The Dungeon Fairy: A Dungeon Core Escapade (The Hapless Dungeon Fairy Book 1) Jonathan Brooks (the dot read aloud TXT) đ
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âJeremy, transport yourself down below! Have your Oozes get ready for a fight, because there are Raiders widening the entrance. Do you remember if you placed any traps?â
âHuh, what? Is there a football team here? And what do you mean by Oozesâoh, is that what these disgusting things are?â
Now she was starting to panic; Jeremy was sounding just like how a newborn Core would after it was created â at least from what she had been taught. âOk, ignore everything except for accessing your Dungeon Core Module and using your Dungeon Force to transport yourself down into your last Core Room before the Raiders get here. You should be able to bring up your dungeon mapââ
âOk, I see that. Hey, this kind of reminds me of a video game! Iâm selecting myâŠwhat did you call it? Oh yeah, âCore Roomâ, and activating the Teleport functionâŠâ
Nothing happened. âDid you pick the right option?â
âYes, Iâm pretty sureâoh, here it is. This little thing that popped up says that I have âInsufficient Dungeon Forceâ. What is that?â
âUhâŠthatâs not good, is what that is. You mustâve used nearly everything you had in your digging to the surface and donât have enough yet. Fortunately, directing your Ooze creatures donât require any Force, so order them all to come up to this room; perhaps we can scare the invaders off before they can get to you.â I canât believe this is happening; just as I thought this might work out, this happens.
âOk, doing that nowâŠwhy are they so slow? Who in their right mind would create something so disgusting and lethargic in their movements? Is there anything else in here that can help?â
Tacca didnât bother to explain that Jeremy himself had chosen them for his initial defensive creature. âYeah, thereâs nothing else, and I doubt youâve been here long enough to obtain any other Improvements â so these are what you have to work with.â The Dungeon Assistant flew down the tunnel to the other rooms and saw for herself what he was talking about; if they were lucky, perhaps one of the larger Oozes from the second room might make it to help defend in time. In fact, they seemed extraordinarily slowâŠ
âQuick question â what does your Ooze Variant say?â
âOoze Variant? What does that mean? Hold on, I think I saw that somewhereâŠhere it is! It says Earthen SludgeâŠwhatever that is.â
That would explain why they were so slow. The Earthen Sludge Variant of an Ooze was slow-moving but extremely powerful; it was highly resistant to fire-based spells and attacks (which were usually an Oozeâs bane), and once it managed to grab on to something it was extremely difficult to remove. The âearthenâ quality of the Ooze would attempt to squeeze and crush whatever it enveloped, and it also had a slight acidity to it, which would break down most metals â though the speed of that happening depended on how large and powerful the Ooze was.
It turned out that she was mistaken regarding the Ooze from the second room â and not in a positive way. The entrance tunnel was widened and even more of the outside world was exposed faster than she expected, and the next thing she knew there were some Raiders already entering. She saw a Dwarf, a Human, an Orc, and an Elf â an unusual combination of races, but not unheard of working together â cautiously enter, using an Amulet of Illumination to light up the relatively dark tunnel.
âI told you there was another dungeon around here. But no, you didnât believe me; just goes to show you that I know what Iâm talking aboutââ the human male began to say in Common Tradespeak.
The Elven woman cut him off using the same language. âI wouldnât necessarily say that; you were wrong about so many of the ones before, so Iâd just say youâre lucky this time. Being right one out of fifty times doesnât indicate that you know what youâre talking about.â
âOk, you two; shut up and let me take a look at what we have here.â Putting actions to his words, the Dwarf â who was carrying a shield almost as large as he was â stepped forward and cautiously entered the room with the Amulet of Illumination around his neck, lighting the way for them all.
âThis isnât good, Jeremy â you need to have the Oozes you have here in the room attack them to dissuade them from moving any closer; theyâre going to destroy you if you donât get them moving!â Tacca used her mental communication with the Core for the first time since she had Bonded with him. She had also turned her Invisibility back on as soon as she saw the Raiders coming in, but the Dungeon Core couldnât really hide; he was still floating in the middle of the room, glowing brighter and brighter by the minute, but still largely defenseless.
âI already sent them to attack, but theyâre taking so long to move â is there anything else I can do?â
The Dungeon Assistant Fairy quickly thought about what he would likely have available, but immediately determined that he was basically out of options. Being a new Dungeon Core meant that he had limited choices in his defenses; he had his Oozes, of course, and likely some deadly traps to choose from, but they were useless at the moment for a few reasons. For one, they required more Dungeon Force than he obviously had at the moment; two, producing more creatures or traps took a little time â they werenât instantaneous; and three, changing anything inside a room where there were Raiders (whether it was structural, trap-based, or creature design) was
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