"…"
"Huh…. I wonder how long this dungeon was active for." – said the man in the hood as the party leader went ahead and crushed the monsters the puppets that confronted him.
"Well… There is quiet amount of them, but they are all weak…. The plain looking ones I'd say they are around between G-F and the ones with weapons are around E…. Maybe between F-E…. They do hit harder and can take more hit, but honestly they are not scary at all." – said the party leader.
"You are noting it all down, right?" – asked the party leader as he turned around.
"Yea, yea…. Anyway, should I write "newbies out"?" – asked the mage girl while taking notes.
"Yea, its better if we do." – said the party leader as one of the human puppets jumped at the man and swinged its club at the man…. Only for the man to instantly grab the weapon when it was about to hit him before then throwing the monster on the ground and then finishing it off.
"…"
(Danger! DANGER! DANGER!) – though the dungeon master as it realized that the invaders made their way deep into the dungeon.
The dungeon puppets were getting easily overwhelmed by the one man alone…. And the others barely did anything.
They only fought when the party leader had an short break…. Making other party members to do the work…. Where they realized cleaned the floor with the puppets.
The dungeon master realized.
They were not as strong as big rabbit.
They were not as strong wolves.
They were not as strong as the young adventures.
They were as strong if not stronger than swordman…. The one that puppet didn't really beat and instead just gotten lucky.
But now?
There were multiple intruders who invaded the dungeon…. That could easily destroy dungeon.
(WHY NOW?!)
The dungeon master panicked, since it still didn't finished its research regarding the golems.
"Can I defeat them?"
"NO!"
"What if I send all of the dungeon monsters their way?"
"NO!"
"Create new monsters?"
"NO!"
"…"
This time there wasn't really any hope…. Only despair.
There was really nothing the dungeon master it could do.
No last second plan.
No random Luckies either….. Just despair.
…
(Its over.) – though the dungeon master, as its realized there was no hope left this time.
The end has come…..
….
The adventurers had slain every single monsters they had encountered on their way…. And then they had finally reached the boss room where the dungeon master was waiting for them.
….
It knew.
It knew after observing these new group of invaders that it has no chance at winning against them.
It realized that it will die and the dungeon will be destroyed.
"…"
"Huh…. I guess this is an boss room…. And that thing over there must be the dungeon master…." – said the party leader.
"…"
"Hm…."
"Okay. I think this is enough. Lets go back."
"Eh? Already?" – asked the fox eared girl.
"Yea, I think we have enough data." – said the party leader.
"I don't think this dungeon has something like multiple floors or it was very old, since if it would be it would had been discovered ages ago considering its spot."
"This dungeon is extremely young and the danger rank is probably just E or F."
"We don't need to fight the dungeon master, we have only to kill as many monsters as we can without getting put in danger, and possible reach the dungeon master room, but were strictly ordered not to fight it….. So yea…. We easily beat all the monsters…. And we reached the dungeon master room….. That is it."
"We are done."
"We…. Completed our job."
"…"
"Tch."
"For fuck sake. I really hoped this place would be at least E+ or maybe even D…. But I guess I hoped too much for it…. Ah… If only the guild master told us to not destroy that undead dungeon."
"No! I refuse that option! Do you know how long it took for me to get rid of that fucking dungeon master stench off me?!" – asked the female mage.
"…"
*Sigh*
"Anyway, we are done, right? Then lets go back already."
"…"
"?!?!?!"
Confusion.
The invaders were retreating.
The dungeon master didn't knew what was going on at all.
The invaders weren't injured; they were still full of energy nor there was any real problem at all.
But…. They retreated?!
The dungeon master was complexly baffled with the current situation.
It didn't knew if it should reenjoys or still cower in fear.
But now…. It felt relived…..
However, this relive was only for single moment…. And the dungeon master would soon find out why.
…
The outside world…. The adventures guild have learned about the puppet dungeon existence.
[Sometime later: Adventure guild.]
"Hm…. Okay, so we are dealing with anything big according to your report?" – asked the guild master.
"Yeb. Pretty much, around between E and F danger rank." – said the party leader.
"The details of what we had found was reported."
"Huh…. Thank fucking goodness this time we are not dealing with some sort of big emergency." – said relived guild master as he opened his drawer and took out of the bags of coins, putting on the table.
"Here is promised payment." – said the guild leader before moments later the party leader took the bag and then handed it over to the fox eared girl who excitedly started looking though its context.
"…"
"So… I guess this is goodbye." – said guild leader.
"Yeb." – said the party leader.
"Honestly, there is really nothing else that benefits us any longer when it comes to levels or money…. We just outgrown this place already."
"If that dungeon was somewhat high ranking then maybe…. But now there is really no longer any good reasons."
"So yea…. Goodbye."
"Yea…. Take care." – said the guild master before moments later the rest of the party said their goodbyes and left the room.
"…"
"Is it fine to let them go?" – asked the female staff.
"I mean, I can't hold them down or anything against their will." – said the guild master.
"And honestly, there is no longer any danger at all going on."
(This place IS an "beginner" town where young adventures start their journey. This place doesn't have any sort of dangerous monsters around that are high level threats that could destroy town or even village.)
(The only problem was the undead dungeon, but after it was dealt with, we pretty much destroyed any form of threat that there was and now the young ones don't need to worry at all.)
(Honestly, I was pretty much scared shitlessly, thinking that we would need to deal with some high danger rank dungeon and would need to destroy it…But I guess there is no need to worry.) – though the guild master as he picked up the gem like object off the table.
"…"
(One of the "drops" that can dungeon produce is the mana crystal.)
(An very small ones…. But still, they should somewhat fetch good price for the beginners…. As for the wooden body parts…. I don't know. I will have some people check it out and see if its something special or not.)
(But for now, I think its to safe to announce the dungeon existence to the public.)
With the dungeon evaluation over, the guild master had already made public statement regarding the dungeon and had also published the informations about it publicly.
However, while all of that was happening, something else was going in the dungeon, specifically right after the evaluation party left the dungeon.
(Who were they?!)
(What were they?!)
(WHY THEY LEFT!?)
(NO REASON! NO REASON AT ALL!)
The dungeon master was panicking.
Questions were being asked about who were the people that invaded the dungeon.
And why they had left when they could easily destroy the dungeon.
(WHY?! WHY!? WHY!?)
The puppet did not understood their actions at all. It didn't see any reason at all on what they did.
It looked completely stupid to it.
However, the dungeon master quickly ignored these questions and instead focused on something else.
(What if they come back?)
This was crisis.
An predator that was capable of destroying the dungeon had showed up and they could destroy the dungeon at any moment.
Panic.
Fear.
Despair.
…
What it could do?
And that is the problem, the only option it had was the same as before.
"CONTINUE THE RESEARCH"
….
But will it do anything NOW?!
The time had RUN OUT.
Researching the ways of replacing its body.
Researching and creating new type of golems.
These two answers were the answer that the dungeon master seeked out in order to make the dungeon strong enough to face against threat as powerful as the swordman.
….
But now?
There was no time at all.
The dungeon master was fully aware of the reality.
….
But it was still alive.
Dungeon master was scared shitlessly and it had already given into the despair…. But it also knew that maybe, just MAYBE something will happened, that MAYBE it will discover something.
The despair had consumed the dungeon master.
But it wasn't done yet.