When I woke up it was still endlessly dark, but there was a sensation of being bound and under a large amount of pressure. Not to mention I had the mother of all headaches. Floating in my vision were the words from before. Somehow I knew I could dismiss them with a thought and recall them just as easily. I also could understand the language they were in despite seeing it for the first time. Pausing for a moment to compose myself, I called out 'Status' in my mind. With a flash of sharp pain, the words before me changed.
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Type: Dungeon Core
Size: 1.0 × 0.5 × 0.5
Color: Colorless
Rank: --- Rank
Territory: ---
Mana Generation: 9.3 per min
Mana Retention: 3.73 per min
Current Mana: 387.92
Divine Artifact
Tool made for the Generation and Dispersion of Mana
- Ether Conversion
- Matter Conversion
Dungeon Core
A Construct that changes its surroundings and makes use of monsters and traps to defend itself
- Perception
- Language Comprehension
- Creation Skills available
Crystal Body
has a crystalline body structure
- Slash Resistance
- Pierce Resistance
- Blunt Weakness
Sentient
Capable of own thought
- Extra starting race of own choice
- Creatures spawn with basic instincts
- Resistance to Mind magics
- Bonus perks available
Reincarnated Soul
Possess memories of past life/lives to draw inspiration from
Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon.
- Resistance to Soul magics
- Customization Skills available
Spoiler: Spoiler
Ether Conversion (A¹/P)
- Matter Conversion (A/P²)
- Mana Dispersion (A¹/P)
- Perception (P)
- Language Comprehension (P)
- Create Terrain (A)
- Modify Terrain (A)
- Create Creature (A)
- Create Flora (A)
- Implant Soulstone (A)
- Create Item (A/P3)
- Create Custom Creature (A)
- Create Custom Flora (A)
- Evolution (A/P⁴)
1: can increase or decrease, but not halt, when activated. Incurs a cooldown based on duration active for (Ether Conversion can only be increased)
2: can only convert foreign non-living matter passively if it is untouched for 1 day (26hours)
3: can only passively create Drop Items up to an equal rank of the creature killed, creatures corpse is immediately converted into Mana in the process
4: can only passively evolve creatures/flora when they meet certain conditions for a lesser effect
Spoiler: Spoiler
Slash 20%
Pierce 20%
Blunt -20%
Mind 20%
Soul 20%
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I really hope it gets easier with time, it feels like I've just been kicked in the temple. After waiting for the throbbing to dull a bit, I read it through a couple of times to be sure I had a pretty good grasp of it. According to the System, I was a Sentient Item. Not even a race, but an Artifact. A rather tiny one at that. I wasn't too keen on the fact I was a glorified mist machine of the Gods, but I suppose there where worse items I could have been. Judging by the effects of the Traits 'Sentient' and 'Reincarnated Soul' I could guess I was somewhat special.
It seemed that Dungeon Cores were run by a form of AI-type programming instead of actual intelligent life. They had preset commands and limited reactions to situations. Essentially just a build maze, fill it with traps and creatures, kill all that enter and if all else fails, bribe with loot. Rather basic really.