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

she watched the 5 intruders start their way up it with no hesitation.  Because of their large size, they had to turn sideways in order to make it up the narrow pathway, which thankfully slowed them down even further.  Her Dizziness trap was set off when they were about two-thirds of the way up the cliff, which caused all of their bodies to glow brightly; the trap, while it had a narrow Trigger Proximity, had a large Activation Range which enveloped them all.  Not that it seemed to do any good, despite the trap’s Strength being a little more than double compared to what was located in the easy section above.

Her Cliff Lynxes attacked from where they were camouflaged against the rock of the cliff, jumping down in a tandem attack that allowed them to land on the heads of four of the six-armed monsters.  There were some impressive roars that emerged from the throats of the invaders as they dropped one of their weapons to grab at the Lynxes – which Shale heard in the next room.

“What was THAT?” he asked, startled.

Just my Lynxes surprising them from above—and now they all just got grabbed and tossed away with enormous strength.  Let’s just say their superior agility on the side of a cliff doesn’t really apply to flying into a solid, immovable wall at bone-crunching speed.  To top it all off, none of these blue-skinned people even appear scratched.

They appeared to be quite annoyed, but were also entirely unhurt despite the Level 5 Cliff Lynxes getting the literal drop on them and doing their best to scratch the enormous black orbs they called eyes out.  It was almost like they were impervious to damage, as even the typically vulnerable parts of a body didn’t acquire even the tiniest injury.

One of the monsters had dropped their warhammer down the cliff when they were trying to remove the Lynx, but they left it there as they continued unhindered up the cliff.  When they quickly reached the top, instead of following the path down, they all jumped off the top as if it were nothing.  When they hit the bottom, their glowing auras flashed again briefly as they landed in a crouch; Tacca heard and saw cracks form under their feet, spiderwebbing together to create a large section that was basically just rubble now.  That stone is extremely difficult to break – which makes it ideal to protect a dungeon’s rooms with.  To be able to do that to it…we could be in trouble, Shale.

Tacca described what had happened to him quickly, but her Dungeon Assistant was already focused on his positioning in the next room.  This one she had finished filling with an environment, but had only placed two creatures inside sort of as an indication of what she wanted in there once she had enough Control Limit to fully stock her new section.

Despite there being two possible tunnels to choose from at the bottom of the cliff, the blue-skinned invaders again chose the correct one with just a moment’s hesitation, which led to where Shale was waiting for them.  When the six-armed monsters arrived at the room, they were greeted by two hills made entirely of a multi-shaded brown rock that flanked the left and right walls; in between the rock hills was a “valley” of sorts that was filled with trees stretching halfway up to the tall ceiling and set relatively close together.  There was a tunnel leading to the next room at the end of the valley and off to the right; directly off to the left – as soon as they entered – was a bare wall that contained the Rotating Stone Bridge that let out into the exit staircase.

Shale, the brave Dungeon Fairy, was fluttering just in front of the closest tree to the six-armed people; his first actual sight of them must have been a shock to the Assistant, because he barely moved in time to avoid being skewered by an expertly thrown sword by the invader out front.  The 5-foot-long blade was thrown with such strength that it impaled itself up to the hilt in the tree behind where Shale had been hovering; normally, Tacca could sense her Environmental Object regrowing to replace any of themselves that was cut down or damaged – but now the tree was basically inert.  Just as she wasn’t regenerating any Dungeon Force, nothing else seemed to be operating as usual, either.

“Those are *huff* more frightening *huff* than you described,” Shale mentally communicated as he flew further into the trees, making sure to keep a tree trunk in between him and those that just tried to kill him.  He wasn’t necessarily exerting a lot of energy doing so, but Tacca could tell that his fear had ramped up so high that he was nearly hyperventilating.

Remember, you don’t have to do this.

“No, *huff* I’ve got this.  It was just unexpected.”  He was visibly trying to calm himself down behind a tree in the middle of the forest valley, taking deep breaths to pull himself together.

Ok, just be careful.  And you might want to move.

At her words, her Dungeon Assistant twitched once in surprise and abruptly shot upwards.  Another sword blade emerged from the back of the tree where he had just been, missing him by only a few inches.  Tacca watched as the other invaders tracked his movements, after having followed him inside the small forest.

It seems as though I’m not their only target.  Stay out of range, Shale.

Instead of continuing on, it appeared as though they weren’t going to leave until they killed the elusive Fairy.  They tracked him unerringly as he zipped through the trees, ahead and above them, avoiding a few other thrown weapons by the thickness of one of his wings.  Thinking that they might actually follow him outside, she urged Shale to fly through the tunnel they just entered from –