Chapter 1317

“Master, what are we doing here?’

“We need a proper place to create our dungeon and effective seed. For that, I’m going to need a rich supply of mana, a clear and defensible position, and an appropriate guardian.”

“A guardian?”

“We’re going to have to take on one of those bosses.”

“Weren’t you saying they are too much to handle?”

“I did, and on top of that, it isn’t enough to just defeat it, we need to tame a monster and get it to give over its property and serve us.”

“Yikes.”

Sometimes, I seriously wondered what the girls were truly thinking when they thought about me. My White Mage spells made me exceptionally powerful against the undead. Where many of the bosses down here felt like they’d be difficult to handle, maybe even life-threatening, all I needed to do was find an area of undead, and the undead boss would likely be something I could take out.

As for how I would find this monster type, I had a Dark Priest skill known as Detect Undead which I unlocked at level 16. Also, while wandering in the Deep, I had been testing out some other skills I had been ignoring up until now, and I found I could supplement Detect Undead with Dungeon Diver’s level 10 skill, Tracking. In the same way that Map could synchronize with Sense Life and Detect Treasure, Detect Undead could merge with Tracking.

I was level 13 in Dungeon Diver, so it was lucky such a skill appeared, but then I noticed that Tracking had also appeared at level 25 as a Monster Tamer. Who knew how many other jobs had it? I could imagine finding it in Adventurer, and Lydia’s Scout. I began to realize the possibilities behind them. If I could merge Tracking with Detect skills, then I’d be able to find people extremely easily. I’d bet that was why Raissa was better than me at finding a treasure! She probably had Tracking and Detect Treasure.

Either way, I should have been able to Track Terra and Garnet too. I realized that I had a skill called Harem Sense which was an even stronger connection than my broken Slave Bond. Even if Garnet didn’t qualify, Terra definitely did. It probably would have helped a bit knowing it existed while on Earth and chasing after Miki, but I had thousands of skills at this point so occasionally missing the potential purpose of some random skill happened from time to time. Since I had been able to more or less track them using the remnants of the Slave Bond, it wouldn’t have changed anything anyway. That said, there was no reason it should have combined with Tracking too. Yet, when I tried, nothing happened.

It was clear that Terra and Garnet were specifically being impeded, where these undead mobs were not. Tracking didn’t work from that far away. You had to already be close, so my girls might have been just too far away. For example, it might have helped me find Shao, but Miki would have been too far away. However, Harem Sense worked at a much farther distance and possessed that intangibility similar to the Slave Bond, and even that connection was obscured. I could even vaguely sense the presence of my girls above, but for Terra and Garnet, I felt nothing. This was truly worrying.

“Master, I was thinking, how many bosses have you tamed that were women?” While I was considering this, Alysia had been having her own thoughts.

“I’m not looking for a female boss!”