"Who let the country pumpkin like you eat here?" the Queen's bodyguard said. I immediately stood up and pushed him back. The surprise on his face was satisfying.
"How dare you. I want this person kicked out, and I want him to buy everyone in this establishment a free meal and a drink for disturbing us all," I said in a ...
2024-01-10 17:51:32 +0000 UTC View Post"So rich, can I call you, Rich?" Mr. Blue asked, and I gave him a nod. "Thank you, Rich. I understand that it's not very comfortable talking about your past. Many can’t handle it, but I hope you can explain to us a bit more about your experience that allowed you to be so proficient at, well, everything to do with bureaucrac...
2024-01-09 18:39:19 +0000 UTC View PostPOV Carl
I looked towards the east where the sun was slowly rising. It had been a few horrible days amongst many bad ones. I could feel the itch of wanting to go back into the Dungeon, but I couldn’t leave, and let someone I didn’t know take control of this place.
Perhaps that was a bit too presumptuous of me,...
2024-01-08 19:11:55 +0000 UTC View PostCompared to the size of the city, there really weren't that many people on the streets. Perhaps it would be different more towards the evening, but I guess this place is more for getting business done and not for leisure.
After looking around a little bit more, there didn’t seem to be any other portals here as well. P...
2024-01-05 15:05:48 +0000 UTC View PostPOV General H
I had just finished my cup of tea when the tent flaps were opened, and my right-hand man walked in. It was refreshing to be properly in charge of the whole army and not have to share leadership with other nations' generals. "Sir, we were just informed that around 8000 adventurers from the dungeon joined th...
2024-01-04 16:48:08 +0000 UTC View PostWhile waiting for the first portal, I was a bit fidgety. This armour wasn't really meant for me, and while I could wear it and fight in it thanks to the modifications I made, it was still not perfect. Then finally, the blue portal came into being, and I quickly moved through it with a few other people.
The next moment, ...
2024-01-03 17:08:12 +0000 UTC View PostEvery day, I had pushed my skill to see outside my dungeon to the very limit, yet this time I was finally able to see what I was looking for. The army, or perhaps 'armies' would be a better description, were finally close enough that I could see them.
Not long after I saw them, I could hear the warning bells start to ri...
2024-01-03 17:04:07 +0000 UTC View PostI was in my office, standing in the middle of the room, and all around me were various items. My armour was so badly damaged that I couldn’t wear it properly after the war. The sword I had been able to fix up; it only had minor nicks.
Now, I would’ve liked to spend a year to learn how to be able to make low-rank thr...
2024-01-02 18:38:31 +0000 UTC View PostThe talk with Ace was a little bit worrying, so just in case, I rechecked all my defenses and started to claim more real-world territory. The goal for that would be so I could open up more exits, so if anyone decided to close up my primary one, it would not cause me to suffocate.
After that, I really couldn’t do anyth...
2024-01-01 17:20:11 +0000 UTC View PostAnother summer was coming to an end. Today, however, was one of the most beautiful days I’ve had on this planet. The temperature was just perfect, and the breeze was still nice and warm. The sun was high up, but it wasn't burning like it would have been during mid-summer.
Now, I’ve had days like this before, but the...
2023-12-29 13:19:35 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I finally finished expanding the 19th floor, it was almost 9500 kilometers in length and a bit over 5700 kilometers in width. I finally had a floor that was almost as large as the continent I was currently on.
It will still take me a while to get to the size of the planet, but that made me think: how many other dun...
2023-12-29 13:15:14 +0000 UTC View PostWhile expanding the 19th floor, I did decide to keep the height at 800 meters as I didn’t really need tall mountains, and while I was going to have some cave systems. They weren’t going to be that extensive, so I didn’t need too much space on the ground.
Because of that, the area was going to be massive, but I als...
2023-12-28 18:22:34 +0000 UTC View PostToday was a glorious day because Goose achieved the second rank. He was now a lot more intelligent, but we still communicated through images most of the time. I tried to teach him some language, and he seemed able to learn it, but he didn't seem to want to actually communicate like that.
While this bothered me a little ...
2023-12-28 18:18:51 +0000 UTC View PostLately, I always have something to do. Suddenly, things got even busier. Recently, we received a new batch of refugees and hires. It was a positive change, in my opinion, but it also meant a lot of work.
I do feel that our growth as a nation will be a lot smoother in the future, but I have yet to meet the person who bro...
2023-12-27 18:31:38 +0000 UTC View PostIt was quite fun to expand the 19th floor. This time, things went even faster, as they always did when I had my breakthrough, but it also seemed like I had a lot of interesting things to observe. Enn was released after being in prison for a few weeks.
The Champions organization and the nations' governments were a bit sc...
2023-12-26 18:16:24 +0000 UTC View Post----
No chapter tomorrow or next Monday. I will be going to see my family for the holidays.
Happy coming holidays to all of you :)
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POV Charles
I was incredibly nervous yet excited. A new chapter of my life was about to begin as soon as I stepped through that portal. Many people were given an...
2023-12-21 18:35:59 +0000 UTC View Post----
No chapter tomorrow or next Monday. I will be going to see my family for the holidays.
Happy coming holidays to all of you :)
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POV Enn
None of us could remember exactly how long we had been in this cursed city. We have found everything there is to find here, and we have ...
2023-12-21 18:26:41 +0000 UTC View PostNow I had a choice to make. It should have been a difficult choice, as I wanted to stay low-key, so to speak. Advancing too fast might be problematic, but my labyrinth was done, and the Cave playroom continued to produce such deadly substances that they made me shiver.
While there were a lot of those bugs and creatures ...
2023-12-20 18:23:04 +0000 UTC View PostThere was, of course, a pleasant birthday back at my homestead as well. We also used this time to do a small celebration for the apprentices, as most had reached the maximum level of 20 they could achieve.
Now they just needed to claim land, and they could become real homesteaders. Some of them had already picked out th...
2023-12-20 18:18:42 +0000 UTC View PostPOV Rich
I was absolutely mortified. I couldn't believe I was sitting on a fancy chair on a stage, looking over a crowd of people. The snow had already melted, although it was a late winter this year.
Still, the ground was now soft, and tomorrow we would all start preparing the old fields and making new fields for...
2023-12-19 18:25:39 +0000 UTC View PostWell, Carl finally figured it out. It's impressive that they actually managed to make it work, as I hadn’t expected I would have given so much information in the book I placed in the orc shaman room. Still, it took them quite a while to figure it all out.
They only had the singular rune meant for an average boost of b...
2023-12-18 18:24:52 +0000 UTC View PostWhile getting a skill level wasn’t as impactful as it used to be, it still felt good. I had just leveled my basic tin smithing to level 3 after finishing the 10 bee smokers. I was running the test on the final one to see if it was working as it should.
It wasn't the perfect design because the metal parts got quite hot...
2023-12-15 11:45:37 +0000 UTC View PostPOV Carl
So much had happened since I started my research: so many quests, so many challenges. If I could have just focused on this, I would have probably been done a while ago, but finally, it was time. I was incredibly nervous, but even more nervous was the healer, Anna, with whom I had become quite good friends.
<... 2023-12-14 16:28:37 +0000 UTC View PostEven before the official start of the war, there were already aeroplanes in the skies flying a lot higher than they normally did. These were large planes that had, on average, 20 ants on board.
While they did have some placements where ants could use their long-range skills, these aeroplanes were specifically designed f...
2023-12-13 19:08:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe next week, I slowly got back into my routine, but I could feel my strained energy pathways. I had pushed myself a little too hard during the battle. Fortunately, I was able to hold myself back enough that it shouldn’t affect my recovery time. Just in case, I took it extra easy during the butchering and with my current i...
2023-12-13 19:03:16 +0000 UTC View PostIt was time to get back to grinding, but I needed the skill to grind. I didn’t have much free time currently, as I was busy training my own body, dealing with my responsibilities, and teaching my apprentices to the best of my ability.
After looking through my achievement page, I found a skill that I hadn’t used for ...
2023-12-12 15:32:28 +0000 UTC View PostOn the ant floor, the situation finally went critical. The two sides, which had been continuously hostile to one another, had a border skirmish just because two groups of patrols accidentally got too close to each other.
What stopped an outright war from being declared that day was that even they didn’t want something...
2023-12-11 18:06:41 +0000 UTC View PostIt took a while, but I was starting to reach a point where I could begin adding plants and creatures to the 18th-floor playroom. Adding the sand was now completed, and the first rain for this floor had ended.
I had carefully ensured that under the sand, the bedrock would have large, gentle valleys, so after that rainfal...
2023-12-07 16:54:39 +0000 UTC View PostWith so much snow, it was difficult to keep in contact with the new villages and towns towards the east. The one that was connected with the portal was easy to contact and helped them prepare for the winter solstice like we were doing in the capital. Yet, the villages were quite far away, and getting to them would require at ...
2023-12-07 16:49:20 +0000 UTC View Post
