Fenrir

A few days later

Please work. Please work. Pleeeaaase wo-

The arc of metal in front of me suddenly gains a faint black and purple glow right as I finish infusing the last bit of the arc with my mana and intent.

My core begins to pulse in my excitement, attracting Dawn’s attention towards my lab. Meanwhile, I keep my attention glued on the arc as a thin layer of void energy begins to spread under the arc. Once the energy touches the ground, it changes completely, forming a portal and showing me the void on the other side.

“Finally!!!” I shout, my voice echoing throughout my entire dungeon to all of my monsters, startling them in the process.

After doing so, I realize what I had just done before glancing through my dungeon. Fortunately, I still had enough sense of mind to keep it from the intruders.

Although the confused faces they’re making at my monsters’ actions right now is a little amusing.

Anyways, I focus on the portal again while examining every last detail about it.

“You finally succeeded!” I hear Dawn exclaim as I’m focused on the portal.

“Yep!” I answer without taking my gaze away from it.

Now I just need to figure out how to link two different portals.

Although at the very least, I might be able to…

My thoughts trail off as I begin to test something.

Will this work…?

I push my dungeon’s influence into the portal and therefore into the void itself before spreading it out.

Well, it looks like my influence can go into it at least, but can I do anything in it?

To test it, I begin to build a small stone building around the portal’s entrance within the void.

It works…

I glance at Dawn – who had entered my lab at some point – as my core begins to pulse flashes of light at a much quicker pace before stating, “Do you think I might be able to shift part of my dungeon into the void itself?”

Dawn freezes in place for a second before glowing red and yellow in excitement as she exclaims, “Yes!”

No hesitation at all?

“Do you think it’s safe though?” I ask, just to make sure.

After all, I wouldn’t want to end up stranded in the void like when I was born.

Dawn immediately bobs up and down while saying, “Of course! After all, you can already make portals, so you can just make a portal back if you did get stranded there!”

Hmm, but it would also make cultivating difficult if I moved my core to the void…

“Not to mention that you’d have an unlimited source of void element World Energy to cultivate,” she suddenly adds on with a sly tone of voice.

My core suddenly stops pulsing for a second as her words register in my mind.

I stare at Dawn for a second, only to turn to the portal while focusing on the tiny particles in the air surrounding it.

As if she hadn’t already convinced me, Dawn continues to add more reasons to move into the void, “If you shifted part of your dungeon into the void, the World Energy outside of the portal will automatically be turned into void element World Energy before passing through the portal and filling up the area around it – meaning your dungeon. You also wouldn’t have to worry about running out of space at any point in time, since the void is endless.”

I immediately absorb the void element World Energy currently building up around the portal before focusing on my core room.

Right when I’m about to build a portal in my core room, Dawn suddenly adds, “You might also have some void element creatures as visitors.”

Void element creatures… natural ones, and not ones created by me through infusion…

That could certainly be interesting.

Although…

I glance at Dawn again before asking, “Do you think I should wait until I finish the fifteenth floor to shift the rest of my dungeon into the void?”

Dawn pauses in her rapid flying around the portal and says, “That’ll probably be a good idea.”

It would be strange to just suddenly change so drastically, so shifting it on the sixteenth floor would be much better. Not to mention that I still need to figure out how to connect portals.

In the meantime, though… I glance towards the portal in my lab again before focusing on the void element World Energy leaking out of it and filling the room.

That portal will be a free source of void element World Energy to cultivate with!

Far away, in the Empire of Eternal Night’s Capital

Tarek Night – the Emperor of the Empire of Eternal Night – opens his eyes from his place seated atop his throne, startling the various nobles gathered below him. He then turns his gaze towards the south, in the direction of The Lost Mountains.

The nobles – used to their Emperor not directly paying attention to them during their debates – all freeze up in silence.

No one says a word for several minutes. It isn’t until the Emperor finally opens his mouth and speaks that everyone begins moving again, “The dungeon core has created a stable portal to the void.”

A commotion immediately breaks out amongst the nobles, including the Emperor’s son, as they all begin to discuss the dungeon core at length.

‘Fenrir,’ the Emperor thinks, his gaze still locked in the direction of the dungeon core, ‘it’s the same name.’

He continues staring for a few minutes before finally turning towards the West, in the direction of the Elven continent of Rhodes.

‘I’m sure the blood elf matriarch has learned of this as well…’ he thinks with a frown, only to turn to look directly at the nobles beneath him.

“Make sure the Blood Elves don’t hurt the dungeon,” the Emperor declares with a relatively laxed expression on his face.

Despite his declaration the man simply closes his eyes again while thinking, ‘I highly doubt she would go against a dungeon that shares the same name as him, but it’s best to be sure.’