Chapter 2 - Skills!

"Well, I guess it's finally time to get dungeon building!"

Creating a dungeon was a necessity, firstly because I can't stand being considered a rank below Bronze. And from the description that Dungeon's Wisdom gave me about dungeons.

Dungeons are a creation of the original God, the God of Creation. After noticing that mana was becoming increasingly sparse and diluted in the world, he created a crystal capable of accessing the mana of other dimensions and purifying mana currently in the world and had them appear around the world. However, because of these capabilities, the Original Races harvested these crystals for their own use and saw unprecedented improvement in technologies and magic. To control this, he gave these crystals part of his Power of Creation and they became Dungeon Cores. With this power these Dungeon Cores created Dungeons. Structures with dense amounts of pure mana inside, with "monsters" to guard them. Most dungeon monsters are mutations of another species caused by mana and replicated endlessly. Rarely one may see a completely new race appearing in these dungeons. When these Dungeon Cores leave their dungeons they lose their abilities and become a normal mana core, though they are still extremely valuable because of the abnormally dense and pure mana held inside it. Some dungeons are kept alive and protected because they constantly produce resources. When this began happening, many more dungeons started producing useful resources. this indicates that dungeons possess intelligence and are capable of communicating with each other to a certain extent"

Unnamed Adventurer

Yup a huge ass block of text, it looks like something straight out of a book, there's even an authors name at the bottom though it was just left as Unnamed Adventurer. From what it told me, Dungeon's Wisdom sources its knowledge from existing sources around the world which it deems as correct and filters out repetitive, useless and incorrect information, though the amount and accuracy of the information depends on the skills level. Hey Google! You're getting outclassed here!

Well, the idea is I'm extremely valuable and if my dungeon core leaves my dungeon, I die instantly and will probably become a battery for something. Though if I become a vibra.... NO! Banish that thought! If I cant enjoy it there's no point!

*Cough* *Cough* Let's get back on track. Firstly I need to become stronger to protect myself, secondly, I need to make my dungeon produce useful stuff so I won't get killed for my core. If I grow strong enough I should be able to live unless some pig who hunts people 50 levels below him and constantly hangs around newbie areas comes.

Well before anything I need to practice my skills, let's start with Mana Absorption since it appears to be my highest level skill and work downwards.

"But... how do I use it?"

First I try the generic way and yell out the skill name.

"Mana Absorption!"

Nothing. Next, I try to emulate breathing.

"Yes!"

A small part of my core began glowing and I felt a small trickle coming through.

"Though this doesn't feel like much."

Now I try to expand this feeling, first by thinking of inhaling using both your nose and mouth. repeating this until my entire Core was glowing. Now that trickle was more like a small river as I feel mana pouring into my core. I stop because the room suddenly felt incredible stuffy and my core was starting to turn a dark green. This stuffiness is incredibly uncomfortable and seems to be caused by absorbing too much mana.

Now I try using my Mana Manipulations to force some out, though it's no use, the words Lower Lesser Minor weren't just there for jokes. It was like trying to scoop sand with a small net. However, while I was doing this it felt noticeably less stuffy. Leaving my core I see flakes of light green crystal on my core. Seems like Mana Crystallization is a passive skill, I guess the requirement is absorbing a bunch of mana. Magic Contract and Mana Reading both require another being with mana so I'll hold off on them now. with this my Magic Skills are done, time to check my Racial Skills!

Though, how do I use something like Summoning or Creation? *Sigh* if only this was one of those Web novels where everything can be solved through a control ...

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Dungeon Control Panel

Summon

Create

Edit

Perception

Expand

Lottery (Locked)

Forums (Locked)

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It appeared! The SUPER convenient control panel all dungeons should have!

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Notifications

Dungeon Control Panel Unlocked

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"As expected of the Original God! His skills are super convenient!"

Seriously convenient, it saves me the pain of learning everything from the ground up. Maybe that's why there are so many control panels in novels, the author is just too lazy to write the learning process.

Forums huh? To think there's such a modern thing here. From what I got from Dungeon's Wisdom, this world seems to be in the Medieval Ages, but there are some places going through Industrial Revolutions through the use of mana crystals but digital stuff has yet to progress from sending dots and lines and since long-range telepathy exists that stuff is rather useless.

Did the Creation God visit our world and get the idea for this? Well if there are an infinite amount of universes than he could've gotten the idea from anywhere. I guess there's no point in questioning it, more importantly, lets get going with this dungeon building!

Selecting summon, the screen slightly changes

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Summon

Fauna

Flora

Items

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This time I selected fauna

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Fauna

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(Please select a starting creature after completing the Tutorial)

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Checking all the other tabs they all had stuff like "Unlocked after completing the Tutorial"

"What the f**k?"

I'm beginning to seriously suspect whether or not this guy has visited our world. HONESTLY!? There's a f**king tutorial!

Well, I guess there's no use complaining about this.

"Tutorial."

And yup as expected that was the trigger word. Honestly, if you're going to make a tutorial at least make it the first thing we see.

I felt myself being dragged by something as the world became white.