I hope you enjoy will enjoy this new version as much as i do. Just so that you know the words dungeon and realm will be used as synonyms from now on. Please tell me in the comments what you think about the new "Marluxia". I am rather interested what you think about that. XD

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Marluxia, who used to be one of the most ancient dungeon cores, woke up in a void space. The last thing he could remember was how the human kingdom, which he helped to develop, went on an all out war against him. This kingdom allied with three of the surrounding kingdoms in a conquest to unify the continent under their control.

"Can´t believe they turned against me...."

He sighted and tried to feel his surroundings, but he couldn´t feel anything at all. It was almost like he was trapped in this void space. All he could feel was emptiness. He couldn´t even feel any mana at all, which should be impossible as mana was something the world was made from.  Everything has mana dwelling in it. Even the dead and things like stones have mana flowing in it. Mana is the reason plants grow and also is the reason why ores come to existence. 

Mana can be subdivided into seven different kinds. For every element exists a special kind of mana. There is Fire Mana, Water Mana, Earth Mana, Air Mana, Lightning Mana, Life Mana and Death Mana as well.

After Marluxia was able to calm himself down a little, after all there happened a lot of things recently. First he was betrayed and killed by the kingdom, which he helped to develop into what it is now, than he suddenly appeared in a empty room and the last thing he can clearly remembered is the system message in the moment of his death, which told him that he reached the requirement to evolve into a dungeon god.

By the way what exactly is a dungeon god?

Dungeon gods are beings better known as gods of creation. The purpose of them is to create new life forms. Shall we start with the process of creating your body?

If Marluxia hadn´t gotten used to the randomness of the system messages, since years, he would have jumped out of fright, well if he could move at least. As he was used to them, he only smiled a bit confused when the message suddenly showed up.

Yes, please

As base form of a gods body a human body is recommended. Want to use a human as base form or do you want to know what else can be used as base forms?

Marluxia frowned a bit when he saw that message. He was just recently killed by humans, so naturally he wasn´t so pleased when the system recommended a human body. Well another thing was that a human body was rather weak at the beginning, only through harsh training and a few lucky encounters can they really be strong.

Wouldn´t it be better to take a demon or some kind of monster as base from? Wouldn´t it be rather dump to use one of the weakest races as my body? He sighed and shook his head

Mind telling me why a human body is recommended? Humans are rather weak, there needs to be a reason why you recommended that as base form right?

A body made with a human as base form, can easier wander around the world. As you have to collect items, animals, monster and such things. The more there are the better, as your realm will develop faster than.

Are we currently in my realm ? Well your right a body, which uses a human as base form will not be attacked by humans so easily. So why should I choose an stronger base form than instead of a safer base form. In the worst case scenario it is still easier to negotiate with a monster if you are a human than when you are a monster and the other party is a human. Yes I choose a human as my base from. Am I able to change a few things?

Correct we are currently in your realm. This realm dwells in its own dimension and as long as you don´t open a dungeon entrance no one else except you can enter it. For humans there is no difference between an actual realm of a god and a dungeon. What changes do you wish to make?

After that a screen which showed two humans appeared before him. One of these humans was male why the other one was female. Both of them looked like they were around 16 years old. Beside this two human base forms he could spot a list with things he could possible change on the base from. On this list were things like skin color, hair color, eye color, height and so on. One thing especially interested him when he saw it. It was the possibility to add a bloodline of a monster to this body.

Is there a possibility for me to choose the bloodline of one of my former dungeon bosses? By the want only show me the male base from as I will make my divine body a man and not a woman.

It is possible to infuse your blood system of your new body with the blood of one of your former dungeon bosses. The reason why the character creation window shows two bodies is because when something evolves to a god, his soul will be split in two. As the soul would be so powerful that one body alone can’t contain it, so the soul needs to be split. Through this way it is also possible for one body too look for something useful in the real world while the other body creates and manage your god realm. Shall both bodies be changed to male? Most gods preferred bodies have different genders.

Marluxia sighed as he read that message. it looks like some myth about the gods are real after all. Well no wonder that some gods aren´t clearly gendered in their religion. These gods probably have a male and a female body.

Marluxia pondered a bit about which bloodline he should choose. He had a few rather powerful ones in his former dungeon, after a while he choose to use the bloodline of his first and also strongest dungeon boss. This particular dungeon boss was a Naga. So getting its bloodline would sure give him the ability to create poison. As for the bodies gender he didn´t really care about that so he chose to let them have different genders.

After the bloodline of the Naga was added to his new bodies another message showed up, which stated that he gained the ability to create poison and that he got a minor resistance against poison as well as minor night vision, because of the bloodline he had chosen.

The human bodies changed a bit after the bloodline was added. The thing, which changed the most, would be the eyes of his two bodies. Marluxia had now snake like orange colored eyes. Also they got a snake scale like pattern on their bodies’ skin.

Marluxia took his time while creating his future bodies. When he finished the creation of his new bodies, his soul was torn apart. Marluxia will forever remember that moment, the reason for that was that even when he died he didn´t feel as much pain as he was feeling now. Even though he was in so much pain he forced himself to not even make the tiniest bit of a sound. The process of getting the soul torn apart is a really slow process, but needed to be done to infuse both of his divine bodies. After a while Marluxia lost his consciousness, because of the pain. Short after that his consciousness split in two and each part fused with one of the two bodies.

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Slowly both bodies opened their eyes at the same time. Both of them were sitting cross-legged in this nothingness, which was their godly realm. 

We are one and the same. It would be annoying to call each other Marluxia

Both consciousnesses said at the same time, while they smiled at each other.

So I will be Mar…

The male part of Marluxias consciousness said. His smile was a kind of rather bold one. Marluxia created Mar to be a front fighter. He had broad shoulders, a bulky frame and defined muscles. His hair was shoulder long and pink. His face was and all were really handsome. A long black hooded leather coat, decorated with a few chains, was what Mar was wearing. 

And I will be Luxia

The female part of Marluxias consciousness said. Her smile was the kind of heartwarming type of smile. Marluxia created Luxia to be a mage. Her figure was so enchanting. She could easily capture the hearts of a lot of man. Her skin had a jade-like glow. Her hair was hip-long and purple. Luxia was wearing the exact same kind of coat, only was here coat white instead of black.

Luxias smile sadly turned a bit bitter after some time. There was something that worried her a lot and that was that she didn´t knew what to do now. They had nothing in this realm, so even if they went outside of their dimension and start to collect a few animals on what should they feed on? Luxia just wanted to ask Mar if he had some ideas, when another message showed up.

To start up your realm you got fifty-thousand mana. Use them to create the layout of the first floor of your realm. To gather more mana you would need to attract adventurer into your realm. The longer they stay in your dungeon the more mana you can drain from them, the best case would be if they die in your dungeon. For adventurer to be able to access your dungeon you will need to place an entrance for them.

When Mar saw that, he chuckled and looked at Luxia, which smiled at him. Because they are one person so they also share their thoughts with each other. The reason why he chuckled was because both of them had the same idea. The first floor, well it would be better to call it the zeroth floor, would be a graveyard for the entire adventurer which are going to die inside their realm.

What gods called their realms were for humans nothing more than harder dungeons. They never had the idea that it could be something else, than in their opinion as long as there were monsters breed in it, it is a dungeon.

The first room the two of them created was a rather big room with a size of around 100x100x25. The measurement, which is used in creating rooms, is blocks of 1 cubic meter. Every twenty blocks there is a large statue on each side of the walls. These statues were not some random statues every statue was one of the old Dungeon Bosses in Marluxias dungeon, when he was still a dungeon core. This was their way of saying thanks for all the service they did for them and also for them to remember who they used to be. In every direction was a tunnel which connected with rooms of a size from 50x50x10. At the end of each room was a rather big altar. As the two of them seem to have knowledge about inscription patterns, they added a few for the atmosphere, because they placed in every eye of every statue an inscription pattern, which produces a tiny flame.  In the middle of the first room was also another statue. This statue was partly male and partly female. The left part of the statue was modeled after Mar and the right part of the statue was modeled after Luxia. Before this statue was the passage to the second floor and the first real floor of this dungeon.

For the second floor they only created a circular room, with a diameter of 40 blocks and a height of 5 blocks. In the middle of this room was a pound with a diameter of around 5 blocks. The reason for that was simple as they needed a large amount of mana for the graveyard, so they wanted to don´t spent much mana on the second floor for now. Then they wanted to use the remaining 500 mana for creating some kind of ecosystem.

What shall we do now? What possibilities do we have

Luxia asked into the room, than she hoped the world system would still help them a little as they know nothing about summoning things.

Get plants and animals from outside of your realm. Plucked plants can be analyzed and then summoned. It is possible to alter them than with mana. To get animals into your realm there are currently two ways. Number one open an entrance and hope animals will come into your realm out of curiosity or such a thing. Option number two catch animals yourself. After animals entered your realm and they are corrupted from your mana you can try to subdue them. Animals that have eaten their fill are easier to subdue. After they are subdued it is possible to let them evolve naturally or alter them after your wish.

Looks like we have to create monster through evolving animals. Shall I try to catch a few animals?

Mar asked Luxia. He wondered what kind of animals he may could find outside and how they can cultivate them as soon as possible into monsters. He already saw himself fighting heroically against a dragon or something like this. Luxia sighed before she said loudly with a smile on her face

Forget it, let us open an entrance in the outside world. Because of the dense mana in this realm it will not take long to attract a few animals. Let us rather look what kind of things we can already summon there must be something. I am pretty sure we don´t have to start at zero. Base items should be possible to summon already. World System please show us our summoning menu.

Following basic things can be summoned: Minor herb and moss

With a stunning smile Luxia opened the entrance of the realm and placed a few minor herbs in the first room on the first floor as well as a bit of that moss. I will use this minor herbs to attract a few animals and subdue them than. As I am the mage it should be easier for me to subdue them.

At first Mar was a bit disappointed that Luxia was so against his idea of catching animal himself, but after some time he had to admit that it was a dump idea. He maybe a god but that still doesn´t mean that he is able to catch anything without any equipment.

Hey Luxia do you think it is possible to create a poisonous herb if we drop bit of our blood on this minor herbs?

He summoned a minor herb before him. At the moment he was sitting on the shore of the pound in the second floor. With a smile on his face he used his nail to cut his thumb. A single drop of blood fell on the herb before the wound was already closed again.

We gods sure have a really good regeneration, don´t you think Luxia?