The Dungeon Fairy: Three Lives: A Dungeon Core Escapade (The Hapless Dungeon Fairy Book 3) by Jonathan Brooks (the false prince TXT) 📕

Through her Dungeon Assistant’s help and her powerful Enchantment traps protecting her Core Room, Tacca was able to not only delay these mysterious invaders, but to kill all but 1 of them.  That last one made it to her Core room and tried to destroy her, only to be paralyzed by one of the Core’s Fairy abilities, giving her last-second plan time to succeed.  By utilizing the initial “synergy” explosion caused by introducing an evolved and its unevolved forms pairing together, she was able to create a powerful shockwave – along with the release of the forces inside of the pair of Raider’s bottomless bags she had acquired – that destroyed the purple-skinned leader of the invaders.

The shockwave was too fast, however, and as Tacca attempted to Teleport away to safety further up her dungeon, she was caught in mid-transition.  While the rest of her dungeon was destroyed, including all of her creatures, traps, and environmental objects, somehow the Dungeon Core survived, only to be trapped in some sort of dimensional “bubble” for months.  When she finally emerged from the “bubble” back into the world, she found that she was changed, her Core etched all over almost as if she had been shattered and then put back together.

With The Village nearby evacuated and no one coming to visit her dungeon, Tacca used the time after she recovered from her experience to rebuild her dungeon, as well as finishing her newer section.  However, the unexplained circumstances of the mysterious blue-skinned invaders still haunted her as she struggled to make sense of everything that happened…and she wasn’t the only one.

Chapter 1

“I don’t understand; where did these things even come from?”

Council Leader Malachite didn’t have an answer for the other Fairy, just as he hadn’t had one since they had gotten back from visiting Tacca’s dungeon.  That still seems strange even thinking about the circumstances that led to a Dungeon Assistant being sucked into a Core; such a thing shouldn’t even be possible. 

Head Instructor Lapis didn’t even acknowledge the silence from the Council Leader – probably because he never really listened to Malachite unless he felt like it.  That’s not really fair; he listens, but it feels like he doesn’t even care what I say sometimes.  It had been extremely annoying at first, but the head of the Dungeon Placement and Regulatory Council was starting not to care so much anymore.  He chose to ignore the self-important Head Instructor as he concentrated on what he did know.

The Conclave of Sages, composed of the strongest Raiders in the world, had all been slaughtered in their chambers.

Every member of the DPRC except for Malachite was missing (not killed like the Sages, as far as he could tell), with no indication of where they fled or were taken to.

For more than a year, there had been a steady destruction of Dungeon Cores, along with their Dungeon Assistant Fairies.

The Balance Bar floating above the map in the Council room was tipping dangerously towards the intelligent races of Gairth.

Lastly, and the most concerning, was the sudden knowledge that some force other than Raiders was taking part in the destruction of Dungeon Cores.

It was this last one that Lapis was speaking of when he questioned what the monstrous, six-armed, blue-skinned people were that Tacca and her Dungeon Assistant, Shale IronSchist, described.  They had appeared out of nowhere, killed dozens of Raiders that had been queuing up outside for the dungeon without difficulty, and had invaded the former Assistant’s dungeon, killing another group of Raiders within, as well.  Not only that, but somehow they were able to suppress the accumulation of Tacca’s Dungeon Force, and later her use of Fairy Mana; again, something that should be impossible.  Dungeon Force originated from the primordial energy that permeated the planet, taken in and used/manipulated by both the intelligent races and Dungeon Cores – though in completely different ways.  It was this use of the primordial energy by both sides that led to the balance that kept the world from tearing itself apart; if one side, such as the current situation with the intelligent races they were finding themselves in, had more power, they would use more of this energy in a certain way that would cause an imbalance.  It was only when everything was in balance that the world would exist in harmony.

Something was upsetting that balance in favor of the Raiders, and it wasn’t something that Malachite knew enough about to reverse the trend.  Neither did Head Instructor Lapis, which was why the other Fairy was practically ripping his hair out trying to understand.  The head of the Dungeon Assistant Preparatory School didn’t like the ignorance he was suddenly plagued with.

“The way I see it, there are two possible explanations,” Lapis went on, speaking to himself as much as he was the Council chambers.  “One, these blue-skinned individuals are from a previously unknown and undiscovered race of intelligent people living – again, somehow unknown – somewhere on Gairth.  How they had gotten so strong by using magically superior enhancements without having visited any of the dungeons around here is a mystery, as well as the reason why they have waited this long to reveal their presence in such an unorthodox way.”

The way Lapis spoke about the deaths of numerous Dungeon Fairies and the destruction of their Cores sounded as if he didn’t care about them, but Malachite knew he cared deeply.  It was just his way of distancing himself from the situation so that he could think clearly, without emotional attachments.

“Or, what I think is more likely, is that they are not from Gairth at all.”

That got the Council Leader’s attention – it was something he hadn’t even contemplated before now.  That’s probably because such a thing is almost as inconceivable as a Fairy being turned into a Dungeon Core.

“Where do