Dikê on dungeons and old gods:
I was surprised when Hedone became a dungeon master. At first, I thought it was a god sabotaging us like during their births. However, I don’t know anyone who can manipulate the dungeons, so I let the thought go. The fear returned when I discovered that the dungeon was connected to a location with one of my old religions.
After investigating and interrogating my old associates, I uncovered that Aphrodite had taken the opportunity to play a prank and connected the dungeon to that world. But she did not have anything to do with the dungeon herself. I made sure that she knew she was on thin ice.
The dungeons are an old creation before my time. The old gods were different from us. They were free and perhaps overly creative. I’ve never met an ancient god, but I understand that they were infuriated with the new gods and created dungeons, then disappeared.
Dungeons are positioned in a separate dimension outside the realm of any gods. The walls are unbreakable, and the rooms can be created in any size or design by the dungeon master. The rooms can have any environment for a price.
A dungeon master and retainers can purchase three types of boons: knowledge, abilities, and body remodeling. Knowledge is the most expensive, as gaining knowledge takes time and intelligence. It will never be forgotten once learned.
Abilities are natural powers. When crafting an ability, an effect and trigger are chosen. For example, a smile that charms those who see it or anything you touch with your hands turns gold. A discount is given depending on how difficult the trigger is for the user. As an example, a world-class tap dancer could create a complex set of steps that the average person could never do. But if he can do it easily, there would be no discount.
Body remodeling is the cheapest of the three. It physically changes the body. This can be used to create chemical reactions or more powerful muscles. You can add a poison gland or shoot webs from your wrists.
Dike’s eyes suddenly glow as they pierce the veil of time and dimensions. Has the perspective changed? You question in confusion. As you look at your screen, you feel someone looking at you from behind. But when you turn, there is nobody there. As you look back at your screen though you do not see them, you feel the eyes of Dike baring down on you. The goddess of justice is in the room with you.
Her eyes bore into your soul, and you feel all your darkest deeds exposed. It’s an unsettling feeling like spiders crawling on your skin. Then it is gone. You are just reading a novel and all this fantasy stuff is mad up. But in your heart, you vow to be the best person you can be and endure all hardships, never giving in to evil!
This was a cute 4th wall break. I say keep it.
Yeah. I'm leaning that way. While it's not great for a book I this kinda thing makes webnovels a unique. Or that's my copium talking. :p
If you do remove this chapter, please do it after releasing the next chapter. When a bookmarked chapter is deleted, the reader can easily lose their progress in the story, although not too much of an issue with this story, as you have included the chapter number in the chapter's title, but I've had a few other writers delete chapters/updates suddenly and I lose progress and end up dropping it since it became a hassle to try and find my place again, especially if the story was in hiatus for a while.
Ditto. Deleting is bad, don't do it.
Thanks. I will take that into acount.
Hahaha LMAO. I was sweating buckets wondering whether I was actually dreaming for a bit. Well played author.
Great binge! You have an interesting dungeon concept here
OH REALLY! EFF YOU, DIKÉ! I DO AS I WISH. AND THATS EVIL! LET US SEE YOU PREVAIL AGAINST THE MIGHTY EVIL SNAKE OF DARKNESS!(my username. its the english spelling of the japanese pronunciation of Evil Snake, With Dark added.) I AM HE WHO DEVOURS THE LIGHT, WHO SHROUDS THE WORLD IN DARKNESS! (basically apophis)
Which mental asylum did you came from
The Southern United States Public School System. If you were bullied openly in a place with a supposed Zero Tolerance Rule, By students AND Staff, You'd go a little crazy too.
I am an overweight Asthmatic with psoriasis, who hates sports and about 90% of the so called "music" from 2002 to now. I had one friend, and we talked about Cartoons, videogames, comics, books, And played TCGs... Naturally, we created our own Videogame style world. The mad-scientist and the Evil-God bound in mortal flesh, working together to get revenge on all who wronged us... Fun times... plotting our various fictional revenge schemes... world domination... Mass mutagen delivering Bomb... a plague that turned all asshole bullies into Hamster-people that were then enslaved to power the airship/submarine base... You know, Average Kid Stuff.
@Darkakuahebi Sorry to disappoint but most mutagenic compounds are very unstable and break down quickly as for the more stable ones they tend to blend their targets with animals that have left traces on or near them and do turn them into pure animals. Unless you have blended animal DNA into the Mutagen and it has somehow not broken down. Also stinks to high heavens when it breaks down. Lastly try not to create Cat-girls they are poor chaos.