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Chapter 316 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”
🕑 Added 2025-03-26 16:30:50 +0000 UTCThe worlds were finished. All I had to do now was add the correct world to the lists of the available gateways to the correct people. I contemplated not announcing anything, but I believe that would be a bit too evil. So everyone found out that the worlds were ready, and while I was quite busy, it was important to take time off and observe the happy faces of everyone who had won.
Turns out the ant nations wanted to use this world as a place where young Queens could go and start their colonies. But when those colonies reached a certain size, they would join the ant nations' other worlds to give young Queens a chance to have a proper colony.
Apparently their biology needed it, otherwise the Queens started to suffer from mental problems, and this was the only way that they had found to fix it.
My creatures truly have become a bit too independent, not asking me for any help, as I could have easily set up smaller rooms for Queens to cycle through. But I could see many wanting to do things on their own, and I wasn’t going to force anything onto them unless I saw them truly start to spiral.
Everyone else started to make homes and explore their new world. Everyone also got a few surprises, but they weren’t anything truly groundbreaking—just some nice features I thought they would enjoy. Rafe was the most excited, although most of his children were already fully mature, so they could help him build their home, even the adventurers would no longer call them children.
The Runners Guild moved their headquarters and started to build an even bigger one. They were still the most populous organisation, but it seems like they were restricting their home to only proper members, not outer members, which was about 90% of their population.
I suspected that they would be getting more and more proper members, and they needed it, as there were too few proper members to properly upkeep their growing empire.
I also had a lot of training to do, as I needed to learn to use my new skills properly and continue to do maintenance, as I had let some things be a bit too wasteful because I had so much mana generation.
It was easy enough to see why it was so hard for others to continue advancing when they reached this deep — the amount of mana needed was ridiculous, and I’m guessing it would keep getting more and more ridiculous.
The funny thing was that I was still good. There were so many diamond rank creatures that it was ridiculous. Fortunately, they had a world to go to that was slowly being built out, transformed into a proper civilization with culture and building styles. I was also certain that, like the slimes who now had their own world, some diamond ranks would band together to get their own corner of my dungeon.
Time didn't stop, and soon I finished expanding the 88th floor. With this breakthrough, I increased my new skill, Inside is Outside to rank E.
It was going to be important to get this to a high rank, but I was starting to run out of floors, as I was now at the 89th. I still needed another skill that would help protect us in space. There were promising spells already being developed — it would just take a bit more time. Other than that, there was still the gravity control skill I needed to increase to make it safe up there.
Things were tight indeed, but hopefully, everything would work out. Speaking of reaching the end, the United Powers came to visit. Well, they always had a presence in the entrance town — they just had no proper representatives. They had many meetings before they decided on this course of action, and we actually had a spy overhearing it all, so nothing they were going to say was news to me.
For a brief moment, they even contemplated a war against me, but as soon as they ran the numbers, they realized they had missed their chance and only misery would follow that decision. Now they worried the most about the survival of as many sentients as possible.
Our agreement made sure that the wish would not change anything drastically in the next world I would be making during the breakthrough — the one that will advance this world’s core.
It was time to give them some good news that the current world could be saved, which would also, unfortunately, inform other dungeons on how to hide their breakthroughs. But it didn’t matter. I ran the numbers—there was literally no way any of them could make it to the end before I could.
I didn’t even talk to them myself, just let Ace handle it, as he wasn’t going through any truly busy time, even though he now had twins to take care of and a wife who was once again pregnant.
The relief on their faces was good to see. Unlike the Pixies, they actually cared for their people—especially the Beasts and the Delvers. The Masters were a bit of a question mark, as some of them were really good, and some of them were a bit too Pixie-like for me.
In the end, it didn’t matter much, as they would all learn eventually that I wouldn’t actually be advancing this world. What happened afterwards I didn’t much care, but I did hope that they would not devolve into war—but who knows.
They now know a way to safely transition from one age to another, so it should calm things down quite a bit. I was certain that the other dungeons would be good enough in dungeon aspects to actually manage to save everyone while still expanding this world.
One thing I was going to miss was being able to create a whole world like that, but I simply didn’t want to become just one world. It was too limiting. And I was more than certain that eventually I would be making whole worlds, perhaps even whole star systems in my playrooms, so I would still get to enjoy that.
There was going to be a time when I was going to make so many wonderful playrooms. Damn it, I got a bit too excited—I’m calling them worlds, because it’s a bit unfair to my creatures to call them playrooms, but sometimes I just forget. Perhaps I can still call some of them my playrooms, where I just experiment. It would be a nice way to remember my past. Yes, that sounds like a good thing to do.
The floors kept getting bigger, so it took me a bit more time every breakthrough to finish expanding them and then advance. With the next one, I managed to get Inside is outside to rank D. And so I started expanding my 90th floor.
It took a while, but when I finished, it was 251,000 kilometres in length, 190,000 in width, and the same height of 1,000 kilometres. I was going to have to adjust that height soon enough—in fact, in the next floors I should do so, so I could fit the planets inside. Most likely should have done that a bit sooner.
During this breakthrough, I wasn’t going to increase one of my skills but try to get the last needed one. It took longer, but not as long as with the last skill to come out of the breakthrough, and when I looked inside, I found the skill called Shield of Life: Rank D.
I was a bit worried that I might have screwed up, but turns out that it worked even better than expected. It held in atmosphere, it only let in good things in that were needed for life, and even more importantly, it didn’t let any radiation through. While we could only test it properly when I was in space, I felt confident that we had everything needed.
All that was now left to do was finish another 10 floors, and during my last breakthrough, leaving this world behind, cutting myself away from it so I could stay a dungeon forever.
Comments
Tzucaza .
And that's kids, is how our Universe/Multiverse was created
Zarik0
Mmm I wonder if his Sub-Dungeon Skill will be the one who make it possible for him to totally create new planet inside him (who can start to grow as 'dungeon' are created on it and so will fuse with these planet core to advance these planet) Because if not huh, he will need to capture quite a bit some planet on this solar system and huh I think making disappear whole planet will be quite 'disrupting' on the balance of the solar system (and will make some planet change orbit and etc and all the repercussion of it it bring) Well maybe not too much, if some Giant Gaz planet are here and have lot of moons (who lot of them are basically planet sized) maybe taking one or two here would be not a total disaster... Or solar system and planet (who are magical planet) don't really work like IRL in their interaction that they have in this reality :)
RedLeaf
Thanks for the chapter!
brennon Petersen
Tftc!
Zac Jel
Great chapter
