Congratulations! you are now a dungeon Core.
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I don,t know If I want to cry or laugh.
In one hand, the powers that come with being a dungeon core are fucking amazing. on the other hand, the problems that come with it are... well, problematic. and to top it all, I don´t even know what to do or were to start with this.
Perhaps I could help you with that
What? who said that?
I´m Ezreal the Godess of dungeons. and the reason you are here.
what is that suppose to mean?
We, gods, were looking for exceptional individuals when suddenly... a part of my soul entered yours and your body explode.
WHAT?
We cast our soul to other worlds in order to search them and in process my soul touch yours and it couldn´t handle the power so your body explode, but then I said "hey! maybe I could use his soul". so, think of this as an apology
I see... what now? I know I should be upset but we should leave that for later
I made this sistem to help with some of the more complicate processes of being a dungeon and left you 3 gifts that I think will be usefull for you. say "summon dungeon assistant" for the next part and expand fast my Champion, you only have a couple months before the rest of the gods find their champions or she interferes, Good Luck
Wait! I have a lot of questions!... hello? Dammit!
so... "summon dungeon assistant?" when I finished those words a flash of light and a magic pentagram appered in front of my and disspeared the next second, and in it´s place a fairy was, she was dressed in a black one piece dress that went to her knees, she stood a 1 foot 4 inches, pink hair and golden eyes decorated a fair face, along with a pair of fluttering rainbow colored butterfly wings on her back. She opened her eyes. floated in front of my and bowed softly.
"I´m your Dungeon assistant, use me as you see appropriate"
"What can you do?" I asked, unsure on how to proceed.
"I have the "Knowledge" skill that grants me all the non-secret knowledge of this world along with basic functions of dungeon" her answer was short and simple, I like her already.
"right, so, what´s your name?" I´m still unsure of what to do
"I don´t have a name" her eyes were somewhat sullen with that statement
"Would... Would you like a Name?" I mean, Why not?
"Really" her eyes started sparkling and were full of hope? excitement?
"Okay... let´s see..."I have noting.
"..."
"..."
"how about... El?"
"El" she tasted the name a few times before, "I like it"
"El" I said getting back her attetion "what does your skill do"
"what would you like to know?"
"tell me about this world"
Whith a storyteller-like voice she began.
"This world is called Eulizie and it land mass consist of five continents. The larger one is called the "Holy Continent" and it´s inhabitants are only humans, every non-human in the continent is a slave or will be. The Churc of Humanity control all the continent and Eliora the Godess of humanity control the church" I think I understant what this church of humanity is all about, "The second continent is called "the catastrophe continent" because of the many powerful monster and dangerous enviroments along with a dense and toxic miasma of mana that is the reason most monster can´t leave the continent. The third continet was called "the Great Continent" because of the powerful Empire that was there. now, with the murder of the emperor, the continent is fractured in dozens of warring kingdoms. The continent we are in is the Continent Of Ecilia which was baptized by the elves who reside in the northen part of the continent, in the southeast part of the continent is the Nitreon empire and in the southwest part of the continent lies the Baros Kingdom. the smaller continent is surrounded by a thick fog and is called "The monster Continent" because 600 years ago several sentient monster species, under the guidance of legios God of monster, migrated to the continent and they have been sealed from the outside world ever since"
I see... What I´m suppose to do with this?! *sigh* calm down. deep breath, deep breath. let's keep going. "what can you tell me about the continent of Ecillia?"
"The elves inhabit the Great Ecillian Forest which cover all the northen part of the continent with giant trees, the Baros Kingdom is an oligarchy were the king and his council care only about money; The Nitreon empire is a prosperous land with a strong military ruled by a 22 years old emperor who faces almost no oppositon to his rule." that strange.
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"Why is that"
"The Emperor Eldoran Nitroen Eldisius Russ in is youth finally unified all the southeast territories, and his egalitarian policies enraged the chuch of humanity. manipulating the queen, who was an avid, follower they increased their influence, through the years, in the empire until they tried to make emperor a puppet as well. when that fail they kill him and tried again with the, then 14 years old, prince and future emperor Demian. That was a mistake, With the help of the 3 most trusted generals of his father, he burned all chuches of humanity, killed is own mother and did the heads of all the useless nobles roll, even those who supported him. he strengthened the military of the empire, declare the church of humanity as an enemy of the state and gave titles of nobillity to those with skill. and he posess a firm grip on his empire ever since."
"What about the gods of this world?" I Know what this Eliora is about, she's a human supremacist that obtain her power through worship only and since she has a whole Continent that shorship her she's pretty strong and probably is the "She" that my own godess mention, but there are other gods that should be more friendly.
My thoughts about Eliora aside "The two more powerful gods are Eliora through quantity and Ezreal Through power." that's unexpected but perphaps... "as the godess in charge of creating dungeons and by extension dealing with the rampant mana over the world, she posses a lot of power , both personally and over other gods."
"The other gods woul simply be: Artinia godess of nature. Medoli godess of love, Atlas god of order, Karatos god of blood, war and vengeance and Maleth god of dead."
"would you like to know something more?" She seems eager to be of assistance but perphaps that is because she was created that way
I need those gifts that Ezreal mention and start to make my dungeon soon or else I won't finish anything.
"Let's see... status"
Dungeon Class: Legendary Mana per minute: 1000 Monsters Unlocked: 4 Traps Unlocked: 2 Enviroments Unlocked:1 Drops and rewards Materials 3 gifts available
I checked all options and let me tell you that they are garbage, as simply as that. well perhaps the confusion trap is useful but other than that there isn't much noteworthy.
The gifts on the other hand:
Loyalty: All your monster will be blindly loyal to you making them impossible to tame and immune to certain status effects. Monster encyclopedia: a list of all the monster of this world so you can make them as long as you have enough mana. Parallel minds: consider this skill as to have two heads that can work together.
'Hello me' 'hello other me, what what do you think of our godess gifts?' 'they are magnificent! I tell you' 'indeed!'
but I'm afraid there is no time to lose talking to myself. I need to focus and using both my minds those make it easier to feel the mana. it's like moving through water or perhaps mud and triyng to change the dungeon it's like molding clay, if you ignore the fact that it dissapears when you want it to and leave an aftertaste of rock and dirt on your non-existence mouth.
The "lobby" was a 20x20 meter square with three corridors on the far wall, 2 on the corners and 1 in the Middle, this corridors led to another 20x20 meters room that are connected to other corridors that are once again conected to 20x20 meters rooms. there are 9 rooms in total formed in rows of 3 and to get to the second floor trough the corridor on farthest wall of the any of the farthest rooms. now, this wouldn't be confusing if not for the confusion trap, it powerful enough to make people lost their way and some other minor nuisances. the monsters I choose are undead skeletons, I just felt compelled to choose them for some reason. not really something to worry about.
A extrange jolt stop me summoning them though. I soon discovered that my mana per minute has all most triplicate.
after noticing the sudden increase on mana gathering I have decided to make my second and third room, but...
"You should reinforce your core first" it was so sudden that it startled me.
"Why?" How I even do it in the first place?.
"Dungeon cores can only store so much mana. so you need to put some mana into reinforcing your core to be able to store more."
"How do I do it?"
"Think of it as coating your core in mana" seems simple enough.
I focust my mana in my core and started to cover myself on it, manipulating mana is so easy to me that I'm starting to suspect that Ezreal Actually meseed up with my mind a little, After some time I could feel the mana entering my core, after an hour of doing this, finished the layout second floor.
while one mind reinforced the core the other keep making the second floor. It's the same idea just that this time it's 5x5 meaning there are 25 rooms and instead of the stairs going down the room is actually a chuch... yes, a chuch.
Marble pillars separete the side corridors form the main area were the usual benchs could be found. but there were 3 differences, were the crucified jesus should be, stood an angel in prayer with a crystal between her hands, this crystal was a mana crystal the size of an apple which is by the way quite big for a mana crystal, the second difference was the zombie playing the funeral march of Frederic Chopin in the corner at the right of the entrance, but that needs me to explain the three meters tall skeleton kneel in prayer in front of the idol.
I discover that I can give certain commands to my monsters and in this case I commanded the pianist zombie to play the funeral march, which he got from my knowlodge, and to stop 20 second after the door it's open and giant "Dead Guard knight" would attack everyone on the room when the music stops, so if someone plays another funeral song or get out of the room through the door to the left of the altar on give or take 30 second, perphaps? they could to the second floor without having to fight the floor boss but they wouldn't obtain neither the boss loot or the chest that under the statue.
the spawned monster on the first floor rooms were a combination of skeleton knights, skeleton archers and skeleton mages whose rank are B-, D-, and C respectively. the mosters spawn again if the room is left alone for a minute. on the second floor the the quantity of monster was bigger but everything else remained the same. there were different things that a monster could drop but everything depends of what the monster is.
a wolf could fur and a skeleton knight could drop a good quality black steel sword, but every time a fight was win on one of the rooms a chest will appear along side the drops and the contents of this chest will vary from simply gold to a full armor set in the best of cases.
and if you didn't know, thanks to the monters Enclycopedia I unlocked all the traps, enviroments, materials and objets that can be attributed to them.
before I could make the third for I was hit by asfixia feeling that i have been explain comes with not having an entrance. which means is time to go to the surface, but as soon finished the stairs to the surface I lost my breath and darkness claimed me once again.