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◈ The Dungeon Gallery's Terrifying Newbie ◈
Chapter 61: Dungeon Master Alliance
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When I entered the dungeon, secha welcomed me.
He had turned into a pretty little girl(?) with Polymorph.
Sigh.
Honestly, Oblivion pissed me off every time I saw secha.
Anger welled up inside me, but it wasn't secha's fault, so I held it in.
"newbie. You saved my life. You really went through a lot. I don't even know how I can repay you for this."
"You had it the hardest, hyung. All I did was summon some Minions."
"Why are you being modest with me... This is when you get to brag a little."
"Anomaly carry."
"I'll admit it!"
secha laughed.
I was really glad he was safe.
It sounded a little cheesy, but protecting that smile alone made this trip worthwhile.
And before anyone gets the wrong idea, let me say this in advance.
I didn't feel any romantic attraction toward him. I was just glad my friend was safe, so don't misunderstand.
"Still, didn't you take a lot of damage?"
"I can't say there wasn't any, but the Minions who survived ranked up a lot, so it worked out in my favor. There are quite a few injured, but barely any dead. We also got a decent amount of experience and Points, and Income will be coming in soon. If I just get everything back in order, I think it'll be much better than before."
Anomaly Minions had ‘Cannot Be Developed’, but other Minions didn't.
It didn't seem like things were in such terrible shape.
I was planning to leave the neck-snapping yandere in Dino World.
Wouldn't everything be fine going forward, then?
secha, who was usually full of gloom, was talking so brightly.
The problem was that nobody had confirmed whether Anomaly Minions could harm secha and the dinosaurs.
It seemed necessary to isolate them for now.
They'd become active once my Wave began.
Whether they could tell friend from foe was extremely important.
"So I'm thinking of making a separate Anomaly Area. What if I make one between Area 9 and Area 10 and set it up as a final line of defense? It would also be the best way to keep their 'rules' from being discovered."
That sounded reasonable to me.
Now that I thought about it, the neck-snapping yandere was a shared Anomaly across dungeons.
Which meant that if its rules were figured out in Dino World, its effectiveness would drop greatly in other dungeons, including Dreamland.
The Ink Rat and Kitty weren't here, either.
Using it like a trump card would be better for both secha and me.
Anomalies were especially effective when the enemy was already at their limit, anyway.
"Good idea. You're seriously the best, hyung. There's a reason you've survived this long."
"Hehe..."
After I gave him a few head pats, secha gave me a Drake Heart as a gift.
A Drake's heart crystallized into an item when the Drake died.
Apparently, you could obtain one when a Minion above a certain grade died.
It looked like a heart-shaped gemstone.
Its effect was an increase to all Stats when consumed.
It could also block one fatal injury.
It was extremely useful.
It meant I had an extra life.
Anomalies were invincible, but I wasn't.
"Sorry. I wanted to give you something better, but I didn't have anything suitable..."
"I didn't do it expecting a reward. Thank you. I'll gladly take it."
I put away the Drake Heart.
I'd have to crunch it up in my dungeon later.
"Bleh."
Malrang, don't stare at me like that.
You've got infinite lives.
Give this one to me.
"Are you leaving now?"
"I should. Even if an Anomaly dungeon is absurdly easy, I can't leave it unattended for too long."
It was kind of like that.
Nothing had ever happened when I lived alone, but I often imagined things like someone breaking in, getting robbed, suddenly having a heart attack, or suffering a stroke.
Maybe that was why.
Personally, I felt there was a huge difference between having someone nearby and having no one there.
It was the same with a dungeon.
Maybe I was just the type to worry about pointless things.
All I did during Waves was stir shit up and let things run on auto, but I still felt much more at ease when I was there myself.
secha looked at me regretfully.
"Hyung."
"Yeah?"
"Can I really just pat your head once??"
I'm not actually gay.
But I'm a guy who's weak to cats and dogs, so I couldn't help it...
"What do you even think of your senior? Absolutely not."
"Too bad..."
"...Do you really want to do that so badly?"
"You're making it weird now. It's fine."
Anyway.
Before I left, secha kept his promise.
He transformed into a dinosaur and did a forward roll.
Wow.
A Tyrannosaurus rolling forward.
That was rarer than a Drake Heart.
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I mounted Malrang and headed back to Dreamland.
worldiscold: newbie, thank you so much. You're the best...
└ golemking: So what does this person look like?? Are they a dragon, like we guessed??
└ golemking: newbie, please tell me what you saw too...
└ dip: I'm fucking serious, is secha a woman?
└ dip: Fuck, I'm so, so curious!!
└ newbie: You can see for yourselves if you get the chance later;;
└ humanluvr: Jealous jealous jealous jealous, I'm jealous
└ humanluvr: newbie, please come to my dungeon too...
└ humanluvr: I think I'm going to die because I miss newbie so much
└ humanluvr: Areyougoingtoletmedieoflonelinessatmyage??
└ newbie: You're way too far away right now...
magichero: Newnewnewnewbie...
└ newbie: Yep?
└ magichero: So did you retrieve your Minions?
└ newbie: Nope, I left them there as a gift
└ magichero: Hmm...
└ magichero: This is very interesting...
I had nothing to do besides browse the Gallery, so I busily moved my fingers.
Time melted away sweetly.
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Sigh, fuck.
I was finally back.
I missed you.
My gloomy, bizarre Dreamland.
I really was a homebody.
It was a strange corridor filled with white, but the moment I saw it, my fatigue melted away.
I took the Elevator to the Core Room.
"..."
"Hello."
I exchanged a quick greeting with an Insect Human on the way.
Then I sat down in front of the monitor and scrubbed the Drake Heart clean.
It looked ridiculously hard.
My teeth weren't going to break when I ate it, right?
Thankfully, it wasn't that hard.
It felt like eating an enormous piece of candy.
I bit into it and let the pieces in my mouth dissolve.
Sweet.
All my Stats increased by 7.
And the Trait 【Fatal Injury Negation (One-Time)】 was added.
I stretched.
There were no intruders coming in, so I had nothing else to do.
Time to browse the Gallery again.
orange★: newbie. I have something to ask.
Huh?
What was this about all of a sudden?
└ newbie: Yes, hyung
└ orange★: You said you got a Drake Heart from secha, right? Do you still have it?
└ newbie: Yep, I'm eating it right now. Why?
└ orange★: I've been discussing this with magichero.
└ orange★: If circumstances allow later, could you also serve as a 'delivery person'?
A delivery person?
Why a delivery person all of a sudden?
└ orange★: The fact that you took a Drake Heart outside proves that items from other dungeons can be distributed outside.
└ orange★: Minions and traps bought with Points, like your Anomalies, can't leave the dungeon. But items personally made by Dungeon Masters through their Traits, such as Drake Hearts or dip's 'Resurrection Stone,' can.
└ orange★: If we use you as the go-between... I was thinking we might be able to offer at least a little support to relatively weaker dungeons, like secha's, op_ghost's, sealedphilo's, and sealedconq's.
Ah.
Come to think of it, that was true.
└ newbie: If I deliver things like that, it'll help the other hyungs with their Waves.
└ newbie: The difficulty of the other dungeons will go up overall, right?
└ orange★: Yep
└ orange★: Information is your Anomalies' weakness.
└ orange★: Most can only be installed one at a time, and they take up slots too.
└ orange★: If you use Anomalies every time you go help someone,
└ orange★: It'll put you at a disadvantage.
└ orange★: So I thought this might lessen the burden a little.
└ newbie: I can't exactly call it a disadvantage.
└ newbie: If I install my Anomalies?
└ newbie: I get a share of the other dungeons' Wave rewards too.
└ newbie: I think I can get it even if Activation doesn't trigger.
└ newbie: I need to confirm it first, though.
└ newbie: If I end up serving as a delivery person later, can I try installing them one at a time?
└ newbie: Like a little Income for your dungeons, hyungs haha...
└ newbie: Once I reach level 100, I get ten more Minion and trap slots each anyway.
└ newbie: There are plenty of Anomalies I don't use in Dreamland too.
This was seriously amazing.
It meant everyone could help each other through me.
└ humanluvr: I seriously welcome this so, so much!!!
└ humanluvr: You can install 100 of them, so please come to Wallachia T_T
└ sealedphilo: Please donate Anomalies...
└ sealedconq: For real, please donate some...
└ kingslayer: What are you guys, freeloading beggars?? Please donate to me too...
Until now, the Veterans had only used the Gallery to communicate.
They couldn't leave their dungeons at all.
But then I appeared.
And I was the only one who could leave a dungeon.
The Dungeon Master Alliance had existed only in the Gallery users' imaginations until now, but I could make it a reality.
Of course, the world was vast.
There were clear spatial and physical limits.
It couldn't become a system where they exchanged necessary items in real time.
Even so.
Could there be more hopeful news for Dungeon Masters than this?
└ whaleyeah: newbie, what the hell are you?
└ whaleyeah: Seriously, so much has changed since you appeared
└ psychward_mvp: The technical term for this is a game changer.
└ worldiscold: Forget game changer, newbie is just a 'god' LOL
└ tvhead: How many people's worth of work are you doing by yourself, fuck LOL
└ op_ghost: Mom, when I grow up, I want to become newbie!!
└ nightraven: This could change how Waves play out from now on...
└ cowhead: I'm really glad newbie is in the Dungeon Gallery.
└ antqueen: Sigh yep
└ antqueen: I can finally give my babies away to Dungeon Gallery users hehe
└ no_minions_4_me: Your babies still can't leave the dungeon LOL
└ antqueen: Can't I remove their Minion designation, then have newbie designate them as Minions again and take them outside!!!#@!#$#@!@!#$?????
└ no_minions_4_me: Would that even work? Don't you know you can't remove the Minion designation from Minions of your own theme?
└ antqueen: No T_T
└ antqueen: Then there's no point...
└ antqueen: Then I'll at least give you eggs I've laid...
└ no_minions_4_me: Oh, I fucking hate that LOLLLLL
└ magichero: I-if we can improve the chronic transportation issue, we'll have many more options available to us...
└ magichero: Of course, the burden newbie carries will also become much greater...
└ magichero: A-anyway, that's how it is...
└ orange★: Of course, I'm not asking you to do that right away.
└ orange★: You're the priority, and there are still clear limits.
└ orange★: magichero and I will keep discussing this.
└ orange★: Focus on your dungeon first.
└ orange★: And.
└ orange★: I'm really glad you're newbie, and that you're our companion.
└ orange★: Thank you so much for saving secha.
└ newbie: Ah...
└ newbie: (/////)
That was kind of embarrassing.
I scratched my head.
The Gallery felt more active than usual today.
Hope had a way of making people excited.
So surely, a new wind was blowing now.
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