Ark and the general had come to another agreement on how to treat each other with respect, even if there was no one to look at, as in Ark didn't have a body. But because I was actually brought up in the bar was a statue, and when Ark was talking to people, the sounds now came from the statue. If it was supposed to be a group meeting and done with respect, a little odd, but I didn't have a problem putting up a statue.

The next two weeks were dealing with the United Nations members coming down to visit the dungeon and talk to Ark, and three wars had been started and stopped in that same time. No one cared about the dungeons right now, and everybody cared right now. It was just a lot of people were trying to put out a lot of fires. Every eye was on the dungeon, either through the accounts online, the live video feeds, or through the governments telling everybody what was going on.

The next big surprise actually came from another place in the world where a dungeon had been set up, but no official request had come in. Though when Ark looked, it had been taken over by a warlord.

Ark had made a deal that they wouldn't do anything until the government was set up around

the dungeon and it was being maintained properly and approved by the United Nations so that there were no war crimes being committed, trying to keep everything on the up and up and safe for everybody.

After Ark informed the general, Ark didn't have the ability to show a video that could at least tell the general what was going on. It had to be able to take pictures. So, Ark sent a snapshot or three hundred to the general and made a side comment at the same time.

General, wouldn't it be a shame if all the prisoners that are being used for slave labor somehow got into the dungeon, and while they were in and digging and finding stuff, they were disappearing until there were no more hostages? It helps the situation; it hurts the situation.

The General kind of just looked up at the ceiling/corner of the office, like where you look at the camera that was mounted, and just said, "Let me get back to you on that. This could be a good idea." And with that, the first joint United Nation dungeon operation was imagined, and in 2 weeks, it had been enacted. And with that, an entire warlord and their army were not murdered but were taken into custody. Who then actually murdered them, which was kind of ewwww.

All you get to hear are communing with something about murder hobos.

The cat had been let out of the bag that Ark didn't need Jeremy to be there to turn them on. But what Ark did tell them was that because they were using up all the energy, that dungeon was dead until they got to a very high level, probably 8, 9, or 10, due to the fact that you need to recharge the core. It was officially dead there. Dungeon.

The United Nations, after finding out about that, rectified the rule that there would be no more doing that without full approval of the United Nations to the fact of losing a major resource and for an unknown amount of time.

The party was just about to start because what Ark just found, it was like 4:00 in the morning, but Ark didn't care. He let the full base know with a base-wide announcement.

"To everyone in the dungeon, to everyone in the dungeon, the dungeon will start to shake. We have just gone from level one to level two. I repeat, we have gone from level one to level two. This is an earthquake, do not worry, you do not have to evacuate. Thank you." And with that, Ark metaphorically hit the big red button that said upgrade.

Moments before this happened, Ark had gotten a message that enough biological matter had been acquired on Jupiter, but the air was low energy. So, Ark was getting an upgrade to level two just to fix the energy issues.

Because everybody that was in the dungeon sleeping, they had been checked out every day to make sure that no one was getting magical powers, that it hadn't been unlocked, any of that stuff, and everyone was fine. But then, that next morning, no one was going back to bed at 4:00 in the morning after that announcement. So, the morning meeting, everybody was wide awake, and they had woken people up all around the world to let them know.

When the words "Jupiter" and "upgrade" hit satellites, they were all pointed there, and they even got permission to point the Webber scope at Jupiter. There was mass freaking hysteria for weeks after that when the first pictures of Jupiter came out because it looked just like it did before, same shape. But now that we can see the clouds, you could see almost ghostly figures dancing through the clouds. And we're not talking one or two; we're talking at 9 or 10 billion. And the more they looked, the more detail it looked like.

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They had asked as soon as they noticed it, and not joking, Ark's answer is, "Don't know, cool huh? But seriously, it looks like magic and air flows are mixing there, and its natural shapes are non-Newtonian at times and even human-like looking. That's what magic can do. What you are seeing is one of the layers of magic. So, a type of magic, as you call it, it comes from dark matter. It's the memories of the human form. If there was life on that planet at one point, it might have left residue. But because you can't see anything, I'm thinking it's just so much raw, unfiltered that it's just a way of expressing itself. And magic wants to express itself. And you guys did the dumbest thing. You looked, and magic knows you looked. And it looked back, and it saw your bodies, your shape, your mind, and it felt your emotions. And yes, it reached out and it danced for you as angels and demons. Welcome to magic. It's f***** up."

That same day, Ark had requested some ammunition and weapons to be brought down into the bar because Ark had installed a little booth built into the wall. It was only big enough for a small item to go into and then close the door, but Ark was going to try and fuse raw elemental energy into different items.

The general had approved this, and they had agreed that the first step would be taking all the different types, and at lost count there is between

30 and 92 types. 30 that they had enough material that they could try a hundred times, a thousand times, and they wouldn't run out; the other 62 were in such small quantities that for now, that was just, "Don't touch them."

The first thing they asked for was 30 bullets on a magazine stripper, which is just a piece of plastic that keeps the bullets all in a row and you can pick them up as one unit. They put four strippers with 30 bullets each into the chamber and closed it.

It took Ark but two hours to precisely ingest the right amount of dark matter, convert it, move it over, and infuse it into the bullet tips, not the gunpowder. And that was the problem, Ark didn't know what would happen if he infused the gunpowder.

So, the next test was to take just one bullet, put it in the chamber, and fuse it, and then pocket it outside the dungeon just to make sure it wouldn't explode.

When they were ready to test, and after it had been infused, Ark messaged The General, and the general sounded the air raid for explosion tests and made an announcement that there would be an explosion and a test. This is not an attack; do not panic.

When that was done, the soldiers took the bullet that had been infused only into the gunpowder with energy and hooked it out into the environment.

There was no explosion. That was great, right on. Then they took one of the bullets off the stripper and threw it. It exploded so quickly.

They realized that the bullet that they had thrown that did not explode was still alive and probably would explode.

Master Corporal Thomas had been keeping an eye on these two this whole time and reporting back when needed, and just walked upstairs, found the bullet that did not explode, put it into his gun, and pulled the trigger.

The general would then go on to citing him for stupidity and had him removed because his entire weapon splintered from the barrel to the shaft like in the cartoons and went pieces flying everywhere.

They rushed him to the hospital.

It took them another couple of days of trying to realize that the only way they could take something out of the dungeon was to take a piece of metal, infuse it, and then shape it so they can make magic metal. But the moment they took it out, the amount of energy that was in it didn't bond with the metal, and it just released. The material wouldn't hold, and it just would release. But if you banged the living crap out of it or processed it a little bit, the outer side, the outer shell wasn't so magical, and therefore it didn't really explode and acted kind of like a half barrier. So you just kind of had to damage your equipment a little bit, but we're thinking of a paint job that maybe can be used, but not too sure yet.

When some of the first magical bullets were created, the gunpowder was not the enchanted part. And how it worked is it made the bullet head actually out of two pieces of material, one, one material and the other one copper. The idea is that Ark could define the difference in the material and only energize the inner one, not the outer one, which we don't understand how it's done still to this day, but it worked.

It was so cool to see the first ice bullets, and literally, they made the target so cold when they broke up, and it was, how do I explain this? The amount of cold energy that was released made the whole environment for a couple of seconds change. It was almost like the clouds came down; it was just a burst of cold. Thinking of having that on fully automatic, you could freeze an area to walk on it. It was amazing to see, but we kind of set fire to everything when we used the fire one, and I mean everything. It was like napalm in a handgun.

That day they all went home going, "We just used magic weapons." And they knew the weapon Smith's had been requesting to come down, so Jeremy asked Ark if they're willing to do another upgrade to the dungeon, and Ark was ready for another couple of floors because, well, the bar needed an anvil and Smithy area, and the infusing chamber needed to be upgraded to a larger size for larger things…