Chapter 6
"ha!" shouted Arthur as his blade cut through a large stone golem, sparks of lightning sparking around the lord.
[You've defeated an enemy +100]
Arthur looked at the fallen golem and summoned it into his inventory. He looked around to see hundreds of dead stone golems and even a couple of stone bears, lamia, tigers and other stone beasts.
It's been 4 days since that lively morning and Arthur had developed a routine, of waking up when the moon was about to set, bath and fight the retreating beasts, raising not only his own but his unit's levels. Then put food on the market, he was already known as the sea food king, so even though many other lords' power was rising his food was still being sold to many. So he still managed to make money, he also bought materials from the market, like Iron and other ores he from the lords who lived near mines.
Then he would go to either the forest or the mountains to kill the monsters there and go exploring. Then they would return before the night fell, and then he would sell more food two more times, once during the afternoon and finally at night. He also increased the amount of individual units doubling them while only increasing the price by 50% making it seem like a bargain. This increased his daily income from 51,000 to 102,000.
This led to the rapid development of the territory. Arthur, first bought a residential blue-print, for it was a level 1 residential area, which cost 50,000 gold to buy and then he constructed it with an extra 10,00 gold to instantly form it.
This structure cost, [10,000 stone, 20,000 wood, and 1,000 iron] He bought the items from the market, however, the costs were worth it.
[Residential area blue-print x1 ]
- Increases production rate by 20%, recovery rate by 30%, decreases item decay rate by 20%.
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After that Arthur managed to upgrade all of the equipment of the units from copper to steel, the bows and arrows from normal wood to treant wood, and the mage and priest units, to treant staffs and staves to treant staffs. This boosted the power of the units, by a significant margin.
He continued, with better equipment their yield grew. However, for himself, Arthur also boasts the next advancement in his territory's tech. Which was rather hard to make but thanks to the co-orperation of Morgan, the 2 mages, Galion and the wyvern along with the dwarves all pooled their respective knowledge and talents to make something for Arthur.
At the moment Arthur looked down at himself and saw an armor with a light blue sheen with a barely noticeable scale like patterns, and in hand he held a sword the blade was a strange white iron material.
[Player status]
Name: Arthur Pendragon (system-issued name)
Title: Ruler of Dragons
Affiliation: True Neutral
Region: Beleth
Level: 4
Exp: 2,240/2,500
STR: 40
DEF: 45
AGT: 45
MID: 120
MAG: 90
MAGD: 70
Skills: Lord's share, Sacrificial growth
Equipment: Naga steel sword, Naga steel armour, Naga steel dagger.
[End]
The process was making merging iron with Naga bones and scales to make a form of steel. While weaker than normal steel it did offer better defence, even mobility that normal iron armour. Plus with the rapid rise of the skill levels of the labourers Arthur was expecting a rise in the quality of the equipment produced.
The sword was also light, but Arthur asked that a spear and daggers be made for him as well.
The process took a nearly all night but it was done and that day Arthur and the rest went hunting later in the day.
Now Arthur was a rather formidable individual his stats grew steadily with each level up, as he grew stronger his units did as well. Even Morgan was rapidly approaching level 7 her being the strongest.
He looked at the skies and saw that an hour or two of sun light was left. Arthur turned to Holran and Lucias along with the surrounding dwarves.
.oOo.
After returning to the castle Arthur found Morgan surprisingly present. "Your back early." He said and she nodded.
"Yes sir. It's because I found something quite interesting during my hunting."
"Really?"
"Yes, I found a temporal dungeon."
"Huh? What are those?"
"Fold in space time that hold records of events that happened in ancient times that can be interacted with. It's a repetition of an event that happened and was fixed in place doomed to repeat for eternity."
Arthur didn't understand but he decided to check it out. "Ok then food is ready so let's eat before going."
"But what of the frenzy?"
"We are just taking a lot and not entering. I want to see what kind of information I can get." He said and Morgan nodded.
It was minutes later that for the first time Arthur descended into the ocean with Morgan. He used lords share to gain the ability to breath underwater before riding on the leviathan's back.
The speed at which she travelled was amazing. Arthur decided it check her stats.
[ Name: Morgan
Race: Leviathan
Affiliation: Ruler of dragons
Rank: Soldier
Level: 7
EXP: 0/4,000
STR: 900, DEF: 950, AGT: 930, MID: 1150, MAG: 1000, MAGD: 1070, LUK: 700
Skills: Dragon transformation, Lightning control, Wind control, Water domination, Dragon Breath, Dragon aura, Illusion magic, Toxic physiology.
Equipment: … ]
Morgan now, could take on monsters at night. Taking note of her, form. Morgan was a 100-metre-long and 15-metre-wide serpentine creature, with shimmering silvery scales lined with a luminescent green/blue colour, its dragonic head was lined with fins around it and spine-like protrusions that down its body and all around it there were tentacles like fins spanning a few metres in width and length.
The dragon moved with zero resistance through the water, allowing for swift movement they travelled as fast lightning, and in less than 20 minutes they reached far deep into the ocean. Arthur took note of the many low and mid-level monsters that sailed past them.
'I see, no wonder Morgan levelled up so fast.' Thought Arthur, while feeling slightly nervous, the grip of his spear allowed him to feel a bit safe.
"The ocean is beautiful," muttered Arthur, while acknowledging the beauty its underwater sight granted him, and the underwater sight was rather a beautiful sight to see.
"Yes my lord, we should descend together more often," said Morgan and Arthur grinned.
"Yes we should," he said.
Finally reaching, 1,000s of kilometres below sea level they reached the dungeon gate.
It looked like a fold in space resembling a folded paper. Arthur moved forward seeing if he could see the system info.
[E-rank dungeon, Nightmare troll rampage]
'Well this seems easy enough.' Thought Arthur, "Morgen let's enter." He said.
"Are you sure my lord?" she asked and Arthur nodded, the Leviathan did as told.
The fold opened up allowing them to enter.
[You've entered a dungeon…]
.oOo. END OF CHAPTER .oOo.
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