The Dungeon Gallery's Terrifying Newbie - Chapter 42

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◈ The Dungeon Gallery's Terrifying Newbie ◈

Chapter 42: Dungeon Construction

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【Wave defense successful.】

【Rewards will be calculated based on the difficulty.】

【Calculations complete.】

【This Wave's difficulty has been set to Madness.】

【Your level has increased.】

【Points have been awarded.】

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LV. 80

Class - Dungeon Master

Dungeon Theme - Anomaly

Population - 7/50

Device count: - 5/50

Points - 650000

STR - 83

DEX - 83

CON - 83

MP - 83

UN - newbie

UC - dm_6_666666666

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newbie: I can buy ★4 traps and Minions now... You're all dead, yeah.

└worldiscold: I'm going to kill myself. (Expected replies: Season 513251 of "I'm going to kill myself," now fuck off. This person says they'll die to elves.)

└cowhead: Seriously, seeing how fast your level's rising, you'll be overtaking worldiscold before long LOL.

└worldiscold: I'm getting a fucking record amount of EXP and Points this time too...

└worldiscold: Fuck, seeing that makes me feel the wall between us... newbie, just step on me and climb higher.

└no_minions_4_me: Helpers really do give a ton of rewards... Wasn't Julius's Wave Madness too?? You got more levels and Points than you did then??

└newbie: For real, I was fucking shocked when I saw it...

└no_minions_4_me: Maybe it's because Max was someone a Blessed One raised so carefully...

└no_minions_4_me: Max was one of Sinclair's party's main strengths, after all.

└no_minions_4_me: Ah, but I honestly didn't think you'd reach level 80 this fast.

└no_minions_4_me: Dungeon Gallery is making me feel relatively deprived...

└newbie: Sorry T_T

└no_minions_4_me: No, I'm not really complaining. Leveling up is a good thing, LOL.

└humanluvr: Why are you making our newbie feel bad?? Is there something wrong with your personality??

└humanluvr: Our newbie has to grow up big and strong, reach level 32153512, and live with me forever.

└newbie: Hehe.

└humanluvr: Answer me.

└newbie: Hehe.

└humanluvr: -_-

└antqueen: Everyone who came to newbie's dungeon is already dead, so who's supposed to be dead now???

└tvhead: Restia and the slave are alive, though. Feels like foreshadowing.

└antqueen: Ah, LOL.

└magichero: N-n-newbie, could you show us the newly unlocked Pieces...? I'm really curious...

└orange★: Even after buying traps, you'll have Points left over. Even after buying Minions, you'll have Points left over.

└orange★: What are you going to spend all those Points on?

└newbie: That's what I'm wondering too, yeah.

└cowhead: newbie.

└newbie: Yeah, man.

└cowhead: When's the next live update?

└newbie: I'll upload one when intruders come in, man. Hehe...

└cowhead: I have a request for the next live update... Could we maybe see the Weeping Person Statue in action?

└newbie: If I get the chance, I'll give it a try.

This was so sweet that I felt like my teeth would rot.

The intruders' blood and flesh had become nourishment for the dungeon.

Dreamland had grown even more terrifying because of it.

"I'm excited."

This Wave had been a success.

There hadn't been any real information leaks.

I'd gained an absurd amount of EXP and Points.

I'd have to wait and see, but the Elevator Dungeon Walkthrough had vanished along with Max.

For now, it was fucking great.

It was all thanks to the School and the Anomaly Minions.

I should thank Area 2, which had worked harder than anyone this time.

"You worked hard too, Malrang!"

"Urgh."

Of course, the School and the Minions were asleep right now.

I couldn't tell them how I felt.

Anyway.

Did I really need to reinforce Area 2 any further?

【Faceless Teacher (★3.5)】

【Price: ???】

【Tags: Anomaly, Immortal, Activation, Cannot Be Developed, Cannot Evolve, Teacher】

【This Minion was evolved by the School.】

【▼ Class Time】

【This Minion recognizes intruders as students and conducts class. If an intruder behaves insincerely or fails to answer the Minion's questions properly, it gives a warning and breaks one of the intruder's body parts. Once four warnings have accumulated, it breaks the intruder's neck.】

【However, if a student asks a question in return or brings up another topic, it answers sincerely.】

【▼ Break Time & Lunch Time】

【It does not harm intruders.】

【Faceless Student Council President (★3.5)】

【Price: ???】

【Tags: Anomaly, Immortal, Activation, Cannot Be Developed, Cannot Evolve, Student】

【This Minion was evolved by the School.】

【This Minion cannot enter classrooms.】

【It confiscates the belongings of intruders who enter the School. It then stores those belongings in the Faculty Office. If an intruder refuses its demands, it breaks the intruder's neck. If an intruder does not respond to its demands, it breaks one of the intruder's body parts.】

【▼ Before School】

【It does not harm intruders.】

【▼ Break Time & Lunch Time】

【If it finds an intruder wearing confiscated belongings, it gives chase. If the intruder's stats are higher than the average (5), they are adjusted to the average. If it catches the intruder, it breaks the intruder's neck.】

【▼ After School】

【It does not harm intruders.】

【Faceless Student Council Member (★3.5)】

【Price: ???】

【Tags: Anomaly, Immortal, Activation, Cannot Be Developed, Cannot Evolve, Student】

【This Minion was evolved by the School.】

【This Minion cannot enter classrooms.】

【▼ Before School】

【It does not harm intruders.】

【▼ Break Time & Lunch Time】

【▼ After School】

【It does not harm intruders.】

【Faceless Caretaker (★3.5)】

【Price: ???】

【Tags: Anomaly, Immortal, Activation, Cannot Be Developed, Cannot Evolve, Student】

【This Minion was evolved by the School.】

【▼ After School】

【This Minion is active from 6 PM to 8 PM. While this Minion is active, the School's lights are temporarily removed. If an intruder moves while this Minion is nearby, it fractures one of the intruder's body parts. If an intruder creates light, it removes the target's eyes regardless of distance.】

【Ordinary Girl (★3.5)】

【Price: ???】

【Tags: Anomaly, Immortal, Activation, Cannot Be Developed, Cannot Evolve, Student】

【This Minion was evolved by the School.】

【All Passages leading to the exit are blocked until an intruder accompanies this Minion.】

【Meeting the girl increases the chance of encountering other Minions.】

【If an intruder is accompanying the girl, she disappears when class begins, but appears again during break time or After School.】

【▼ Before School】

【She wanders the hallways between the first and eightieth floors.】

【▼ Break Time & Lunch Time】

【She wanders the hallways between the first and eightieth floors.】

【▼ After School】

【She hides in the final classroom on the eightieth floor.】

Man, that was a reassuring lineup just to look at.

The maze had to wear intruders down for at least half a month, so its Waves dragged on for a long time. The School, on the other hand, kept tormenting intruders nonstop, like that guy from some manga who says he'll finish everything in five minutes.

In many ways, this was Dreamland's current finishing move.

Honestly, I wondered if it even needed more reinforcement.

There were only so many Minions the School could evolve in the first place.

There was the Game Master and the Weeping Person Statue, but they were more or less the same.

Besides, six Minions was the limit that could be deployed in the School.

The only real drawback was that the location of the Faculty Office was random.

If it had been on the eightieth floor, they wouldn't have even gotten a look at the Escape Scroll.

Of course, Jack had burned it in spectacular fashion, so it didn't matter much.

Still, calling that a drawback was questionable.

An Escape Scroll could be considered a successful defense too.

So even if I reinforced Area 2 from here on out...

I could add one Minion or expand the space, but neither option felt quite right.

Dreamland was a dungeon that needed to be wary of repeat Waves in many ways.

Information was everything.

If that information got out, the Minions and traps would rapidly become useless.

There was nothing I could do about that.

That was simply how the Anomaly worked.

So Area 2 wasn't what I needed to reinforce.

It was the structure of this dungeon itself.

There was a way.

Now that I had reached level 80, Dreamland would evolve into an even more difficult and complex dungeon.

【Memory-Eating Cat (★4)】

【Price: 150000P】

【Tags: Anomaly, Immortal, Closure, Cannot Be Developed】

【…….】

【Ink-Controlling Rat (★4)】

【Price: 150000P】

【Tags: Anomaly, Immortal, Closure, Cannot Be Developed】

【…….】

If I bought these Minions, I could take on even Blessed Ones now.

At least, that was what I thought.

Still.

Just in case, I should ask the gallery.

newbie: Guys, what do you think of these Minions??

└golemking: Fucking top tier. Buy them right away.

└dip: No, LOL, things like that exist??

└golemking: This dungeon keeps getting harder and harder, it's becoming hell LOL. Isn't newbie's dungeon going to become a dungeon Blessed Ones avoid, like humanluvr's??

└worldiscold: newbie.

└newbie: Yeah, man.

└worldiscold: If it ever gets proven that Minions and traps can be given to other people, could you please put one in my dungeon too? I'm seriously begging you. I'll even do a full naked dogeza...

└newbie: You don't need to do a naked dogeza... If I get the chance later, I'll do it, yeah.

└worldiscold: Thank you...

The response wasn't bad either.

Good.

I bought the Memory-Eating Cat first.

When I pressed the button, a message popped up telling me to choose an area to deploy it in, just like the other Minions.

I chose the Core Room.

"Oh."

I had expected it to be cute because it was a cat.

Instead, it was a grotesque cat statue.

Was this what people called the uncanny valley?

It looked like someone had mixed a human and a cat together in equal parts.