“Oh Marcus, I thought you had forgotten about me, but the gals here have found out how to access your vast memory of things from your past, mostly drinks and food, even some nice furniture.”

When I searched my mind for the things she mentioned I saw a new addition to my system.

You’ve got the Memory-Store

So that’s new. I browsed through some windows of this new feature when Chris appeared besides me.

“Oh, you already discovered this new addition. Let me explain it shortly. In this Store you can get everything you remember and some other things like the newest series from all the worlds you have lived in. In your case this world and Earth. Thorm’s world doesn’t count because you haven’t even stayed long enough to take a small nap.”

I was speechless for a moment when he added, “But everything in this store has to stay in your inner mind. You can get the best games, series, movies and equipment from your old home for some payment of mana, and you can even show the things to your guests but you can’t take them outside. That’s the only limitation.”

He grinned with some smug as if saying ‘Am I awesome or not?’

I was conflicted if I should kiss, hug or bow to him. That was the best addon ever! And with my dungeon abilities to translate stuff I could even watch things in languages I’ve never known back on Earth.

I was so distracted for a moment with my thoughts that I didn’t see him coming closer and knocking on my head, “Don’t forget to build and manage your city. This is for your personal research and recreation. Bye!” He winked to me and disappeared like he came.

It took a moment before I understood what a grand slam he did for me. I could watch all kinds of different educational programs to regain my former knowledge and even expand it even further.

My teachers would have been shocked when they would have known that I was willing to study like a madman without pressure from them or my parents. All the knowledge of my old home was at my fingertips and I only needed some mana to watch.

I browsed around for a little bit and discovered the problem with my premature dreams. The mana cost was steep. At least for the educational clips. Game of Thrones, Star Trek and all the other recreational stuff wasn’t very pricey but just watching a clip for explaining higher mathematics would take more than half a million mana. So the system administrator did some restraining there by limiting my knowledge gain to the size of my city and therefore my mana capacity. Tricky sly fox.

The store also contained chairs, lounges, beds and other stuff to make my inner mind a place where my guardians would fight for to get invited in. Hehe, I have a proper carrot now to hold before their faces. After I’ve got them addicted to Netflix they will do all my bidding.

Damn I got distracted again. “Hey Mariah, mind a moment?”

She gave me an interested look, “What's up, boss?”

“I know this sounds a little bit forced right now but I have a job for you that could be the most important right now on this world.”

Suddenly serious she nooded, “Out with it! I was already thinking after some talk with your guardians that there might be a nice job offer with great benefits for me.”

“Yeah, I need you to be a magical teacher for all my magical gifted and then write down anything you remember about your education. This world is miles behind anything on your or my homeworld.”

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She seemed quite surprised, “Wait a moment, you were not born on this world? Where the hell did you come from then?”

I concentrated for a moment and a hologram of Earth appeared right before me, “That's my old homeworld, Earth. Birthplace of humanity and as it seems the center of future big trouble.”

Everyone took a closer look now at the globe before them and Chara asked me, “Master, this world is a globe. Does that mean that our world is one too?”

I patted her head and she smiled.

“You're right, young lady. I think most worlds in the universe are globes and any that are not were surely constructed by higher forces and more advanced civilizations.”

I looked to Mariah and she gave me a nod.

“I'll work for you, Marcus. You seem to be a nice guy most of the time and that's better than what I've had the joy of getting most of my life. Your guardians informed me about the job description of being one of your special workers and I'll do my best to become a guardian myself as soon as possible.”

“You know, there are some people out there that have already made a pledge for becoming a guardian themselves. But the next open place belongs to you, that's a promise.”

I had a sudden thought, “Do you know a way to make stone easy to mold and then hard again? There are some projects I have in mind and it would be very good if there was a way to form the stone directly without first quarrying the stuff, work the stone and then transport it to its new place.”

Mariah sat back in her chair and thought it over. The others watched her closely and waited for her answer.

“There is a geomancer spell that I learned quite some time ago in my apprenticeship when I had little else than my magic to provide for shelter. It's nothing much but could be surely magnified to your needs.”

Suddenly Sarah appeared right beside me, “One moment please, you can cast spells like a normal mortal?”

I nodded with some irritation in my gaze, “You cannot?”

“For fucking sake, noooooo! I'm a dungeon core. You know what would happen if dungeons could just throw fireballs or lightning at adventurers? You're such a cheat!”

And she disappeared right after. Next on my agenda would be to create some rights to enter my inner mind which another bound core seemed to ignore right now.

Mariah smirked, “She seemed agitated.”

“Yeah, seems so. You said something about a geomancer spell?”

“I will teach it to you and your guardians. It's not very difficult but needs a shitload of mana to use which doesn't seem to bother a city core very much I think.”

I grinned and waited for her instructions.

“You know that would be much easier if I had my body around.”

“Oh right, sorry. Wait a moment and I'll transfer you back outside.”

I concentrated shortly and transferred her body and mind outside. For a moment I feared something went wrong but then she breathed deeply and opened her eyes. Taking a look and around and watching the elves and humans watch her back she stood and took a moment for inspecting herself.

“It seems that everything is where it belongs. Thanks boss.”

“You're welcome.”

Kalla walked over and gazed to me, “You're good at finding new personnel it seems.”

“You can say that. Princess Kalla that's Mariah, a wizard who helped me escape the new dungeon god's grasp. She's here to help us develop our magic skills and to escape the wrath of said god.”

Mariah and Kalla inspected each other for a moment and then they both smiled, and bowed their heads slightly.

“He's a piece of work, isn't he?” said Kalla.

“That he is but quite fun to be around.”

I suddenly got the chills. These two did get along much too good for my taste. Where's the friction between powerful women, where's the drama?

“Let's make his life interesting.”

Kalla nodded, “I think it is already but let's not get him bored.”

The mischief and humour in their eyes made me retreat some feet. Maybe I should have waited before introducing them. They were much too similar, hell their personalities could have been twins. And one of them would become a guardian of mine. That will be a challenge.

“So Marcus, time for the geomancer spell. It's quite easy as I said and you should be able to easily scale it up to your needs.”

Mariah made slow and not very complicated motions with both hands and her voice made the world around her vibrate with power.

“Teraem mutalo carvete.”

A small tower of dirt rose from the ground and became wider at the top resembling a kind of watchtower from a medieval city. I got giddy just by watching and then repeated what she did with my mind carving the runes that I watched her build with her motions and then saying the necessary words in my mind.

Power rushed through me and I suddenly knew that the dirt around me became somewhat like clay for me to form as I wished.

The wall made from compacted dirt was my target and I smoothed it with the terrain outside watching my mana usage closely. Mariah said that it would be costly and she didn't exaggerate as I saw my mana plummet like a stone. I used much less power when I build things manually or maybe corely, is that a word?

The spell would be useful when I had an overflow of power at my disposal but right now the old and tested way would still be better.

“You're right. It is a bitch at sucking mana. Useful but only for specialized jobs I imagine right now.”

The sorceress had watched my usage of the spell and made a face like someone who bit into a lemon.

“You know that it took me weeks to master the spell when I first learned it and here you just cast the spell the first time and change a whole 3 meter wide wall like its nothing. You're a cheat to end all cheats.”

If I had a face right now I would grin like a maniac.