The Dungeon Fairy: Two Choices: A Dungeon Core Escapade (The Hapless Dungeon Fairy Book 2) by Jonathan Brooks (free e books to read .txt) 📗

created one of her new creatures; she had thought about doing it before, but some part of her made her hold off for some reason.  That part of her didn’t interfere now, fortunately, and she was able to create her first Hill Dwarf Male with a Fighter Variant.  Then she also created a Human Male Fighter, an Elven Female Healer, a Gnome Female Scout, and another Hill Dwarf Male as a Caster this time.  It was only as she was finishing their creation, with just barely enough Dungeon Force at her disposal, that she realized she had instinctively created a typical group of Raiders that she would see delving through her dungeon.  In fact, it had the same composition of Classes as did the party finishing off her Forest Wolves up above in her fifth dungeon room – if not quite matching up with the races.

It was going to take a half hour for them to fully form, however, so Tacca hoped that there was enough of a delay in their approach for them to materialize.  There would be, at least, enough time for Shale to explain his plan.

“Ok, now that you have those going, this is what I have in mind….”

Chapter 9

The absence of creatures inside of the sixth and seventh rooms caused more of a delay than Tacca was expecting.  As soon as they walked in, the enraged Fighter strode forward looking for a target – though he was visibly less manic after killing many of the creatures in the previous rooms himself. They all paused for nearly a minute as he stomped around, activating the Confusion trap.  The Enchantment-based trap didn’t actually do anything, just like the others, but it at least gave the Raiders the knowledge that something was still there.

“Where are all of the monsters?!  I’m not done killing them!”

For the first time that Tacca had seen, the Gnome Healer pulled one of the maps of her dungeon that she was getting used to seeing in the hands of those that delved through all of the rooms.  “I have no idea; this room is supposed to have more of those foxes and dog-thingies, as well as those ones that jump down from the trees.”  She peered closer at the map as if trying to glean more information from it, but since she was absolutely correct there wasn’t any more.

“Well, where are they?” the Fighter demanded.

When the Gnome didn’t answer, the Elf butted in on the conversation.  “They’re not here, Marvin.  They must have seen your ferocity and must have run away scared,” she said loudly, before muttering under her breath, “Or they all died of laughter from your screaming like a little kid.”

“What was that?!”

“Nothing, fearless leader,” she sneered, before waving him on.  “This just makes it easier, let’s get the Boss room done and then we can…complete our other business and get out of here.  All this stone over my head is making me uncomfortable,” she complained.

“Fine.  But there better be something in there for me to kill….”

They followed him into the Boss room, but instead of striding quickly looking for blood, the Fighter seemed to be a bit more cautious than he had been so far.  It seems as though the missing creatures were more effective than the ones that were actually there in the first place.

For the first time, the group was actually affected by her Enchantment trap inside the Boss room, which slowed down their movements significantly – for all of approximately a second.  Shortly after the trap was activated, their armor glowed with a red light, which Tacca thought indicated some sort of Physical Resistance boost enchantment; they were released from the trap quickly, though they barely even noticed.  While her other Enchantment-based traps affected their Mental state – Rage, Fear, and Confusion – the Slowing one was all Physical-based, hence the different armor enchantment to help resist the effects.

“There’s nothing here, either!  I’m so going to destroy—”

The Gnome shushed him immediately, but it was too late.  “Shhh!  I told you not to mention that—”

“Mention what?  That we were instructed to destroy this dungeon’s Core because if we can’t control access, then nobody should be allowed to access it?  Is that what you don’t want me to say, hmm?”  The words coming out of his mouth only hammered the final nail in the coffin for the Fighter and everyone else with him, as far as Tacca was concerned.

“But, we’re not supposed—”

“It’s too late for the dungeon to do anything to me now!  Didn’t you see how I annihilated everything in my path?”

The Gnome wasn’t the only one to appear a little nervous and uncomfortable.  “Yes, well, I’ve heard that dungeons can get extremely dangerous when you threaten them like you’re doing,” the Elf said cautiously, all sense of her entitled and self-important attitude gone from her voice.

That’s for sure.  As much as your plan seemed a bit cruel, Shale, I don’t think I’ll feel so bad about it now.

“Yes, I agree; they can’t be allowed to live after threatening you like this.  Especially since it seems as though their reasoning has to do with some sort of Raider internal affair, and nothing wrong that you did,” Shale said quietly into her mind, despite the fact that none of the Raiders could hear him.

It took a few more minutes of searching the walls for the access to the tunnel leading to her Core Room, but eventually they found it behind a tree and a mess of foliage camouflaging it.  It was both against the rules and impossible to completely seal off access to her Core, but she made it obvious enough that if a group were looking for a way through it would be a clue that they had some destructive ideas in their heads.

Since this was the first time that anyone had ventured into her