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

monsters to his repertoire.  The Sly Fern was an all-black plant that seemed somehow difficult to make out even in full light (at least, that was how it seemed in the glass slab), while the Giant Bush Spider literally looked like a giant bush.  Its legs were covered in green leaves, and the legs themselves were brownish-colored, making them look like the branches of a bush.  In the glass slab, it was positioned in a way so that it was scrunched up on itself, camouflaging it next to another bush that appeared almost identical; it was hard to tell exactly how large it was due to that, but Clay assumed it was quite large based on how much of it was folded in upon itself in the image.

And finally, that left his last 2 Eggs – the red and green ones.  Not knowing what to expect, he opened them both up to see what was inside.

Divine Cat Duchess ★★★★★★

Attack Type: Melee, Magical

Rarity: Common

Element: Light

 

Magma Cat Princess ★★★★★★★

Attack Type: Melee, Magical

Rarity: Common

Element: Fire

No, no, nooooooooo!  Why?!  The red Egg ended up being a 6-Star, while the green was a 7-Star…but they were both Cats!

“Hold on, are you sure you want to do that?”  The baby dragonling moved so that she was in his direct field of vision, interrupting his immediate response to seeing the Cat monsters by opening up his Sacrificial Altar.

Yes.  They’re cats.  The fact that he didn’t like them should’ve been obvious by then.

“But these could potentially be used to protect your Core, better than anything else you have access to.  Why get rid of these, when they could do you so much good?”  Her logic was sound – but his hatred of cats wasn’t logical.

Don’t care.  I’d rather be destroyed than use one of these darn Cats as a monster in my dungeon.  Even using that Demon I acquired earlier is preferable to having to deal with any pesky felines!  Again, it was illogical and probably foolish, but he only hesitated for no more than a second before sacrificing them to the Altar before Dwight could do any more to try to convince him.  At least he got 13 Crystal Chips in exchange for their sacrifice.  Strange; I also had 13 Cats in my Common 1-Stars, too.

“Clay,” the baby dragonling began slowly; Clay thought she was going to reprimand him for sacrificing his most powerful monsters, but she had something else in mind.  “I think something is affecting your monster probabilities.”

What?!  What are you talking about?

“I’ve been noticing that you’ve received more than your fair share of these Cats, especially the more powerful versions of them.  It wasn’t obvious at first – even when the majority of your first guaranteed 3-Stars were Cats – because it was all based on chance; the more Spawn Eggs that you’ve opened, however, the more I’m convinced that something is altering the type of monster you’re receiving.”

While he had been thinking that he had been getting an inordinate number of Cats, Clay hadn’t really thought anything of it.  It was all based on probabilities and chance, after all.  Right?

How is that even possible?

“I…don’t know, but it shouldn’t be possible.  Or it could be that I am unnecessarily correlating random chance with causation.”

Clay wasn’t exactly sure what she meant, but he got the idea: She might be just imagining things.  I will keep that in mind, but as much as I would like to blame my horrible luck on some external source, so far everything seems to be on the up-and-up.  It really had, too, because most of what he had obtained thus far had been within the statistics of the probabilities he had been given.  There were outliers, of course, but they could be explained by chance.

He began to change his mind with the very next Bundle Pack #1 he bought and opened.  A full 8 of them were Cats, including the guaranteed 3-Star, leaving him with a Common 1-Star Fern and Boar.  The next Pack after that was worse, with 9 Cats and a single 1-Star Serpent.  The next…all 10 were Cats.

I think you were correct, Dwight.  It’s almost as if actually acknowledging it has made it true. Thanks, he said, his mental voice dripping with sarcasm.

“You’re welcome.  I’m glad that I could bring this to your attention,” she responded to his tone neutrally.  Either she was being deliberately obtuse, or she didn’t understand sarcasm.  “What are you going to do about it?”

Do?  I don’t think there is anything I can do, honestly.  What I’m going to do now, though, is stop buying these Spawn Eggs and figure out how to use what I’ve already acquired.

“Well, you better act fast,” the baby dragonling warned.  “I think you might be running out of time.”

Clay could only concur with her.  He had been monitoring the view outside of his dungeon, preparing for when the Heroes came back.  Luckily, he had been given more time than he expected, but that time was soon to come to an end; there was a group heading out from the city nearby, which appeared to be an entire group of Heroes with Classes.  They seemed to have figured it all out, just like you said, Dwight.

“True, so I would hurry up.”

Clay didn’t have a lot of time, so he looked at what he had available as far as monsters went.[10]  He had a total of 134 monsters, most of which (117, to be precise) were Common 1-Stars; he had complete Elemental sets of Bats, Boars, and Rats in the 1-Star category – though the other types were fairly close.

While he also did have enough of nearly all of the Common 1-Stars to Evolve them into a higher Star, what he needed right now was quantity, not quality.  Therefore, he stocked his “easy” room with 20 –