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Dungeon Novel 2: Chapter Four

“She sacrificed her levels,” Elvinia said dully in the silence after the explosion. “She quite literally burnt away all she had gained across the course of her life in one explosive conflagration.” The sadness in her tone was unmistakable.

“It is bad then?” Unbound asked his Dungeon fairy, hearing the sadness that almost bled from her.

“Bad,” Elvinia said almost incredulous. “It is worse than bad she destroyed everything she was and had the poten...

Dungeon Novel 2: Chapter Three

The Undead marched into his Dungeon without hesitation. It was strange to see no Necromancers when the Undead were acting that intelligently and Unbound could see several Draugr and Bone abomination, Undead that would take the power of defenders equal to the third-floor boss to kill.

It was strange and dangerous, the lack of Necromancers a startling change from previous Undead incursions. The ‘wild’ Undead had been seemingly gathered to use against him or the nations in greater numb...

Dungeon Novel 2: Chapter Two

The Adventurers were few and had started mapping the Dungeon, the fact that they were raiding full time forced Unbound to finally link up loot drops to the defenders. It was one of the oldest methods available to Dungeon’s to entice Adventurers to venture further into the Dungeon where danger was more common.

The Purge Undead sigil that the various nations wanted in massive amounts was only dropped extremely rarely by each boss. For the first clear of the First floor Unbound forced it...

Dungeon Novel 2: Chapter One

The lich stared out across his forces passively, the arrayed Undead a marvel to behold. It had not been out of it’s chambers for many years now since the heroes fought against it, testing and experimenting and researching.

It had come so close to finishing the kingdoms last time it had fought them, their armies vanquished, and their land lost. It had only been the hero’s arrival that had pushed the Undead onto the back foot, even when younger and weaker any skill they used, imbued w...

Dungeon Novel: Chapter Thirty-Five

The Warrior Deer were some of the strongest anti-Undead defenders within his Dungeon. If Unbound could set up rooms and tunnels designed to assist the deer with their charges, then the Undead would be mowed down by their assault.

The ability to charge in a straight line is extremely common, what the deer had as an advantage was the fact that they were naturally more nimble and able to stop quickly or turn for another charge. Unbound wanted to have a host of various evolved creatures for...

Chapter Thirty-Four

It was just one thing after another without any break. The necromancers attacking immediately without giving Unbound time to work out the mysteries around the strange noble and the mindless slaves. With his irritation, he suddenly had a thought to kill all the necromancers.

As they funnelled into his Dungeon, he trapped them. Unbound did not seal the entrance but flooded the territory outside with twelve Void elementals. They wanted to kill or enslave him, why should he treat them like ...

Dungeon Novel: Chapter Thirty-Three

In the small tunnels, the earth elemental wreaked havoc upon the invaders. It took one of the knights dying before one of the defenders before the fire mage could get a clear shot on the elemental and melt the stone body.

There were only six intruders remaining now and Unbound was relaxed in the fact that he was unlikely to be harmed at this point. The party was moving forward slowly, the knights hugged the walls to allow the fire mage to blast any incoming elemental.

It was when ...

Dungeon Novel: Chapter Thirty-Two

It ruined one of the boss’s greatest weapons. The ability to strike without warning in the underground space combined with it’s immense physical might meant at least one member of the invading party tended to die upon their meeting with the Elemental Boss.

With fire revealing the cavern the boss’s position was going to be swiftly revealed so Unbound gave an order to remain behind one of the largest pillars and wait for them to order the knights to do a sweep.

The fire mage w...

Dungeon Novel: Chapter Thirty-One

Unbound was nervous. The forest theme, despite the river, would maximise the Fire mages effectiveness and he was hurriedly taking one of the explosive Undead to make a Boss of the fourth floor.

It was a large room with many, many small tunnels and side rooms threading through the Boss room. The explosive Undead was a large humanoid skeleton with large bone packs held within its ribcage and upon its back.

When Unbound started the process to make it the Boss those packs of bone star...

Dungeon Novel: Chapter Thirty

It was very possible that nobody would die on the floor with the Ant’s nest either, that kind of firepower could just incinerate any ant that tried to attack from a tunnel. The close quarters, usually to the ant’s advantage, would be their own downfall.

Then Unbound had a thought, he subtly shifted the layout of the floor so that the intruders would have to swim through the flooded tunnels to get to the Queen’s chamber. He blocked off the normal tunnels that lead to the chamber an...

Dungeon Novel: Chapter Twenty-Nine

However, even as the necromancers descended to the fourth floor another group entered Unbound’s Dungeon. It was a group of knights, not from the church nor Undead, but normal human knights that surrounded three people.

Two of the three people had robes and a pointed hat, one was bright red and the other featured black and white swirls in a strange pattern. The third member of the group wore fine clothing of silks and had a finely crafted sword that had its hilt encrusted with jewels.<...

Dungeon Novel: Chapter Twenty Eight

Unbound didn’t know what to do with that knowledge, it would be unlikely for Beda to care with her own personality but the other three, who were currently in their own rooms, would likely wish to warn the kingdoms.

Unbound would probably try to warn them as well if he were still a lumberjack, but now as a Dungeon core, he did not care as much. The kingdoms had a habit of enslaving Dungeon cores and using them as resource farms, but they also provided a large number of concentrated res...

Dungeon Novel: Chapter Twenty-Seven

The Ant’s nest was a nightmare for Undead, with heavy mandibles and powerful jaws the ants were able to easily rip skeletons into their separate pieces. The tight corners didn’t allow Undead to press their own advantageous numbers as it forced them to go in two at a time. The skill, Material reinforcement, meant that they could not even break down the walls as it would require them to be far stronger to do so.

All the random ‘wild’ Undead that was strong enough to get there were...

Dungeon Novel: Chapter Twenty-Six

Unbound purchased several different things with his shop points. He bought the patterns for wolves and boars for more diversity in any natural-based floors and two water-based predatory animals to strengthen any aquatic defenses.

He also bought another trap, a set of barbed fishhooks handing from near-invisible wires from the ceiling. It was a nasty trap, designed to tear at an invader's eyes and rip them out with the barbed hooks. If a hook got caught within someone’s eye it would re...

Dungeon Novel: Chapter Twenty-Five

Both Unbound and Elvinia were overjoyed, the only sigil he currently had, Purge Undead was extremely powerful. The more mana he had to push into the sigil the stronger it got and as a Dungeon Unbound had vast amounts of mana, far more than any sentient race could hope to wield.

He said to Elvinia to speak to the guests to see how much the sigil helped them in their battles with the Undead. The fact that the sigil was useful even to the sentient races with their own smaller mana pools me...

Dungeon Novel: Chapter Twenty-Four

The several necromancers were milling around the entrance for several moments, loitering around the entrance as three amongst their number analyzed the structure around the entrance and the glowing portal.

However, despite seeing the army of Undead and their necromantic controllers, Unbound was confident there was none of the higher tier Undead he had encountered, and it seemed that this group was a simple probing party to see how strong his Dungeon was.

Elvinia had explained the ...

Dungeon Novel: Chapter Twenty-Three

Eventually Unbound finished the floor, he changed his wants to form different, unique, and self-sustaining floors and had instead built a death trap for Undead. Long, twisting tunnels barely wide enough for two skeletons to walk side by side.

It featured several traps filled to the teeth with Purge Undead enchantment sigils. The rooms had low ceilings, forcing any intruders to bow their heads to fit and several waiting elementals in ambush.

Unbound had seen several new traps he wi...

Dungeon Novel: Chapter Twenty-Two

The information played havoc with Unbound’s own mind for a moment despite o longer being human and losing any emotional attachment to his human memories he did remember bleeding out across the floor of the forest as his soul was torn from his body.

He also remembered being barely conscious within the gem as he was carried about here and there with the skeleton, unknowing if her would survive the day or be found out and experimented on. The fear that followed him everywhere throughout ...

Dungeon Novel: Chapter Twenty-One

“Unbound are you okay?” He heard Elvinia asking. “It is a tier two pattern, I should have warned you I am sorry.” Unbound’s mind throbbed with pain the spikey Undead had taken up large amounts of room within his knowledge banks.

“Tier two?” He managed to ask, even as the battle between the Undead, Necromancer, and Boss raged. The spiky undead felt ridiculously strong compared to his other patterns, only the elementals seemed to compare.

But as the pain raged within h...

Dungeon Novel: Chapter Twenty

With nine of twelve skeletons and the two other Undead still with her, the necromancer walked deeper into the dungeon. Now upon the final floor and walking into the forest floor Unbound wished to strip her of her remaining defenders before hearing out any requests. Plus, this way he could see how the third-floor boss performs.

The third-floor boss was designed as a second-floor boss and Unbound may have to buff it further to reach a good level of strength. He wouldn’t try to change th...

Dungeon Novel: Chapter Nineteen

The necromancer had a small party of Undead with them, several of the Weakest Heroic Skeleton, two Bone Plated Undead: Bear variant, and two new humanoid undead covered in massive bone spikes.

They didn’t enter the Dungeon for a moment and the necromancer simply stood outside and stared at the entrance. The person seemed to be examining the entrance made of quartz to give a curious mixture of reflected light and shadows.

The necromancer then walked into the Dungeon and gave out ...

Dungeon Novel: Chapter Eighteen

Unbound was shocked for a moment, whilst he understood that the Churches party would have spoken about him and they had found out about his existence else wise, he didn’t believe so many people would know.

And the bandits finding out clearly said that the Church was not discreet about who they told but Unbound did not like people knowing about him whilst he didn’t know about them. The lady who spoke to him had a general aura of royalty and kindness, she seemed used to her orders bee...

Dungeon Novel: Chapter Seventeen

“Yes, what is it for, you suggested it?” Unbound asked suspiciously.

“It is to make a contract between you and someone else,” Elvinia said.

“Why?”

“BecauseDungeonsareknowntogoinsaneanddestroyeverythingwithoutenoughcompany.” She spat out in a blur.

“Are you able to repeat that and slower?” Unbound queried.

“It is because even with their fairy dungeons eventually go insane and destroy anything if they don’t have people to have as company.”...

Dungeon Novel: Chapter Sixteen

A lot of bandits died within the ant’s tunnels, unable to go back they had to continue as more and more of them died. The larger ants blocked them and allowed the other smaller ants to sneak past and kill the trapped individuals. Their numbers, having been advantage in the first level, worked against them with the tight quarters and noise that drew the ants to them.

The women were ordered to be unharmed by Unbound, when he had seen an ant go to bite one. The fact that these bandits ha...

Dungeon Novel: Chapter Fifteen

The bandits walked through the dungeon first rooms laughing raucously together. They killed any of the spiders and wildcats they came across and Unbound focused to hear their conversation.

“Apparently Gerry heard that the church detected a new dungeon here and after checking it determined its very weak and not an undead type.” One of the bandits dragging the women stated.

“Quiet, wait until the dungeons controlled to talk about it, until then it is dangerous.” A bandit wit...

Dungeon Novel: Chapter Fourteen

“I can create another floor now.” Unbound said simply to his void fairy.

“You can.” She replied, with an eerie calmness.

“Lat time I scared you, how would I stop that?” Unbound asked plaintively. He did not enjoy scaring her, he could feel the bond between the two. The bond was strong enough that death might not sever it completely with how thick it was and how much mana passed along.

“This time.” Elvinia said slowly. “You will be able to draw on your affin...

Dungeon Novel: Chapter Thirteen

Ignoring general floor layout at the moment, Unbound pulled all possible defenders capable of hurting the undead into the second floor. He lined the traps with Purge Undead enchantments before they reached the third room.

He placed the large armada of beings the other side of the river in the second floor, Large Hunting spiders and all their variants, Wildcats and their variants, the predatory animals upon the second floor, all of the basic affinity elementals and the nests of void elem...

Dungeon Novel: Chapter Twelve

The cloaked figure with magic walked into the open forest floor, its two guards following on by its sides. The newest undead invasion slowly moved into the floor killing every small creature that ventured into their path, the void elemental remained unnoticed behind them.

Unbound was curious, the undead here was very different to the invasions that had happened prior to the current one. The skeletons, whilst the same as other skeletons that had attacked, displayed more tactical use of t...

Dungeon Novel: Chapter Eleven

Shop: Defenders

Slime 20 Points

Kobold 20 Points

Goblin 20 Points

Freshwater fish (unique to current world) 35 Points

Crayfish 10 Points

Fox 15 Points

Deer 20 Points

Boar 25 Points

Wolf 30 Points

Bear 50 Points

“Why are there no bundles for woodland animals?” Unbound asked his fairy.

“It is because it is a one time offer for new dungeon, I am actually surprised that there is a bundle for freshwater fish.” She expl...

Dungeon Novel: Chapter Ten

He could feel his mana pulse in anticipation as he waited for Elvinia to explain the next floor making progress.

“Now you know that you had to fill this space with your own creations, yes?” She asked and Unbound pulsed out acknowledgement. “Well, it is similar to how you made the portal to the outside but for you, as the Void Dungeon, you need to tear a hole to pull part of the void within.” His confusion was evident, pull part of the void within. He had yet to unlock his second...