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Chapter 296 Homesteading in a fantasy world

"Congratulations," I hear echoing all around this vast room. My focus immediately shifts to the seven-headed hydra, but I don't believe it was the one speaking. My gaze travels upwards to the massive dungeon core, which is as large as my sauna.

"You're a quick one. Some who have made it this far never even consider that someone else might be speaking besides the intimidating hydra in front of them," the voice comments. I have to agree about the intimidating part, as I'm quite certain th...

Chapter 295 Homesteading in a fantasy world

The battle was as brutal as ever, with constant close calls that would have been nerve-wracking even to seasoned veterans. But they all had an iron column to support themselves in the form of Rich, who never once gave an indication that they might lose this fight.

In Rich’s mind, however, things were different. He knew that this was the best their team could do, but the ball of power that represented the hydras regeneration was diminishing too slowly. He needed to decrease his attack ...

Chapter 294 Homesteading in a fantasy world

The room shook from the roars of the five-headed hydra as they welcomed back their last head. The battle resumed immediately, but the red head was now a lot more caution with its attacks, especially when confronting the pesky insect-like adversary it was up against.

The five party members grew concerned; their initial strategy of incapacitating the fire heads without severing them entirely had crumbled. It appeared that even when taunted, the older heads would attempt to sever the incap...

Chapter 293 Homesteading in a fantasy world

The plan was devised, and we executed it swiftly. As soon as I gave the signal, Adam activated one of the scrolls we had acquired. He managed to cover the top half of the monster in the burning acid, but the substance wasn't potent enough to break down the tough skin of the cyclops. However, it did induce panic in them, causing them to move in an attempt to rid themselves of the painful substance.

As they moved, they quickly realized that the floor was coated in ice, thanks to Luana's s...

Chapter 292 Homesteading in a fantasy world

As soon as I opened my eyes on the 98th floor, I sensed that this floor might be our last floor of the dungeon. Moments later, I heard curses around me. "At least it isn't a water floor," Adam remarked, only to receive a punch on the shoulder from Horus. "Don't even joke about that," Horus retorted.

The size of the ruins often changed sizes based on the monsters within, and the hallway we found ourselves in was vast. The walls, typically made of brick-sized stone blocks, were now as big...

Chapter 291 Homesteading in a fantasy world

When Vespinax launched his attack after finishing his speech, he unleashed a lightning attack that spread throughout the entire room. It would have required a significant amount of my energy to defend against, but there was a simpler solution. The attack only electrified things on the ground, so I jumped up, making myself as light as possible, I managed to stay in the air until the wave passed by. Luana was as brilliant as ever and defended everyone around her. After that, I quickly resumed m...

Chapter 290 Homesteading in a fantasy world

POV Vespinax

I was growing weary of this research path. Perhaps I should set it aside and revisit some other research I haven't touched in a while. How long have I been trapped here? My usual method of telling time doesn't work. My connection to the outside world is severed; all I have left is my research. Even this has become challenging due to the constraints placed on me. I can only utilize my current abilities for researching new spells.

At that moment, I was informed that a g...

Chapter 24 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

I began by claiming my territory. The expansion to define the area for my new floor was straightforward, but I felt compelled to make myself whole, so I filled all the gaps in my territory between the floors I had.

I pushed myself to the very edge of the mountain, but I didn’t extend my territory beyond it. The primary reason was that I didn’t want to encroach on the adventurers' territory. Another reason was that doing so would blow my cover because dungeons that signed the origina...

Chapter 289 Homesteading in a fantasy world

It had been 20 minutes since we arrived at floor 96, and we were already feeling the pressure. At first, we thought we might have stumbled upon an easy fight, as we were seemingly battling goblins. They were ranked two, but they didn't feel too strong. However, as soon as we attacked them, things took a weird turn, then became outright scary.

My first strike was aimed at three of them, but in an instant, they weren't there. Instead, they were a few meters away from me. The next moment, ...

Chapter 288 Homesteading in a fantasy world

We continued to descend, but progress became increasingly challenging. We were getting lucky in finding boss rooms. However, it wasn't just the bosses that posed a significant threat; even the regular monsters began to deplete a significant portion of our resources.

The more worrying part was that my taunt ability was beginning to falter. The monsters we encountered were becoming more intelligent, which apparently made it more difficult to convince them to only attack me. I guess this w...

Chapter 287 Homesteading in a fantasy world

The world plunged into darkness. I heard Adam cast a light spell, and Horus tried to light a torch, but none of these seemed to help us see. Even with my eyes, nothing seemed to appear before me. As I continued to switch around my vision and try different combinations, hoping to find something that worked, Horus was trying to come up with a plan to get us through this floor.

Nothing he came up with seemed to work well. As the minutes passed, we thought we might need to navigate this flo...

Chapter 286 Homesteading in a fantasy world

We began moving slowly at first, trying to stay as hidden as possible and avoid making any noise. We needed to reach the entrance of the building before anyone noticed us, as fighting our way in would make everything much more difficult, especially if more monsters came from behind us.

Fortunately, staying quiet wasn't a problem for me as I was able to silence every noise I made with my abilities. However, Horus wasn't as fortunate. Every movement he made created noise, but he had learn...

Chapter 285 Homesteading in a fantasy world

As I was walking back after having cleaned myself with energy, my mind was on the loot I got. From the different bag designs, I figured that they had also killed another group before they came after us. Perhaps their plan was to roam the 74th floor, collect loot, hopefully find some other parties to kill, and loot them as well. Then the only thing you needed to do to leave was to go down the stairs of a boss room.

I wasn’t going to tell the rest of the party about any of this. the loo...

Chapter 284 Homesteading in a fantasy world

The enemy party consisted of five members: one scout, most likely with a rogue-type build, a tank, two mages (one of whom was the leader), and one healer. I commended their discipline. No one seemed to be speaking out loud, but I had no idea if they had some sort of communication ability like we did that allowed us to talk without actually making any sound. The party did perhaps seem a bit distracted, and only the rogue was truly alert.

From the first moment I saw them, I never looked a...

Chapter 23 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

POV Ace

This was a terrible morning. I was woken up at 4:00 AM by one of my guards saying that the Dungeon Fairy Guild had arrived. This was a moment that I absolutely feared. From this point on, I was 99% sure that they would take control of the dungeon and start taxing everything to high heaven.

They would probably also make the dungeon completely rework every floor to their standards of dungeon design. Hopefully, they would at least decide to keep the last two floors as they ar...

Chapter 283 Homesteading in a fantasy world

I kept my senses constantly aware of our surroundings, even during the fighting. I managed to scare the other party away, but I was a bit disappointed they didn’t choose to fight. However, I was quite certain they wouldn’t give up on us so easily.

Everyone was still quite tense from the encounter with the other party, and they were all eager to get to the next floor. I was certain we wouldn’t make it before we needed to take a break and sleep for the evening. The fighting on this ...

Chapter 282 Homesteading in a fantasy world

Waking up after exerting myself so much was painful, especially the headache, but weirdly, my chest hurt the most, which was strange. Even after hours of resting, after my headache was nearly gone, and everything else seemed in peak order, the left side of my chest still hurt. Did the monster do something to me?

That didn’t make any sense. Not finding anything wrong, I decided to go and look at my achievement page. I had quite a few notifications. I guess I have more time to go over e...

Chapter 22 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Months flew by as I continued to develop my dungeon rooms and maintain the floors, all while enjoying the drama unfolding on the ant floors. I had forgotten how rapidly ants could multiply. The population of the new floor soon started to approach that of the rest of the ant floors. The pure chaos it brought was incredibly satisfying.

When the first colony declared independence, a huge war began. However, the journey to the tenth floor was not a simple one as it took quite a while, and t...

Chapter 281 Homesteading in a fantasy world

POV Luana

Being completely connected to my shield, I felt the impact of those small rocks. Each one felt like a mountain and my shield started to crack, but I continued to weave the spell so I could repair and strengthen it continuously.

I collapsed from having spent nearly 30% of my total mana and pushing my mind to its limits. But I succeeded. The shield was cracked by the end, but it was able to keep us safe. Rich told us that he believed that might happen again, and I suspecte...

Chapter 280 Homesteading in a fantasy world

POV Luana

We all rushed into what we presumed to be the boss room, but I couldn’t detect anything there. Soon, Arabella and Rich said at the same time, "Clear?" We were all still vigilant; we just never expected a boss room to possibly have an ambush. "Everyone, keep vigilant," I heard Horus say, but my attention was pulled towards Rich, who was looking at all of us with a questioning look.

"Why do you all look like drowned cats?" This infuriating man! It was because we were dro...

Chapter 279 Homesteading in a fantasy world

We were still making good time descending, but the fighting started to get complicated as the monsters we encountered began to exhibit a multitude of different abilities. If the trend continued, we might finally get stuck if we ended up in a disadvantageous environment and opponent. But, like with every other combat, luck plays a large part in whether you will succeed or not.

Fortunately, we were still able to bypass most traps by me just running into them, but we have encountered some ...

Chapter 278 Homesteading in a fantasy world

"Well, to understand me, you'll need to know a bit more about my background. While everything I've told you about myself is true, there's a quite important fact that I haven't mentioned. A large portion of me isn't from this world." Upon hearing my words, Luana let out a sigh of relief. I guess she knew about it but kept it a secret, probably because she didn’t think I wanted anyone else to know. But honestly, I wouldn’t have cared if she had told.

Arabella looked at me, wanting mor...

Chapter 21 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

The 10th floor playroom was technically complete, but it required some maintenance and a way to get ants down here. I created a myriad of different environments, including lakes, rivers, forests, mountainous areas, snowy regions, and even some deserts. Until now, the ants had lived in a perfect environment for them, so I wanted to see how different environments would affect their evolution.

For maintenance, I had to expand my core room as it had grown quite a lot and I needed more space...

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Chapter 277 Homesteading in a fantasy world

After a nice, long sleep, I ate more than usual just to have that nice, full feeling. I then went into a meditative position so I could refocus my mind and let my body stabilize from the influx of stat points I have been gaining.

I felt that my mind has been too focused on fighting lately, which is making me make unwise decisions as I want to keep pushing to reach our goal as fast as possible. But this shouldn't be the case. Our goal should be survival, and only after that should we str...

Chapter 20 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

I now had a better understanding of what was supposed to happen after the breakthrough, but I still had no idea what it truly meant. A large portion of my mind was on refining something inside of me. I couldn’t stop this process, but I found that I could add a little bit of mental power to make it more efficient.

However, as soon as I did that, my instincts wanted to take over again. After a bit of time, I found that I could also withdraw some mental power, but it was hard to concentr...

Chapter 276 Homesteading in a fantasy world

My eyes snapped open and my heart started beating as if it was trying to escape my chest, but I instantly calmed down when I figured out Arabella was approaching me. She had a water skin and a bowl of some sort of food which she offered me, and I gratefully accepted.

I downed the water in large gulps until everything was gone and then started to eat the food. I wasn’t back to 100% yet, but I was close and the small headache wouldn’t slow me down. "Thanks for the food and water," I s...

Chapter 19 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

The 9th floor turned out to be more interesting in every possible way. I never expected that with so much extra room in the playroom, regional specialties for evolution would start to develop. It was on a small scale, but I could see it easily. I couldn’t wait until I had access to even larger floors and where that could lead my creatures.

I was now even more excited about the 10th floor and what it could mean for the ants. I also liked the change of weather, and while it took a while...

Chapter 275 Homesteading in a fantasy world

The fighting continued to get tougher, with some spikes of truly hard fights, mostly because of the environment. We truly shined when we had enough room to fight, but not every ruin afforded us this.

The current one was especially brutal as we were fighting ghouls who came in packs of ten or more. My sword was still able to handle them, but not being able to properly swing it limited its effectiveness quite a lot. Then there was the problem of my party members barely being able to help ...

Chapter 274 Homesteading in a fantasy world

The next two floors were monotonous, but at least I got a bit more exercise with the hordes of first-rank monsters. Cutting them down was as easy as cutting wheat thanks to my greatsword, but we continued at a reasonably fast pace. Then we were once again fighting rank two monsters where we could actually move faster because we still had the damage to annihilate the smaller number of opponents, even when they were individually stronger.

The current area we found ourselves in was a cold,...