From the night I discovered the luck anomaly, a week has passed. It has been a really busy time since then. Currently, I was in the war room that was in a wooden building where our future fortress will be built.
This was our operation center for our armies. At the center of the room was a large table that had a map of o...
2023-10-09 16:53:16 +0000 UTC View PostIt took a bit more than a moment to see that everything in my dungeon hadn't burnt down and still worked as it should. Now, it was time for the interesting part: to see if I had succeeded with this skill endeavour. I opened up the skill list to see two new skills: ‘Dungeon Rules’ rank C-plus and ‘Sub Dungeons’ D rank....
2023-10-06 15:07:32 +0000 UTC View PostPov Omar
It took me 4 jumps to get to Verdia, but fortunately, I will now be able to avoid the public portals. No longer were there crowds of people; instead, these portal stations were housed in luxurious buildings, and we had ample accommodations for the wait times.
I was fortunate that I was able to get a porta...
2023-10-06 15:02:37 +0000 UTC View PostEverything started out great. I began to make a mini-dungeon near the Academy that I made for them that would be perfect for ants. It took me a bit to dial in the correct size I wanted, but I did have to guess a little because I wasn’t completely certain what size would fit the ants best.
When I started to make the tu...
2023-10-04 18:08:26 +0000 UTC View PostPov Omar
The three hours of sleep were just enough for me to be fully ready for the day we were about to have. I looked around to see the 14 people with me in this meeting room, all being informed about the situation.
Last night, a lot of things were discussed, but nothing was decided because we simply didn't know...
2023-10-04 18:01:46 +0000 UTC View Post"Well, what are you guys waiting for? Let's move," I said to David and Mirhit. "Omar, follow me. Let's get the fires going." I walked out but stopped before I turned the corner. " Mirhit, don’t tell David what’s going on, OK?" I got a quick nod in return, so I continued to walk.
The sauna was directly connected to t...
2023-10-03 17:29:31 +0000 UTC View PostI had finished with my dungeon rooms. Normally, I would start preparing for my breakthrough, but I needed more data, especially on the raid rooms. Since all of those rooms and a large portion of the 15th floor were still inaccessible, I decided to wait a bit longer before actually breaking through.
It would also take th...
2023-10-03 17:25:58 +0000 UTC View PostWas I being too paranoid? Was there really a reason to get everyone up? These unfortunate coincidences could just be that. I didn’t even know if holy power could work like that; I barely knew anything about it. Just assuming an entire nation was planning something nefarious was a bit over the top.
It didn’t take the...
2023-10-02 17:15:12 +0000 UTC View PostPov Ace
When I made it to the dungeon entrance, I was expecting the worst, but what I saw made me stop and breathe out a sigh of relief. The mother was holding her baby and crying, but the people around her had smiles on their faces.
The guild master turned to me, "No sign of any dungeon mark. It didn't claim the ...
2023-10-02 17:09:52 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 1
Looking out the classroom window, I couldn’t help but worry about my future. There were only a few more days before graduation, and all ten examinations were done; we already had our results. I had achieved excellent scores, but they weren't sufficient for any scholarships. Richmond was my only foreseeable f...
2023-10-01 06:47:37 +0000 UTC View PostAfter I got dressed, I started to bring the leaves back home. I also needed to check my achievement page because I had leveled up my basic swimming enough that I was able to rank it up. Now, I had a choice of three abilities: Current Detection, Sustained Breath, and something called Hydrodynamic Flow.
The first one seem...
2023-09-27 18:45:28 +0000 UTC View PostPopulation - that was the key. My advisors and I had been looking for a reason to invest more time into this venture of creating territories for the adventurers. There wasn’t anything else we could gain, but if we introduced the territory system and made population an important factor, adventurers would want to bring more p...
2023-09-27 18:40:26 +0000 UTC View PostI felt the water envelop my head, and I was underwater. Adjusting my eyes a bit, I managed to enhance my vision to see further in the water than normally possible. Still, I needed to swim deeper to get a clearer picture of what was happening.
Soon, I encountered large underwater plants with huge leaves that were at leas...
2023-09-26 16:22:46 +0000 UTC View PostI watched as they entered my core room. Things got awkward as they just continued to stand there, with some of them glaring at each other, obviously wanting to kill one another. "We shouldn’t linger here so long; it's not proper," one of the more muscular humans said.
"You're absolutely correct. I was just a bit too m...
2023-09-26 16:17:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe war was over. All the soldiers were back, and all the paperwork and meetings were done. This was my second day home, yet I couldn’t relax. The war and the people who died didn't bother me as much as knowing that I would need to do this again. It was a bit weird because both should bother me. My leg was constantly bounci...
2023-09-25 10:59:34 +0000 UTC View PostAltogether, it took two years and seven months for the ant war to end, with a total death toll of 3.4 billion ants, totaling 17% of the entire population. It was a staggering figure, but even with the peace agreement to be signed today, there was still one battle ongoing.
It was happening where it all began, at a rivers...
2023-09-25 10:51:55 +0000 UTC View PostThis battle was filled with the marvellous inventions of the different ant nations. While there are a lot of prototypes, some designs have already become quite standard.
I watched as ants made last-minute checks on their planes before getting on board and firing up the skill engines. There were seven different airports ...
2023-09-22 13:56:35 +0000 UTC View PostOn an otherwise unremarkable road that was slowly being reclaimed by nature, I watched as three armies and the leaders of three nations met to make an alliance. Now, this wasn't just a defensive alliance or to get access to each other's trade markets; no, this was a proper alliance with each nation cooperating to help the oth...
2023-09-22 13:50:59 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Ace
We were once again sitting in the meeting office where we once again had to worry about the dungeon and how it decided to mess with us this time. At first, we received reports that the 14th-floor guardian was within the expected range of difficulty.
But we started losing more people than expected until a ...
2023-09-21 18:26:35 +0000 UTC View PostWhile I didn’t particularly like that I needed to take on new apprentices, the moment I had them, it was quite exciting to learn what they liked and then teach them the way of the homesteaders. Bert was an interesting case because not only was I teaching him, he was also teaching me energy-based magic.
This magic need...
2023-09-21 18:22:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt started slowly, where only active soldiers were used before the mobilization began. Some nations had quite large active military forces, but that was to be expected from the larger nations who still waged war against other nations to claim colonizable territory. But those wars were a bit different and had many more rules o...
2023-09-20 13:33:33 +0000 UTC View PostDuring the summer solstice, I once again had to make an appearance during the celebration. But since this holiday happened during the summer, most wanted to be closer to nature than in a town. Because of that, I didn’t have to spend so much time, and the celebrations were a bit less formal. Thanks to that, I was able to get...
2023-09-20 13:23:06 +0000 UTC View PostIt took me an entire day and a half to finish the potato field. It looked like something I would have done when I was 10 years old, doing my first potato row with the help of my grandfather. While it wasn’t perfect, it will still suffice.
What did weird me out a bit was that on the second day, I had quite a crowd of p...
2023-09-19 17:46:31 +0000 UTC View PostSince I hadn’t had time to activate my mana sink projects, gathering the required amount went quite fast as I was keeping myself quite full. I once again pushed myself to the limit before I let the breakthrough happen and started to revel in the feeling it brought.
This time, for the floor guardian, I was finally goin...
2023-09-19 17:42:08 +0000 UTC View PostMore time went by, and I continued to follow a similar schedule to before until it was time to get started with preparing the fields for sowing. Tim and I were sitting and eating breakfast, and I took a few moments to just think about how he's doing. He still had plenty to do to finish his home, and he really seems to be enjo...
2023-09-18 16:23:18 +0000 UTC View PostRemoving the stone from the upper portion of the floor always took the longest. For this floor's terrain, I was mainly going for forest and grasslands with a decent-sized water network. But I still wanted a bit of variety, so while this place was going to have all four seasons.
Also, the top portion of the oval shape wa...
2023-09-18 16:19:26 +0000 UTC View PostI felt how the contract was signed. At this moment, I wished I had a body like the adventurers or the ants so I could let out a loud sigh of relief and then start jumping around. I still celebrated how I could, and my core started to pulse with light. I even vibrated a little bit.
My ant advisors were the first to learn...
2023-09-15 12:00:34 +0000 UTC View PostFor the next week, I fell into quite a lovely schedule. During the next week, I taught a class on basic energy control. Since there were quite a few interested whom I deemed good enough, I also decided that after the basic energy control class, I would do an intermediary energy control class.
Everyone was so excited whe...
2023-09-15 11:55:35 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: Ace
"There are no loopholes. If we sign this, we need to commit," someone said, but I was too miserable to look up and see who it was. We had hoped that we would be able to get a good deal with the dungeon for the foreseeable future, where we needed to do the bare minimum to keep it happy, but now we were quite lit...
2023-09-14 16:19:33 +0000 UTC View Post
