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As Maria and company reached the mountain once more today, a lurking figure slowly continued following them from afar. Her sharp, draconic eyes glaring their every movent. They were not exactly nacing, but she seed to be inspecting them as if she was obsessed with them… when they finally landed in the mountain, she quickly hid beneath a rock and then looked at them once more.
"Where is my brother and his friends going now?" She wondered.
She slowly lurked around, using her magic to hide her presence wonderfully, even from Maria…
"To a dungeon?" She wondered, seeing them slowly descend through a large hole.
As she followed them silently by reducing her size into a smaller form, she suddenly realized sothing.
From within the dungeon, sothing powerful was resting…
"Wait…! This dungeon is…?"
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(Maria's POV)
After arriving at the mountain, we swiftly moved through the cave we have used before and then reached the hole going down. The fall from here was sure deadly for most people, but we were going to bring them down using Lucifer, and my shadow magic.
"Alright you guys, prepare yourselves!"
I quickly called them to prepare, as I expanded my shadows and let them all inside. I guess Lucifer didn't even need to help in that regard. When I had everyone inside my shadows, we descended quickly down to the cave I had discovered, and we were greeted by the beautiful lake where Gero ca from.
"I guess now that we are here… You guys can co out." I said.
The dwarves quickly walked out of my shadows, followed by an enormous Undead Salamander. The mont they noticed Gero, they stopped walking and then slowly looked back at the enormous beast.
"U W A A A H!"
"A A G G H H!"
"W H A T S THAT?!"
The dwarves quickly began to panic.
"Hey! Co on, you saw him yesterday! He's my Undead monster I caught here." I sighed. "His na is Gero, make sure to treat him nicely."
"Geroro…" Gero groaned, looking at everybody with his big and frog-like eyes.
"I-I guess that with such a strong monster, we can be well protected."
"Yeah…"
"It is amazing what Necromancers can do…"
"I agree…"
Helga looked at with a slightly tired-looking expression.
"Maria, do you really have to bring him?" She sighed.
"Eh? Is there sothing wrong with him? Of course I have to bring him! He wants to level up! I also got a bunch more of Undead with … I'll bring them all out as well, I heard this dungeon is dangerous so the more the rrier, right?" I asked, bringing out countless of skeletons, zombies, and undead giant spiders. There were also those giant bugs we fought when Agatha turned into a demon, and other lizard-like monsters from the dungeon previous to that.
"S-So many…"
"There are even bugs and is that a lizard?!"
"A giant dinosaur thing…"
"These are… how many?!"
"Over… two hundred? I only brought fifty out." I said while looking at everyone. "I have the rest of my undead friends back ho protecting my place. I could only bring a small battalion with ."
"I-It is more than enough…" Helga said.
I quickly assembled all my Undead in front of , I had only brought generic ones, with all the OP ones back ho protecting my place and the people there. So Gero was the strongest amongst them all, therefore, I gave him the title of Undead General for this Battalion.
"Alright! From now on, Gero is your Undead General, guys, obey his orders!" I said, the Undead gave out all sorts of terrifying groans, as they seed to agree.
"Alright, let's get going then!" I said, as I lead the way into the dungeon's entrance.
The marching monsters behind us and so in front seed to have put the dwarves in a bit of a stretch. I didn't really wanted to make them more uncomfortable, but this was sothing that needed to be done! This was a dangerous dungeon after all.
At the end, they still cald down and simply decided to ignore the Undead with us. Ultimately, we finally reached the dungeon's first floor, which looked not exactly as we had expected it to look like.
Inside of the dungeon there was an enormous and expansive grassland. There were even mountains around the background, a shining sun atop the sky, and even so trees spread here and there. To the distance, perhaps half a kiloter away from here, there was a small mound of earth in the grasslands, with a cave-like entrance leading sowhere down.
"I-Is this really a dungeon? It is not like anything we have ever visited before!" Said Eraldine.
"Wow… Aren't dungeons way smaller and packed?" Wondered Partner.
"They're supposed to be like that, yeah." I said while rubbing my chin. "But this place… Well, we have only explored a single dungeon in our entire lives, so maybe there are other types."
"Hmmm… I had almost forgotten, but yeah, Dungeons co in all shapes and sizes. So are more temple or ruin-like in appearance, so are like these, small, pocket worlds, and then there are mixed versions of both." Lucifer said. "Usually those with this appearance are stronger and are said to be "projections of the world"… or sothing like that."
"Huh, in the caves there are so Bio Dungeons, as we call them." Helga added. "But they're not near as big as this… And are these plants? There's a surprisingly big variety of herbs growing in this dungeon… it is sothing very rare, if we can find a way to farm this land and produce crops from here, we could solve a lot of issues with food in our country…" Helga quickly began to wonder such things.
"Wait, sothing's coming!" Partner pointed out, as several figures quickly erged almost out of thin air from within the vast grasslands expanding right before our sight.
They were gigantic… moles?
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