Dungeon Core Online 34 Chapter 34

"It feels a bit, empty." James had just finished burning through his final 2500 points from dungeon token use, and his floor was as complete as it could get for now. Burnt out husks of cars littered the area, and the city was crumbling and desolate as he had planned. He had even found effects he could add for very few resources, so now his floor had smoke rising from various places, as if the very ground seemed to burn from a long-forgotten attack. Just how he wanted it. In his mind, the town was the ruins of a war that eradicated most of the humans, leaving behind only the steampunk automatons that they had created. No one would know his story for his floor, but he liked having one. It made a little more sense, in his mind, than a demonic farm inside of a cave.

"Well yeah, that's what happens after the apocalypse." James closed out of his dungeon creator, and pulled up his mob generator, preparing to populate the floor. "How much time do we have?"

Rue waved her hand, and a timer once again appeared. James was really glad the developers had devoted an hour of real world time to the front and back of the full 9 hours of immersion, it gave him time to really prepare his floor for his adventurers.

"You've managed to waste, er, use up just over 4 hours of time so far, with your city planning." James nodded and glanced at his research, just under 30 minutes for his research to complete, before he could make mimics. He was excited, but he knew that would be one of the last tasks he did for the day. For now, steampunk dinosaurs.

"So, my first floor now has 200 mob points worth of mobs, and a boss." James was glancing at his mob generator screen. "But, it looks like I start with 400 points worth of mobs for floor two?" This time around, James had absorbed his velocity raptor before he began crafting his second floor, so he currently had no mobs roaming about.

"Mhmm, each floor you are going to get more points. On top of that, your mobs will start at higher levels, obviously." James was nodded as he checked at his mob costs. It was finally time for him to summon his mobs, and even though he had spent the entire day thinking about it, he was still undecided on how exactly it was going to happen.

He knew he really wanted to abuse his velocity raptors. They were the second cheapest mob for this floor, and reading through their skills, he knew they would be power house mobs. He pulled up the information on them, just to check them over one last time, before he committed to anything.

Velocity Raptor (7) lvl 15

Type: Clockwork Raptor

HP: 60

MP: 30

Atk: 50

Def: 25

Unique Traits

Steam Powered Pack: Velocity raptors gain 100% increase to their stats as long as they are in a pack of 3 or more.

∆D/∆T: Velocity Raptors have 125% increased movement and attack speed while above 50% health.

James wasn't sure if he should grin, or groan as he read over the skills one last time. Whoever had come up with the abilities on the Velocity Raptors, had to have been a nerd. Who else would put in the equation for velocity as a unique skill. Though, the fact James recognized that as the correct equation, wasn't saying much for him either. Ugh.

He quickly breezed through the rest of the dinosaurs at his disposal, starting to run calculations in his mind as he did. The mobs available to him, in order of cost, were Archeao-repairers, which cost him 6 mob points apiece, and were a smaller flying mob. The creature didn't really do much in the way of damage but had the ability to repair any steampunk dinosaurs on the floor, making them extremely troublesome in James's mind for adventurers. Especially because he had noticed some groups did not run wit ranged DPS. Flying mobs would be the end of them.

Next, costing 7 points, was of course the velocity raptors. After them, for 8 points, were tricercogs, massive herbivore type dinosaurs, with spiked horns that appeared to be able to be launched at enemies. Add that into the frill around their heads, which appeared to be heavily armored, and he could tell it was a dangerous tank mob. Then, there was the steamosaurus at 9 points, a modification to the stegosaurus from what James could tell. It was a unique mob, in that it appeared to have two different forms it was capable of utilizing. James figured that mob would take more than one group by surprise.

The last two mobs for James each cost 10 points. One, was a Spy-nosaurus, a massive carnivore that the developers appeared to have decided to give a cloaking ability to. That didn't seem fair, but James was already eagerly waiting to see the first adventurer group to come upon one of them. Then, there was the Break-i-asarus. Seriously, James had to wonder if the developers started getting lazy on their mob names at one point. Surely someone, somewhere, could have come up with something a little more amusing. Regardless, the break-i-asarus was a massive mob, that appeared to have the ability to land a widespread stun to adventurers, while also simply having a massive amount of life. This mob was definitely going to exist outside of town.

With 400 points, James started summoning his dinos as he saw fit. Outside of the town, various distances away from the city, James summoned 5 break-i-asarus, for a total of 50 points. Inside the town, near various open expanses, James summoned 5 spy-nosaurus, for another 0 points. With 300 points remaining, James went to town on, literally, on his next mob. At 7 apiece, and needing to be in groups of three or more, James summoned packs of velocity raptors all through town. These mobs, standing at roughly 3 feet a piece, would be able to easily ambush and sneak up on adventurers. He summoned 7 packs of 3 inside of town, spending 147 points. He planned to add more packs outside of the city, as they could ambush players from within the savanna grass.

With 153 points remaining, James summoned a mixture of tricercogs and steamosaursus outside of the town, but assigned them the ability to freely room inside and outside of the city. He could only imagine how problematic an encounter with one would be inside of the city, where players could be ambushed by velocity raptors at the same time. It was going to be glorious.

Finally, James summoned a total of 10 Archeao-repairers, using the last 60 points at his disposal, and finishing off his initial mob preparation. He couldn't help but grinning as he watched the magnificent dinosaurs moving about.

"They spent so much time wondering if they could, they didn't stop to think if they should." Rue's voice pulled James from his admiration of his work, and he turned to her, feeling himself grin.

She was quoting the Jurassic Universe movies, or more specifically, the Jurassic Park remake that had come out a few years ago. Apparently, Disney was on a mission to remake as many movies as they could, every decade. Ironically, it was working, because they continued to make money off what was essentially a pretty version of a movie that came out decades before hand. James figured if you could make money just improving how something looked but keeping the story and even the script nearly the same, well hey, more power to em. In his heart though, he wanted to try and be as unique as he could with what he created, which is why he was doing his best with his dungeon, and why he silently enjoyed his Random choice. No one was going to be able to predict what would come next for him.

"Speaking of what we could and should do." James turned to his pixie, felling his excitement rise. "How about we get to making our boss and mini boss?" Rue had explained to him that developers wanted mini bosses to have synergy with bosses. Therefore, when James rolled for his boss, after he selected it, he would be given a new roll specifically for mobs that could synergize with it, for his mini boss. Honestly, James didn't care too much for what his mini boss was. He had one mission, and that was to get the boss he knew had to exist for this mob type. And he had 10 dungeon tokens to spend chasing his dream.

A grin spread across Rue's face, and she waved her hand, summoning the infamous slot machines. James started praying to the RNGesus, before he nodded to his pixie. A second later, the whimsical music began, and James waited anxiously to see what he would get.

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