Looking at his abilities, it didn’t take long to find the ones responsible.

Dungeon God: Through the Crystal Dungeon System and the World Crystal, you gain various powers, such as creating new souls and bodies with which to populate your dungeon. Additionally, through the Crystal Dungeon System, you may create new objects, materials, and a large variety of things by spending mana. You may also claim areas like a deity's divine grounds. Finally, you gain the ability—Dungeon God Connection and are bound to your claimed Dungeon Area within or outside of the Shattered Lands.

Dungeon God Connection: You form a connection with your creations. This lets you speak via telepathy with your creations and command them. This link is unbreakable and will not fade regardless of the distance between you and your creations. Additionally, creations of your choosing will have access to Pure Arcane Mana and Order Mana at the correct ranks of power. This mana is stored within you and is available to those you choose. Finally, you are able to create pacts with entities outside of your creations. Once the pact is accepted, the entity in question falls under your control like any other of your creations.

Looking at his two abilities, it was clear which one offered the ability for beasts to submit. The ability didn’t care about rank, which meant it technically enabled Dan to get a dragon under his control right now. He just had to find a dragon willing to serve someone weaker than itself, and he doubted that would happen. Still, it meant he could make pacts with all sorts of entities, and since he couldn’t make creatures higher rank than him, finding some higher ranker to serve him wouldn’t be the worst idea. Of course, the problem was finding said higher rankers without having them turn on him.

The last thing Dan found interesting was the Arcane and Order Mana bit, as it didn’t say he could make it. So, it meant his monsters would be able to make the energy, which he could then take and give out as he pleased. Sadly, he wouldn’t gain the Pure Arcane mana until D rank, which just made him want to rank up even more.

After reading the new features of his new form, Dan went to read the old ones that belonged to his old Eldritch God form to get a measure of what exactly he had been.

Eldritch God - You may now consume World Crystals to increase in power without over-exerting your Heart Crystal. Additionally, you gain the ability—Eldritch God Connection.

Eldritch God Connection: You can form a connection with Aberrations and other entities weaker than you. This lets you share thoughts and mana through the link. Aberrations connected in this manner will obey you. In exchange, you will give the Aberration a trickle of power, allowing them to grow in power without needing to consume Heart Crystals. The link can only be broken upon the Death of the Eldritch God or its minion.

Well, that was rather straightforward. Still, it made Dan question the universe and its apparent creator. Not only had Mother Eternity created the things that made Worlds, but then created things to hunt said creations. The cycle was a bit fucked, in Dan’s honest opinion.

Having learned a little bit more about himself, Dan looked back at his monsters and mana. He did want to look at the rest of his abilities to compare them, but the enemy was not going to wait for him.

Dan was delighted and annoyed to see that his mana had capped out at 600, meaning some of it had probably been lost. Thankfully, Dan knew what he wanted to do and quickly pumped out monsters.

First, he would update the number of monsters his current teams had access to. He quickly created one jaguar, five eagles, and three cheetahs and panthers. The new addition to the teams cost him 509 mana, but they were well worth it, as each of his five teams would gain a massive boost in power.

Each team now had one bear, gorilla, doe, stag, cheetah, panther, and two baboons, jaguars, and eagles, bringing a team's total to twelve. However, the roles of the monsters still hadn’t changed. The bear and gorilla were meant to be the main tankers. Then, the doe was the healer, with its stag being its guard and also acting as a tank. The cheetah and eagles were scouts while also being skirmishers, and then the jaguars, panthers, and baboons would share the title of brawlers and ambushers.

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From there, Dan looked at his item creation since he wanted to give the baboons some actual weapons to use. As the menu popped up, Dan quickly hit Create Item, which prompted a list of possible things to create.

Create or Edit Item.

— Edit Item.

— Create Item.

- - Item Type.

- - - Weapon.

- - - Armor.

- - - Potion or Elixir.

- - - Clothing.

- - - Other.

- - - - Specify.

It was nice to see that he had many options to choose from, with one even allowing for his imagination to be the limit. Well, his imagination and his available mana. No, wanting to dally any longer, Dan nudged the weapon option, and he was given some options to choose from. They were the basics, such as sword, spear, bow, and, oddly enough, shield.

Thinking about it, Dan wanted to give his baboons some leverage and range, so he chose a spear. From there, he decided what enchants to add. And was prompted to see a list of enchantments, but he knew what he wanted and added them. He could even choose the power level for each enchantment with a nifty slider bar.

Afterward, he was asked what materials he wanted to use, and went for regular wood and steel. Finally, with everything chosen, he was given a final prompt to make sure that was what he wanted to make, and by choosing yes, he spent 12 mana.

🔷 Crystal Notice 🔷

🔷 Item Creation 🔷

Name: Basic Steel Spear.

Item Rarity: Common.

Enchantment: Sharpness. Sturdy. Self-Repair.

Ability: N/A.

Description: A basic wooden spear with a steel tip. The spear has a few enchantments to help it be sharper and sturdier while also providing self-repair for easier maintenance.

Instructions: N/A.

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The item that appeared next to his core matched the description perfectly, except for the fact that it looked freshly made as if it were from some sort of factory. Sadly, he only had 71 mana after creating the beasts and spear, so he couldn’t outfit all the baboons. Deciding it was better to wait, Dan returned to look at his monsters and gave the go-ahead for everyone to return to the base.

A couple of hours later, with all his monsters in the fort, Dan moved on to put his beasts to back work. However, first, he made sure to establish a chain of command. First, George was going to become the Marshall of his forces. He was going to stay at the fort and keep an eye on the map.

Dan also upgraded George a bit, as he needed the gorilla to be more aware and easily able to communicate with his monsters. Paying the seven mana for the upgrade, George quickly gained the Mana Storage and Dungeon Leader abilities. Mana storage increased his available mana from 50 to 100. And Dungeon Leader, let the Gorilla telepathically speak with Dan’s monsters as long as they were within his dungeon area. The ability was good, but he was blocked to only having one boss monster have it per each of his own ranks. This meant that until he was D Rank, he couldn’t give it to another one of his bosses.

With that now out of the way and happy he had someone expressly set to make sure his monsters were running smoothly, Dan decided it was time to get some more mana. He sent out all the teams with their new members because he knew they could handle most threats, except something like the wolves. Thankfully, with George in charge, the gorilla should be able to strategize and make up for any of his monster's weaknesses.

Speaking of the wolves, Dan wasn’t sure what to do with them, and they were currently lounging in the fort. He decided he would just let them chill in the fort and help with patrols since the fort was pretty much empty.

Deciding that pretty much everything was under control, Dan wanted to take a look at another one or two of his abilities until some more mana came in.

Crystal Heart - The Crystal Heart is your core. If fully destroyed, you will cease to be. Additionally, your Crystal Heart gives you the following abilities— Eldritch Regeneration, Mana Conversion, Mana Storage, Telekinesis, Telepathy, Spatial Sense, and Eldritch Mind.

This was back before he became a dungeon and is literally what gave him most of his aberration abilities. Comparing it to his new one, it hadn’t really changed much in what it gave him, as the abilities had just been transformed. The one thing it did clearly state was his new and only path to power.

Crystal Shard - Your Crystal Heart is broken. Collect its pieces to grow in power. If your current shard is destroyed, you will die permanently. Additionally, and through your pact with the World Crystal, your Crystal Heart gives you the following abilities— Eldritch Regeneration, Mana Conversion, Mana Storage, Mana Collection, Telekinesis, Telepathy, Spatial Sense, and Dungeon Mind.