Lady Boss Of The Unpopular Dungeon

"So, again, why the hell am I here and why do I look like this?" Alexa said while frowning. She was having either the most vivid hallucination ever or the most insane day of her life.

"Well, you were brought here to be the new boss of the dungeon." Rune cheerfully replied. Alexa looked at him like he was insane and monotonously replied "Boss of what??"

"Boss of the dungeon, you know, the person who makes the dungeons successful and strong" Rune replied again in confusion. He was starting to feel that his new boss was probably strong but not that quick on the uptake.

"What Rune means to say, Mistress, is that you were chosen to become the master of this dungeon that we are in and that only you can keep it from dying." Una softly spoke up. "A dungeon is unable to exist with a good dungeon master and no one from our world had the capabilities to lead the dungeon like you did...." Alexa listened intently to Una's explanation until she realized a tiny detail.."Oh.....did you just say our world"

It took a few seconds to sink in but what Rune and mostly Una said was starting to making sense. Alexa accepted that she was no longer on Earth but in a completely different world. "Will I ever be able to return back to my world?" Alexa quietly asked but both Rune and Una looked at her sadly and they shook their heads no. Alexa teared up for a moment and then swallowed her sadness back down and continued listening to Una's explanation.

"We're sorry that we didn't give you a choice in the summoning but we really did not have a choice."

Una apologetically said. The snake girl then continued "Our dungeon is dying and only with your help can our death be prevented"

Alexa snapped out of her shock from not being able to return home to Earth and asked "What do you mean by your death, is your life dependent on the dungeon's existence or something?'

Una replied "Yes Mistress, if the dungeon heart cannot forge a connection with a new dungeon master, the dungeon and everything in it will die...." Una nervously looked at Alexa for any reaction or sign that showed that she was desperately needed. Alexa took a deep breathe and asked "Why select me, I'm nothing special..."

"You're wrong boss!" Rune adamantly spoke up. "You may not be unusual on your old world, but here you have the potential to be the greatest dungeon boss of them all!!" Una then remarked "Rune's right, Mistress, not just anyone has the skill to be a dungeon master."

Alexa smiled at the pair and then continued listening to their explanation of the new world that she now existed in.

Apparently this new world was called Astrea and it was the magical land where dungeons, dragons, kingdoms, and knights in shining armor could be found everywhere. Astrea had six kingdoms, each with a different race dominating it. There was the largest kingdom of humans known as Lunas, the forest kingdom of the elven folk, Solone, the drwarven nation of Terria, the mystrious Demos Empire where demons resided, and the hidden dragon archipelago that was the hidden island paradise of dragons. The dungeon in which Alexa, Una, and Rune were residing was located in the kingdom of Lunas and was one of many dungeons that existed throughout the land.

In Astrea, there are total of thirty different dungeons which came in various styles and forms but all had one thing in common. Whenever someone was defeated in a dungeon, everything but the shirt of his or her back was taken by the dungeon as collateral. However, the benefits always outweighed the cost because dungeons always produced rare materials that were nearly impossible to find anywhere else. What was more amazing about dungeons is that on occasion if one were to find a an non-resonated dungeon heart and possessed the right mind for it, an ordinary person could become a powerful dungeon master, a mostly immortal being who could turn all monsters into loyal subordinates, cripple kingdoms, and even challenge dragons.

The dungeon that the trio were residing in was known as the Astral Descent due to the dungeon having glowing crystals that mimics the patterns on stars on the ceiling. However, Astral Descent had previously been poorly run by a arrogant fool who had bonded with the the dungeon heart but did not possess the skill to run it well.

Astral Descent was one of the first dungeons that had been discovered in Astrea's long history during which it had once been reputed to be one of the greatest dungeons a person could explore. That era of success was only possible due to the skill and efforts of the first dungeon master who mysteriously died two hundred years ago. The person who took over was a former bandit chief who thought that because she had managed to be leader of a large bandit camp, that running a dungeon would be a cakewalk.

"Not only did that old hag mess up the layout of the dungeon, her constant raids outside the dungeon nearly wiped all the dungeon residents out!" Rune furiously ranted on about the poor management performed by the previous dungeon master. Alexa listened to the two monsters for a while though it was hard not laugh at Rune getting worked up about the last dungeon master.

"So if this is another world, how did this Ruka character find me, and why haven't I met her yet? I wanna ask why she couldn't have told me all this instead tackling me like she did."

Una and Rune stiffened when Alexa asked about Rune's mother and soon a melancholy aura soon hung around the room. "Ruka ....was one of the oldest creatures of the dungeon and had amassed many different powers and one of them was an ability called Dimensional Sight which gave her the power to see visions of the past, locate creatures, and glimpse between dimensions." "Momma used her powers to find you before you had stopped existing in your old world."

Alexa did a double-take at what just had come out of Rune's mouth. "Stopped existing.....what do you mean, Rune." Una took a deep breath and as calmly as she could, replied " Mistress, when Ruka found you, she observed your future with her powers and she found something....bad"