Reject Humanity, Return to Monke

"Ha… Peaceful days are the best days…" I sighed as I lied on my hammock, Domino once again using my chest and stomach as a pillow and bed for her to sleep in.

It's been about three days since I made that deal with Nicholas, which he took with fervent glee. It seems running a town without paperwork was a thing he always wanted to do before he kicked the bucket.

The monsters also followed the human's commands – which I relayed to him via Communications, of course – like a loyal servant would do for a king. I suppose his show of force amongst the strength-worshipping monsters would make them like that.

I never did so, however, making the theory about them not knowing about my strength – except for those I personally executed my strength on – a very plausible conclusion.

Checking the DP I got through the days made me smirk as I thought about the future and what I would buy in the Dungeon Store for my survival, as well as entertainment.

Dungeon Residents Income:

Day 1: 3,197 DP; 1,617 EXP

Day 2: 3,288 DP; 1,645 EXP

Day 3: 3,937 DP; 1,920 EXP

Total: 10,422 DP; 5179 EXP

DP: 14,542

That [Dungeon Master] perk be doin' wonders for my DP and EXP gain. The first day, my Dungeon still had the same number of monsters, but the [Dungeon Master] perk increased the gain I had, thus giving me that extraordinary amount of income.

I accessed my System, hoping to God… Nah, fuck those Gods… Hoping to whatever deity that would listen to my pleas to not increase the EXP required for my next level up by a wide margin.

And by wide margin, I mean adding another 10,000 EXP on top of my last 10,000 EXP required to level up.

Name: Jionni

Age: 0

Gender: Male

Race: Gorilla

Class: Tank

Level: 11

Exp: 2199 / 11000

HP: 5890 / 6160

MP: 2025 / 2093

Str: 55 = 177

Vit: 90 = 202

End: 55 = 158

Agi: 39 = 67

Dex: 41 = 84

Int: 32 = 145

Wis: 31 = 144

Cha: 26 = 34

Luc: 1 = 1

I raised my hands up, briefly confusing Domino who opened her eyes at the right moment to witness my strange action. "Praise to be the deities who heard my pleas."

The EXP bar didn't increase dramatically like I thought it would (and thank whoever took pity on me for that). I did not want to spend an incredibly long time cooped up inside my Dungeon waiting for a level up. With this, it won't be long until I reach level 20 to change my class.

Don't get me wrong, the Tank class is awesome and all that shit, but it isn't End-Boss worthy. If I want to survive in this world in which I have no idea what the power levels are – I mean, come on, it's like everybody here has a teleport spell in their back pockets! – I'd have to grind my levels and get more skills.

The [Blacksmith] skill has stagnated, and my monsters are fully equipped with my brand of full iron weapons too. There are at least more than a hundred monsters here, and I've already given each of them one of my handcrafted weapons designed with their bodies in mind.

The weapons are fully-metal except for the handles, which I outfitted with wood or bone, depending on the materials available. The weapons I made range from common short swords, to longswords, daggers, maces, clubs, spears, pikes, and shields. A katana was still beyond me, and I needed a better metal than iron to make it decent.

I need tamahagane badly…

Also, I gave some orcs zweihanders fitting for their sizes instead of clubs or maces. All I can say is, yep, they are terrifying to go against if you are a human about half their size.

Since the monster count has increased, as seen by the income I'm getting increasing daily, I wanted to check what they were, and lo and behold, there's another menu which I haven't accessed yet. Damned Nightmare tutorials not giving you enough information about a specific mechanic.

Goblin: 84

Kobold: 14

Orc: 16

Wild Boar: 13

Deer: 9

Lizardman: 3

Human: 10

Beastman: 1

Dragonewt: 1

Elves: 3

Gnome: 2 

Total: 156

Wild boars were just new to my Dungeon. Yes, they did come here once and we made mince meat out of them, but no, I'm talking about them living here as livestock. The same could be said about the deer, which were captured over the span of two days.

The goblins increased once again by capturing them and strong-arming them into submission. The same as the orcs, who I had Nicholas commit war crimes against their leader who refused to bow down.

Needless to say, they submitted once their leader was taken care of.

The lizardmen, however, were easier to coax than the orcs, what with them being exiles and wanting to find a place to rest. I invited them over, or rather, Gong invited(captured) them over and I gave them a place to stay.

See, I'm not a sociopath who's doing this only for DP and the workforce, no siree!

Jokes aside, kobolds were the same as the goblins, with them being captured and being strong-armed into submission.

And now, here I am, snickering to myself at the absurdity of it all. Just about 3-4 weeks ago, I lived as a human… Or was it years ago? I don't know, can't remember what with me being in the void for how long as a spirit… consciousness…? Anyway, I lived as a normal human with an admittedly normal life, being oppressed by my parents to be a better person so they could live the good life.

Now, I'm here as a fucking gorilla and managing a Dungeon so I can survive in this world, and am living the life with a surrogate daughter. You never know what life will give you at any turn… eh…?

I stroked Domino's head as she went back to her slumber. I'm a bit perplexed as to why she keeps on sleeping, but hey, she's cute looking like this, so why bother.

Playing with her cheeks a bit, to which she responded with a pout and sleepy play fighting with my hands to get them off her face, I received a notification through the Dungeon Menu in a twist of events.

'Hello…? What is this?' Domino also noticed the notification blinking on her menu in front of her face. Pressing the notification button, I was greeted by a message containing an invitation to an event I had no idea about.

[You are invited to the Decennial Dungeon Games!]