“So, Agunan, how did yht with the Gate Guardian go?” I asked the dragon, as we regrouped in the core room of HomeBase. I asked him to test fight the new Dark Guardian improved version of the st boss of the dungeon.

  “That monster bination is quite strong.” Agunan answered. “At first, they don’t seem all that strong, but they work together extremely well. The water walls preventing my attacks, the wind to hasten their movements, and the lightning attacks are a dangerous bination, but nothing I ot deal with. But then ing back after death and bining like that, now that form is something. And their bitack is somewhat dangerous, and could deal major damage if it hits. But still for me, the worst part is those water walls they use, because they just block most of my ratacks, so I have to fight up close. And theurn into that dark being, and it just doesn’t die, no matter how much I punch it. I had to retreat after I ran out of mana, but I think I might have won if I had more mana.”

  Oh? So the Sanga, Kazejin, Suijin into Gate Guardian intuardian was able to make Agunareat, just because he ran out of mana. Not bad. Not bad at all.

  Spoiler [colpse]I was holy a bit doubtful if it really could stop a dragon, because when I tested the fight in the factory, I set Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon against the boss, and Ultimate won, even taking down Dark Guardian. And that wasn’t under Mountain of Light or anything, so it should have beeively fair. Sure Agunan has never beaten any of the Ultimate Dragons, but they always fight uhe Mountain of Light, so I thought that was why.

  Spoiler[colpse]Maybe I’ll ask Agunan to fight the Gate Guardian boss in the factory. I set peoples mana to unlimited in the factory, so he might be able to win there. That will give me an idea about how probable it is that someone prepared with mana potions take dowe Guardian boss.

  But still, maybe I should make an additional boss here. Just what to use? The Wicked Avatar would be iing, as it will always be strohan whatever ihis pce, but if they bring some ued tool, he might not be all that great. Though its effect should prevent them from using any straools for some time at the start of the fight.

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  [colpse]I’m also not sure how I feel about using something like the Wicked monsters for this. Just in case they try to revolt or something. Maybe I should use something a bit more … normal.

  … I could use Skull Servants, I think… a full floor of just Skull Servants, with the boss being a King of the Skull Servants. Because Skull Servants being quite weak, the invader would likely just run all over them, and then a super powered up King would destroy them.

  Spoiler[colpse]… but King of the Skull Servants has no prote and has 0 defense, so any lucky attack could take it down. Maybe if I had The Lady in Wight to protect the King? But I ’t get o, so let’s resider this after I get the Lady, because a Skeleton King boss that gets strohe more skeletons on the floor you defeated, while also being nearly immortal while Lady is alive, would be quite the floor boss.

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  Now. The other thing I came in here for. My carriage. After traveling in one of Mariina’s/Sage’s tolem carriages for two days, I felt like having my own. Not because they are bad, but because I think I make a better one. I already designed one during the trip anyway, so why not?

  It came with a handful of cool features, most of which I ot actually yet use. For o has a full suspension system with shock absorbers and everything, so it should be o ride in. It does also have a sedary shock mitigation system, where the entire passenger raise up to float above the chassis, but that takes some amount of mana to use, so I still o develop a powersource for that. It could currently be used, if I ied a Pitch-Bck Power Stoo a slot, but those stones will only power the levitator the two hours they stay out, so using the levitation thing is not something I’ll be doing for now.

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  It also has a space magic tool, which be used to make the inside rger than it could normally be, but again, it takes mana. I desig using some of the duech, which allows the duo ge its internal size. And yes, it be powered with Pitch-Bck Power Stones. Just like the levitator, the two hour time limit for the stone roblem, so I would need some other power source.

  As for the autopilot, well, it doesn’t have one. I could make one by installing any of my mae monsters into the carriage, but that would turn the carriage into a living being, so I could no loake it into Ste. It is iing that a golem ts as a living being, because I thought a beati was the limiting factor, but there must be something like that in a golem as well. It might be an active golem core, or something. Anyway, because of that, I ot actually make a full autopilot, but at the end of the day, does that really matter? I just summon some of my moo drive the carriage for me, so that is my autopilot. You don’t need autopilot, if you just summon pilots.

  And st, I think this is the st thing, the carriage had full defensive capabilities. It could produce different kinds of magic barriers to protect whoever was ihe carriage. I made the defenses with a mix of a few cards like Mirror Foregate Attad Draining Shield.

  Spoiler[colpse]And the best part was, unlike a lot of the other cool features of the carriage, the defense barrier actually took very little mana. Sure it guzzled tons of it when it actually activated, but its passive ‘threat sensory mode’ actually took very little mana. And because of Draining Shield, it could vert ining spells into more mana for it to use to keep up the barrier.

  As for how the carriage would move, well, it had full magigines, which could be powered by either Pitch-Bck Power Stones or by iing mana into a magic stone. I had my Spellcasters vert an A-rank monster core into a magic stone for that purpose.

  It did also have all of the necessary parts, so it could be attached to a horse, or a few of my monsters. And those parts were quick attach, so they could be removed, or attached in under a minute, just so going from ‘pulled carriage’ to ‘golem carriage’ would be fast. Yes, teically it is a golem carriage, even if it has 0 intelligehat is just the term used fic carriages.

  From the outside, the carriage did look retively normal. It was made mostly of treant wood, just because it is something this dungeon work with cheaply, and I reduce the costs even more, by using the treant wood from my Ste. The wheels are blood iron and the main axles are vampiric steel, but depending on how they work, I might s them for different materials ter, especially the wheels. I also got some sort of rubber stuff from the duhat ut around them, just so that would take the first beating. If that stuff ended up wearing off, it could be quickly repced or fixed.

  Anyway, I think that is all about that carriage. I think it is time to return to the town of Bloggs, and take this thing for a test drive.

  “... it's a lot more basic than I expected…” Aliented as she saw the carriage.

  “You expeuch from me. And besides, I wa to look retively normal.” I told her. “And it does e with some not so normal features, so I hope that will make up for it.”

  “Oh? Tell me! Actually, just show them.”

  “Sure. We start with a nid easy ory attag the carriage with magic. … not full power, please, just in case something doesn’t work.”

  “... okay? Dark Bullet.” After questioning what I said for just a sed, Alice quick casted a spell and u at the carriage.

  As desighe defensive barrier formed around the carriage and blocked Alice’s spell. Most of the spell was absorbed and turned into mana, but about a quarter of its pot reflected back towards us. Again, by design. You actually alter the pertages of what the barrier does, between abs the power of ining attad refleg it, and I set it to 75% absorb, 25% reflect.

  I quickly stepped in front of Alice, and took the reflected damage instead of her. It is my fault she almost took it, and I have more defense and HP than she does, so might as well. It stung a bit, but I only took 23 damage from the reflect, likely because Alice didn’t use a full power spell, and the spells power was only 25% anyway.

  “... what was that?” Alice asked.

  “A reflective barrier. I made it by mixing the tech from a few cards, Mirror Foregate Attad Draining Shield. Coht?”

  “I think it is more impressive than cool.” Lua gave her opinion.

  “Oh you don’t know the half of it. Because it uses Draining Shield, it actually turn magic attacks into mana, so it teically keep itself powered, if hit by enough magic.” I told her.

  “... so, it never will run out of mana?” Lua asked.

  “... well, not quite. It does still e mana super quick when active, so you’d have to be spamming tons of spells at the barrier, with the barrier in 100% absorption mode, for it to have a ce to stay active permaly.”

  “I see. That makes more sense.” Lua told me. “But still, it is impressive.”

  “Let’s go inside. I’ll show you the two other cool parts.” I told the girls as I opehe door for them.

  I quickly showed them both the levitator and the space expander, before then expining that they ot currently be used because of the mana cost. But even without the space expansion, the carriage fortably seat six people, so it is fine for us.

  was our test drive. At first, I sat on the driver’s seat, using the mana propulsion to move the carriage. After a bit like that, I stopped the carriage.

  Then I summoned Lesser Dragon and attached it to the front, so it could pull the carriage.

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  The carriage could be attached to a handful of different monsters I could summon, like Lesser Dragon, Rare Metal Dragon, Dark Zebra, Gazelle the King of Mythical Beasts and so on.

  Spoiler[colpse]It could even be drawn by Chiron the Mage or Mystian. And while Horseman was willing, Chiron said he’d only pull it when I need someone of high css pulling my carriage. Don’t tell him, but in my opinion, having a mithril coated dragon pulling my carriage is way more cssy than a sassy taur mage doing it.

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  After our successful test drive, I set out a piic for us at the keshore, some ways away from town. It probably isn’t something the locals do, because while this area doesn’t have a lot of high ranking monsters, even weaker monsters could cause some problems for low leveled people. But for us, a few intruders won’t be a problem.

  For the piic, I had made a few things in the dungeon with Kit Dragonmaid. Nothing crazy, I just made a few simple snacks, while she baked a few sweets. I could have made them with the dungeon, but it is somewhat cheaper to get raw materials and process them yourself, pared to getting ready made items. Also, because I make excellent quality raw materials with the dungeon, take them into Ste, use the Material Quality Increase to upgrade them to fwless and then we use them to make fwless sweets with reasonable price. If I used the duo make fwless sweets, it’d cost around 17 times more than the excellent quality ingredients.

  The only problem I had with this piic date was the location. Lakeside piics are usually amazing, but this ke it… well, it leaves a bit to be desired. You know, when you think of isekai kes, they are usually crystal clear and all of that. Why did the first one I ran into have to be muddy like this?

  “Thanks, Brian. This is really good.” Alice said, as she took a bit out of a chi sandwich I made.

  Yes, I did make it. Don’t question my cooking skills. I do have some. I deep fry a chi breast coated in breading. … not that we are eating chi. The meat actually es from different bird monsters from the dungeon, like fre birds and dark birds. The fre birds were cooked up nid spicy, as their natural fvor went well with spice, while I tried to do a bit more plicated spice blend with the dark birds… but it didn’t e out quite as I wanted. It was still good… just not as good as I hoped. I should have let Kit Dragonmaid help me more with that.

  As we were moving from the chi sandwiches to the sweets, I heard some sounds from the dire of the ke and turo look. Has some water monster e to annoy us?

  “Excuse me? Mister blessed person?” I heard a female voice call for me from the ke.

  A somewhat familiar looking mer…folk girl was, well she isn’t sitting, so swimming? there. Why is she back here? We sent her home, right?