djarcher

The people of the alpha plane have made it their hobby to enter the dungeons of other worlds and conquer them. Naturally not everyone is happy with this as dark undercurrents begin to work against the conquerors.

As some people die in the dungeons they are made an offer. To give up their humanity in order to live on. 
Guy, a veteran carrier, is one of them, he can't bear to leave his family alone and accepts. From then on he must fight in the dungeons but as a monster while simultaneously continuing his life in the alpha plane in the shape of a human.
Jade, an elite adventurer, also accepts the offer but her intent is solely to get revenge on those who killed her and make humanity suffer for her life.
Monica, a little girl not native to the alpha plane is pulled into the happenings due to her childish innocence.

Counter Dungeon-Delving

How are you running experiments on my species? I'm the only one!


You can do that? I thought monsters don't fight?


Then why would you do it as an experiment?


Figures that they would be interested. But they do know that ordinary monsters won't be able to measure up to me, right?


Right, the continuous bleeding is rather nasty when you are deep within a dungeon and don't have a healer or someone of the sort.


That will certainly make them miserable. Tell me if you do succeed, will you? 


Now, where is this Ptorimea? I want to confirm my evolution choice as soon as possible.


But it's only noontime. Why should I go there this early?


That's great! I was wondering what I would do until nighttime.


Following Navi's guidance, I arrive at a room with a heavily reinforced door. After entering I see a large stone plate made from a dark blue rock, lines of light blue markings run all over the stone and form patterns that shine with a mysterious light blue color.


Smaller stone panels similar to the main stone plate orbit around it while giving off a sporadic light blue glow.


"Nice to meet you, friend. I am Ptorimea."


Her words are so long and drawn out. Is she speaking through a tube?


"Name's Jade. I was told you can make me choose my evolution."


"Not fond of talking, are you, friend Jade? My recent advancement has indeed allowed me to grant such a privilege. Would you like to make use of it?"


"Very well. Please wait a moment as I complete the ritual."


The stone plates around Ptorimea float towards me and circle around me. As a low humming spreads through the room. 


Ptorimea's main body vibrates along with the humming and the stone played begin to spin as they circle around me.


The light blue shine begins to dim and is then replaced by a red glow that looks like wine is flowing through the markings on the plates. No, not like wine, it looks more like blood.


I lose myself in the glowing markings and ever-changing patterns brought forth by the moving plates for an unknown amount of time.


I wake up from my trance when the plates suddenly stop spinning and one plate floats directly before me. The plate's markings fade away for a moment and are then replaced by words I can read. There are four lines of text on the plate.


<That's great! You got adolescent lamia as an option!>


You said you could figure out what they are based on their names. Give me the rundown on all of them.


<Lesser wyrms are the equivalent of fully grown salamanders. They are the last step of a monster before becoming a sub-dragon. In this case that would be a wyrm. Lesser wyrms already look like smaller versions of real wyrms but lack the complete or pure bloodline. They are quite similar to snakes because they don't have legs but they are much sturdier and harder to kill. 


No clue what the sanguine part will change for any of them though.


The giant snake is the normal evolution choice for any snake. It's bigger and that's it. Follow-up evolutions usually continue to build that size advantage until they evolve to be so big that killing them becomes hard simply because humans are smaller than ants to them.


Adolescent lamia is a very good choice. Your next evolution choice is guaranteed to be a fully grown lamia and you might get access to the naga species later. With this, we will be able to fully restore your human appearance in the human world allowing you to go out and meet people. Also, lamias can wield weapons and are very powerful fighters at any distance. The choice here is really a no brainer if you ask me.>


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