+5 exp for mining quartz
+2 exp for mining
The kobold looked at the systems notifications and regretted that it had chosen the mining group when he was learning from the village’s shaman. He and two older kobolds where the only other miners in this village.
It is always boring but at least I get to see outside the cave where our village lies. Currently I am in an area where there are a lot of crystals, mostly just quartz. I cam barely see it in the pitch-black caves and only because my cave vision lets me see the irregularities in the wall. The older miners got a species evolution and probably a trait to see the different ores, gems and stones.
+8 exp for mining pink quartz
The exp I got was decent compared to some of the villagers who barely go outside of the village.
Older kobold 1 “HEY young one watch out where you mine if you dig deeper than that the hole you’re digging will collapse” he said in a helpful tone while mining his own wall.
As I look up, I see the rock indeed more under pressure thanks to my adept mining trait. ‘I really need to pay more attention to my surroundings’ I thought while looking for a better spot to mine.
+2 exp for mining
+1 LVL
“Oh, a level!” I say with my hands up.
Older kobold 2 “congrats on the level, you better not get used to levelling later. There is not so much good ore around the village cave and going further means death.” He said with a happy tone.
“Yeah, the warriors of our tribe can only protect so much. Luckily there are a lot of crystals in these caves.”
I temporarily stop my mining so that a can confirm my level up and profit from the extra stats. So, I happily opened my status
kobold miner
Level 22
Species: high cave kobold class: crystal miner
Mana: 145/145 Regen: 53mana per/h
Titles: cave diver, miner
Stats:
STR: 77 DEX: 100
INT: 28 WIS: 5
CON: 85 CHA: 14
1 free status point
Species traits: cave vision, hardened scales, trapper
Traits: adept mining, crystal mining,
Skills:
Mining +150%
* Crystal mining (+175%+150%) =+325%
Trapping +50%
Cave diving +50%
I added the free stat point to charisma. Hopefully, made that little increase me more attractive for that one beautiful pink kobold I have a crush for.
‘Still three more levels before I can get another trait those are always useful’
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After sorting and selecting the best crystal from the vein we headed back to the village. The trip is difficult even without a sack full with heavy gems. Without the cave diver trait, it would be practically impossible to go from cave to cave. The three of us made it to the outpost where our warriors and hunters stay for long trips.
Warrior kobold “Back from your mining trip in the crystal caves”
“Yeah, a lot of pink quartz this time. The shamans and enchanters will certainly be happy with the amount we got today.”
We took a rest at the outpost after our 3-hour trip to here. The hunters had found some stone bugs, they are very tasty when eaten raw. I and the miners got a few each. I ripped the stony outer shell of the hand sized bug and bit into it. The crunchy inner shell and legs are delicious. In my mouth the juicy inner parts flow out of the shell. ‘Always delicious those stone bugs, too bad that they are rare and spoil very quickly.
As we sat around a glowing mushroom eating our bugs, we talked about how to get better titles. One of the older miners isn’t the brightest and got the miner title by eating rocks when he was little. He literally ate rocks for months. I would rather eat stone bugs.
The oldest miner is again boasting about his strength stat that he is the only miner that has over 250 strengths. We are the only three miners of our village so he is technically right but, I won’t question him he has already chucked me several times into a wall. It wasn’t fun.
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Older kobold 1 “Look at these muscles youngster you won’t get a girlfriend if you don’t grow some muscles.” He flexes his arms in a striking pose.
Older kobold 2 “Nah, you need to be smart to get the girls. Like giving her a puzzle rock, a good way to show how smart you are and a tasty snack at the same time. “Said the older kobold. He then snacked on the stony outer shell of the stone bugs I threw on the ground.
I feel like he has taken some evolution to eat rocks. His scales looked greyer than the normal red scales normally found in the village.
After we ate our fair share of stone bugs, we stowed the rest of the bug in our packs and went outside of the outpost towards the village. The caves after the outpost where more manageable to walk. The previous generation of miners made staircases and tunnels.
The caves around the village are pretty big. The cave where we are ascending now is about 156 times higher than me. The cave formations in this cave are mostly loss rock fallen from the roof of the cave. That rubble the get carried away by the flooding of the water. Normally when it doesn’t flood this cave has a small stream of high mineral water. It isn’t drinkable because there a too many minerals in this stream. The water looks very white in colour next to a light and is even more viscous than pure water.
As I look at the waterfall where this stream comes from the water suddenly stops flowing from it. Me and the other two kobolds look at the passage where it the water came from.
Older kobold 1 “Huh, that’s strange. At this time of the year, it shouldn’t stop flowing.”
As the older kobold said that I feel the ground to begin to shake and a wind starts to blow our way.
“This isn’t good”
Older kobold 2 “RUN, NOW.” He started running towards the highest point in the cave.” That is ether a giant flash flood or a giant lindwurm digging our way. Neither good things.”
As we are running the shakings becomes too much for me to walk on and I fall on the ground. I look up towards where the other two kobolds are running and see a giant ring of teeth sticking out a wall next to them.
The wall collapses and a giant scaled worm like worm rushes out. I see the two kobolds dodge the rushing lindwurm who digs immediately underground. As I lay on the ground, I feel the shaking slowly subsiding and finally I can stand on my legs again. But as I do the ground beneath me begins to crack like I smacked it with my pickaxe.
I freeze but, the ground still cracks further. I look up to the other kobolds, they have a face full of shock as I fall into the depths of the abyss.
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Pain, everything hurts. I can’t feel my right arm, but I am at least alive for now. As I open my eyes, I see a giant blue crystal crushing my right arm. The rest of my body is impaled by smaller rocks or crushed by larger rocks. As there is nothing else to see and since I cannot move, I give the giant blue orb a better look. I see a system message pop up when I inspect the giant orb.
Integrate with dungeon core [Yes] [No]. warning is accepted you will lose your current physical body.
I again looked around if I could do something other than being a dungeon. I liked being a kobold. Trying to move I only moved my leg a little. Hopefully it is not bad being a dungeon core. I heard that they never die of age and don’t eat so it will help me survive.
I clicked [yes] and felt my consciousness shift into the giant dungeon core. When I tried to look around, I was overwhelmed that I saw in a 360 field of view. My old body now lifelessly sitting next to me. My new body is urging me to absorb my body. Since I don’t have any other use for my old body and I can’t bury it I absorb it. I feel my mana starts to rise.
Status
Level/floor 1
Species: Titanic core class: none
Mana: 55/55 Regen: 1 mana/day
Titles: massive
Species traits: dungeon core, core bioengineering, titanic
Traits: none
Skills:
Space warp: +1025%
Bioengineering + 225
Biome creation +150%
Mana regen -1000%
What, where are my stats? Do all cores have this? As I wonder I look at my titles and species traits.
Massive:
This core has absorbed mana for an extremely long time and became way bigger than the average of its species.
Increases the chance for your creatures to obtain an evolution that increases their size.
So, this Title lets me get more bigger creatures in my dungeon. I am not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing. Larger creatures need more mana or food to exist. But it will let me get better traits.
Dungeon core:
You are a mass of crystalized mana that’s manipulates reality. A dungeon core is formed when a lot of mana is in one place. This orb of mana then absorbs mana until a creature touches it. The creature can choose to fuse with the empty core to become the “brain” of the core.
Never ages, knowledge on how to run a dungeon, +50 biome creation, +75% bioengineering, +25% space warp
So, this trait gives me the knowledge and instinct to run a dungeon. Probably the same that guided me to absorb my body too. Now I need to figure out how to use those three skills. While this trait gives me knowledge about them it doesn’t explain how it works.
Titanic:
You are titanic. A truly massive size for your species. Your size made it possible to warp space on a titanic scale.
Space warp +1000%, +100% biome creation, -1000% mana from life, 100m³= 1 maximum mana
This species trait probably gave me the massive trait. And what is it with that massive +1000% space warp. I really need to know how that works. I know that it warps space to create floors but, +1000% space warp does that mean I can make giant floors? The massive Title seems way better now.
Core bioengineering:
Through this species trait you may manipulate “life”.
You can change the appearance, species, race and traits from “life” below level 10 and you cannot modify sentient species, +150% bioengineering
I heard that most new life came out of dungeons. This trait makes it possible for those new life to be created. Sadly, I cannot create kobolds. No extra friends for me now.
The skill biome creation lets me shape areas into a biome. Like digging rocks and soil. I begin with expanding the hole I am currently in. It does drain my mana pretty vast, but every part I dig out gets expanded by the space warp skill. Part by part I make the hole bigger. A part of the wall collapses and opens up to a decently big cave.
My dungeon core “aura” expands into it and I find that there is life in this cave. The cave itself is closed so no other pathways outside of it. Life in this cave is pretty colourful. There is a lightonium ore vein providing light in this cave. The creatures are small but that’s enough for me.
There is a small amphibian creature it has 6 legs. It has a very peculiar colour; it has a very reflective rainbow skin. The other two creatures are also small but bigger than the amphibian. One is a furry green coloured snake rat. It seems to be symbiotic with a plant. And the last one is a beetle with a bright red shell with orange in the middle of the shell. The beetle sometimes spits out flames in the little pool to grow a certain plant.
The cave has a more variety of plants. The full red kelp that the fire beetles grow. The moss that grows with the green snakerat. And the pretty big mangrove like trees. The other plants are not very special and mostly cover the dry ground around the pool. The pool itself is almost devoid of plants except for the red plant and some algae.