It awoke in darkness, unaware of the Horrors that would resign within it or the Stars that showed Death for those who provoked it. It awoke to a screen in front of it,

[Dungeon Core detected, Monster Schemas offered, Error, Reincarnator status detected raising Rarity of options, Error abnormally High Luck stat detected, raising Rarity of options, select four:

Option One: Blood Reaver Mantis, Rarity: Exotic

Option Two: Star Mane Lion, Rarity: Exotic

Option Three: Light Runner Antelope, Rarity: Exotic

Option Four: Bloodborne Wolf, Rarity: Exotic

Option Five: Giant Bloodborne Cricket, Rarity: Exotic]

The Core instincts pushed it to choose, knowledge of the options flooded its mind, and beyond the mere words, it saw power, the Mantis would hunt its foes relentlessly, and with powerful blood magic would empower itself enhancing its already powerful physique and combined with a powerful venom that rotted the blood and flesh of its targets, the Lion would be pack hunter leading a small pride to hunt, using, teamwork and stellar magic, to paralyze, vaporize and rend its foes, the Wolf was like a combination of the Lion and the Mantis, it lacked the stellar magic if the Lion and venom of the Mantis, but it made up for it with stronger teamwork, the Antelope and Crickets could be strong and they were fast but they were for the main monster, so it selected, the Lion, the Wolf, the Mantis, and the Antelope.

Another Screen appeared, offering more schemas, more power

[Select Four Plant Schemas:

Option One: Supreme Aether Grass, Rarity: Epic

Option Two: Greater Assassin Death Vines, Rarity: Epic

Option Three: Stellar Acacia, Rarity: Exotic

Option Four: Gaseous Shriekers, Rarity: Rare

Option Five: Corpse Flower, Rarity: Uncommon}

[Decoration Schemas Granted: False Sun, False Moon, False Stars, Torches, Treasure Chest, Precious Gemstones]

[Trap Schemas Granted: Spear Trap, Pit Trap, Needle Trap, Snares, Pendulum Trap, Compactor Trap]

Unlike the monsters, the decision for the plants was much easier for the core, the Corpse Flower wouldn’t stand a chance in its dungeon, and the others were so much more useful, the Aether grass and Stellar Acacias would be the Floors backbone, serving as food and shelter for his monsters, the Assassin Death Vines would be a silent killer ensuring that only the strongest and smartest would survive, and the Shriekers, they an alarm system if someone decided to invade his Dungeon. With its schemas selected, the Core focused to its surroundings.

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It saw that it was in a vast cave compared to itself, and noticed new schemas that it had not selected, Traps and Decoration Schemas, the knowledge that it gained told him that they were best used together, and so the core began to build what would become the deadliest Dungeon in the world.

It tugged on its schemas, and before it stood a pack of fifty wolves and five hundred Mantises.

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The Core howled in rage again, as the Mantises eliminated the wolf pack for the fifth time in a row, the Core underestimated the Mantises' need for blood and flesh, the wolf pack was the best prey for the Mantises, it didn’t help that compared to wolves the mantises were only the size of the wolves hindleg, so with their smaller size and greater agility, they would murder the wolves every single time, they met, however there was an upside to this the wolves were slowly becoming more resistant to the venom, which the Core decided to dub Bloodrot.

While the Core was attempting to balance the two monsters, it discovered something, a wondrous thing called, Dungeon Orders, with it the Core instituted, two orders, One, if an invader attacked the dungeon all of its creations would fight the intruders and not fight each other, the effect of this order ends once the invaders are dealt with or are not on the floor anymore, Two, predators may only attack their prey animals if the preys numbers are sufficient. It was odd though how the Core knew all these words, and what predator and prey were, the Core simply decided to chalk it up to the System that provided its Schemas to it.

The Core noticed the Mantises continued to attack the wolves, so right now there was no chance of the problem going away at that moment. Although to its Schemas the Vines produced a fruit that was highly nutritious but was a deadly trap that lured prey to its death by sharp thorny vines, perhaps that would help. The Core expanded its sight even more, the cave was roughly a square and was around five miles available for use, strangely it was a perfect cube with the Core at the end, more importantly, there was a way in, a small entrance around five tall and five feet thick, which led into a tunnel that opened up into the floor, if something went through right now the core did not think it could stop them, it placed six shriekers, all within the tunnel to ensure that I would know if something came in.

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The Core was ecstatic for it had discovered how its False Sun, Moon, and Stars worked, it simply placed them at the ceiling of its cave and bright light illuminated the cavern, even better it could put them in a cycle with each, every twelve hours, the False Sun and False Moon would emerge with the Sun setting in the west and rising in the east, and the Moon and stars only appearing after the sun had set, it was beautiful to the Core since it meant that all its other monsters could finally be added to it since it had run into a frustrating limit that all the different monsters it had required a day-night cycle.

The core added its Aether Grass, Stellar Acacias, on some of the Acacias, especially the ones close to the entrance, it placed the Assassin Death Vines with their bright red fruit and deadly spiked vines that dangled around the precious fruit, the wolves which had to sustain themselves off their battles with the Mantises, perked up at the sight of the fruit, and finally, it created a herd, two hundred-fifty antelope, and pride of fifty lions, one of them was much bigger than the others, and it felt more intelligent, and it would be the pride’s leader.

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The Eidolon was wounded but it knew that if he could obtain control of the vast amount of pure mana in the distance, everything would be ok, even a basic trap could kill it now, but it could only hope. He was a scout of the Endless Empire and soon he would be free.

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The Stars had aligned to form a new constellation, one which would be known as Styx, a new dungeon had been born somewhere in the east, but soon the world was forced to fight to contain it and its rampage of destruction.