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I'm a dungeon, fear me (under heavy rewriting)
Chapter 12: End of the First Year

Chapter 12: End of the First Year

HELL YEAH, TIME TO PUSH YOUR ASSES BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM, YOUR MOTHER. MY SOLDIERS ARE READY, MY WEAPONS ARE READY, AND I HAVE ANOTHER SUPER WEAPON ON THE WAY. IT'S JUST THAT I GOT A LITTLE BORED AND WANTED TO KILL SOMETHING NOW, WOOOOOO.

I have gotten really bloody thirsty since the past year I've been here. What's that? Oh yeah, you heard me; I've been here for a year now. Yeah, I thought it was finally time I did something about the weird flesh thing problem. They still use the same wave tactic, my forces have gotten really used to repelling them, and they have made several tweaks to my weapons, and they were some very good tweaks.

I wanted to launch the first offensive after a year or so. Well, technically, I didn't plan to have a war; I actually planned to do something big after a year or so, like, say, breaching the surface. WHICH I haven't, FOR SOME reason, REACHED YET.

THIS PLANET IS FUCKING HUGE, LIKE BRO, AND I'M STARTING TO THINK I MAY NOT BE IN THE FUCKING CRUST, BUT THE REASON I DIDN'T THINK I WAS IN THE MANTLE IS BECAUSE ITS NOT BLAZING HOT HERE.

LIKE BRO, I HAVE CONTROL OF A SPHERE THAT IS 500 KILOMETERS IN RADIUS! I'M ALMOST AS BIG AS TEXAS, AND I STILL HAVEN'T BREACHED THE SURFACE.

Im pretty sure a planet's gravity is based on how big it is. I really cannot fathom how there is even life on this planet, but then again, everything is gigantic.

Tbh, I really shouldn't complain about not reaching the surface; just 6 months ago I controlled a measly 100 kilometers, but now, ooh boy. It turns out you spread more and more as you gain more space. I'm pretty sure it has used up a lot of energy just to expand, but that was easily replaced with my blackhole's sucking power; in fact, I actually gain more energy than I can spend. Black holes sure are strong.

OK, I'm calm; I'm very calm; it's just that, come on, just let me see some good sunlight. It's been a year, bro. The first generation of live birth children in my city has now happened. Some are already starting to talk.

Wait, what do you mean by starting to talk? Babies take 9 months to be born and another 7 months before you can even think about them starting to talk.

Well, here's the thing: I made several adjustments to my people. First, I made it so that babies take only 4 months before they're ready to be born. Second, I made them all incredibly intelligent, but some are still kind of stupid. Just because you're smart in books doesn't mean you're smart in life.

And finally, remember when I said I gave them regeneration? Yeah, I also enhanced that; now they can heal from lost limbs in like 3 months. Doctors are basically a dying business here; they'll be better off doing research, art, or joining the military, because like, 3 months off battle is 3 months off battle.

Ahem, anyway. I'm actually kind of delaying the first offensive right now since it's not technically a year yet. We've got to wait till midnight. I won't be launching fireworks, sadly; I'm not stupid enough to do that in a cave. Even though the roof is, after recalculating, like 9+ kilometers bigger than Mount Everest, Yeah, it turns out I was wrong with my calculations before. You know what? Maybe I should make fireworks.

How did I mistake 5 km for 9+ km, you may ask? Yeah, I was just making a sort of estimate by just eyeing it with the peak of my sphere as a base. It turns out I was fucking wrong. It's sort of like how the clouds look so close, but then you remember how far they actually are.

Yeah, I learned from my mistake; don't just eye things, or you'll most likely get it wrong. Anyway, I really want to talk about all the buildings my people built, without my influence, of course.

Some of them started mini shops and street restaurants, or were they vendors? I don't know; oh well. Yeah, some are attuned to many of the basic recipes in the multiple cook books; some just follow the recipe to a T, while others incorporate their own spices into it, and although rare, make an entirely new dish that is heavily inspired by a recipe.

There was also entertainment; ever since I completed the signal towers, TV shows have started to pop up. I haven't made wifi yet, though; I want the wires below the surface. Although there aren't that many shows yet, there were some people who decided to show off something they learned from the library or the areas they've started to explore beyond my area of influence. Yeah, I'll probably stop expanding outwards after I hit the 10,000 km mark and focus on expanding upwards. I want that sweet, sweet vitamin D.

To be honest, the only show I've personally influenced was the news channel. You've got to know who died and why, you know?

Other than that, they've actually dedicated the final hours of the last day of the first year to prayer for me. I don't have to tell you how bad this is for my already ginormous god-complex. Well, hey, at least I'm getting energy. I mean, my blackhole core costs more than what they give me; in fact, if I were to put a number on it, it'll be 10 cents of a dollar. Yeah, but hey, free energy is free energy. The blackhole idea was the greatest idea I have ever had. I mean, I knew blackholes have strong pulls, but goddamn, it's just instantly sucking in anything that ain't resisting. I've been somewhat worried about not having anymore energy to suck, but to be honest, worrying about this would be like getting worried that a single drop of water from the ocean was lost.

Anyway, they've retrofitted an entire park that I had made for them to enjoy to be a dedicated place of worship. There was supposed to be a 50-meter plaza in the middle with a gigantic water fountain, but yeah, they've cut off the pillar thing in the middle of the fountain, cleaned up the bottom of the pond, made a sort of ecosystem, and then built a reinforced glass floor over the pond. After that, they've added stairs that lead to a second floor, where they would be praising me.

I mean, the pond design is cool; like, it's got this perfect metal ring outline in the middle with perfectly symmetrical lines that part further and farther as they get farther from the middle. Finally, it also has a sort of outer line that connects everything horizontally, but unlike the middle, it's rough and has edges, all in all, it's shaped like a spider web. I like spiders.

Also, yeah, they've got a pretty-looking ecosphere below, with all the moss, water lilies, and duckweed I personally conjured up. Maybe I should make fish. Yeah, I'm making fish. My people have already found a few cave-dwelling fish when my area of influence accidentally uncovered a large pond filled with crustaceans, amphibians, and fish.

Although they don't breed as fast as the farm animals I made, they made up for it by looking freaking beautiful. like a firework show at a festival.

They were about 12 inches in length and resembled koi fish. They were mostly black, with some being more closer to dark-gray, but they do have highlights with different colors, ranging from, well, any color actually, some blue, some purple, but the main thing about them is that they glow, yep, they fucking glow, and no, not like glow sticks, but more like a camp fire.

They don't do this often, but when they do, oh boy, is it pretty. They are carnivorous, if my people's observations are to be trusted. They've seen the fish eat frogs, snails, and even small snakes; yep, I forgot to mention there are snakes here. I probably should have thought of the chances of having a snake in here when there were rats as well.

You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story.

Yeah, but here's the thing: the rats here are gigantic, like 20-inch adults. This goes with saying the snakes here are like 20 feet long. Kind of like the Burmese python, only this time it can probably use magic.

Anyway, back to the cool fish. My people haven't given it a name yet; they had just decided to generalize it by naming it fish, and from their prayers, which I can for some reason hear, they believe it's heresy for someone other than me to name something. Yeah, we've got to change that mindset after the New Year's celebration.

The moment they started to say heresy this and heresy that, I immediately realized I have a totalitarian state; maybe fascist, I don't know; I never really got to Google searching the difference between totalitarianism and fascism. Idk, maybe it's fascism, since they mostly do not consider the strange cat men as people. Then again, I would too if my parents didn't raise me to have an open mind.

Well, they did get what they wanted. I wasn't racist nor sexist; I just used it as a joke with my friends, but as a side effect, I was a complete psychopath.

It didn't matter who you were or what you looked like, so as long as you have a use for me, you're cool. But the moment you stop being useful, into the fucking garbage you go.

Anyway, my people haven't really figured out why they glow or whether or not it's unnatural for them, but that isn't stopping them from doing experiments on some specimens with and without some sort of painkiller. And the only reason they even used painkillers was to see if they would glow if they felt calm and at peace. They did not, but hey, that's what experiments are for, right?

Sigh, every single one of my citizens is a psychopath. I both love and despise this fact.

Like, bruh, I've seen a man and a woman have sex with each other, then the very next day sleep with another, be it a man or a woman, then repeat. Of course, there were some who were loyal, and others respected that. I mean, I make it clear that respecting one's sexual orientation is a must, but goddamn. I didn't expect it to make my citizens crave I didn't expect it to make my citizens crave maniacs' sex. But after a few months, it did die down.

I should probably make a rule on what age you can have sex and what is right or wrong. These people are full-blown racists and sex maniacs. You've got to make sure they don't end up having sex with their own 5-year-old children or genociding an entire race because they thought their existence was heresy.

They should really get some sunlight. Which I don't have. I keep forgetting that my city is basically the only source of light that isn't just some small glow or accidental fire. It's a good thing I gave my people night vision.

Anyway, the streets and... Churches are packed. Lots of people are heading in and out of the church, while some are also doing street entertainment, puppet shows for the first generation of children, food stalls, and all sorts of fun activities.

The army was also enjoying the festivities. I decided to employ a couple automated HMGs to fire indiscriminately at anything that looked weird. It's a waste of ammo, yes, like seriously a waste of ammo. I watched a hundred or so bullets get wasted because the machines detected a worm, not the big kinds, no, I mean regular size. But hey, I want my soldiers to at least enjoy themselves before I send them off to their most likely deaths.

There's currently only one church in the entire city. Despite it being like 2 500 square kilometers, if my math is right, I really don't remember how to find square kilometers; I just multiply 50 by 50 since my city is 50 kilometers on all sides. I mean, not all sides since my city is shaped like a circle, but I'm pretty sure 2500 is pretty close.

Enough of that most likely incorrect mathematics; there's still quite a lot of dead space. I think I could probably fit in another 50,000 or so people; however, I'm too lazy; I'll do it next year. Which is tomorrow.

I really hate doing math, since I know I'm very wrong. I hate it. I fucking hate it.

Anyway, yeah, it's almost midnight, and I'll try my best to describe the fireworks show for you all. Ahem.

IVICTUS!" I fucking yelled, with my voice echoing through the halls of the heartkeep, the name I've given to the castle in which my heart resides.

Yes, creator!" he yelled as he pushed open the doors that lead to my heart chamber. Before I continued, he dropped to one knee while placing a hand on his chest with his head facing down.

I felt my ego inflate further.

"Announce to everyone to hurry up with whatever they are doing and look up to the sky when big Ben's hands reach midnight." I said, not bothering to clarify anything if it was a little too vague.

Yes, creator, as you wish, he said after a moment, clearly thinking why I would make him do this, but in the end he still did it with no questions asked.

He left the room, and I turned back to my city. I had already assigned a few soldiers to unveil some banners with my city's insignia on them when it strikes midnight tonight, but it looks like that wouldn't be the only thing happening.

I had spent a few hours working on the insignia. Most of it was thinking of the design and trims. While the name for the city was just pulled out of my ass.

What is it, you may ask? Sorry to spoil the surprise, but you've got to be patient like a child on Christmas Eve.

Oh, would you look at that? Ivictus has already sent out the order. The messengers were just windrunners outfitted to work directly under Ivictus; in fact, his personal guard were just some ragtag group of soldiers he had gotten from one of my battalions.

I'll probably turn them into lesser copies of Ivictus after this; they'll be able to use their own magic more proficiently while also gaining the ability to use the other types. I'll call this the ascending ritual. Yeah, that sounds good enough.

Anyway, I see the windrunners weaving in and out of the crowds, shouting out the announcement to everyone. I should work on a broadcast system; I already have a news station, so a broadcast station to announce important news won't be that hard to implement, I think.

The crowds slowly congregate to surround the heartkeep, with a line of earthshakers, who were also part of Ivictus's personal guard, keeping the crowd under control and making sure they don't get too rowdy.

I see some earthshakers get out of their original formation to let in a few people, these people being my first spawn (as my people called the only ones with names) and the peak life's, who still don't have names but only a sort of ID consisting of letters and numbers.

All of them take their seats behind a podium at the very forefront of a balcony that overlooks the entire eastern side, the sector for houses and schools.

After a few more moments, everyone seemed to have arrived well, with some being smart and heading home to watch it on the news channel, but in my opinion, nothing beats witnessing something for real.

Like my incredible fear of heights.

Anyway, everyone in the crowd was whispering with one another when the one and only Ivictus Victorious appeared.

Everyone gasped and pointed at him because they'd never ever seen him, and yet the first spawn are bowing towards him; heck, even the peaks were surprised, but decided to not question it and bow.

I forgot to mention that when I created everyone, none of them had ever met Ivictus; all they had ever met were the first spawn, and they thought they were the strongest in the entire city.

In fact, because of this, there was a bit of animosity between each element user, saying their first spawn was the strongest. There were even some fights over this; I had to outfit an entire army battalion to become the police.

They are still considered to be part of the army, but they mostly keep things under control. Just to remedy this and maybe put out some of the steam, I ordered Burge to create a coliseum. People can either join the fights to fight the beast other people have captured or watch said people fight the beast.

Of course there were prizes and rewards, both for the gladiators and capturers; in fact, because of this, a giant group of 500 people banded together to create a sort of guild for the city four months ago.

They begged the first spawn to give them a name because they thought it would be heresy. So after a quick argument, Meletia got to name them "huntsmen".

Pretty sexist, I know. Tsk Tsk. How could you, Meletia, be on the same team?

Anyway, back to the current event. Everyone soon quieted down, not because they realized it must be important for the possibly strongest person in the city to come out but because they were enthralled with Ivictus eye color. Unlike them, who had a set eye color for each element they controlled, Ivictus had a multicolored eye. Because of his eye color, they assumed he was able to use each element like all of them.

OK, I'll clarify a few things so you don't get lost. Each eye color or feature represents an element. Red for fire, white for wind, Hazel-brown for earth, sky-blue for water, Yellow for lightning, silver for life, jet-black for death, and purple for arcane

Each also had different natural hair colors, but I'll get to that another time.

Ivictus scanned the crowd and nodded to himself, obviously thinking he should do the speech now. What speech? Well, I also prepared him a speech yesterday after completing the insignia. It's sh*t, but that's what redesigning is for.

"My fellow citizens of Beacon City," Ivictus said with a booming voice that resounded all over the cavern. "Today marks the first year of the creator's life, and today we are to celebrate, for tomorrow will be the day for the first ever offensive!"

"Tomorrow our brave men and women shall march into enemy territory and purge the enemy who dared to attack our city, our home, and our Creator," he yelled, which made the crowd cheer in delight.

"THEY DARE TO CULL OUR EXISTENCE WITH NO OTHER REASON, OTHER THAN WE DARED TO LIVE ON THIS PLANET." He paused for a moment, letting the crowd get even more rowdy and louder. "SO TOMORROW WE SHALL PUSH BACK; IF THEY WANT WAR, THEN SO BE IT."

Ivictus bashed a fist into his podium. "WE SHALL PURGE AND KILL THE HERETICS IN OUR RIGHTEOUS CRUSADE! he yelled, his voice louder than the cacophony of cheers. "THEIR BLOOD SHALL PAINT THE CAVERN, THEIR FLESH AND BONES THE ORNAMENTS THAT DECORATE IT, AND THEIR CORPSES A WARNING FOR ALL THOSE WHO DARE TO HOLD ILL WILL."

Ivictus raised his balled fist into the air as the chorus of cheers reached its peak and requiem. "GLORY TO BEACON CITY, GLORY TO HEARTKEEP, GLORY TO THE CREATOR.

The fireworks were launched and exploded right above the hearth. Their loud booms and beautiful colors were only amplified due to their circumstance of being inside a gigantic cavern that stretched far into the distant horizon.

"GLORY TO BEACON CITY, GLORY TO HEARTKEEP, GLORY TO THE CREATOR." They chanted with him as Red banners were unrolled all across the city, with the biggest and most prominent being unrolled at the base of the overlooking balconies of Heartkeep.

"GLORY TO BEACON CITY!" they chanted once more as the golden seems of the banners glinted and shone under the firework-lit cave.

"GLORY TO HEARTKEEP!" They chanted once more as their elements suddenly flared wildly, yet none paid attention to it, nor did it harm anyone for some reason.

"GLORY TO THE CREATOR!" They chanted again as the banner swayed and fluttered in the chaotic storm of elements in their purest form.

Glory to me