The Dungeon Fairy: Three Lives: A Dungeon Core Escapade (The Hapless Dungeon Fairy Book 3) Jonathan Brooks (read me like a book .txt) 📖

Considering her options, she realized that there wasn’t much she could do at that point.  Traps were basically out of the question, because they took entirely too long to appear, unless they were extremely weak – and weak ones would be a waste of time and Dungeon Force.  Not to mention that she couldn’t create any traps in the arena while any Raiders were inside, and that threw the potential for them right out the window.

Creatures were basically out as well, even if she had approximately 50 of her Control Limit left after the creatures that had just been fighting the Raiders had been killed; creating another relatively powerful creature would take too long – hours perhaps – so she left the Foxes, Coyotes, Jackals, and Wolves that were killed to recreate themselves automatically, as they would be inexpensive and fast-forming.

Looking at her options as a Dungeon Core, there really wasn’t much there to combat these invaders.  Aside from placing traps, creatures, and environmental objects, the only things she could do was Carve Earth, Dissolve Assistant Bond, and Teleport.  The first two wouldn’t do her much good, and as there wasn’t any safer place than her Core Room at the moment, Teleport was next to useless as well – though it could bring her to the arena if she dared to.  There was only reason that she might be tempted to Teleport to the arena, however: her Fairy abilities.

Almost all of her options as a Dungeon Assistant were location specific, such as the Healing Aura, Electrified Pacification, and Flame Wall.  She needed to be in the same room at least, if not closer, for them to work.  The one exception to this was the Mass Confusion ability for 700 Fairy Mana per minute, but she was hesitant to use that even though it affected her entire dungeon.  For one, she wasn’t sure if it would even affect the invaders through their Personal Force Fields; second, it would affect everything inside of the dungeon, including all of the Raiders and her creatures, which could end up with Raiders attacking Raiders, creatures attacking creatures, and creatures attacking Raiders.  Not a great idea overall, unless she had nothing else to lose, of course.

There were other abilities that didn’t require her to be in the same room, of course, like Repellant Shield, Invisibility, Assistant Information Meld, and Hibernate, but she didn’t think they would be of much use at the moment, since it seemed as though the invaders had been able to find her no matter what.  There was always Translocation, which cost 1,000 of her FM, but that was something that she would only attempt as a last resort.  While it might save her by moving her somewhere else, somewhere safe, she would abandon everyone inside of her dungeon – including the other Cores.  Not to mention that she wasn’t sure if it would even work, based on the fact that she was connected to those same Cores, and whether it would destroy her in the process if she tried to leave.

So, she was at a loss of what to do.  She would be able to contribute to the defense if she was inside of the arena, as long as she stayed safely far above everyone else and hoped that the invaders weren’t accurate enough to hit her up there – which she thought was possible, but it would be dangerous.  The problem was that if she Teleported inside the room, that was it; she wouldn’t be able to Teleport out as long as there was any type of Raider in close proximity, meaning inside of the room, itself.

“Wait, what was that other ability you gained?  What about that?” Shale asked, listening in to her internal conversation.  Since he was specifically Bonded to her Core, he had access to those kinds of things if she didn’t actively work to block them; right now, that wasn’t really a priority.

You mean Omen Charge?  I still have no idea what it does.

“Well, why don’t you find out?  You said that you’re still regenerating your Mana, so it shouldn’t be that much of a waste.”

Might as well, I guess.  The invaders were still a minute or two out from arriving at the arena, so she had a bare moment to experiment.

Thinking about activating Omen Charge, she imagined pumping 10 Fairy Mana into it.  Instantly, the outside of her Core seemed to be surrounded by some kind of lightning, crackling and undulating in strange patterns; luckily, it didn’t seem to harm her in the slightest.  If anything, it felt warming and like it was a part of her that she hadn’t realized existed before.

For 5 seconds, the lightning continued to surround her Core, before it condensed momentarily and exploded outwards in a spherical wave, dissipating approximately halfway to the walls of her Core Room, which meant that it traveled approximately 10 feet.  Not bad for 10 Fairy Mana, even if she had no idea what exactly it did.  Even pumping all 1,550 FM into it, though, she doubted that it would even reach the arena, as it was approximately a half-mile from her Core Room.  She had originally started creating it that far away so that she would have plenty of room to expand her new section, but now she regretted starting it so far away.

Tacca still hadn’t really made up her mind by the time the invaders arrived at the arena.  As she had feared, it was immediately apparent that it was going to be a slaughter.  Dozens of Raiders died within the first minute, with more dying as additional invaders managed to jump on top of the stands or make their way down to the arena floor.  Releasing her creatures to attack the monstrous six-armed people helped to stem the tide a little, giving them some breathing