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Chapter 97
The first raid was not very impressive. Two ships merged together, and on that emerging larger ship was now a ship's captain and a fleet admiral. That much wasn't going to stop me from hunting them down, but it helped me with obtaining the buffs faster as both bosses gave me a treasure chest.
Then came the triples. Captain, cannon master, and admiral. The more we killed, the more ridiculous it became. We were not only fighting the ship bosses but the lake bosses, too.
And the more I let it go on, the stronger the undead became. At some point, there were seven ships coming out of the water. I had never programmed my system to go beyond three, and yet this world showed me what I had missed out on.
To say I enjoyed the carnage we caused was an understatement. I was constantly on the front lines and the first to draw blood. I was in such a frenzy that I had missed that this could be an interesting way to farm for points. It wasn't as efficient as some of the other dungeons, and nowhere as good as using my hunter's traps. However, I was farming fishing points to a ridiculous amount thanks to the few books that I could actually use.
I used the books for hunter, miner, and fisherman immediately and ignored the rest, only to realize after multiple days that I had filled an entire warehouse with unusable books.
I hadn't planned anything with them, but I was almost certain that I would, at some point, obtain another job, so I decided to keep them even if they took that much space inside my dungeon.
After realizing that the raid was taking most of the time that my net buff gave me, I was forced to decide what to do. I decided to stop after the last raid, let the lure buff run out, and then use the rest of the time with the net fishing buff to fish as much as I could.
Since the ships only came out when I had the lure buff active, I was certain that the net buff would still be unaffected by it. Planning ahead, I was imagining dozens of my girls fishing with nets for a few minutes and getting thousands of points in seconds.
But then I realized the flaw in that plan. I was inside the lake dungeon, and we would pull out thousands of bosses because of that.
I cursed loudly at that moment.
I wanted to enjoy that absurdity, but because of my previous impulsiveness, that plan felt flat. I looked at the net buffs counter and sighed. +167 for 24 minutes. What a waste!
Or almost. I would lose some minutes, but a partial success was possible. I ordered the immediate retreat of everyone and transported myself to my personal dungeon.
My dungeon had, on the first floor, a few rivers and ponds. No dungeon boss would spawn here, but I needed a refresh of the net buff, so I popped a new lure buff and pulled another raid up, this time inside my dungeon.
Thankfully, it was only a fivefold raid this time, and we rapidly finished it off.
I let my lure run out, then positioned my girls according to my plan. The ones without nets were ordered to go to the many fields and be ready to pull out thousands of fishes from my inventory. The rest would fish like crazy if possible.
That situation lasted for 30 minutes, but during that time, everyone, except for the ones around our river, was running around like headless chickens. I could see mountains of fish forming on that artificial horizon. But that wasn't the only thing we obtained.
The amount of simple treasure chests was astonishing. Unfortunately, none of them were of diamond grade as I had no lure active. That was the drawback of letting the lure disappear in such circumstances. Also, no buff or books came out of those treasure chests. Those two were only found inside pirate ships.
I started to realize what was possible and what wasn't.
After we finished playing around with the nets, I actually went and tried to assess the situation.
Nobody that participated in the logistics of that insanity enjoyed it. I even found two of my girls stuck inside those mountains of fishes, unable to come out.
I understood that such measures needed preparation, but I had to admit that we had made a record in sales that day... and the day after that... and the day after that one, too. We needed three days to empty the dungeon because of the ridiculous amount of fishes inside my dungeon.
We decided that such things would not happen again anymore without proper preparation.
I should have ordered my girls to immediately sell the fish to an active merchant instead of dumping everything into the dungeon, but I needed that mistake to realize my inexperience after all.
During that time, my fighting level barely improved, so it was a bust on that aspect, but my miner job had gained an impressive amount of points and even leveled up thanks to the books.
If it weren't for that piece and my fishing job also improving, there was little to no chance that I would do something like this again. Or maybe once or twice a month.
Well, doing it did improve my mood.
The regular routine restarted, and my girls hunted in their regular efficient ways. I also returned to my duties and directed my attention to our next possible target, or victim. The exact description depended on what I found at my destination.
I secretly hoped for an ally. Someone else that I could talk to because the one-sided conversations weren't intellectually stimulating enough for me anymore.
I reached the forest after a week of traveling, but strangely, I didn't find anything strange about that forest.
Don't misunderstand the situation. There were monsters in that area, but none of them were unique. They behaved like regular monsters and looked like regular monsters.
I inspected one of them and sighed in relief. That thing looked like a combination of a rat and a wolf with violet and green pustules all over the body, about as big as a horse. The inspection revealed it to be a "poison spitting wolf."
I wasn't surprised by that. With every level, the base animal looked more and more like a distorted caricature of itself. Seeing how this abstract creature was still considered a wolf left me wondering what would happen at higher levels.
On my way to the boss I found a boar with his head split in two and rabbit that looked like it was wearing the skin of a overgrown hedgehog as armor, and I wasn't even surprised by that.