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[Status]
Name: -
Age: 0 Years 0 months 0 weeks 0 days 20 hours
Species: Dungeon Core
Level: 1/4
Exp: 0/1000
Status: Closed
EC: 100/150
• 1 EC per hour is regenerated.
• Earnings from intruders: N/A
Characteristics:
• Space (unique) O
• Time (unique) O
Floors: 2
• Control Room
• First Floor (not set)
[Mode]
[Dungeon construction]
[Living beings]
[Inanimate objects]
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"Oh, quite straightforward!"
As memories continue to trickle into my mind, some things are self-explanatory.
I don't have a name because a Dungeon receives its name from the world. It's more like a title under which you're known.
What made me slightly sad is that I'm only 20 hours old again. The almost 133 years were no small feat! And I was proud of it!
Before I came here, levels didn't mean anything to me. Sure, there were games, but I focused on other things, and the games weren't advanced enough back then.
I could see a level cap of four, and what happens after that, I can only speculate.
Either I'm stuck at that point, and that's my limit, or I will break through something. Perhaps gaining a few more 'Floors' or acquiring new abilities. Who knows?
A bit further down, I came across something important, not [Exp] since I don't understand that anyway, its just something that makes you level up.
It seems I can expand the square fields below to access multiple options.
Um... let's start with [Mode]. By thinking about it, the individual 'modes' unfolded.
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[Mode]
• Core [x]
• Ghost [o]
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„Hmm…disappointing…"
I selected the Ghost mode with my thoughts, and my perspective suddenly changed.
I saw from what seemed like eyes, looking down at the marble. I looked at myself and saw a slightly transparent upper body with arms, hands, chest, and all that an upper body has.
From the hips down, my legs dissipated into a trail, making it look like I had a condensation trail beneath me. Beyond a certain point, they completely disappeared, and I was hovering above the ground.
I thought about whether I could fly.
And suddenly my view spiraled upwards, starting slow and then accelerating upwards until I hit my head on the ceiling.
[You cannot leave the Dungeon.]
"Seriously? Am I trapped here?" I asked into the room, but as always, no one answered.
I grumbled, "Where did the voice from the beginning go?"
"Well, then never mind."
Strangely, even though I am a ghost, I felt slight pain, as attempting to leave the Dungeon unauthorized caused me a slight headache.
"Can I at least see how I look?" I mumbled.
And suddenly my perspective changed again to 360 degrees. It seems that even in [Ghost Mode], I could access this view. Slowly floating back down, as doing nothing kept me 'standing.'
As I looked closely, I saw... myself?
"Hmm... I look like... me, but somehow a bit younger? Maybe around a hundred years younger — like I'm back at 21! — and a little more transparent," I chuckled lightly, the pain already gone.
It seemed I was back to being 196cm tall, as unfortunately, I had experienced shrinking with age, and at 132, there wasn't much left of my original 196cm.
Furthermore, I saw my well-built upper body, as I was still in good shape at 21. I laughed lightly.
I always did sports. First, I played football, volleyball and then all kinds of ball sport for a long time, and then eventually got into weightlifting, martial arts and the thrilling program of he ESA.
That's why my body looked quite solid. Also, I had far fewer wrinkles on my face, and it looked just as I had remembered it for a long time.
"Ah, I missed you," I said melancholically. Trying to touch my see through younger face.
I wasn't ugly but not the most handsome either. My face had a kind of square shape, with moderately thick eyebrows and a nose, relatively large in size.
Overall, my face looked angular, except my big eyes, which softened the 'dangerous' appearance a bit.
Strangely, my eyes were no longer green-brown but the same color as my Core.
Almost black with a touch of blue, with the black hole as the pupil and the star clock revolving around it.
My hair, however, remained a mystery; everything else rejuvenated, so why not my hair?
My hair was white, just like it was at 120, after this age they had unfortunately fallen out, which I regretted.
However, the hairstyle was the same as when I was 21,—buzz cut—, easy to care for.
After checking everything, I returned to the Status and found out how to unfold some information.
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Characteristics:
• Space (unique)
--> The first Floor is 20 times larger. With each Floor, the multiplication doubles. (Control Room is not affected)
--> Unique living beings, inanimate objects, etc. cost a lot less
—> you can create more with the same number of Dungeon Essence
• Time (unique)
--> Time on the first Floor passes 20 times faster. With each Floor, the multiplication doubles. (Control Room is not affected)
--> Unique living beings, inanimate objects, etc. cost a lot less
—> [EC] gain of each floor is also multiplied
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"..." I was speechless for a moment.
"Wow!" was the only thing that came to my mind.
That sounded powerful! .
Moving on to the next point. I thought [Dungeon construction], and it unfolded.
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Dungeon construction:
[Inside]
[Outside]
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"Oh, I can also manage the exterior!" my thoughts worked for a moment and then I shook the head „Let's start with the interior for now," I said.
Thinking [Inside]. Since there was a choice between the first Floor and the Control Room, I opened it for the first Floor.
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Floor 1 overview : (not set)
Time:
• Normal Cycle [50 EC]
• only Day [0.5 EC]
[O] Click here to see more
Weather:
• Normal Cycle (sun, rain, thunderstorm, etc.) [10 EC]
• Only sun, rain, thunderstorm, or etc. [1 EC]
[O] Click here to see more
[More]
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I scrolled down and looked at the headlines for each topic but there was no finished things. „So no houses?" the mouth of my ghost turned upwards, „maybe in the future?"
However, there were many different times of day and weather conditions as well inanimate and living things.
Under weather, there were many that I didn't even recognize or that simply didn't exist.
Among them were normal natural disasters, but also new weather phenomena that likely had something to do with my Characteristics.
For example, a [Time Typhoon], or something entirely crazy like [Small Time skip], where everything in the Dungeon experiences 100 years in a second.
If you're a poor intruder, you'll probably die of old age because you won't even notice when something like that happens.
They not only sounded powerful but were powerful, which came with a corresponding price. In order for this to be permanently integrated into the cycle, just like the others, you have to sacrifice 1000 [EC].
However, I also realized that not everything can occur individually. For example, [Time skip] only comes in waves, so you have to integrate it into a weather cycle.
You can also create your own cycles for weather and time.
"Cool," I thought, "with this, I could create a world with perfect weather, or always suitable weather for agriculture."
After looking at this, I checked the remaining options.
The same interface met me at the other two points as well.
Under living beings, I found some unique animals and plants. They were typical, well-known but had something to do with one of my two Characteristics [CS].
The same applied to inanimate objects. Here, there were unique stones, water, jewels, and so on. Everything a heart could desire.
And everything followed one simple rule: The more complex, the more expensive.
However, I noticed that inanimate objects were much cheaper, and you could create them in quantities from grams to gigatons to numbers I didn't know.
With my current... "wait a moment"... stock of 101 [EC], I could create a lot.
Normal soil or stone consumed not much. Higher-quality materials were more expensive; some cost to 1000 times more!
They were lighter, harder, more durable, or had individual abilities that related to my [CS].
"Well, you need quite a lot of materials for one Floor, and mine are even larger. Ah, I still don't know how big these things will be," I said. "Hmm... I'm really interested now. Let's get started!"
As in my memories, I flew to the Core and placed my hand on it, and an interface popped up.
[Do you want to reconfigure the Control Room or create the first Floor?]
"Create the first Floor, please!" I said with excitement.
[0%]
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.
.
[100%]
I felt the control room rumble and after blinking once…
[Successfully created, would you like to edit it?]
"Yes, please."
Suddenly, I found myself in a huge empty room, and a kind of status appeared before me.
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[Floor 1]
Name: //not given//
Size: 1000km x 1000km x 20km --> multiplied by 20 due to [CS] --> 20000km x 20000km x 400km
Time: 1times —> multiplied by 20 due to [CS] --> 20 times
[Creating]
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