By now the headache was beginning to subside, thankfully, making it easier to continue. The Skills were kind of self-explanatory by this point, and what ones weren''t the System Memories that were hammered into me (for lack of a better term) explained to an extent. Ether was a natural energy that permeated the world in a similar way as air only physical barriers didn''t affect it. Sentient Creatures could absorb a small amount and convert it into a usable Mana but the efficiency was so low it was pitiful. Ether was also harmful to them in larger amounts. By contrast, a fatally large amount for them was a drop in the pond for me.


    Since more than half of the mana I generated was released to the world, if I didn''t produce a decent amount in the first place I''d never get anything done. The reasons why were a little vague. I guess since a Dungeon Core is technically an item they didn''t really need that info. I could infer from my new memories that Raw Mana was easier for Sentient Creatures to make their own, as such I assumed it was the work of a God trying to help them.


    The rest were rather straightforward with few exceptions. They allowed me to build, populate and manage my dungeon. A normal Core''s creatures were essentially golems. They stood around like statues until a perceived threat came within a certain range of them. The only way to improve them was to insert a Manastone into them and let them evolve passively. A Manastone would give them a stripped down version of the cores own AI, it was an expensive process so it would only do it to a couple of them and use them as bosses. It could also allow them to leave the dungeon for a limited time without a large drop in ability or dying straight away.


    If you encounter this narrative on Amazon, note that it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it.   What that meant for me with my peculiar traits lineup I wasn''t sure, but I assumed my creatures would end up with some semblance of sentience with basic instincts. And that was before I used a Soulstone on them. Soulstones were a significant upgrade from a Manastone. From the little I had, I knew that with a Soulstone creatures could stay outside a dungeon for much longer and as long as their Soulstone was inside the dungeon they could be resurrected. What they would do for me I had no real idea, I could guess a little but that''s it.


    Evolution was normally a slow passive process the dungeon would have no control over past the creatures environment. And my traits have given me access to an active version with greater effects. I had no doubt that it will be difficult to use though. Same with my custom monster skills. The System didn''t give any real info on its limits other than what I can perceive. Huh, perhaps I should have gone to uni after all.