Valoria found herself in a room of stone with a purple and gold tesseract gemstone, which she realized her mind recognized as herself. Her view was a full 360° and she realized she had no body. However, she was calm. She had a guess of what she is, but she just wanted to test something.
"Status.", she atoned, and it looked like her guess was correct.
[Dungeon Name: None]
[Mana: 500/500]
[Affinities: Space-Time, Life, Emotions, Energy, Matter]
[Dungeon Level: 1]
[Floors: 0/5]
[Skills] [Shop]
[Monsters: 0]
[Treasure: 0]
[Traps: 0]
Valoria looked through the interface, going through everything she could before looking through her [Skills] tab.
[Mana Manipulation]
Effect: As a Dungeon Master, you are a living Mana filter. Mana is your only limitation to what you can make. You may also filter it to your affinities.
[Dungeon Miasma]
Effect: Monsters up to 5× Your Level will mutate and become yours to control. Bonus effects based on Affinities:
- Space-Time: Delvers may not leave via Space-Time or similar abilities.
- Life: Flora grows (Your Level×10%) faster inside your Dungeon.
- Emotions: Your Monsters remember each life they live, keeping any Skills gained.
- Energy: Your Monsters are (Your Level×10%) faster in all things within the Dungeon.
- Matter: Inorganic Monsters cost (Your Level%) less.
Unauthorized duplication: this tale has been taken without consent. Report sightings.
[Deconstruction]
Effect: You may disassemble all materials inside your Dungeon and understand all things about the object.
[Creation]
Effect: You may create anything you have the knowledge of.
[Voidborn]
Effect: You and your monsters are unbound. No limitations, no rules, no restrictions. What you wish to do is possible, no matter what.
After Valoria read her [Skills], she tactfully decided to ignore the ominous [Voidborn] skill and got started on making her dungeon. But first, she wanted to try something.
Using her Mana, she created something simple. A cute, pink plush bear holding a big red heart, only one foot tall. Then looked at her Mana and saw there was no change in it. She decided to do some more tests.
She made 4 more plushies, a red wolf with sunglasses, a black sheep covered in metal spikes, a rabbit with a boom box (which actually worked!), and green dragon that was made 3 feet tall. Still no cost, even though she's using Mana to fuel their creation.
So as another test, Valoria infuses her Mana into the plushies to see what would happen. The plushies slowly came to life, and a screen greeted her as they started moving inside the Core Room.
Congratulations, [Unnamed Dungeon]! You have created an entirely new race! Please name the race you created and what their instincts are to do.
[_____]
Valoria stares at the screen for a few moments, then decided that she didn't want to make death engine monsters then and there. She also decides that the Plushies as she dubs them shall be friendly and protective of any children they find. If they were to be torn, their bodies will slowly regenerate and parts to far away from a Plush shall become a new one, gaining one or two skills from the one they come from. If a child died under their care, their size and power are multiplied by their Level until they avenge the child.
After that distraction, Valoria looks back to the Plushies she made and decides to keep them in her Core Room. She then goes to start the first of many floors within her dungeon.
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Valoria decided that the first floor would be a simple walkthrough of an abandoned workshop. So she first increased the size of the Core Room. Not by using [Deconstruction], but instead expanding the space instead from its lackluster 10×10×20 feet to a full 10,000 square foot room. She then alter the place to look more like a workshop, creating the machines and conveyor belts to assemble the resulting toys in the current Core room. Then she made a massive machine that would defend this room and prevent all who wished her harm from reaching her.
First she made the materials. She has enjoyed many stories of many worlds and those worlds had many unique and exotic metals, minerals, and more! The metal she was making had the durability of the strongest of steel alloys, while also absorbing kinetic energy and releasing it at an electrical pulse.
This metal, she used it as the monster's armor. For its internals Valoria filled them with mannequin arms made of what she called storming copper, which she made when she decided to imbue the copper she made with Energy Mana. The arms would hold themselves and the armor together on a skeleton made of Energy Mana crystals. She would use this body like her own to defend herself if needed, but it wasn't finished.
Valoria then sunk her mind into the body, infusing it with Energy Mana. When Valoria finally stopped, she was now a 4 meter tall armored body with dozens of human-sized copper hands coming out of the breaks of the armor. There was a helmet that Valoria made, but the arms surrounding it made it look like she had no head. As she gave a name to the titanic body she granted herself, she was mentally smiling at not only will she have a whole lot of fun making monsters, but for some odd reason, it won't cost her a thing!