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Chapter 317 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”
🕑 Added 2025-03-28 09:41:43 +0000 UTCThe 91st floor was done. The shape of it felt weird. I think the weirdness comes from the fact that I’m just not used to it, but there is a right feeling underneath that.
Perhaps it's because this floor is now a perfect circle like myself—but of course a lot bigger. The radius of it is 21,500 kilometres, which means that I could actually fit the world I was currently on into it with some room to spare, although not a lot.
Fortunately, this world’s size is an anomaly in many ways. While it's a lot bigger, its gravity is that of a smaller planet, and the impact it has on the surrounding gravity also seems to be of a smaller planet.
What everyone thinks is that those effects are still the same as before the planet was made bigger by dungeons. They say that this planet should have been around 7,500 kilometres in radius. Now, of course, it was a lot bigger.
What I do wonder is how the world expands after the next making, when all the dungeon space—at least I suspect that's what would happen—is added to the world itself. If I was one of those dungeons, this world would truly become something huge. Yet none of that matters because I wasn’t going to become a part of this world’s fuel.
It was time for another breakthrough. This time I increased my gravity control, as it was needed for actual experiments a bit later on. After I reconnected with my dungeon and started to expand the 92nd floor, it was time.
Through all the quest necklaces, and every communication crystal, and any other way we could communicate, a message was sent out. It was a simple message.
It was to call back all my creatures but also to inform the adventurers of my dungeon that they had limited time—only years—to make a choice: either to stay on this world, or, if they stayed inside my dungeon, to be prepared to never see this world again, as we would be leaving it behind and not triggering the making.
Oh boy, the reactions to it were something else. The representatives of the United Powers made it to the entrance town quicker than anyone—even me—expected. They demanded answers, and to their surprise, they actually got them. Well, we held back some; those were secrets that would not affect what was to follow.
They learned about the world’s will—some of it they already knew—but in the end, it all came down to the fact that I wanted to keep being a dungeon, and for that, I needed to leave this world behind.
The funny thing is that I could actually do it right now. Turns out leaving behind your world’s will is a lot simpler than any of us expected it to be. A lot of time was put into figuring that out after we figured out that going to the moons or even other planets in the solar system didn’t cut your connection to your world—not even going outside the solar system did that.
So it was found that you could actually sever that connection that the world’s core had to your soul. After that, you would start to leak mana and would die a slow, suffocating death.
For Rafe, that happened because the world’s will cut itself off from him, simply because he was now too strong to be upkeeped by it. I guess that it actually could do that because it was only one person, but it would take a lot and would not actually be beneficial to the world’s will.
The world’s will was happy enough to forge new connections to the ones who disconnected from it, but I guess it could influence and perhaps even reject that connection request.
Another thing was that any planet that had a core, you could connect to. Most of the planets here wouldn’t be able to upkeep anyone even a bit strong. The ones who haven’t properly taken their first step into the proper ranks could also sever their connections, and they could connect even to the moon and survive.
Those who hadn't even taken one step into any rank, which was really hard to do, but some animals still were like that and of course, adventurer babies. They didn't need any world core to stay alive.
There was one more caveat that was found. If you were to connect to the sun itself—and yes, it had a core—you would actually be connected to everything inside that solar system. So every planet, every moon, everything that had a celestial core—as some have now started to call them—you would be connected to.
It seems that our world's celestial core had a powerful enough world will that it could reject that connection, so it was stronger than the sun core. All of it was extremely good to know, and I hoped that in the future I would get big enough to swallow a whole sun, so that perhaps then every planet I take would also be connected to each other. There were just some things we still didn’t know, but hopefully everything will go fine.
As the world scrambled to understand the course of actions that I would take, I continued to expand the 92nd floor and watched as my creatures and adventurers prepared the things we needed to make our future a reality.
What I also decided to do was finally future-proof my core room. It was getting kind of tight, as my core’s radius was getting close to 3 kilometres.
All I did was push everything out so that the room I was in would be a perfect circle with a radius of 10 kilometres, with a floor exactly in the centre. The upper half had the connection to the dungeon rooms, and the bottom half had the connection to the worlds. The two sides of my dungeon. And while they were now connected in many other places as well. This is how it all started, and one of the secrets I was not going to share.
Other dungeons didn’t need to know that you could split yourself like that. And I guess, if I wanted, I could split myself into four basically separate dungeons. But if I were to split it even further, the mana connections would get a bit too thin.
This was the actual reason why I was able to be who I am, and all of that was because I wanted adventurers to leave my ants alone. I would be so different if I didn’t have two ant colonies so near to me at the start. Sometimes I wondered if I would have become the monster everyone’s afraid a dungeon could be, if I didn’t have such a start.
When my core room was finished, I started to wonder if I should add any defences. The chances of anyone making it this far in should be basically zero, but I guess it would be kinda stupid not to do anything.
So I still gave myself a shroud of dungeon stone, and at the top and bottom, a cage of dungeon stone. More dungeon stone was added to block even more direct lines of sight. When it was all done, it would be incredibly difficult for anyone to simply attack me. And of course, I had the core floor around it to protect myself, which I have been expanding with every breakthrough.
To finish everything up, I added the best signal-blocking dungeon stone around my core room and even made huge enchantments to block it even further. In fact, I would be adding such enchantments all over my dungeon, including outside, so that no one could find us in the future.
Comments
Maou Razonica
I wanna see the other powers react to the massive dungeon just up and leaving.
BookDragonling
This chapter answered so many of my questions.
Sargon Yami
Gateway skill SS rank?
Merlin's Fan
Yes please!
Apinsig
Unfortunately my days have been too busy as of late to write so much but new chapters will soon come out
Ragna
is there no more junk yard ship?
RedLeaf
Great chapter, and ETG being able to leave gateways on other worlds would be an amazing ability!
Apinsig
I bet it will go a bit longer then you would expect
Merlin's Fan
I can see where this can cut off, and the end that was hinted. Still a great story and chapter, thank you for your hard work.
brennon Petersen
Fun side story idea might be him figuring out how he can leave dungeon entrances on world that he visits so that he basically becomes a universe spanning dungeon.
brennon Petersen
Tftc!
Zac Jel
Awesome chapter
