《Interactive Dungeon》Unlocking the Paths and a New Threat
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The massive amount of information that had appeared before me hurt my concious because I wasn't prepared to take in the information.
I had some of the Grasper Weeds start to dig holes, inside these holes Larva Nymphs waited for prey to come near to attack them. The Frost Larvas were ordered to release their frost energy in bolts, they tried and tried yet none of them were able to accomplish it as of yet.
Likewise the Larva Nymphs were ordered to think alike, easier said than done, despite their tendency to rush forward to attack they did not cooperate at all, A few of them had similar movements but each and every one of them were unique in their movement patterns.
The Frost Larva also were put near corpses, they slowly froze them into ice sculptors, The Masked Larva was left alone, the information for the Cloaked Centipede was not disclosed to me.
I was glad that I upgraded my defenses by a large margin, a second swarm of Sardines came in and it wasn't as bad as last time thought I still lost some assets.
I had enough points to set up an enclosed mana geyser, I left some eggs in there as there was no plants inside of the enclosed area.
I was in trouble, Some time had past since I started to train my inhabitants of my dungeon but something unexpected happened. A ship crashed into my dungeon, crushed a good quarter of my plants, some of my larvas and a few of my eggs. were squished underneath the hull.
Even worse, something shiny came out of the side of the ship, thousands upon thousands of shiny yellow metals, crystals with a variety of goods ranging from big to small.
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The grasper weeds grab at them, the Larva Nymphs attacked them, but the land was covered in the landslide of precious materials.
I absorbed one of the metal objects and I got a notiication
You have absorbed a Gold Brachium of the Sidrea empire , Since the material is a precious metal you gain 50 DP, since it has been smelted and molded into a finer quality, you gain an extra 10 DP
I grew excited, all these coins and precious jewels could great expand my dungeon, but before I could go about absorbing them, something plunged into the water.
It was large, and had four limbs, a head. and what looked like a net.
It was a human, they swam down and started to grab some of the coins when they passed the border of my dungeon and I received a message
[You have been discovered, Humans will now know of your existence and will come to evaluate you before giving you a rank.
If you are deemed dangerous they will try to subjugate you. Since you have been found, you gain one week of DP increase rates (Amount of DP aquired normally x 1.5)
I was shocked to see this notification, I looked up to see the human panicked as well, swimming toward the surface quickly.
I have a bad feeling about this. What should I do?
Absorb the gold to add floors? Force an evolution or growth to my inhabitants? Build giant walls they can't get into? What should I do?
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