Now not only our citizens but all the immigrants and travelers staying at our place now knew of what this place was. Few even ran off the very day Lolth attacked and seeing what we all were. Most stayed because of the hospitality and opportunities we provided despite the incident. Regardless it was now a public knowledge around Friscos and Tranmire that this town was being built by monsters and human together and was a home to both. Most did not believe what they heard, many thought the humans were slaved, some thought the monsters were slaved and few were curious and wanted to check the city out.
People started to flock in from both sides, even from distant lands. Business and tourism was flourishing. Monsters hiding in the dark came forth looking for shelter and better lives. With this many people and monster joining us construction progressed further, doubled the speed and spread through out the land. Workers in every sector of the city farming, construction, hospitality, defense, etc increased every day. Soon we had a medium city with proper planning and infrastructure going on for us.
But all were not admirers, we had made enemies with the officers from both sides. They did not appreciate monsters hanging by and living humane lives and send threats in many forms to get rid of us. But with strong allies and growing army of our own we dealt with them before anything big could gain momentum. Although there was something big definitely brewing between us neighbors. As I heard, the kings of both nations were amassing soldiers and resources for a big war to invade our city.
A month after end of Zuggtmoy's reign and coronation of new queen Lolth, she comes by to pay a visit and discusses her plans of construction of dungeon.
"So you are planning to build a dungeon in the dark forest?"
"It's already under construction as we speak, what I want now is people coming to my dungeon."
"Wait a minute I can't send my people to go die in your dungeon."
"What? No, hon. Not your people. Just adventures and so called heroes who seek treasures in the dungeons. I don't care if its your people or anywhere else. I just want to built roads from here to Cold Forest Dungeon and Portland as well through my forest. That's all."
"Hmm..." Sounded interesting.
She continued. "That way, your town would be a hub for adventurers travelling to my dungeon, or Cold Forest and Portland on top of Friscos and Tranmire."
"Sounds good. We could use better roads and connections to the north. Let's do it. We will help with the road as well."
With that handled we also advertise new dungeons being found in the forest. And soon new group of people started to flock in. So called "Dungeon Hunters". These paying customers demanded quality food, quality rooms, finest weapons, strongest armors, and most potent potions. Soon they were the cream of the crop of our business flourishing in the city. They brought more merchants and businesses than we ever could provide on our own. With reasonable taxes we were happy to allow merchants to setup shops and services in our town.
On the other hand, as a new startup dungeon Dark Forest Dungeon was setup to be more rewarding and forgiving for now. Zuggtmoy had horded all the resources she could from this huge forest without sharing it to anyone except for her self, which Lolth could spread them all around her dungeon and reward Dungeon Hunters for defeating her minions. Lolth, and her dungeon would in return feed off on life essence found on her dungeon dwellers blood and other fluids. She had developed a technique, or may be she was built that way being a spider goddess and all, to feed on her prey without killing them. Now her dungeon would do that for her. Quite impressive if you ask me. What a web she built.
As a result, there was a dawn of a new age, age of Dungeon Hunters. Adventurers of all levels and skills were happy to be exploring this large dungeon and they brought back crystals, ores and all sorts of rewards to sell back to the market here. We used them to produce even better and variety of goods and services. Our city was getting bigger and better every day.
==== End of Volume 1 ====
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