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The original was posted on /r/hfy by /u/MrIzuarel on 2024-10-28 15:29:34+00:00.
Chapter 95
I wished my plans would somehow work as intended, but they didn’t. I was thinking that the traps would affect the spiders, but I was proven wrong. It was at its best only temporary and minimal effect, and after a while, it became useless.
Well, it was not completely useless, but the effects were negligible. If anything, it caused unnecessary trouble for all of us, so that plan was scrapped.
I looked at the different areas of this continent and noticed that most of them were not affected by my actions. Most, but not all.
My initial area was now declared “monsters free,” including the two other countries next to it. The concentration of chaotic magic in the areas around it was now also dangerously low, but I was not ready to dispatch any forces to them to secure my claims to the land. I was certain I would end up regretting this, but I was simply not in the position to do so.
We focused on our task of increasing our numbers, and soon, my warriors were clearly far stronger than me. Not only that, but their numbers were also quite imposing.
Their strength was now above my basic numbers, which was the standard 50% of every swarm beast, plus the 60% that their enhancements put on top. With each of the 30 enhancements giving 2 warriors, I had now a small troupe of 60 warriors with 110% of my status points, excluding the 55% that resulted from the 50%-buff put on top of those numbers. I was now officially not the strongest of my family anymore.
I felt a bit depressed, but Yuna had found a strange way some time ago that always cheered me up. As much as I wanted to deny it, both of us shared a special bond that the others didn’t have with me. I tried to deny it or connect more with the others, but it was plainly visible that Yuna stood out, but no one seemed to mind it. There was no real jealousy in the relationships, which surprised me greatly.
As I laid down, Yuna simply laid on top of me and started purring. It wasn’t a real purr as her vocal cords could not reproduce the sound, but the attempt at doing the sound still gave me a sense of comfort and tranquility. And I simply petted her while enduring her weight on me.
She wasn’t particularly heavy, but she had already half the size of my initial form, so it wasn’t something I could ignore. But these moments of comfort were also very beneficial to my mind. During that downtime, I tried to understand what happened around me and its significance to the world and myself.
A good example was the divine crystals. What were those? Why was I able to use them and the monsters too, but not the humans of this world?
I had seen that I also had one in my chest and had carefully observed it multiple times, especially after each evolution. There had been no changes to mine as far as I could tell.
I had so many questions about it but no answers.
Another question lingered in my mind. Why had I been chosen? There were millions of people in the world, why choose a person who took his own life? Was it because of my game? My creations? What about that other hero I had killed some time ago, the one with the defective dungeon heart?
What was the end goal of all this? Was it to kill all the monsters and cleanse all the chaotic magic? The opposite, killing all humans, was as hardly possible as I had reversed the situation… No, wait! The opposite was possible even though it required quite a lot of effort to make it happen. But, did I need to do it?
Not really. As long as the humans of this world didn’t make a move against me, I had no reason to escalate things. I was in the position where I could help either side but had no incentive to do so.
While I was lying on my back and hugging Yuna and a few other summons, I was thinking about my own goals. What did I want to do?
Leave from here. Yes, I wanted to go and never again have to worry about these idiots here.
I opened the map window. I had no idea if there was anything like another continent out there. I had nothing that could be used as a boat for such a journey. I had no experience in the marines. I was objectively the worst person for such an endeavor, but I was determined to do so.
I observed the ocean. Except for the three black dots, there was nothing visible to me. There wasn’t even a colored dot in the water. This could become very difficult.
First thing first. I had to collect as many treasures as possible. No matter the dot, I had to collect them all, including the spiders’. Once that was done, I would find some way of leaving this place. Hopefully.
A quick thought about my way of survival later, and I was certain of my decision. I had a simple philosophy about solving problems.
There were always three ways to solve a problem: with you, without you, and against you.
While sometimes two of them had similar behavior, I understood clearly what the difference was. In the case of this world’s humanity, I was not inclined to insert myself actively in their battle.
Who knows, maybe I could successfully create a third faction. That was actually an interesting view about this world.
With a new goal in mind, I started hunting as many dungeon bosses as possible in order to finish my quest as fast as I could do it. This also meant that my girls had to help me out a bit by purposefully avoiding attacking the boss whenever it stepped on their killing floor. And it paid off for me.
My counter hit 282 bosses killed, and the quest finally revealed its treasures.
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Cages:
You can capture weakened monsters in a cage and put them in your inventory. The probability of success depends on the cage, your status points, the monsters status points, and the health of the monster.
Cages can be created in your blacksmithing job.
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Finally , I obtained the second secret. While this was a bit out of the normal for a game, the true extent of this skill was only known to me.
This skill wasn’t only limited to normal monsters but also worked on boss monsters. And I knew exactly how and why I should use it.