The Dungeon Gallery's Terrifying Newbie - Chapter 54

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◈ The Dungeon Gallery's Terrifying Newbie ◈

Chapter 54: Income

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LV. 90

Class - Dungeon Master

Dungeon Theme - Anomaly

Population - 10/50

Device count: - 7/50

Points - 150000

STR - 93

DEX - 93

CON - 93

MP - 93

UN - newbie

UC - dm_6_666666666

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newbie: newbie's almost level 100 now hehe

└ humanluvr: Newbieee!

└ humanluvr: Your level really shot up!!

└ newbie: Yeah hehe

└ antqueen: No, newbie...

└ antqueen: You're already in your second year as a Dungeon Master;; Get a grip;;

└ antqueen: Are you really at the point where you should be hitting level 90??????????????

└ dip: No, seriously, your level and Points are fucking ridiculous LOL

└ golemking: Back in my day, I carefully built up my defenses bit by bit because I was worried my traps and Minions would get dismantled

└ golemking: This bastard can just scratch his balls in the Core Room and Anomaly will handle the defense on its own, holy fuck

└ kingslayer: You guys are just jealous.

└ kingslayer: I'm feeling jealous in real time too, fuck LOLLLLLLL

└ kingslayer: Oblivion, you fucking bastard, nerf Anomaly already.

└ kingslayer: Oh, my lost years────!!

└ magichero: LOLLLLLLLLLLLLL...

└ magichero: I'm jealous...

└ no_minions_4_me: Everyone's starting to feel a sense of crisis now that newbie is about to hit triple digits, right??

└ no_minions_4_me: Looking at that growth rate, I seriously have no words LOLLLLLLL

I shouldn't complain about only going up ten levels.

It felt like there had been an unprecedented number of Waves this time.

Still, the rewards were a little stingy compared to what I expected.

Well, Max's case last time was probably unusual.

The Dwarves had been strong, but they weren't as valuable as Helpers.

Personally, it seemed like Dwarves ranked slightly above Branded Elves.

Then far above them, on a completely different level, were Helpers and Blessed Ones. Something like that.

└ skullbones: Your level-ups will gradually slow down, yeah.

└ skullbones: Once any skill, knowledge, or whatever else reaches a certain level, it takes effort that makes you cough up blood to improve it further.

└ skullbones: Levels are the same.

Wave difficulty was also measured relatively.

After facing multiple intruders, Dreamland's combat power seemed to have risen considerably in the System's eyes.

Would it be hard to level up as explosively as before from now on?

That was disappointing.

└ kongkong: Coughing up blood? Effort?

└ kongkong: Does that mean beating the shit out of intruders even harder LOL

└ kongkong: That cave really was terrifying to watch in the live updates.

Mm-hmm.

How should I put this?

I still considered the School to be Dreamland's ace.

A place like a school was bound to be unfamiliar to people in this world.

It also had plenty of instant-death mechanics, so if you got caught by one, you died.

But when it came to a first visit, nothing was more terrifying than Goblin Cave.

【Strange Goblin Cave Generator (★4)】

【Price: 150000P】

【Tags: Anomaly, Immortal, One-Time】

【When intruders are detected, it creates a cave and forest in the designated area. The size of this trap is proportional to the area's size.】

【Goblin Cave has its own time separate from real time. This can be distinguished by the color of the sky.】

【Strange Goblins are created inside the cave. Strange Goblins recognize anyone who smells different or behaves in ways Strange Goblins do not as an intruder.】

【The moment intruders are recognized, a large number of Goblins appear inside the cave. This continues until every intruder has disappeared from the cave.】

【Intruders who enter Goblin Cave begin to mutate into Strange Goblins from the moment they enter.】

【Eating rotten meat or drinking muddy water shortens the time required for complete mutation.】

【Intruders who completely mutate into Strange Goblins wander the cave until they are judged dead.】

【However, if an intruder escapes the cave during the mutation process, the mutation is immediately canceled and they return to normal.】

【*Work Hours】

【This refers to the time from sunrise until sunset.】

【During Work Hours, most Goblins work. Everyone who finishes their labor, including intruders, receives Coins.】

【*Free Time】

【This refers to the time when there is no sun.】

【During Free Time, large Goblins wander inside the cave. They track down those without Coins, physically punish them, and drive them out of the cave.】

【Goblins disappear if they leave the cave during Free Time.】

It made sense.

You became a Goblin.

It wasn't even some witch's curse.

Just imagining becoming a Goblin with its eyes, nose, and mouth in the wrong places was horrifying.

If you didn't even know whether you could return to normal, how many intruders could really hold themselves together and continue exploring?

And there was also the perfect partner to help along that Goblin Transformation.

Without any information, it was a dungeon worthy of the Nightmare difficulty.

【Merchant (★4)】

【Price: 50000P】

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

【This Minion operates in the designated area.】

【When an intruder enters its detection range, it steals all of the intruder's belongings.】

【This Minion sets prices for the stolen belongings.】

【The prices are determined by materials the intruder can obtain inside the dungeon.】

【If the intruder pays the price, it returns the items.】

【If the target leaves the designated area, it returns all stolen belongings to the intruder.】

【If an intruder looks at this Minion for a certain amount of time, they enter the 'Charm' state.】

【If there is no outside intervention while in the Charm state, the intruder purchases the Merchant's goods until they can no longer pay the price.】

The Dwarves and mercenaries had been unusual cases.

Normally, if you went even a day without drinking water, you'd feel like your brain was about to go insane.

The Merchant made all your food and water disappear, leaving you tempted by muddy water and rotten meat. In many ways, it was an area that demanded patience.

newbie: Even I think it's fucking awful LOL

└ kongkong: For real LOL

If it was your first time, there was no way your mental state wouldn't crumble.

You even had to get a kidney removed just to buy an Escape Scroll and leave.

If I were an intruder, I'd feel completely suffocated.

There probably wouldn't be any intruders for a while now.

Chase had ultimately chosen to erase all information about Goblin Cave.

└ humanluvr: Newbieee!

└ humanluvr: Does that mean you'll hang out on the Gallery with me all day now???

└ newbie: Hehe

└ humanluvr: Answer me.

└ newbie: Though I want intruders to stop coming,

└ newbie: if they really don't come, I can't earn Points or level up, so it's a weird dilemma.

└ humanluvr: Answer me.

└ newbie: Hehe

└ humanluvr: Answer me.

└ newbie: Fine... Let's hang out on the Gallery all day T_T

It wasn't like I had anything else to do anyway... Huh?

└ humanluvr: Newbieee!

└ humanluvr: Then just put up an Income Piece!

Love had mentioned a pretty interesting word.

Income...?

Could a word like income even exist in this world of Dungeon Masters?

└ newbie: What's income??

└ humanluvr: Huh?? Nobody ever told you??

└ newbie: Yeah... I've really never heard of it before.

└ humanluvr: If you put up an Income Piece, you get Points every month! It doesn't give you experience like Waves do, but you can pull in a ton of Points!

Was that really true?

└ newbie: Wait, I thought everyone only made money by beating up intruders;;

└ humanluvr: Then carwash would've already been killed by Elves LOLLLLL

└ humanluvr: Your dungeon has Immortal by default, but...

└ humanluvr: Pieces from other themes aren't like that.

└ humanluvr: Their traps get dismantled and their Minions get wiped out every Wave...

└ humanluvr: There are limits to what you can do with just Wave rewards...

That was incredible.

So Dungeon Masters could receive things like bank interest or dividends too?

Fuck, that was insanely good.

My dungeon already gets more Wave rewards than anyone else's.

Whether it was a newbie privilege or something else, couldn't I earn more income too?

It was time to show off my skills.

Who was I?

I didn't invest in stocks or crypto.

I faithfully saved money and never lost my principal.

I was a terrifying newbie, superior to a "king-awesome rock" with a 0% return.

All right, let's go.

I'd teach them what investing was.

newbie: Why the fuck doesn't Anomaly have Income Pieces... T_T

Until now, people had called it ridiculously overpowered, called me a madman, and demanded it be nerfed.

The Anomaly theme's one and only weakness, despite having earned every Dungeon Master's envy and boasting performance no one could rival, was that it had no way to make money besides Waves.

That was pretty sad.

skullbones: Oblivion patched Anomaly in real time because it's too overpowered, yeah.

└ dip: For real LOLLLLLLL Oblivion really listens to feedback.

└ op_ghost: Poor newbie, no income...

Ugh.

Those Sans bastards, I swear...

To be fair, when it came to Wave rewards, I did get vastly more experience and Points than most people.

Honestly, I had expanded my dungeon just fine without something like income until now.

Still.

No matter how much I was a Dungeon Master with an absurdly easy Anomaly-theme dungeon, it was sad that everyone else could earn Points just by breathing while I couldn't.

humanluvr: Newbieee! Even if our newbie can't earn Points, big sis will feed and house you T_T

└ newbie: I'm broooke...

└ humanluvr: I'm riiich...

└ newbie: Fuck T_T

└ antqueen: But humanluvr.

└ humanluvr: What.

└ antqueen: It kind of pisses me off how you only change the way you talk around newbie heh

└ humanluvr: Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you.

└ humanluvr: Cry about it.

Sigh.

What couldn't be helped couldn't be helped.

I should let go of pointless regrets.