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

Attack Type: Aerial, Magical

Rarity: Ultra Rare

Element: Water

Demons?!  Seriously?

“Yes, demons are extremely powerful Ultra Rare monsters that typically need to be defeated by magical attacks,” Dwight said matter-of-factly.  It was almost as if she thought there was nothing wrong with dealing with demons.  “There’s no point in worrying about them; all of your monsters are bound to your dungeon, so it’s not like they can escape.”

But—

“You used that Undead monster and didn’t think twice about it, so…what’s the issue here?”

That was the question, and it was one that he had difficulty answering.  When he was a child, Clay had heard of demonic entities as being the epitome of evil, as they came from the mysterious Underworld; they were said to possess people and make them do awful things, or else just kill them if they felt like it.  He thought they were just stories, but to actually see one available for him to use as a monster brought back those memories of hearing them from the other children in Renton.

I…don’t know, actually.  When he finally thought about those stories, he realized he never actually heard them from adults – and certainly not his parents.  He was sure there was some sort of reason it was only circulated among the children, but the only one he could think of was that demons weren’t real; the stories were spread around either as a way to scare others for fun, or to keep the other children in line.

Except that it seemed that they were real – or at least real enough to be used as a monster.  Thinking about the other types of monsters he had in his dungeon – that weren’t just deadlier versions of real creatures, like the Bats and Serpents – he realized that monsters like the Troll and Kobolds, as well as his Shambler, weren’t present in the “outside” world.  Stories of what they were and how they looked had likely only come from dungeons, so it must have been Heroes that had first spread their knowledge of their existence.

“Exactly.  There are many things that a dungeon can create for a monster that have no relationship to the ‘normal’ world,” Dwight said, responding to his thinking process.  “The only exception is when a World Threat appears, as they are usually an insanely powerful version of a dungeon monster.”

Huh.  I didn’t know that.  That was news to him, but then again, he had only actually seen the Giant Ogress near Renton, so his knowledge was a little limited.  He had heard about others, of course, but other than them being massive and destructive, he couldn’t remember what shape they had possessed.

The discussion helped him to reconcile with the fact that he had a demon in his employ, but he wasn’t planning on using it unless he needed it.  Call it superstition, call it incompetence – he didn’t care; it was just too strange for him to contemplate for the moment.

After opening up the guaranteed 3-Star golden-colored Spawn Eggs, he turned to the remaining 14 Eggs in different colors.  He could already see that 10 of them were 2-Star somethings – either monsters or traps – by their darker-yellow color, so he opened up those first.  Half of them were Common in Rarity: 2 Bats, 1 Boar, 1 Serpent, and 1 Fern.  The other half, however, finally had some of the Uncommon Rarity that he hadn’t seen in his 1-Star selections – as well as something even better.

Frigid Kobold ★★

Attack Type: Melee

Rarity: Uncommon

Element: Water

Radiant Wolf ★★

Attack Type: Melee, Magical

Rarity: Uncommon

Element: Light

Goblin Dancer ★★

Attack Type: Magical

Rarity: Uncommon

Element: Air

Resplendent Shambler ★★

Attack Type: Melee

Rarity: Uncommon

Element: Light

Lamia Flameweaver ★★

Attack Type: Magical

Rarity: Rare

Element: Fire

For his Uncommon Rarity monsters, not only did Clay receive another Kobold, another Wolf, and another Shambler, but he also acquired something called a Goblin Dancer.  That combination of words seems…wrong, somehow.  The Goblin Dancer appeared to be a short, green-skinned, gangly armed, humanoid monster with wide jaws and scary-looking teeth – not quite what he would expect of a “dancer”.  Regardless of his expectations, the female Goblin was dressed in practically transparent diaphanous clothing that left very little to the imagination.

Another of his 2-Stars was something else entirely – and a Rare, as well.  The Lamia Spellweaver was a red-and-brown-scaled…serpent…person…of some kind.  It was very strange to see it, as it defied all logic in his mind, because it was essentially a human woman from the waist up, stuck on top of a serpent’s lower half; the “woman” portion looked relatively normal, other than the fact that she was covered in scales instead of skin, though her eyes looked more serpent-like than human.  She had bright-red hair that hung down in waves down her head and back, and a thick strip of reddish-brown cloth covered her chest completely; the glass slab that showed her image also had her mouth open partially, and long fangs could be seen inside, as well as an obviously forked tongue.

What in the world am I going to see next?

“There are quite a few monsters that you haven’t even seen yet, Clay,” Dwight responded.  “But you had better hurry up with what you’re doing, or else you’ll run out of time.”

Turning back to what else he had to open up, that left 4 Spawn Eggs of completely different colors.  One was light pink, one was orange, another green, and a final one was a deep red.  From prior experience, he assumed that the pink and orange ones were 4 and 5-Stars, respectively, so he opened those up first.

Sly Fern ★★★★

Attack Type: Stealth

Rarity: Common

Element: Dark

Giant Bush Spider ★★★★★

Attack Type: Melee, Stealth

Rarity: Common

Element: Nature

While not spectacular, with them being Common in Rarity, it was good to be able to add some more higher-Starred