The Royal Military Academy's Impostor Owns a Dungeon [BL] novel Chapter 341

Chapter 341: Prompts

But it was understandable, for how could it hold on for longer when the corruption wasn’t just leaking and taking space, but had also started prodding?

It wasn’t subtle either.

The black sludge, once a slow seepage, was now actively testing the weakened boundaries of the containment field. The corruption reared back and slammed forward like a battering ram made of liquid malice, its edges sharp, twisting into spires, spikes, and clawed fingers that scraped along the flickering barrier.

The thing felt sentient.

And it made Luca flinch. The protective barrier hummed harder, as if in protest, as another crack formed along its edge.

"It’s going to breach," Xavier said grimly.

That got the little cannon wielder out of his reverie and, with no time left to deliberate, fired the Purification Cannon.

It was the familiar "Fwiishhh~", but the stakes were different because it wouldn’t take a genius to know that something bad was likely going to happen once this tree gets contaminated.

Not like anything good has really come out of it, save for the CP. But even then, he was pretty sure that this tree being contaminated would be more than just the run-of-the-mill "bad".

While the situation was dire and one suspected pyromaniac had an itch as he watched his brother fire a cannon that had no "boom", the sparkling dust eventually fell, coating the place like gentle rain.

And to be fair, it was really gentle, if you could ignore the screeching sludge.

It wasn’t literal, but the sound it made was something like a screech muffled underwater, gurgling and snarling as it shriveled under the radiant wash of purification.

And as Luca watched the scene unfold, he was pretty sure that this was what the headmistress had been talking about when she once sprinkled holy salt all over the school to ward off the evil brought in by the awakened, or well, him.

She must have expected him to writhe just like this.

The blue crystals lit up in response, their glow intensifying to push the light even further outward.

It seemed like it had worked and was holding because, unlike their battlefield with Tortie, this was an enclosed space.

Xavier figured this was good enough. And so he stepped forward, raising his blade, eyes on the pulsing red core.

"This should be the core, right? You said we just have to get rid of it, and we could clear the dungeon," he verified, voice calm and collected.

Luca nodded, his video feed showing his hesitant face.

That was what everyone said after all, and the faster they got on with it, the faster they could end this all.

But just as Xavier was about to take a swing, he was stopped by a sudden prompt.

The interface was similar to what D-29 usually uses to communicate with everyone else, but this one was flickering, unstable, and most definitely repeating.

And it was just one symbol, pulsing red:

[!]

[!]

[!]

"What the—?" Asked Ollie who, like everyone, saw the prompt.

Even D-29 was caught off guard, especially as the prompt shimmered, jittering in and out like a system on the verge of collapse.

Then another flicker.

A second prompt tried to form. It glitched at first, then stabilized for half a second:

[ANNEX DUNGEON?]

[YES] [NO]

Luca stared.

This thing was prompting him like this.

"Now it’s asking a question...?"

"What?" Xavier asked, not seeing anything but the pulsing exclamation.

Even D-29 sounded disoriented. "Host! This is...highly unusual. I am unable to access the interface while synced as a mecha unit. This request is outside my current permissions."

"It’s asking me to annex the Dungeon." He said, telling them what he was seeing, since it seemed like only he could see it.

"D-29, what would that mean for us?" verified the dungeon owner, who wanted to know the risks.

Now, D-29 had no further access to its assigned dungeon, but its last information about such a thing was when the prompt for the Dungeon-Linked Space came up.

"Host the last related information about annexing was when it came up as a condition for the existence of Dungeon-Linked Spaces."

"One was when a dungeon assimilates after annexation. And the other was when the number of usable dungeons was too low," reiterated the little system.

That was obviously a surprising discovery, which wasn’t even normal because D-29 said he didn’t find it in the standard manual, but it was filed under the emergency one.

[AN__X D_NGEON?]

[YE_] [_O]

Right. He hoped.

So he bypassed his hesitation and pressed [YES].

[Dungeon Core Annexation Approved.]

[Initiating Transfer to New System Host.]

[Thank you. Congratulations on annexing Dungeon D-64.]

[Initiating System Reboot... 00:10:00]