I have been removing stone for quite a while now, I don’t really know how long it has been as there’s no way for me to keep track of the time. It’s been maybe a few days. I don’t think it’s been more than a week but I can’t be sure, sometimes I fall into this state of serenity and time flies by. The room that I’m in is now 3,000 cubic feet, a little more than I wanted but I don’t mind, it was worth it. I’ve learned and discovered a lot in these few days and the system has popped up with some new messages. I think about my stats up to check my progress and the same blue screen shows up with some new info.

Stats]

[Name: Unnamed]

[Level: 5 Exp: 63%]

[Race: Dungeon]

[Titles: + ]

[Claimed Area: 100 trillion km]

[Affinity: All]

[Mana: 9,999,999,999/9,999,999,999]

[Mana Regen: 299,792,459 mana/second]

[Current Affliction: Core is stressed, Fractured, Bored]

[Invaders: None]

[Dungeon Mobs: None]

[Creation: + ]

I’ve done nothing but clear out some room, determination filling my very being. Removing the stone was easy and took about a second, however some of the ores took a bit longer and required more mana, and some required a lot more. Not that it matters because my regen is faster than the speed of light, but I remember I need to check my materials, I will myself into the extra space inside my head to look at the the various metals I’ve absorbed.

[Materials Absorbed]

[Stone]

[Copper]

[Aluminum]

[Silver]

[Gold]

[Platinum]

[Orichalcum]

[Mythril]

[Titanium]

[Adamantite]

[Divinium]

[Liquid metal]

[Star Dust]

[Neutronium]

[Hallowed Metal]

[Hell Stone]

[Luminite]

[Glow Stone]

[Various Mana Stones]

[Various Gems]

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[Various Elemental Fragments]

I absorbed a variety of minerals and with the knowledge I gained from them I was speechless, well as speechless as something that couldn’t talk could get at least. Divinium and Star Dust are probably the strongest metals in existence; Divinium is inherently strong and creates ambient mana, there’s nothing divine about it that I can tell, it probably was just named that due to the mana it makes. And Star Dust to me is a bit misrepresented, I mean it is a metal however there were only tiny amounts of it so I can understand the confusion. It’s as durable as divinium but for whatever reason it took massive amounts of mana to absorb, way more than any other metal, but I didn’t have a clue why. Maybe the system isn't telling me everything, but whatever I guess, I’ll just have to save that for another time.

Now it’s time for phase two, actually building my dungeon. I know I’m no where close to actually having people in my dungeon, I just want to decorate the room because I was getting bored of my dull gray surroundings.

I start off thinking about a design for a pedestal in the very center of the room. This will be the heart of my dungeon and where my body will rest and since that’s the case I have to make it as majestic as possible. Thinking about it, I reassure myself that I don’t have a ego but deep down I know I do have one and it’s only getting bigger.

I decide that since my core needs to be well protected so I try willing divinium, not willing to try Star dust with my annoying lack of knowledge. A block of it appears right smack dab in the middle of the room and before I could do anything else a screen pops up.

[Congrats *unnamed* you’ve taken the second step on your way to becoming a dungeon!]

Annoyed, I dismiss it and focus on the block of divinium. It’s roughly a cubic foot but it isn’t good enough. I imagine it becoming taller and I watch it grow, sucking a good chunk of mana away from me until I stop when it’s about 5 feet high. Now I’m left with a giant block of Divinium gracing the empty stone room. I begin carving it with my will, making beautiful swirls and drawing battles from ancient history, of ships gliding through the sea, and of mythical beasts from legend. For the finishing touches I set various gems into my pedestal, molding the divinium to hold each gem securely. I inlay some of the decorations with gold and platinum, making it seem even more regal.

Time flies as I enter that familiar state of serenity, until when it feels like no time had passed, I was finished. My eyes, well my mind I guess, graces the masterpiece I created and I’ve got to say, I’m impressed with myself. Yea, definitely no ego at all.

Now for the hard part, actually moving myself up there. I never really got the chance to improve myself with the way I see. So far I’ve only been able to see in a 360 degree around myself and I figure that if this was really the only way I could I’d be seriously limited in what I could do. My mana works through my willpower so maybe it’s possible it would the same way.

I focus on my vision, forcing it to change to turn around and look at myself, and it was working, albeit slowly. I saw myself for the first time since being reincarnated and was stunned. There on the ground was a roundish uncut crystal gem. It was mostly clear but you could see many colors swirling, almost as if they were all dancing together in some incomprehensible pattern. However there was one problem, I am only about 5 inches wide and I mentally cried.

“I’m so small,” I thought to myself, it felt as if my ego shattered in that moment, there was no way I could impress anyone with just 5 inches. I better start improving my performance or else I’ll be the laughing stock of all dungeons.

Repressing those thoughts I will the ground around me to to move, and like a gentle river the stone flows, pushing my core closer to the pedestal. Eventually I make it to the base where I then will the stone underneath my core to grow and only stopping when I reach the top of my new home. I will the stone to push me on to the pedestal, once on I fix the floor, removing the blemishes, returning it to it’s once smooth state.

I mentally relax my muscles, enjoying my new home and being proud of my accomplishment. I did know that I had hardly even scratched the surface of starting but I’m proud nonetheless.

Suddenly a thought came to mind. I’d never seen the surface of my planet, never had the chance to so with a thought, I will my mind, sort of throwing it towards the surface and in no time at all I see what I’m going to be working with and what I saw left me a bit depressed.

As far as the eye could see there was nothing but cold grey stone. Everything was enshrouded in darkness and I can’t see a sun or any kind of star anywhere. Back on the surface, it reminded me a bit like mars just instead of sand or dust there was the occasional mounds of gravel. I’d have to terraform the entire surface and I wasn’t close to having the knowledge to do that. With that I know I have my work cut out for me so I return to my room but I was stunned by what happened next.