Chapter Three Hundred and Fifty-two. How can I name it if I don't know what's in there.

Chapter Three Hundred and Fifty-two. How can I name it if I don't know what's in there.

"I can't even," Jessica shook her head, the normally loquacious blonde at a loss for words.

"I want to ask both how, and maybe more importantly, why?" Amanda said as she eyed Bob's Eternal Servants.

"They eat leaves," Mike said suspiciously. "I saw it in a documentary once. The leaves aren't even good for them, but they eat them exclusively."

The group was standing near the edge of the glacier, watching as Bob demonstrated his Eternal Servant skill to Eddi. A pair of Jakes with the skirmisher path were making what could only be called strafing runs at a large boulder. Sitting on their shoulders, clutching their necks for balance, sat the targets of the group's disbelief.

"Look, it's not my fault," Bob said defensively. "I know they aren't really bears, which means the System knows they're not really bears, but I tried just about everything to summon something like the lavabears on the twenty-sixth floor of the Harbordeep Dungeon, but apparently it has to be 'bear-like' because it only worked when I either summoned an actual lavabear, or summoned a polar, grizzly, brown, or black bear. I tried making lava dinosaurs, and it didn't work," he finished bitterly.

He really missed his Magma Jakes, but he'd lost them when he'd reincarnated.

Dave was wheezing with laughter as he choked out, "Dude, when we talk about bear calvary, that's not what we mean."

Bob sighed as he watched another Jake run past the rock, the Koala on its back opening its mouth to spit an uneven ball of lava at the boulder.

"Do they do enough damage?" Amanda asked doubtfully.

"Just as much as the ambushers, without the need for the target to be unaware or defenseless," Bob replied. "They're pretty damn potent."

"You weaponized Koalas," Jessica said sadly.

"The one animal in Australia that wasn't trying to kill us all," Dave agreed.

"Not everything in Australia is dangerous!" Jessica objected.

"Jessi, there's a reason we always paid for your ticket to come see us, and it was because we weren't tough enough to come visit you," Amanda said.

"I thought it was because it was cheaper to fly just one of us halfway around the world and back," Jessica replied.

"That too," Dave agreed.

"I've got to figure out how to make Rexxy breath fire," Eddi said happily

Bob touched the entrance to the Dungeon.

You have access to How can I name it if I don't know what's in there, this is stupid.

Capacity 81%

Estimated time until overflow 386 solar cycles.

User Tier Eight, level twenty-four.

Dungeon set to Tier Eight, Level thirty.

"Yeah, that's the money shot," Jack chortled.

"I panicked," Eddi said defensively.

"Yeah, I'm definitely installing video cameras in here," Mike grinned.

"The rest of them are named Glacier Valley Dungeon two through forty," Amanda said.

"They're all different scenarios against monsters called Bountos, which are basically Kobolds," Dave explained. "Because the Dungeons are so close together, they have a much lower capacity, so we can keep all forty of them from overflowing pretty easily."

"It'll be nice to have a change of scenery," Bob said. "I won't lie, the Hidden Dungeon was starting to get a little repetitive."

"Starting?" Amanda scoffed. "I was ready to be done with that place after the first month."

"Have fun, either wait for us to get out, or we'll wait for you to get out," Jessica said.

Bob nodded and touched the Dungeon again, choosing to enter it.

Two hours later, Bob found himself swearing as his Eternal Servants and Jake faced off against the management team. There five of them, with the group composed of two beacons, two skirmishers, and a support. He'd managed to get the jump on them, but the support had taken an extra set of blows to die, which had allowed the skirmishers to land some blows on the calvary. Matters had been made worse when only one of the beacons had engaged Jake, the other focusing on the calvary. This wasn't good because his summons could be influenced by a beacon, making it more difficult for them to focus their attacks on anything else. Jake had immediately pinned the Beacon, and was worrying it to death, but apparently, management didn't have the same trigger as the miners.

One of his lavakoalas went down to the focused blows of both skirmishers, who then set their sights on the second. The beacon holding the calvary's focus was on its last legs, but it held on long enough for the skirmishers to get the second lavakoala. His two Eternal Servants turned on one of the skirmishers, but it was a lot closer to a fair fight than what Bob preferred. Jake finally finished off the beacon, and came barreling in to save the day, pinning one of the skirmishers while Bob's two remaining UtahRaptors destroyed the skirmisher left to face them alone. Moments later, the battle was over, and a moment after that, the lavakoala that had died first reappeared, slowly and carefully climbing back up on its UtahRaptor mount.

How can I name it if I don't know what's in there, this is stupid Completed!

You have defeated five groups of miners!

You have defeated ten groups of miners!

You have defeated fifty groups of miners!

You have defeated five overseers!

You have defeated ten overseers!

You have defeated the management team!

You have completely cleared How can I name it if I don't know what's in there, this is stupid! No monsters remain!

You have received 600 energy crystals.

Bob brushed away the System window before tapping his armband and checking the time.

"Two hours and five minutes," he noted.

He could clear it more quickly now that he knew the layout, as well as utilizing the berserk reaction from Jake getting his grub on. There were also several instances where he suspected he would be able to drop the calvary on one of the miners, then summon Jake to intercept the other four. It wasn't viable in all of the encounters, but there were enough opportunities that it could drop the clear time a bit.

Bob opened his interface and selected the option to exit the Dungeon, where he sat down to wait for the group.

"How is it that you're done before us?" Dave asked.

"I'm guessing you were up against groups of ten, with two overseers to a group and a management team of ten?" Bob asked.

"Yep," Amanda nodded cheerfully.

"I was up against groups of five, a single overseer to a group, and a management team of five," Bob explained. "More challenging to do it solo, but I have my advantages, and ultimately, you had to kill twice as many monsters. Also, they were a lot higher level, which means they had more tricks."

"So true," Jessica grumbled. "I think around level thirty-five or so was when the overseers started using protection shields."

Bob winced. "I was dropping the calvary on them through a portal, so they never had much of an impact," he said.

"I wish I had permanent minions that were useful," Amanda complained.

"Just summon a batch out with barrage and effect over time, open the portal and send them through," Bob suggested. "That's what I did before I took my path."

Amanda sighed. "That," she said morosely, "did not occur to me, and should have, as I've seen you do something similar in the past."

Dave wrapped his arms around Amanda from behind, squeezing her. "It's okay, babe. Bob's been rocking that summoner build for more than twice as long as you have."

"He's been doing it for a few months longer than me, and I didn't think of it either," Eddi muttered.

Bob shrugged. "Gotta remember all your tricks. I'm a little surprised that both of you wound up with Dimension."

"We figured each group needed a dimensionalist, and the truth is that if things start to go wrong, the Summoner is going to be the last person standing," Mike said. "They can move in and out of combat under the protection of their summons to deliver healing potions or to get someone out of a bad situation, and they don't even need to max their portal spell to pull it off."

"So, do we want to run this one again, or move over to the next?" Dave asked.

"I'd like to run it again. I have a couple of ideas to speed things up," Bob said.

"Did you know if you start eating one of the miners alive, the others will go berserk and stop defending themselves?" Bob asked.

"You mean when you have your summoned monster eat the miners alive, right?" Jessica asked.