

Perhaps that was a bit too presumptuous of me, thinking that I could dictate who was in charge. I liked this Ace. While he was a noble now, he didn't used to be, and he took care of the people and, most importantly, ...

Need some feedback

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I have been working on this for a while and I have some key moments I already know and want to write about, but that will happen later and not in book one. The world itself I think is fun and large. The problem is that book one is missing an antagonist or a strong hardship for the MC. I just haven't had a good idea and hope you could help. So please ask any questions you might have. PS This is something I have worked on as a hobby for about two months.

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Chapter 367 Homesteading in a fantasy world

Compared to the size of the city, there really weren't that many people on the streets. Perhaps it would be different more towards the evening, but I guess this place is more for getting business done and not for leisure.

After looking around a little bit more, there didn’t seem to be any other portals here as well. Perhaps there were secret ones not publicly available, but I didn’t think so as I believe that the security of this place is quite high. That made me wonder where in thi...

Chapter 92 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

POV General H

I had just finished my cup of tea when the tent flaps were opened, and my right-hand man walked in. It was refreshing to be properly in charge of the whole army and not have to share leadership with other nations' generals. "Sir, we were just informed that around 8000 adventurers from the dungeon joined the Defense Force of the city last night. It was as you expected."

A smile came to my face. Ace was 200 years too young to play these kinds of games. Preparing extra ...

Chapter 366 Homesteading in a fantasy world

While waiting for the first portal, I was a bit fidgety. This armour wasn't really meant for me, and while I could wear it and fight in it thanks to the modifications I made, it was still not perfect. Then finally, the blue portal came into being, and I quickly moved through it with a few other people.

The next moment, I was once again in another part of this world, one that I was at least a little bit familiar with. The sight of the bay with its many sailboats once again brought me bac...

Chapter 91 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Every day, I had pushed my skill to see outside my dungeon to the very limit, yet this time I was finally able to see what I was looking for. The army, or perhaps 'armies' would be a better description, were finally close enough that I could see them.

Not long after I saw them, I could hear the warning bells start to ring all over the city. There was no panic because of this, and no one started to rush to escape the impending doom. Everyone who wanted to get out of here had already gone...

Chapter 365 Homesteading in a fantasy world

I was in my office, standing in the middle of the room, and all around me were various items. My armour was so badly damaged that I couldn’t wear it properly after the war. The sword I had been able to fix up; it only had minor nicks.

Now, I would’ve liked to spend a year to learn how to be able to make low-rank three items, but I did not have the budget or the time to do something like that, especially because I might have a fight quite soon.

Until this point, I have been abl...

Chapter 90 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

The talk with Ace was a little bit worrying, so just in case, I rechecked all my defenses and started to claim more real-world territory. The goal for that would be so I could open up more exits, so if anyone decided to close up my primary one, it would not cause me to suffocate.

After that, I really couldn’t do anything more proactive, although I did increase the population of infernal fruit flies in my core floor labyrinth. It was my own name for the truly terrifying creatures that ...

Chapter 364 Homesteading in a fantasy world

Another summer was coming to an end. Today, however, was one of the most beautiful days I’ve had on this planet. The temperature was just perfect, and the breeze was still nice and warm. The sun was high up, but it wasn't burning like it would have been during mid-summer.

Now, I’ve had days like this before, but the added smell of sweet fruits just made it perfect. The trees that I planted were now big enough that some of them began to give fruit in a decent enough quantity. For app...

Chapter 89 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

When I finally finished expanding the 19th floor, it was almost 9500 kilometers in length and a bit over 5700 kilometers in width. I finally had a floor that was almost as large as the continent I was currently on.

It will still take me a while to get to the size of the planet, but that made me think: how many other dungeons were bigger than the whole planet? Of course, in volume, I was sorely lacking because the floor was still only 800 meters tall. There must be other dungeons that ha...

Chapter 88 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

While expanding the 19th floor, I did decide to keep the height at 800 meters as I didn’t really need tall mountains, and while I was going to have some cave systems. They weren’t going to be that extensive, so I didn’t need too much space on the ground.

Because of that, the area was going to be massive, but I also needed it to have multiple biomes. It was going to be interesting to do this, but I believed I had enough space to make it quite natural. The different biomes were nece...

Chapter 363 Homesteading in a fantasy world

Today was a glorious day because Goose achieved the second rank. He was now a lot more intelligent, but we still communicated through images most of the time. I tried to teach him some language, and he seemed able to learn it, but he didn't seem to want to actually communicate like that.

While this bothered me a little bit, it wasn't actually that big of a deal. What was more important was that he now grew bigger, and it meant that he could fly me without me having to flood him with ene...

Chapter 362 Homesteading in a fantasy world

Lately, I always have something to do. Suddenly, things got even busier. Recently, we received a new batch of refugees and hires. It was a positive change, in my opinion, but it also meant a lot of work.

I do feel that our growth as a nation will be a lot smoother in the future, but I have yet to meet the person who brought so much change. The reason is I’ve been extremely busy finishing up all the paperwork required so I could create the organization required for anyone above rank th...

Chapter 87 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

It was quite fun to expand the 19th floor. This time, things went even faster, as they always did when I had my breakthrough, but it also seemed like I had a lot of interesting things to observe. Enn was released after being in prison for a few weeks.

The Champions organization and the nations' governments were a bit scared of this development that she had discovered, especially of the largest mammal head they had ever seen coming with her and her team through the gateway.

Eventua...

Chapter 361 Homesteading in a fantasy world

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No chapter tomorrow or next Monday. I will be going to see my family for the holidays.

Happy coming holidays to all of you :)

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POV Charles

I was incredibly nervous yet excited. A new chapter of my life was about to begin as soon as I stepped through that portal. Many people were given an actual portal mage, and from what it looks like, an energy-type portal mage so he could connect to quite a distant land, probably one of the most northern civilized area...

Chapter 86 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

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No chapter tomorrow or next Monday. I will be going to see my family for the holidays. 

Happy coming holidays to all of you :)

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POV Enn

None of us could remember exactly how long we had been in this cursed city. We have found everything there is to find here, and we have even lost some dear friends.

I still remember the original plan: get the two power cores and get back to the runic gateway. This city was underneath a small mountai...

Chapter 85 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Now I had a choice to make. It should have been a difficult choice, as I wanted to stay low-key, so to speak. Advancing too fast might be problematic, but my labyrinth was done, and the Cave playroom continued to produce such deadly substances that they made me shiver.

While there were a lot of those bugs and creatures inside the library now, just living their lives waiting to attack anyone who made it that far, I also decided to make terrible traps as well.

One of my favorites wa...

Chapter 360 Homesteading in a fantasy world

There was, of course, a pleasant birthday back at my homestead as well. We also used this time to do a small celebration for the apprentices, as most had reached the maximum level of 20 they could achieve.

Now they just needed to claim land, and they could become real homesteaders. Some of them had already picked out the land they were going to get; many were still searching. Afterwards, when we had all eaten, it was time for the sauna. Yet, not for the first time, it felt that I would ...

Chapter 359 Homesteading in a fantasy world

POV Rich

I was absolutely mortified. I couldn't believe I was sitting on a fancy chair on a stage, looking over a crowd of people. The snow had already melted, although it was a late winter this year.

Still, the ground was now soft, and tomorrow we would all start preparing the old fields and making new fields for the future. At least one thing was good: no one starved, as we were able to ship all the extra meat we got from the bird attack to the needed places.

So, why was I...

Chapter 84 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Well, Carl finally figured it out. It's impressive that they actually managed to make it work, as I hadn’t expected I would have given so much information in the book I placed in the orc shaman room. Still, it took them quite a while to figure it all out.

They only had the singular rune meant for an average boost of basic defenses and strengthening. The real question is, should I be giving them more information? But I kind of didn’t want to; I wanted to let them figure it out themse...

Chapter 358 Homesteading in a fantasy world

While getting a skill level wasn’t as impactful as it used to be, it still felt good. I had just leveled my basic tin smithing to level 3 after finishing the 10 bee smokers. I was running the test on the final one to see if it was working as it should.

It wasn't the perfect design because the metal parts got quite hot. And for the first time, it actually melted a hole through the bottom. To fix that, I needed to make the bottom, which was already meant to be taken apart so you could p...

Chapter 83 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

POV Carl

So much had happened since I started my research: so many quests, so many challenges. If I could have just focused on this, I would have probably been done a while ago, but finally, it was time. I was incredibly nervous, but even more nervous was the healer, Anna, with whom I had become quite good friends.

Of course, Tristan helped me, but only with the theory. Anna was the one I found who could actually help me with the practical side. She was incredibly unwilling after ...

Chapter 82 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Even before the official start of the war, there were already aeroplanes in the skies flying a lot higher than they normally did. These were large planes that had, on average, 20 ants on board.

While they did have some placements where ants could use their long-range skills, these aeroplanes were specifically designed for reconnaissance, and because of that, there were ants on board that had skills for seeing immense distances. There were also magical devices that allowed communication ...

Chapter 357 Homesteading in a fantasy world

The next week, I slowly got back into my routine, but I could feel my strained energy pathways. I had pushed myself a little too hard during the battle. Fortunately, I was able to hold myself back enough that it shouldn’t affect my recovery time. Just in case, I took it extra easy during the butchering and with my current interest.

Mashing up the potatoes was an interesting experience because if I could use energy, I would have been able to do it instantly. But now, I was cranking the...

Chapter 356 Homesteading in a fantasy world

It was time to get back to grinding, but I needed the skill to grind. I didn’t have much free time currently, as I was busy training my own body, dealing with my responsibilities, and teaching my apprentices to the best of my ability.

After looking through my achievement page, I found a skill that I hadn’t used for quite a long time: basic alchemy. From the knowledge I have gained, I know that I could actually gain experience for this skill by brewing or distilling alcohol. Fortunat...

Chapter 81 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

On the ant floor, the situation finally went critical. The two sides, which had been continuously hostile to one another, had a border skirmish just because two groups of patrols accidentally got too close to each other.

What stopped an outright war from being declared that day was that even they didn’t want something like the previous huge war to happen again. Yet, things moved fast; participating nations were counted and signed up for war, and a lot of work was done tirelessly to fi...

Chapter 80 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

It took a while, but I was starting to reach a point where I could begin adding plants and creatures to the 18th-floor playroom. Adding the sand was now completed, and the first rain for this floor had ended.

I had carefully ensured that under the sand, the bedrock would have large, gentle valleys, so after that rainfall, water would gather at the lowest point and would make natural oases. Just in case, I also added a water spawner to every one of them, but that was just to keep the wat...

Chapter 355 Homesteading in a fantasy world

With so much snow, it was difficult to keep in contact with the new villages and towns towards the east. The one that was connected with the portal was easy to contact and helped them prepare for the winter solstice like we were doing in the capital. Yet, the villages were quite far away, and getting to them would require at least first-rank people.

The choice of who to send was hard; we didn't want to send people who had fought directly against their soldiers. We also didn't want to se...