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Coreless Dungeon [25]

I love the connect rune! It is so useful, particularly in gathering information but also connecting things, even if said things exist only on a conceptual level. Like my memories, for example. Threads of golden…Well, golden something, I don’t know exactly what it was, only that it wasn’t light.

Anyway, all my known memories were now connected, on a conceptual level, very tightly too. I didn’t intend to do this, I was just testing the limits of what I could connect and I ended up here. It felt right though, in a way I couldn’t quite describe, I felt whole, secure.

I couldn’t see myself without the connect rune anymore, it was just too versatile. Many of the plans I made had to be revamped to include it. The fact that the rune was compatible with enchantments made it even more valuable. I could make an enchantment a lot more efficient if I just slapped a connect rune in there instead of a thousand intent strings.

If the connect rune was this useful, what about the others? Maybe I could really make my dream dungeon with these system runes! Only time will tell, I suppose. I still was no closer to comprehending that glowing rune than I was a few hours ago. Which was extremely frustrating, to say the least.

There was nothing I could do about that at the moment though, so I prioritized more important things. Things like finding out how to add a rune to the character screen.

I willed it to come over to me and it did, next I pictured the shape of the connect rune, it popped up for a second before vanishing.

Oh boy, why couldn’t it be that easy?

It also didn’t make any sense to me, I had the rune in my soul, why couldn’t I move it around freely, or imagine it in my mind? I don’t know, maybe I’m doing it wrong, yup, definitely.

Attempt number 2! I tried willing it into being and it popped up, for a second, then it was gone. Oh come on, just stay where I want you to!

There was a flash of light and it appeared, stuck around for a second longer then vanished again.

Oh? It can respond to my thoughts? I mean, that was obvious but it could understand complex thoughts? That was soooo interesting, it made me wonder what underlying principles these runes functioned on and if it was intelligent.

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I didn’t hope for such a possibility, maybe it was just system shenanigans that my mind couldn’t understand, yet. That still wasn’t the correct way to do it though, so what was it? What was I missing?

Hmm…

Hmmm..

After thinking for quite some time, I came to the conclusion that I didn’t know, but I wasn’t one to give up that easily! So I used an ability that I never really had a chance to use to its full potential: The ability to have multiple threads of thoughts.

My mind spun, then split off, then spun again, split off once more and continued until I had five threads of thoughts in my mind. And boy does it feel weird, it felt like trying to watch five things at once, while touching an electrical wire that fed a constant stream of electricity into your body.

Yeah, a very weird sensation.

It made me question if this was an ability even meant for dungeons, why have it if it was so odd and hard to use? Whoever designed us didn’t do a very good job. I couldn’t even focus properly and was forced to shut off the threads as they began to churn out nonsense.

What a bust! This only happened because they weren’t connected and had no access to my memories, they were blank slates, which wasn’t what I wanted. The connect rune was here to save the day though!

I activated the ability again, only splitting my mind twice before halting the replication process. I imagined the threads of thoughts as balls of light, red and blue, and a spot inside my mental space lit up with them.

I considered willing them over to where I was but decided against it. There was already a lot of stuff there, from constantly shifting rune fractals to the runes themselves and finally the character screen.

I could just expand the space, since it was all in my mind but I liked the idea of all my different experiments being separate from each other. So even if something went awry it wouldn’t go into the other sections of my mind, theoretically.

So anyway, I moved over to the balls of thought and inspected them, trying to ignore the weird sensation I was feeling because of them, thoughts, well more like gibberish spilled out of them in waves.

“WAKU! WAKU! WAKU!”

123! WAKU? WAKU! RIZZ, RIZZ CUT, BANKA-!”

Seriously, what the hell did those words even mean? Where did they even come from? I was dying to know, maybe they were connected to my lost memories somehow?

Anyway, I had to connect them and grant them access to my current memories and set them to work. Maybe I could even use them as a buffer of sorts, depends on how much I could have, could I replicate my mind indefinitely? Experiments for later.

I let the instincts instilled by the connect rune take over and my mind moved, one second there wasn’t any of the golden threads and the next second there was, floating lazily around, waiting for me to command it.

Just how? What did I miss!? Excitement flushed through my mind, just you wait, connect rune, your secrets will be mine! A quick thought connected the two minds and information flowed between them.

Next, I connected them to my memories and sent an instruction to them. They weren’t true minds, more like very intelligent bots of myself that were stupidly loyal, they had part of my soul, only my memories and a task.

They got to work instantly, and I was shocked when I got back an answer a second later.

Well, it turns out that I’m really slow.