Dungeon of Pride, Laplace

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"If everything goes as per the plan, I should be able to subdue three more seven kings"

Simon muttered to himself. His eyes scanned the window screen which depicted a black swarm invading his dungeon through the Phased Floor which he created on the harpies territory.

"Master, all preparations are completed, they will regret attacking the dungeon"

Bea spoke from the side. She poured him a nice tea as she intermittently glanced at the window screen. Of course, as an administrator, she has the privilege to open her own window screen to spy on the invaders.

Nonetheless, she did not do so and instead chose to observe from her master's window.

About her antics, Simon couldn't be bothered and allowed her to simply do as she wanted. Other than her, there was also Irene, Cecilia, Coleus, Jarred, Maya, Prime and basically all the people who he trusted and had played an important role in the dungeon management, were in the room observing the intruders.

"Given what a single black ogre and the forces he led previously was able to do to the 80th floor, it wouldn't be wrong to say that it won't take them much time to find the entrance to the next floor. This time they also brought numbers, I will say the 80th floor would only be able to stall the intruders for half an hour" Irene spoke, her voice calm and relaxed.

It was not only her, each and everyone present in the room, had an unwinded expression as they looked at the invaders on the 80th without a trace of any anxiety. This wasn't the first time, the dungeon was facing an external enemy who was trying to capture their dungeon.

In fact, ever since the dungeon emerged and they took habitat in this place, the dungeon was in constant danger of getting destroyed and surrounded by enemies. One good example would be the adventurers of the tower town.

However, despite all that, despite being always on the receiving side and being besieged, the dungeon stood strong and repelled all enemies and dangers.

As such, the scene playing right now has become nothing but a common occurrence in the dungeon. There was no reason for them to be especially worried. The reason why they were all gathered here was because they wanted to see the result of their efforts that they had put in restructuring and reshaping the elements of the dungeon floors.

"The monsters on the 80th floor are just blaze hounds with only a few pack leaders. The real show would start once they start descending"

The one to speak was Fey. As one of the [Helpers] who was assigned to the dungeon management role, she was responsible for managing the floors of the dungeon and making sure they were properly functioning. In that area, she even led her own team.

"Hehe, I can't wait to see my precious mutated monsters to show what they are capable of"

Coleus added. The aura he was starting to give off was starting to resemble more and more of that of a mad researcher who was delving into taboo subjects.

"Hmph, my traps and new areas are sufficient to handle the likes of them. your new monsters won't even get the time to show their powers" Maya chuckled backing Fey up.

"Hey, hey, don't forget how all of this was made possible only due to my inventions. Haha, the one who has the biggest contribution in all of this was me" Prime joined their bickering in an uncharacteristic way.

Well, given how much he loved his invention and his recent success, there was no harm in self boasting.

"If you say it like that, then lord Simon is the biggest contributor out of all. Creating so many floors, handing out Dungeon Points so we can modify it, listening to all our reports, recorrecting our mistakes, allocating resources, shifting floors, looking after his subordinates, going through all their demands and hundreds of other tasks…"

Simon's ears twitched when he heard Maya suddenly start praising and revering him. His expression which had been composed up until now, couldn't help but turn a little unnatural at this point.

It was true that he had been quite busy thanks to all the effort he had to put in due to the Seven Kings attacking his dungeon. With his daily training and work as the dungeon master, he hardly got any free time.

However, there was nothing about it he could do. It was his task, destiny that couldn't be avoided now that he was a dungeon master.

No, he would be lying if he said he liked working his ass off day in and day night. If not for the fact that Irene, shouldered more than 80% per cent of his task leaving some breathing room for him, he would have long hit the floor.

In fact, most of the tasks, that Maya mentioned were being overseen by Irene, all he had to do was just give his stamp of approval and she would manage the rest.

Although it was shameful of him to admit it, he had to say that she was better than him when it came to paperwork. He was getting better but he was nowhere near her level when it came to efficiency and effectiveness.

Simon looked around and his gaze coincidentally met Irene who smiled at him with her eyes. For some reason, he couldn't help but get reminded of Emilia. The gentle and warm senior of his who used to always help him out and shoulder his mistakes.

Simon hurriedly shook his head, clearing his thoughts. He was no longer in his previous world and this was not his previous life. What's gone was gone, he has to cherish what he did have.

This woman in front of him, instead of gaining recognition for her work she had instead dumped all of the contribution on him. Sighing in his heart and swearing to himself that he would treat her even better, he gathered the attention of his subordinates.

"Alright now, everyone focus. While you were bickering, the invaders have found the 81st floor. Things should start getting interesting from this point on. Carefully observe each of these floors and notice if there are any loopholes that we have missed, areas that the adventurers can take advantage of".

Simon clapped, causing everyone to snap out of their daze. It was just as he said, while they were talking about the contributions, the invaders had already stepped into the 81st floor.

Much like the many other floors of the dungeon, the 81st floor till the 84th floor was a vast wildland filled with all kinds of floras and faunas. The ceiling was high, dense amount of mystical energy pervaded the land and the place was surrounded by a dark dreary aura.

However, unlike the other floors of the dungeon, the 81st to the 84th floors were lower floors. As such, to stand up to the standards of the lower floors, the difficulty of the areas, trickiness of the traps, dangers, monsters, rewards and risk everything was dozens of times greater than what was on the upper floors.

The monsters here, even the weakest were all above level 350 not to mention the pack leaders, deserters, or the lone hunters, and adding in their high numbers.

Starting from the lower floors, the dungeon sheds all concept of specified floors and becomes diversified. That is to say, starting from the lower floors, you can expect to meet any or all kinds of monsters that usually do not even inhabit that floor unlike the upper floors.

The possibility of abnormality drastically increases where it wouldn't be strange to happen anything.

All of this and there is the possibility of encountering high ranking magical traps with unique effects. Not to mention all of the floors were afflicted with [Affluences].

Now that dungeon Laplace has become [B] ranking dungeon, the total number of floors that can be afflicted with [Affluence] has increased along with another feature that recently opened up.

Given that the lower floors were completely restructured for the seven kings' attack and future adventurers, it has become more dangerous than ever before. As could be seen from the scene depicted on the window screen in front of him.

As soon as the invaders entered the 81st floor, they got instantly embroiled in a fierce battle with the monsters on that floor. Given the monster's level, the many abilities, traps and mechanisms that got activated along with the affliction that was imposed on them, the invaders were having quite some trouble.

That said, these invaders were not just any invaders but some of the powerful clans of the Ghastly Winding Forest, led by the Seven Kings themselves. They possessed many talented and high level warriors and besides, their number was just too vast and could easily outnumber the monsters themselves.

Although it took longer than what it took to clear the 80th floor— a little more than two hours, it was nonetheless an absolute victory for the invaders.

The subsequent floors, Floor 82nd took three hours to clear and 83rd and 84th floors took even more.

It needs to be mentioned that floor 84th being one of the checkpoint floors, took longer than any other floors— taking the invaders more than eight hours to clear.

It was due to the many abnormalities that were placed on the floors such as the floor design which was meant to disarray the invaders, hidden arrays that disoriented one skills and magic, mutated monsters that defied the logic, traps that separated everyone and all such things.