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Chapter 326 Homesteading in a fantasy world

From the night I discovered the luck anomaly, a week has passed. It has been a really busy time since then. Currently, I was in the war room that was in a wooden building where our future fortress will be built.

This was our operation center for our armies. At the center of the room was a large table that had a map of our nation and its surroundings. It was so big that if you wanted to add something to the map, you would need to climb on top of the table and take a decent amount of step...

Chapter 50 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

It took a bit more than a moment to see that everything in my dungeon hadn't burnt down and still worked as it should. Now, it was time for the interesting part: to see if I had succeeded with this skill endeavour. I opened up the skill list to see two new skills: ‘Dungeon Rules’ rank C-plus and ‘Sub Dungeons’ D rank. I had done it, so immediately I had to test out my new gains.

Just in case, I refreshed all the information I knew about the oceans and the currents that govern th...

Chapter 325 Homesteading in a fantasy world

Pov Omar

It took me 4 jumps to get to Verdia, but fortunately, I will now be able to avoid the public portals. No longer were there crowds of people; instead, these portal stations were housed in luxurious buildings, and we had ample accommodations for the wait times.

I was fortunate that I was able to get a portal soon to the eastern twin city, which meant that I was finally back on the lower continents where true civilization resided. While Elves might disagree with this stateme...

Welcome

Chapter 49 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Everything started out great. I began to make a mini-dungeon near the Academy that I made for them that would be perfect for ants. It took me a bit to dial in the correct size I wanted, but I did have to guess a little because I wasn’t completely certain what size would fit the ants best.

When I started to make the tunnel and the second room, it wasn’t exactly how I wanted it to be; the room was a bit bigger than I wanted, but I adjusted it a bit to make it perfect.

This weird...

Chapter 324 Homesteading in a fantasy world

Pov Omar

The three hours of sleep were just enough for me to be fully ready for the day we were about to have. I looked around to see the 14 people with me in this meeting room, all being informed about the situation.

Last night, a lot of things were discussed, but nothing was decided because we simply didn't know if that nation was hostile towards us or not. But after this meeting, my main job was to find that out.

There was a lot that we needed to understand, and I used my...

Chapter 323 Homesteading in a fantasy world

"Well, what are you guys waiting for? Let's move," I said to David and Mirhit. "Omar, follow me. Let's get the fires going." I walked out but stopped before I turned the corner. " Mirhit, don’t tell David what’s going on, OK?" I got a quick nod in return, so I continued to walk.

The sauna was directly connected to the town hall, but it was a separate building at the back, so it took us a little bit to get close to it. Before we made it, Omar spoke up, "I don’t really know what you...

Chapter 48 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

I had finished with my dungeon rooms. Normally, I would start preparing for my breakthrough, but I needed more data, especially on the raid rooms. Since all of those rooms and a large portion of the 15th floor were still inaccessible, I decided to wait a bit longer before actually breaking through.

It would also take the delvers some time to reach the actual end of my dungeon. There were some fast teams, but even they should take around four months to reach the end, simply because of th...

Chapter 322 Homesteading in a fantasy world

Was I being too paranoid? Was there really a reason to get everyone up? These unfortunate coincidences could just be that. I didn’t even know if holy power could work like that; I barely knew anything about it. Just assuming an entire nation was planning something nefarious was a bit over the top.

It didn’t take them long to eat their food and for us to start walking towards my office. They were still not sure what was going on and my uncertain face certainly wasn’t helping "Take ...

Chapter 47 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Pov Ace

When I made it to the dungeon entrance, I was expecting the worst, but what I saw made me stop and breathe out a sigh of relief. The mother was holding her baby and crying, but the people around her had smiles on their faces.

The guild master turned to me, "No sign of any dungeon mark. It didn't claim the child or even attempt to do it?" Those words made me refocus. That was weird. Was it because of the contract? Because usually, nothing could stop a dungeon, not even a co...

Game Divers

Chapter 1

Looking out the classroom window, I couldn’t help but worry about my future. There were only a few more days before graduation, and all ten examinations were done; we already had our results. I had achieved excellent scores, but they weren't sufficient for any scholarships. Richmond was my only foreseeable future, one filled with constant combat. I wondered how others would have reacted to this when they were my age, back when the system didn't exist. Would they have found t...

Chapter 321 Homesteading in a fantasy world

After I got dressed, I started to bring the leaves back home. I also needed to check my achievement page because I had leveled up my basic swimming enough that I was able to rank it up. Now, I had a choice of three abilities: Current Detection, Sustained Breath, and something called Hydrodynamic Flow.

The first one seemed weak, at least in this world. Perhaps in a more technologically advanced world, it would be of more use. But the more I thought about it, perhaps it could also better ...

Chapter 46 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Population - that was the key. My advisors and I had been looking for a reason to invest more time into this venture of creating territories for the adventurers. There wasn’t anything else we could gain, but if we introduced the territory system and made population an important factor, adventurers would want to bring more people here.

More adventurers meant more mana production. The population of adventurers has grown significantly recently, now surpassing the mana cost of all the dun...

Chapter 320 Homesteading in a fantasy world

I felt the water envelop my head, and I was underwater. Adjusting my eyes a bit, I managed to enhance my vision to see further in the water than normally possible. Still, I needed to swim deeper to get a clearer picture of what was happening.

Soon, I encountered large underwater plants with huge leaves that were at least 10 metres below the surface. The leaves and stems that had reached this far up looked healthy and vibrantly green. There was a lot of marine life around them, but nothi...

Chapter 45 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

I watched as they entered my core room. Things got awkward as they just continued to stand there, with some of them glaring at each other, obviously wanting to kill one another. "We shouldn’t linger here so long; it's not proper," one of the more muscular humans said.

"You're absolutely correct. I was just a bit too mesmerised by the splendour of this dungeon core," said a sneaky-looking elf. Some of the others rolled their eyes, but the compliment would've worked on me if he was able...

Chapter 319 Homesteading in a fantasy world

The war was over. All the soldiers were back, and all the paperwork and meetings were done. This was my second day home, yet I couldn’t relax. The war and the people who died didn't bother me as much as knowing that I would need to do this again. It was a bit weird because both should bother me. My leg was constantly bouncing, a sign I wasn't relaxed inside. This time killing some monsters wasn't going to help, not this time.

I turned to my achievement page. I’ve been ignoring it be...

Chapter 44 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Altogether, it took two years and seven months for the ant war to end, with a total death toll of 3.4 billion ants, totaling 17% of the entire population. It was a staggering figure, but even with the peace agreement to be signed today, there was still one battle ongoing.

It was happening where it all began, at a riverside fortification where the same general was still holding against superior numbers. After their first defeat, the enemies returned, and since then, the battle hasn't cea...

Chapter 43 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

This battle was filled with the marvellous inventions of the different ant nations. While there are a lot of prototypes, some designs have already become quite standard.

I watched as ants made last-minute checks on their planes before getting on board and firing up the skill engines. There were seven different airports that were close enough for the battle, and rapidly more and more planes started to take off, climbing ever higher to reach engagement height.

The most numerous desi...

Chapter 318 Homesteading in a fantasy world

On an otherwise unremarkable road that was slowly being reclaimed by nature, I watched as three armies and the leaders of three nations met to make an alliance. Now, this wasn't just a defensive alliance or to get access to each other's trade markets; no, this was a proper alliance with each nation cooperating to help the others to the best of their abilities.

There were a few reasons why this location was chosen, but the main reason was that after we sign this alliance agreement, we wo...

Chapter 42 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

POV: Ace

We were once again sitting in the meeting office where we once again had to worry about the dungeon and how it decided to mess with us this time. At first, we received reports that the 14th-floor guardian was within the expected range of difficulty.

But we started losing more people than expected until a huge 35-person group, despite the Adventurer Guild's recommendations of a maximum of five people at a time, decided to challenge the floor guardian. When none of them ret...

Chapter 317 Homesteading in a fantasy world

While I didn’t particularly like that I needed to take on new apprentices, the moment I had them, it was quite exciting to learn what they liked and then teach them the way of the homesteaders. Bert was an interesting case because not only was I teaching him, he was also teaching me energy-based magic.

This magic needed more than just spell structures; it also required ingredients to do what usually mana did. So, it was a slower form of magic, and while it could be used for fighting, ...

Chapter 41 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

It started slowly, where only active soldiers were used before the mobilization began. Some nations had quite large active military forces, but that was to be expected from the larger nations who still waged war against other nations to claim colonizable territory. But those wars were a bit different and had many more rules of engagement so things wouldn't escalate.

But now, the very first battle was about to happen, showing how bad this war was going to be. 100,000 ants crossed the bor...

Chapter 316 Homesteading in a fantasy world

During the summer solstice, I once again had to make an appearance during the celebration. But since this holiday happened during the summer, most wanted to be closer to nature than in a town. Because of that, I didn’t have to spend so much time, and the celebrations were a bit less formal. Thanks to that, I was able to get away and go back home where I, Tim, Francis, Goose, and Freya could celebrate the summer solstice together.

Freya's children all now had their own partners who the...

Chapter 315 Homesteading in a fantasy world

It took me an entire day and a half to finish the potato field. It looked like something I would have done when I was 10 years old, doing my first potato row with the help of my grandfather. While it wasn’t perfect, it will still suffice.

What did weird me out a bit was that on the second day, I had quite a crowd of people watching me from the inn. I was a little curious, but I decided not to go and ask what was going on. Instead, I continued my work, planting all the vegetables and e...

Chapter 40 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Since I hadn’t had time to activate my mana sink projects, gathering the required amount went quite fast as I was keeping myself quite full. I once again pushed myself to the limit before I let the breakthrough happen and started to revel in the feeling it brought.

This time, for the floor guardian, I was finally going to choose a bear. It was also going to be quite a fearsome beast, the one living on the 7th floor, who has somewhat been able to keep up with the massive goblins on tha...

Chapter 314 Homesteading in a fantasy world

More time went by, and I continued to follow a similar schedule to before until it was time to get started with preparing the fields for sowing. Tim and I were sitting and eating breakfast, and I took a few moments to just think about how he's doing. He still had plenty to do to finish his home, and he really seems to be enjoying that. Perhaps I should deal with the fields alone this time.

"Tim, it's time to start preparing the fields, but I think this year you can just continue buildin...

Chapter 39 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Removing the stone from the upper portion of the floor always took the longest. For this floor's terrain, I was mainly going for forest and grasslands with a decent-sized water network. But I still wanted a bit of variety, so while this place was going to have all four seasons.

Also, the top portion of the oval shape was going to be a more permanent cold zone, and the bottom portion a more permanent hot zone. It also wasn’t going to be that flat, as I wanted many smooth hills but only...

Chapter 38 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

I felt how the contract was signed. At this moment, I wished I had a body like the adventurers or the ants so I could let out a loud sigh of relief and then start jumping around. I still celebrated how I could, and my core started to pulse with light. I even vibrated a little bit.

My ant advisors were the first to learn of this, and they began to celebrate as well, as this was a momentous occasion and something they helped bring about. They were incredibly proud that they could assist t...

Chapter 313 Homesteading in a fantasy world

For the next week, I fell into quite a lovely schedule. During the next week, I taught a class on basic energy control. Since there were quite a few interested whom I deemed good enough, I also decided that after the basic energy control class, I would do an intermediary energy control class.

Everyone was so excited when I started this new class, but as I explained what they would need to learn, their expressions changed from excited to worried, as they needed to learn quite a lot and b...

Chapter 37 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

POV: Ace

"There are no loopholes. If we sign this, we need to commit," someone said, but I was too miserable to look up and see who it was. We had hoped that we would be able to get a good deal with the dungeon for the foreseeable future, where we needed to do the bare minimum to keep it happy, but now we were quite literally in trouble. "Who could have done this?" someone asked, but no one answered back because there shouldn't be anyone down there capable of this.

"Could they hav...