The Dungeon Fairy: Three Lives: A Dungeon Core Escapade (The Hapless Dungeon Fairy Book 3) by Jonathan Brooks (android pdf ebook reader TXT) 📗

there was a 40,000 square foot area where all of the action was going to take place.  As for what that action was going to involve, that was a little more complicated.

“Where are your creatures going to come from?  I don’t see how this will work if there are thousands of people in here,” Tulip asked.  She seemed to be the spokesFairy for the group, which was fine with Tacca.

Ah, well that ended up being the most difficult part, but I borrowed an idea I had from my Boss Room.  Remember the Werewolves?

“Yes, I do, but—oh.  I see.  Very clever.”

While the stands were located on the edges of the room, they were also elevated 50 feet off of the thinly soil-covered arena floor.  Simple stone stairs were all that were needed for those watching to reach their seats, which were located behind the large stone columns.  The elevations allowed for Tacca to create tunnels that led underneath the stands and out of the room at an angle, where she placed 4 much smaller rooms in each direction, totaling 16 in all.

These rooms were unique in the fact that they were sharply angled and closed off from the tunnel by a Rotating Stone Bridge trap.  The way it worked with the two types of Werewolf Warriors was that Tacca would activate one of the traps when a particular difficulty was needed, and the creature would slide down a short tunnel when the trap rotated, spitting it out into the room.  She used the same principle here, though the slide was much longer, the angled rooms a bit bigger, and the tunnels much taller and wider.  She even designed one of the rooms and its connecting tunnel so that it was larger than all of the rest, just in case she was able to place a creature in it that required a lot of space.

Theoretically, at any given time, she would have the rooms filled with creatures of different types and difficulties, and when she wanted to release some into the arena, she would just activate the trap, it (or they) would slide down and be ejected into the fight.  As soon as they were slain, another batch of them would start to replenish itself automatically.  Easy, simple, and hopefully straightforward to maintain.

Of course, what it essentially meant to run the arena was a complete shutdown of her other dungeon sections, but she was hoping that her idea would banish the need for them.  At least, temporarily.

I also have thoughts of doing some sort of trap-based obstacle course, setting it up when fights have ended for the day, just to keep it interesting.  Anyone have any ideas?

That got the other Assistants really excited, as they started to offer suggestions, their voices trying to be heard over each other, before they trailed off after a few minutes and looked at each other.

“We have to get our Cores involved in this somehow.  You all do your best to convince them, and I’ll do the same,” Tulip said to the group.  Turning to Shale and addressing Tacca at the same time, she continued.  “Thank you for showing us all of this.  There is a lot to consider, and I hope we can convince one of our Cores to attempt connecting with this marvelous series of rooms you’ve constructed.  Hopefully, you’ll hear from us soon.”  With that, they took their leave, Translocating back to the Nursery and their respective Cores.

What do you think?  Was it a success?  And what do you think of my arena?

“I have to admit, you really thought this through.  I suppose you’re going to give rewards after the fights?”

Of course.

He nodded.  “As for whether or not you did enough to convince the other Cores, we’ll just have to see.  I really don’t think you could’ve done any more than that, to tell the truth.”

That was true, she had done everything she could.  It was just about lockdown time, though, because in approximately 24 hours the cold would descend upon the area and make travel outside extremely difficult, if not deadly.  Shortly after that, the snows would start, sealing everyone in.

While she waited for a decision, it was time to connect everything up, or at least as far as she wanted to before everything was put into motion.  Connecting the 3rd section to the start of her defensive room was easy enough, but the tunnel from her arena to the Hall was going to take a little longer.  She made it quite large and spacious, mainly because it was going to be over a mile long in length, which took a lot more time than just about anything else she had constructed.  By the time she was done, the last of the Raider groups delving through her dungeon left, and she essentially shut them down for the season.

Shortly after that, the final few people staying inside of the Hall and its environs entered, and she was glad to see that Sterge, Gwenda, and their group were among their numbers.

Chapter 23

“Wow!”

Sterge couldn’t agree with Gwenda more.  “I know, this sure is a lot of people, isn’t it?”

“For some reason, this many people didn’t seem as bad when they were camping out on the fields near The Village.”

Sterge led the others toward their room, which was thankfully on the bottom floor – though it was also nearest the bathing room.  Fortunately, some enterprising young Raider had developed and taught others how to make a handy folding screen made from thick woven grass and a minimum of wood for support to use as a privacy barrier to the room.  Not only did it block out people from seeing into their room, but it also helped to block out a good deal of noise; otherwise, they might have to listen to everyone who was using the bathing room to “eliminate their waste” while they were