Before going into this new area, it ordered the ten Shade Wing Bats to accompany it, hoping to find something which might be able to aid in acquiring good evolutions for them.

After they've all gathered, it leads them down a four meter wide and six-meter tall tunnel which seemed to be going up gradually; It had to spend had to spend seventy Mana to expand across the entire length of the tunnel. As it reached the end, it could see the walls widening until they dropped away revealing a wide open completely barren room with the only exception being a group of Bears smaller than the Storm Hide Bear it had fought before and appraised them.

Black Cave Bears

Black Cave Bears are a common sight around the world always living in caves, going out only when they absolutely need food. There isn't anything especially remarkable about them as they can't even evolve into Storm Hide Bears making them be seen as the weakest Bears in the world.

Rating: Lesser Common.

Seeing the pitiful description, it decided to let the Shade Wing Bats have a try at killing them, hopefully fulfilling some type of evolution condition.

The battle between the ten Shade Wing Bats and the six Black Cave Bears was surprisingly brutally one-sided as the Bats swooped down clawing at the eyes of the Bears, always staying just out of the reach of the Bears. When one of the Bears tried to flee it was swarmed by five of the Bats who landed on the Bear's back and began tearing into it eventually ripping out the Bear's spine.

The five Bats had gone into a frenzy eating away at the Bear, even crawling into it's torn open back devouring the organs inside, blood painting the surroundings as the frenzy grew. As for the other five Bats, they were struggling attempting to keep the Bears away from their frenzied brothers. The battle continued until the five frenzied Bats finished their meal and joined their brothers in swarming over the five Bears who were now horribly outnumbered ten to five causing the battle to end swiftly in a similar bloody frenzy as before.

It watched with satisfaction at the display of violence the Bats showed, the Core considering this good for their overall potential, looking over the Bear parts strewn about, it picked one to assimilate.

Assimilation complete! Black Cave Bears contained minor quantities of Mana which has been absorbed [+3 Mana points]. Black Cave Bears have been added as an available monster and may now be created at the cost of 4 Mana points per Black Cave Bear.

It at least hoped it could evolve them into something better later and began claiming the now empty cave. It took it a fair amount of time to claim the room which was forty meters in radius, being only twenty meters smaller than the Titan core area.

It ordered the Bats to follow it again as it headed into another tunnel going further upwards, the tunnel was only about six meters long before it reached an area where bright shafts of light descended from the opening ahead of it and as it left the cave it saw something for the first time, the Sky.

It looked wonderstruck outward over the vastest place it had ever been in its life, the clouds, mountains, forests, and the very horizon all filled with curiosities waiting to assimilated and drained, but it knew that would be impossible to accomplish without repairing the Titan core, which it now wanted to do more than ever! It surveyed the land it could see closer, spotting some weird grey and brown looking things in the valley far below, something black rose into the sky from most of these grey and brown things making it burn with curiosity as to what they were. However, it didn't have nearly enough Mana to cover the distance it approximated at being four thousand meters away which would cost around fourteen thousand Mana points to cover the entire distance in a straight line, something which it clearly didn't have now.

Turning around and heading back into the cave, it thought of expanding the area around the Titan core with its Mana Shaping, however high the cost may be, after all, the Titan core's cave is the most crucial place in the entire cave system, and it can't afford to lose the Titan core under any circumstance. Entering the Titan core's room, it told the Bats to go back to hunting cave critters and moved to start expanding the room about an extra forty meters in radius which will cost one hundred and sixty-eight Mana points.

Minutes quickly turned to hours since it couldn't just dissolve the precious Lakinite making up the walls, so its expansion was unreasonably slow as it had to pile the Lakinite around the Titan core when it felt something enter its influence.

Two creatures standing upright like its Abomination but smaller, one had golden hair, green eyes, sharp facial features. And was much younger compared to the one standing beside him who had hair the color of rust, brown eyes, and a one and a half foot long rust-colored tail, pointy ears on the top of his head, and an old face as if he would die any time now. It's curiosity made it instantly fly to their location and appraise them, starting with the golden-haired one.

Silfus's Status Location: N/A's Dungeon Name: Silfus Kalnor Age: 17 Years Old Race: Human Level: 38 Class: Royal Magic Swordsman Health: 274/274 Mana: 78/78 Error! Unable to display further information! Kace's Status Location: N/A's Dungeon Name: Kace Locan Age: 179 Years Old Race: Wolf-Kin Level: 64 Class: Close Combat Butler Health: 380/380 Mana: 143/143 Error! Unable to display further information!

It was surprising to see a Human and Beast-Kin it had read about in those appraisals before, but it was cautious seeing their levels and the fact it couldn't see the rest of their status. It told the Abomination to attack the old one and had the Storm Blood Leechlings attack the young one, as for the Mana Fused Leechlings? They were way too slow to make it there before the battle ends, making it think about moving them closer to the entrance for any future visitors from the outside.

As it waited for the Abomination and Leechlings to arrive, it heard the old one whispering to the golden-haired Human, "Young master, something's wrong with this cave." The golden-haired Human looked to his right, "What? What's wrong with the cave?" The old one replied in a whisper, "The Mana, it feels like the Mana I've felt in Dungeons, but instead of becoming thicker it seems to be thinning." The Human seemed startled after hearing that, and his whole demeanor turned wary.

It felt the Abomination slunk into the cave, moving like a ghost it moved behind the old one as he continued whispering unaware of the monster preparing to reap his life, "This feels too much lik--- arghh!" His whispering turned into a cry of pain as his shoulder was skewered by the blood-root looking spike extending out of the Abomination's palm. The old one tried to push the spike out of his shoulder, but two of the fingers coiled around the spike shot around his neck strangling him. While the third entered his open mouth, sliding down his throat as Icicles burst out from the finger causing havoc within his body, furthermore he was being drained by all three fingers of his Mana and Blood.

The golden-haired human reacted after being momentarily stunned at the revolting development. He drew a blue-bladed engraved long sword, and not a second after drawing his sword a giant golden knight apparition sprung to life around him mimicking his every movement, with a shout he charged at the Abomination that swung two arms faster than his eyes could follow shattering the knightly apparition, sending the golden-haired human crashing into the floor. As the Human lied in the crater formed from his impact, he had what it thought was water coming out of his eyes, sliding down his cheeks as he pulled out a tiny violet orb from his clothe and shattered it in his hand making the whole room flare up with violet light.

When the light faded, it saw the crater empty, and it became perplexed as to how he disappeared like that, but disregarded it after seeing the old one was still being choked, and his throat pervaded as he struggled for his life only low grunts escaping his blocked mouth. Mere seconds later he died causing black boxes to cascade before the Core.

Congratulations! For killing your first sapient as a Dungeon, an experience bonus has been applied to commemorate this occasion! Level Up!

Level: 3 🠂 12

Maximum Mana Capacity: 64 🠂 154

Maximum Integrity: 48 🠂 102

Intelligence: 10 🠂 28

Wisdom: 6 🠂 15

Luck: 4 🠂 8

Maximum Dungeon Size: 8 🠂 16

Congratulations!

For reaching level 5, you can now make your first floor as a Dungeon!

Floors can be themed depending on the Achievements and Titles you've unlocked! Once a theme has been unlocked you will gain the ability to create objects, and use the trait(s) of that theme, and even merge them with other themes to create combination themes.

Dungeon Floors have no maximum size and can be made to exist within pocket dimensions essentially acting as tiny worlds within.

It is optional whether you want to put your floor in a pocket dimension.

Floors use up less Dungeon size than claiming, allowing you to grow larger than would be possible extending your domain.

Floor entrances can be placed anywhere within your influence even other floors!

Congratulations! For reaching level 10, you can now make your second floor! Themes now also grant bonuses to certain Monsters and Magic! Dungeon Achievement Unlocked!

Intellectual Core!

Unlock Condition(s): Posses 20 or more points in the Intelligence Stat.

Effect(s): Greater affinity and evolution potential with Elementals and strengths them within your Dungeon by 10%. Also increases the Magical Affinity of any created monsters.

It was absolutely stunned at how many levels it gained from the death of that Beast-kin and wondered why it hadn't leveled up this much before considering it killed the much stronger Storm Hide Bear, or did it have something to do with the bonus? Whatever the case it was delighted and although it didn't lack space. It loved the thought of being able to make anything intruding go somewhere other than a few hundred feet away from the Titan core as being able to make the floor in a pocket dimension would make anything entering the cave go through the floors first before being able to walk down the tunnel leading to the Titan core.

It was also pleased with the achievement's second effect but didn't really plan on acquiring Elementals any time soon. It looked over to the Abomination still holding the Beast-kin corpse and assimilated it.

Assimilation complete! Dungeon-Kins have been added as an available monster and may now be created at the cost of 422 Mana points per Dungeon-Kin.

It was confused at not earning the Beast-kins and immediately appraised these 'Dungeon-Kin.'

Dungeon-Kin

Humanoid versions of any monster available for creation.

Rating: Null.

The small description shocked it, but it figured there wasn't much more to describe about them, as it just seemed to turn any of its monsters into something similar to the Wolf-kin it assimilated to acquire this.

Looking around it spotted the Storm Blood Leechlings it had also ordered to come attack, but it completely forgot after seeing the overwhelming display of power the Abomination showed. Ordering them to follow it back to the Titan core it began thinking about what theme it was likely to earn, and dearly hoped they would be useful and not just wastes of Mana.

Those eyes! Lord those eyes! They shine brightly like torches in the darkness, drawing you into them, unaware of the evil behind them until it's too late. - Excerpt From The Mad Prince.