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Chapter 340 Homesteading in a fantasy world

As soon as the Western army took its first step, it was like a signal for everything else to start. The legion and mercenaries also started to advance, but they only did so for about 10 metres until they set up their battle lines and prepared for the ranged attacks.

The western army frontline was the first to come into active range of the legion archers. "Nock, draw, loose!" was heard from multiple commanders speaking in unison. The already loud battlefield from all the movement of sold...

Chapter 65 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Did I go overboard? Yes, absolutely. Now I have 50 sets of first-floor dungeon rooms. Not only that, but the same went for the second and third, and so on, although later I did lower the number a little bit, but the 10th floor still had 15 versions of it. I blame the adventurer’s guild and that little fucker, Tristan, for me going so overboard.

When I was still a small dungeon, the adventurers didn't come during the night. But that had changed over time since the lines for the delves ...

Chapter 339 Homesteading in a fantasy world

As days went by, the Western army got closer and closer. Their progress was measured, but it didn't take long for the first conflicts to start. Both armies' scouts began to run into each other, and small-scale fights started to happen.

Rich got involved almost immediately, but he went alone to help, hoping that some of the more heavy hitters of the enemies would also show up. Unfortunately for him, none did.

It only took a day before no scouts from the Western army could be seen. ...

Chapter 64 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

I was incredibly frustrated. There wasn’t much left for me to do that required a lot of concentration, so most of my mind was busy watching and waiting for that stupid adventurer to get on with it. But apparently, the quest wasn't the most important thing to him; it was that stupid language.

What was even more frustrating was that he was not progressing because of me and the mistake that I had made. I know about dialects, as I've heard multiple of them, even of this kingdom's language...

Chapter 338 Homesteading in a fantasy world

When Goose and Rich were about halfway back to the United Freeholds army, he took a moment to just appreciate that he was currently flying high in the sky on top of a giant eagle. It was a surreal moment for him.

It was something he wished he could continue to experience without the backdrop of a war. Yet, whenever he looked around, his eyes didn’t miss the large fields of mana-enhanced bubbles where all of the armies were located.

Those were the standard spells any army needed ...

Chapter 63 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

POV Carl

As soon as I stepped out of the gateway, the noise of civilization hit me, and I cringed a little bit. Not so pleasant memories hit me, but I pushed them down and started to purposely head towards the edge of the gate hub area.

My first target was a food vendor, and it was hard not to drool from the smells of cooking meat. I placed one copper coin into the waiting hand and took the two sticks of meat and vegetables and, while walking to my next destination, ate them. The ...

Chapter 337 Homesteading in a fantasy world

The eastern army general did not like what he was hearing. Everything had gone to plan at first: they were pushing the cavalry back without having to engage, and they should have been able to retreat back to their defensible position if the Bravenhold main army turned back.

So, early this morning, when he found out that their path was cut off by the Bravenhold main army—who wasn’t supposed to be this close—he got a bad feeling in the pit of his stomach. It was still weird to him t...

Chapter 62 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

POV Carl

A slash of my glaive, and I was finally able to take the bear's head off. "Damn, that was a hard fight," I gathered my breath as much as I could, but a quick look at the time-keeping device on my belt told me that I was only 5 minutes ahead of the best time to beat the 16th floor.

"Shit," I had two more rooms to go; fortunately, none of them were hard fights. Well, they were, but not for me, that was if I was in the best condition. The rush through this section was not my...

Announcement

Yesterday was a shit day and unfortunately when there is shit more seems to appear. Usually, I am good at ignoring shit life can throw at you but not always. After a bit of thinking I realised I was really on the edge and then I realised that I have not had a proper break for over a year of writing. (Over 700,000 words in that time)

I however don't want a big break because not writing is boring so I decided to take a break for this and the next week. Hopefully, this will relax me and ge...

Chapter 336 Homesteading in a fantasy world

On a warm afternoon, when the sun was colouring everything in soft tones, the Bravenhold army finally saw the Eastern army start to appear on the horizon. As people pointed it out, a nervous wave went through the army.

Message books and sticks were used to inform about the change in the situation. It was confirmed that they needed to execute plan A, so they started to pack up their current gear so they could abandon this location and start to head west on a decent dirt road.

Every...

Chapter 61 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

POV Tristan

"I’m nearing the end of the rope; let down some more," I called up to the four adventurers that I had hired for this particular room exploration. Slowly, I was lowered even further, and then I heard the telltale sound of crossbow fire.

Behind me, I heard a bird squawk in pain, and I looked backwards to see it was falling downwards. It was going to be a long way down. This was one of the most unique rooms in this dungeon, and I had only heard rumours from the stronger...

Chapter 335 Homesteading in a fantasy world

The next morning, everyone who needed to leave using the portals did so and as soon as they got back to their homes, it didn't take long for them to be in front of the soldiers, giving a speech. This was happening in Bravenhold, Frontier's Collective, United Freehold.

The same scene was even happening in Aetherhold, a nation so overtaken by religion that none of the civilians or soldiers questioned even for a moment if attacking three nations at the same time was a bad idea. It was beca...

Chapter 60 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Finishing up the labyrinth the way I wanted was going to take longer than I expected, and I was probably going to finish it during the time between the next breakthrough and the one after that. I didn’t mind as no one should really try to go through the water section of my core floor.

The 16th-floor playroom was also coming along quite fine, as I was quite close to finishing the endless amount of caverns. Some of them were quite large, and my upper floors could easily fit into them, b...

Chapter 334 Homesteading in a fantasy world

In the capital city of the United Freehold, a lot of people were doing final preparations so they would be ready to march to war. There were a lot of emotions that shone through, but most of all, in everyone's eyes, there was determination.

In the centre of the legions' command, in a large room, there were a lot of people, not just from the United Freeholds but from two allied nations as well. Everyone was waiting for Rich to begin, so everyone would know and understand the current war ...

Chapter 59 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Going through the patterns, I found some excellent choices. One of my top candidates right now was a centipede evolution that was incredibly good at piercing damage. Another choice was a spider evolution that also had an incredibly dangerous poison. Of course, some of the bears were incredibly dangerous, but this wasn’t a solo fight, and while a bear was quite well-rounded, the other top choices weren’t.

Then I came across a particularly interesting variant of the Mountain Lion that...

Chapter 333 Homesteading in a fantasy world

POV Ben

A final look over the document convinced me that nothing was wrong, so I signed my name and reached for the stamp. I once again hesitated, like I always did, to pick it up. That stamp represented the authority of the high general, Rich Dirt.

It was something I had been using much since it was announced that we were going to start preparing for war once again. I had just been a paper pusher for the legion since I lost my leg in the first battle of the United Freehold agains...

Chapter 58 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

As time passed, I was surprised how peaceful the upper floors remained. Extra space was claimed slowly, but there wasn't even a hint that a large-scale fight would happen, not even on the ant floors.

The Ant nations were surprisingly reasonable, and their new organization that governed war managed to keep everything quite civil, and when disagreements needed a fight to resolve them, it ended up as a fight between champions.

While that was a bit disappointing, I was quite glad that...

Chapter 332 Homesteading in a fantasy world

I was about to end my meditation and thinking session on top of the dam when my eyes caught a heightened level of holy power that permeated this entire location. While I still wasn’t that experienced with it, I was certain that the colour of holy power wasn't mainly luck but something else. So, instead of leaving, I continued to sit all through the night, concentrating on observing holy power.

Some of the holy power tried to touch me; it was a different kind that was in abundance and ...

Chapter 57 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Everything was going perfectly. I had finished with the dungeon rooms, and while there were still some changes to be made that would take a lot of my attention, it was basically done. Now, most of my attention was on expanding the upper floors.

Then something happened that literally made me freeze for a few minutes before I came out of my shock. The 6th floor, full of apple trees and bees, was my most peaceful floor, where the only deaths had been from natural causes or accidents.

Chapter 331 Homesteading in a fantasy world

The start of the dam project was the hardest. The mages needed to do a lot of ground hardening, and a lot of large wooden stakes needed to be driven into the flowing water so we could pump out one side of the river.

That would give us a section of the river free of water so we could reinforce the bottom and start placing stones. Placing the stones was made a lot easier thanks to the mages and a few people with an ability to lower the weight of other objects.

The design of the dam ...

Chapter 56 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Pov Ace

Finally, I could see the monsters of this room. There were only four deer, but I was now used to not just thinking of these monsters as weak creatures. Instead, I knew them to be deadly if underestimated.

My blood sang as I waited on top of a tree to ambush them. They were walking so slowly, but I needed to wait until they were in the perfect position. If I were to confront them without ambushing, I wasn’t certain of my victory.

On the surface, this creature would ...

Chapter 55 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

I didn't like what I was contemplating. I had pushed my frozen floor down once before so I could create my ocean floor, but now I was thinking about pushing it down again and turning the 16th floor playroom into a cave-like environment instead.

The idea came to me briefly after I started to look over the book I had gotten from the bug person. In the book, it turned out that many of the new bugs preferred dark environments, and almost half actually lived in a cave-like environment.

Chapter 330 Homesteading in a fantasy world

With the dam idea, the strategy for this war started to become more reachable. There were still too many unknowns to finalize anything, but there were certain things that we could all agree upon that needed to be done no matter what would happen.

We needed staging points for all three armies, and they would need to be built up so they could store a lot of resources and also ship them to the army when it's deployed. This was going to take a lot of effort, especially because two of the ar...

Chapter 54 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Time continued to pass by, and even though a lot of me was concentrating on working, I couldn’t get the conversation I had with the annoying person out of my head. Most of all, I concentrated on the fact that what would happen if someone actually tried to kill me.

I could summon the creatures I have to defend myself, but even though I have made my core room larger, I wouldn’t be able to leverage the vast number of creatures I have. This is simply because I would, at best, be able to...

Chapter 329 Homesteading in a fantasy world

It took us two days to record down all the information. After a lengthy discussion with the generals and commanders, I left them to come up with battle plans for both sides. I hoped I was wrong, but as they worked on this, I needed to check on something.

There was a chance that the situation might not be as bad. Well, it was still quite bad no matter what, but if there was a way for an army to walk down this path, there was no way we were going to win this war.

So, I took off runn...

Chapter 53 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

As the weeks went by, I was surprised by the fact that there were so few territory disputes that ended up in violence. The main reason turned out to be overpopulation. None of the waystations were now owned by individual organizations because so many neutral adventurers or different shadow guilds had to occupy the same waystations.

It turned more into a political game, but everyone could see the future. When more rooms opened up, I think things will get a lot more interesting.

I a...

Chapter 328 Homesteading in a fantasy world

Today was a beautiful day; the sun was quite bright and warm, making the snowy landscape wonderful. I was on top of the tallest spot in the capital, one of the apartment buildings that had an observation tower built for some of the mages who requested it.

I was currently running on two hours of sleep, and the last two days have been quite busy. The other nations have been alerted, and we will have a proper strategic meeting in seven days. The public has not yet been informed and won't b...

Chapter 327 Homesteading in a fantasy world

Before we all heard Mirhit’s report, I took some time to rest, drinking water and eating something. Finally, I had time to open my notifications as things were no longer urgent. What greeted me was something I had hoped for, but I had only seen a similar message once before. It was incredibly satisfying to see it; however, the overall situation did dampen my happiness.

Special action performed

Ability gained: Holy power sight

Activating the ability allowed...

Chapter 52 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

The last three months had been some of my happiest. I still remember when the adventurer Val spoke my name. As soon as I heard it, I knew that I was the eternal training ground. It just felt so right. I was eternal, I offered training to all who wanted, and I was going to have so much ground that an adventurer would die of old age before he could explore it all. Every time I thought about this, I felt my core shake a bit from happiness.

It was also time to finally add the first waystati...

Chapter 51 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

A man stood on a balcony, looking out on the huge city, the capital of his kingdom. Behind him was an opulent meeting room where many people were currently collecting their papers and things, leaving the chambers.

The king stood there, contemplating the latest reports. Those were mundane problems; he was keeping his mind busy until everyone, except for two people besides himself, left the meeting room. Both of them were his childhood friends, but now one was his adviser and the other hi...