Chapter 6

This world, Alliiru, was an interesting place. The entire planet was made of various types of stone, with granite being the most common type, although places like the obsidian land the Mana Crystal city was located in were not uncommon enough to be considered truly rare.

Also, there seemed to be no organic life on this world. Everything was formed from inorganic materials, even the “plants” if they can be called that. Stone flowers and crystal trees were a relatively common sight, save for certain land types, including the obsidian. What’s more, every form of “animal” life here was either an Elemental or a Golem.

What I wouldn’t give for a free century or two to study this world, he couldn’t help but lament in his heart. Although he was now, effectively, immortal, he didn’t have that kind of free time. A few decades at a time, maybe, but that kind of method would cause him to miss many important clues about the nature of this world, and would increase the time to understand it by tenfold at least.

A world like this was truly unique. In all his studies and travelling, he had seen countless worlds with countless varieties of life, and had even seen Elementals and Golems present naturally on some of those worlds. But a stone world holding only Golems and Elementals? This was unheard of. In fact, all of his research indicated it was almost impossible, unless…

Ah, so that’s it. Realisation flooded through his mind. This world was almost certainly a world like the one his Dungeon was located on. Chances are, it was directed to this state by Dungeon Gods. There were only a few Dungeons on this world big enough to have been made by them, but CoG did tell everyone right at the start that competition and land grabbing were all valid strategies.

The fact that less than a quarter of the world has any water, all of which is concentrated in one location, means that there are only land based barriers to hinder movement, which, for a Dungeon God, are very easy to work around.

No real division for any of the Gods, combined with a lack of organic resources to distract themselves with, probably led to large numbers of conflicts and competitions. Hence, only a few of the Dungeons really made it to a larger level, almost certainly allowing them to direct the end result of the world’s growth to their own ends.

Despite this, no matter how much power he poured into is senses, he couldn’t sense the presence of those Gods. There were enough traces to indicate his theory is correct, but beyond that, no sign they had stepped onto this world any time in the past century. Ah well, he thought, it would have been nice to speak with one. They may have had some good advice for dealing with some of the God specific aspects of the Dungeons.

With nothing else to do here, Arcius decided to leave. He returned to the room of doors and then to his room, sleeping for 29 years, as he had spent one within Alliiru. Upon coming to, he once again returned to his Dungeon, and checked his status.

Dungeon God:

Arcius

Dungeon Name:

Mana Capacity:

81850/81850

Mana Regen:

12502.5/year

Faith Capacity:

0/0

Faith Regen:

0/year

Number of Entrances:

1

Number of Rooms:

1584

Number of Floors:

1

Number of Species:

5

Dominant Species:

Infirmanacoral

Number of Bosses:

0

Looking over his status, he noticed that he now had three new species within his Dungeon. One of which had already become the currently dominant species. He opened up another window to look at all his species.

Species Rank

Species Name

1.

Infirmanacoral

2.

Infirmanabacteria

3.

Thermocoral

4.

Thermobacteria

5.

Prokaryotic Cells

Very interesting. Infirmanacoral were a type of coral evolved from Infirmanabacteria. They were multicellular and could be considered a sort of moving coral, as they did not grow on surfaces like normal corral, but instead drifted within water currents.

Naturally, they were found in almost every room of the Dungeon, save for E1, as they were almost all filled entirely with water. Interestingly, they seem to have originated from E2, the island room, although one would have thought they would come from E3.

Thermocoral and Thermobacteria, on the other hand, were a much more fascinating development. The Thermobacteria evolved from Prokaryotic Cells present in E1, but unlike Infirmanabacteria, Thermobacteria developed Thermophyll, a substance which allowed the bacteria to use the environments thermal energy to perform Thermosynthesis, essentially Photosynthesis with thermal instead of light energy.

Thermocoral, unlike normal coral, and Thermobacteria existed exclusively on land. This was because the evolution of Thermophyll also caused a change in the Cell Walls and Cell Membranes of both species.

This evolution meant that water, in high enough quantities, was essentially acid to them, and would kill them. A small amount, like the water vapour present in E1, was fine, but much more is enough to end them. This was why even the Thermocoral was ranked below the Infirmanabacteria, because although it is the greater species, it is only able to live in one room.

Moving on, Arcius closed his status and the species window. Continuing on as he had already done before, he spent 81840 Mana on making 2728 additional rooms, leaving him with only 10 Mana left. After that, he then looked at the upgrades screen again.

Upgrade

Description

Mana Capacity Cost

Environments III

This allows for even greater environment manipulation, as well as the ability to instantly generate any plant that already exists within the Dungeon and place it as desired.

 2000

New Plant

This specifically unlocks a brand new species of plant that you can use. Can be affected by Upgrade Species. [Warning: all plants acquired this way are pre-designed]

1000

[Note: Increases with every species of plant present]

New Species

This unlocks a new species for you to use. [Warning: all species acquired this way are pre-designed]

3000

[Note: Increases with every form of life present]

Upgrade Species

This allows you to upgrade an existing species to its next form. [Warning: only works on pre-designed species]

500+

[Note: exact cost depends on current level of life]

He decided to buy Environments III as well as the then unlocked Environments IV,

Upgrade

Description

Mana Capacity Cost

Environments IV

This allows for greater manipulation of temperature and environment, allowing for extreme environment types to be created. Also, this allows for the creation of Light Stones with adjustable light levels depending on the amount of Mana used to make them.

4000

This took a grand total of 6000 out of his Mana Capacity, but he viewed it as worthwhile, as it would allow him to better develop his E rooms. In the future. All of this left his status as such.

Dungeon God:

Arcius

Dungeon Name:

Mana Capacity:

10/212250

Mana Regen:

32962.5/year

Faith Capacity:

0/0

Faith Regen:

0/year

Number of Entrances:

1

Number of Rooms:

4312

Number of Floors:

1

Number of Species:

5

Dominant Species:

Infirmanacoral

Number of Bosses:

0

With all this done, Arcius decided to leave the Dungeon again, and prepare to head out, and down the third corridor.