Dungeon Robotics (Book 5): Cataclysm by Matthew Peed

Author:Matthew Peed [Peed, Matthew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sprocketed Ink
Published: 2020-07-02T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Regan

“Breach in one minute!”

“All forces are ready, Monarch,” Queen reported.

Queen had made herself into a sort of designated assistant. I didn’t mind, as she was able to do four or five things at a time thanks to her extra limbs. Alara had a rather large chunk of ground in between this floor and the next. It took almost an hour for the drills to breach it. My forces were having to deal with a Behemoth every ten minutes or so. Though, they had started to treat it more as target practice.

“Thank you, Queen. I think after this we might need to get you off that floor and somewhere more useful.” I grinned.

“Your praises make me blush,” Queen said with a small bow.

With a boom the drills broke through the ceiling of the next floor. Another combined floor met my eyes as the drills fell to the bottom. The mechanics made sure to up the output of the thrusters so they didn’t crash down again. The cavern was about the same size as the last one at two or three kilometers.

The drills landed much gentler this time, and my forces surrounded them quickly after they landed. This was a boss room that took up six floors’ worth of space. I wasn’t about to let my guard down. The scans of the floor quickly came in. Reports listed no movement to be seen and only a few living entities. The mana level was off the chart, making me wonder if this was some sort of floor-sized boss-level trap.

“Hold positions. Something is bound to happen,” I ordered, standing up from my throne. “Fire a flare to get us some more light.”

One of the artillery units loaded a fluorescent round and fired it across the floor. A ruined village came into view but that was it. There weren’t any monsters, undead or otherwise. Even the rest of the floor was a bare expanse of rock and stone. It was as if someone had taken a village and teleported it into the middle of this cave.

“Orders, sir?” asked one of the bridge automata after nearly ten minutes had passed with nothing happening.

“Begin drilling. Send scouts to check the area,” I said, deciding to make the first move. I didn’t like to sit and wait. Whatever was going to happen would happen once we made enough racket.

Sparks flew as the drills restarted operation. I nodded, not surprised it took them much longer to start making headway. This was a boss floor, after all. It would be strange if we could just cut through without any issue. I exhaled when it took the drills almost ten minutes to cut through half a meter. If it hadn’t been for the fact that they were accelerating the farther in they got, I would have had to think up a new plan of attack.

“Nothing to report, sir. The village is . . . empty,” a scout reported an hour later.

“Keep your eyes open. It’s possible they withdrew all their forces to a lower floor to prepare a bigger resistance,” I ordered.

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