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You have developed a new passive skill; Dimensional Damage Resistance.

Dimensional Damage Resistance has leveled up! x5

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Cross Dimensional Sagacity has reached its maximum level!

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You have obtained a new Title!

Dimension Breaker

This is a title commonly given to species with anti-dimensional properties. It is proof that you have overcome the limits of the main worldly dimension and have started to separate yourself from it. This is also the mark of your absolute fortitude.

As a human-born individual, you have achieved a never-seen-before feat.

Perks:

- You recover 50% faster from dimensional-induced injuries.

+50% resistance against all dimensional disruptions.

- You gain the Trait; Void Breathing.

Additional Rewards:

+5 Volatile Attribute Points!

+1 Skill Point!

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Void Breathing: The holder of this trait does not require any air to sustain their bodily functions and will always derive whatever they need from dimensional power. This is a must-have for travelers that venture into dimensions where the air is inexistent.

It is also applicable to liquid bodies and outer space and allows the holder to speak in those environments through the vibrations of close pocket dimensions.

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The Harvester has been actualized!

Third Genome Updated! New aptitude attuned; Rift Shuttle!

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Rift Shuttle (Lv. Ex): The user will become a beacon to Dimensional Power until their body becomes saturated with it. They will turn into a shuttle dissociated from the regular space-time dimension.

When in that state, it becomes nearly impossible for any dimension to resist the user. Just entering in contact with them would suffice to breach a hole in them. It also implies that no magic spell or dimensional anchor can restrain the user. It is also not uncommon to use such an effect as a means of defense or survival.

If used with fine control and careful application, it may be possible for the user to choose how far they stray from the main dimension; sometimes slowing down the flow of time, sometimes accelerating it, or instead travel to dimensions where every meter is equivalent to a thousand.

Cost: None.

Note: This puts an extreme strain on the body. The more saturated the body and the longer it is; the greater the strain. The only contingency to the aftereffect is a stronger body or stronger resistance to dimensional warps.

Additional Note: This is a special tier skill. It cannot be leveled up as there are no features to be improved and is thus constantly in a state of Exceled. It is however possible to evolve it with Skill Points.

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Warning!

You have destroyed the Tear of Marie’s Tomb!

The Dungeon will soon collapse! Evacuate as fast as possible!

Note: Really? REALLY?! AGAIN?! What are you doing, Big Brother?!

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Rakna growled at the sheer number of windows popping up right and left of his vision as he ran through the empty cemetery. He could see motionless corpses on the ground so it meant he didn’t have to repeat the fights Flavia had already gone through.

He rapidly shifted back into a wolf again and ignored the pain coming from his every muscle due to his reckless first use of Rift Shuttle. His fur even had some red patches. This course didn’t fail to spur Higure into scolding him.

“{You incorrigible fool! Do you want to become dust in the void between dimensions?! If you had taken it slower, just a few minutes, you would have been able to go through without risking your life! Much less turn the whole Dungeon into a time-ticking bomb!}”

Rakna rolled his eyes and jumped in the opening to the third floor of the Dungeon. He checked his friend panel every second to make sure that Flavia was still displayed without change and put his newfound volatile points into speed once again whilst tuning out the lioness’ sermon.

‘Alexa, are you okay?’ He asked mentally right after and the lioness could only click her tongue.

[Affirmative.]

‘Sorry about earlier. I lost my calm for a moment.’

[It is all right...]

‘Can you tell me how big this Dungeon is?’

[Thirteen floors.]

‘How long until the collapse?’

[There are about five minutes left before you reach the point of no return.]

‘Can you teleport me out when I have to leave?’

[Since you entered this Dungeon irregularly, I could request the server and-]

❮◈❯ No need! I already permitted you to leave at demand! ❮◈❯

Alexa was interrupted by a message that was both heard and seen by Rakna. He blinked at the sudden voice and text but didn’t stop going down the floors.

‘Eva?’

❮◈❯ Yes! Me! You were already hurting my head after appearing on live television earlier and now you’re doing this?! What’s wrong with you?! You destroyed one yesterday! ❮◈❯

Rakna hummed calmly. ‘What? Am I really the first to do it? It has been easy to do so far.’

❮◈❯ Shut up! Of course, it happened before! ❮◈❯

‘Then-’

❮◈❯ At least half a millennium apart each time! ❮◈❯

‘…’

❮◈❯ And what do you mean easy?! People are normally sensible of the potential consequences of their actions! Not… whatever you are! Because of you, I have to work on changing the procedural generation of Dungeons Bosses, and now, to resist Dimension Breakers like you, I have to add a double-layered Wolder Formula to Tears, compress the matrix core, equate the dimensional ratio of- ❮◈❯

‘Stop. I don’t need the details.’

❮◈❯ Obviously, you don’t! Don’t wanna hear all the work you give me, huh? And I haven’t talked about that lamia yet! Do you want to know which index was out of bounds on a Plateau above the 900th? Huh!? ❮◈❯

Rakna sweatdropped as he leaped over tombstones to get to the tenth floor. ‘Look at the good side of things. I helped you make your system safer.’

❮◈❯ You damn… little… Gyaaah!! ❮◈❯

“{Quit bullying the little girl already, devourer,}” Higure spoke up.

‘…you’re intent on scolding me today, aren’t you?’

“{Yes,}” she shamelessly replied.

Rakna huffed. ‘Enough joking. Eva, what happened to Flavia and Tyran?’

❮◈❯ And why should I tell you? ❮◈❯

‘An order from your Elder Brother.’

❮◈❯ …that’s supposed to be a joke to irk you off, not a real dynamic. ❮◈❯

‘I’m waiting.’

❮◈❯ Barefaced werewolf… ❮◈❯

The Super AI grumbled a moment before answering.

❮◈❯ …the White Witch was unsealed. ❮◈❯

Rakna frowned. ‘Who is that?’

❮◈❯ A bitch; through and through. She decided that your friend was the perfect vessel for her to quit her slumber in the Dungeon. Don’t worry, your girl survived and she landed a good one on that woman as well. ❮◈❯

‘Who is that ‘witch’? A Hidden Boss?’

❮◈❯ No, she’s one of the irregularities… Marie Vellai Cuniya. A while ago, a Chaos Witch under the name of Camilla Scarlet fought against her and forced her to flee. It just so happened that as she ran, she was caught in the formation algorithm of a Dungeon and became a secondary core of it. Summarized, she’s basically an anomaly like Fray or Verias. ❮◈❯

Rakna nearly froze on the spot. He gritted his teeth and kicked the ground as he landed on the penultimate floor of the Dungeon.

‘…how many of those are there in your damn System? This is the third time and I haven’t even gotten into the three digits of your Plateaus.’

Eva performed a shrug that was visually conveyed by an emoticon before answering.

❮◈❯ It just happens. It’s not my fault. You have a lot of luck but your karma is skewed, Big Brother. It just so happens to mean that your luck can sometimes become a curse. ❮◈❯

The wolf’s eyes opened wide. ‘Did… my use of the Joker cause this?’

❮◈❯ As if I knew. All I know is that your karma was already in the negative before you used that card. You killed too many people in your past while you barely saved any before entering the System and meeting new people. ❮◈❯

Rakna almost wanted to scoff at that. ‘Are you telling me that I have to be a good Samaritan for this to stop happening to me and the ones related to me?’

❮◈❯ That would be good news for me too, so… yes. ❮◈❯

“{Well, that should not be a problem now, should it?}” Fray commented. “{Our dear Rakna over here is already doing good deeds as they come by. Although he does them with a face that would make a child cry out in terror, he does them nonetheless.}”

❮◈❯ Hahahaha! True! I quite like you, Exalted Quill! Great minds think alike! ❮◈❯

“{Ohoho! I agree!}”

Rakna ignored the slandering of his person in favor of a far more worrying idea. He couldn’t help but think that Flavia had been put in danger because of him. He wouldn’t be able to imagine what he would have done if she had truly died.

“{Don’t fret, devourer,}” Higure said as she caught on to his train of thought. “{Karma and luck are things that no mortal will ever have a grasp on. They are concepts that are unclear and ethereal even to the supernatural world. What you need to take out of this is not that you put the lady’s life at risk; you saved her by having Tyran accompany her.}”

[I share the Dusk Lioness’ opinion,] Alexa surprisingly added. [I believe that there is no Host in the System more capable than you to go against fate and karma. That is my honest belief.]

Rakna stayed silent for a moment before he reached the thirteenth floor where he saw a staircase leading underground. He understood that there was an extra floor and rushed down while taking the time to answer the two girls in his head.

‘Thanks,’ he said and arrived in the room where Cuniya had been contained with a Flash Step. He immediately zeroed onto Tyran’s and Flavia’s unconscious figures and dashed toward the latter since he knew the Dreorin was simply out of commission.

He rapidly reverted into a therian and checked her condition. There was no need to sense her pulse since he could clearly hear it. The injury to her head was worrisome but nothing too bad. He quickly applied one of his higher-tiered potions and then gave some of his internal force to her through the reverse application of Soul Drain.

“{She’s out of danger,}” Higure said. “{You should get out now before the Dungeon collapses.}”

“…”

“{Rakna?}” The lioness raised a questioning tone as he didn’t respond to her and stared gloomily at Flavia. “{Is something wrong?}”

Rakna snarled as his eyes flared with shapeless power and observed Flavia’s soul. It was a bouquet of bright and powerful colors circled by a transparent line. This wasn’t the first time he had seen the shape of her soul and it wasn’t what made him so shaken.

❮◈❯ Uh-oh... ❮◈❯

No, what made him upset was the extra color that had intruded it. An invading area of white that was starting to swallow everything else.