-Brea-

Brea watched as her Master slowly massaged her special flower. The Master spoke, "You did an excellent job with the Spirit Weed, so now it's time for the next herbalism level! The key to truly effective herbalism is mastering the techniques necessary to be in harmony with the flower's energy. You see this bud here? It must be properly tickled, stroked, and suckled to create the chemical and electrical reactions necessary for fluid secretion. Since this magical flower is highly sensitive and will move to some degree, it is vital to position the flower, so it does wiggle away from the process. I have known many a fellow master who has used various means to restrain the flower while they begin suckling."

Brea's eyes widened, and she gasped at the familiar intercourse. "But Master, I know these things! I even showed off my herbalism skills to my friend Brian! He took well to my lessons. He was able to coax so much fluid from my flower! I also told him about all sorts of other things like MANNA Shield potions; it was so exciting!"

The Master frowned and admonished Brea. "Darling! It is good to be proud of your skills, but don't just give access to your flower away so easily! If too many people know what you have, you will be taken advantage of eventually! I am proud that you were able to do a good job with Brian, though. We want to establish good relations when they are young, after all. Her eyes had a faint glow. "However, you still have lessons to learn!" Brea gasped a little as the Master guided her feet apart and into a meditative energy flow stance before pulling out a wooden cane and assuming a strict teacher pose.

"Now, I have a new lesson about how the correct pose can help direct energy to enhance the flower's natural ability further. You see, you don't always have to tie the flower down! By using controlled energetic poses, you can control your flower, and cause it not only to passively secret the necessary fluids but actually to squirt them. Are you ready? You will hold the correct poses as I command, and I will switch you lightly with the cane in the area you are failing at. Now spread your feet, and arch your back!".

-Brian-

"So tell me about the Imperial Library" Mike rolled his eyes. "Man breaking in there is impossible! Even with all your crazy machines, I don't know how you could beat the security!" "You let me worry about that," I growled. "Just give me the rundown. Don't leave anything out!" "Okay, okay, man! Listen, the place is a fort. The imperial palace houses the Arc-Mage faction, which is the SOUL faction in charge of this part of the continent. If you go to the castle, you will be surrounded by powerful levelers and people directly connected to the region's principality.

You must do everything you can not be seen by anyone! If they do see you, do not look in their eyes under any circumstances! If you connect with the eyes, it will significantly enhance your chance of being possessed! Do you understand the gravity of the situation here? I frowned. This sounded incredibly dangerous. I did have my beginning level STEALTH, but I had no illusion that that skill would be high enough to get me through the city, let alone the Library undiscovered. I grumbled, "Well then, it sounds like the only real way for me to survive that mission is to level up my STEALTH. I guess the mission to steal imperial secrets is shelved for the moment. Fortunately, the dungeon will be completed soon, and I should be able to sneak around and level up my stealth by dropping beasts or adventurers who try to invade!"

-Mike-

Mike was ecstatic! This dungeon array project was his chance to become someone powerful! He made his way down a long tunnel to a wooden door. Opening the door, he found himself in the newly constructed rune inscribing factory. He hit a large green button on a small podium, and the brand new brick-making machine began spitting out bricks to a conveyer belt. The bricks traveled down the belt to a small table where he would inscribe them with the necessary SOUL and MANNA runes and then pass them to a conveyer belt on the other side of the table where they would be transported to the bricklaying machine, which the Armageddon controlled.

The bricks were only about a foot long, so he would need at least 20,898,240 bricks to reach the spaceship at the core of the planet. He sighed. That wasn't going to happen until Brien leveled up his SNEAK and was able to find the information about automating rune inscriptions at the Imperial Library. However, he could make the necessary amount of bricks for a mile of dungeon tunnels. It would probably take about 5,000 bricks for a small 15-level dungeon as they planned. He got to work chiseling the grooves into the material.

-Brian-

The Armageddon was already setting bricks into the first entry tunnel for the dungeon, and Mike was working hard doing the rune inscriptions. It was time for me to get busy using the Dungeon Core Interface to build all the correct levels and rooms for the dungeon. My idea was to have the dungeon's first challenge determine how the rest of the delve would go as far as how lethal the traps would be. I used the "Build Room" option on the interface and then used the command line to change what I wanted. Finally, it was done! An alert flashed on my HUD. "Congratulations, you have built your first dungeon room. MANNA +1"

Level 1-The Room of Style

Info

Reward

You can beat this room by doing a unique and sensual dance

The dungeon will rate your dance and adjust the rest of the difficulty accordingly

Bypassing or refusing this challenge will result in more formidable challenges or reduced rewards on later levels

I giggled at how hilarious this first room was. Some very tough and mean people would surely become unique snowflakes here. Wild beasts and monsters would just run past the room, but that would automatically engage the super-tough defenses, which would be the perfect solution to beast management! After I was done giggling, I pulled up my stats to see just how much stronger I had to get:

Stats(Extended)

Category

Description

Skill

Body

Permanent bone structure augment (UNKNOWN MATERIAL)

Immortal/regeneration when damaged

Mind

Memory bank augment/link to CPU

Photographic Memory

Spirit

3%

YOU'RE A NOOBIE. DON'T GET POSSESSED!

Kung fu

Skill transferred from origin

Master

Manna Use

Ability to manipulate manna and cast spells

Manna infused blades (4.01/no max)

Path of cultivation

Overcome, and you can rule the mortals

1%

Close Combat

SG66-Hydraulic blades attached to the bone structure in your forearms

Cut through most materials with your fancy atom-sized blades

Ranged Combat

Orbital Strike--Choose between a kinetic strike or laser

Did that city block annoy you?

Sneaky Imperial

Move silently to avoid detection

noobies get caught(YOU'RE A NOOB)

Yeah, my stats defiantly had a long way to go for me to be powerful in this world. I was too easy prey for the powerful SOUL factions. I sighed and started work creating the next room for the dungeon.