Obsession with luck and commotion
"This is so tiring, we still aren´t even halfway through, and there are still 22 floors ahead of us..." whined the usually go happy Milly, while walking through the destroyed plains of the 18th floor.
"I agree, this is indeed tiring, but we are making great strides. The enemies are getting fewer and fewer, so be careful," spoke Fitz.
"Well, Mavis did most of the work anyway, and the 5 to 20 floor is mostly baren, but I still don´t understand why he is so upset..." spoke Patrus while taking a swig out of his water bottle.
"He is still whining because he didn´t manage to capture the one we are searching for, but Isn't it good that there are fewer monsters here?" asked the princess confused.
"Usually yes, but not during a huge wave like this. The low monster rate only means that there is a strong, and probably intelligent monster grinding exp on this floor. The fewer monsters there are during a wave the stronger and intelligent it is, and most likely it will turn into a champion when left alone for long enough" replied Simon who was walking beside her.
Meanwhile, Mavis was still begrudged about the fact that he let the snake escape. He already sensed it with his magic on the third floor and even got a glimpse of it, but when he was about to capture Raas, a sudden stampede of monster army ants attacked them, making him unable to cast his none lethal spell at the snake.
Stargazers have a wide arrange of spells and are overly powerful compared to other classes, but even then they couldn't do anything, and they surely aren´t experts on capturing enemies. They are more like control towers, support, long-range damage dealers, close-range damage dealers, area of effect specialists, semi tanks, boss killers, tracers, scouts, and many more, but sadly no spells for capturing enemies unharmed, especially someone of his caliber, where a low tier 1 spell could be enough to kill whole hoards of monsters. And one of its huge drawbacks was that any other spells except cosmic, lunar, solar, or stella nature have a 200% increased spell casting duration, making him too slow to finish his spell in time. Well, it also didn´t help that Raas was already on the other side of the floor while they just arrived on this floor. That only shows how large Mavis's range of sense is.
He couldn't even place a star point on Raas as he vanished in thin air when he reached the 4th floor. Well, Mavis did saw that the snake and the metal scorpion got teleported away, but where to, he didn´t know, but thanks to his enhanced senses he knew that the snake must still be somewhere deep in the lower floors.
His obsession for the snake exploded as he made a stealthy deep scan on the snake monster and saw the enormous growth in strength it made during such a short period, as well as its luck. As a stargazer, he could see people's luck, fate, and vague possible futures, and what he saw was abnormally intriguing for him.
It was like the world itself was protecting him and trying to make him stronger, and even stealing small amounts of luck from those who are his enemies and even enhancing allies' luck.
Mavis categorized peoples luck in:
Ones that are being hated by the world.
Ones that are being ridiculed by the world.
Ones that are being ignored by the world.
Ones that are being pitied by the world.
Ones that are being loved by the world.
Ones that are being hailed by the world.
That is also the official grading for one's luck, as Mavis was the first one to do it.
And Raas was one of the few that is being loved by the world. In his long life, he saw many creatures, beings, monsters, and other intelligent and none intelligent humanoids/monsters, but only 100 others can be counted in this category of his. Of those 100, 43 already died, one of which was a close friend of his. The last group was even fewer, it was so rare that only a handful of them was counted and almost all of them were heroes. 3 known living beings in this luck group are known to Mavis.
So begrudged and angry at himself he plowed through the dungeon pouring enormous amounts of mana into his spells and nearly destroying whole floors with his ridiculous magic. It was even so bad that a floor guardian appeared. And after a long talk and nearly a fight it left.
Well, they could kill the floor guardians easily, but it would still cause them more trouble than it's worth. Killing floor guardians is seen as a major taboo and the dungeon would often sacrifice large portions of the dungeon to kill the ones that killed a floor guardian.
"Oh, I forgot to ask, but what did the snake look like? You did manage to take a peek before the enormously large horde attacked us, right?" asked Simon while leisurely walking through the charred floor.
"Yes, I did manage to take a glimpse at him. His stats shot through the roof, and he even managed to gain a name, Raas, and his size increased tremendously in that short amount of time. Agg, I let this unique monster slip away!" after a deep breath, and calming himself he continued, "Raas, the Menacing grey youngling serpent, already reached level 15 and all his stats are around 50, expect mentality. Who knows how strong he is now... you will have to look for yourself when we find it."
"That is quite amazing, it would be a huge boon to our kingdom if we manage to nurture him into the national guardian Vextia," spoke Katharina, the second princess.
"Hmm, a giant snake as the national guardian of Vextia, wouldn´t say that it would be fitting, but better than nothing," said Patrus, the S rank adventurer Sun Lion.
It took them a few days to travel so far, and even with their enormous strength, speed and stamina, the dungeon is still soo large that it would take them few weeks to reach where Raas is, not even speaking of finding him, but they didn´t know that...
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On the other hand, Raas was still resting, better said, sleeping tight and curled up with his hard-earned monster core in the middle, being oblivious about the tumult outside. The veiled girl cast many protective spells on Raas so that no one could view his stats. There was an unspoken rule that monsters wouldn´t look at each other's stats unauthorized, but their curiosity overwhelmed them. It even caused such a large commotion that the queen got wind of this situation. Well, Metallkill did scan Raas, but no one find that out so it's okay...
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Outside the resting area, the crowd was pushing against the guards of the pit, wanting to enter the resting area and talking to the one that has Sol´s gem, like a swarm of paparazzi finding a big scope.
"My~ my~ my~ what is all the commotion about." spoke a clear elegant voice that could be heard throughout the place, despite all the noise.
The crowd froze as a wave of pressure washed over them. Shivering and stiffly they turned back towards the source of the pressure and saw a very familiar black-haired woman, that was crossing her arms and looking kind of annoyed.
Many thoughts ran through their heads, but mostly asking themselves why the queen was personally here. She almost never leaves her castle, so seeing her here was very shocking for most of the monsters.
After a long silence, one brave soul, spoke up, "We wanted to see the monster that managed to gain Sol´s gem in such a short time."
Her purple eyes stared emotionlessly at the monster while letting out a hum, before slightly turning her head towards the resting area. After another long pause, the queen finally spoke, "Hmmmmm~ is that right... You know the rules, so don´t pry so much. All of you leave now, the pit is closed for the rest of the day, so scram before I make you." said the queen with a not so soft smile.
The group immediately scrambled away, not wanting to taste the queen's wrath.
"Puh, it is tough to be a queen." said the pale beauty while walking towards the sleeping snake.
Entering the resting area the veiled girl bowed towards her already sensing her since she appeared, "Your highness, what brings you here?"
"You know exactly why I am here, Beatrice. Don´t ask such a silly question." said the shadow dragon with a smile. *Sigh* "I never would have thought that this little one would make so much trouble in such a short time." Taking a closer look her smile widened. "But he surely got more handsome during this time..."
"... Your highness..."
"I know I know, you don´t have to say it... I will stop... for now..."
"Your highness!"
"Ts, can´t even take a joke." spoke the queen annoyed.
"Was it really a joke?" asked the veiled girl unconvinced.
"No comment..." replied the queen, gaining a blanc stare.
"Ahem, back to the topic... so did you find out anything about this... event. It certainly isn´t something that naturally occurred, especially not in that short of time. Normally a huge amount of effort would be necessary to give someone Sol´s gem."
"I certainly did not notice anything, but we could ask Raas, what happened when he wakes up..."
A few minutes pass, till Raas finally awakens from his slumber. His eyes adjusted again and he let out a huge yawn, that was much scarier than when he was still small.
His first view was of the elegant queen´s voluptuous bosoms right in front of him. Her "beauty" stunned him for a moment but he soon regained himself and looked up while quickly asking, "Your highness, what are you doing here."
Noticing his clear reaction she chuckled, also hearing the same thing twice was kind of amusing to her. "You caused quite the commotion with your appearance, little Raas. So, I wanted to see for myself, and low and behold I saw you, but now with one of the primordial gem. You surely must have an idea of how you obtained it right?" asked the queen sweetly.
"Hmm? Oh, yes that one twig dude, gave me a potion and after drinking it this suddenly appeared on my forehead, with the other changes. Even my race changed slightly..."
The queen and the veiled girl froze up.
"No... it can´t be... right?" asked the veiled girl while clutching her head.
"It most certainly is..." said the queen while biting her nail.
Raas got extremely confused by their reactions as he didn´t understand how great this gift was and what it meant.
"Emmm, I don´t know why you are freaking out like this, but can you please explain it to me?" asked the oblivious Raas.
The two turned towards him and sighed.
"We will talk in a more private place. To many prying eyes and ears around here." said the queen, before engulfing the three in a place mist.
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I kind of wanted to make Raas OP, but not too fast, and showing that there are many more talented, and lucky creatures/beings out there. The world is bigger than it might seem. And Mavis is there to show, how strong humans could be, but is he already the strongest human? No one knows... except me. Don´t know if the story is too slow-pace or not, but I want to write a slow-paced story as it would be more fleshed out and more interesting, just my opinion. And making the story progress too fast will make plot holes even more prominent and noticeable. So I will stick with it for a while. Maybe later I will fasten the pace. I am still thinking about the world-building stuff as Raas still hasn´t left the dungeon. Oh boy will it be complicated when Raas finally leaves the dungeon and explores the other regions... but let's not get too far ahead of ourselves and stick to the dungeon world for a bit longer...
Oh, and sorry for the long wait... but at least I am here and didn´t drop it, right? RIGHT!?