Almost as soon as I willed myself back in my core room, an alarming sight tore its way into existence. Close to my core there was a tear in space, and there was a familiar sight, inside it was a pitch black expanse as far as the eye could see. I could almost feel other entities living inside it. I felt their attention snap towards me and an animalistic hunger pervaded the very air. I raged as my vision turned red, how dare these things come near my core, I would kill them all. But before I could even try a small black shape leapt through the portal and it closed immediately trapping the other beings inside.

I immediately calmed as I felt no hostility but I was still wary. I felt a sort of kinship with what appeared to be a completely black cat. I watched as it studied me with it’s intelligent gold eyes. It jumped onto my pedestal and placed a paw upon my core and I was greeted with a message.

[*Error* wants to form a contract with you, accept? Yes or Yes?]

Hopefully this is the helper that guy sent me, and there’s no way I could deny it for whatever reason, slightly worrying but screw it, I focused on yes, the message disappeared and a sharp pain nailed its way through my mind. I felt a piece of myself enter the being and a part of it entered me, the pieces remained connected and the most curious thing happened, the two strings twirled together like yarn until it melded into one.

The euphoria was instant but disappeared almost as quick. For whatever reason I felt whole again, as if I was missing a piece of myself for the longest time and I finally had it back.

A feminine sultry voice entered my mind, “Hello there little princeling.”

“Wait what did you just call me,never mind that what are you?” I thought back at it.

A laughter that could only be described as rich and pleasing followed. I know that the voice is coming from the cat and it's a but unusual but I could deal with it.

“Don’t mind that, I am a being of chaos after all, I was made and shaped by it.” The cat paused then resumed, “Now I know why I was drawn here, you’re not supposed to exist, I mean look at you, a dungeon that covers an entire planet, it’s absurd. I like it.”

We were silent for a minute until I I asked, “How can you help me?”

She laughed and said, “I have knowledge no mortal will have, I have spent much of my life tricking and manipulating mortals, and besides I can leave this place to go get you new materials to use.”

Intrigued and weighing the pros and cons of having her here I accepted it. “Well then, let’s work together. I don’t believe I know your name.”

She laughed, “You may call me Archa, haha this is just too purrfect.”

Not to long later

“Hmm that does seem to be a problem, well your core is cracked because it can hardly contain all of your mana, it’s a wonder how it’s held up,” commented Archa.

“Is there anything I can do to fix myself?”

“Wow you must’ve just been born the other day, but I’ve got to give it to you, you seem more intelligent than other dungeons but you aren’t very bright.” She snickered.

If I could frown I would’ve, “Do you know how to fix it?”

“Yes I know how to,” she smirked as well as a cat could.

“Well?”

“Oh you wanted me to tell you? It’s simple really, all you really have to do is form your mana around your core and compress, the mana will mold into your core making it bigger, stronger, and more dense but it doesn’t seem like you need help with the last bit.”

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I ignored her last comment and focused on what she said, just will mana to appear around my core and compress it into myself, what could go wrong really.

I willed a little chunk of mana to form, when I say little I mean it in perspective to my capacity, the mana I willed was roughly 500 points. I surrounded my core with it and compressed.

I watched in amazement as my cracks disappeared and my core started to grow. It was taking its sweet time, but I wasn’t in a rush, I just kept watching my core grow, and when my 500 points were gone I was now roughly 10 inches across and I was much more smooth, like a polished gem. There were still some rough edges but I didn’t mind, I think it makes me look rugged.

I checked my status to see if there was anything new.

[Stats]

[Name: Unnamed]

[Level: 5 Exp: 63%]

[Race: Dungeon]

[Titles: None + ]

[Claimed Area: 100 trillion cubic km]

[Affinity: All]

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

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

[Current Affliction: Bored]

[Invaders: None]

[Dungeon Mobs: None]

[Creation: + ]

The message telling me my core was fractured was finally gone, and I felt something fall off my metaphorical chest and was relieved. I dismissed the screen and another one appeared.

[Focus on the + to bring up more information]

Curious I dismissed the message and brought up my stats again. My titles, and creation were the only two that had the tabs. I start with titles and focus on it.

[Titles]

[Error]

[Updating...]

[Titles]

[The Biggest]

[Largest dungeon in the universe]

[Dungeon of CHAOS]

[ERROR]

Well the first one is kinda cool but it makes me seem like I’m over compensating but whatever and the second one, dungeon of chaos, and more error. I don’t have a clue about what’s going on but as long as it isn’t killing me or will kill me I don’t really care.

Next, my creations tab, I focus on it and was met by the most irritating thing ever.

[Creations]

[None]

[Can only make creations with materials or anything that has been absorbed]

I’m glad I’ve got Archa to depend on, I would pretty much be lost without her. I remember she told me that can somehow get materials for me.

“Hey Archa I’ve got a favor to ask.”

“Took you long enough, but what do you want?”

“Can you get me some materials to use?” I asked. She laughed like I said the most hilarious joke ever.

“You haven’t even gotten started with your dungeon yet, you’re the size of a planet and no one can get to you, you don’t need monsters yet.”

I glare at her as best as I can, my lack of eyes seems to limit my evil glare.

She laughs again, “Fine, I’ll help you start your dungeon instead, it will be fun.”

I reconsider, thinking about it only for a second and accepting right after.

“Alright well since you don’t have any monsters you can create just yet how about we start off with a maze, maybe a labyrinth,” Archa said with excitement, her cat body sort of bounding all over the room.

“Alright I’m listening.”

“Ooh and I can even teach you how to make building go so much faster and *gasp* the maze could be half the planet! We’re going to have so much fun!”