I woke up and found myself in a gloomy stone room illuminated by candles. When I looked on the ground, a magic formation shone a pale light.

“Where am I? What is this place?”

I stood up and restlessly looked around. There wasn’t anything of note in the room that I could see.

“Who am I, why don’t I remember?”

I muttered so. I couldn’t remember anything, not even know my own name. Greatly perplexed, I desperately searched through my memories for clues but nothing came up, I couldn’t help but worry at this sudden turn of events.While I was lost in thought, *clunk*.

When I looked in the direction it came from, a woman was there.

An extraordinarily beautiful woman with white skin and brown hair. And also, a pair of eagle wings and a lion's tail. She wasn’t just beautiful, she also had this ominous aura surrounding her. An overwhelming presence enough to freeze the soul of anyone that dared look at her.

“Geez, finally, you’re born. I was getting tired of waiting.”

Her words were short but in it, there was a hidden sense of joy and sadness.

Although I was fascinated by her, I mustered up my courage and spoke.

“Who, who, who are you? Where is this place and Who am I?”

The beautiful eagle-girl listened to my questions and then revealed a thin smile, she then started to talk.

“Well, calm down for a bit, I am the [animal] Dungeon Lord, Lightcrest. Since you’re kinda someone special, I’ll let you call me, no wait, never mind, that’s actually worse, just call me lightcrest.”

“lightcrest… lightcrest, do you know, do you know who I am?”

“Of course, I know who you are. You’re the newly born Dungeon Lord. A Dungeon Lord just like me.”

lightcrest’s shadow suddenly stretched. And from it, a grey wolf appeared. With the same ferocity it had when it first jumped out of the shadow, it lunged towards me

“The rank D monster, Gévaudan wolf. It’s a vicious monster that devours normal human’s in an instant. I curious, what’ll happen when I send it to attack you.”

My eyes opened wide in shock, barely having time to process what she said, the wolf also opened his mouth with the intent to bite, tear and swallow me. Naturally, I backed away.

I honestly wanted to run away but my legs wouldn’t respond, unable to take a single step. The grey wolf rapidly shortened the distance.

“Hiii!”

It was almost upon me. I hurriedly rolled to avoid the Gévaudan wolf’s charge. An instance after I dodged it, a high-pitched clinking sound was made. It was the terrifying sound of teeth striking teeth. Had I not been able to avoid it, those sharp teeth would have torn my body to bits without opposition.

The Gévaudan wolf once again faced me, preparing to rush in my direction.

I fell down from fear and couldn’t get up, if I stayed Like that, I would have certainly died.

The wolf was drooling as he glared towards me, it dove in.

I’m going to be killed, seriously, I’m going to be killed, No, I don’t want to die, am I just going to grit my teeth and accept this, this fact that I'm going to die?

Isn’t there something, anything that I could do? as I was panicking, for some strange reason, a Certain word popped up in my mind. In order to hang on, I uttered the word.

“[Sky]”

I uttered those words almost unconsciously. My power was suddenly used.

Particles of light gathered around my body, lifting me up into the air.

As I rose higher and higher into the air, a strange sense of calm surrounded me as more words started to flood into my head, the world seemed to slow down at that instance.

It felt like I was supposed to always be in the air floating and flying. I started to fly around, seeing if I could move instead of just go up and down and I could, I calmed down even further. My heart was still on fire but my mind was like a calm ocean, I muttered another word unconsciously.

“[Lightning]”

The air behind me started to change, dark ominous clouds started to gather behind me, the roar of lightning soon descended, I knew it was ready.

The Gévaudan wolf wasn't intimidated, it leapt up but it couldn’t even get a quatre of the way to me. I stared at it and placed it under my sights.

I pointed my finger at it then fire three consecutive shots.lightning descended, to better penetrate the wolf, I aimed it between the wolf’s brows. The lightning sent the wolf flying, raising a shriek. Then, it slammed into the ground.

“*Yelp *,*yelp *,*yelp*”

That surprised me. The Wolf received lightning to the head and yet it still lives. In spite of the electricity still flowing within its head and all the charred fur, the Gévaudan wolf was still glaring at me.

I still stared down, slowly descending towards it with care. While towering over the Gévaudan wolf, I tried to fire lightning at it continuously, but for some reason, I couldn’t, instead, another word came to mind

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“[Rain]”

rain started to fall, it fell on the Gévaudan wolf. with terrifying force, like small meteors falling from the sky, it crushed the Gévaudan wolf.

“Haa, Haa, Haa, Haa.”

Immediately after the threat had passed, the dread immediately returned to me.

What the? What did I, what did I do, how was that even possible?

The answer suddenly appeared in my mind.

『Unique Skill: [Sky] This skill gives the power of flight and the manipulation of the sky itself, it gains power the closer one is to the sky, it also allows for the materialisation of certain attributes of the sky depending on how high in the atmosphere the wielder is. The consumption of MP is dependent on the attributes used and the manipulation but free for simple flight.』

Huh, Unique Skill, what in the world is that?

“First, congratulations on passing my little test, I didn’t actually think you would be able to kill a Gévaudan wolf. You were able to draw out your unique power, that normally takes a day or two, anyway I welcome you new Dungeon Lord.”

“Dungeon Lord?”

“Yes, a Dungeon Lord. You are someone who creates and rules over all monsters and demons; someone who will build and reigns over malicious dungeons; someone chose to wield an overwhelmingly powerful Unique Skill. You’re the 796th to be born in this world, the newest Dungeon Lord.”

A Dungeon Lord. is that what I am now.

I’m not sure what to truly feel about all this.

“Sigh, Can you please not make such a worrying face like that? Until you can truly stand on your own which should be in about a year, I will be your ‘Parent’. I’m going to teach you what a Dungeon Lord truly is.”

The woman smiles. With what feels like no memories, my new life has begun.

“I see, you’re still confused, aren’t you. I guess just by calling you a Dungeon Lord, you won’t immediately get what all of it means. I guess that It can’t be helped, I’ll show you what a Demon Lord is and what they can do.”

She smiled and then turned her back towards me. I followed after the [animal] Dungeon Lord Lightcrest.

Despite her appearance of being a simple brown-haired beauty (with eagles wings and a lion's tail), there was something about her that made me believe she’s truly a Dungeon Lord.

She led me into a small room.

I looked at the mirror leaning against the wall, there was a reasonably goo looking boy just about to start his teens. Was that really me?

I, while looking at this felt strangely out of place. And, lying in the centre of the room was a stone pedestal with a floating round crystal on it.

I for some reason tried to secretly reach for the crystal, Lightcrest quickly grabbed my hand.

“I will only say this once, will you please not touch this? If this crystal was ever to break, all of my powers as a Dungeon Lord would be lost. It is equivalent to my very life.”

“You’ll die?”

“Sort of. I won’t be able to create new monsters anymore and all the monsters I’ve created so far will disappear as well as all the dungeons I have ever created, that's on top of losing my Unique Skill. I’ll still technically have my life and can still live a normal life after that, but for a Dungeon Lord, it’s pretty much the same as dying.”

I felt a little-relieved hearing that.

But at the same time, it also brought me worries.

If I were perhaps a so-called Dungeon Lord as she said, then my very own crystal existed somewhere out there.

Should my crystal break and I, in turn, lose my powers as a Dungeon Lord without even knowing its location, then I wouldn’t be able to remain calm about it.

“Oh, so you’re aware of the danger in what I just said. You have a good head on your shoulders there. But, you don’t have to worry. That specific crystal will only appear after you have built your first dungeon. Conversely, if you don’t build a single Dungeon, there will be no crystal… [I Shall comprise].”

A massive book made up of a large number of parchments appeared in her hands.

Lightcrest slowly opened it.

“You should have already noticed but we are in the innermost part of my main Dungeon. I think it should look like this.”

As she said so, a hologram began being displayed above the crystal.

It was a splendid but eerie wilderness.

“Oh, by the way, Although I say Dungeon, its appearance actually depend on the Dungeon Lord. If there are the Orthodox cave dungeons, then it’s also fine to have a vast wilderness like mine. It could even be a fortress itself. One day, you too will build your own Dungeon, of course, that’s once you’re independent, so you better start thinking of what kind of Dungeon you’re gonna build.”

“Sorry, I don’t fully understand what you just talked about. What exactly do you mean by being independent?”

“Ah, that’s right, I haven’t told you anything about it, have I? Okay, first Newly born Dungeon Lords will study for about a year under a senior Dungeon Lord. Afterwards, they will be on their own and have to build their own Dungeons. If I were to put it, in other words, I am your guardian for about year. Therefore, it means that I will be gently teaching you.”

The Gévaudan wolf attack said enough about her gentleness.

“Okay then, let’s try to prepare you for your future on how to build a Dungeon. Let's try saying this: [I shall comprise].”

“Um. Err, [I shall comprise].”

A book suddenly appeared on my hand.

I for some reason subconsciously opened it.

Upon doing so, there was a page with Dungeon Construction written on it.

“you can select from the catalogue in there, pick the ones you desire and combine them up. First is the exterior. It’s what’s seen from outside. I’m curious if any of those will suit your preferences perfectly. Next, the interior. The space-time in the Dungeon’s interior is actually distorted. So my dungeon is actually much wider than what can be seen from the outside. It has a vast number of different floors with different ecosystems.”

I browsed through the pages.

Just as she said, various dungeon designs were available. however, In all of the pages, something called DP was written.

“Um, What does this DP mean?”

“Huh, oh right, you wouldn't know, I thought it was natural but, Dungeon Points. We Dungeon Lords are always frantically collecting them. And in exchange for them, we can obtain any of the things written in the book. Elaborate exteriors cost more DP even though there is absolutely no change in its performance. however, the interior price is directly related to its performance, I think.”

“Interior?”

“It’d honestly be quicker if you saw it”

As soon as she said so, the scenery on the hologram in the crystal changes.

“My Dungeon is the kind divided into zones, the type where you progress the further you go. A zone is one wilderness, like forest or desert and these wilderness are purchased individually. So for the first floor of my Dungeon, I’ve made it a simple plains ecosystem.”

As she said, it was a simple expanse of grasses and vegetation with a mountain in the distance.

“I use mountains to separate zones and in the further zones, I’ve bought expensive ecosystems that has traps and all sorts of strange things which the first few zones don’t have.”

As I looked at the hologram, I saw that a group of goblin males were fighting with what looked to be a Dire Wolf. However, When compared to the Gévaudan wolf I fought, it looked lacking. The group defeated the Dire Wolf and took some sort of victory pose as if it was a major achievement.

The scene then changed once more. The new one was of a demon opening a chest, greed was evident all over his face.

“Um, You’re not using monsters like the Gévaudan wolf that I fought against earlier? that group was having trouble fighting with, Um, a Dire wolf? wouldn’t a Gévaudan wolf kill them easily?”

for some reason I just don’t understand this choice, I mean a dungeon is supposed to protect you, isn’t it? Then why not use powerful monsters

“Huh, I can’t do that!, Listen, There are specific circumstances that lead me to not wipe everything out but instead make it progressively more difficult.”

“Was the treasure chest from earlier also part of those specific circumstances, they are being used as lures to attract other.”

“ Exactly.”

“Um, so whats next”

“ I’ve shown you Dungeon building so next I’ll show you monster making. In my opinion, it’s the best part of being a Dungeon Lord.”

Monster making.

I’m curious, What kind of monster will I create?