Chapter 3
*Knock* *Knock* *Knock*
“Nyx are you awake? As I promised, I will be teaching you today to prepare you for the entrance exams.”
“I’m awake old man, give me a moment please” Honestly, I never went to sleep, turns out my body doesn’t need to sleep. So, me and Raven spent the night getting to know each other.
Turns out fairies are from Olympus, they live in the heavenly garden there. Raven herself has been alive since the beginning of space and time. If she were to die, she would be revived in the garden after a few hundred years retaining her memories. Unfortunately, by the time she revives her bonded dungeon would have already gone mad and killed by the humans.
I stand up slowly, realizing I still have no shirt. So, I imagine the one I previously wore, and recreated it directly on my body. That’s kind of handy, I’ll never have to worry about exposing myself mid battle, if I ever battle. Not sure how I a dungeon would fight by myself.
“I hope you rested well boy, we have a long day today” The old man said sternly, he glanced me over one last time and signaled for me to follow him.
“Hey, old man when you say we are preparing for the exams, what will it be about?”
“Old man huh… I guess I never introduced myself have I. I’m the headmaster in this academy, you will either call me Headmaster or Sage Ezekiel. No more of this old man understood?”
“Understood headmaster” I bow my head quickly to show respect to the headmaster.
“Good, now to answer your question. There is a written and physical exam, the written exam is mostly magical theories and monster identifications. As for the physical exam it will be a series of mock battles unfortunately for you, you won’t be able to exert your full potential as a dungeon core.” He sighed inwardly before continuing.
“Actually, you are the first of your existence, there has never been a walking, talking dungeon, especially a human one. There are theories dungeons have intelligence, but it was never confirmed until I met you.”
“I can answer that question headmaster” Raven butted in the conversation after ease dropping. “Dungeons are born with no intelligence; it is the job of us fairies to teach them and develop their intelligence. As for Master, his situation is indeed unprecedented the only one in this world”
After speaking she took another second, then conveyed her future intentions to the headmaster.
“Actually, as a fairy I can only exert my powers within Masters area of influence. So, I do not wish to enroll in this academy, I will do well serving master as his maid. I heard many nobles, and wealthy families bring their maids to academies.”
“You would be correct Raven, but this academy is not like any other. Only qualified students and teachers are allowed in the academy. So, you would have no choice but to be a student here.”
“No offence headmaster, but I’ve been alive since the beginning of time. There is nothing here you humans could teach me… No offense of course, but with human’s short lifespans, it’ll be hard to even imagine how old I am.”
“Hmmm, then be a teacher. It just so happens we are lacking a magic theory teacher, if you are as knowledgeable as you say you are, then it should be no problem correct?”
“How will I teach magic theory, when I can’t use my powers outside of masters influence?”
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“Simple, the class doesn’t warrant you using powers. It’ll be mostly textbook studies and magic circle comprehension. I can supply you with magic stones to activate the magic circles, so you wouldn’t need to use any powers.” He looked at Nyx again “Actually, this could work, you could still be Nyx’s sister but let’s make you his older sister. His family isn’t well known so no one should be able to piece it together.”
Defeated, Raven could only nod her head in agreement. Honestly, she would rather her and Nyx go hole up in a cave together and start building a dungeon right away. But the old man in front of her has an overwhelming aura surrounding him, naked to the normal eye but she knows there is no chance for them if they were to try and escape. They can only comply and get a late start after the academy.
“Good then Raven you are dismissed, please return to the room. Me and Nyx here have allot to talk about.” He grabbed Nyx by the shoulder and ushered him down the corridor.
“That damn old man” Raven thought, as she made her way back to the room.
“Alright boy, show me” The headmaster said sternly
“S-show you what?” I asked nervously, the moment we got to his office he has been staring me down as if a predator has just spotted his prey.
“Your status boy, share it to me. I want to know what you are working with, so I can work around it”
“Uh… Sure, here you go” I pull up my status screen and push it towards him.
“Human Dungeon Core, Create, replicate, absorb, analyze… The headmaster continues reading off my status screen almost as if he’s entranced by it.”
“I must say Nyx, I’ve never seen anything like it. What is really confusing to me is Create, and replicate? Don’t they seem like the same thing?”
“I can answer that headmaster, as I’ve used it recently to make clothes for Raven. So, I can absorb materials, they get saved in my core, allowing me to recreate them at anytime with mana. I use recreate to bring up the materials, then create to shape them into whatever I want them to be.”
“If that is true, then you will be a wealthy man. Here try this boy.” He chucks me a gold coin; I’ve only heard of these. Me and my mother were beyond poor, only having a few silver coins to our name.
“Once you absorb it, I want you to make it into a 1lb ingot. After you complete that, we will continue to test its limits.” The old man is showing a face of fascination and greed, as if he’s just found a golden goose about to lay an egg.
“S-sure, but can we not do this too often? I don’t want to be enslaved as a money printer”
“I can see what you are thinking boy, I am 120 years old this year. I have more wealth than you could imagine, this is just my desire for knowledge getting the better of me. Please continue with the bar Nyx.”
“Absorb” the golden coin turns into particles of yellow light.
“Wow its really gone”
*** New materials acquired – Gold, Zinc, Silver ***
“Gold, Zinc and silver, are the materials I absorbed. You want a pure gold bar? Or one like the coin headmaster.”
“Just a gold bar Nyx”
Okay… replicate 1lb gold and shape it into a bar. Fortunately, I’ve seen tons of gold bars on the internet in my past life. After a few seconds the gold bar plopped onto the desk in front of me.
“Okay quickly check your mana, how much did that cost you Nyx. This will be a good reference point for you in the future.”
“Status” I glance over all my stats before making my way to the mana portion.
Mana: 9,950/10,000
“1lb of gold cost me 50 mana headmaster”
“Good, now sit here and wait until your mana recovers. This will tell you how fast your natural mana regeneration is”
I sit there painstakingly looking at my status bar, just about every 10 seconds I gain 1 mana. That’s 6 mana per minute, and 360 per hour.
“I can make a gold bar every 8.3 minutes headmaster”
“Phenomenal, as I said before you will be a rich man Nyx. But do not get carried away, as the more wealth you accrue, the more people will emerge wanting to take it”
“I understand headmaster, I will be sure to keep all my wealth at the bottom of my dungeon when I make one”
“I completely forgot about that, so I looked over your skills. I don’t see you graduating the entrance exams as you are now, you will need to make a dungeon and get some monsters who can fight for you”
“But wouldn’t that expose that I’m a dungeon headmaster?”
“No, we can say you are a summoner, there are plenty of them around the kingdom”
“U-understood… there’s just one problem headmaster”
“Speak boy”
“Where am I going to put my dungeon?”
The old man leans back, obviously not thinking about that…
“You have a subspace, correct? Have you tried putting the dungeon in there?”
“I will have to ask Raven, and experiment with it later… but it could work?”
“Good you have your task for the next week, you are dismissed Nyx.”
“Thanks headmaster…” I give him a quick bow, then hurriedly make my departure… Subspace dungeon? But how would I let people enter it… This is going to be a headache in the making, I already can feel it. *sigh*