Monster Mansion 2 by Dante King (most interesting books to read TXT) 📕

I turned my attention back to the Castle Hall dungeon, I heard the cultivation system warning me again.

Dungeon integrity compromised! 

Collapse imminent!

 

“Fuck!” I said. Everything was happening all at once. More enemies were piling into both dungeons, and the dreadnoughts were breaking through the wall of the Granite Cave. I left the Sentient Dungeon overview and returned to the dais in the Castle Hall portal dungeon.

I was just in time.

Sarah stood over her fallen comrades, desperately swinging her blade and calling my name. Todd and Josh were going down under a wave of cyborg rats.

I blasted a mighty Force Barrier outward from around them, flinging the cyborgs back and buying me a few precious seconds of time.

“Grab a hold of me!” I yelled as the horrors surged forward again, teeth snapping, blades whirring and dead hands reaching.

The adventurers all did so without question, and I teleported us all back to the mansion’s entrance hall.

It worked.

“Ah, thank fuck for that!” I yelled, as the adventurers appeared around me.

They looked around in confusion, then Sarah saw Kyrine.

The dungeon avatar was standing in the middle of the entrance hall, flanked by Selena, Astrid, Belinda, and Amanda. The agents, I saw, had all armed themselves with melee weapons and Eosorean armor from the weapon and armor stands which lined the mansion’s ornate entrance hallway. They looked ready for battle.

Kyrine was in their midst. She had transformed. The dungeon avatar was exerting so much magic that her outer appearance had become almost god-like. She was naked except for the diamond-like outer layer that covered her nipples and her sex. Her eyes were blank, shining with light, and her flowing gemstone hair floated around her head as if she were underwater. Her arms were stretched out on either side of her. She floated a few feet off the ground.

When she spoke, her lips did not move, but her voice reverberated throughout the hallway space. “Welcome the mansion, dungeon adventures. I thank you deeply for your service.”

The adventurers got to their feet and bowed one by one.

“There’s no time for that,” said Kyrine kindly. “Do as Jeremy says. He is my Keeper, and in this battle my fate—and yours—is in his hands.”

I turned to face the adventurers, but before I could speak, the Personal Cultivation System screamed a warning at me.

Dungeon fabric integrity failure!

Core systems overloaded!

Collapse imminent!

“They’re coming through!” I said. The doors behind me began to crumble as the Granite Cave dungeon began to collapse. When it failed, the cyborgs would flood the hallway, and they would make their way straight to the core chamber.

“There’s only one way to win this battle,” I said, “and that’s to kill the Technomancer himself. He’s in a helicopter, flying over the mansion. I’m going to go get him. If I can bring him down and kill him, we can end this now. If not, I don’t think we can hold up against his entire army for much longer. The core will be lost and Kyrine will be destroyed!”

“We’ll do our duty!” promised Sarah.

“We’ll defend the dungeon at all costs!” agreed Josh.

Todd looked grim as he agreed firmly. “At all costs.”

Behind us, the door creaked and groaned, and I felt the Granite Cave dungeon wavering under the strain of the enemies inside. We did not have long.

“To your posts then, and good luck!” I shouted. I had a plan, and now was the time to act on it. “Sarah, Josh, stay here with the others and defend the hallway. Todd Hammerfist, you’re with me!”

To his credit, the half-ogre looked surprised but didn’t argue. He followed me without question as I moved toward the stairs.

The door finally gave, and a mass of cyborgs came howling, clanking, and whirring into the hallway. Summoned monsters appeared around the agents. Astrid and Belinda both transformed and attacked, and Sarah charged in, yelling and swinging her sword.

As Kyrine had said, they poured up the hallway, making straight for the dungeon core chamber.

“Grab my arm and hold on tight,” I ordered Todd. He did as he was told. With an effort of will I teleported us both up to the roof.

Todd sat down hard, looking green.

“You get used to it,” I assured him with a wry smile.

He struggled up.

Fierce satisfaction filled me as I saw that the first stage of my plan had worked. There was the Technomancer’s chopper, hovering low over the swirling throng of his cyborg army. He was hanging at the perfect height for what I intended to do—just above the level of the mansion’s roof.

“Todd,” I said. “I’m going to need one of your Warrior’s Might boosts, and a Lightning Speed boost as well.”

“What are you going to do?” he asked, his eyes wide.

“I’m going to get in that helicopter and fuck that guy up,” I said.

I pointed, and Todd saw what I was seeing. The Technomancer was in the chopper, sitting in a black chair covered in the same kind of wiring that his cyborgs were made of.

“Ready?” I said.

“You’re gonna jump?” he asked.

“Damn right. I want to see this guy’s eyes before I kill him.”

“Dude…” Todd breathed in amazement. Then he pulled himself together.

He grabbed a potion from his belt. “Drink this speed boost!” he said.

I gulped it down, feeling strength and nervous energy run through me. Below in the mansion, I knew that the cyborgs were flooding through the mansion. They were in the hall, they were fighting on the stairs to the dungeon core chamber. My allies were there, fighting hard but being forced, step by step, back down the stairs.

“Warrior’s Might!” shouted Todd, and then, “Lightning speed!”

I felt the power of the magical boosts flood through me, and I took a running jump at the chopper. The