"FUCKING FINALLY, oh my gosh, that took how many days?"

"Roughly about 108 hours, which is about 4 days minus 4 hours."

"Huh?...Oh, right, a different world with different hours for days. Still, it felt like weeks of mining and expanding, the job being so monotonous and tedious."

"Well, good work with that; I'm sure the next one will be much more exciting, if not just as taxing."

"You know you are becoming a lot snarkier now."

"Ohh, and do you regret making and allowing me."

"Naah, bring it on bitch. I've got years worth of internet bullshit to be fazed by that."

"Fuhuhu, I'm sure you do."

Tutorial Step 11

Ask the Companion instructions for building floors

Ask the companion to unlock all the other abilities

Task

-Learn how to build floors

-Unlock all abilities

"Now, as you are aware, you can only do things in your aura and had no problem absorbing anything within them. That won't be the case for absorbing living things or fresh corpses; even when in your aura, you are incapable of absorbing them. You can only absorb corpses when they are on your designated dungeon floors. When you designate your dungeon floor, the boundaries are changed to become invulnerable or distorted. For example, stone, wood, metal, or any solid will become impervious, while air, water, lava, or any form of nonliquid will nullify any attacks made from in and out, making it impossible to hurt something inside from the outside and vice versa. The way to designate your floors is by gathering the mana in the boundaries you want, and when it becomes an enclosed space, it will be done. You can change these boundaries anytime unless a delver is present. However, all the resources and monsters within the moved floor area will dissipate quickly. That's where Transfer Room comes in; you can move all the monsters, layout, and resources to another designated floor with nothing overlapping that is in the same tier. Tiers means floors from 1-10, 11-20, 21-30, and so on. "

"Wait, what about microorganisms?"

"What? Oh, right, those. They don't exist hear as their roles are replicated by mana, even the diseases, infections, and plagues are caused by mana."

"And what do you mean by dissipating?"

"You can only summon monsters and Create Resources on dungeon floors; it anchors their existence to the floor, allowing them to function. They can, of course, move away from it. They only dissipate because there is nothing connecting them to this reality."

"Then my mushroom."

"It's anchored directing to your core; that's what makes the first monster special. The other summoned monsters need to be anchored on a floor; that is also the reason for the limited number of monsters per floor: a safe lock The System implemented immobilizing dungeons spawning unlimitedly, resulting in monster waves. Now to unlock your abilities."

Ability Alter Environment has been unlocked Ability Create Trap has been unlocked Ability Create Resources has been unlocked Ability Extraction has been unlocked Ability Transfer Room has been unlocked Basic flora and fauna schematics received

Tutorial Step 12

Build your first floor

Task

-First floor complete

"Well, it's time for your plans to start now."

"Yeah, before that, what does Extraction and Create Resources specifically do?"

"Extraction is only usable on dungeon floors; instead of absorbing things for mana, you absorb the schematic for it, allowing you to replicate it with Create Resources. Create Resources are also used for designating spots on your dungeon floor, making them into nodes where the resources in them will be regenerated if any are missing in different locations within the node in a day's time."

Hearing the abilities of Extraction made me light up as it would be a tremendous help to my plan.

"One other thing, now that we're outside, can you procure things to use for Extraction?"

"Yes, actually, I was about to suggest that, but for that, spread out your aura to the surface, as I can only exist within your aura."

"Huh, didn't know, will be noted."

With that, I split my mind into two, which I learned how to do by practicing using one to expand and one to absorb. It was trippy as hell at first, but now I've gotten used to it being only slightly dizzy. I used one mind to expand my aura down the mountain, while the other I tried to designate my newly open entrance space as my floor. It was done in a jiffy with my mana manipulation.

Then I did the same in my core room because even though I can manipulate mana anywhere in my aura, it gets harder the further away from my core, and I noticed those restrictions lessen on the floor. First, I will use Extraction on all the stuff inside my inventory, gaining much more in-depth knowledge of their structure. When I finished with that, I started using my title, Knowledge of Another World, to create the things needed in my plan and using Extraction not only to better understand it. But also making them createable using Create Resources, as using Knowledge of Another World takes 10 times more mana than Create Resources.

As I was doing all that, I reached the end of the mountain, beginning to notice greenery appearing and my companion outside; expanding further, a forest appeared. As the aura expanded to 20 meters into the forest, I heard the voice of my companion.

"Aiden, that's enough. I can see kilometers of the same-looking forest ahead; expanding further is not worth the gain; spread your aura elsewhere to create your floor, or do you want this forest to be your first floor?"

"No, though this is the environment I want, I need an enclosed space to better utilize my plan."

"Got it; well, I will start foraging."

"Yeah, I designated the mountain entrance as a floor. You can leave them there, or do you need me to put the floor closer?"

"No, don't, though you could change your floor area. It's very timely and taxing. Another safe lock The System put so that the dungeon can't put floors everywhere, absorbing everything."

I watch for a while at my companion, flying around, collecting something new each time, and then start focusing on creating my floor.

I planned on making my floor inside the mountain.

First, I finish creating and extracting everything I need. Then I use my split minds, one to expand and one to absorb, as I create a long 200-meter straight hallway enough to fit two people starting from my entrance. Once finished, I started making room for all my resources and monsters. By the time my companion finished foraging everything and some more, I had finished my floor room, which was a 1.5-kilometer cube.

"Just how many floors is this?"

"Three floors in total."

"Now what?"

"Well, remember how I asked you about some schematics and learning them while tunneling for the entrance? I'm gonna use them now."

"Which one?"

"You'll see."

There were many fascinating schematics, but only a few truly caught my attention, learning them while tunneling to help with the boredom. Now, I'm trying to test out just how well I learned.

I focused on the 1.5km cube, especially feeling the boundaries of the floor; what I'm about to do is to expand the space here. This is possible due to the specialty of floor boundaries being invulnerable and durable enough to withstand such a volume of expansion. I could actually do this in the air, too, but I felt like that would be incredibly harder with all the movements. It doesn't matter for other dungeons since the system helps, but I'm cheesing it here, so it's one of the reasons I chose to build inside the mountain since the room will be surrounded by solid everywhere.

After feeling the space thoroughly, I start converting all the mana to space mana, adding my own mana where there's not enough, and filling the cube with it. Then, when it comes to the faces, I intertwine and structure the mana like a lattice covering the whole cube, then I isolate this space but leave a passage in the hallway. When done, I could feel the space exist in another realm yet still present here, anchored to the hallway. I observe the hallway and see how the space is distorted, becoming hazy, unable to see the inside of the cube.

Now that this space is isolated, I can alter it. I feel the space mana filling the cube, then manipulate it to twist and turn, eventually folding the space onto itself and doubling the space. I try as many times as possible and eventually fold it two more times with great effort as the space is expanded by 8 times, reaching my limit.

The cube now from the outside is only 1.5 cubic kilometers, but the space inside is 12 cubic kilometers.

Then, I feel enormous mental fatigue crashing on me as I fall into the state of meditation.

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A few hours later, I woke up seeing my companion next to my core, feeling their worry.

"Aiden! You're awake."

Relief washes over them as they feel my awakening

"Yep, didn't know that would happen. I guess I overdid it, huh?"

"Yes, yes you did, Aiden. You are really something, you know that?"

"I'll take that as a compliment. But, hey, look, the space now is huge!!"

My companion sighed but followed my lead

"Yes, honestly I'm surprised you were able to do so, I thought you would be lucky if you could only manage to fold it once."

"Hehe, what can I say? I am awesome."

"Fine, I'll give you that since normally dungeons spend their mana for The system to intervene in something like space expansion. But having too much space isn't always good. You do have plans to use all of it, right?"

"Of course, now no time to waste I have experimenting to do."

I moved my attention to the forest, feeling the earth mixed with decomposed plants and animals, the small pockets of water and air; I felt the mana imbued in the earth warm, solid, moving, and shifting. I sensed the mana in the earth moving the nutrients and decomposing the remains. As I observe, I also manipulate and change the ambient arcane mana in front of my core. The mana changes, imitating the earth and the mana imbued, and then the arcane mana forms and bonds, changing to earth mana, forming matter that is earth.

You have unlocked Earth Affinity

As I unlocked earth affinity, I could feel more. The way earth holds life mana within, as it guides the life mana to the trees and plants, as they give life mana back to the earth enriching it. In a cycle of giving back and forth, I converted the earth mana to life, giving it to the plants as they released another form of mana that slowly changed to earth mana, enriching the soil. I partake in this cycle, trying to feel the new mana, getting a hold of it. Then

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You have unlocked Nature Affinity

I feel the movement of life in the trees as they absorb nutrients and convert sunlight to energy, as small critters eat and kill, as one life's flame bursts, using all the fuel dying out, and those that consume to gain their life. Life begins because it ends; life shines and burns as darkness surrounds it; I watch the cycle of life as one is converted to another to be born anew.

You have unlocked Death Affinity

Getting everything I needed from there, I moved on to my floor.

In my 1.5-kilometer cube with a space of 12 cubic kilometers, I first started with the easiest one. I start vacuuming the air in my storage, separating the oxygen from the rest and combining it with the oxygen I got from mining. I filled a part of the room with oxygen and summoned coal in my storage. Then, I start to manipulate the arcane mana in the air to become faster and faster; fire needs fuel, an oxidizing agent, and heat. The first two I have, and heat is movement. As mana starts becoming faster and faster, the arcane mana changes, and the space gets hotter and hotter when, finally, combustion.

You have unlocked Heat Affinity

I observe and sense the mana and how it moves in the fire; as atoms and mana become free from the coal, becoming gases, then these gases react with the oxygen and air mana, engulfing it, becoming faster to create more heat, and waves are produced, creating light. I then shift my attention to another corner, using heat mana to raise the temperature, then I move the arcane mana, imitating the mana in the fire as I sense the change in the arcane mana reacting with the heat as it combusts creating a floating fireball fuel by mana.

You have unlocked Fire Affinity

Then I feel the air and mana surrounding the fire, as air and mana within expand from the heat, moving rapidly. As it moves, becoming farther apart and slowly floating to the top, I sense how, as it cools at the top, becoming closer and denser, falling to the bottom. I see manas that are different from fires and lights created as coal burns, releasing carbon dioxide and changing the mana in the coal. I imitate the arcane mana following the movements as the arcane mana changes to be further apart and expands, taking form.

You have unlocked Air Affinity

I create water in another corner, observing it fall and splash, feeling how it sticks to itself and the walls. I move the oxygen and the air mana within and summon hydrogen from storage as I mix and mingle them, imitating the water and mana movement as slowly the gases and mana mix, the hydrogen and oxygen forming bonds becoming water and water mana.

You have unlocked Water Affinity

Then, I take control of the water and water mana, slowing the movement as the bonds become further, creating a crystal lattice structure. As it becomes solid, the water and water mana change to something new.

You have unlocked Ice Affinity

I create heat mana surrounding the ice, watching how the heat makes the mana move as ice and ice mana becomes water and water mana, then the water moves faster with the heat, speeding up to the point where it becomes free, breaking from its form as the water and mana changes floating with the rising air.

You have unlocked Steam Affinity

I move the steam and mana within to a small box I created with earth mana enclosing it; I heat the box and watch as the steam and air become faster, creating more force as it becomes faster, eventually to the point of breaking the box.

You have unlocked Kinetic Affinity

I sense the kinetic mana as it explodes, with another similar mana, using kinetic mana to imitate the waves passing through the air, solids, and water vibrating them.

You have unlocked Sound Affinity

I sense a familiar wave from the fire burning, imitating the sound waves to match them. I see them change to become something visible.

You have unlocked Light Affinity

I created light mana, watching the waves move and reflect, creating places without. Something that became of due to the light, I sense mana from the light changing becoming the opposite.

You have unlocked Shadow Affinity

I created steam, letting it rise up, hitting the ceiling, moving some heat mana away from the ceiling, cooling it further, watching the air and steam cool down as the water coalesces around mana and dust, some becoming ice, but not falling by the updraft of air and steam mana I keep creating, eventually becoming bigger creating something visible.

You have unlocked Cloud Affinity

As the air, water, and ice collide, I sense a movement, electrons and mana moving with each collision, the lower side having more than the upper; when it reaches the point where the electron and mana move, from the lower side to the upper, creating lightning. I create water, air, and ice colliding them feeling the shift of mana with each collision I get a hold of the mana speeding this process when one side became more and the other less I release my control as the mana changes and moves.

You have unlocked Lightning Affinity

As lighting is made, I feel the heat and how it causes the air to expand, causing shockwaves; I imitate them with my sound mana.

You have unlocked Thunder Affinity

Then, the cloud I was making became big enough to fill the ceiling, and lightning formed in the clouds as one lightning struck the floor.

You have unlocked Storm Affinity

I feel the water in the cloud become too heavy for the updraft as it falls to the floor.

You have unlocked Rain Affinity

Then I remove the heat mana in the ceiling to the point of freezing temperature, making the water cold, introducing ice mana to it as the freezing water clings and forms ice, those ice colliding with other ice and water becoming bigger and bigger, becoming too heavy for the updraft eventually falling and shattering on the floor.

You have unlocked Hail Affinity

As I keep making steam mana and air mana float up, I create wind shear, moving the air mana in different directions in the floor and ceiling, rotating the storm above, creating a column of air in the middle as it gets faster and faster, and the column tighten and descend to the ground

You have unlocked Tornado Affinity

I immediately changed the heat mana, cooled it down, controlled the air mana to stop the wind, and put the water in my storage. The tornado and storm disappeared without it, getting closer to my affinity experiment. I summon ores and felt the earth's mana in them, watching them move as I heat them, watching impurities break and move away and separate from the metal. I feel the change in the earth mana as the metal is purified; taking control of it, I start pulling, speeding up the purification as slag forms and pools, and metal floats with my control on top.

You have unlocked Metal Affinity

I then summon all the ores in my storage in the middle, using telekinesis with kinetic mana, forming a floating ball of ore, then I heat it up, increasing pressure to condense it more, adding more ores along, as the ball of ore becomes bigger, heavier, and denser, I focus on the space mana feeling it move the denser the ball became, I feel another force and mana twisting the space, feeling and imitating it eventually.

You have unlocked Gravity Affinity

Using gravity mana to twist the space mana and increase the ball's density, as the space mana twists more, I feel a connection to the space mana with a different mana, something coexisting with it as I feel the space mana and reach for the mana already in it.

You have unlocked Time Affinity

'Hewwww, that was exhausting.'

I then check my status for the result, feeling proud of the list

"Huh, hey, why do I have this much mana?"

"..."

"Um, Companion, Companion, COMPANION."

"OH YES, sorry, just a little overwhelmed. Aiden, did you know this would happen?"

"Huh, I mean sort of. I thought science could help me get some affinities, but it's not really that great, right? It just unlocks affinities, not become a master at it. The knowledge I have is pretty basic, and I barely was able to do this by using my photographic memory."

"Your what?"

"The ability from the title Knowledge of Another World."

"That one, of course, Aiden. What you accomplished is unprecedented; to have these many affinities is another, but your affinities for them are all above average, even from dungeon core standards. You created a STROM AND TORNADO. For goodness sake, how are you not shocked by this?"

"Because The System is not stupid."

"Huh?"

"As I said, the knowledge I have is very superficial; if someone like me could accomplish this much, then what would someone who specializes in them, or from a civilization far more advanced than Earth? I read the description of the title Knowledge of Another World; having past memories is rare, but not so much as my Blesses By Dimensions. The System should have encountered these souls or at least been capable of preserving their past life memories, but they chose me. Why?"

"Then why do all this."

"For my dungeon, of course!! These affinities will help immensely in making the dungeon of my dreams. Look, The System is much more intelligent than both of us. When I contracted with them, I could feel how they wanted to protect this place from the abyss; I'm sure I was born as a dungeon core for reasons I do not know. Since The System decided, then I'm going the make the best fucking dungeon there is. Anyway, will you answer my question?"

"Yeah, sure, your dungeon floor boundaries are like veins, not only allowing you to channel mana through them but also adjusting mana density between floors to make them suitable. What you did made such a big change, causing the mana's self duplication properties to flourish, producing excess mana, with no other floors to distribute they were gained by you."

"Cool."

"Are you okay? I was worried when you became unresponsive."

"Yeah, I'm fine. I'm a little tired, but not too much. Unlike before, I was guiding the natural reactions, not forcing them."

Now, finally, we move on to the last part of the experiment, making the sun.

There were schematics for creating a day-night cycle but in the form of illusions, which didn't work for me. I created ledges near the ceiling and then made water crystals. Crystals capable of producing water as long as there is sufficient mana; creating it is simple: just combine water mana with mana crystals that are abundant near my core.

As the water was pouring out the crystal below the pool I made, I created two copper rods, put them in the water, then used lighting mana to move the electrons from one to another and use lighting mana to pass electricity through the water, then voila hydrogen from one end and oxygen from the other. I started creating three more for each wall. Putting the hydrogen in my storage and leaving the oxgen in the room.

Next, I isolated a small section of space on the ceiling; in there, I started summing hydrogen into it, using heat mana to move them faster and faster.

As I kept pumping hydrogen into the limited space and put more heat mana, the rising pressure and temperature were insane.

"Ai..."

But I kept going as it wasn't enough for fusion.

"AID...."

I didn't know how long I did this, but finally, I could feel the change as hydrogen colliding and bouncing started to merge. As I was watching in anticipation, I didn't hear my Companion screaming.

You know it all good and well, trying atom fusion and all, but one small thing: mana changes everything.

At that moment, my instinct was wringing like crazy. As time slowed down in my mind, I started building a wall to the hallway, quickly designating it as my floor. Unfortunately, I didn't get to seal it completely before the fusion happened.

*BAAAANNNNNGGGGG*

The isolated space I made shattered, the explosion filling the entire room and out the little opening in my impromptu wall.

I felt a rush of mana being absorbed by the floor into me, way too fast as carks appeared on my core.

"AIDEN USE THE MANA TO LEVEL UP!"

I think I heard my companion screaming and did just that as I level up like crazy with the tsunami of mana, my core growing bigger and healing the cracks, and when my core filled half the room, the mana rush stopped.