10 days has passed after the dungeon was discovered and its presence had been made public.
It was given an rank of the F+ by the guild.
"The dungeon only produce two type of monsters. The wooden puppet, and the humanoid wooden puppet monsters."
"The drop materials from the dungeon are the puppet parts or magic crystal."
"The dungeon master isn't leaving the dungeon core area, meaning that as long as you don't enter its room, you are pretty much safe."
An simple and easy dungeon, that is what people believed in.
The monsters were getting wiped all the time, not giving the dungeon time to grow at all.
"The dungeon was tamed."
This is what the people had though, considering after the 10 days had passed.
However, what these people didn't knew that the dungeon master had already started fighting against them in its own way without letting them find out.
The dungeon master continue creating monsters, making sure that the invaders wouldn't suspect anything.
But while it was doing that, it was also actively working inside the dungeon, specifically around its room.
It was digging around, trying to expand its room as well as the core room, creating more space.
What for?
To have an place to hide the golems.
Dirt golems will be not fighting.
No.
They will hide away and act like generators, producing miasma for the dungeon master. This is their purpose.
It was to create an army that wouldn't fight, it would hide and "be" …. While in reality it wouldn't fight at all, it would just stand and produce the miasma while nobody was looking.
And this plan had also another purpose behind it.
"Create an army that would face off against the predators in case they come back."
This golem wouldn't stand an chance against the predators… But what about making an army of them? An army that would focus more about quantity than quality?
This was the other purpose of these golems, to create the army, besides being the miasma production sources.
But this process will take time.
Right now, the dungeon master is saving up the scraps of the DP to create the dirt golems while suppling the dungeon with the minimal amount of monsters…. That was the idea….
There is no minimal right now.
The invaders had made the dungeon miasma reserves go completely dry, resulting in the dungeon haven't barely any monsters at all to defend itself.
(This is bad.)
The dungeon master was worried that after the complete lack of the monsters, the invaders would go to the dungeon master room and hunt him down…. But they didn't came.
Not only that, but the number of the stray monsters had signific dropped, to the point there was no wild monsters entering the cave at all.
The dungeon could at least kill some of this wild monsters to gain some miasma, but now? These monsters were keeping the distance.
"…"
(Was it…. These people doing?)
(Are they not coming here… Because of them?)
This was an problem…. That caused the dungeon master to worry and possible prepare to fight the human invaders…. But they didn't came?
The invaders didn't appeared at all, only after sometime had passed after the dungeon had managed to create enough monster, then the invaders came and started hunting down the monsters.
"…"
(They really only care about monsters….. No matter how many there are.)
(….)
(Then should I stop production completely?)
(….)
(No. It may look odd and they may get curios.)
(Curios…Yes…. They may get curios…. Like me….. Continue as before…. Wait…. Grow…. Hide.)
This was the only option and the path to survival.
(Continue, don't try anything, just continue with this path…..Only survival…. Yes…. Only option.)
In order to obtain the necessary amount of the DP, in order to "revel" against its oppressors, the dungeon master decided to play along with their game.
It waited.
It summoned the monsters.
It saved enough DP to create earth golem.
And it digged inside its own dungeon, making more space.
Then repeat this process each day.
The invaders came, they killed the monsters, they left.
The dungeon master created new monsters, and didn't do anything else besides digging.
This what was happening, each and every day.
(Move slowly, don't get found out, just be slow and don't be seen.)
Sometimes there were people that were trying to entered the dungeon master room, out of curiosity, but the dungeon master was waiting for them, it was waiting right at the entrance at them, gaining the invaders attentions, while also diverting their attentions.
The dungeon master room was expanded in the way that it wouldn't be noticed from the entrance, unless you entered the boss room.
However, nobody would ever notice it because the dungeon master was acting like the distraction.
In the eyes of the adventures the dungeon master was just extremely eager to kill the invaders.
And this made them keep their distance.
Some did tried provoking the dungeon master or even tried attacking it….. Only to regret that decision when the dungeon master was about to grab them and drag them into the room.
This scared the invaders somewhat and made them stop trying to enter the boss room.
This news also obviously spread in the guild, resulting in the warning being posted about the dungeon master "waiting for the prey".
However, this was all just an trick.
An very simple an plain that was just an distraction.
The dungeon master isn't experienced when it comes to creating complicated plans, so its just using simplest methods to confused the enemy while keeping the secret.
Yes.
An simple method.
An simple method that could be easily exposed if somebody goes inside the dungeon master room.
But, there was an problem.
To make sure that the dungeon properly operate, the presence of the dungeon master is require, meaning that the adventures are forbitten from killing it.
And because of that rule, nobody was aware of the fact that the dungeon master plan was already underway.
And not only that, but as more earth golems were being summoned, the more miasma was being produced.
Not only that, but when enough time passes, the dungeon monster will full manifested, giving an burst of miasma to the dungeon.
1 week passed.
2 weeks passed.
3 weeks passed.
4 weeks passed.
…
1 month had passed.
The inside of the dungeon master room and the core room had completely changed.
Both of the rooms became far more spacious… But their insides weren't empty.
No.
There was many different dirt golems, just standing and producing the miasma.
And it wasn't all.
Some of these golems had already manifested…But they had not left the dungeon.
No.
The dungeon master kept them inside the dungeon as its own troops, making sure its army wouldn't be weaken.
And as for the miasma? It was flowing without anybody realizing.
The dungeon master kept summoning same amount of monsters over and over like before, without decreasing or increasing their numbers, while expanding the dungeon more and more in secret and making more dirt golems.
One month.
It took exactly one month, but the dungeon was now able to produce somewhat satisfying level of the miasma for the dungeon to operate somewhat.
"…"
(But its not enough…. The predators, they never showed themselves again…. Are they dead by any chance?)
(…. No…. Something is different going on…. Weird…. But also, good.)
(The dungeon has been expanding.)
(The dirt golems were made.)
(The body parts crafting research, advancing.)
"…"
(But this isn't enough.)
(No. I need more power.)
(I need to understand and make an better body.)
(I need stronger monsters that would provide more miasma.)
"…"
(No problem.)
(These strange invaders goal are only monsters. They only come here, to hunt them.)
(As long as I don't allow them to look inside this room, I'm safe…..But…. What if predators really do return? Or maybe some invader that is not like…. These invaders…. Then would dungeon get destroyed if they are as strong as the predators?)
(No. This isn't enough. This is nowhere near enough.)
(The army needs to grow even more. More and more!)
(….)
(And the golem research needs to continue.)
"…"
(Most importantly-)
(This body won't also do anymore. I need to improve it. I need to change it before it's too late.)
(….)
(But how…. No… "With" path do I chose?)
(Should I make my body bigger? Heavier?)
(Chose different material?)
(What about the core?)
(The core needs most adjustment and changes…..A lot of work…But…. Invaders…..They will be used.)
"…"
The first invaders that came to the dungeon was the party of the young adventures.
They used sword, bow and magic.
And that caused the dungeon master to get curios, trying to understand how the weapons work as well as the magic.
Then the rabbit came and attacked.
They used their horns and attacked together.
And that caused the dungeon master to get curios about their horns and how they used them, as well as the fact that the quantity matters as well, dealing with the multiple enemies can be problematic and deadly.
These two encounters made the dungeon master get curios and "learn from its foes". It was using the invaders as the studding material.
The same went for the wolves that had invaded the dungeon…. And the swordman.
The dungeon master looked back at their encounters and tried to understand it… It tried to "learn" from them.
And right now?
There was a quiet amount of interesting invaders, an invaders that the dungeon master didn't need to fight and instead could observe them without letting them know.
Some of them used shields.
Some of them sued swords.
Some of them used bows.
Some of them used daggers.
Some of them used spears.
Some of them used magic.
….
It was analyzing, learning from them. Gaining informations and using that information as an source of inspiration.
An inspiration and the source if the information that could be used as an clues for the golem part crafting.
However, it was also inspiration to create things such as armor and weapons….. But it couldn't do it.
Why?
Because it never crafted any of those things. It only used wood carving tools or used dirt…. And when it started using tools to carve in the wood, the dungeon master made many mistakes, destroying or making the wood completely unusable.
And when it tried to use different tools, it realized that they had different effects and purposes.
"…"
(Research…. Each tool… Research…. Understand.)
The dungeon master realized that to craft something normal instead of just making some makeshift thing using dirt, like the dirt golem, the dungeon master would need to understand and learn how each tool worked.
It will be an annoying process….. But it was also extremely exciting.
"There was nothing standing in my way."
The dungeon master usually needed to focus all the time on the defending the core whenever an invader came into the dungeon…. But now? They are only here to kill the monsters and nothing else.
They are not coming to the dungeon master room…. And that means one thing.
"Freedom."
The dungeon master has free time and that very free time will be used develop the dungeon in the secret while also producing an army of the monsters in the secret.
"Magic" "Weapon" "Tools" "Golems" "Dungeon" "Growth" "Research" "Observe" "Analyzes" "Experiment" "Create monsters" "Design brand new monsters"
There will be a lot of work…. But this only excited the dungeon master, causing its "Curiosity" to go wild.
….
And so, the days went by.