I smirk happily, and rub my imaginary belly with my imaginary hands. Good times. My vision sits directly above the shattered body of the core I just shattered. I turn back, and turn my attention to the rest of the cave. Woah. This thang is huge. I push forward, and find that most of the cave he was in wasn't even under his control. This appears to be a man made mineshaft, the cave being lined with supports, and such. As I delve deeper with my vision, I also bring along my squad of Cancuns, not a single one of them dying during combat with the opponent, on the contrary several grew in size. As well as Megs, who also grew in size, if only slightly.

As we delve deeper eventually we find a large open cavern. At the center of the cavern we find. Light. A torch, or two. We delve deeper into the cavern discovering. A palisade, made of wood seemingly scavenged from the mine shaft. The whole thing is lit by torches. I push my vision inside of the fortifications, and discover. An encampment… Of goblins? I think? Disgusting little things with green skin, long ears, that curl, and shrivel at the end like dying leaves, their feet are cloven with hooves like satyrs. Fingers that bend in all the wrong direction, and sharp needle teeth, that scare even me, a non human creature.

I frown.

Wipe them out.

My squadron of Cancuns, as well as Megs rushes forward, and bursts through the entrance of the fortifications. The fortifications are small, measly, pathetic, and with my thoughts I guide my minions onward to crush more. I shudder in pleasure, as a goblin has its legs torn off, and quickly dies of blood loss.

Amazing…

I shudder as its mana fills me, even such a small pathetic creature, has more mana, than the other animals I kill. Is it because it's a humanoid? Or something else. I shrug without a care, and watch as my minions rampage, eventually surrounding a pocket of gobliny resistance

*SHRINK* I shudder, as one of my minions is stabbed by a goblin. A Cancun, it must have been ambushed, a long thin knife, practically a stiletto, is shoved through a gap in the armor, its armpit, and straight into its heart, killing it instantly.

*FWOOM* a fireball sails across my vision once again landing atop a Cancun, cooking it, from the inside out.

Megs dives forward over a group of Goblin warriors, and lands in front of the one who threw the fireball. Megs swipes with her paw!

“Wait! Wait!”

In an instant I stop Megs.

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“You are dungeon right? You need minions? I be minion!”

I lean in. Can I talk to it?

“I have minions, what do I need you for?”

“Y-you no have spirit with you? Right? I can taste through air!”

I frown.

“What do I need a spirit for?”

“Dungeon don't get spirit, dungeon go crazy, and humie kill dungeon!” he throws his hands into the air, as he finishes his sentence in a raised pitch! “I serve you! Teach magic!”

I cock my imaginary head. It sounds like something I could use. May as well take it. Worst case scenario, I have to kill it later.

“Deal… What is your name goblin?”

He glances up, with fear. “I no have name…”

“Gotcha, Gairy it is…”

Gairy shudders as he receives his name, and grows slightly in size.

“Thank you master…”

I raise my eyebrows in pleasant surprise.

“Your voice is more eloquent.”

“Unnamed creatures have less intelligence, dexterity, and mana in general. Not that I was dumb beforehand, I simply am able to voice my thoughts better now.”

I nod my head.

“You said you would teach me magic?”

He raises his head.

“Yes, I guess the first lesson is, can you use mana?”

“Yes.”

“May I see It?”

I frown. “How?”

“Simply will it to be so that I may see it.”

I frown, and try to follow his instructions.

“Ah, thank you my Lord. It appears you have not been filtering corruption. Can you see the corruption?”

Now that he mentions it, when I look inside myself I notice my core is ringed with some disgusting material. “Yes.”

“Ok, well you need to remove it. This is quite a difficult process because you need to-”

“Done.” I simply reached into my core, and controlled it like mana, and removed it.

“-Spin your mana, into a whirlpool shape, this is called Cultivating which will pull the Corruption out- WHAT! How did you do that!?”

“I just grabbed it, and removed it… No biggie.”

Gairy grabs his head, as if he has a headache. “What the Hell…”

I chuckle…