Chapter 140: The Price For Being Overpower
The night in the dungeon.
Even though I didn't know how the day and night actually worked here, but from Chali's note, it seems the day and night in the dungeon was running in parallel with the outside world.
In short, if the outside world is still bright, likewise with the day inside the Dungeon.
But still, even though it's already a few days since I exploring the Dungeon, I still can't be accustomed to the night here.
Even though there are a moon and everything in the night sky here, the same as the outside world, but the feel is very different.
I just feel like… the sky here feels so artificial, and it's somewhat made me slightly uncomfortable.
Somewhat it's made me think that the thing inside this dungeon isn't real, and just an illusion that my sense failed to perceive.
The feeling of anxiety about the thought of all my life here is just a dream, made my heart unsettled.
At least this is what I feel right now.
Under the artificial night sky, I did a daily meditation, as usual, to replace the need for sleeping for my body and mind.
In front of the campfire, Anna and Anni using my lap as a pillow to rest their body to sleep.
Even though we're already setting a camp to spend the night here, but as expected, spend the night flocking together like these was more comfortable for them, thus I succumbed to them and give my lap as a pillow for them to sleep.
I opened my eyes and woke up from my meditation.
Since my heart still has this anxiety, I can't focus on my meditation for too long these days and could only slightly rest my mind.
Observing the twin that still sleeping peacefully in my lap respectively is more peaceful than doing the failed meditation.
And so what my mind told me.
Using my hand, I caressing their slightly disheveled brown hair, arranging the slightly untidy hair neatly.
Seeing their sleeping beautiful face and gently caressing them like this, the unsettled feeling inside my heart slightly eased a little.
While I'm doing this, I recalled the experience I have during the Dungeon exploration in these few days.
…
..
…
As we continued exploring the dungeon, I met with a lot of kind harvestable stuff in the Dungeon.
Started from magic plants, into magic ores.
As long as you can find the thing like a ruin, that usually inhabited by a large group of monster, you could find these magic plants and ores there.
If your luck was good, there's a probability that you also could find a treasure chest.
Treasure chest and the magic plants aside, the one that interested me the most is the Dungeon ores.
By just the sound of it, maybe you guys think it's a special ore or something.
But it's actually not that amazing or something.
The thing that got me hooked was the quality of the ores as well as the thing about magic power conductivity in it.
================================================
{Dungeon Iron Ore}
Magic Ore.
-Handling magic power better, very good to be used creating magic tool.
Quality : Extremely good
================================================
Speak of the devil, at the time when I just arrived here, I thought about finding a raw material like this to make my Magic Car engine more durable.
The ore in this dungeon seems to be a very good choice to replace the raw material to recreate the engine in my magic car and all other technology regarding the use of magical energy in my city.
Since it's just iron on the lower floor, I expected to find more precious Dungeon ores on the upper floor of this dungeon.
By the way, other than mining it at some stone that could be found randomly in the dungeon, I could also get these ores from the monster drop here.
The chance is very small though…
So, in the end, it's about luck if you could get the ores(mined one) from the monster drop or not.
Let's drop the talking about the ores and get back to my experience here.
Slaughtering monsters, collecting loots as well as mining and gathering some herbs, these what I and the Twin mainly did during the exploration these days.
As my strength already too overwhelming for hunting the monster on the lower floor, I could only use pebbles, throwing them to the monster to get my share of Exp in the hunt.
And the Exp these small fries provide was very minuscule to the Exp that I need to level up.
Ma.. maybe it's better for me who was still has not that high level of job since I got 7 levels after spending a few days on this lower floor.
But Anna and Anni who had quite considerably advanced jobs could only get 2 levels.
And this was with the help of my buff that could boost their Exp gain.
I wonder, if they didn't have my buff, how long that it will take to just leveling once…
Leaving that aside, hunting a low-level monster was more tiring than we thought.
Unlike a strong monster that we can fight with full power without holding back, the monster here is extremely weak.
Weak enough to force us held our power to the limit to not kill them with one hit, since we need to get the Exp together.
Maybe this is a price for being Overpower.
Hunting Exp from weakling becomes more troublesome and tiring.
The excitement of exploring the dangerous dungeon I yearned at the beginning when I just about to enter the dungeon, is nowhere to be seen right now.
Forget about excitement, during these days I already numb enough throwing pebbles to the monster group like an idiot.
This boring way of fighting really dampened my heart a lot, making me remembered the torturous grinding I did when I was still playing MMORPG game in my previous world.
That's why I quit playing that stuff and moving on to MOBA game later, at that time.
The MMORPG those days, basically was all about grinding and pay to win.
But!
Never in my wildest dream that my Dungeon exploration experience this time reminded me of that nightmare once again!
Sigh…..
…
..
.
As I finished recalling the boring and monotonous Dungeon Exploration experience in these past few days, I continue absentmindedly staring at the bonfire in front of me while caressing the sleeping Anna and Anni's hair gently in my lap.
'Thinking about it further, my dungeon exploration is not that bad'
Suddenly having this thought, I turned my head toward the two beautiful women sleeping face.
Yeah.
Actually, my experience isn't as bad as I recalled it.
With the Twin, we spend our time together, getting closer and knowing each other better.
These days, the usually cold Anni, slowly, little by little started opening her heart more to me.
She started to confide in her harsh experience while working in the shadow as the crown prince pawn.
How the blood and slaughters started numbing her expression and heart, teaching her how worthless life is in front of these cruel and heartless people who greed upon power and authority.
The blood that stained her hands gradually affected her, turning her into a killing machine.
At that time she always remembering the existence of her twin sister that was still alive, to make her remained sane.
Maybe, if there's no family member that still alive in this world, she already broken a long time ago, became a cold killing machine that reaped people's lives with no remorse.
Luckily, the recent time mission failed miserably and turning into an opportunity for her to escape that red world full of slaughter.
The existence of an unknown variable, that was me, destroying all the calculation and 1-year plan of the crown prince to rob the border area of Gharam kingdom territory.
And the news about her twin sister, Anna, also ignited some hope in her to escape from the living hell situation she has been living in.
Ma… since Anna always busy with hunting monster in the Arkham mountain, the plan about finding her whereabouts become slightly harder though…
Anyway, since all ended up in a good direction, it's all well, isn't it?
About Anna's story, there's not much to be told to me during these days, but there's some connecting truth that linked her with her family destruction.
She was just a talented noble daughter who was rebelled and running away to become a normal person, starting her life as an adventurer.
She told me her father forced her into marriage engagement with some noble son in the empire when she's just 8 years old.
And that was her starting point to train harder and sharpen her skill to survive on the outside world when she's just at her younger age.
By the look of it, she's a strong-willed, and kindhearted woman.
The type that has a strong motherly instinct.
Talking about her escape, I heard from her that it was actually her mother who helped her escaped the marriage.
And it's also her mother's decision that made her family wiped out.
Since her supposed fiancé was someone from the crown prince faction, to avoid being pushed around, her family decided to join the opposite faction of the crown prince in the end after being pressured into the edge.
It seems to gain favor from the member of his own faction, the crown prince helped her fiancé family to destroy her family.
And so, that was what Anna and Anni told me after making a connection between the complicated typical noble story that happened upon their now in the bridge of complete destruction family in the past.
What a messed up.
As expected of noble society, it's really a dark place that full of struggle and deceit, like most of the stories I've read in my previous world.
Anyway, even though Anni is supposed to hate Anna for causing their family into this terrible state, which only left both of them remaining alive, it seems it's not the case at all.
Anni knew, if the hateful crown prince isn't greedy for power, he should not backing up Anna's fiancé's noble house to push her family around and made them have no choice but to enter the opposite faction, rather than being neutral as they usually did.
And, in the first place, the thing about destroying their family and take all their property was also suggested by the crown prince.
That's why the tough of hating Anna for causing their family destruction never crossed her mind.
Sigh…
Maybe this is also the reason Anna being very adamant to work under me together with her sister, even though she should've strong-willed woman and hardly bow their head to someone...
'let's deal with that bastard crown prince later… I also have to take the payment from him for messing around with my lovely Al anyway'
I continue caressing the twin head in my lap while finishing all of the thoughts about the Twin story.
Chirp chirp!
[Master! I already found the Safe Zone thing that master asked me about! Hehehe~ praise me! Praise me! Giggle*]
All of a sudden, a small red cute bird suddenly flew on top of me out of nowhere and cried.
It was my contracted fire spirit, Ra who already transformed herself into a small bird that she ate in this dungeon.
Yes, right now, I already climbed up to the 20th floor.
Hmm? You guys asked me to explain about the climbing using the dungeon crystal stuff?
There's nothing to explain.
At some point, you just need to explore and slaughter the monster along the way while going further to the deepest part of the dungeon floor.
In there you'll found the same dungeon crystal the same as the one in the Dungeon entrance.
[Ughmm…. Alex]
[Ughmm…]
With the light movement on my lap, Anna and Anni opened their eyes slowly and murmuring in low voices.
'Sigh… it seems Ra voice wake them up.. Come to think of it, it seems it's not long before the day starts to brighten up, maybe waking them up and prepared early isn't that bad'
With this thought, I smiled gently at the still sleepy Anna and Anni who gradually started lifting up and stretching up their body to wake.
Even though I didn't know how the day and night actually worked here, but from Chali's note, it seems the day and night in the dungeon was running in parallel with the outside world.
In short, if the outside world is still bright, likewise with the day inside the Dungeon.
But still, even though it's already a few days since I exploring the Dungeon, I still can't be accustomed to the night here.
Even though there are a moon and everything in the night sky here, the same as the outside world, but the feel is very different.
I just feel like… the sky here feels so artificial, and it's somewhat made me slightly uncomfortable.
Somewhat it's made me think that the thing inside this dungeon isn't real, and just an illusion that my sense failed to perceive.
The feeling of anxiety about the thought of all my life here is just a dream, made my heart unsettled.
At least this is what I feel right now.
Under the artificial night sky, I did a daily meditation, as usual, to replace the need for sleeping for my body and mind.
In front of the campfire, Anna and Anni using my lap as a pillow to rest their body to sleep.
Even though we're already setting a camp to spend the night here, but as expected, spend the night flocking together like these was more comfortable for them, thus I succumbed to them and give my lap as a pillow for them to sleep.
I opened my eyes and woke up from my meditation.
Since my heart still has this anxiety, I can't focus on my meditation for too long these days and could only slightly rest my mind.
Observing the twin that still sleeping peacefully in my lap respectively is more peaceful than doing the failed meditation.
And so what my mind told me.
Using my hand, I caressing their slightly disheveled brown hair, arranging the slightly untidy hair neatly.
Seeing their sleeping beautiful face and gently caressing them like this, the unsettled feeling inside my heart slightly eased a little.
While I'm doing this, I recalled the experience I have during the Dungeon exploration in these few days.
…
..
…
As we continued exploring the dungeon, I met with a lot of kind harvestable stuff in the Dungeon.
Started from magic plants, into magic ores.
As long as you can find the thing like a ruin, that usually inhabited by a large group of monster, you could find these magic plants and ores there.
If your luck was good, there's a probability that you also could find a treasure chest.
Treasure chest and the magic plants aside, the one that interested me the most is the Dungeon ores.
By just the sound of it, maybe you guys think it's a special ore or something.
But it's actually not that amazing or something.
The thing that got me hooked was the quality of the ores as well as the thing about magic power conductivity in it.
================================================
{Dungeon Iron Ore}
Magic Ore.
-Handling magic power better, very good to be used creating magic tool.
Quality : Extremely good
================================================
Speak of the devil, at the time when I just arrived here, I thought about finding a raw material like this to make my Magic Car engine more durable.
The ore in this dungeon seems to be a very good choice to replace the raw material to recreate the engine in my magic car and all other technology regarding the use of magical energy in my city.
Since it's just iron on the lower floor, I expected to find more precious Dungeon ores on the upper floor of this dungeon.
By the way, other than mining it at some stone that could be found randomly in the dungeon, I could also get these ores from the monster drop here.
The chance is very small though…
So, in the end, it's about luck if you could get the ores(mined one) from the monster drop or not.
Let's drop the talking about the ores and get back to my experience here.
Slaughtering monsters, collecting loots as well as mining and gathering some herbs, these what I and the Twin mainly did during the exploration these days.
As my strength already too overwhelming for hunting the monster on the lower floor, I could only use pebbles, throwing them to the monster to get my share of Exp in the hunt.
And the Exp these small fries provide was very minuscule to the Exp that I need to level up.
Ma.. maybe it's better for me who was still has not that high level of job since I got 7 levels after spending a few days on this lower floor.
But Anna and Anni who had quite considerably advanced jobs could only get 2 levels.
And this was with the help of my buff that could boost their Exp gain.
I wonder, if they didn't have my buff, how long that it will take to just leveling once…
Leaving that aside, hunting a low-level monster was more tiring than we thought.
Unlike a strong monster that we can fight with full power without holding back, the monster here is extremely weak.
Weak enough to force us held our power to the limit to not kill them with one hit, since we need to get the Exp together.
Maybe this is a price for being Overpower.
Hunting Exp from weakling becomes more troublesome and tiring.
The excitement of exploring the dangerous dungeon I yearned at the beginning when I just about to enter the dungeon, is nowhere to be seen right now.
Forget about excitement, during these days I already numb enough throwing pebbles to the monster group like an idiot.
This boring way of fighting really dampened my heart a lot, making me remembered the torturous grinding I did when I was still playing MMORPG game in my previous world.
That's why I quit playing that stuff and moving on to MOBA game later, at that time.
The MMORPG those days, basically was all about grinding and pay to win.
But!
Never in my wildest dream that my Dungeon exploration experience this time reminded me of that nightmare once again!
Sigh…..
…
..
.
As I finished recalling the boring and monotonous Dungeon Exploration experience in these past few days, I continue absentmindedly staring at the bonfire in front of me while caressing the sleeping Anna and Anni's hair gently in my lap.
'Thinking about it further, my dungeon exploration is not that bad'
Suddenly having this thought, I turned my head toward the two beautiful women sleeping face.
Yeah.
Actually, my experience isn't as bad as I recalled it.
With the Twin, we spend our time together, getting closer and knowing each other better.
These days, the usually cold Anni, slowly, little by little started opening her heart more to me.
She started to confide in her harsh experience while working in the shadow as the crown prince pawn.
How the blood and slaughters started numbing her expression and heart, teaching her how worthless life is in front of these cruel and heartless people who greed upon power and authority.
The blood that stained her hands gradually affected her, turning her into a killing machine.
At that time she always remembering the existence of her twin sister that was still alive, to make her remained sane.
Maybe, if there's no family member that still alive in this world, she already broken a long time ago, became a cold killing machine that reaped people's lives with no remorse.
Luckily, the recent time mission failed miserably and turning into an opportunity for her to escape that red world full of slaughter.
The existence of an unknown variable, that was me, destroying all the calculation and 1-year plan of the crown prince to rob the border area of Gharam kingdom territory.
And the news about her twin sister, Anna, also ignited some hope in her to escape from the living hell situation she has been living in.
Ma… since Anna always busy with hunting monster in the Arkham mountain, the plan about finding her whereabouts become slightly harder though…
Anyway, since all ended up in a good direction, it's all well, isn't it?
About Anna's story, there's not much to be told to me during these days, but there's some connecting truth that linked her with her family destruction.
She was just a talented noble daughter who was rebelled and running away to become a normal person, starting her life as an adventurer.
She told me her father forced her into marriage engagement with some noble son in the empire when she's just 8 years old.
And that was her starting point to train harder and sharpen her skill to survive on the outside world when she's just at her younger age.
By the look of it, she's a strong-willed, and kindhearted woman.
The type that has a strong motherly instinct.
Talking about her escape, I heard from her that it was actually her mother who helped her escaped the marriage.
And it's also her mother's decision that made her family wiped out.
Since her supposed fiancé was someone from the crown prince faction, to avoid being pushed around, her family decided to join the opposite faction of the crown prince in the end after being pressured into the edge.
It seems to gain favor from the member of his own faction, the crown prince helped her fiancé family to destroy her family.
And so, that was what Anna and Anni told me after making a connection between the complicated typical noble story that happened upon their now in the bridge of complete destruction family in the past.
What a messed up.
As expected of noble society, it's really a dark place that full of struggle and deceit, like most of the stories I've read in my previous world.
Anyway, even though Anni is supposed to hate Anna for causing their family into this terrible state, which only left both of them remaining alive, it seems it's not the case at all.
Anni knew, if the hateful crown prince isn't greedy for power, he should not backing up Anna's fiancé's noble house to push her family around and made them have no choice but to enter the opposite faction, rather than being neutral as they usually did.
And, in the first place, the thing about destroying their family and take all their property was also suggested by the crown prince.
That's why the tough of hating Anna for causing their family destruction never crossed her mind.
Sigh…
Maybe this is also the reason Anna being very adamant to work under me together with her sister, even though she should've strong-willed woman and hardly bow their head to someone...
'let's deal with that bastard crown prince later… I also have to take the payment from him for messing around with my lovely Al anyway'
I continue caressing the twin head in my lap while finishing all of the thoughts about the Twin story.
Chirp chirp!
[Master! I already found the Safe Zone thing that master asked me about! Hehehe~ praise me! Praise me! Giggle*]
All of a sudden, a small red cute bird suddenly flew on top of me out of nowhere and cried.
It was my contracted fire spirit, Ra who already transformed herself into a small bird that she ate in this dungeon.
Yes, right now, I already climbed up to the 20th floor.
Hmm? You guys asked me to explain about the climbing using the dungeon crystal stuff?
There's nothing to explain.
At some point, you just need to explore and slaughter the monster along the way while going further to the deepest part of the dungeon floor.
In there you'll found the same dungeon crystal the same as the one in the Dungeon entrance.
[Ughmm…. Alex]
[Ughmm…]
With the light movement on my lap, Anna and Anni opened their eyes slowly and murmuring in low voices.
'Sigh… it seems Ra voice wake them up.. Come to think of it, it seems it's not long before the day starts to brighten up, maybe waking them up and prepared early isn't that bad'
With this thought, I smiled gently at the still sleepy Anna and Anni who gradually started lifting up and stretching up their body to wake.
RECENTLY UPDATES
Mystery
Action
Action
Romance
Action
Action
Drama
Action