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Chapter 36 March 407 AD Paulsland-More Assassinations
After hearing the news of what happened to King Shimbir, Wauta got an idea. Maybe, just maybe, this awful war could end, and he could finally go home if Kingsminister Jinka died. Seven years ago, just half a year from the time he could leave the military and start his life, this never-ending war st...
Chapter 35 February 407 AD Paulsland-Assassination Attempt
When Michael, the Bishop of Rome, told Emperor Trajan about his plan to create turmoil in Paulsland with political assassinations, he wasn’t telling the Emperor what he was going to do; he was telling the Emperor about a plan that was well underway. Across Paulsland, several agents of the Univers...
Chapter 34 January 407 Rome-The Emperor’s Plans
Michael, the Bishop of Rome, had a large smile on his face as he made his way to the Emperor’s office, with four servants following close behind, all carrying large cases filled with documents. When Michael entered Trajan’s office, the Emperor saw his smile and asked, “What’s the good news?...
Chapter 33 January 407 AD-Trade Alliance
Muuza’s time with the Merchant Guild was interesting and longer than necessary. Heading north from the Cuban lands led his small fleet to a massive landmass, and the locals were all too happy to send him in the direction of the Merchant Guild’s settlement, a city called Itsu. From what Muuza co...
Chapter 32 January 407 AD-Negotiations
Osroes IV, King of Parthia, had a very difficult decision to make since the Romans took the city of Dura. Dura gave the Romans the ability to march into Parthia’s heartland, which meant that Osroes needed to focus all his armies on the west side of Parthia to combat the Romans. Unfortunately, Par...
Chapter 31 November 406 AD Dura-Capture
As the trenches grew closer and closer to Dura, Julius grew more nervous. He had received word from his father that capturing the steam weapons was more important than capturing the city. Although Kush had captured steam weapons from Paulsland, they had not yet allowed Romans to examine them, and p...
Chapter 30 October 406 Cuban Archipelago-Trade
Muuza waited eleven days before a long ship arrived from the Landowner’s Meet with instructions for Muuza’s fleet to follow them. As they followed Muuza couldn’t help but notice that other longships steered clear of their little fleet as soon as they noticed them. Muuza was glad that their re...
Chapter 29 October 406 Cuban Archipelago-New vs Old
Muuza’s ships waited nine days for the Cuban fleet to arrive. Although they waited, they were not idle in the least; they couldn’t be. Muuza fully recognized that the Cubans were decent warriors. In their last conflict, he had more than a hundred casualties. Furthermore, the Cubans liked to att...
Chapter 28 October 406 AD Cuban Archipelago-Right of Passage
The last few months had been very busy for Muuza. Originally, he was sent out to the Western Sea to find the Merchant Guild. Instead, he found two groups of people. The first was a rather primitive group of people who lived on a massive river called the Casarabe. They were very happy to trade with ...
Chapter 27 September 406 AD Flattop Mountain
Three weeks after gaining his freedom, and things were calming down. Two days after the traitors were killed, detectives showed up and took the bodies, and asked questions for days. They attempted to take Shimbir back to the capital, but Shimbir refused. The detectives tried to insist, but Shimbir ...
Chapter 26 September 406 Dura-Rebuilding an Image
Julius had no choice but to rebuild his image, or he was as good as dead. After his disastrous loss in Paulsland, where he lost an entire army to their new steam weapons, he brought news of the defeat back to his father, Emperor Trajan. There were serious discussions about whether he should fall on...
Chapter 25 August 406 AD-The News
At four sixteen in the morning, a loud banging was heard on the door to the male dorms of the Believers Church in Paulsland’s capital. The dorm was filled with addicts struggling with addiction, alongside a few men and their families who ministered to them. The loud banging woke up half the dorm,...
Chapter 24 August 406 Flattop Mountain-Security
When Shimbir, Busara, and the King’s guards reached the bottom of the mountain, the officers of man camp greeted him, and one said, “We have done as you asked, and separated the men based on their family’s employment.” Shimbir asked, “How many men have parents or siblings that work direct...
Chapter 23 August 406 Flattop Mountain-Hall of Mysteries
The parade grounds surrounding Flattop Mountain were in chaos. Between the deaths of the traitors that had controlled the King, the King’s order to separate soldiers based on their parentage, and the various military officials who had to take responsibility for the needs of the soldiers, the peop...
Epilogue-The Great Black Tree Dungeon
The dungeon felt incredible relief as he traveled faster and faster through space. Due to his nature, he was actually able to sense the outside of the folding space bubble. He couldn’t technically see in the distance, but he could sense gravity, which came as a pleasant surprise, as he had no way...
Chapter 22 August 406 AD Flattop Mountain-Cause and Effect
As the young soldiers surged forward to protect their King, Shimbir couldn’t believe his nightmare was about to be over. He felt like he must be dreaming. When he fired those rounds, he hoped that perhaps he could be set free from the gilded cage he was trapped in, but as he watched the young sol...
Chapter 75 Magical Space Battle
As the labyrinth flew through space, traveling faster and faster with the help of nuclear fusion bombs, the dungeon carefully watched the area of space where the immortals were vaporized. The dungeon was hopeful that immortals couldn’t survive being turned into plasma, but his hopes were dashed a...
Chapter 21 August 406 AD Paulsland Capital-Leaving the Cage for a Display
Authors note- Thank you for your patience, had a good time with my mom lost week, even though I had to navigate work and spending time with her it was good. Shimbir was playing with his monkey one day when the nameless manager came into his room and said, “We have an event for you to attend, and ...
Chapter 74 Struggle
After killing a tier-three mage, the mage’s tier-three familiar, and the imp, who was a tier-three entity, the dungeon had a massive amount of mana fueling his growth, and so the dungeon focused on growing straight up. Vacuum dungeons were evolved wind dungeons. There were seven on them on all th...
Chapter 20 August 406 AD Paulsland Capital-Reaction
Malkia was sitting in her office when a messenger brought her the news that would be printed in the next day's newspaper.When the news of the iron horse powered by steam reached the editor of one of the Pauslon family newspapers, he immediately sent a messenger to Malkia. The particular messeng...
Chapter 73 Alric’s Toughest Battle
After hearing the dungeon’s voice, Alric muttered, “So you are sane?” The dungeon responded at haste speed. “No. I am compelled to consume mana creatures like yourself. Fortunately, the compulsion is only particularly bad when mana creatures are in my area of influence. Beyond this compulsi...
Chapter 19 August 406 AD Flat Top Mountain-A Whistle Heard Around the World
At the base of Flat Top mountain, where a twenty thousand square foot factory, which was officially designated as a warehouse for experimental steam weapons, Busara watched nervously as his workers carefully maneuvered the steam shovel onto the back of a rail car, connected to the first steam locom...
Chapter 72 Alric Returns
Alric, the third-tier mage, was once again working on his familiar, a four-foot-long snake-like dragon, when a portal opened next to him and an immortal said, “When you get the chance, check out the Great Black Tree Labyrinth, we lost another group of tier-two mages.” Alric didn’t bother to l...
Chapter 18 June 406 AD Paulsland Capital-Meeting of Stockholders
Due to the changes in the Paulson Industries focus, where their factories stopped building a whole host of goods and started building steam weapons, alongside the need to rebuild a lot of factories that were damaged during the war with Rome, the insecurity as they continue fighting a Kush with stea...
Chapter 71 Mage VS. Sage
Susan was two hundred and fifty-one years old, although she didn’t look a day over nineteen. She was one of four tier-two mages making their way to the Great Black Tree Labyrinth. Every one of these mages had every tier-two core, and they were coming to the Great Black Tree Labyrinth to prepare f...
Chapter 17 April 406 AD Cuban Archipelago-Explorers
Authors note- Earlier this year I had two chapters dealing with the Merchant Guild attempting to raid one of the Cuban Islands, this chapter takes place after those chapters. When I get a chance I will adjust the chapters on my patrion page, just super busy right now. Muuza looked over his fleet of...
Chapter 70 Squirrel Queen
It took the dungeon nearly a century to figure out how to make an essence creature with a hivemind, and the dungeon was rather upset with the process. A hive mind creature had to develop the hivemind while its various bodies were embryos. The only reason why the dungeon learned this was because he ...
Chapter 14 January 406 AD Paulsland Capital-Corporate Solution
The news of Paulsland losing a half-million-man army was almost lost alongside the news that Kush had taken the steam weapons and would soon create their own versions. Only the families of those who were lost took note of their deaths, although just weeks after the news of their loss, and when much...
Chapter 69 Sage Squirrel
As the dungeon worked on its hive mind project, years passed. As time passed, the radio humans made faster progress than the dungeon. As the years passed the humans learned how to make televisions, which were a gigantic improvement over projectors. The difference between the two was that projectors...
Chapter 13 December 405 AD Kush-Persistence Hunting
General Alara’s plan succeeded beyond his expectations. After the three Kush armies wiped out the Paulsland baggage train supplying the Paulsland army, it took a week for the army to find out, and then it took them two weeks to make it back to the Kush army. While the Kush army waited for the Pau...
