The Trash Tier Dungeon by Kaye Fairburn

Author:Kaye Fairburn [Fairburn, Kaye]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-02-10T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Upon Arden and the catten’s return to the dungeon, the pixie and the dungeon both spoke over each other.

“Do you know a Smokey?”

“We found glowyrms!”

Of course, Minette’s announcement took higher precedence than Arden’s. “Where? Switch me into the Overview mode,” she requested.

The workercats found a room containing nests of glowyrms. It was located near an off-shoot of the maze they created around the Warp Gate room. The creatures wiggled along the ground, feeding off of nutrients within the dirt. True to their name, they cast a warm blue glow. The slick shine on their bodies hinted at their slimy texture.

Harvesting them took longer than collecting shinies. Due to their heft and size, the peons could only carry three on each trip back to the Dungeon Heart room. The glowyrms’ stubborn adherence to the ground also slowed down the process. As soon as they felt a workercat’s paws upon them, they flattened out. They literally had to be peeled to be lifted.

Fortunately, that was as far as the glowyrms’ defenses went. They didn’t come with acidic skin or sucker teeth to bite anyone who disturbed them.

“It’s been slow, but we’ve already got three of them in our supplies,” Minette said.

“How long did that take?” From what Arden could see of the workercats currently in the glowyrm room, they were a struggle to harvest.

“We only found the room a short while ago. I guess it’s taken…almost all of the time you spent away? And it’s a rather long distance away from me, so we might be waiting a while for more glowyrms. While you were gone, I changed my mind about them digging so close to the Dungeon Heart room. We lucked out.”

“We’re going to need 100 glowyrms if we’re going to make that Spiny Lynx Dwelling,” Arden said. “Having ranged units will make dealing with mages much easier.”

Minette paused to double check the resource costs. “And then it’ll be 100 shinies and another 50 glowyrms on top of that to make a spiny lynx.”

“They’re an investment. Maybe in the meantime we can take a look at more traps from the Trap Workshop. We might be able to afford some spear chuckers.” Arden grew giddy at the thought of the adventurers being eviscerated before they even knew what hit them.

“There’s so much we can do. It gets overwhelming sometimes.”

“Yeah, it’s a major change from only having workercats to look after. Speaking of which, do you remember ever looking after someone named Smokey?” In her excitement over the glowyrms, Arden had almost forgotten to repeat her earlier question.

“I don’t think I remember anyone with that name.”

“Scrawny, kind of sick looking, has a beard? He probably didn’t have one when you first met him. He eats mushrooms and people drink his piss, apparently. I think he was a child when he first wandered down here. Human years are different from ours. I forget the exact conversion of human to pixie years, but humans spend a lot of time in the child phase.”

“He says he knows me?”

“He came back after a few years, but you were different.

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