The Fate X Dungeon
Ch#15 - Collecting

“...in this way, everything is done.”

After wandering around looking for some caves, around the rows of mountains with Sella, I carved Magic Runes in every mouth of the cave I found. The plan, I want to create an alternative entrance that is directly connected to the dungeon.

Since the actual entrance was still not made, I used space magic applied with runes, to create a temporary door.

Utilizing space magic, I deflected the destination from the cave entrance, and diverted it to a predefined location. In this condition, the point of coordination is my underground Dungeon. This is the most widely known space magic, from the existing ranks of space magic. 「Gate」

By embedding it in a medium, Gate will always be active as long as it is connected to my inner channel. That's where the function of the runes is needed, to apply it to the mouth of the cave as a medium. Then, by adding the command to make the Gate appear and disappear within a certain period of time, on the rune I wrote, it would make it a Random Gate.

Therefore, a random Gate will appear at each cave entrance as long as it is still connected to my inner channel, which acts as a resource provider.

When Rune Magic activates Random Gate, the cave door is directly directed to a different place. Instead of entering the actual cave, they would instead send him inside the dungeon.

Since leaving Arunn Village some time ago, I have recalled my purpose, when stepping once again into the outside world. And the first step of that goal, starting with gathering as much information and power as possible.

First, I need a monster or a living creature that can inhabit my dungeon. There are three options I can choose from. Using monsters summoned by summoning magic, making your own with magic creations, or luring wild monsters into dungeons.

The first two choices I will ignore for now, and choose the focus to lure monsters into the dungeon. That is the reason random gates are spread in every location. A small touch later, the monsters would have no choice but to build a nest inside the dungeon.

But before that, I need to know what kind of living things live in the mountains of Ingglis. So I assigned some familiar consisting of imps, to do a sweep.

Since humans generally established villages in the foothills of the mountain, the monsters would choose the depth of the forest as their residence. Based on the search results provided, imp found several monster nests that were suitable for dungeon occupants.

If you follow the forest path that leads to the top of the mountain from the south of the village of Arunn, the goblin nest will be found in a small cave covered with shrubs. In the previous cave quest, I ignored the cave because it looked inconspicuous. Who would have thought there was a goblin nest in it.

Goblins are weak creatures. Their strength and intelligence can be equated with children. Cowardly and happy to attack using their troublesome numbers.

“Even if weak, even small children can be a threat if using weapons and numbers to attack someone.”

That's the line I told Sella before she left to carry out my orders. With his succubus ability, I want the goblins to be lured by him and lured into the dungeon.

Those ugly green creatures might not be smart, but they were quite clever. Because they are cowards, their survival instinct is very high. Basically, goblins are only interested in eating, and mating other females, even of different races. They have a great tendency to rape and plant their seeds on every woman they meet.

So for Succubus it seems, this task is arguably easy. As soon as the goblins arrived inside, I immediately closed the exit for them. I asked the shadow walker to slaughter half the goblin group, and let the rest escape.

Those survivors would hide in a corner of the Dungeon, after instilling a feeling of fear towards something they could not fight against. Fear will evoke a survival instinct, and a great desire to reproduce. No need to wait half a year, the population of the goblin group would definitely explode some more time.

After the goblins, the next was the Orcs. The monster was a boar-headed, and walked on two legs. Physically stronger than goblins, but their intelligence is below average. Unlike goblins, they understand a little how to communicate.

I used magic to transform the fields, from the originally green to the barren, arid fields. Then I dammed the river around it, and got rid of the existing food sources, before finally destroying the place where he lived. By creating such conditions in the orc environment, they would later come alone into the dungeon through the nearest random gate.

During the entire day, I continued to perform various small actions to 'fishing' monsters, in order to be willing to inhabit the dungeon on their own accord.

Monsters, beasts, and magical animals. A variety of appropriate actions have been taken to deal with them. In less than a week, the results are visible.

After getting tired of today's busyness, Sella and I decided to return to the dungeon. While waiting for the results I had planned, I could take care of the pile of corpses obtained from Arunn Village.

“What do you want from this pile of corpses?”

That was the first question that Sella asked, when she saw the piles of corpses of the bandits that I had moved into the dungeon.

“Have you heard magic to resurrect the undead?” I answered him the question above the question. Because of her knowledge, Sella immediately understood my wish.

“You mean Undead.?.”

I nodded in response. Right enough. My plan was to raise the bandits as undead, in order to be added to the dungeon. Moreover, the newly awakened undead, still carried their memories before dying very clearly.

So I intended to ask them various things I wanted to know from them, before their memories were damaged after being undead longer.

With various preparations, I used magic to turn on the corpse—「Force Undead」 on 100 bandit corpses. Force Undead is High-Tier Magic. As a magician, the capacity of my magic treasury is enormous. Wearing High-Tier Magic is not complicated for me..

As soon as the magic chant was spoken, an extremely dense black miasma flowed through the air. The bodies of the bandits began to absorb the miasma into his body, signaling the undead force had been working.

The corpses that had absorbed the dark energy from the black miasma earlier, began to move about making a reaction. Slowly but surely, the lifeless body began to stand alone

Although his face was already different from when they were alive, it was still well recognized. One of the undead standing amongst the other undead, walked towards me on the orders I gave.

As I recall, this person was called the commander by the other bandits...

I thought to myself, as I looked at the undead standing before me.

“So tell me, all the things you know and your purpose is to attack that village.”

All the information came out of that rotting mouth. With the information I obtained, I came up with a plan for the next step.

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