As soon as the speaker finished speaking, my heart finally relaxed. Risking my life like this was nerve-wracking, and I honestly just wanted to break. Now that I was once again a free man, I was going to get the fuck out of this madhouse.
Absolutely everything here was annoying, from the 7 people who could snuff me out with a single finger to the annoying people who think if you aren't wearing clothes with gold embroidery, you are somehow lesser. The discussion around this room was stil...
2023-09-14 16:14:50 +0000 UTC
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If you have the time and interest I would like it if you write down with you like or don't like about my story's and what you would want to see happen in those story's.
2023-09-14 04:35:08 +0000 UTC
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POV ????
The first scheduled to arrive was the queen, but I could see that Rich was already being escorted here. He certainly knew how to play the game, but I’m quite convinced that he doesn’t like to play it, which oddly makes him better at it.
It was truly a weird combination, and now I knew that amongst the seven, some were also interested in him. I saw a few of them smile ever so slightly when Rich was taken out of his chambers before he was scheduled to be brought here. W...
2023-09-13 19:13:24 +0000 UTC
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I was tired of thinking and constantly discussing with my ant advisors, so I turned my attention to the bug floor. Altogether, it took about five years since I introduced the bugs for things to start to stabilize in an interesting way.
They stopped growing bigger, and the largest specimens didn't grow past the size of a large wolf. Instead, from being completely instinctual creatures, they started to form a more intelligent mind. Only time will tell how much that will continue to grow, ...
2023-09-13 19:11:31 +0000 UTC
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I was being escorted by four guards. It took me a while to figure out what was going on, but eventually, I understood why I was able to get along with every guard so well and even convinced them to let me have a proper place to stay.
It was my commander ability. As soon as they had even a little bit of respect for me, they started acting more and more like they were my subordinates. Thanks to this, I had already won the first engagement, and that’s how everyone saw me. I was no longer...
2023-09-12 17:57:15 +0000 UTC
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The bug floor has turned out to be way more interesting than I ever expected. It’s even so interesting that I have had to divert my attention between it and the ant floors, where something of a skill revolution was going on. Their world was changing fast, and it was incredibly interesting to watch, but so were the unexpected changes on the bug floor.
At first, everything went normally. I released numerous different bugs, and slowly they started to breed and evolve. There was so much s...
2023-09-12 17:53:41 +0000 UTC
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POV: ????
I walked into my accommodations and immediately sent a pulse to investigate every inch. The four servants, standing in a row and waiting, looked pristine as they needed to be, and they had kept everything exactly the way it was supposed to be.
"I want an early dinner, at least five courses, but surprise me. I want the best wine that’s currently available, and I need eyes on this Rich Dirt fellow and that stuck-up queen. Otherwise, everything else will be standard." The...
2023-09-11 18:34:50 +0000 UTC
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POV Val
I ran into cover. The rock was barely enough to keep me hidden, but I could feel that my stealth skill was able to make enough use of it. I looked towards the remaining quarry, a huge moose that had a defensive skill and a charge skill.
It was still quite far away from a mini guardian, but we had only just reached the 12th floor and hadn’t even been here for a month, so it was still a difficult fight. I aimed my bow and channeled my piercing shot skill into it. From year...
2023-09-11 18:31:37 +0000 UTC
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POV Ace
It was quite early in the morning, and we were waiting for the Adventurers Guild master to arrive so we could all hear today's reports and the summary on the 12th floor. We didn’t have to wait long until he arrived, but the person in charge of the report looked quite nervous, especially when the guild master walked in.
If it was a person that I didn't know giving the report, I might have hoped that perhaps he was afraid of the guild master, that was a normal response. Bu...
2023-09-08 11:44:54 +0000 UTC
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After the lake discovery, I felt that my exploration needs were filled for quite a while. I settled into a more relaxed living after that and focused on my apprentices, my teachings, and improving my own skills. Time flew by, mainly because I was having so much fun, and even before I realized it, I could smell spring in the air.
Now, I always liked that smell, but compared to my apprentices, I might have just been a stone statue with how much emotion I showed. They always needed to do s...
2023-09-08 11:40:45 +0000 UTC
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I was about halfway done with my preparations for my breakthrough when I once again had to redo everything because the war actually escalated, and I didn’t want to miss anything. Fortunately, it didn't get too big, and probably never will unless some of the nations would be stupid enough to directly attack others' territory. But if the fighting is contained in the zone around the fountain, it shouldn't get worse than this. However, this will most definitely be the largest war ever because n...
2023-09-07 18:02:33 +0000 UTC
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As I continued to explore, I started to notice more pathways that didn't seem completely natural. It almost looked as if someone had eaten or tunneled their way through the original tunnels that were here, widening and connecting them even further.
It took me a while to see that some sort of mole-like creature was responsible. I only saw a small one, the size of a normal cat, and it seemed to have some sort of eyes as it was able to watch me from its hiding hole.
It was quite a sm...
2023-09-07 17:58:25 +0000 UTC
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POV Ace
Currently, every leading member of my town and the dungeon is in my office. I look out of the window while others continue to argue. What I see is a bright moon that is almost full. The town is now quite huge, but that's to be expected as every adventurer whose main goal is to get stronger is coming here to train. Thankfully, not everyone wants to come here because they won't make much money ranking up, and for most of the adventurers who dive dungeons, that's their main goal.
2023-09-06 17:45:09 +0000 UTC
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I was sitting on a stage with everyone else who were important figures in the United Freeholds. The winter solstice celebration had just begun, and I was required to participate at least in the opening ceremony. There were so many people, and while it was nice to see everyone in a festive mood, for me personally, it was too many people.
Another thing that made it hard to continue sitting was the smell of the different foods that were being cooked in the numerous stalls everywhere. Now, ...
2023-09-06 17:42:15 +0000 UTC
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This story is also now on royalroad so if you have time please go an and give a follow and a rating it would help a lot.
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It has taken quite a long time until the ant scientists were finally able to make devices that acted sort of like keys. With them, they had their gates secured from other nations. They received the resources I promised, but unfortunately, those keys still needed some work if I wanted to use them. So, I made another promise of resources and gave t...
2023-09-04 16:54:53 +0000 UTC
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POV David
I checked my timepiece once again, but that didn’t change what I was seeing from it. It was 5 minutes past eight, and I was now officially late. Hopefully, I'm not the last one and they haven't played too many hands.
I opened the door to find a nicely furnished room with a circular table in the middle and six people sitting around it. "Look who decided to show up, it’s David," Roger announced to everyone, and I found myself being looked upon by six people who were ar...
2023-09-04 16:52:37 +0000 UTC
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Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground” will soon be realized on royalroad.
This will mean that this story will go into the same format as Homesteading in a fantasy world. 5 chapters ahead of royalroad will be in the B Tier. 10 chapters ahead of royalroad will be in the A Tier and 25 chapters ahead of royalroad will be in the S Tier.
This means that if you are in Tier A, today will be your last chance t...
2023-09-02 05:58:34 +0000 UTC
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Now that all important things were taken care of, I was able to focus on mentoring my apprentices and starting to grind skills again. Winter slowly started to take over, and I could feel how the land's life retreated; it almost felt like everything around me was going to sleep.
That, of course, wasn't the case. About a week before the big meeting started, we once again needed to mobilize our army, but this time only the Vikings. There must have been a dungeon break-up high in the mounta...
2023-09-01 14:27:14 +0000 UTC
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After I claimed my territory for the new floor, I decided to do things a bit differently. I was tired of making the floor and then having to lower its height; it just felt like doing the same work twice. So this time, when I started to expand the floor's space, I made sure to keep a tight hold on the 500-metre height while letting the length and width expand like it normally did.
It took quite a while for the basic shape to be done, but I ended up about 2000 kilometres in length and 100...
2023-09-01 14:26:04 +0000 UTC
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Now that that was taken care of, I could focus on my achievement page and the new things I've gained. The first things to test out would be the new ability. Ethereal sight was still something I wasn't 100% certain of, and it didn't seem to work consistently, but I guess I will just have to give it time to get used to it.
Energy armor I have gotten quite proficient at, and with my manipulation, it's basically a second armor that I can manipulate for any situation. I could even use it for...
2023-08-31 11:28:13 +0000 UTC
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There are only three moose left on the wolf floor, but I must say that I have underestimated them. The three are even now alive a few weeks after I released the original 20. Combined, they have killed dozens of wolves, but the moose that are alive are in the areas where wolves haven't evolved to be more deadly but are better at surviving their environment. No matter how impressive they turned out to be, a regular animal could hardly fight against evolved creatures that could slice metal in ha...
2023-08-31 11:28:06 +0000 UTC
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The next apprentice was a bit of a special case. Tim and I could get along really well, and we were quite good friends, but he's also quite old already. "You see, Rich, I’ve had my own farm for quite a while now, but like most who find themselves in this nation, I had to abandon my home.”
“At first, I thought of nothing else but starting over and making a new place for myself; that’s why I'm here as one of your apprentices. But being here, learning from you and the others, I hav...
2023-08-29 16:20:28 +0000 UTC
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When I got into the town, I found it to be quite bustling. So many seemed to be moving with purpose, but what I enjoyed the most was how everyone looked. They weren't miserable or worn down; they looked happy and healthy.
It will still take a few days until the main force of the army makes it back here, but the injured were already being treated. We seem to have many more professional healers, probably from Verdia. I asked one of the nurses about the seriously injured people from our pr...
2023-08-28 15:49:28 +0000 UTC
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Just a few hours ago, I got my first creature around the size of a bear, but I kinda feel cheated. It wasn't even a predator, just a big deer. It was called a moose, and I do have to say that it's an impressively large animal and it has some good features, but against a bear, it's nothing.
There will still be room in the ecosystem for it. Perhaps I will even use them for a few dungeon rooms, but that would currently be pointless unless it is able to find some interesting evolutions for ...
2023-08-28 15:47:54 +0000 UTC
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300 chapters it would never have been possible without you all. Thank you sincerely.
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After my talk with my next apprentice, which luckily lasted much shorter than the first two. She just wanted a nice home where she could raise a family which was an easy problem for me to help with. After I headed towards the capital. On my way, I stopped at the inn and said hi to Val and his family.
We only talked briefly, but he seemed quite excited about some new beverages...
2023-08-25 13:35:25 +0000 UTC
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The annoying person had just left, and from my understanding, he's the person in charge outside my dungeon. But why he thinks he knows things about my dungeon is beyond me. Thinking that I need to go a floor down, and that I'm making too many rooms.
And you can shut up, instincts. My instincts have been getting a bit more annoying as of late. The person that bothers me, and my instincts are kind of correct, I should really break through and make a new floor.
And I guess I could, a...
2023-08-25 13:32:57 +0000 UTC
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It took some time, but I managed to find my way back home, but by the time I reached my land, it was already midnight. Tonight, however, was beautiful, with more stars in the sky than I could count. The world was illuminated by the endless stars on a black background, but soon it will be difficult to see them all when the two moons start illuminating the sky.
Stepping onto my nation's land always revitalized and strengthened me, but it was nothing compared to when I set foot on my own l...
2023-08-24 16:23:14 +0000 UTC
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I spent a few moments breathing in the wonderful air that wasn’t too humid; it was just right. The air was already quite cold, but I like it that way. It was also wonderful to once again be aware of everything around me. However, I stopped admiring the beauty of this land and focused on the upcoming battlefield. It was past the goblin lands, near an outpost around the first-rank dungeon. I still had some time, but just in case, I thought I should start moving.
"Yes, I already know abo...
2023-08-23 16:01:18 +0000 UTC
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POV Luana
Everything was so hazy. I tried to open my eyes, but everything hurt, and the intense light wasn’t doing me any favors. I tried to recall what had happened, but all I could remember was casting spells and then darkness. It took me a few moments to orient myself to my surroundings, but I found myself in a room that smelled like a healing potion.
As soon as my vision cleared, it all hit me at once: the boss, the last fight. Wait, did we win? I opened up my achievement pa...
2023-08-22 16:54:16 +0000 UTC
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The floor was so large, but soon I forgot about how tedious it would be to design every aspect of the floor with rivers, mountains, and everything else. I just started to enjoy making the landscape. Since this floor was meant for the ants, I didn’t just want to make something for big creatures but design it for smaller ones.
Still, I made sure that everything I made would be acceptable for even medium-sized creatures. This is because I was going to increase the oxygen level of this fl...
2023-08-22 16:52:35 +0000 UTC
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