The lion pride over the past star cycles, which was how long it took for the stars and sun to do a full rotation, had asserted its dominance over the floor, and the antelope herd had created food for the wolves and lions, but the herd was growing too slowly, they got fifteen new members every single star-cycle, the wolves and lion would kill around ten each star cycle, the mantises would kill one every few star-cycles but they were non-factor, the Core had capped their growth at only five-hundred members, so it wanted them to reach that soon, the lions were capped at one-hundred, and the wolves were capped at two-hundred, the Mantises were capped at their current population because they were already dangerous enough in their current number. The Core decided he wouldn’t interfere for now and decided to focus on the terrain, raising five hills around thirty feet tall and one hundred feet wide; it also created small ponds at the top of each hill just in case he needed them.

The Core also looked over their trap Schemas and decided to begin placing them down, first in between the six shriekers it placed three spear traps, and a pendulum trap at the end of the tunnel, it was a large swinging ax that was always in motion, next at the base of three Stellar Acacias with Assassin Death Vines, the Core placed three chests which were filled with basic gemstones, which glittered red, yellow, green, some were even transparent, the Core also placed needle traps in the locks of the chest.

However, it found another screen when it installed them inside the lock, [Needle Trap detected, would you like to use Greater Paralytic, a poison which paralyzes the one who triggers the trap, Greater Poison, which will give the one who triggers the trap a deadly illness, or Bloodrot, which will rot the flesh and blood of the person who triggers the trap]

It chose one for each chest, and the one with Bloodrot I decided to leave empty until I found something. As it hovered over its newest creation, it decided to also place a pit trap in front of the entrance, it was still possible to get out but close enough that if something were running it would fall into the pit and skewer on the spikes at the bottom, which were how it obtained a Schema, it had reached out and touched it for lack of a better word, and it gained a schema for [Iron], a soft, moldable metal, that could be useful in creating obstructions and traps, a good find.

However the traps found themselves tested sooner than expected, as something charged in, it was floating and wore armor that looked hard and impenetrable, however strange mist emanated from it head, and held a sword and shield, the shriekers screamed a cry of terror, and the spears flew, most bounced off the armor but some flew true and struck it in the head, but continued wounded but alive, it dodged the ax, and simply floated over the pit trap, then the mantises attacked, they jumped and sunk their blades into the strange beings, two of the mantises lept in unison sinking their deadly blood magic empowered blades into the invader, it fell and with it both of the Mantises began to change, and the core obtained new Schemas, [Schemas Gained, Adamantine, Sword, Shield, Greater Stellar Eidolon (Epic), Spacial Ring, Class Schema Gained, Martial Spellwalker Titan (Epic), Spell Schemas Gained, Stellar Bolt, Stellar Shield, Dispel Magic, Detect Magic, Counterspell, Bladeward, Ghostwalk, Skill Schemas Gained, Leadership, Combat Mastery, Bone Forging, Organ Forging, Soul Forging, Muscle Forging]

The Core was happy with the new schemas, especially for the new monster, and the New Categories, Spell, and Class Schemas, from what it could tell the new knowledge now flooding its mind, it could grant Spell, Class, and Skill schemas to a specific monster to elevate them to a higher position, the Ranks were, Mini-Boss, Boss, Raid Boss, and Core Guardian. They were much stronger variants of their current monsters and needed to be slain to get closer to the core. The Core Guardian grew in strength with The Core, but The Core could only have one of them at a time, even one would be enough for now, and the Core realized that any kind of boss's death temporarily meant that they would always grow stronger.

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The Core immediately gave all the Lions [Stellar Shield], [Detect Magic] and [Combat Mastery], [Graceful Movement] and the Forging Skills, the other Spells and Skills would reserved for the leader of the Pride, who, in addition to the other skills and spells that his pride mates received, I gave him, the Schemas for [Dispel Magic], [Leadership], [Stellar Bolt], [Bloody Fury], [Deathly Fury] and [Martial Spellwalker Titan] Schemas, another Message form the Screens appeared…Wait where had the Dance skills come from? Thought the Core. Suddenly a new screen appeared before it.

[Bosses created, Species: Blood Reaver Mantises, Name: The Twins of Chaos, Pluto and Hades, Classes: Bloodly Wraithful Reaver (Legendary) and Bloodly Deathless Reaver (Legendary), New Class Schemas Obtained, Skill Schemas obtained, Rend, Bloody Fury, Deathly Fury, Graceful Movement, Bloodied Bladestorm, Surprise Attack, Forsaken Blood, Respective Skill Schemas obtained]

[Boss Created, Name: Starbreaker, Species: Star Mane Lion, Class granted, Class changed to match user, New Class Schema Obtained, Steller Godforger Titan(Mythic), Boss raised to Raid Boss]

[Raid Boss Changes: Forging Archetype skills merged into Godforging, Graceful Movement, Bloody Fury, Deathly Fury merged into Stellar Battlefury, Skills upgraded: Stellar Shield → Supreme Stellar Wall, Stellar Bolt → Supreme Stellar Lightning, Dispel Magic → All Magic Must Die, Spell and Skills Granted: God Ward, Aegis, Holy Smite, Respective Schemas Gained, (WARNING, THESE SKILLS CAN ONLY BE GIVEN TO RAID BOSSES)]

That was surprising for the core, but upon reading it and finding out that the bright light that the two Mantises had been enveloped in was a sign that they had been elevated to Bosses, the Core immediately granted them the Schemas for Forging Skills, [Detect Magic], [Counterspell], [Bladeward], [Ghostwalk], and [Combat Mastery]. This was amazing, with a Raid Boss, and two bosses there was no chance of something getting through my defenses, this was amazing!

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The [Priestess] was troubled for the stars had aligned in a troubling way, the Constellations, King, Fatebreaker, Forge, and Skeleton had all appeared connected to her sight, forming a vast network, that according to her Skills spelled Death and Fortune both, the fact that the Dungeon Constellation had also appeared just a week prior, which meant that a new dungeon had been formed, her skills told that it was an Orichalcum ranked dungeon at least, maybe even an Adamantine ranked, usually a newborn dungeon would Silver Ranked at best, to be this strong was unprecedented, and it brought her to another she had arranged a week ago, an Eidolon Scout.

The [Martial Spellwalker Titan] Eidolon that she had sent out to enslave it hadn’t returned yet with its core, which meant that they had likely been slain, the Dungeon was probably populated with rare, deadly monsters and if it ever decided to move past its halls…she didn’t think the world would survive, which they had to wipe it out now.

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Little did the Priestess know that she had just given the dungeon some of its most potent weapons and that prophecy in Stars would be her fault, the Endless Empire would meet its end soon, all thanks to her.