The Dungeon Fairy: A Dungeon Core Escapade (The Hapless Dungeon Fairy Book 1) by Jonathan Brooks (read novel full .txt) 📕

into the floor and disappear – or make a muddy mess. She was just starting on the tunnel leading to her Core Room – which she was planning on expanding and securing with the hardened walls soon – when she determined that it was about time to start filling her one-room dungeon with creatures.

Foxes were in general smaller than her other creature options, so she decided to just create approximately 10 or so of each Variant – 98 additional ones, because she already had one Root Fox and also received a single Point from constructing her first Room (her Core Room didn’t count).  They practically filled the entire floor of that first room, but they were an eclectic assortment of colors.

The Fire Fox was a deep red – nearly a crimson color – and thrived in hot, fire and lava-based environments; the Shade Fox was a dark grey, almost black in coloring, and it worked well in dark, swampy places; the Sand Fox was a beige-ish tan color, which allowed it to hide quite well in desert-like environments; the Crag Fox was a striped light-grey and dark-brown creature that could perch on the side of a mountain and blend in to the stone and rock flawlessly.

Those colors were dull compared to the others, however; the Arctic Fox was a blinding white color that almost seemed to light up the room all by themselves, which worked well in a snowy environment; the Cape Fox was a semi-aquatic Variant that a mixture of dark-green and light-blue, where it could hide in the shallows of a pond or river and attack from the water; the Bush Fox was a grass-green color, which – obviously – worked well to hide it in tall grass; and the Camouflage Fox wasn’t exactly a single color, but would constantly shift its shade to match with whatever was near – though it was always slightly off-color, making it easy to see if you knew what you were looking at.  Finally, the Gliding Fox was the most unique, because it was practically clear like glass in color; they worked best in jungle-like environments where it could jump down from high in the canopy and glide down using flaps of skin, though it was relatively simple to kill because its skin was also like delicate glass – and could be destroyed just as easily the fragile material.

When they were all done, she spent the time until the countdown finished strengthening the tunnel with hardened walls, before starting to enlarge her Core Room.  It wasn’t as though it felt small, necessarily, but compared to what she had already made it felt a little closed in.  She was only able to enlarge the entire ovoid space about two inches before she received what she was hoping for.

Congratulations, Tacca GloomLily!

You have reached Core Improvement Level: 2

Current CIP Countdown: 0/200 in 30 days

Core Improvement Points earned: 100 (100)

Special Characteristic Points earned: 25 (25)

Excellent!  Now I can spend those points to make things a little easier—

Congratulations, Tacca GloomLily!

You have reached Assistant Rank: Novice

You have reached Assistant Stage: 2

Current Experience Countdown: 4/200 in 30 days

Maximum Fairy Mana: +50

Fairy Mana Regeneration: +2 per minute

Tacca’s mind froze as she tried to process what had just happened.  I can still…increase in Assistant Rank?  She had thought that she was pretty much just a Dungeon Core now that had access to some of the same Abilities as she had before, but now it seemed as if her life as an Assistant wasn’t quite over yet.  Acquiring the second Stage in her Novice Rank didn’t do much for her other than essentially putting her Fairy Mana back to where it used to be, with her original maximum and regeneration rate; in the future, however, there were some things that could make quite a difference—

As soon as she closed that notification with thoughts about the future, she expected to be able to allocate her Points (CIPs and SCPs)…but her vision went blank and she lost all awareness of the world around her.

Not…again…

*         *         *

She wasn’t out nearly as long this time, as she estimated that it was only a couple of minutes – but still, it was unwelcome.  She could sort of understand what happened before when she finished her initial selections and blacked out, since whatever she had become was likely trying to reconcile her Fairy soul into her new Dungeon Core systems.  However, she thought that was all done with by that point, and losing consciousness again was worrisome; unfortunately, there really wasn’t anyone she could ask about it, even if she wasn’t going to hide the truth from the Council in the future – because nothing like this had ever happened before.  Or at least hadn’t ever been reported and recorded.

She now had the opportunity to spend the points she had earned, but first she took a moment to examine her physical Core.  That, more than spending her CIPs or SCPs was more important by far…and she inwardly smiled when she saw that almost all of the cracks in her crystalline form were repaired.  There were a few hair’s-width cracks here and there, but for the most part she was where she should be.  With another Level-up or two, I should be back to normal.  With that better, if not perfect, she turned her attention to her options.

Core Improvements

Available Core Improvement Points (CIP)

100

0 in 30 days

Improvement Name

Value

Cost (CIP)

Maximum Dungeon Force Increase

+500 DF

50

Dungeon Force Regeneration Increase

+5 DF per minute

50

Control Limit Increase

+50

100

Select Additional Creature

1

250

Select Additional Creature Variant

1

25

Select Additional Trap Specialization

1

300

Select Additional Environment Access

1

400

Reward Tier Increase

1

50

Convert CIPs to SCPs

1 SCP

4

Despite most other things so far being screwed up from the transition from Assistant to