In the beginning there was only the two brothers.
The Light and The Dark.
The two brothers made a universe, but it was too empty, even with stars to light half of the universe there was nothing to do except be blinded by light or see nothing in the darkness.
Past the beginning the brother of The Dark accidentally hit a star, causing it to explode and create the first planet.
This was the Age of the Old Ones. Strange creatures that would break the minds of lesser beings but not the brothers, instead they were their first ever servants.
The two brothers combined rocks and infused them with power to create the Old Ones. Over time their experiments allowed them greater control over their power and allowed the creation of smaller Old Ones to be created.
Past the Age of the Old Ones the brother of The Light accidentally hit a Old One, Causing it to explode and create a living flesh, from which the first Gods were moulded into shape.
These Gods were more akin to the Old Ones than to their name sake, however it is from their infusion of power into the destroyed stars that they created the Gods of the universe. Who gave life to the barren spherical rocks floating in between the stars and the darkness.
The Gods put the rocks to orbit around stars and they created water from the first Gods sacrifice. Their creations the Elementals were expanded to include the water elementals and wind elementals that came from the changing worlds on which they lived.
However The Dark brother was not happy that he was not the only one that could create life, but he could not just kill the Gods for they were The Light brothers favourite creatures to observe.
As the planets were filled a taint started corrupting them. The Dark brother with the Old Ones corrupted world with their own creations, monsters made of water and stone that grow by feeding from the soul flesh of creation binding the elementals and Gods together. This was the first system.
The Light Brother watched, and could only assist by giving the Gods some of his power to create more creatures, to use his superior creation to match his brothers mixed creations.
From this alliance the Gods made the plants and the animals, using which the strongest were selectively bred and turned into the sentient races of the universe.
The battle lasted eons with no progress until the two brothers came to a consensus, they agreed to make their own bodies of rock and blood and fight to find out who truly owned the universe. Their fight was legendary and both brothers were grievously injured, one and angel and the other a demon. The Light brother struck The Dark brother down and bound him in chains to serve the balance.
Eons more passed but The Light brother did not leave his form, he stayed as a custodian for the Gods and their creations, with him creating innovations like the system that gave all the power to become New Gods and change the universe no matter who they were.
However the Gods and New Gods did not look upon their beginnings lightly. The Light intervened in all matters, there was no freedom for the even when The Dark was chained his brother was truly no better. Happiness for all and eternal joy were shackles similar to death.
It is only when The Light decided that the planets would stop spinning, ‘In order to bring my joy and happiness to all’ that the universe rebelled. Old Ones and Gods and New Gods all united with their sentient creations and monsters to chain up The Light.
Fierce fighting took over for a century until a bloodied angel stood in his throne room, limbs hanging limply as he knelt on one knee before an army of ants on top of their dead stood at his eye level.
Ant: “Surrender you fiend, your orders give us greater pain than death promised by your brother.”
The Light: “I am your beginning and your end. I am the system that you worthless curs use! I am The Light.”
Some were killed while others lived, it was not until an arrow from a God sized ballista hit the eye of The Light that the pain faded and the arrow fell out of the empty eye socket into deep space.
The Light: “I curse you with the worst that I can create!”
As the eye fell a new being was added to the system, Dungeons places where the wrath of The Light coalesced and birthed creatures to kill the sentient races and even New Gods.
Yet the Eye with the arrow fell still.
The Light: “Can you not see that I bring you eternal happiness and Joy? I am your only creator that cares for you…”
They did not let him finish as hundreds of ballistae hit the primordial light and he was powerless. They bound him in chains and put him next to his brother, to maintain the balance.
Ant: “Where is the eye?”
The question that would never be answered even as centuries more passed causing, ‘wherever the eye went’ to become a popular saying for things that randomly disappear never to be found again.
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The Light and The Dark were sitting side by side, chained by their creations to keep the universe intact, but the eye was still free even if it had its own thought.
Eye: “They clearly hated my ideas of eternal happiness and joy, I must have not been loving enough in my endeavours or maybe I was just not scary enough. But what is more loving than what I offered previously…? And what is more scary than me being the being above all except for one other…?”
Decade later
Eye: “I know. Those sentients and monsters love their mating rituals, they call it the purest form of love, and I want them to truly know how much I love them so I will mate with them all. But they also said they wanted death…?”
Eye: “My curse was to make something that can help them with their death wish, so I should just become the curse. Yes, and while I am understanding their deaths I can begin to focus on their life as well and the ever so complex love.”
A decade later
Eye: “But how do I move to attain my goals as an eye? Wait I am still the system. System.”
[Please pick a body option; Dinosaur, Human, Bird…Dungeon, Dragon, Elder Wrym…]
Eye: “Dungeon, it is vital to know why they so infuriatingly don’t want to live forever.”
[Dungeon created, please name your dungeon…]
Eye: “I must stay low profile, name my dungeon ‘Lost Eye’ that should be better than The Light.”
Eye: “Wait how do I move? Oh I did not think this through. Tee hee, still angry and not thinking.”
A decade more later
Eye: “Oh I forgot about this.”
The Eye absorbed the arrow stuck into it.
[system 1000 points and divine slaying bolt construction learned]
Eye: “System. Point purchases.”
[Starting location – 500 points
random starter pack – 250 points (will disappear if ‘chose starter pack’ picked)
Chose starter pack – 500 points (will disappear if ‘random starter pack’ picked)
Build floor – 100 points (first floor is free)
Gacha system: 50 points for common roll, gain anything common.
100 points for specific common roll, animal, plant, rock, cloth, weapon, armour (monsters and sentients off limits until uncommon.)
(X2 points cost for uncommon roll)
(X6 points cost for rare roll)
(Higher Rarity unavailable due to no dungeon and unknown level)
Upgrades – Error, no dungeon (locked)]
Eye: “Well then, might as well get this revenge by meeting all your high demands on a roll then. Just you wait and see how I will become a universal favourite again. System I choose ‘Starting location’.”
In a blink of the eye the void of space is replaced by blinding light. Even for a dungeon core the change is drastic as I am overwhelmed by loud noises with crickets and chirping birds sounding like the ballista bolts bouncing off my armour. The droning noises remind me of the ants incessant talking and the momentary brightness reminds me of the explosive spells that they would launch at me. However this quickly goes away and I am soon adjusted to my surroundings, with my eye rotating around while hovering a metre (3 foot) off the ground. I can feel my surroundings and slightly beyond the view of my eye.
[Please agree to chosen location to build dungeon]
The System is telling me what to do, but I find it hard to stop focusing on the crickets in the grass or attempting to focus in on the shadows that zip by from above. ‘I guess that I am but a piece of the greater whole and now I am treated as one of my ungrateful underlings who I built the System for. I gave them everything and this is how they repay me, but I am a merciful ruler and not one to hold onto grudges, like my brother everything matters little to someone like me and I still have my moral high ground for only wanting the best for my people.’
‘But it seems that I did not know my advisors, and the population of the universe well enough to make large scale decisions, like turning worlds into perpetual daytime by unfolding the sphere into a flat plane and making it orbit around the sun. Or wanting to get rid of my brothers death cycle that the lesser being cling to so adamantly, but then why do the Gods not want to die. Clearly there is corruption at work and the ever loving creator will save my people, but isn’t that what got me here in the first place? But that is also why I am trying to understand my servants more, there is simply not enough information for me to make deductions from with my current eye body part being restricted to a dungeon.’
[Please agree to chosen location to build dungeon]
Eye: “I agree.”
Information floods my mind as I get an in depth understanding of my ground floor, floor 0 is the dungeons entrance and weakest point in its life, as it is on display for all who want to steal it to see. I can now focus my eye anywhere within a quarter of a mile around myself, having an out of body experience to look at the birds that were to fast to see previously. My territory is in a densely packed forest with trees growing up to 20 metres (66 foot), and there being a few large carnivores like mountain lions and lots of bears.
I have so many different bear species on my property that it is scary, monkey bears the size of wolves climb trees proficiently even if found lacking when compared to mountain lions which would imply that around the edges of my territory there are mountains. I have a cave bear living underground, but I can only sense him and not see him as my ground floor only works up to a metre (3 foot) underground, then there are a lot of bear variants like a berry bear or a salmon bear or a mint bear, what a weird place.
Ignoring the large predator population I do find a few shrews living under old trees, there are mice and rabbits walking about and eating plants but no large herbivores. I wonder why, maybe its because there are around 30 bears on my ground floor. I should ignore this for now and see my point shop, from what I know the starter pack is a false lead with it costing so much, but it gives an entire biome in blueprints as well as a few monsters.
Eye: “Might as well use the points from that one bolt. System, open up my information panel.”
[ Name: Lost Eye
Species: Dungeon Core
Level - 1
Floors: 0
Points: 500
random starter pack – 250 points (will disappear if ‘chose starter pack’ picked)
Chose starter pack – 500 points (will disappear if ‘random starter pack’ picked)
Gacha system: 50 points for common roll, gain anything common.
100 points for specific common roll, animal, plant, rock, cloth, weapon, armour (monsters and sentients off limits until uncommon.)
(X2 points cost for uncommon roll)
(X6 points cost for rare roll)
(Higher Rarity unavailable due to low dungeon level)
Upgrades – Error, no dungeon (locked)
Kills – 0
Blue prints - divine slaying bolt (10,000 points), Bear (20)
Expansions – Floor 2 (100) (Need level 2)
- Floor 1 (Free, need level 1 to acquire)
- Floor 0, (Build before being given upgrade options) (Monster slots 0/10) (Trap slots 0/3)
Miscellaneous – Decorations (for each kg costs 1 point, equivalent exchange of 1 to 1)(Can not make rare materials)(Can not make living creatures)
- Respawning loot (Has to be set up manually for each floor) ( cost is 50 x floor number) (Loot cannot exceed 20 + (30 x floor number)) (Every three hours spawns new loot)
- Respawning traps (80 percent of trap cost after placing trap) (removal costs 40 percent of trap cost) (Free rearming every hour unless floor is occupied, 20 percent trap cost to manually rearm)(To upgrade must have sufficient trap slots)
- Respawning monsters (80 percent of monster placed) (Removal is free)(To upgrade must have sufficient monster slots) (Each monster has different spawning timers)]