Dungeon Prowler : One Man Army

Chapter 225: Lucky karma

In the 43rd floor, the desert took shape of packed dry brown soil littered with rocks and boulders and the occasional rocky hill, there would be a stubborn tree every few miles and water was nowhere to be seen.

Contrary to the former floors, the monsters here were just sitting under the unbearable heat of the sun enjoying a sunbath while waiting for adventurers. These monsters were large lizards with whips for tails and venom dripping from their mouths like drool, their scaled skin was tough and light, coloured brown and black. These monsters were all idle until midday, before midday, one can attack freely and only the lizard under fire would retaliate, however after midday and until sundown, these lizards turned more aggressive and actively hunted prey as well as each other.

Yunan met a group of adventurers sticking close to the entrance stairway and focusing their firepower on a smaller lizard, he waved at them when he was noticed, then took out his short swords and waded into the idle group of lizards and started decapitating them one by one, one swing per lizard. Yunan was using his full power as he collected mana and corpses, the mana was stored and the corpses were brought to the laboratory where Ophelia was sampling their venom and making antidotes for it.

Out of thin air Hermes appeared beside Yunan who instinctively swung a sword at the god and almost made contact, Yunan redirected his attack a split second before Hermes was split in two and Hermes made a sigh of relief because he was not allowed to use his godly powers in the dungeon, even his existence here was bending the rules and dancing at the edge of a cliff.

"What do you want?" The nonchalant way Yunan had when questioning a deity always brought a smile to Hermes, "I came to make sure that you have actually stolen some divinity from a few hundred gods, I can smell it on you but it's not even active". Hermes stated his intention very clearly, last time he went against Yunan he lost a very devout follower and almost lost his oracle.

"And?" Yunan asked between two halves of a lizard as his gaze pierced the god who was smiling innocently. "Want some more? there have been some divinity thieves before, but none on such a scale and all of them used it momentarily when you took all those and did nothing I smelled entertainment". Yunan walked towards the god and used his finger to poke the forehead of Hermes. " I am no thief, those were my rewards for winning the game those guys set up, although I won by breaking the board, it was still a win and those shards of divinity are my rewards".

"Do you know how my luck works?" Yunan asked as he took out a few skewers and made a fire to grill some lizard meat, turning his attention away from the god. "If anyone causes you harm, there is a rebound and a retaliation, it is almost as strong as that of Fortuna, and as far as I know if you do not consider the harmful act towards you as harmful, the aggressor is not punished".

Yunan shook his head while keeping his gaze at the food he was dealing with, he summoned Fortuna to his side and bid her sit down besides him "I am no god and therefore my luck works both ways, for example, if I do good by others I am rewarded, if do evil to others I am punished, my luck works more like karma but is instantly effective, when someone does well by me they are rewarded when someone harms me they are punished, for example, your followers lost a huge chunk of luck for trying to harm me and ended up almost killing themselves by their own hands, mostly due to the enormous difference in luck. But as I attacked them, I caused them no harm, I merely made it apparent they were no match for me thus I was not harmed, you decided to play a game with me and lost a very devout follower, however you came here to give me some advice on my newly acquired divinity for some reason or the other and have not suffered expulsion from the dungeon".

"Basically what I am saying is, I have instant karma based on luck around me, do good and get rewarded, do bad and get punished, so my perception is not even calculated in the karmic retaliation. Therefore please continue scheming if you want, just let me tell you something, my karma builds up, the more good you do the better rewards and luck you get, because not every bad deed is big enough to be punished immediately, it accumulates and one day you are hit by so much misfortune even losing your divinity is not out of the question".

"Not even Buddha can make karma instant, do not play with me kid, I have been a god when men were still wearing animal hides on their skin, if what you have spouted is true then why have we divine ones never heard of it?". Hermes was getting anxious, if what Yunan said was true then he had messed up royally and was facing a lot of danger "he was born with it" added Fortuna from her position leaning against Yunan "it is pure luck, however, it is both a blessing and a curse, probably something from the creator, the problem is the old bastard has not shown his face in this universe for too long, and I have no idea if this thing is hereditary or something that was accidentally created due to some bloodline, we all know how he loved playing with genetics that old bearded shitty excuse of a father"

An audible scared gasp rang in the surroundings as Hermes covered his mouth and shrunk away from the duo who were nonchalantly insulting the creator, father of all, and the one true God. "What are you doing, you will bring the rage of heaven upon us, are you mad" shouted Hermes with a shaking and scared voice.

"Alright, stop it, we all know your views on the creator, no need to keep saying it all the time" Yunan pinched the ear of Luna and she squirmed like a child, "listen Hermes, i really don't care about ascending at the moment nor do I want some more divinity, therefore, please stop thinking about making me into some kind of entertainment show for you and the boring ones you represent, if they want to play, then they can come and make bets with me and we shall see what happens, otherwise, beware".

Yunan pointed a finely grilled skewer of meat towards Hermes as he bit one of his own, Hermes took the skewers and sat down beside the two and sulked "so as long as no harm was done even insulting the God is possible around you?", "Not really, insulting is a bad deed even if its small one, she paid for it when I pinched her ear, and I seriously do not care if this gift was from the god or an accident, I have always been on the winning side thanks to it, so I don't really know how it works i can only know something that has been proven through trial and error".

Hermes sank in thought for a few hours before feeling Yunan touch his shoulder "its about to get dangerous in this place, you should return and think about it in safety, also don't beat yourself over it, if you do nothing the bad karma will dissipate on its own, so relax and leave the mysterious stuff to solve themselves" Hermes took his leave while Yunan sent Luna away after giving her a few kisses before returning to the work at hand, the moment the sun hit the centre of the sky, the slumbering lizards opened their eyes and fixed their gazes on the Dragonborn Yunan with his black and crimson scales and intimidating wing and sharp looking tail, he was designated as target and then pounced on, the sounds of battle kept Drawing more and more lizards at Yunan who dispatched them with relative ease, while dodging and parrying in bullet time, these lizards were built towards speed and attack speed, and were a good challenge to Yunan so that he could regain his dull battle sense that slept for more than a month.