The Abyss

As the next day came, Smaug was overviewing his dungeon. There would be a few hours before the adventurers would arrive so he had some time to prepare and make small adjustments before they arrived. When a wave of a sickening presence washed over him. It felt like it came from somewhere, somewhere outside the dungeon. Teleporting to the entrance, Smaug quickly ran out of his dungeon and discovered a distance away atop a different part of the mountains, was a large hole in the ground much like a quarry. 

"That wasn't there yesterday. I would have noticed. Especially since it's just leaking that presence, one you can feel from so far away."

Smaug decided to investigate his new neighbor, but with every step, the overwhelming sense of danger slowly grew, he felt like he was being called to the hole, and with every step he could almost feel like something was getting excited to see him come closer. But at the same time, that very same something very clearly wanted something bad to happen to him. 

Ultimately Smaug's curiosity had taken over and eventually, he reached the new hole and the system warned him of something.

[You have discovered a false dungeon named [The Abyss]?]

"False dungeon? What is that?"

[WARNING! The great tyrant dragon's spirit has placed a nefarious curse of the overlord upon you!]

[Curse of the overlord: A powerful being who with undeniable authority owns the area you call home and is not happy about you staying there. Until you can defeat them, this curse will forever stick to you, unable to be cleansed or otherwise broken.

Effects: 

XP siphon: 5% of all XP will be sent to the overlord 

Weakening: all stats are reduced by 10%

Dragon's shame (unique to the overlord): your breath weapon and any other magical dragon abilities are now at 50% strength]

"What? This can't be real?"

[Name: Smaug

Race: Dungeon master (Black dragon born)

Title: Dungeon Master (hidden) 

Level: 5

XP: 325/500

Class: None

Jobs: None

HP: 450/450

MP: 1440/1440

STR: 5 (4.5)

AGI: 3 (2.7) INT: 16 (14.4)

WIS: 4 (3.6) VIT: 5 (4.5)

DEF:6 (5.4) DEX: 3 (2.7)

PATK: 275 PDEF: 370

MATK: 720 MDEF: 280

Status: cursed]

"C'mon, this isn't even fair-"

Just as Smaug began to complain about this blatant and pointless nerf, a much deeper voice deep from the abyss called out.

"Your right, it isn't fair. But this is what you get for using MY LIKENESS, claiming MY MOUNTAIN, and having the GALL to do all that WHILE being a LOWER LIFE FORM."

"What? I have no idea who you even are. I didn't even know anyone lived here before me."

"Now you try and lie to get yourself out of this? There is not a soul on the entire center continent who does not know me. I am the GREAT TYRANT DRAGON! An evil black dragon of immense power, in my prime I had far surpassed any other dragon that wasn't a stage of life ahead of me and even then I had evolved into a form several ranks higher than any other dragon in the last several hundred years. I was unstoppable, not even an ancient light dragon could stop me alone. Unfortunately, I was killed by an army of 100 million puny lower life forms much like you who used countless petty tricks, items, and strategies. It took a whole year of them keeping up constant pressure so I couldn't recover while they readied their super big attacks. They could barely do any damage to me, all they could do was keep attacking my open wounds to stop me from healing. But in the end, I had still killed over 99 million of them, even if they kept bringing in more soldiers, the army that left was no more than 50,000 none of which were in the original battalion."

"Oh, well I am new to this world, so this is the first time I have heard of this."

"Either way, I still wish to destroy you, but I have been weakened by time. The only way to break your curse is to destroy me, and my body is no longer that of a dragon but it is instead this very dungeon. You must destroy my core if you wish to kill me. MWAHAHA"

Just then, another wave of evil passed through Smaug, but now it was a lot more concentrated due to being closer to the source. That is when a loud screech rang out. Behind Smaug were three crazed mountain eagles. 

'SCREE'

Looking at the monsters, Smaug knew he had to fight so he pulled out his spear.

'These guys should all be about level 5 from my experience, I should be able to take them but just to be safe I'll message Rainha to get over here, worst case I'm dead before she gets here.'

Smaug started to run over and activated his dragon's breath to get off some quick damage. At first, he produced a couple of sparks of dark flame, but nothing came out.

'Damn, that curse is stopping my breath attack, I had completely forgotten.'

So instead he readied his spear for a running jab at the middle eagle. Once he hit it, the spear went straight through, but there were no damage numbers in sight, nothing to gauge how much damage he did other than knowing a hole in the chest probably wasn't very good for the eagle. 

The eagle staggered for a bit but went right back onto the offensive, the other two right behind it. The middle one went to Smaug and he parried it with his spear. Then the other two eagles went in for the scratch attack. While he was able to block one, the other managed to get him on his left shoulder leaving a pretty deep gash. 

[- 30HP]

'Dman that hurt, I'm sure my scales came in clutch with that one.'

Smaug now had a chance to attack, so he made a wide swing trying to hit all three eagles at once. He successfully hit all of them, hitting the middle one right in its chest wound. When a bunch of blood gushed out and the eagle rapidly became pale, falling to the ground dying. 

"One down, two to go."

The other two eagles had shallow cuts along their chests. One started to fly up high, while the other went in for another scratch attack, which Smaugh parried. Then he stabbed at the one who scratched at him since he couldn't reach the other one. 

Getting a solid hit in, the mountain eagle was now extremely weak, time would probably take it out at this rate. Just then the third eagle dived down, taking Smaug by surprise and landing right on his head. 

[-110]

[You have been temporarily stunned]

'Oh crap, this is bad…' 

Smaug's vision was all blurry and he felt like he could barely stand. Let alone move and attack. But it quickly wore off, and when he came to, the last mountain eagle was already preparing to scratch him one last time, and he couldn't let the attack get through. So he hastily tried to use his spear to block, but it wouldn't be enough. The eagle would probably be able to overpower his weak stance. 

Just then, a flash of pink fire swarmed both of the remaining eagles. 

[you have three mountain eagles: +13 XP]

"Need help?" Rainha called out.

"You made it, just in time, I was about to die."

"No problem, but, what is this place?"

"No idea, some ancient dragon died and became this false dungeon and decided to curse me, I say I go back to my dungeon to recover, then we report it to the guild together."

"Sounds good. On the way there you can explain the whole story."

After a bit of walking, Smaug walked into his dungeon just to find his regeneration had expedited, his original plan was to buy a probably pricey potion, but this was much better, free, and fast.

A few minutes later, Smaug and Rainha were on their way to the city where the guild was and explained the whole story. From the wave of evil to finding the hole in the ground, and even the story of the dragon's death. Everything up to the moment he was saved by Rainha. Once he was done, they reached the main gate and paid the entrance fee of five coppers each. Once they got to the guild, most of the morning rush was gone. Smaug quickly walked up to the human receptionist who was the very receptionist who gave them their guild cards. 

"We found something big this morning, something the guildmaster probably wants to know."

"Right this way then." 

Walking behind the counter and down the hallway, they came up to Giony's office. Knocking on the door three times, they opened to find the old Oni working hard-wearing nice clothes and glasses."Ah yes, you two are the new immortal party, right? I hear you found something big. Please wait a moment while I get the information report stuff ready. Samantha, I need two truth necklaces and a report forum."

"Yes, guild master" the human receptionist responded.