Victory or Death: A Dungeon Core Fantasy (The Fallen World Book 3) by Playwars aka Alex S. Weber

Author:Playwars aka Alex S. Weber [aka Alex S. Weber, Playwars]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shadow Alley Press
Published: 2023-06-19T16:00:00+00:00

“Ah, looks like the new guys are there.”

“Well, it’s not that hard to tell. The ships didn’t exactly come out of nowhere.”

Alexandra chuckled.

“Fair point, fair point.”

She and Emilia were looking at the screen, where one of her new sentinel golems on top of the mesa was contemplating the ships that were currently landing. She had been alerted as soon as the two warships had taken off in a hurry, as having the two most heavily armed vessels going to battle stations very much qualified as something she wanted to be aware of, especially after she’d seen the effects of their broadsides. Which reminded her that she needed to get one of those cannons, or an alchemist. There was no way whatever they were using as propellant was black powder, despite the smoke clouds. The cannon balls were going almost as fast as twentieth-century artillery shells at least!

“Well, what are you going to do? You said you’d put contingency plans in place, right?”

“Already did. The old claymores from the core hallway, you know the recycled betty warheads?” Emilia nodded. “Well, I used them to booby trap the hall of valor, or, well the entrance hallway, since we haven’t put anything there yet. I also did the same for the floor elevator, as it occurred to me that they might be lemming-like enough to just try to rush it after the elevator had exploded.”

“What’s a lemming?”

“It’s—" Alexandra blinked. That was an excellent question actually. What was a lemming? She knew what the expression meant, but she had no clue where it came from or what it referenced. “I...uh, don’t know. But it’s a saying from Earth. Apparently, lemmings are suicidal and extremely stupid, and will gladly march to their doom until they succeed at their tasks.”

“So they’re like cheap golems, in short?”

“That,” Alexandra blinked again, “isn’t necessarily a bad analogy. But yeah, I reinforced the booby traps in general. I also installed the new booby-trapped pillars we designed for the entrance.”

Emilia nodded. They had spent a few hours making modifications on the entrance pillars. The situation was unlikely to ever arise again, but if another monster tried to use them as ammunition, they were going to have a very nasty surprise.

Alexandra had forgot to mention that it would work equally well in shredding an army marching into the dungeon. Especially since, as with all of her new booby traps, she’d wired them directly to the command center to prevent jamming.

“That’s good. At least if any of them try anything they’ll learn the lesson pretty quickly. Besides ther—”

Alexandra looked over and frowned, as Emilia stopped mid-sentence.

“Is everything alright?” Alexandra mentally started readying emergency protocols in her interface as Emilia failed to answer. She couldn’t see what had gotten that reaction out of her. The passengers were just starting to disembark from the arriving airships. She grabbed Emilia’s shoulder and shook her firmly. “Hey! Vampy!”

Emilia shook her head and turned toward Alexandra, and the Earth-born almost recoiled. Was the vampire girl crying? Her blood started to boil.

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