《ES Modern Dungeon》 I have Awoken from my Slumber! (Again) Some blessings do come in disguise. My soul was ripped apart when I tried absorbing the dungeon core that was still alive. Bigger half with most of my powers stayed in The Eternal Storm dimension while the smaller part, the current me, was flunged into an abyss where I severed the system link after my first death. I have died twice already, the first time was in a modern world without magic from aggressive and unwilling procrastination in a cold dark room. Yes Josh died because some asshole after watching some game with squids tried doing the same in real life. The only difference was his games were a lot more depressing and damaging to the body. My second time was due to giving into greed and curiosity while lowering my guard. That was when Josh Organic died or rather gave his life to his children that rose from his mistakes. Big Josh Organic stayed in the world of TES while I left unvoluntarily. The abyss wasn¡¯t that interesting, just a vast expanse of empty space with an uncountable number of dark balls floating around, some crashed into each other. This occurrence had only two possible outcomes so far. Explosion or absorbtion, the former outcome just anihilated crashing balls making them spill stuff out that quickly evaporated into nothingness. The latter was random sometimes the smaller absorbed the bigger sometimes the bigger did the reverse. After spending what appeared to be days in this state finally an end came. A sick ball that moves erratically in every direction touched me, unlike healthy ones that just zoomed in one direction, this one was slow and had irregular shape making it appear sick. I already realised that this abyss is just a planeless unspace, unreality, not dimension these balls were dimensions everytime dimensions collided and the contents spilled entire civilizations fell into this abyss getting vaporated by the lack of laws of physics that kept their bodies together. -¡±Welp, I guess living in a sick world is better than floating around here for all eternity.¡± The ball sucked me inside¡­. - I awoke in my home from my first life It was first day of the 2021 year. Last night I watched the fireworks with my friends while they were getting shitfaced in a pub. My first life ended however during that night when I was captured and shipped to Polish Games with squids. After sometime I felt something on my palm. It was my dungeon core not used to my human body anymore. I accidentally dropped it on the floor. The second the ball left my hands my consciousness shifted and now I was back in the core, but I could still control my old body just fine. My life manipulation powers were diminished but I still could work my magic to a limited degree like burning waste products that accumulated over the years in the muscles and excess fat that is quite pronounced on my belly. With all of the calories I optimised the cardiovascular and nervous system. Right now my veins could hold twice as much blood as before before becoming strained. At max I could increase blood pressure 2.01 times before anything starts going to shit. This will allow my body to exert like 1% more force in the same time frame as before or the same amount of force as before but twice as long.If you find this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the infringement. Nervous system upgrade allowed me to shorten reaction time enough to attempt catching tailors needle. To catch bullets I would need to upgrade eyes, brain, arms and torso in this order of necessity. Better eyesight would allow me to see the gun barrel in crispy 4k even from half a kilometer. A better brain would let me calculate the trajectory of the bullet faster. And arms would need to be reinforced so the bullet won¡¯t tear a hole through them when I catch it. Torso upgrades are necessary only because when moving a hand you don¡¯t only use muscles in the hand but actually use quite a lot of muscles in the torso. After another minute or so of wondering what to upgrade I decided to firstly swallow dungeon core inside my fleshy body and shape my body in such a way that it will work as a mage core where mana gathers and allows mage to move it more easily. The job was quite easy. I placed the core near my ribcage and opened it with my power shoving organs a little. I placed the core right next to my heart. When I attached several strings of connective tissue eventually wrapping it in it entirely. I also extended some nerves from the brain to the place and forced some nerve endings into the core. I knew some runes my mage caste used. The most common one was Alcasd, often portrayed as a tree with wind around it. It was used to gather mana into one spot when enough mana is gathered it will start forming mana metals or mana crystals, affinities depend on the environment or other enchants. I picked up one of my watches that hadn''t been used in a long time because it¡¯s batteries ran out. I craved Alcasd into the inner workings of the mechanism along with Ulthqn which symbolized life/nature. Then I used geometrical shapes such as triangle and a circle to make the mechanism self-sufficient. Mana will flow into the watch and will turn it¡¯s shitty alloy into life/nature infused alloy and then will start growing mana crystals inside the battery compartment. I hollowed out some of my bones and placed the enchantments there as well. Those bones were then connected with semi-physical mana pathways I had to make for my mages, later they optimised it even further so I just copied their results. The enchantment will enhance my bones and then all of my body to the life/nature alignment, allowing me to survive even the worst injuries like losing brain or heart and will make me immune to the diseases. My immune system won¡¯t fight them off however because of their inability to do anything. Which will make my blood very dangerous after surviving in this world for decades. I don¡¯t believe that this world is my old one because magic exists in my first world it did not. So I shall become the greatest being ever! But first I need to secure a source of calories, later I¡¯ll need information and then shelter. While I¡¯m in the exact copy of my room from my first life, I don¡¯t remember everything from that time which will make others notice my activities more. I looked around the condo and noticed that except my room I don¡¯t recognise anything, even the floor is different outside my room. Seeing my current predicament where my room looks like it was teleported here because it¡¯s so out of place. I went to the kitchen and opened my chest and began stuffing it with various solid foods while drinking any liquid inside the fridge. I used my poor mana reserves to speed up the digestion. It took me about an hour to devour everything in the fridge and digest it. Using all of that mass I made my muscles a lot denser and organs more efficient and smaller. The stomach lungs and heart were enlarged and reinforced by magic to make them easier to strengthen later with mana. Thanks to optimised and bigger lungs I could for example breath normally even with high muscle strain and therefore use less energy. With spare calories made external bone arm guard that will regrow even after being destroyed. I tweaked my body to also regrow lost limbs but instead of relying on cell division for that I tweaked it to rely heavily on my passive mana regen from the enchants inside some of my bones. Then I grabbed valuables from wallets and shelfs and was dressing myself to leave. But the moment I grabbed the door handle the door was opened by some teenager that looked edgy af the moment he saw me his muscles on his throat tensed up and I knew he would try to scream so I hit him in the stomach and grabbed his throat to silence any sound coming from him... I have Taken a Prisoner! I had a dilemma: should I kill him and absorb him or spare him and risk him becoming a liability. On one side killing him is the most cost efficient option but it could affect my future standing with other sapient races. Being merciful is wasteful biomatter wise and makes it easier for others to notice me. I don¡¯t know if mind magic exists or other magic bullshit. I might as well try to interrogate him and then I¡¯ll decide. I used his shoe laces to make a simple knot that will suffocate him the moment he tries to move out of his position. Using a wall and a chair as a support I placed him in a way his torso was supported by a chair, and feet were tied and placed against a wall. His neck was decorated with a suicide knot. I waited for an hour to recover some of my mana, I didn¡¯t sit around, I went through his stuff and saw that he lives alone and is a son of someone rich. This fact alone almost made me decide to spare him entirely and possibly turn him into my minion. But that would be boring. Cost efficient but boring, after gathering information about him and his family I sent a pulse of mana to his mind to wake him up. He jerked upwards in rapid motion, which coupled with his already unsteady posture made him fall over and began choking. I helped him go back to his previous position and said: -¡±So now you aren¡¯t choking now would you please be so kind as to answer some of my questions? And before you start begging for your life or throwing empty threats, please think about your current situation.¡± I smiled but my eyes were not smiling. -¡±Wha, Why?.... You know what? This is definitely better than doing my homework or listening to nagging of step ma. So what do you want to know?¡± He was confused at first but he quickly got over himself. Looks like this wasn¡¯t his first time, I almost felt pity.Support the creativity of authors by visiting Royal Road for this novel and more. -¡±You can call me J O D, It¡¯s an acronym of my name and my job. Anyway I would like to ask you about the city we are in and summarise the history of the world. As for why I need to know it, let''s say that I took so many drugs that I imagined a different world altogether and forgot quite a lot.¡± I said and began a long and tiring session of extracting information out of him. He was very cooperative and helpful. Our conversation lasted entire day, at the end I asked: -¡±Since you were so cooperative and nice I have an offer for you. Body optimisation and redesign for an accommodation and food. I can also teach you some nifty tricks, but you would need to have an affinity for it.¡± When I said the last sentence I condensed all of my mana into a crystal right in front of him. -¡±What do you mean by¡­ Uhh¡­ Okay sure, It was a while when anyone was staying here with me. Shall we eat something? I can order pizza If that¡¯s fine with you?¡± He looked lost, and his attempts at being composed were rather futile. -¡±I don¡¯t mind the type of food body enhancement and optimisation requires a lot of biomass or an absurd amount of energy I don¡¯t have. If you want pizza then order the biggest one, or take something that is full of calories. Doesn¡¯t need to have vitamins. As for checking your affinity I¡¯ll need to put my hand on your torso and forcefully move energy through you. It will hurt but whatever is your affinity this procedure will awaken it.¡± I said in an almost monotone voice as I was freeing him from my small death trap. -¡±Uhhh can you let me use the toilet first and stretch a little? While you were surprisingly nice, the position I was in wasn¡¯t the most comfortable.¡± He said with a hint of complaint in his voice. -¡±You agreed to a deal that makes us equal. I may be stronger than you and slightly more knowledgeable in certain fields that doesn¡¯t mean I am better. It would be great If you treat me like an equal. And I¡¯m sorry if I had better supplies or knew where everything was I''d make something more comfortable.¡± I said with a fake complaint and apologized to him with some sarcasm in my voice. -¡±Huh, okay then I¡¯ll be back in a bit¡­¡± I have Taken a Disciple! After he went to do his things I returned some of his stuff back to its place while memorizing the room layout. It seems like my room disappears when I¡¯m not actively thinking about it. And cameras can¡¯t capture it in either state. I also found some cursed items that were well maintained and would look nice if you were not actively using mana sight. Which is a passive for me thanks to being a dungeon core. While I was examining one of the stronger cursed items the kid returned and said: -¡±Why are you looking so much at that vase? It¡¯s something I got from my grandma but it isn¡¯t that special though¡± He was standing in the doorway in plain clothes. -¡±The energy I use is tainted with the concept of being alive. To put it simply, I have a Nature Affinity it does not prevent me from using and casting spells with different schools that require other affinities. This vase is cursed, curses and blessings are very similar while blessing takes energy from surroundings and powers the user. Curse takes energy from the user and channels it in a predetermined way manifesting defined effect, If the effect isn¡¯t specified it will put the energy back in the surroundings. Some cursed items are useful for training purposes and blessed items are usually powerful but often a shitty limiting shortcut to power. This vase is the latter cursed item, because of that your affinity is probably darkness. Darkness is often misunderstood as a force of evil. Generally it is used by assassins and warlocks or artificers. Depending on your skill level and amount of energy you can store in your body you could even heal with it, by the use of a death spell. This spell kills the target instantly but thanks to the mystical nature of the affinity you could kill diseases with it or cancer or whatever. Here is a quick lesson about energy use in spell casting. to cast anything you need 3 things:
  1. Knowledge The more you know about the desired effect, the easier and more efficient it is to cast it. For example Nature affinity user in middle ages can reattach or regrow a limb but it would take him about 1000 energy units because he doesn¡¯t know about cells or nervous system, The same user who will try the mechanism of a lizard regrowing its tail could do it for 500 units aside from the fact that the limb would be covered in scales it would be cheaper because he is copying a process the occurs in nature. For me who knows about cells and has modern knowledge can do it for 100 energy units. You need to know stuff and need to be able to apply it while imagining the effect.
  2. Energy capacity Simply put you need to have a certain amount of energy to cast a simple spell otherwise the spell instead of energy will take the surrounding energy and will become unstable or will start consuming your life force which will eventually kill you.
  3. Energy manipulation The more energy you can manipulate outside of your body the cheaper the spell gets. A novice can spend 100 energy units to light a candle while an expert would need like 2 energy units. That''s because the energy is quite ¡®energetic¡¯ it moves in all directions trying to escape your grasp and before it reaches the area where the spell is happening some of it or most of it will escape. Stolen from its original source, this story is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings.
Affinity as I said doesn¡¯t matter if your affinity is darkness you could still use light based spells or earth based spells it¡¯s just the matter of cost effectiveness. With an affinity it¡¯s easier for you to manipulate energy that is tainted by the concept of your affinity which leads to faster progression and cheaper spells.¡± I monologue for a while while slowly pacing around the room. At the end I placed my hand on his shoulder and forcefully moved pure mana through him. -¡±You aren¡¯t hurt, it''s just a body reaction to energy awakening, your natural affinity is temporal. Artificial ones are darkness and blood. Natural affinity is the affinity you are born with. The artificial one is the one you acquired by spending a lot of time around certain areas or items. About the blood affinity, it¡¯s similar to mine but it¡¯s different. It will allow you to manipulate blood like making stuff out of it like swords¡¯n shit. At first it¡¯s a very shitty affinity because depriving yourself of blood is a great way to die quickly from blood loss, eventually without someone like me you can modify your body by yourself. And making stuff out of the blood of others is harder than energy manipulation because you have to overpower the affinity the dead guy had and if he also was an energy user you also have to defeat all of his passive defences. Temporal affinity is both good and shit. If you have a deep passion for being alive you need to first reach intermediate level in space and gravity school before even casting one spell from temporal school because time is quite volatile. Making it excedingly easy for you to kill yourself by accident.¡± As I was explaining I was boosting his body to adapt more quickly to its situation. When he finally relaxed I extracted all of his waste material that accumulated in his body over the years and made it into a nice smooth black ball and handed it to him he was too exhausted to even notice it. Before he went to bed I asked him the address of this condo and for his card to pay for the pizza.
When the delivery guy arrived I really wanted to hypnotise him and absorb extra calories he might have. But at this stage I shouldn¡¯t kill needlessly. I wonder what happened to my humanity. Heh, probably all those years alone really fucked me up¡­ Kid didn¡¯t want to wake up for the meal so I ate 3 quarters of it and left the rest in the fridge and went to my hidden room. Most of the furniture was made out of plywood, even speakers were made out of it. Welp time to work on hatchery! I thought while grabbing every piece of furniture and absorbing it¡¯s nutrients by using an advanced mana digestion system that was really just a copy of the termite stomach which allowed it to metabolize cellulose. While the process drained a lot of mana the small crystals in my watch and bones were helping greatly with mana recovery. I used the word energy in all of my explanations simply because I don¡¯t know anything about the world so it wouldn¡¯t be strange if there were people that could use ki otherwise known as martial energy or psi aka psychic energy. Also mana sometimes is described as magical energy hence the generalization was born ¡®Energy user¡¯. Thank god Christy knew some legends¡¯n¡¯stuff which allowed me to kinda bullshit my way through that dialogue. Of course Christy didn¡¯t know anything about temporal affinity or space or gravity but it would be logical to know these before attempting casting temporal spells. According to my spotty modern knowledge you cannot manipulate time without manipulating space and gravity aka 1 second in the sphere of influence of the black hole can be 100 years outside of it. While I was analyzing past events and contemplating if I¡¯m still human or not I covered the floor with a thin carpet of flesh which will act as a calorie storage and eventually will work as a library when I make the brain for it. I have Killed someone! With my basic necessities met and a somewhat safe place to hide I opened one of the windows of the flat the kid was living in and went to the roof. I disabled my arm guard and instead turned it into a mask. I absorbed my hair to not leave any DNA evidence behind. I even smoothed out my fingerprints to make a job of tracking me even harder. My mask was similar to that one the Frey was wearing during his hacks although without text about being free. The mask extended into a semi helmet around my skull. My body was covered in plain clothes. I looked suspicious but ultimately forgettable since cosplaying was somewhat accepted around here. During my pondering about my humanity I was also skimming through recent news and it looks like people will soon go to the streets to loot everyone because of the rising prices that were a result of Belarus slowly shutting down the gas pipes to the country I¡¯m in. I jumped from the roof to a nearby alley which was a mistake because I immediately broke my legs. The pain was unbearable and if I didn¡¯t disconnect nerves from my legs I would¡¯ve passed out. Thankfully there was some organic waste around I was able to regenerate my broken limbs in half an hour during which I made some small changes to my brain there were but not limited too:
  1. Pain optimisation Normally for some reason after for example losing a limb your brain will be floded with pain signals which could make us pass out this is stupid because our body abbandons reason and logic and just traps us in a shitty situation because it said so. Now After breaking/losing a limb or similarly painful experience the pain will go to a certain level and then turn into a low and annoying hum in the back of my head.
  2. Blood flow correction In most cases after receiving damage and with it pain our blood pressure rises like ¡°Yeah dude we are losing blood so let me increase blood pressure to lose it quicker, No problem man I hate being alive too.¡± It feels like the body tries to kill you more than the enemy. Now the majority blood will go around the affected area, the minority on the other hand will go slowly and make an elastic clot.
  3. Hormonal debugging You could be reading stolen content. Head to the original site for the genuine story.I¡¯m basically making adrenaline no longer raise blood pressure and make the body go into overdrive because it¡¯s basically a hard drug that destroys the body in the long run for short gain power. Without mana I wouldn¡¯t do it but now I can heal pretty quickly and damaging myself for short term power can be done more efficiently.
With my legs healed I went to a city for some hunting. I was looking for a homeless person. While they won¡¯t be the most healthy, no one will look too hard at missing hobos. They would probably think that the army conscripted them to strengthen the border. After going to bad neighbourhood after hours of unsuccessful hunt I was greeted by a big tough looking guy. -¡±Do you know what time is it?¡± He asked with a hint that he was trying to rob me. -¡±Yes, It¡¯s your last one on this plane.: I said with a smile that prey went to me. He pulled out a knife and swung at me with a surprising amount of dexterity. -¡±Huh, Nice knife you got there bro, do you mind if I take it?¡± I said as I catched the arm with a weapon with my hand and tore his flesh apart with my other one. I looked at him with pity in my eyes as I forcefully pulled out my arm from his torso with his heart in my hand. I moved him to a nearby alley to feed on his corpse. My meal was like a dumpster. All of his muscle mass was a result of abusing testosterone and other hormones that only grew muscles. Sadly abusing such substances often leads to empty muscles where they grow in random places while consuming calories and being useless weight. All of his body was devastated by various substances he used. It looked like for the last decade the guy had never eaten a vegetable. Even so his useless muscles were finally useful for once, the total useful biomass was about 30 kg the guy weighed about 70kg. Over half of his biomass was too polluted to be worth extracting. I split his corpse in small chunks and spread them through the valley for rats to consume, the bones were dumped to the sewers and blood was used as paint to cover the ground, making, passersby ignore it. I spread it so evenly it looked like it was painted in such a color for some reason. Before leaving I killed some rats to get their voice strings and basic understanding about their squeeks. I did this to be able to call on nearby rats to get them to eat the evidence. With the first lights of dawn falling upon a sleepy city I began my journey back to the kids flat. I have Infiltrated the Hospital! Part 1/3 I was running on rooftops to avoid other people, my clothes were dirty with blood and leftovers from my last meal. While it might be wasteful to not absorb it I also don¡¯t want all of this shit in my system anyway. About a half way through my journey I noticed a driving accident in the making. A fuel truck got hit by an idiot in a pickup who was too busy keeping his female counterpart from leaving the vehicle to bother with traffic lights. To summarise the idiot got killed by me, I just disguised myself as a compassionate paramedic who likes working outside working hours. During my ¡®rescue¡¯ I discovered that breaking the ribcage is very easy with my new strength. The ambulance did arrive but after nearly 30 minutes, while miracles tend to happen the idiot even if I didn¡¯t kill him would have died from blood loss. The law of this country effectively prevents you from doing any surgery if you don¡¯t have documentation on you that would verify that you are in fact a doctor. Stopping bleeding of any kind counts as ¡®operation¡¯. So in this situation even the real doctors in the ambulance won¡¯t really try to help less they risk getting sued by the victims family. I got into an ambulance under the pretext of helping medics stabilize the cretin. Really I wanted to get to the morgue and devour some fresh-ish meat. Heheheh I¡¯ll reinforce my feeble body to become unkillable! And I would love to be in space without a spacesuit and live. The ambulance arrived and the proper doctor announced that we just wasted fuel by bringing a corpse to the emergency rescue. Then He ordered the body to be moved to the morgue so I just did that. In all of the sadness of not being able to help and honest disinterest of veteran staff I was able to sneak in the morgue with others. -¡±Bring me my tools, I''ll begin an autopsy to determine the cause of death, for the shitters from the legal team.¡± The doc said with sigh -¡±Here your tools chief, any special requests? The day is fucking boring I might as well help out, gotta work for those marks.¡± I said, simulating the most bored and apathetic tone I could muster.This text was taken from Royal Road. Help the author by reading the original version there. -¡±If you''re not squeamish then you can open the chest cavity or at least what¡¯s left of it and give me a list of punctured organs. When you are done, pick any limb that looks bad, open it, count the fractures and estimate the total amount of them. And when you are done with that then get some blood from the sod on the table and give it to the lab on the way back. Bring me a strong coffee. Doc''s Jan special is the name.¡± The doc replied with the usual disinterest although there was some happiness in his tone I started by grabbing a random scalpel with a smooth edge, a saw that had bone leftovers on it and a hammer and bringed it to the other side of the table the body was on. I traced my finger along the sternum which was more or less in the center, I did this to determine how badly it was damaged. It was crushed in some places thanks to my rescue resuscitation but it mostly was alright. I cut the neck to drain blood and after a minute using a scalpel I cut the patient¡¯s skin on his torso in a big turned 180 degrees letter T. I used the hammer then to break bones that blocked the view and started removing the big bone shards from within and dropping them on the stomach of the patient. I didn¡¯t even look at the doc when I finished the cleaning. The organ count was:
  1. One of the lungs punctured in 2 places. Other one didn¡¯t suffer any other physical damage than being crushed by blood from some internal bleeding.
  2. The heart was in bad condition due to substance abuse but it was mostly fine.
  3. The stomach ruptured and sprayed everything with acid.
For the limbs I picked a mangled leg and used a saw and scalpel to detach large portion of muscles along with skin from the bone. The knee joint turned into fine powder due to the accident but the femur had only one big crack throughout the entire thing. Fibula was broken in 2 places, tibia was in 3. -¡±The whole operation is a mess, you did what was required of you although where will you get the blood from? You drained it all away!¡± The doc said in gruffy and clearly unhappy voice, probably because he thought I caused him some paperwork. -¡±Not a problem doc see this arm that¡¯s dangling to the side? I purposefully allowed it to dangle like that so the blood might drain into it here watch.¡± I said as I cut the artery near the wrist causing a burst of blood that quickly filled a random metal bowl that I placed beforehand beneath the arm. -¡±Huh, well I guess other than misuse of the tools you did good and it was quite a clean operation. Good job, I''ll mention it to your teacher.¡± Doc said while I was leaving for the lab with a bowl full of blood, thanks to an overabundance of research material the results came in quickly. After I asked around for the cafeteria I set off to get the coffee for the doc. I have Evolved! The lady at the counter was nice. I managed to not spill the coffee while going to the morgue. Doc inside was halfway through patching up the corpse to make it look presentable for the family or whatever. -¡±Here¡¯s your coffee doc, I can stitch the body back. I don¡¯t have anythin else to do so¡­¡± I said trying to sound like I was trying to kill my boredom. -¡±After seeing your ¡®operation¡¯ I think you¡¯ll make me have even more work to do but sure. Stitch this sod back and then stitch this one and that one. After that write notes about what type of thread you used and what needle for each of them. If vigor mortis set in in any of these you can skip them. After you are done wash down the bodies with a hose and then we will call it a day, Understood? Great!¡± Doc explained quickly and power walked out of the morgue. I shrugged and looked around. I was looking for a radio or something to silence the sounds of biomass extraction. Seeing an old cassette player from the 90s I immediately turned it back on. And not even caring for what was actually playing I placed my hand on the nearest corpse and started extraction. I mainly consumed calories from the organs and by thinning the muscles allowing them to stay in the original state but they would no longer be usable by their owner. With the current supply of biomass I greatly increased the density of my bones and muscles. You know what? Fuck it. I thought and just absorbed every single corpse in the morgue and used it to make my organs more efficient while getting rid of some. My body encased itself in a cocoon made out of spare biomass which then was quickly filled with one of the main components of blood. Plasma was great for moving nutrients but it was impossible for it to move oxygen, which was fine since the process won¡¯t take very long. -¡±...What the¡­ What the fuck is that!¡± Screamed one of the doctors seeing my cocoon surrounded by a bunch of gore and what was left from the corpses after sucking them dry of useful nutrients. People soon gathered around me. They were talking and arguing but I couldn¡¯t hear them. Out of fear they¡¯ll try to interrupt the process I forced some of my mana into each of them. I was targeting a very specific string of nerves in the brain that controlled and relayed commands from brain to muscles. I overflowed it with random commands, by doing so I paralyzed them. Unauthorized tale usage: if you spot this story on Amazon, report the violation. Altough not for long they would regain their ability to move after 10 minutes or so. I still didn¡¯t have enough mana stored to manipulate bodies of others permanently. I realized that my abilities'' effects got diminished due to soul split. Thanks to those idiots that just gathered around me completely forgetting about health and safety regulations and logic, or rather their immobile husks I could speed up the process by burning their biomass. After about an hour I was finally ready, my new body was now slightly bigger than my old one. Every last bit of my flesh was made out of compressed muscles, I had to make more veins to properly feed every bit of muscles. My skin was now covered in regrowable bone armour, my bone helmet had deer like antlers although they were shorter and thicker. They held extra life affinity mana crystals. The torso was similar to one of an insect, with plates overlapping on each other through my chest there were mana crystals glowing with power. I have moved them to the chest part because they sabotaged my bone integrity. The legs were covered in armour that had pockets fitted around it like a soldier or special forces have. My foot armour was now designed mainly to allow easier climbing and make falling off a building not only non-fatal but also it stopped me from breaking my legs. On my shoulders and elbows there were sharp bone spikes, the ones on elbows were slightly flat allowing for slashing and stabbing attacks. While the ones on shoulders were spaced densely to stop or slow down incoming damage from the sides of my neck. The hands were also designed to allow easier climbing but they also had retractable and regrowable spines under forearms that could be used as daggers. My back was covered in moss and simple plants that photosynthesize or gather water out of the air. All of my armour was covered in a thin layer of moss making it look green. The armour didn¡¯t have eye holes, but it had holes for air to enter through, it was hidden on the back near the spine slightly below where lungs would normally be. Every last bit of armour was enchanted to gather mana and get strengthened by it. I have Summoned Apocalypse to this World! My silent admiration of my new form was interrupted by police officers that stormed the room, they didn¡¯t even bother to talk charging in weapons free. While I can understand their behaviour to some extent this action was so fucking dumb I had to end it otherwise I might¡¯ve died from laughter. There were 5 of them in the room and 10 next to the hospital entrance. I tried jumping on the one closest to me and decapitating him with my claws. He jumped back and started dumping entire magazines into me. It hurt slightly but the excess calories quickly healed the damage I was sustaining. Because they were obviously trained I had to cheat to beat them, first I jumped on the ceiling and hid in the layer between the cardboard fake ceiling and the real one. The place was stuffed and would¡¯ve been hard to move in If I was a normal human. But since I can shift my joints and bones without too much trouble I could silently set up an ambush above one of them. I chose the one in the corner, I didn¡¯t waste any time and just jumped hand claws first tearing through his helmet and bulletproof vest killing him instantly. My attack tore apart his spine because he tried doging after hearing the sound. Just before I landed I grabbed the dead officer''s belt and throwned him as hard as I could at the guy on my left. After doing so I sprinted to the officer in front of me, I tried keeping my position as close to the floor as possible to lessen the amount of my body visible to them hoping that this would make me take less damage. Right in the middle of my sprint I took advantage of claws on my feet and changed the direction of my sprint to the person who was previously at my right side while I was throwing the dead guy. Thanks to the tables everywhere obscuring my position slightly I managed to catch them off guard and now there were only 13 enemies left. They were slowly getting scared or excited. I could hear their heartbeats getting faster. I tried to move mana from the dead body to my own so I could at least try to modify the attackers from a distance and end the fight swiftly. I didn¡¯t get to extract all of the energy in the body as the enemies just charged me, perhaps believing I was feasting on their dead colleague and therefore vulnerable. I think that after seeing me pounce on them, not being vulnerable at all broke their spirit or just made them re-evaluate me again which made them stand still for a very small window of time which I used to break their necks using my limbs. Standing alone in a very destroyed morgue I pondered a little before moving again, gathering all of the bodies and turning them into a giant cocoon covered in a thin layer of bones on my back. I wanted to start a colony and possibly even a dungeon, other than that I want to train at least slightly that kid, no particular reason behind it. I might even change his species into mine.
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Welcome to a new Dimension, The System From TES uploaded all of your current information into this one birthing a new System World and forcing a Mana Tide to occur as the slumbering mana particles awakes. Due to your anomalous state and generous contributions in circulating mana you¡¯ll be awarded with 3 free Knowledge Points which will instantly transfer all of the basic information about a certain skill or school of magic. Normally fully integrated user would receive basic and intermediate knowledge. But you aren¡¯t fully integrated hence this solution. Additionally user will be bestowed an option to integrate up to 10 individuals with either partial or full integration of The System.
Your current status: Name: Josh Dungeon Race: Mobile Sapient Dungeon Age: N/A Level: N/A
Active Abilities
Mana Manipulation = Level 3 = Ability of a dungeon to exercise their will on to the surroundings by the use of mana. (This ability is diminished by a soul split due to previous knowledge It will be easier for it to rise up to level 6)
Life Manipulation & Knowledge = Level MAX This ability is a compound of 2 previous ones [Life Manipulation] [Instinctive Biology] The resulting ability doesn¡¯t differ than the previous ones (Because of the soul split user has to spend more mana to modify unwilling organisms and absurdly more of it to do so at range.
Passive Abilities
Life to mana generation = Level MAX = Ability that allows the dungeon to recharge and expand capacity of mana by making a biodiverse ecosystem, the more rich the environment of the dungeon the higher mana capacity and recharge rate. (Currently unavailable due to not having a dungeon set up)
Immunity to major Aliments = Level N/A = Due to not being fully integrated, user won¡¯t be able to get any major aliment even if it¡¯s a good one...
Otherworldly Knowledge = Level N/A = Due to your feat and absorption of the processing unit of alien civilization, the user is able to remember anything from his previous life.
Processing Unit A#$a = Level N/A = Due to absorption of a processing unit user is able to leave micromanaging of a dungeon to it, beware the processing unit won¡¯t change anything even in the place of danger. It will just repeat given instructions over and over again. Caution is advised.
Current Mana capacity = 10/100 units Current Mana Recharge Rate = 10 units/20 minutes (1 unit/20 minutes without the enchantments) Current Mana usage by dungeon dwellers = N/A Estimated time to recharge full capacity from 0 is 3 hours and 20 minutes with enchantments working (only an approximation)
I have been Exiled! -¡±System exchange 5 bestowments of full or partial integrations for passive skill related to mana efficiency. Use free knowledge points for 2 skills related to efficient use of biomass and efficient extraction methods for biomass and other resources.¡± With mana efficiency I would be able to cost more for a lesser cost and the 2 other ones will let me extract and biomass better.
System notification!
Bestowments weren¡¯t sufficient for full basic knowledge about efficient use of mana, user was granted partial information. List of acquired abilities: Basic body modification efficiency - Allows user to modify the body of the user and others with better efficiency. Basic harvesting - Grants user innate knowledge about harvesting resources, due to lack of specialization this skill is weaker than its specialized counterpart because it grants more widespread knowledge. To advance it, the user has to learn on his own or offer system books or knowledge of other individuals about each and every resource harvest method. If the user decides to advance without offering knowledge about every single resource the skill will gain minor specialization. Skill Life Manipulation&Knowledge is able to fuse with skill Basic body modification efficiency. Fusing this will strengthen skill Life Manipulation&Knowledge and will allow it to evolve into its better form after sufficient amount of uses. Do you want to fuse those skills? Y/N
I agreed, and felt a headache as the system started cramming necessary knowledge on newly fused skills into my brain. I didn¡¯t have time to rest as space bent around me, indicating that i¡¯m either being teleported or attacked by someone/thing. I decided to immediately use blood on the floor to create a bacteria which will strengthen humans and any species but in exchange will stump their reproductive capabilities, after sufficient amount of individuals get infected all of them will be killed to summon me or my counciousness here.Reading on this site? This novel is published elsewhere. Support the author by seeking out the original. Before I finished inscribing instructions into bacteria I was blinded by a flash of light and landed on a stone floor riddled with runes and geometric shapes. -¡±Hello there, invader, how is our dimension treating you? Sadly we will have to send you back because of your behavior.¡± I heard an old voice say this and when I looked up I noticed a man in casual clothes holding a staff and next to him was the kid I helped earlier. -¡±Is it because of the thing in the hospital or because of unlocking the mana talent of that kid? Those shits in the hospital had it coming. The kid was my weak point, unable to use mana and so horribly cursed.¡± I said, imitating slightly irritated yet pitying voice. -¡±It''s because of you bringing Apocalypse of mana here, you are too strong to just chain you and work you to the bone repairing this disaster so we decided to just send you back to whatever dimension you came from, now step in the circle.¡± The tired yet authoritative voice said strangely, forcing my body to comply. I mentally commanded the system ¡°Use the rest of the bestowments to exchange them for mana invocation skill and a passive skill that will keep my soul from degrading from traveling between dimensions, dismiss all notifications¡± The horrible headache returned as my mind was assaulted with how to change the tone of the voice and how to infuse it with mana. -¡±As Lord of the circle of life, As the Grand Lord of Organic Dungeon I command thee, Hear me and Obey my will, As Gaia awakens As Chronos Resurrects I command thee heed the command of the system. Awaken mana, Dwell within us!¡± I screamed instantly, spending all of my mana just for this incantation I wanted to speed up the process of mana awakening to screw up the plans the asshole had. -¡±Yeah, yeah, whatever. Return to Origin! Vermin.¡± He said and space folded again immediately swallowing me and sending me back to interdimensional space. Wonderful I thought before I blacked out from the pain caused by injuries I received from the backlash and to horrible pain that assaulted my mind as the passive skill started leveling very fast. My last thought was the date of my departure. That fuck made me leave on Christm¡­.. I bent Elements to my Will! I awoke to the good old landscape of void that is beads zipping around doing their own thing while I was just drifting aimlessly, after a while I noticed that I actually have a body. Seems like the System¡¯s skill was working well. Status
Current status unavailable due to the lack of System presence in the location
Name: Josh Dungeon Race: Mobile Sapient Dungeon Age: N/A Level: N/A
Active Abilities
Mana Manipulation = Level 10/100 = Ability of a dungeon to exercise their will on to the surroundings by the use of mana. (This ability is diminished by a soul split due to previous knowledge It will be easier for it to rise up to level 6)
Life Manipulation & Knowledge = Level 100/1000 = This ability is a compound of 2 previous ones [Life Manipulation & Knowledge] and [Basic body modification efficiency] The resulting ability doesn¡¯t differ from the previous ones. The soul split was nullified by a level of passive soul shielding and strengthening.
Mana Invocation = Level 10/100 = Infuse your voice with mana to create custom spells with various effects. Duration, damage and range is based on knowledge about desired effect and Mana Manipulation Level.
Passive Abilities
Life to Mana Generation = Level MAX = Ability that allows the dungeon to recharge and expand capacity of mana by making a biodiverse ecosystem, the more rich the environment of the dungeon the higher mana capacity and recharge rate. (Currently unavailable due to not having a dungeon set up)
Basic Harvesting = Level 1/100 = Grants user innate knowledge about harvesting resources, due to lack of specialization this skill is weaker than its specialized counterpart because it grants more widespread knowledge. To advance it, the user has to learn on his own or offer system books or knowledge of other individuals about each and every resource harvest method. If the user decides to advance without offering knowledge about every single resource the skill will gain minor specialization.
Soul Shielding and Strengthening = Level 50/100 = User soul is passively strengthened and shielded from soul attacks and corrosion attacks, this skill levels up through constant use. First threshold reached, do you want to evolve the skill which will disable it until the connection with System¡¯s dimension is secured.
Immunity to Major Aliments = Level N/A = Due to not being fully integrated, user won¡¯t be able to get any major aliment even if it¡¯s a good one...
Otherworldly Knowledge = Level N/A = Due to your feat and absorption of the processing unit of alien civilization, the user is able to remember anything from his previous life.
Processing Unit A#$a = Level N/A = Due to absorption of a processing unit user is able to leave micromanaging of a dungeon to it, beware the processing unit won¡¯t change anything even in the place of danger. It will just repeat given instructions over and over again. Caution is advised.
Current Mana capacity = 1000/1000 units Current Mana Recharge Rate = 30 units/20 minutes (1 unit/20 minutes without the enchantments and mana rich location)You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story. Current Mana usage by dungeon dwellers = N/A Current passive upkeep for Soul shielding 88.7 units/hour (Due to constant increase in level of the ability the upkeep is getting lower) Estimated time to recharge full capacity from 0 is 11 hours and 30 minutes with enchantments working and without moving away from this localization (only an approximation)
Well that¡¯s a lot. It''s nice to see a longer list but I feel like this would soon get annoying with my current pace of getting abilities. Wait this void or whatever is mana rich location? And my effective recharcharge rate according to the system is about 1.3 units/hour but it doesn¡¯t update anymore so it might be higher then it says. Okay even though the skill says that my voice becomes filled with mana or whatever but what about my inner voice, what about my thoughts after all voice is just vibrations in the air. Frequency of those vibrations changes the tone and the force behind each vibration changes how loud we are. Theoretically it should be possible to make a string or thin blanket of mana and vibrate it to create words. Because I fucking doubt I¡¯m able to breathe or talk here. The system¡¯s widget clock still worked although sometimes it slowed or went faster than normal but I attributed this to the shifting tides of mana here or different dimensions leaking their laws of time a little and affecting me when they zipped past me. Mana manipulation in this place was both easy and hard, since the place was so full of it my attempts didn¡¯t waste too much mana since whenever it was spent on weaving the blanket or moving it the mana around me instantly filled the location where my mana disappeared. The real pain was grabbing that foreign mana while staying focused and weaving it into my design. After what felt like eternity I made the blanket of pure mana, my status didn¡¯t show any changes. But I felt them, it became really easy to make any sort of construct with mana. But having already made a blanket to level my Mana invocation skill and get abilities I thought it would be a waste to just discard it and do it with Mana manipulation. So I chanted using mana as the extent of my voice. Slumbering peaceful yet dangerous, Plentifull yet barren, Gaia¡¯s embrace is warm yet cold, Soothing yet enraging, The primal Fear of rumbling earth The primal Joy of field full of crops The primal Creation of planets Converge into one! Elusive yet playful, Eroding Earth yet moving it to new places, The Anemoi rage is unavoidable, Yet they bless us with the miracle of life. The primal Joy of newborns breathing The Primal Fear of Potent tornadoes and solar storms The primal Creation of stars Converge into one! Warm and hot Kindling happily Exploding when not careful Neutral yet the most needed Alone yet without it life doesn¡¯t exist The primal Creation of Gravitational Fusion The Primal Creation of the Elements that allow us to live Converge into One! Cold and beautiful The source of life And the end of it The endless cycle The Joy of finding oasis in the wasteland The Fear of Tsunami The Primal Creation of carbon based life forms Converge into One! From Air to Fire From Fire to Earth and Water From Hydrogen to Oxygen From Hydrogen to Other Elements! Elements Heed My Call! Converge into one! Join the endless cycle that started at the birth of the universe! Gravity the force of attraction caused by mass! Space the law that allows us to exist! Time the law that allows us to feel, to be born to die and return our elements back into the cycle! CONVERGE INTO ONE! I got sent into Magical Wasteland! I didn¡¯t feel any effect yet but I could feel mana tainted by concepts I spoke of seeped out of nearby dimensions. Mana was flowing, converging into a giant river coming from all sides to me. Soon my mana senses were overwhelmed and I passed out. When I awoke I was already in another world. I was surrounded on all sides by trees and lush greenery. The temperature was high. My initial analysis of the environment was that I was in a jungle either near the equator or near some lakes and magical thermal vent. The soil was strangely infertile and the trees upon closer inspection were really old. The area around me had high mana content but about 10 meters outside of the spot where I awoke mana was pathetically low. I had to act quickly with my limited knowledge. I assumed that this thin amount of mana was normal for the entire region. I used parts of my bone armor to make a backpack sized extrusion on my back where I placed bones in specific locations and etched onto them runes for gathering mana. Then I made main channels from where mana would enter and made some funnels that led outward. I also shifted my appearance, my bone armor got covered in scales and I absorbed my pinky fingers. My legs got spread slightly apart and joints were also slightly modified to allow easier climbing. I changed my tongue to one which looked like a snake tongue. Similarly I put some thermal sensors on it but as opposed to normal snakes my eyes weren¡¯t as crappy. My comfortable body posture got changed into hunched slightly crouching from straight. Apart from my head I was looking similar to a lizard that got cursed and assumed a human-ish figure. After my transformations my extra mana storage finally filled up and the surrounding mana content turned into near wasteland mana level. Almost no magic in the surrounding, the trees were also sucking up some mana. Thanks to their lack of defenses I was able to see that they turned mana along with sunlight and barely any nutrients from the ground into biomass, which they later used to either grow or heal any damage. I killed a nearby tree and took as much biomass as possible without compromising its structural integrity. I climbed it shortly after to look around and observe the sky. While the possibility of getting back to the same dimension I was exiled from was nearing zero It was still possible. My look in the sky quickly dispersed any worry that I was sent into the same dimension. There were 2 stars in the sky with a tether connecting both. Great I ended up in the twin star system which has its merits like extended lifespan as opposed to the singular star system. But everything in the system gets twice as much radiation and other shit. To further clear out how fucked I am. Allow me to explain my imaginary audience. In twin star systems some planets might go between the stars and depending on the circumstances like velocity of the planet and its angular momentum the full orbit or day might take thousands of years. Which sucks a lot because it¡¯s completely fucks up any form of navigating using the stars on the night sky. The only reliable way is using magnetic poles of the planet.If you stumble upon this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it. Since I¡¯m probably on the equator no matter how slow the planet is turning, as long as it''s possible for plants to live, the location of the giant twin nuclear reactors will shift. The poles of the planet might shift but it won¡¯t be happening as quickly as stars in the center of this system. Well no matter what, I should look for a mountain¡­ Welp endless jungle. Great! My fucking luck! I now have to use mana to make myself preferably a living house. Since every tree here is gathering mana any clearing where there is more mana would be suspicious. I wasn¡¯t dumb to think that this world is uninhabited and if there are life forms here I might be sure that whatever lives here will be hostile to me due to my unfamiliar scent and appearance. I jumped off the tree and fully absorbed it, then I just picked a direction and went from there going for a solid 8 hours at slow jog speed. I arrived at¡­. more forest, some trees were closer together and that¡¯s it. There were some bushes and small plants around. The whole forest looked like it was mostly barren, sure there were trees around but not much besides them. This situation normally occurs in very very old forests where giant trees block out all or most of the sun actively choking small plants and lowering that soil fertility I noticed earlier. There weren¡¯t any better options than the place where I stopped so I just killed all of the nearby trees by draining their mana and biomass then I fused all nearby dead trees into a big cocoon inside I made 3 rooms. In the first one was my bedroom as well without any bed, just a vat made out of flesh and wood, filled with fluid biomass. The second one was my study where I would study all of the stuff I find on the surface and below it. The third was my lab where I would test very dumb ideas, accordingly to its purpose the walls there were thicker and tougher. I had some spare space so I made it into 1 normal room and 1 closet. The other room had beds and I intended it to be a guest room. If I ever encounter a sapient it would be nice to be prepared. The closet for now became my small warehouse for all of the interesting junk I might find. The outside wall was changed so it looked like a big tree and a bunch of small ones that just got bent when they were growing and that¡¯s it. Of course the gaps between that bark were filled with moss and some twigs that looked very similar to surrounding bushes. Of course every space not currently used was covered in mana gathering runes. Then I connected the roots of my house to nearby trees and their roots to their neighbors and so on and so forth. I stopped until I was about 90% to my location where I awoke. I then changed all of those roots into pipes for biomass and mana. Now when any of these trees will have more than enough mana or biomass it will be moved to my house and then stored. After my exterior mana batteries will be filled then the biomass and mana will be redistributed along the network. I used coming biomass to create quite a big section of upper branches of a tree to completely mask the artificial clearing. Then using my skill for manipulating life I gave my network of trees a sapience and very limited of manipulating itself. It¡¯s primary concern was to serve me and to send me biomass, as well as staying alive and alerting me if anything enters its range. I made liquid mana! (Again) System was still disabled, probably it was still analyzing this dimension and stirring mana innit. I was familiar with operating without the system so this wasn¡¯t a big deal. It will just scan my memories to give me my messages or will translate my gains and imprint some base knowledge to allow me to properly use it. Anywho I started digging under the current network of mana siphon trees or managroves as I dubbed them. I dug for 2 reasons, first to see what¡¯s there and second to expand my biomass and mana storage. I could already imagine an entire city underground. If my previous worlds were any indication then most of the magical civilizations depend a lot on magic sometimes completely disregarding tech. That happened in the world of The Eternal Storm. Even with frequent showers of technologically advanced scrap, everyone used magic as it was easier and cheaper than tech. My first attempt ended in failure. I dug about 100 meters straight down and found nothing. My next attempt was just widening the central shaft, the dirt and rocks were analyzed to see if they had anything noteworthy inside them. The answer was no, just a standard mix of silica, carbon and other metallic elements. For now I was simply dumping all of that rock outside of my house. While having guests would be an amazing opportunity to study them, I wasn¡¯t strong enough yet to fight anyone. My main weakness was lack of information and shitty mana density. I can artificially raise it or decrease it but doing so will only strengthen or weaken me as well as my opponent. I spent 2 days digging, I now had enough space to fit one of those super stores from America. It wasn¡¯t an empty space, there were fillars all over the space to support the network above. It was time to create a new plant and extend the network downwards. I first used up all the saved up biomass to cover the outer walls and floor of the new cavern. Any extra was used to thicken the supports expanding over the ceiling. The managroves directly above the empty space were remade to only do the preprocessing stuff above and move their bulk of operations underground ideally on one of the nearby walls. This greatly lessened the amount of weight supported and allowed me to demolish most of the pillars. Where before stood a forest of stone pillars now stood only 3 right in the middle of the room.Did you know this story is from Royal Road? Read the official version for free and support the author. I wasn¡¯t an architect so the plants actually kept the ceiling one thing instead of a bunch of small chunks of dirt. Over the next few days the walls thickened and became more sturdy. The feedback from the network was crucial in modifying and guiding the growth of the underground base. Right now in the center of the cavern was a deep hole right in between the pillars I kept for redundancy. The walls of the hole were covered in a solid wall of plants shaped to look like and function like runes. The hole wasn¡¯t simple, it was a pool for liquid mana. After days of stockpiling mana I decided that it would be better to just use it. This is the result, the pool will allow me to make more complex life forms while artificially raising the mana density which would then be instantly siphoned off back into the pool. This process would then strengthen the trees allowing for more efficient siphoning and transportation. I was now testing if this construct would work, if so then I could just put my real body in the pool. Doing so I believe would allow me to establish a dungeon, this would literally make me claim the space around me as my body which would drastically lessen the cost of modifying and creating life. The mana was entering the hole but it was momentarily sucked to a nearby root and put out from the same place. Great another problem, thankfully it isn¡¯t a major one. I probably only have to increase the amount of mana being transported through the network to here and if that doesn¡¯t help I¡¯ll just increase the density of that mana. If even that fails I could attempt at making a mix between a spirit and elemental that would make mana coming out of the output a liquid and if the pool is full then it would just increase the density of mana. So I did just that, for 5 days I was collecting mana while letting some of it circulate around the network mainly to train the plants in transporting it. And then after 5 days of waiting I dumped all of that mana at the same time and instantly overpressured the roots that were supposed to carry it. Using my network and my abilities I managed to modify it to handle such an amount before breaking down. It was a minor upgrade as I was moving a constant torrent of mana that had the pressure of a tap fountain. Which was a lot considering the environment. The result was a semi success. The liquid mana did form but it didn¡¯t give off a lot of mana back to the environment, it was just staying there. It wasn¡¯t a big problem as I could just make a plant that does that. But now I had different plans, I used some seeds from managroves to create a small lily pad that would float on top of the liquid mana and use it along with complex chemical transformations to separate elements from dirt. I didn¡¯t limit the size of the plant, just like any other flora it could grow to the fucking moon if the conditions were right. The only thing I limited was the amount of dirt it could process, and the speed of that process. I wanted to slow it down so shoving dirt in that plant wouldn¡¯t become a chore. I made my First Helper! part 1/2 The plant was slowly growing not from the lack of mana or biomass but because it was spending majority of its energy on separating elements from dirt, any carbon it took was separated directly into solid blocks that will be used to terraform the planet and as fuel for my crafting. I wanted to make this planet warmer by releasing greenhouse gasses, by raising the temperature all life on it wouldn¡¯t need to spend as much energy on keeping themselves warm. Additionally If I find any sort of ocean or underground lake I could begin synthesizing rocket fuel, because it is just hydrogen with some nitrogen. It is a splendid fuel but also its explosive enough to deter any primitive civilization. I was currently micromanaging the network while the plant which I dubbed for the ease sake ¡°Floral Decoupler '''' was working under a giant pile of dirt. I might need a helper to achieve maximum efficiency. Because as of now everything was running at like 70% of its capacity, some stuff like the plant was running at full capacity but the network wasn¡¯t good at moving the various dusts of pure elements with its roots. To achieve my goal of maximum efficiency I stripped all of my armor and upgrades beside mana pathways from my left arm and cut it off. I stopped the bleeding from the new stump and the limb that was lying on the floor. As it was and still kinda is part of me it would fully consent to all of the changes I was going to make. I stopped the decoupler from working and took it aside while I submerged myself in liquid mana still holding the limb. First I shoved mana and biomass into it and then began guiding the changes. Firstly I made it look like a centaur, but with insect carapace on the lower half. It was also smaller, only reaching up to 170 cm at its tallest in adult form while standing upright. I didn¡¯t want it to be big and menacing but small and fast. The next thing I did was to slightly change the human upper half. I got rid of bones that were limiting the reach of movement, instead of bones that protected but made moving freely harder I placed flexible chitin on the outside and more muscles in the inside. The creature was now quite heavy but I wasn¡¯t even halfway done. I made its legs shorter but more agile, I also decreased its length. I did that to place the center of gravity closer to the ground which would allow for more stability and higher speed in difficult terrain. Now it was time to take care of the genitals. I originally wanted it to be retractable in arms for males and in the transition part between two halfs for females, so males could just touch them there and be done with it.This book''s true home is on another platform. Check it out there for the real experience. I scrapped the idea of retractable genitalia, but my next thought was splendid, males will just lay fleshy eggs and then have a special limb that will unload pressurized sperm onto the eggs, it could also serve as last ditch diversion to flee. While being nonsensical the idea was quite common, there were plenty of animals around the world that sprayed liquids at the opposing party to deter them from attacking. I did as I imagined, I placed the limb near the place where a normal stallion would have his genitalia. I created the egg organ and the exit from which the eggs would pop out will be on one of the sides of the lower half. The upper half was mostly just muscles for fine manipulation and being able to bend in almost anyway. The lower half as it was covered in chitin was mostly organs like hearts, 3 of them to be exact and 2 brains. First two hearts were for external circulation, that is giving muscles all of their necessary nutrients and oxygen. The third one was solely for supplying the internal organs In the case of the first 2 hearts failing to do their job a group of blood vessels would contract and pull a wide emergency artery that would supply the muscles with everything they need albeit slowly. The first brain was for moving and accomplishing tasks, while the second one was for preprocessing information and managing internal organs and blood flow in case of injuries. There were 3 lungs, two in the lower half and one in the human torso for more efficient oxygen supply. The other organs were mostly the same as the horse albeit they were modified to for more capacity. In the end I made the creature¡¯s comfortable position. Since it couldn¡¯t really sit I made the creature comfortable while being slightly hunched over on slightly bent legs. Human hands either in the air looking like a human trying to balance on a rope or along the rest of the body. For sleeping I made it find comfortable to curl up into a ball, for napping or resting it would curl its legs under its sides. The eating habits would be mana and a lot of biomass for growth till adulthood, while being fully grown the creature would eat mostly biomass produced by various managroves not in the network, they can still eat the ones in the network but they would find them unappetizing. For growth stages, once an egg is fertilized it would begin growing a tiny human about 50 cm after 2 days the process would be complete and the human would get out of the egg by clawing through it or by eating it from inside out. Once free the human would either train with others in its current stage or follow the creature that fertilized the egg around. It would eat a lot of biomass for 10 days during that time it would grow to 1 meter high. After reaching that height it would look like a teen with normal horse lower half during that time it would explore a lot and occasionally help around. It would need about half as much biomass as the lower stage to grow to the adult version although it can eat more and do stuff around in a high mana environment to become a mana variant. Mana variant is essentially a smaller adult reaching at most 160 cm and having blue chitin instead of the normal black, it is weaker as it has less muscles but it''s capable of handling a lot of mana. I was dead tired and the pool of liquid mana was almost exhausted as I turned my limb into an unfertilized egg of a new species. I placed it into a corner before using my own blood as makeshift sperm to fertilize it. I became a Dungeon! part 2/2 When I woke up the thing was alive and currently exploring the chamber. I didn¡¯t want to raise it on my own so I shoved a lot of biomass at it while semi drowning it in liquid mana. I was forcing the growth while also dumping information in its brain about the place around us. After it stopped flailing and trying to escape and I sensed its heart was stopping I pulled it out and went off to do my tasks. First thing I dropped my body meat avatar into the vat while my real body, the crystal core that was simply manipulating the flesh around it, was transported in an elaborate set of tubes to the liquid mana pool where it sank to the bottom. The searing pain flooded my self, I couldn¡¯t feel or see anything but I could feel my domain expanding at a rapid pace. Mana in the pool was siphoned by my body to expand my domain and to make my body larger. When the pain stopped my domain was very weak but It was spreadover all of the area of the network. It helped marginally in mana collection which in turn strengthened it but the process was very slow. Every living thing that was created by me was instantly turned into my minions while everything else which were mostly insects had to leave because they were absorbed for more biomass. I took all of my biomass to spreak network even further while turning managroves near me into storage facilities. I even turned some of the trees into more centaur eggs. My mana was getting low, the biodiversity of this place was utter garbage, most of the plants here were for stealing mana not creating it. So i disabled all of the mana siphoning in every plant in the inner ring, then I turned various trees into several versions of moss, grass and flowers. There were quite a few bioluminescent variants, with spare biomass I raised the height of all of the managroves to allow them to not only block most of the sun to make the shining plants necessary for the new biome I made. The higher trees now could gather far more mana. I could already feel it surging towards me. To not black out from getting overwhelmed I attempted at creating a new lifeform. I gathered all of the mana I could muster in a space that could fit in the hand of a child. The high mana concentration in such space created bacteria sized mana crystals, I allowed more of the crystals to appear while keeping all of them the same size. Then I arranged them into a loose ball, the inner crystals would spin in the sequence to create drag that would move the outer layer. The inner layer would constantly siphon and refine mana into higher variants while consuming some of it to move around. Due to the refining process the inner sphere would glow leaving behind short trails of light that were hypnotizing to look at. The outer sphere would be used to talk by the use of air vibrations and to pick stuff up. Because of the small size of the crystals and low amount of crystals inside the newly created creature it would be quite weak but I gave it the ability to consume more mana to concentrate it in the innermost layer to make more of the crystals. Over time the creature¡¯s crystals would grow in size to the size of a pebble. At that time the creature would have an option to either sacrifice itself to birth more copies of itself that would soon diverge from its personality or keep growing. The entity I created needs a species name and personal name, because I feel like I would talk with it often. I heard a song once in my very first world, it was called Tanc a Lelek. I decided on the creature¡¯s species Lelek because it was quite easy to say. The puff ball as I dubbed it mentally was zooming around testing its limits and exploring the place around it. I created 5 more and almost lost consciousness due to mana deprivation. These Leleks were mana hungry things alright. On another note my status became available.The tale has been illicitly lifted; should you spot it on Amazon, report the violation.
Current status
Name: Josh Dungeon Race: Mobile Sapient Dungeon Age: N/A Level: N/A
Active Abilities
Mana Manipulation = Level 10/100 = Ability of a dungeon to exercise their will on to the surroundings by the use of mana. (This ability is diminished by a soul split due to previous knowledge It will be easier for it to rise up to level 6)
Life Manipulation & Knowledge = Level 100/1000 = This ability is a compound of 2 previous ones [Life Manipulation & Knowledge] and [Basic body modification efficiency] The resulting ability doesn¡¯t differ from the previous ones. The soul split was nullified by a level of passive soul shielding and strengthening.
Mana Invocation = Level 49/100 = Infuse your voice with mana to create custom spells with various effects. Duration, damage and range is based on knowledge about desired effect and Mana Manipulation Level.
Call of The Elements = Level 1/100 = Call upon the elements to change the world around you. Due to users unique invocation, the user can invoke stellar element and use physical transformations of elements to create or summon metals and other elements by the use of the law of equal exchange.
Passive Abilities
Life to Mana Generation = Level MAX = Ability that allows the dungeon to recharge and expand capacity of mana by making a biodiverse ecosystem, the more rich the environment of the dungeon the higher mana capacity and recharge rate. (Currently unavailable due to not having a dungeon set up)
Basic Harvesting = Level 10/100 = Grants user innate knowledge about harvesting resources, due to lack of specialization this skill is weaker than its specialized counterpart because it grants more widespread knowledge. To advance it, the user has to learn on his own or offer system books or knowledge of other individuals about each and every resource harvest method. If the user decides to advance without offering knowledge about every single resource the skill will gain minor specialization.
Soul Shielding and Strengthening = Level 64/100 = User soul is passively strengthened and shielded from soul attacks and corrosion attacks, this skill levels up through constant use. Due to lack of response and no connection to the user the System strengthened the skill.
Immunity to Major Aliments = Level N/A = Due to not being fully integrated, user won¡¯t be able to get any major aliment even if it¡¯s a good one...
Otherworldly Knowledge = Level N/A = Due to your feat and absorption of the processing unit of alien civilization, the user is able to remember anything from his previous life.
Processing Unit A#$a = Level N/A = Due to absorption of a processing unit user is able to leave micromanaging of a dungeon to it, beware the processing unit won¡¯t change anything even in the place of danger. It will just repeat given instructions over and over again. Caution is advised.
Current Mana capacity = 10/10500 units Current Mana Recharge Rate = 50 units/20 minutes (5 units/20 minutes without the domain and creatures inside of it) Current Mana usage by dungeon dwellers = 30 units/1 hour Current passive upkeep for Soul shielding 88.7 units/hour (Due to constant increase in level of the ability the upkeep is getting lower) Estimated time to recharge full capacity from 0 is 70 hours and 30 minutes with the current biodiversity, without accounting for mana upkeep for dungeon dwellers (only an approximation)
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