Dungeon of Pride, Laplace

<strong>18th draw-</strong> frustration and impulse to throw the option into the drains..

<strong> 20th Draw-</strong> finally something unusual started to happen, all the mana around him was starting to congregate in one place and an item that shined with seven different lights materialised out of thin air.

It was a locket embedded with three beautiful crystals. Simon extended his hands and caught the item that took him twenty [100,000] Dp draws to get. That is to say, he sent around [2,000,000] on this item.

It needs to be mentioned that apart from the DP needed to spawn monsters, traps, treasure chests, repairing floors when damaged and basically includes every other necessary expense to keep the dungeon functioning.

Simon only spends DP on buying the Elixir of sacred sanctum every day and two-three gacha rolls. However, today he expended more than two million DP just on gacha draws. Even if Simon's DP income was increasing at a marginal rate, it was still an amount that any other demon viscount wouldn't think about splurging like that.

Forget about splurging, a demon viscount like Gelgar would need multiple months to even gather that amount. However, Simon had spent that amount in a few couples of minutes. If any low ranking demons heard that, they would go insane at the absurdity of things.

So why had Simon done that? It was because he was trying to get a good item as a present for Cecilia.

"It took me so much DP, you better be something" muttering that under his breath, Simon used Analysis on the necklace in his hand.

<strong>Item name-</strong> Necklace of Queen Silaska.

<strong>Rank-</strong> [B]

<strong>Description-</strong> Summon Queen Silaska and an army of Sea Sirens to fight for the user.

<strong>Duration-</strong> One hour

<strong>Cooldown-</strong> Ten days.

As Simon read the description, a frown hovered on his face. The necklace fell into the category of a protective item and summoned an army of Sea Sirens to fight for the user. Since it was a [B] tier item, Simon believed that the monsters summoned from this necklace won't be weak.

Although Simon would be lying if he said he didn't expect a high tier item to pop up, he nevertheless was happy with what he got. After all, a [B] tier item especially one that fell in the protection category was much more valuable than [2,000,000] DP.

Not to mention even amongst the protective items, the necklace was class above since it summoned units to protect the user. The necklace of Queen Silaska was the perfect gift for Cecilia when keeping in mind the danger the spirit tree spoke of.

As Simon hadn't seen the future, he couldn't tell what the danger was. Nonetheless, with this necklace in Cecilia's possession, he would be a little relieved. Now with the perfect gift in hand,

Simon stopped his gacha roll for the day and stored the rest of the items in his inventory. Days passed by quickly and soon the 4th day of the Dalia month arrived, the special day that everybody was waiting for.

"But granda Fennel looked like he was mad, why did he barred me from coming to the village?" Cecilia was lying on a bed in her room inside the white palace, brooding over what happened to Maya and Alice who were accompanying her.

During these few days, she wasn't allowed to move as she wished, go anywhere she wanted to go and was even scolded off by granda Fennel. The little girl had a belly full of frustration and felt wronged.

Alice and Maya who knew what was going on, tried to console her but it seemed like it had no effect, the little girl wasn't willing to listen to anything.

"Big sister too… for some reason she isn't hanging out with me anymore. Usually, she would be the forest one to console me whenever elder Fennel scolded me. She would always pat my head and comb my hair like my mother. But she didn't do so this time… could it be I did something wrong?" Cecilia pondered while lying face first on the bed.

"That is not the Mistress is such a benevolent person who loves Cecilia very much. I am sure she must be busy with something" Maya commented and glanced at Alice to back her.

"Yeah, that right… that right. Princess Cecilia is thinking too much, even if you did something bad mistakenly, she would forgive you". "Unn~~ then what is it, why is everyone ignoring me? I feel like I'm in a house arrest" Cecilia protested throwing a fit on her bed.

Suddenly as if a thought struck her, Cecilia popped herself up and uttered a possibility for the unusual behaviour of those around her.

"Could it be because of the intruders? Have they managed to clear the new floors because of this everyone is trying to keep me here while they fight on the floors above".

Maya and Alice did not know how to respond to that, they were looking at the time every now and then. According to the plan, they had to keep Cecilia here for an hour more but it looked like that won't be possible anymore.

Probably because the little girl was bored out of her mind or vexed by the unusual behaviour of those around her, the little girl suddenly grew some sense.

"Oh that's right, I'm one of the Guardians like big sister Irene, I can just open the [Main Menu] and see what is going on around the floors. Let's see I think I can also teleport using one of the options around here. Big sister had taught… let's see was it [Dungeon] option".

Hearing that, Alice and Maya immediately panicked and tried to stop her from being compulsive but that only made Ceilcia more doubtful of them. Just when it seemed like the little one would slip away from here and teleport to the forest spring village, Simon knocked on the door and came in.

"Big Brother" Immediately, Cecilia sprang up from her bed and rushed towards Simon and in his embrace.

"Big Brother!! You were here… sniff… sniff… everybody trying to shun me out, I felt so lonely. Elder Fennel scolded me and barred me from coming to the village, big sister does not spend as much time with me as she used any more and goes away on her own. The others are just trying to keep me here" Cecilia cried all her frustration out.

Simon who was the mastermind behind all of this, patted the little girl's head until she stopped crying.

"Nobody is trying to shun Cecilia, the others must have their own reasoning behind all of this," he said.

"But why would they scold me and stop me from going to the village anymore?" Cecilia asked, she behaved completely differently when around him and became as docile as a sheep.

"Isn't it because elder Fennel wants you to rest. You have been working tirelessly these past few days and when you got to the village, you try to work even more. I believe Elder Fennel has scolded you because he wants you to take a few days of rest. Have you heard of girls that don't grow taller if they don't take adequate rest?".

Simon tried to bluff his way out. His answer must have satisfied her but then she raised another question.

"Then where is big sister why isn't she hanging around with me? Usually she would take me along with her but these few days she has been acting distantly towards me".

"Eh?!.. um well, that… yes, Irene is busy due to a certain task that I have assigned her" He tried to lie through his teeth once again though this time it didn't manage to fool Cecilia.

"Really what task was it? Does it have to be big sister the one to do it?" she asked narrowing her eyes.

"That... It's a task only she can do. That's right, I sent her to the 24th floor to check on the newly mutated Blue Mega Sharks we spawned there for an experiment. Since it is very fast on water, Irene could quickly catch it using her ice magic that is why I sent her".

A droplet of sweat trickled down Simon's face. He had to churn his brain cells to come up with lies on the spur of the moment.

"Hmm… but [Main Menu] shows me that big sister is in the forest spirit village".

Busted… the lies that he had been spurning got caught this time. He had underestimated his sister, she had finally learned how to use the [Main Menu]. How should he respond to this?

When he looked at Maya and Alice for help, they hurriedly looked away. They had left him for sacrifice at this crucial time.

Simon churned his brain cells and the best he could come up with was to change the topic.

"You said that you were quite bored and felt restrictive inside the palace right? Good, then why don't you take a walk with me?".

If you cannot defeat the opponent in their game, just change the game itself. There was only a little more than half an hour remaining till the party, a walk would easily cover that up.

Cecilia was suspicious; nevertheless, she nodded at his suggestion and the two of them roamed the [Main Floor]. They talked about their daily life, what they have been up to these few days and if they had any problems they have been bottling up these past few days.

Even though Simon said they talked, it was mostly Cecilia doing the talking while he just heard and provided solutions every now and then. The reason why Simon brought this topic up with Cecilia was because this little sister of his was covering her anguish under that smile of hers.

Even though today was her birthday, she was still unwilling to tell anyone or bring it up. From this one could tell that she was still not over the phycological trauma that have been plaguing her.