Chapter 62: Heart of the Dungeon
Nekra looks up from Yuki’s laptop before looking over to the desktop in the corner.
“I think its time we worked on our dungeon itself nya.” Nekra states
Yuki pauses before smiling. “We are actually gonna work on the me for once!”
“Yep I think its time we finish being a mine and a death trap,” Nekra says walking towards the desktop.
“I am going to sleep then,” Safi mutters as her humanoid body turns to metallic dust and her dragon self slumps onto its side.
Nekra is looking at the computer in dumbfounded shock afterall having over one trillion dungeon points is insane.
“Dear, what is this?” Nekra asks
“Hmm?” Yuki asks looking over her beloved’s shoulder blinking cutely.
“Well, ever since you told me to not waste dungeon point’s I only bought the bare minimum such as your sushi.” Yuki states
Nekra closes her eyes and sighs, “With this many points its gonna be a rather scary dungeon.”
“Oohh, I like that!” Yuki cheers
With but a click the dungeon goes from 3 floors to 11. Yuki visibly shakes as she feels her being being edited and ligly gasps in pleasure.
Nerka’s ears twitch as she turns back and pouts at her life long partner.
“Really nya, are you trying to distract me?” Nekra asks
“Sorry it just kind of happened.” Yuki reponds blushing as her ears rest flatly on top of her head, Nekra unable to help herself from taking a quick glance at Yuki’s swaying tails.
WIth a quick head shake the determined cat girl hypes herself up.”Lets focus and do this.”
Five hours passed. Then ten. Then twenty. After twenty-two hours, Yuki decided to speak up.
"Nekra, dear? Is everything alright?" Yuki asked.
"Nya? Of course, nya. I just had an amazing moment of inspiration," Nekra said excitedly as she spun in the desk chair. "I'm almost done with the first level, nya."
"Nya, and done," Nekra said, looking at the computer with satisfaction.
"Nekra, why are floors 2-9 empty?" Yuki asked, peering at the screen.
“Because I am going to redo those too,afteral my lovely dungeon is going to get a complete overhaul it is only right for her,” Nerka states standing up capturing Yuki’s chin in her hand quickly kissing her on the lips before falling back down on to the chair to focus on floor 2.
Yuki however is enthralled by the changes to the first floor. “Did you make it look like a mineshaft on purpose?”
“Of course Nya, its a bit of a call back to what the dungeon used to be, although now its a proper maze and the main mobs of the floor are our famous iron golems.
Yuki looked at the screen again, the level even has mine cart rails, several hidden rooms, and chests. There are a few traps too… Did that section go down?
“Nekra is the first floor actually multiple floors?” Yuki asks
Nekra smirks as she zooms out, and the computer panned showing the dungeon in its entirety, going by old standards it was nearly 30 floors, the first “Floor taking up the space of five old ones.
"There are also roaming Khezu, Stone Golems, and Stone Legionaries that fight solo with no tactics, nya," Nekra said.
"And the boss?" Is all Yuki can ask as she stares dumfounded at the first floor which is now as big as the previous dungeon’s form.
"Nya, it's a golem robotic knight, like the one we had before I made Safi, nya," Nekra answers happy to find that old thing still in the system..
"Great…" Yuki mutters utterly baffled.
Nekra nodded and yawned a little.
"Let's take a break and go to sleep.” Yuki stats wrapping her arms around her beloved Master.
Nekra looked at Yuki’s face only to find it fully flushed and panting her ears twitching and tails swinging wildly.
“Of course I graciously accept this award,” Nekra replies standing up and stretching a bit.
Yuki down at Nekra with a smirk before Nekra suddenly pulls her head down and whispers something.
“Just cause we are taking our time to do this does not mean that I am done with this overhaul,” Nekra states clasping the fox girls hand.
"Thank you," Yuki replies happily
Yuki yawned, waking up to a somewhat cool pillow against her. She smiled as she realized it was a full-size body pillow of Nekra, complete with her cute cat ears and a mischievous grin. She hugged it tighter before sitting up and looking around.
"Where's Nekra?" she wondered aloud, noticing the computer was not where it usually was. Yuki got up and started wandering around their small apartment, soon noticing a new door.
"I wonder what she did?" Yuki asked as she opened the door to see a massive control room.
The sight before her was breathtaking. The room was utterly massive with a ceiling that seemed to stretch into infinity. At its center stood what could only be a computer, Yet it was too massive construct that resembled more of a living organism than any of its cold metal cousins, It was interlaced with veins of glowing blue energy, pulsing rhythmically like the heartbeat as leads of light lead allthrough out the room and different fans kicking on and off wining as every now and then an audible click could be heard before a different section lit up.
So Yuki walked along the towering columns of an unknown metal its surfaces adorned with intricate runes that shimmered and shifted, alive with a continuous flow of data and magic. Massive holographic displays floated in mid-air, projecting real-time data and visual feeds from every corner of the dungeon. Each display could be manipulated with simple gestures, allowing for seamless control over the entire dungeon’s operations.
As she rounded a corner there sat Nekra at the helm, her eyes flicking between various screens as she monitored the dungeon’s intricate systems. Her fingers danced across a holographic keyboard, inputting commands with a speed and precision that seemed almost impossible. Despite her fatigued appearance, there was a gleam of excitement in her eyes.
“Oh, sweet master of mine… What have you done?” Yuki asks