Rebirth of a Dungeon Master

 

Sitting on the cozy blue futon, Milim is next to Yuki, both of them engrossed in watching Anime. Meanwhile, Nekra is comfortably nestled in Yuki's lap taking a cat nap. 

 

"What's that alarm?" Milim asks.

 

"Hmm? It shouldn't be going off," Yuki says, about to wake up Nekra. It’s just she spent the last 5 days awake working on Safi. 

 

"There appear to be some dwarfs here," Milim says, briefly looking over at teh computer monitor.

 

Nekra stirrs awake at the alarm going off. “Dwarves nya? Really?” 

 

“Go back to sleep honey i can handle this.” Yuki says 

 

“Nyo this is gonna be funnnya.” Nekra says with a simple mental command entering the dungeon.

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The two head engineers of the magic soldier project had made to the dungeon which according to their king had given him the idea for the project, he said they also might meet a sleepy mad genius whatever that meant. 

"I still think this is a stupid idea, Kaijin," Vesta says.

"These golems are responsible for the magical armored soldier project," Kaijin responds.

"I mean, rather than losing soldiers, we would just lose rocks," Kaijin says.

"It's still dumb," Vesta remarks as the dungeon was surprisingly empty.

"You read the report as well about the dragon," Kaijin says.

The two continued down the dark cavernous hallways and… it was empty, where were all the golems that were supposed to be here.

"Okay, it being part mechanical as well as a golem was weird," Vesta replies after taking in the empty surrouding.

"I'm just happy we haven’t had to fight ," Kaijin says.

"Don’t go saying that. Although its weird, maybe the dungeon is trying to guide us.”  Vesta says.

"I am not too worried about the dragon, the explosion monarch should've weakened it severely anyway," Kaijin says, holding his massive hammer.

"Well she is an S rank adventurer afterall.” Vesta agress

Vesta opens the door, and they hear music playing. It was coming from the dragon however it said dragon appeared to be dead.

'25 or 6 to 4’

“Waiting for the Break of day. Searching for something to say.” 

"Music?" Kaijin asks, looking at the dragon, seeing a pair of legs under and a rather bright flickering light as well.

"Is there someone under it?" Vesta asks.

"Nya!" Nekra shouts, sliding out from under it on a board. Holding a welder in one hand while wearing a welding mask.

Nekra just stares at the duo.

"..."

"..."

"..."

"Nya, I wasn't here!" Nekra shouts, disappearing from her spot.

Suddenly, the dragon starts to power up, its blue eyes lighting up as it stands on all fours.

Vesta and Kaijin get ready for a battle before the dragon's blue eyes suddenly turn off, and it begins releasing a ton of smoke from its back.

"Huh?" Kaijin says.

"Nyo not again!" Nekra shouts, appearing on its back, opening a panel before quickly reconnecting wires in a panic.

"Why are you Nyat turning on!" Nekra shouts, closing the panel and kicking it.

Suddenly, the eyes light back up.

"Uhhh, can we just talk!" Kaijin shouts.

"Nya?" Nekra says before looking at Safi suffering. Her child was in pain… She was a bad mother. 

"Fine nya." Nekra says her ears flattening against her head as Safi powered off.

"I will fix you soon Safi." Nekra says, patting the dragon's head.

"So, did you make this?" Vesta asks excitedly.

Nekra nods in the affirm worried Vesta wasn’t exactly a good guy according to her knowledge. Why did she know his name again… Weird, knowledge does weird things. 

Vesta cheers wondering if this catkin? is what his majesty was talking about. 

"Hmm? Well, it's a mixture of golem magic and robotics," Nekra says.

"How does golem magic work?" Kaijin asks pulling a small handheld note book out of nowhere. 

"Like this nya." Nekra says, putting her hand on the ground as a stone Roman soldier sprouts from the ground.

"That's amazing," Vesta says, who is watching wholeheartedly.

"Really nya?" Nekra says, her ears twitching a bit.

"Yes, can you show us more?" Kaijin asks.

 

"Sure nya," Nekra says with a charming smile that seems to melt the dwarfs' hearts.

 

"This here is Safi, my dragon nya," Nekra says as she walks over to the massive metallic dragon opening up a panel to reveal a mess of wires along with a damaged circuit board. A capacitor had gone and the debris produced a short which had likely superheated and melted the plastic of the PCB.

 

"Ah, this would explain so much nya," Nekra says, looking at the burnt board responsible for strengthened movement.

 

It can still move itself since it's a golem, but this controls the hydraulics.” Nekra says as she pulls out the massive board. Luckily she managed to reproduce transistors recently so the entire electrical system could be lightened by getting rid of the crudely made electron tubes. 

 

"What is that?" Kaijin asks.

 

"It's a control board or, well, I don't exactly know because it's technically used in droids which aer a weird type of robot. Anyway, this printed circut board here controls these for sudden bursts of power," Nekra says, taking off a panel on the legs showing some hydraulic pistons with red material weaved around them.

 

"What do those do?" Vesta asks, as they are still in the concept part of the program.

 

"The cylinders are hydraulics and the pinkish-red parts are magic muscle," Nekra says.

 

"I thought this thing was a golem," Kaijin says.

 

"Yep, it is, but it's big and heavy, so we have these to increase the movement speed. Square Cube law is a bitch nya," Nekra says.

 

"The pink things, they look like muscle fibers? What are they?" Vesta asks.

 

"Oh, they are magic muscle, but unless you have the dead body of a dragon, they are hard to make," Nekra says.

 

"Dead body of a dragon..." Kaijin mutters.

 

"So um, I'm Kaijin, and this is Vesta," Kaijin says.

 

"Hi, I'm Nekra," Nekra says as she is screwing in a new control board.

 

"So, are you the owner of this dungeon?" Vesta asks.

 

"I am the dungeon Meowster if that's what you're asking nya," Nekra says, pulling a soldering set to put in the new wires.

 

"So, um, does that mean you made all of this?" Vesta asks, looking at the cute cat girl with fear.

 

"Hmm? Yeah, I made it, but I'm often too busy napping to control it nya," Nekra says.

 

Kaijin facepalms.

 

"So the war here 250 years ago?" Kaijin asks.

 

"War? What war?" Nekra asks with a head tilt.

 

“The one where your dragon killed an entire army.” Vesta states blandly

 

"I don't know why people bully Safi here; Safi is a nice dragon," Nekra says, patting its head as she closes the panel, causing the metallic behemoth turning it on.

 

The blue eyes light up as Safi unleashes a massive roar.

 

Kaijin and Vesta flinch a little.

 

"Safi is an amazing dragon, is she nyot?" Nekra aks with a smile.

 

"Yes, thank you for the advice," Kaijin says as he begins backing away slowly with Vesta.

 

"Nya? Any time," Nekra says waving the two goodbye as they quickly leave.

 

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"You felt her pressure right?" Kaijin asks Vesta; the other dwarf nods.

 

"Yes, but she probably just pushed our research forward by a few years," Vesta says.

 

"She's a genius but also a monster. She did have two tails right?" Kaijin asks.

 

Vesta nods.

 

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"That was interesting, wasn't it Safi? We will probably see those two in the future nya," Nekra says as the dragon besides her nods.

 

"Anyway, I found this thing called an empty living core Nya. It should give you the ability to make a body and heal yourself and not use text to speech to talk," Nekra says.

 

The dragon looks at her.

 

"I mean a body that isn't the dragon but a human body nya," Nekra says.

 

Safi nods.

 

"Great nya, I just need to find a place to install it nya," Nekra says.