I went back to the village and called out to the residents.
“Hey, everybody! I’m going to move the village! Please head inside the facilities and hang onto something! It could be a bumpy ride!”
“Moving the village?! What’s he talking about?” a villager said, confused.
“No clue, but I guarantee it’ll be wild if it’s the mayor suggesting it.”
“We just have to trust him and go along with it.”
People were definitely confused, but thankfully, no one resisted. They all followed instructions and headed indoors.
Okay, let’s check the map... Yep, it looks like everyone is safely inside.
“All right, here we go!”
I activated Edit Layout and slowly began moving every facility in the village closer to the dungeon.
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Elsewhere, a group of merchants on their way to the village suddenly froze, their mouths falling ajar.
“Th-The road is moving?! No wait, maybe I’m just seeing things...”
“That’s funny, ’cuz I’m seeing it move too. Pretty sure you’re not the only one...”
“Forget the road! Look over there! The entire village is moving!”
“Ha ha ha... Am I dreaming right now?”
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“Relocation complete! Thanks for your cooperation, guys!”
Nice! I’d just parked the village right next to the dungeon.
“Next, let’s head underground.” I took the path down into the underground tunnels, where the dwarves lived.
“What exactly are you planning, moving the entire village all the way out here?” Seren asked, looking baffled.
“You really never stop with the crazy Gift tricks, huh?” Philia asked, following behind us.
“I’m going to connect this underground tunnel directly to the dungeon,” I said with a smile.
“Huh?”
“Wait, what?”
I led them all the way to the end of the tunnel and extended it even farther. After I dug about ten meters, we broke through into a cavern.
“We’re in. This is part of the dungeon now. I wonder if Ally’s around?”
Ally suddenly flew over in a total panic.
“Oh em gee, I saw this, like, random tunnel totally invade my dungeon just now!”
“Oh, there she is. Don’t worry. I just connected the tunnel to the village.”
“And I’m supposed to understand what that means how exactly?!” She looked incredibly suspicious, but I ignored her for the moment and turned back toward the dwarves who’d gathered nearby, wondering what was going on.
“I’d like you all to move into the dungeon,” I told them.
“Th-The dungeon? Bah, don’t go tellin’ me we botched somethin’ again?”
“No,” I said, turning to Dran, the representative of the dwarves. “It’s nothing like that.”
“Aye...” he replied after I’d explained the situation. “So us just livin’ here’ll make the dungeon stronger, eh?”
“Exactly. We’ll be moving your apartments over as-is, so I’ll negotiate with the dungeon master to ensure the monsters don’t attack you. Since the tunnel connects directly to the village, you’ll still be able to come and go like normal.”
Yep, my idea was to essentially relocate the dwarves to the dungeon. They already lived underground and preferred darker environments, so it’d be a seamless transition for them.
“That makes sense. They’re used to living belowground anyway. It shouldn’t be much of an adjustment,” Philia said with a nod.
“So that’s why you moved the village all the way here,” Seren added.
“Yep! There’s no way to move the dungeon itself, after all.”
Also, living inside a dungeon didn’t sap your stamina or anything like that. There was no real downside to it. With the dwarves living here, Ally could accumulate Dungeon Points faster.
“Whoaaa! That’s, like, a genius idea, y’know?! My Dungeon Points are gonna, like, totally rack up like craaazy with over a hundred peeps livin’ here full-time!” Ally chimed in gleefully as she whirled through the air in wild loops.
“Well, as long as folk like us get to be o’ some use...” Dran muttered.
“Thanks, Dran. I’ll go ahead and start relocating the apartments now.”
“I’ll make sure no monsters can get inside, okay?” Ally said.
And with that, the dwarves officially started their new life inside the dungeon. Now that we had a direct tunnel connection, it was way easier to go hunting there too.
“Hey, Ally? I’d love it if you could spawn more minotaurs if possible,” I said.
“Like, no prob at allll, okay?! Just go on and, like, beat ’em up and grab that loot, got it?!”
Now we had a reliable source of minotaur meat whenever we wanted.
Incidentally, as its master, Ally couldn’t actually leave the dungeon. She tried heading down the tunnel once, but some kind of invisible wall blocked her from going any farther.
She seemed kinda bummed about not being able to visit the village.
“I’d, like, love it if you came to hang out sometime, okay?! I’ve been totally alone in here and it’s, like, suuuper boring! Literally the only thing I can do is sleep, L-O-L!” she said.
Yeah, she must’ve been dying of boredom.
“Sure, I’ll come by.”
“Yaaay! I’m, like, seriously sooo happy right now, okay?! And oh my god, if you brought a hottie with you, I’d be, like, even more happyyy!”
Apparently, fairies liked handsome men too.