From the perspective of Cray in irontown.

Carol was stuck in the inn for four hours before she ran out of mana. Carol then said that she was going to go to bed because she was about to get mana sickness if she kept going any longer. Steve, Andrew and I watched for a while as people came in and out of the Inn trying to find the healer, only to be turned away and told she would be back tomorrow.

Finally, I spoke up. "You guys want to go and explore the ship and see if we can find the command deck?" Steve started talking first "sorry, but I'm going to a librarian today to find more knowledge about the gods. Apparently, several people have met them in their real beings walking around in this world. " Andrew then spoke hesitantly "I aw, have a date?" Steve and I both stared at him in shock.

Steve gasped and said in a whisper "does our sister know, she's probably going to kill her when she finds out. Do you remember what happened last time?" Andrew started whispering as well "yes, I remember, that's why I'm telling you guys now when she's passed out so Cray, don't tell my sister." he pointed was finger at me. I raise my hands while I spoke "don't worry, your secret safe with me. The infiltrator I'm controlling will probably tell her everything. If she asked"

Andrew looked horrified "what, why?"

"I don't have any AI cores; it's running off a basic AI program, so it obeys any order you guys give it."

"Can you censor the past couple of minutes from its memory?"

"Yeah, that might work, but it will tell her that it was censored If she asked about our conversation."

Steve then side while getting up to leave "okay well I have to go to the library now. so, I will see you guys later." Even left the Inn.

"Don't worry; I'm sure your sister doesn't interrogate the drone whenever I'm gone."

Andrew held his head "she probably does."

"I'm getting going into the iron dungeon. If you guys need anything, call me on the radio."

As I left, I remembered my sword was about to break, and I needed to get a new one, so I started heading to the edge of town. Back at the base, I made another two kukris and a silence coil shotgun. The gun would shoot 40 steel pellets down a magnetically charged barrel. The gun could fire two rounds per second. The clip held 4000 steel pellets, so I needed to reload after 100 shots. You usually have to replace the battery too, but it has a power crystal.

The shotgun was in case I ran up against a massive hoard of spider drones again. If anything else showed up That was stronger, I'd use swords or my pistol with the armor piercing rounds.

On the way to the edge of town. I noticed there were more people out a few of the adventurers were even caring around tied up, cleaner drones. They looked like trash cans with tiny arms that came out of the side with different cleaning appendages attached.

When I reach the edge of the town, the gates had already been opened. This time three guards were standing at the entrance. They let me through without stopping me. Walking out to the forest, I waited for the delivery drone to come.

15 minutes later I had my weapons, and I was heading back to the town. But in the distance, I heard a wolf howl from the direction of the lake. One of the Scout drones reported in that it found the five wolves. They were heading for the ship in the center of the lake.

I switched over to the scouts of you and watched. The mage Wolf out from the tree line and rose a path straight to the hatch on top of the ship. The other four armored wolves came out of the woods and began running along the now path made on top of the lake.

the Hatch was still open because drones were taking parts out to make the rail cannon on top of the ship." The wolves must have been watching the ship, waiting for an opportunity like this. "SHIT" switching back to the combat drone in the repair bay. I only had one shield, and one clip of ammo left. The other two combat drones were going to stay in the room and act as backup. The current AI's that run them are way too slow to fight let alone actually hit them.

I started spawning combat drones between my AI core in the hatch at the top of the ship. I only managed to make 12 before I came across an error.

Warning you are out of mana for constructs.

Mana required to create a combat drone 500MP

Current mana 279 out of 5,870

"shit" I always thought I was just bringing them from storage. "ow The matter conversion ability." I bet it costs me mana to summon things and build them in place. They weren't armed yet, so I wanted with the most straightforward thing and gave them all kukri. I thought of just checking my mana, and suddenly I got an option.

Do you wish to display your mana pull on your HUD? Y/N

I was still running down the hallway when I angrily said "yes" mana was now displayed on my top left-hand corner of my HUD. I was about 20 yards away from the next turn when I saw one of the wolves jump out in front of me.

I noticed the armored Wolf had frost on its fur. "That wasn't there before" its eyes also had a glazed look to him. They weren't dead, but there was something off. Pulling up my machine gun and started shooting into its eyes this time instead of the eyes bursting like usual rounds just bounced off making it sound of glass clinking.

The Wolf didn't even blink. My shots no longer did damage to them. The Wolf was close enough to lunch at me as it did I raise my gun sideways to catch it. But the Wolf had claws made of ice now and swiped them down cutting through my machine gun as it broke. I tried summoning a kukri and my right hand. It showed up. But it was 2 feet in the air my hand. with lightning speed I raise my hand to grab it in the Wolf latched onto my left arm.

I quickly drew the blade down across the back of the neck. It went halfway through before the sword shattered inside the armored wolf. I promptly started walking back to the main room and switched over to one of the undamaged drones. I checked on the rest of the drones I'd summoned in front of the wolves and found that only one was remaining rest had been torn to pieces. I took control of the last one that was fighting.

They had actually managed to kill one of the armored wolves before they were taken out. When I had taken over last one in the group, it only had one arm, and two of the wolves were biting down on its torso tearing it apart. I switched back to the one that was running down the hallway with the machine-gun and kukri. The last three showed up around the corner. I focused on the only mage Wolf. It shields quickly shattered, and it was killed soon the other two were still sprinting down the hallway, and I knew my machine gun was utterly useless. So I flipped around to use it like a mace.

One of the wolves jumped against the right side wall and then leaped at me. The other stayed on the ground trying to make it by me. I swung my blade upwards cutting the head off the one in midair. The other one got by on my left side.

I switched over to the last fully healed drone in my core room. I summoned another blade for it. Now I had two swords, and I sprinted to get in front of my core. My wandering boss drone got into the room and stood next to the door. I was going to use it to tackle the Wolf when he got into the room. I watched and waited, three seconds later I could see it running down the hallway. Wandering boss got ready to tackle it. I started running to get its attention right as it leaped through the doorway my wandering boss lunged or it. It sailed behind the armored Wolf but managed to hit one of its legs with the sword.

When the Wolf landed, It stumbled and fell on its side, it quickly tried to scramble up words, but I managed to slam two blades into killing it. "What the shit." They had gotten from the shoreline to my core room in less than 45 seconds.

Now my mana was around 200 I guess summoning all these blades kept draining me faster than regenerating. I let out a sigh I need to start making better defenses, that was just dumb how close I came to dying. Only had to undamaged Combat drones in my wandering boss was down to two-thirds of its health and would take a while to heal. I noticed there is a new blinking icon on the top of my HUD. I pulled up to see what new thing happened.

Two of your classes (dungeon) and (AI core) have fully combined into the class (dungeon AI)

The abilities (programming), (emotions) and (soul converter) have combined into the ability (soul programmer) and has been added to the class (dungeon AI)

After battle experience report:

armored wolves killed 4 X 1250XP total 5,000

mage wolves killed 1X 925XP

Total overall experience earned: 5,925XP

all kills occurred in your dungeon, so all experience goes to your core.

"that's right; I needed to collect souls to get the last of my abilities to combine." saying well pulling up my statistics.

Name: cray race: half dungeon half AI core (dungeon AI) Affiliation: human race Total Mana capacity: 5870 Total Mana: 233 Mana regeneration: 23/s Durability: 1000/1000

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Magical abilities:   immunity to outside control: mastered                                                                      Commander of the mindless: 9/10 library of knowledge: 4/10

Class: Dungeon AI level: 0 long-range contract: 10/10 devour and create: 10/10 soul programmer: number of souls 5 1/10                                                                                   

Achievements: 2 Stole from a God. This title was earned when you took an empty dungeon core from the god of chaos. Golem master. This title was earned by creating three unique golems that the gods had never seen.

Total experience awaiting allotment: 118,085

I didn't have my list of basic programs anymore, so I had to upgrade (soul programmer) to the Max. It cost me 102,400XP then pulled up its description to see what it had.

Soul Programmer: description you are now able to create highly intelligent AI with the ability to slowly become semi-sentient.

Creatures that dying your dungeon will leave behind a soul which you can convert into your mana or edit to see your purposes souls can only be applied to living things.

You can now reprogram damaged AI cores. Fully functioning AI cores army into this ability.

Creatures you give souls too are completely loyal. However, their souls determine how intelligent they can be. Their personalities cannot be changed.

You can now view the personalities of souls you held.

Do you wish to select a mastery for this ability Y/N

I chose yes of course, and two options showed up.

First choice your wandering bosses can now capture souls for you. Second choice you can edit AI programs or remove souls you've already placed into creatures.

That was an easy choice. I wasn't planning on letting anything else into my dungeon, so I chose the first option. The second one would be nice but if I ever needed to change an AI. I would just bring it in for maintenance. It feels somehow wrong to pull a soul out of its body against is will.

I clicked on the other two to see what their ministries were

long-range contract   First option creatures contracted to you, will respond at the cost of 10X it original summoning price. Their souls and all their knowledge will be returned to them, and no experience will be lost. Second option you can have up to 20 wandering bosses

That one was a hard decision have twice the number of wandering bosses or never had to worry about them dying. I took a few minutes to think it over. There's no point in having a wandering boss. If there always at level 1 because they keep dying. So I picked the first option.

Devour and create:   First option whatever element you devour can be converted into any other element. This ability will cost no mana. Second option materials can be converted into raw manga, to fill your mana pull.

This one was a lot easier to choose, the first one because this would leave me with infinite options where's the other one would only be used in emergencies.

I didn't have enough experience to gain an additional random ability yet. So I went back to controlling my infiltrator until my base earned enough mana for me to begin work on again. Should take me five minutes to fully regenerate my mana. I still then have to summon a lot of weapons defenses, and units.

My infiltrator was still standing outside the town, so I began walking back into the city. One of the gutter guards asked why was standing there for so long. It has only been two minutes. I guess it was still weird for somebody to stop moving.

I set I just got distracted everything's okay guard smiled and waved me through. When I got to the dungeon. It was quite busy adventurers were constantly coming in and out. I joined the line to get inside. After a few minutes, I was in the main room. There is a set of stairways in the middle leading down asked one of the adventurers. What those stairways led to he said "oh, they just lead to more difficult levels of the dungeon. If your low-level stay up on the first floor until you get better. There are about ten levels in the bottom most is just filled with combat drones. It also has the sleeping Giants oo shit I gotta get going." The adventure Rand after a few others and caught up with them entering the lower level.

I decided to stay on the top floor until my infiltrator reached level 30. I went to the same airlock. I had marked the night before. Nobody had touched it yet, so I wrote down occupied and went inside. There were at least eight or nine sweeper bots trying to pick up all the scrap I'd left on the floor. So I went to the end of the hallway and took the stairway down. It only went down one floor. When I got to the bottom, there was another airlock.

I opened the airlock and looked inside. This time the room was rotated 90°, and it looked like a storage bay for buildings. There were dozens of buildings filled with supplies meant to build a town."I Remember these" they were meant to be taken out and built into a large city. I think that means this ship was supposed to carry housing, which means it has probably 40 crewmates in the bridge but no cryo-Bay for civilians. The crew on the command bridge should be in their cryo- pods.

I guess that makes my job a lot easier. I only have to find one small section of the ship and get out about 40 people. I turned my attention back to the room in front of me. There were a large number of construction bots. 100 to 120 are suspended on what would typically be the ceiling but since the walls had been rotated. They are to the left of me on the wall.

I pulled out my shotgun and got it ready. This frame was too weak to hold the pistol at the same time, so I only kept the shotgun. I aimed the row closest to me and shot at them. The spread managed to hit three of the units destroying their chassis and damaging several others around. The ones that weren't destroyed immediately detached from their harnesses and dropped to the floor and started running to me over the piles of building parts.

Only the ones I damaged started chasing after me. The rest stayed in sleep mode. If I tried shooting the ones climbing over the piles, I'd hit the rest of the suspended units. "This is gonna be awesome." I didn't have to worry about losing all my levels, so I opened fire.

The closest one burst apart into scrap. The metal chunks hit more of the suspended drones. I aim to my gun at two more that were closer to each other and blasted them apart. Around 50 of the drones dropped from the wall. Several of them were picking up chunks of the destroyed drones and were throwing them at me. I had to dodge sideways to avoid a torso that flew missing me by centimeters. My shotgun was continuously firing at this point. The wave of construction drones was getting closer and closer. Now they were using the destroyed model's ware used as shields, and I still had to keep dodging the throne scrap.

Every time I dodged. I made sure to go closer and closer to the airlock in case I needed to leave. One of the drones thrown at me was still active. Its last remaining arm reached out and grabbed for my leg. I immediately shot its arm breaking its hold. But I couldn't stay anymore. I turned around and sprinted for the door. Still shooting behind me the whole time. When I got through the door, I tried to pull it closed. It only had a dozen centimeters left to go one an arm reached in and grabbed inside. I released the door and ran straight up the steps. When I got to the top. I turned around and aimed my shotgun down the steps. Before they got through the door, I reloaded the gun.

There was maybe 70 of them left, but every time I shot that number dropped down by three or four. The doorway the drones were trying to get through soon got filled with broken piles of scrap and was jammed up. I finally stopped shooting."I shouldn't need to be doing ALL THIS RUNNING!" While I was yelling at the scrap, noises were coming from the new wall of broke parts for a while, but it grew silent. I guess they walked back to their charging stations.

I looked at my ammo counter. It said 240 rounds left. That meant I was down to my last five shots. I switched over to my last clip. Now the counter said 4000. Then, shock drones walked out from behind the steps "shit. How many did I kill 73 I think" that means I was going to have to kill 27, shock drones and they had bulletproof shields "double shit" I heard more coming from behind the steps. I put away my shotgun and pulled out my sword and shield and waited at the top of the steps.

The shock drones weren't stupid. They held their shields up and blocked me from even thinking about using my shotgun. Luckily my blade still had a molecular edge, and those shields weren't going to stop it. The stairs were wide enough for them to walk side-by-side. The two in the front had their shields in front of them, and the next two were holding their shields over the front twos heads.

I had to wait until they left the stairway in order to swing my sword through them. When the first group came to the top. Swing at the front two killing them. I then used my shield to push the last two back down over this steps. They fell right over the second group and landed on the floor at the bottom of the steps slowing the third group.

There is a problem with this plan, another eight or nine units would cause the top of the stairways to will filled with scrap, and I would lose my footing." Well, at least I'm going to have fun tonight."