Right this moment I was sure that this Sarah will cause me some serious headache.

“We are kind of in a hurry at the moment so if you know some good places to gather some loot before we trash this place, then give me please some pointers,” I said to my newest acquisition.

Sarah grumbled only shortly, “There are some nice things down the corridor. I think it was the third door to the right.”

I felt some personal interest in her voice but I only had some minutes left before the temple would become a madhouse, so I just shrugged and turned around after I had grabbed the core and walked back to the corridor.

Mariah followed me right behind and began to weave her hands with strange red symbols appearing around her.

“Oh, nice spell there. Your little friend seems to go all out on this place. If I don't mistake some things she's casting a kind of delayed meteor spell with all her mana in the goings. This could really wreak this place and most of its surrounding but if I remember the maps right there is only a city of dungeon divers outside. Nothing important in my numbers.”

I was somewhat concerned about the death of so many innocents, but on the other hand this wasn't my homeworld and they supported this bastard Thorm, so they had it coming for them. I wouldn't become a hero in their eyes if this world ever knew I was responsible for the tragedy but at the moment I wasn't interested in any fans.

“How much time do we have until the shit hits the fan?” I asked my new subordinate.

“Hm, perhaps 10 minutes? Hard to guess, but I think it would around this plus minus one or two minutes.”

I reached the door Sarah had mentioned and gave her my best treatment with a subtle kick to the hinges. It gave way quite easily and I could take a look inside making me somewhat disappointed.

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Most things inside seemed to be some kind of eggs and strange glowing contraptions of which I couldn’t guess their purpose. I glanced at Sarah’s core, “Tell me what exactly is so precious here?”

With a snippy tone in her voice she answered, “What are you, a dummy? These are dungeon creatures! We can take them with us and create a powerful dungeon right from the start. If we give them beast cores we can even send them outside and let them do our biddings. Sure they need massive amounts of mana to hatch but believe me that is more than worth the effort.”

“You know that I’m a city core and not a dungeon, right? Although I have to admit that these little creatures could go a long way to secure my territory, especially after I have increased it to its actual maximum area. As long as they remain loyal to me and the city I don’t object.”

With that said I began grab the next egg I could reach.

“Give them to me! I can store them in my core as your inventory would certainly destroy them and would only leave them as quite tasty but nonetheless mostly useless scrambled eggs.”

I was a little bit cautious that I might create some problem later on if I gave her such a power boost but I couldn’t argue with her argument. My inventory would kill the living eggs at once if the living being wasn’t able to separate its consciousness from its body so Sarah was my storage room for now. The system said that she was bound to my will so I had to give the old sucker some leeway. Until now it served me good and something that governed the whole creation had to have a way to enforce a contract.

The egg touched Sarah’s core and vanished without a trace.

“I hope that you will be able to take the eggs with you when I take you to my homeworld.”

I got a kind of mental shrug from the dungeon core, “I’m quite sure that they will keep with me so get into motion, big stone head, and gather them. We have wasted enough time.”

Her attitude will give me headaches, I’m sure of it now. We will have a nice little chat later after the dust had time to settle and then I will lay out my rules. If she didn’t comply I was certain that my stone fists could give her enough insight that my way wasand always will be the right one.

I plundered the room as fast as possible and grabbed anything not integrated into the walls. Some of the things wandered into my inventory because Sarah said they weren’t alive, so when I heard shouts and movement from outside I had the room mostly cleared.

“The spell is cast and I’m completely empty of any mana, so let’s leg it and get the hell out of this soon to be hell place, “mumbled a pale and weak looking Mariah.

“Good, meditate, grab my invitation and I’ll take your body with me.”

I knew that we would get some company soon so I knelt down and covered Mariah’s body with my own to give her some protection from anything flying in my direction, which was a good idea because moments later I felt spells and arrows connect with my granite back.

Mariah closed her eyes and I sent her an invitation to my inner mind which she gratefully accepted. After feeling her mind enter my sanctum I sent her body into my inventory and stood up to get a last look at my attackers.

Spells hit me like fired from a gattling gun and the HPs of my body fell fast but I couldn’t resist to give the a finger and give them some choice words, “Yo f*ckfaces, take a last look around and enjoy your last moments because you had it coming. And Thorm! I’ll be back!”

I sent my mind back to my homeworld with my last impressions being some voice screaming, “My temple!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Enjoy motherfucker!