Dungeon of Chance: Even Odds: A Dungeon Core Novel (Serious Probabilities Book 1) Jonathan Brooks (book recommendations txt) 📖

Pretty soon, he would be out of capacity, and forced to sacrifice some to the Altar.  Unless he specialized and only kept certain types of monsters, for instance only keeping Serpents and Boars, then the rest could be sacrificed each time he got them.  But what if all of the Spawn Eggs start giving me loads of the other monsters, and I rarely get any more Serpents and Boars?  There were a lot of factors to consider, and to the forefront of those factors was what he wanted to achieve—

“Wow, you certainly do think a lot about this, don’t you?” Dwight said with an edge of impatience.  “You had better hurry in whatever you choose to do, because you’re running out of time.”

She was right, as usual, and he was wasting time.  Besides, he had already thought about all of it while he was waiting for this opportunity, so there was no use rehashing his thoughts on the fact that the probabilities (in general) weren’t all that much better with a Mystical Spawn Egg than a Common Spawn Egg for better monsters.  Yes, they were certainly better if he wanted a 4, 5, or 6-Star monster, but those weren’t precisely what he needed right now.  They would be nice to have, but he needed quantity over quality – and the best way to do that was to purchase a whole bunch of Bundle Pack #1s.

But first, to gamble with his Health again…

Your Core Stage has been increased!

Current Core Stage: 5

Unfortunately, during the process you have lost some Core Structure Health!

CSH Lost: 3

Current Core Structure Health: 2

Remaining Crystal Chips: 9363

New Star Limit!  60 --> 85

New Monster Limit!  125 --> 150

New (Crystal Chip) Daily Accumulation!  5 --> 8

Owwwwwww!  The sharp spike of pain reverberated through his Dungeon Core as Clay experienced another loss of his Core Structure Health.  It took him a moment to stabilize his mind after the experience, and when he did he saw that he had lost most of his CSH – but not all of it.  I don’t think I’ll ever get used to that…nor would I want to, I suppose.

That was just the first step, however, because he wasn’t done yet.  Now that he was nearly at the point of having nothing to lose, he spent another 4,000 Crystal Chips to increase his Core Stage for the 4th – and final – time.

Your Core Stage has been increased!

Current Core Stage: 6

Fortunately, during the process you did not lose any Core Structure Health!

Current Core Structure Health: 2

Remaining Crystal Chips: 5363

New Star Limit!  85 --> 115

New Monster Limit!  150 --> 175

New (Crystal Chip) Daily Accumulation!  8 --> 13

He had tried to brace himself for the potential of another bout of damage to his Core Structure Health, but it was thankfully unneeded.  The cost to increase his Core Stage was now at 6,500 Crystal Chips – out of his budget for the moment – so now it was time to purchase some Spawn Eggs.

Common Spawn Eggs, of course, in the Bundle Pack #1.  And not just a few like he had before, but a whole bunch of them.  He quickly purchased his first Pack and started to tap them open, one-by-one in rapid succession….

Chapter 28

As he had predicted – and generally how the probabilities were explained to him – most of what he opened up in the first 10 Bundle Packs he purchased with a total of 450 Crystal Chips were Common 1-Star monsters.  There were a total of 13 Common 1-Star Cats of different kinds, which he promptly sacrificed to the Altar (which he had yet to tire of, since he still really didn’t like any type of cat), which left 87 other monsters and traps for him to work with.

Of those 87, 56 of them were Common 1-Star monsters that were composed of Bats, Rats, Spiders, Boars, Slimes, and Ferns. For some reason, there weren’t any Serpents as part of that group.  In addition, unlike his expectations, there wasn’t a single 1-Star monster that was anything but Common in Rarity – so, no Uncommon or Rare or anything better than that.

That left 31 other selections, 7 of them being 1-Star traps of different kinds.  Of those 7 traps, 4 of them were repeats of his previous 1-Star trap (Vertical Impalement) or multiples of the new ones he received; in all, only 3 were brand-new traps.

Deep Pit ★

Type: Falling

Material: Cracked Stone

Location: Room Floor

Damage: Low

Arrow Barrage ★

Type: Piercing

Material: Wood

Location: Hallway

Damage: Low

Burning Flares ★

Type: Magical

Material: Fire

Location: Room Ceiling

Damage: High

Basically, what Clay received was one trap that was a poorly camouflaged hole in the floor of one of his dungeon rooms, another trap that launched arrows at a Hero who might accidentally trigger it in a hallway, and one that spouted a gout of flames from above for a few seconds.  All of them had extremely obvious triggers, either with a tripwire, a raised section of the floor, or in the case of the Deep Pit – a plainly evident discolored thin stone cover that would collapse as soon as someone stepped on it.  Nothing he wanted to use in his Easy or Average rooms…but perhaps his Nightmare room could find a use for it.

That left 24 other things he received from his 100 Common Spawn Eggs.  Most of the 3-Star-guaranteed selections (8 of them to be exact) weren’t overly exceptional, as they were Common in Rarity; 2 of them were Cats – which were sacrificed at the Altar – and he received a 3-Star Bat, 2 Ferns, a Boar, a Serpent, and a Rat.  As for the other remaining 3-Stars, they were much more exciting.

Stone Golem ★★★

Attack Type: Melee

Rarity: Rare

Element: Nature

Mist Demon