Easter Core: A Holiday Dungeon Core Novella by Jonathan Brooks

Author:Jonathan Brooks [Brooks, Jonathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-04-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

The Easter Egg Hunt was a complete success!

“You didn’t end up killing any of them, Elmer.”

The Dungeon Core ignored Keebles, because that wasn’t as important to him at the moment. It was the fact that his Defensive Obstacle, which operated the Easter Egg Hunt, had worked flawlessly.

For the most part.

“I’m still worried about the fact that nothing identified that invisible woman again, Keebles. How come I can see her, but my Defensive Obstacles cannot?”

“Honestly, I don’t know,” Elmer’s helper Elf admitted. “I’m still trying to figure that out, as well.”

It was worrisome, because it could be a big problem if he had to deal with that in the future from others who could turn invisible. Though, according to Keebles, nothing about the situation should’ve been happening. Somehow, that just made it all worse.

After clearing his first Easter/Spring-themed room, the group had continued to his Easter Egg Hunt-style room – as he had hoped. At first, they had no idea what the pile of baskets on the ground and the colored egg had to do with anything, and the group was frozen in indecision. It was at that point that Elmer witnessed the blurry form of the invisible woman break off from the group and make her way through the room toward the exit. That alone should’ve activated the Defensive Obstacle, because bypassing the Hunt was not allowed….

…but nothing happened.

She even gently walked through the stream without the Obstacle inside the water recognizing her as a threat, and she passed through without any issue whatsoever. The woman even made it to the short wall blocking the exit to the next room without triggering anything, when ideally the room would’ve practically exploded by that point from bypassing the Hunt. It was almost like she wasn’t even there; a ghost, a spirit, some sort of phantasm that didn’t exist. If it wasn’t for the fact that she had tangibly participated in attacking his Minions and had spoken to the other Adventurers, he would’ve thought he was imagining her presence in the first place.

Thankfully, the invisible woman didn’t attempt to vault over the wall and continue onwards, but instead went back to the group. It had only been a few minutes, but the four people were still near the entrance trying to figure out what was going on.

“I don’t see any monsters in here, do you?” the armored fighter up front asked.

Elmer knew that his Minions were staying out of sight, ready to ambush the Adventurers as they went on their Hunt.

“No, but that doesn’t mean anything,” Annabella, the one who had suddenly changed her spells to all rock-throwing and rock walls, said. “I think what this room has to do with involves these baskets, but I’m not sure how. Maybe it also has to do with this colorful rock? It certainly appears to be out of place here.”

Before anyone else could say anything, the magic-wielding woman reached down and picked up the painted egg. As soon as her fingers brushed the surface

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