'Huh where is my phone?'

'I was just reading, did I drop it without realising.'

'Wait where is my hand, how did it get so dark that I cannot even see even my hand?'

I try to move my hand closer.

'Why can't I feel my hand.. or anything why do I feel nothing?'

A flash of light appeared in the distance, a pang of pain, then murmurs.

'Was I blinded and stabbed?'

the murmurs fades into the distance, as my sight returns... but wrong.

'What is, where am I and why can I see everything at the same time?'

I stare off in... every direction, and see stone after stone. I am in a cave.

'ok let me process, nothing, flash of light, pain, then sight in every direction, I am in a cave and not to mention, I still cannot see my body. This feels familiar...'

I massage my head, with my also no-longer-existent hands, in an attempt to quell this curiosity, whilst realising, I am not panicking.

'Why do I not feel... scared or nervous? never mind that as it is probably for the better anyways, panicking in this situation just seems like a bad idea, no matter how I look at it. Still why does this feel so familiar?'

I continue massaging my head to think, which achieves nothing. I then begin to look around, maybe it is something in the environment that is causing this.

'Rock, rock, rock, rock, spider, rock, rock. wait, wait, wait, the spider!.... huh, I thought that doing all that mental acting would have triggered something, well I guess it would not be strange to see a spider or any type of bug in a cave. rock, rock, rock, shiny blue rock, hmm shiny.. blue... rock.'

I begin concentrating on the rock solely, looking at it from every angle.

'Well it is a blue glowing rock, I can now confirm that. This rock, why is is perfectly spherical, I have never seen a perfectly spherical rock, haha it reminds me of the description from those novels, where the characters become dungeon cores...'

'Wait wait wait, am I... A DUNGEON CORE ok calm, calm, calm, What do you mean calm I have been dreaming, fantasising and hoping to be one ever since I have started reading! ok lets verify, in some of the stories the person has to do everything alone manually, in others there is a system that helps them.' thoughts were racing through jacks mind, like the first time he asked a girl out, it didn't work out, but that doesn't matter to jack anymore.

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'ok ok... lets try the easiest first.'

"System" ...

"Menu" ...

"Stats"

Name: Unnamed Race: Dungeon Core Health: 100/100 Mana: 10/10

'Oh Yes Yes Yes. Screw you Boring, Shit previous world, unless I am still in the same world but some apocalypse, or something happened to allow dungeons to exist.'

'ok ok lets get back to this screen, so race is dungeon core, just as I had hoped. Health is 100 which is good, mana is 10 and I have no name well not unusual in what I have read so lets get on that first. to begin with, I want a name that represents what my dungeon would be like, or the creatures I will have in it.'

'So creatures I want all of them I don't want to be going down one set type of creatures like undead for example, so lets go with unbound on that part, for dungeon building well not many words I can think of, I know I want to design whatever, but going unbound unbound is not what I want, and it is not really cool or good enough, so unlimited unbound or unbound unlimited, no. unbound, unbound, unbound... architect, yes unbound architect yes, that, just perfect.'

Name: has been changed to "Unbound Architect"

'ooh look like I have a responsive system as well. Ok what to do, first wat to do first, lets figure out creatures or minions, I don't think I can create anything, right now at least, as there is no new information or anything, so lets try interacting with the bugs first... Right mana, how do I do that again. Stories always describe it in a way that mana is like the body of a dungeon core, while the core is the heart or brain, so lets just try... moving the mana like how a human would move their legs or arms I guess.'

'So first, since I cannot feel my "arms", lets use intention or willpower to make it move.'

I begin with by using my intention like how when you are human u try to move things with your mind but this time as a dungeon core which... works

'Ok so I can feel something happening but how do I do anything with "limbs" that I cannot see or really feel, I can feel a change, but not the "limbs" themselves. Since I can see everything lets just try to... See mana I guess, that is how it usually works anyways so...'

I concentrate my sight on... no, no, no, I order my sight, to look at mana or see mana.

'Ok well it worked, but why is this so easy, I have done everything without difficulty or anything. Could it be because I am innately gifted, knowledgeable or that the system chooses people for their most suitable role, assuming the system caused this, and not a god or whatever else, For now I will put this in the think-about-another-time box.'

'Lets get back to it, so now that I can see mana, it is like I am in a pond, the mana is not moving, remaining totally still or almost totally still, mana also has a blue glow, and when I look closer at the mana it looks like particles.

'Now that I can see mana lets get back to moving it.'

I do the same as last time, using my intention to move the mana.

'Oh so this is what happened, it is moving exactly how I intended it to, I sent mana out like a wave in all directions it is like I threw a pebble in a pond and it created a tiny ripple effect in all directions. So where was that spider...'