When he created his three hundredth floor, he was granted the first of his Dungeon Event and as a dungeon core with over nine hundred floors, he had three Events in total. He had used one a few decades ago to kill some hostile adventurers who reached the dragon. Now, he had only two more Events to call upon, and The Dungeon Master made sure they were in order.

One Event was a dungeon disaster that would cause the dungeon to be destroyed. In theory, that was a very foolish thing to do as The Dungeon Master would be killing himself, but that was where his second Event came in.

His final Event would cause his dungeon core to be teleported to another location. It was The Dungeon Master’s escape method, but this Event had certain drawbacks. His new location will be random, and The Dungeon Master cannot bring along his dungeon.

This means The Dungeon Master would need to start over, but if he use his two Events together, his enemies will die in the dungeon collapse while The Dungeon Master will escape to safety. The Dungeon Master hoped that he would never be faced with such a scenario, but The Dungeon Master had always been a careful dungeon core, and he was prepared for all eventuality. He now had a new reason for his caution.

A new dungeon core named Xu Han.

The Dungeon Master was having a chat with the other dungeon cores in the region when the new dungeon core arrived in the chat group. His arrival was a surprise, but The Dungeon Master was quick to welcome the new core. At first, everything was great, and it would be fair to say that the new dungeon core made a good impression with everyone. All the cores could tell the new core was hiding something, but that was hardly unusual. They were dungeon cores, and everyone had secrets. Then, Xu Han dropped a bombshell.

Although he hid it well, The Dungeon Master was shaken by the presence of the new dungeon core. Xu Han was the dungeon core of the Tomb of Ten Techniques, and he was different. The new dungeon core informed everyone that he was a reincarnator, someone reborn from another world.

The Dungeon Master thought back on how the chat went and had to admit that the new core was a very interesting individual. Xu Han was polite, unfailingly so, and had something new that to offer the chat. The new core had found a way to grant adventurers skills like a [King] or [General], and he was open to trade the Techniques for information.

Despite his misgivings, The Dungeon Master had a good impression of the new dungeon core. Xu Han’s Techniques was both new and innovative, and it had quipped even The Dungeon Master’s interest. That was why he did not say much during the chat and allowed the others to take the lead. For there was one thing about Xu Han that The Dungeon Master was worried about.

The other dungeon cores thought nothing of it. It was rare, but not unheard of for someone to be reborn with their memories from another world. The Hero of Zeth, the Shadow King, the Maker of Golems; these were but a few of the great reincarnators known throughout their history. However, the other dungeon cores forgot one important thing.

These great reincarnators were not dungeon cores. Reincarnators had been reborn as humans, elves, dwarves, one was even a dragon, but they were never reborn as dungeon cores. Most, if not all, of the other dungeon cores probably thought this was the first time a reincarnator had been reborn as a dungeon core.

They were wrong.

However, The Dungeon Master did not blame them. The other cores did not know. They had never been told. The Dungeon Master did not need to be told, he was there. He remembered.

The Dungeon Master remember The Game.

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Like Xu Han, The Game was a dungeon core reincarnated from a distant world. He was from a world called Earth, and the dungeon core called himself The Game because he claimed that their world was nothing but a game. A game that he had to win in order to return to his former world. The ‘real world’.

This was not unheard of. Reincarnators were known to be erratic, and several could never wrap themselves around the notion that they had been reborn in a new world. Some reincarnators went crazy as a result, and The Game was unfortunately one of them.

Most of the other cores felt sorry for him, and some tried to help, but it proved to be impossible. The Game believed everyone else was something called an ‘NPC’ and his madness only grew with time. Then, The Game began to believe that the only way to ‘win’ was to conquer the world.

No one knew why The Game believed that. It was insane, but The Game believed it and released a horde of creatures into the world to ‘win’. The Dungeon Master was still a newly born dungeon core at that time, but he remembered how The Game’s creatures destroyed everything in their path. The mad dungeon core spared no one. He destroyed several kingdoms, killed the last of the Ents when he destroyed the Greatwoods of Hillian Basin, and even destroyed several dungeon cores who stood in his way.

In the end, it took an alliance of several people and folks, along with some help from some dungeon cores, before the dungeon core known as The Game was destroyed.

The Dungeon Master also remembered the aftermath, and the chaos and hatred The Game created with his rampage. It took decades for the kingdom to stabilize, and many dungeon cores were destroyed by people seeking vengeance in the aftermath.

The Dungeon Master did not want the same thing to happen again.

So, he believed it was important to watch this new dungeon core carefully. The Dungeon Master knew he was being a little bit paranoid, his fear unbecoming of a dungeon core, much less one who was the greatest in the known world, but he could not help but feel it was justified considering what happened the last time. It was better to be careful than sorry.

However, The Dungeon Master did not want to make Xu Han an outcast. The crimes of The Game should not fall on the new dungeon core. That was why he did not mention anything about The Game during the chat. He did not want to colour the others’ view of the newcomer. The Dungeon Master just need to keep an eye on the new core and be ready to act if Xu Han stepped out of line.

It was not a job he could slack off on, especially when the safety of the other dungeon cores was at stake. Then, The Dungeon Master remember something. He remembered a conversation the new dungeon core had with the other cores.

The new dungeon core had wanted knowledge on how to create new species. That was something The Dungeon Master could understand. All creatures created by a dungeon core were tied to the dungeon. The creatures were created using a combination of mana and divine power, but they weren’t ‘real’ and could not grow like normal people. Dungeon creatures were not accepted by The System, they could not have Classes and could only eat and drink the mana of a dungeon. That was why dungeon creatures must constantly return to the dungeon of their birth and the moment their dungeon core was destroyed, the dungeon creatures would die as well. This was why most dungeon cores wish to create new species.

A species was different. They were living beings fully capable of living outside the dungeon they were created in. Even if the dungeon was destroyed, a species they created could live if they had a way to escape the dungeon collapse.

This was why many dungeon cores created them. The new species was their legacy, a way for them to live on even if they were one day destroyed. The Dungeon Master was not immune to this, and had created several species when he was younger.

However, he was no expert and none of his new species were truly successful. The Dungeon Master did not want to sully his reputation, so he knew he needed something else, something that would interest the new core. That was when he remembered something the new core had commented on during the chat.

Xu Han had no idea what technology was. The new core was intrigued by it as his old world did not have such a term and asked a lot about it, especially about the different fields of technology like magitech, cystech, and clockwork. The Dungeon Master quickly realized that if Xu Han do not know what technology was, then he would not know what a magitech vehicle was.

That was something he could use.

The Dungeon Master knew what he had to do. He has a gift for the new core. It would be a gesture of goodwill, and it wouldn’t even be unusual as The Dungeon Master was known to gift items to new cores. He quickly messaged the Dungeon Supplier Guild and paid extra for a specific supplier.

The Dungeon Master knew exactly what he wanted to give to the new core, and which supplier he wanted to do the delivery.