CH.261 Clearing Dungeon 27_001, part 2

CH.261 Clearing Dungeon 27_001, part 2

(Brian. It's your turn to keep guard.) Laura woke me up with her soft voice. She must have chosen an optimal time to match my sleep cycle, because I was feeling great, despite just having woken up. When she woke me up to activate another copy of Swords of Revealing Light, I was feeling a bit worse, but now, I feel just fine.

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I got out of my sleeping bag, used Storage to quickly put my clothes on, and looked around. The Swords of Revealing Light were still up, but I could feel the early warning signs of the card wearing off from my Founder’s terminal, but that means I still have about 5 or so minutes before the card wears off.

“Hey, Agunan. How was your shift?” I asked the dragon, who had been keeping guard before me.

“None of the monsters got through this spell Master used, so it has been peaceful.” Agunan answered. “I even considered leaving this area to have some fun, but that might have woken you up.”

“Well, I’m thankful that you didn’t.” I responded. “You can go to sleep now.”

“... are you sure? Master, I can keep guard for you. You don’t have to do it yourself.”

“Agunan. We went over this already. We all need sleep, and by taking turns, we all get the same amount of rest.”

“No, we don’t.” Agunan denied. “You get less than the rest of us, because you have to keep waking up to recast this spell.”

“... perhaps, but sadly, there is nothing we can do about it. And we have a ten hour rest period anyway, so I’ll still get plenty of sleep.”

“You should just sleep the entire night, only waking up to recast the spell. Please, leave your shift to me.” Agunan requested.

“... no. I’m not going to do that.” I told him. “Go to sleep, before I force you to do it.”

I said that with compassion, not force. I know Agunan isn’t fully adjusted to our sleep schedule, so he would have it the worst. He says that he is fine, but I don’t think he really is. The rest of us should be fine.

“... as you with, Master.” Agunan gave in. “But you really are too kind. You should learn to use your servants to reduce your own burden.”

“... maybe. But at the end of the day, I know my own body the best. I'd rather force it to do something, than force someone else.”

“Just don’t kill yourself with that attitude.” Agunan warned.

“I’ll try not to.”

As Agunan got onto his sleeping pelt and curled up into the fetus position which he liked to sleep in, I got a System notification.

Mission: Good MasterLife Dedicated Agunan respects you as his Master.Reward: Dragonmaid SheouSpoiler

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Eh? ... oh yeah... That mission I got when Ria became my slave. ... but I really didn’t think it would apply to Agunan. I guess the System did say something about him doing anything I ordered and so forth, so maybe the mission treats him the same as a slave?

Yeah. That has to be it, I think. And either way, getting back to the reward. I don’t recognize it, but based on the attribute and looks of the dragon, it has to be the dragon form of House Dragonmaid right? I don’t think it had been revealed before I was ... transported here.

... now I really want to summon her. But I think that would be a bad idea. While this dungeon’s rooms were big enough to where even Agunan’s dragon form could be inside of it, summoning something that large will for sure wake the others up.

But I can at least summon something a bit smaller to keep me company, so after activating another copy of Swords of Revealing Light, and returning the previous copy to my collection, I summoned Rescue Cat and Cat's Ear Tribe to keep me company.

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“Ria... it is your turn to keep guard.” I softly spoke into her ear, as I was shaking the girl a bit to wake her up.

Soon enough, she was up and ready to take the watch.

“... what are? Brian? Did you summon them?” Ria asked, referring to the cats I had summoned.

“Yeah. It would have been lonely, if I was all alone, so why not?”

“... Can you keep them summoned? I want to ... have some company as well.”

“You know I can’t, sorry. I’ll give you one, if you want.”

“... would you, please?”

“Sure, just a second.” I responded, as I checked my collection.

So, a fire-attribute beast-type monster.

... I only have two. And Great Agnus is an absolute no-go. But luckily, the other is perfect.

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“Here. You can have this.” I handed the card to Ria.

“Thanks.”

“No problem. I’ll recast the Swords, unsummon those two and go to sleep.” I told Ria, as I went about my business.

“Yes. I’ll summon this one now. Little Chimera.”

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Because of the opponents, I summoned the dragon I thought would have the best time dealing with them.

“Black Skull Dragon!”

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While Black Skull Dragon might be more known for its fire attacks, it was still half Summoned Skull. And Summoned Skull is a lightning demon. That meant that Black Skull Dragon could still use those lightning attacks. And the lightning seemed to be super effective against the birds, because they quickly fell to the ground, as the lightning attacks hit them.

I thought about collecting their corpses, but I would have had to fly quite close with Sheou, so I decided to just leave them. After the dungeon becomes mine, I can just use the admin tools to absorb them all.

After we cleared the floor’s boss, the A-rank rainstorm bird, we ran into our next problem.

Our dragons, and Ria’s winged beast, were too large to fit through the passage to the next floor. We would either have to shrink them or, wait I don’t actually have Shrink yet. Well, I could Micro Ray them, but Micro Ray has a limited time it is active for, so if they grow back to full size too quickly...

So yeah. We just had to unsummon our dragons. And just as I feared, the next floor was basically the same as the previous one. Another huge forest. And with the dragons on cooldown, we would need something else.

“Brian? Can’t we just use that ship? The Big Core? Or that Crystal Core?” Alice asked. “We can just get in, fly to the boss and get out, right?”

... Alice, are you a genius or something?

“Yes. I think we can do that.” I answered.

Sure Big Core and Crystal Core are huge, but so are these rooms. They can easily fit in here. And while we would run into the same issue of the ships not fitting into the corridors, they should make clearing these floors a breeze.

... if only that would have been the case.

“WE ARE GOING DOWN!” I called out.

Our ship, despite being ‘invisible’, had been attacked by monsters. A large group of flare birds had come and either crashed into Big Core, or just began roosting on the ship's exterior. Their heat quickly caused damage to the hull and the main reactor, causing us to lose power and now we were on a crash course with the ground.

“Agunan, make us an exit!” I ordered. There is no way we would be able to evacuate in time.

Agunan did as ordered, and let out a massive fire breath, blowing open the forward facing wall of the bridge.

“Let’s get out, before this thing crashes!” I ordered everyone. “Agunan, take me and Ria. Alice, can you carry Lua?”

“Yes.” Alice answered.

“As you wish.” Agunan also confirmed.

Agunan grabbed both me and Ria, holding us under his arms, as he flapped his wings to get us out of the hole he just made, while Alice took Lua into a hug, before using Mana Flight to get both of them out of the crashing ship.

We landed in the forest, before we realized that we most certainly were not safe. The forest itself was alive. Alive with tree monsters, or treants. Crimson treants, to be specific. Last floor had treants as well, but I didn’t think we needed to worry about them, as we would just fly right over them, but now, we were surrounded on all sides by moving trees. And because crimson treants were resistant to fire, I couldn’t just have Agunan burn all of these ones down.

(Use wind monsters.) Laura recommended.

“Sure. Armed Dragon LV7!” I summoned my monster.

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My monster soon appeared, ready to intercept the moving trees. At least treants were quite slow, so that was something good.

“Now, I discard Simorgh, Bird of Divinity, to activate Armed Dragon’s effect. Take these treants down with Genocide Cutter!”

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My dragon did as ordered, and soon, hundreds of blades of wind flew from his lower stomach area, crashing into the treants. Some of them also went to the skies, clearing out the flare birds flying in the sky. In terms of effectiveness, I’d say it was 95% effective, as that was the estimated percentage of dead monsters from all targets.

Now, I guess I can summon another monster to help clear out the rest of these treants, as well as those flare birds.

“I activate Polymerization. I fuse together Elemental HERO Avian and Elemental HERO Burstinatrix to fusion-summon Elemental HERO Flame Wingman.

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Flame Wingman is a wind monster, so it should fit. And being half-fire, it should also be able to take hits from those flare birds. He can also fly, unlike Armed Dragon LV7, so that is a nice boost.

... and I just like seeing these two monsters fighting side-by-side, instead of against each other.

I then boosted the Flame Wingman with Fusion Weapon, and also added Dragon's Rage to help the Armed Dragon.

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With those two by our side, we made our way, on foot, through the floor. I guess good part is that I’m getting some crimson treant wood, but the bad part is that we won’t be able to go through that many floors per day, if we have to walk through them all.

By the end of our second day, we only managed to clear a total of four forested floors, as well as the two non-forest floors. Two of the forest floors we just ‘skipped over’ with dragons, but the other two we couldn’t. Well, we could have, but decided against it.

The lightning birds that made that one floor their home, along with bright-wood treants that shot lasers at us, made flying on that floor quite dangerous. It was honestly easier to just go on the ground.

Next time, I need to just burrow under the ground with something like Drillroid. Too bad I didn’t get the Super Vehicroid Jumbo Drill yet.

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