I got up early again today and didn't bother to eat. I walked outside and went to PAIN's doghouse to wake PAIN up. That's when an idea hit me. I asked Codex about it.

“what if I made the entrance to the dungeon in PAIN's doghouse. It isn't far at all and no one other then me dares to go in there."

"How are you going to get the goblins inside?"

" hadn't thought of that. Can't I just create entrances at will and then close them?"

"I guess but that has a high mana cost. You would need a full days charge to open or to close it."

"Well the goblins can wait another day"

"About that you still need a couple hours till you can use magic"

"Ugh. Ill go hunting then."

I left and went to the cave with PAIN and FEAR. We arrived and the goblins weren't at the front entrance.

"Must be hiding from something..."

I go deeper into the cave and realize its much bigger than it looks from the outside. The cave keeps going down. The sunlight keeps becoming less and less. I keep moving the stairs if you can call them that are rocks jutting out unevenly. FEAR is able to follow me but PAIN is too big. eventually there isn't any sunlight left at all. I keep moving there is no sunlight at all it's like I’m blind. I keep moving forward for what feels like an hour. Then I see a blue light up ahead and the cave starts going straight instead of down. I approach the light. When I get close enough to the light I can see the goblins are eating the light. When I get even closer the goblins start bowing down to me. The light is coming from the walls themselves. When I get even closer I can see that it is a plant I inspect it and with my new information on herbalism I some how know that it is dark light weed. A weed that when exposed to another light source even in the most minor of ways kills the weed. It can grow everywhere all it needs is a lack of sunlight. It is edible and sweet in taste. I grab some and put it in my ring of storage. The goblins by this time have stopped bowing and continue eating. I notice they eat it in patches none of it is all eaten in one area. They only eat the longest weeds and leave the short ones. Its like when you do selective cutting in a forest. Only grabbing what you need and avoiding the rest that aren't needed. I grab some more and then leave. The goblins already have food so it doesn't make sense to bring them hunting with me. I travel back to the surface and its already late in the day we hunt quickly and return home I only got 2% of what I need so I’m at 19% total. I go to bed alone tonight.

I wake up late in the day and get something to drink the only thing I need to do to survive. I then walk outside and head to PAIN's doghouse I am going to do it today. Create my epic dungeon. I go to the back of the doghouse and let codex take over. Before we start I ask a couple questions.

“how much mana should it take?”

“about one ring 2 at most. You are going to be exhausted and hot after and might need a couple days to recover.”

“okay you think there will be any problems?”

“shouldn't be I already have the spell planned out to the last detail so it should be harmless and quick”

“okay then lets get started”

codex starts and a ring on the ground appears with a blue light and I can feel the mana leaving my body. Its being sucked out at an amazing rate, faster then ever other spell before this. Then I feel an overflow of mana coming from my hand and that gets drained too. My body is covered in sweat and steam is rising off me. But the mana keeps getting drained I feel again from my hand mana overflowing this repeats twice more and I’m running out of mana. I am worried, wasn't this only supposed to take 2 at the most rings worth? Why has it taken the full four? My skin is beat red and my body is releasing a ridiculous amount of sweat which is sizzling on my skin. I am completely out of mana but I still feel the pull of the drain it pulls everything out of my storage ring and it pulls the air around me in. My skin is starting to catch on fire in places and my mind desperately grabs for anything to feed this spell. After about a minute my skin is literally on fire and my mind finds it. Mana in the air the nature around me. My body becomes a vessel for it and pulls as much as it can in trying to feed the monster that is trying to eat me. Codex I can feel has noticed my mind grabbing mana from the air and is soon perfecting it making it happen more efficiently and faster. The fire covering my body goes out and I collapse.

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I wake up. Weird i am in my room completely bandaged up head to toe. What the hell happened to me for my body to be in this bad of shape?

”Codex you there?”

weird i don't have any response usually its almost instant. I try to lift my hand. It doesn't budge at all. So using my eyes i look at my hand. The rings are still on it. Since i can't move i try to fill up my ring with the mana in the air. I try to sense it like last time but its much harder. Elusive always moving. Every time i try to grab it it moves away always out of reach but always there. I keep trying for what feels like hours. The girl with white hair walks in. She sees my eyes and just looks at me and me at her.

“....”

“....”

she touches my ears and then talks in her angelic voice.

“still.....soft”

she leaves again and a minute or to later returns with water. I try to open my mouth but can't she touches my jaw and it feels like someone is throwing acid on it. My body for the first time moves and she sees the pained look in my eyes. She draws back her hand and looks at me. She then brings her face to mine and using her tongue slowly pushes my lips apart. She does it gently and slowly carefully parting my lips. She then takes some water in her mouth and slowly feeds it to me. When the glass is done she leaves. I don't do anything for a minute and then i hear a familiar voice in my head.

“She just saved your life you know”

“oh? And you almost killed me i thought you said there wouldn't be any problems and it would only take two rings worth of mana”

“well i lied the spell requires a random amount of mana, 99 percent of all tries to make a dungeon result in the death of the caster”

“oh really and why wouldn't you tell that to me before hand? Now i completely burnt with 3rd degree burns all over my body”

“i didn't tell you because knew master could do it.”

“you guessed didn't you?”

“....”

“asshole you could have killed me making that dungeon!”

i then hear a slow ancient voice respond this time instead of codex

“you .... called ...... master?”

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