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FLASH!

The Dungeon Core has been given life! The mysterious cores of dungeons, who are said to originate from an ancient, reincarnated person named the Great Devil of Dungeons, are special thingies that dungeons have, it is their heart, their true selves, their cores, and also somewhat their own seeds.

Dungeons, I think, must be like trees, the mana core emerges somewhere else, and it converts the area where it appears into a dungeon, the dungeon might change the area or leave it as it is, but most of the time it is said that they create a labyrinth similar to the Rank 1 Dungeon we went to.

Now this one is being reawakened, like reviving the old roots of a tree that has lived for very long.

The Dungeon Core shone brightly and gained its former splendor.

"Is that it?" she asked.

"I don't know-"

TRUUM!

Suddenly, I felt as if the power of the dungeon was attacking my soul or something, and that of Benladnan!

"W-What is this?!" she cried.

"It is attacking us?!"

<Answer: No, the dungeon core is making a soul connection, it has recognized Benladann and you as its masters…>

Is that it?

"Calm down, Benladann, it is making us its masters," I said.

"Eeeeh?!"

The sensations were weird, but they ended quickly, as the dungeon's connection with us was established at long last.

Wow, that was certainly wild…

And after that, we felt an instinctual connection with the dungeon.

And it was done? So easily? We just had to pour mana into it and it's ours?!

"W-What happened? I feel as if this thing we're speaking to me… I instinctively know what it is and its purpose… a Dungeon Core… so mysterious." Said Benladann.

Ding!

<You have become a [Dungeon Master]>

<You acquired the [Dungeon Master] Title!>

<You acquired the [Dungeon Operation: Level 1] Skill!>

<The [System] Unique Skill has been connected with the [Dungeon], a new System Function has emerged, [Dungeon Maintenance]>

Woah… A Dungeon Master in a cultivation world?

And just like Benladann said, I just got the same infusion of info into my mind. I learned how dungeons were and more, everything I knew previously was enriched with this info.

I knew that this Dungeon originated here when a large amount of miasma was gathered in one place and the dungeon core was naturally born.

However, it took thousands of years to be made into a Dungeon as it laid dormant, until a sudden burst of mana, like water over seed, made it blossom into a dungeon, a large Rank 7 Titan-like Ogre Giant had died in this place, and its decomposing body was leaking enormous quantities of mana. The Dungeon Core absorbed it and it even generated offspring in the other dungeons in here, which are weaker.

Using this power, the dungeon core became a large dungeon, and it harbored monsters related to the mana it absorbed. Wow, that's actually very complex and intricate…

But… there was also something else.

Divine Energy? Dungeons of Gods? The Dungeon Dao Inheritance? What is this!?

All of this info rushed into my mind.

Divine Energy was the divine version of mana that those at Rank 7 and above wielded, which was what fueled the dungeon. It could naturally produce it through the refinement of mana and other energies.

Dungeon of Gods was… Dungeons, ancient Dungeons which were born within the corpses of the Ancient Gods, there are Dungeons such as those of even Odin? They seem to be connected…

And… there's another thing, it seems that powerful immortals acquire the power of creating Dungeons. Certain devices in the world can let people create dungeon cores, and they're acquired by the Gods, those that have reached Rank 7.

A good chunk of all the dungeons of this world is run by living Gods of these ranks, they use them as convenient ways to acquire mana and other energies… interesting.

And the Dungeon Dao Inheritance, a strange place somewhere else in the world, a mythical inheritance left by the Great Devil of Dungeons… in here, the Dao, whatever that is, of "Dungeons" slumbers, and whoever acquires it will acquire amazing power… over Dungeons? I don't truly get it.

Maybe it's a plot device to make me the master of all the dungeons in the world, haha! I will take it then, someday…

"Drake, can you see it too? I can see info of the dungeon, I know how strong it is, and how many "Dungeon Points" it has… there's… something weird, like a store or something, and even a monster list? Dungeon quality? Huh? I am so confused yet not, because I know it all? Ugh…"

Benladann felt very dizzy, she was confused yet she wasn't because info regarding all of this was already poured into our minds the moment, we made the dungeon connection.

"Apparently, this dungeon never had a master. And Dungeon Cores automatically recognize someone as their master as long as it defeats the last Boss and infuses mana into it. Many were before us but we were the first to actually be able to get down here… I don't really know if it was necessary to break the spatial walls…" I said.

"And just because of that we became the Dungeon Masters?! T-This is crazy…" said Benladann.

"Indeed…"

We began to inspect the Dungeon Maintenance Function. Benladann wasn't able to see the holographic windows, but I interfered and through my system connection with the dungeon, I gave her the privilege.

"Oooh! This is so futuristic! Like a floating TV." She said.

"I guess so…"

Within the holographic window we were able to see the Dungeon's Rank, which was 3, and it even "cultivated" like we do use divine energy as its main source, which is slowly absorbed from the monster's mana cores inside, or from anything from the exterior dying.

Anything that dies inside a dungeon gets slowly assimilated into it too, so it gains power in such a way. It was possible to upgrade it using Dungeon Points, to buy Traps, Monsters to Summon, and even treasures to deposit, but all of this seemed pretty far-off, it wasn't cheap.

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