Jade was ecstatic. The last year had been so interesting. The first explorers of the city watching their expressions. Having other enjoy one’s art is of the two great pleasures of an artist, the other being able to create such a piece. The joys of watching them try and figure out what he did to create the city. The deaths of the explorers.

Jade had never been blood thirsty even when practicing devil arts, it had been a slight thirst. Being a dungeon had changed his soul, that just changing universes didn’t or using cultivating technique you train by drinking blood. The need to kill the invaders, instincts termed was annoying. The few teams that got lost in the dungeon had no hope. They had no mapping skills, cooking skills or any survival skills. It was a pleasure to remove them from the dungeon using Blood Mind Syphon, weakening them for the animals to enjoy and Jade to keep the bones for arrays.

Jade was glad to see that you could earn points from invaders deaths. There was a flood of information every time someone died and it was up to Jade to learn as much as he could before a timer was released and the unlearned information left. The second and third teams had survival skills but couldn’t map to save their lives. Their deaths came from the north and east mushroom areas, still Jade drained them as they died to further his cultivation. The fourth team could amazingly map, but had no skills in cooking and eating most types of mushrooms raw is never a good idea.

The B ranked team had all the skills, still it didn’t help the scout who walked into a mushroom spore cloud. Their exploration ended at the caverns. They tried to figure out the secret of the confusion formation but after repeated failures and mental exhaustion they left. Good thing too. Jade was heavily pressured by his new instincts to attack them for trying to attack the shell protecting his core. In all the invaders gave him 19 points

The second floor was being slowly excavated. The deaths really boosted free mana Jade had to use for expanding the second floor. The dungeon produced 523 mana a day and there was for being level 10, there was 200 points of mana naturally entering his core, still his cultivation method brought in the most mana at around 3000 a day. Sadly his cultivation would drastically slow down the mana that Jade could absorb after reaching the halfway mark.

There was a pleasant surprise when Jade opened the store, skills and traps. The traps weren’t good at all, Jade could make those and heavily improved versions now. Skills! Jade found mana attribute skills for 100 to 10,000 points. There were also a rating of skills. Necessary, common, uncommon, rare, mythical, legendary. The necessary skills were monster drop rate, auto monster creation and dungeon ore deposits.

From what Jade learned from the adventurer's, life dungeons like himself only used drop rate and ore deposits. This was because in life dungeons monsters lived, reproduced, and died in a rapid cycle. Jade noticed that the animals in his dungeon did go through a life cycle quicker than natural wildlife. Jade took the monster drop rate (for 150 points) and dungeon ore deposit (for 50 points) skills.

Monster drop rate

Animals and monsters will drop a random preassigned item

Dungeon ore deposits

The ability to create ore veins. Ore veins (deposits) can be assigned based on materials consumed. Ore deposits will slowly consume mana to grow. Higher quality ores cost more mana to grow.

The only good news was that other than Blood Mind Syphon the rest of his cultivation methods had reached the halfway mark. Jade now could split his mind into 50 equal sections. Each cultivation method gave Jade the ability to attribute mana. From what little he had gotten from the adventurers, most dungeons either use one type of element. Using the ore veins from the dungeon ore deposit skill Jade was able to use the cultivation method of sculpted array bones.

Jade had a wonderful idea of using the profound copper veins he was using for his sculpted array bones as traps. Sculpted array bones used the bones as a storage of energy. Normally this provides a burst of power for combat. The Dungeon edition of sculpted array bones, uses the profound copper veins as bones to gather energy. When something triggers the sculpted array bones, a burst of energy damages everything around the profound copper vein. There were normal copper veins mixed in just to throw people off. Normally there would be 206 bones, the dungeon edition has 618 bones with room to grow.

Almost ready for the grand opening of the dungeon Jade kept looking at the store’s skills list. One skill stood out.

Skill book creation

Using your information can create new skill books. You can create already consumed skill books without it.

It was in the rare ranking but that was because only a few dungeons used it. For 250 points Jade picked it up. As he did.

Skill book creation

Using your information can create new skill books. You can create already consumed skill books without it. Synergizes with Monster Imbuement to transfer skills from dungeon to monster. Synergizes with Monster naming to create monster bloodlines that give skills to other generations. Synergizes with Architecture perk unique - monster buildings to create the new building of training room.

Jade reread the new information. Monster imbuement was never used before because the monster had to make a kill before the skill could be used. Monster bloodlines was something Jade was familiar with, it was similar to the cultivation universe of animals passing along special cultivation methods and traits to their offspring they got through cultivation or legendary herbs. The training rooms could speed up intelligent monsters training in skills but Jade had no intelligent monsters to give.

Of the many things Jade had received from people trading for coin in the dungeon hall there had been no animals, not even a rat. Jade knew the reasons. Life dungeons tended to have higher animal mutants than other dungeons, therefore adventurer guilds never gave animals to dungeons. The tools were mundane, but Jade now had several types of clay. He also gave everyone the best bedding possible. Updated shops with elemental spirits powering the new improved tools.

For the event over 50 thieves were killed. As the thieves died, Jade watched the formations activate building up a frenzy of excitement to those watching. Originally Jade just wanted to let the inhabitants of his city have something to watch, but now each person that died was free points. They didn’t even attempt to clean up the bodies leaving Jade with more bones.

Jade quickly became bored of watching the humans, the inhabitants chat, sing, and play. Some were praising the new fences around the edges of the buildings and parks. Now at 3 meters tall with a shocking array keeping anyone from trying to climb over. Which he was forced to do because one child nearly fell to their deaths while the parents were chatting away not paying attention.

Jade looked at the party where the new key holder Jonathan was sitting in a pit of self absorbed sorrow. Losing his brother with nothing to do but wallow. This kind of thing is common but it up to the person to get past it. If he could then Jonathan would be a worthy student in the cultivation world. Here? Jade ultimately only had a natural formation protecting him. A student may turn on the master if one is not careful. He could make a higher rank formation and teach but that would be a waste because not even a B rank party could attempt to understand it and Jonathan was not at that point.

As the party kept going it was boring but Jade was learning a lot about the landscape and politics. The kingdom was quite large for such an academic level. Even with magic the kingdom should have had enemy kingdoms putting pressure on the kingdom, but there was none of that leaving the kingdom to fester internally with nobles and kings. From the Lower third of the Multan Mountains in the west to the desert in the south there was about 1200 Km between the two points of the kingdom, then now east to west nearly a 1000 Km in distance.

Jade when he first came to the world thought it was a minor world. Then from what he learnt from the dead and from Martin all he knew was the kingdom with several kingdoms nearby. He thought it might be a Pangea world, but the from the stories that mothers told their children there were oceans with other continents in the west he knew that he was wrong. Nobles talked sometimes of a demon war several kingdoms away that he had not heard of before.

There were talk of gods, but no mortal ascending to immortality unless they were a hero that had slain a monster and were brought up by the gods to the gods realm as a reward. With how mana had acted from Jade’s experience, it was violent but could be used to promote longevity. The king wasn't some ancient being nor were the nobles.

Jade kept listening in to all the nobles in city to catch some words that can answer his questions, Jade caught sight of someone going to the party with Jonathan.

A child, with two elders. One elder was definitely older than the other and looked to be a warrior, a knight from earth would be an aft description. The other reminded him of clerks in the mortal world sects he would visit. The child was the most interesting of all.

As they introduced themselves, it made since. Why the two elders gave off those feelings. The child however was something else. Looking closer, the system did not give him an description, another limit to not being a city core. Jade used ice mind eyes. It was confirmed.

Jade made his move, he had the key shake awaking Jonathan from his child like lust. A key hole appeared in front of him. Slowly he put in the key. The two elders asked what he was doing. When he was shuttering to reply, Jade made his move. In front of Whitney he created a panel with a skill book. The skill book was icy phoenix's thunder roar. It took 7000 mana to create.

The icy phoenix was a rare physique for woman and extremely rare for men. Thunder roar physique was extremely rare for anyone. Together they only occurred in a minor world’s 2 or 3 times. In major world's no more that 20 times. This was a shock to meet it here. He had to teach, even if he wasn’t ready to defend himself.

As she touched the skill book, the elder’s tried to stop her, but a child’s curiosity is hard to stop in the moment. The book turned to dust and a swirl of energy entered her mind teaching her the skill. Still she would have to wait for her body to develop before she could train in the technique.

Dungeon Status

Level 10

Dungeon Type: Jade

Name: N/A

Titles: N/A

Achievements: Perfect Perfection, Ancient Presence, Dungeon City

Mana: 3004/25000

Points: 972

Floors: 2

Skills: Basic Dungeon Mana Gathering Level 1, Unknown Mana Gathering Level ???, Dungeon Mana Manipulation, Mana absorption, Mana creation Level 16, Dungeon expansion, Summon Monsters, Summon life, Monster imbuement, Monster Naming, Environmental Controls, Floor creation, Architecture Level 66, Monster drop rate, Dungeon ore deposits, Skill book creation,

Perks:

Architecture: 40 points

Improved Durability 1,2,3 for 15% increase in Durability

Age regression 1,2,3, for 30% increase in lifespan of buildings

Improved function 1,2,3, for 7.5% increase in functionality of buildings

Unique - monster homes 1, Increases monsters by 2.5% healing, 2.5% growth, 2.5% improvement

Unique - dungeon buildings 1, small: safe rooms/breeding rooms/training rooms

Fortifications 1, improved defense of buildings 7.5%

Magical buildings 1, 7.5% magically ability of buildings