《Commanders new life as a dungeon》 Prolog As I sit and stare from left to right, the entrance and new tunnels being dug. I wonder how I got here. The inspector waiting patiently for my story. It was the day after my 37th birthday. Walking down the street going to the command center. Hearing gunshot near the FOB would startle me but seeing as this is the final defense this was not something new. I won''t bore you on how we made our last stand. Literally standing while holding a flag was a dumb idea, it ended quick. // break // I opened my eyes to see a woman sitting on an office desk, an old typewriter to the right of her and a lamp on her left. She greeted me with a warm smile and "welcome please sit down as I read your file". I sat down with my poker face certain that this should fast after all one of God''s commandment is thou shall not kill.... Then five minutes have passed and she still reading. "will it be rude to ask question now" I think to my self looking around the room there one door facing the south wall, white wall with a framed picture of clown. "creepy but still nice", on the west wall, the east wall was an aquarium with no fish." how odd" And the North Wall behind the lady was filled with cabinets. With the young lady still reading, I look back to my past even thou I''m 34 deep inside I''m still 14. I still want to swim in lakes, play video games with my online friends. Chat and text to girls just to gleam information about my crush, but most importantly I miss my friends just. With a sight of regret and nostalgia, I said " man I miss playing dnd and being a dungeon master!". Upon hearing this the lady smiled at me again "that can be arranged" she said. Still having nostalgic thoughts I absentmindly said " sure you can" with a smirk. Thats when the wall suddenly moved backwards disappearing, the lady suddenly stood up. " in the new world you will be a dungeon core" she said with face that look like some heavy feeling being lift off. " thanks by the way most people scream or ask questions before we can reincarnate them". With a tone of professionalism she said " thank you for visiting hell, we hope we don''t see you next time" and with that I passed out. The story has been illicitly taken; should you find it on Amazon, report the infringement.// break// I woke up feeling strange as if I''m still a asleep, or simply floating. I brush the feeling aside to try and figure out what happened after our last stand, then it hit me I no longer have a body. It seems I hot reincarnated as a dungeon core, what in the seventh hell does that mean. Looking around, we''ll feeling around it seems I am in an abandoned chapel. My new body sitting snugly on the alter. A screen a apeared before me I began reading. I didn''t realise that there are people camping in the Chapel with me nor did I feel getting taken. chapter 1: A new day, A new beginning The little screen appeared in front is like a computer but in my brain. This is new but a good commander must always adapt according to the screen I have option to summon defenders for my ¡®body¡¯. when I want to summon something all I need to do is first say ¡®open summon¡¯ then ¡®summon .¡± Open summon¡± waving my invisible hand as if praying to the old Gods.
Summon Options:
Wolf<10> ? Variation of a wolf will be summoned based on the core location. Rarely spawn with a pack consisting of 3-5 wolfs. Health: 10/10 MP: N/A Skills: Scratch lvl2 Bite lvl2 Howl lvl1 Search lvl5
Goblin<15> ? Variation of Goblin will be summoned based on core location. Can spawn with weapon if lucky Health: 5/5 MP: N/A Skills: Search lvl1 Weapon skill lvl1
Slime<1> ? Variation of Sime will be summoned based on core location. Can spawn larger variation if lucky Health:10/10 MP: N/A Skills: Disintegrate lvl5
*Special Available to Advance Core
Ratkin<10> ? Dwellers of the underground, humanoid. Can select specific weapon . Will spawn with simple leather armor. Has a large sense of loyalty? Health 15/15 MP: 10/10 Skills: Weapon skill lvl2 Coordination lvl2
Spirit<10> ? A dead remnant of a living being most commonly human or humanoid. Health:5/5 MP: 30/30 Skills: Physical immunity lvl5 Sonic scream lvl1 Paralyzing scream lvl1 Cold touch lvl1 Curse lvl1
Dragonkin<15> ? A quadruped lizard like creature. Scales hard enough to block iron. Can evolved to dragonling Health 50/50 MP: 50/50 Skills: Pride of a dragon lvl5 Dragon breath lvl2 Scratch lvl5 Bite lvl7 Dragon scales lvl3
¡°Hmm special summon, ME LIKEY!¡±. But there are some complications, I would choose dragonkin, but skill called Pride of a dragon looks suspicious to me. It might not like being under me and try to eat my core or not listen to my orders. Spirt would be nice and powerful, will probably follow me but it seems like part of the physical immunity also means it can¡¯t do anything physical as cold touch from what I¡¯m reading is just cost mana, it makes me looks like an undead dungeon, that would be problematic. The ratkin seems bad at first but it is better from slime, wolf, or goblin. Coordination is the real gold here ratkin can cooperate with each other making a squad of them more effective that a bunch of goblin or slime. I wonder why wolves don¡¯t have that skill? Unauthorized duplication: this tale has been taken without consent. Report sightings. ¡°Summon Ratkin!¡± shouting in the air, a bright light shines from some indiscreet location disappearing and a ratkin kneeling replaced its location ¡°it¡¯s alive! Its alive!¡± laughing maniacally as the occasion warranted, I let my guard down. >>>>>>>><<<<<<< Walking down the old pathway near the capital is group of adventures, Mino a man whose height is as tall as a young tree, muscles that are as tick as stones, clothed in black tunic and brown pants a large mace snuggly sit beside it. Liliana a woman in unbelievably white robe, long black hair braded and pinned by an unseen force, a long white staff on her left hand. Mike A young hunter in every sense of the word from his bow on his back to the leather armor he¡¯s wearing. And a withered old man wearing a pristine purple robe with a dark wood staff on his right hand ¡°This better be right little priest¡± said Mino leading the group, ¡°I told you about the signs in my prophecy as a lined so far so why worry now¡± replied the priestess. ¡°Were here to collect the dungeon core why do you need to fight? Moving around a bramble patch the arch-mage noticed a bright light¡± silences the first summons is already here¡± gesturing to mike. My ratkin stands ¡°I greet my liege¡­.¡±, a sharp arrow wheeze past the wind landing in my ratkin heart.¡± What? why¡­? how?¡±. unable to process what just happened, a withered looking old man picked my bean sized core leading to me losing consciousness. ¡°That was easy ¡°Mino stepping over corpses of a ratkin. ¡°Easy to get the core yes the hard part is making sure we get back safe¡± replied the arch-mage.¡± The half a day journey back?¡± stated mike with a confidence grin on his face. ¡°Yes, were with the arch-mage prime target with a war on¡± replied sarcastically by the young priestess. >>>>>>><<<<<<<
! Congratulations on obtaining the following!
Slit Core
Advance mana generation
Sub Mind
Warning! Dungeon core integrity compromised lost innate ability set dungeon area. Mana generation will be limited to size of dungeon core. Dungeon core size unable to compute.
My head is throbbing, and my mind feels like is going through a grinder. ¡°Waking up is this how a hangover feels like¡± how would I know Ares IV didn¡¯t have alcohol since it is all used for fuel or used as cleaning agent in the meditent.¡± When did I have Vision? ¡°. Looking around there is two screen or more accurate a split screen but instead on a television it¡¯s on my eyes.¡± Is this how spider see. How do they live¡±. The left one is a podium, a planetarium. It¡¯s a circular room a big globe in the center I¡¯m in the center. ¡°That was weird¡± when I focus on this side, I feel like being whole again and when I move to the right side it feels like I¡¯m splitting.¡± Hmmm maybe that¡¯s the result of the split core and sub mind. On the right it¡¯s just green liquid¡± mysterious and I don¡¯t like unknown variables¡± ¡°Hmm let¡¯s try something new status¡±
! STAUTS! HP: 10,000/10,000 HP:10/100 MP:1,000,000/1,000,000 MP:30/30 Regeneration rate: HP: 100/s HP:100/hr. MP:1000/s MP:1000/s
¡°That looks wired but okay¡±, I guess having two cores can¡¯t be bad. ¡°Lest focus on the right core first mystery is always something bad¡±. Moving my consciousness to the right core, what to do first. ¡°I can¡¯t see so, Summon Ratkin! ¡°The light appeared again.
>>>>>Congratulation<<<<<< You successfully summoned a rakin squad leader!
¡°My liege I am here to serve¡± a rat kin wearing newly made leather armor, newly made iron tipped spear was kneeling in a foot deep swear water. ¡°that¡¯s great umm could you look for me I¡¯m almost dead. I replied with some trepidation. The ratkin manage to find my core after some time. ¡°my liege please be at ease I shall protect you with my life.¡± The ratkin seem too loyal to me let me try something too naming¡± ratkin for your loyalty I shall give you a name!¡± silent glee on my ¡®face¡¯. The ratkin kneels presenting its spear to me? ¡°Right your name shall be ¡®Ward¡¯ this means guardian¡± The ratkin or rather Ward, made an interesting preposition usually I¡¯m only able to summon one ratkin but having a squad leader means more ratkin. I summon more ratkin, with a brilliant flash of light three more ratling shows up, one with another spear, one with a shield and the last one armed by a bow and sling. ¡°We need to set up a base¡± Ward commanded the others. ¡°Right please find a suitable location I will be back when my HP recovers¡± I leave the left core and look at the right core. Moving forward with the shield and Ward at front, the core and archer in the middle and the last spearrat watching the back. They moved slowly hearing multiple sounds of different animals and creatures. The first encounter of the group is a lizardman, wearing a scarp clothes as if a tribal man, a crude club on his right. The shieldrat rushed over to bash and pin the lizardman while the Ward keeps attacking the lizardman right hand, while the three tussle an arrow whizzed pass through hitting the lizardman on the eye. The group only encountered group of two or the lone lizardman walking through the straight tunnel until reaching a wide area, that has two entrance one the tunnel they just walk through and another tunnel leading to unknown. ¡°This will our base for now bow and spear watch each entrance and hand over my liege to me¡± command Ward again to the squad of ratkin. >>>>>>><<<<<<< ¡°What are you doing?¡± my voice transformed in text and a box near the console where a man in robes is busy with doing something. The man looks up and reply ¡°I am just checking if there are breaches in the shield and to see what your status are¡± replied the man. ¡°Where am I?¡± I asked knowing this man will probably answer my question. ¡°you¡¯re in the central wizard tower where the new capitol shield is powered by you.¡± He replied with a slightly different tone in his voice. ¡°How can I see my status?¡± I asked absentmindedly. ¡°I don¡¯t know¡± he replied in a scared tone of voice. ¡°I need to go report something to the archimage¡± he said in hurry going to the door.
Do you wish to level up? [Yes] [No]
¡°Yes, please but will happen when I start to level uuuuuppppp?¡± a feeling like going to sleep it¡¯s not unpleasant just unexpected. ¡°Listen here you maggots!¡± shouts the lieutenant while hovering in front of our company. ¡°You may have finished basic training with melee, plasma enhanced or not but that does not mean where done here in the next month you will learn basic tactics.¡± Said the lieutenant his voice transmitted directly in our ears by our standard issue helmet. ¡°You should listen well less you shoot your brothers in the back!¡±. The lieutenant gave the general outline of the next month of training. Being with logistics and strategy we are given a few more liberties but that also means more leaning, they taught us squad to squad tactics to war scale tactics. Why did they separate teaching melee and range weapons? Something to think about as I deep deeper in a seemingly endless blackness Chapter 2: Reinforcement Waking up and seeing my ¡®body¡¯ sat in a makeshift podium. A roaring fire near the center of the tunnel, looking at the entrances it was covered by some ¡®wood¡¯. I say wood its actually just a big piece of some mushroom. The ratkin archer and shield watched the entrances while Ward watched over me, the other two is sleeping. The base is coming along very well, some house being built. The house is still under construction but, having some protection is better than none. After all home is where you make it. A voice interrupts my musing ¡°my liege you have been asleep for three days¡±. My squad leader Ward voice seems a little bit off¡± is there something wrong Ward?¡±. ¡°Yes, my liege we are running low on provision we tried to preserve the lizardman meat, but we were not successful¡±, ¡°let me see what I can do¡±. ¡°Core status!¡±
! STAUTS! HP: 10,000/10,000 HP:100/100 MP:1,000,000/1,000,000 MP:30/30 Regeneration rate: HP: 100/s HP:100/hr. MP:1000/s MP:1000/s ! New abilities unlocked!
¡°New abilities!¡±
Congratulation in reaching level 2 New ability unlocked: enviroooonnn meeeennnnnn ccccrrreee Error ¡­¡­ Error ¡­¡­ Processing ¡­¡­ Processing Due to innate ability of set dungeon area ability environmental creation cannot be given. Processing ¡­¡­.. Solution found: Innate ability simple creation has been given. Core: attribute pending!!!
¡°Simple creation?¡± that sound like an improvised crafting thing.
Simple creation: Able to create simple weapon, items, tools, equipment, and simple animals
That sounds like a simple conjuration spell from a videogame I used to play. Hmmm simple animals just what does that mean. Let see¡± simple creation sheep¡±. A bright light appeared again but this time it¡¯s more of blue hue, a wooly appeared that something good right being able to provide food, hide and wool. Hmm the mana cost is¡­.. one its one mana to summon an entire sheep? but ratkin cost ten and a wolf cost more than one too. This tale has been unlawfully obtained from Royal Road. If you discover it on Amazon, kindly report it. ¡°My liege what is this strange creature you created?¡±. Wait does sheep not exist here? If then what are the cattle here? My musing was ended by shrill from the summoned sheep in a pitch-dark tunnel, I don¡¯t blame it¡± kill it quickly¡±. ¡°Its food ward should last us a while?¡± does Ward look excited or is it just me? if my summoned need rest having more people might help with the rotation of people.¡± Open summon¡±
New summon available.
Lizard man<15> ? Lizard men are recommended near shallow to medium water level as they can move and hunt faster in such condition. Health: 10/10 MP: N/A Skills: Weapon use lvl2 Lizard scale lvl2 Taunt lvl1 Water movement lvl5
Special summon available: You have chosen ratkin now able to summon normal ratkin total limit increased by 5.
Safety in numbers I guess ¡°summon ratkin 5¡±.
Ratkins Rolling Rolling Ratkin < Squad leader > Ratkin < Healer > Ratkin< weaver > Ratkin < normal > Ratkin < normal >
Another five ratkin has been summoned. I gave the other squad leader the name of Tower, the healer has a tome and staff as equipment. I gave her the name of Aala she can cast moderate heal, which I don¡¯t know the meaning or what is it so supposed to do. The weaver is also she ratkin and has a weaving loom with her, I named her Castel with the ratkin summoned along side the ratkin who have tittles the total ratkin came to 9 new ratkin. More ratkin means more provision needed. ¡°Ward and tower please organize an expedition to map the tunnels¡±. ¡°By your order my liege¡± they replied in unison as if they are automatons. I task my weaver Castel into processing wool into armor or beds, while my healer and her apostles gather in a corner to pray. Interestingly it would seem that I¡¯m able to ¡®borrow¡¯ mana from my left core to my right core. Thinking in practical terms ¡®borrowing¡¯ a lot of mana might trigger the man monitoring my other core to report more anomaly to his supervisor. But that wont stop me from summoning a few more wooly. Which in hindsight might be a little bad for me as I don¡¯t know what will happen to me, sapient sentient me. There is also something I don¡¯t get sure I summoned the ratkin and they are loyal but what would happen if I summoned something else. Would they be loyal too. There is no real benefit from being summoned by a dungeon, right? what should I do first, well personal goal is to have a physical body to move around and protect myself. Hmmm, what is core attribute.
Core Attribute: Due to dungeon core losing innate ability core, core progress is subpar from other core and ability to protect itself is almost non-existence. Especially since dungeon core does not have boundaries summoned creatures are able to move or abandoned core. < it¡¯s not their fault they are just simple creatures> Core attribute the ability to set a theme with core progression, possible core attributes can be chosen by the core. For example, a dungeon can choose water attribute which will enable the dungeon core to flood an area which replaces innate ability to set an area.
The expedition composing with tower, two shield rat and two archers came back running, ¡°Aala what is happening¡± I call out to my healer who looks more like a priest as time goes by. ¡°It would seem there¡¯s and lizardman raid my lord¡±. ¡°My liege please not worry yourself well protect you with our lives¡± shouts Ward. I¡¯m left in the care of my weaver Castel and another ratkin who seems to be herding the sheep¡¯s feeding them mushrooms. That cant be good for them, right? I should test this attribute thing then. Totally not worried about that lizardman raid or something. ¡°I want my attribute to be one of those AI body¡± wait will it understand about the advance body AI used as their avatars? Those are goanna be op in this era which is ¡­¡­
Core Attribute: AI avatars Attribute nooooottttt¡­. ¡­. AI avatars approved. Please start the evolution phase when ready.
Is this thing broken? Well, what do I know¡± Start evolution!¡± darkness seems to take over me again now that I think about it my left core seems a little quite. <<<<< three days earlier>>>>> A robe novice mage running from the central tower to the town center where it seen better days. shop stalls strewn about; wooden boxes scattered around. Buildings dilapidated and needed immediate repair or reconstruction. Through desperate refugees. The novice mage reaches the barely repaired gate stone walls that have been broken wood reinforce them, running through the injured militia and knights. Going to the tower where the archmage rest. ¡°archmage there is a situation in the shield core¡± rasped the novice mage out of breath ¡°what we cant let that be broken or we wont survive that damn lizardman¡¯s clan chasing us¡±. ¡° the core asked question archmage¡± Chapter 3 Meeting A man with stoat stature and a long whiter beard dressed in prestigious robe on a rare purple hue of scarf. Looking at the ceiling in deep despair and hopelessness sit near the glass window both clear and dirtied from unkept upkeep. A woman in what was once white clothes now covered in ashes and blood, hands trembling in fear on the table. sitting covering her face in exhaustion she sat next to the merchant. < the priestess> A young kid sits where his father would have, the boy who¡¯s barely in his teens covered in armor faceplate hiding the exhausted grieving face. sat at the center near the back end of the room < the new city lord > Looking over to the right of the room where the empty sit of the liaison of the magic, the envoy of the confederation and the envoy of the empire. ¡°So much for not leaving us behind and well always be there¡±. The grand mage enters the meeting hall with tired breathing, no doubt running from the mage towers to here. ¡°Grand mage what is happing?¡± asked the young lord, ¡°please tell us the new shield will not be corrupted by the dark forces. Add the priestess. Oh god if the shield goes down again¡­. the merchant let the silence fished the sentence. ¡°That is why you are here I need your opinion and records of both the church and a merchant league¡±. Said the grand mage sitting in the chair left of the room near the door. ¡°What why would you need both our records¡± the priestess asked with trepidation and slight hint of suspiciousness. ¡°Yes, the shield core has developed a personality much faster than it ought to be¡± replied the grand magus. ¡°It already started questioning where it is and what is happing¡± ¡°that¡¯s way to early for a new core to develop a personality didn¡¯t the oracle of the empire say she was leading you to get a newly created core,¡± said the young lord ¡°Hmmm unless the oracle words fell through just like their aid¡± scoffed the merchant ¡°Well, we can¡¯t sit here and continue to blame them but if were dead we will be just another frontier settlement destroyed by the darkness¡± said the priestess looking directly at the merchant The young lord looked more excited than before ¡°I will tell the citizen to get ready and pray that the new core won¡¯t homicidal¡± the meeting ended and with the official separated to their task. You could be reading stolen content. Head to the original site for the genuine story. Back in the sewers¡­ The lizard captain is looking very confused as to why there are ratkin in the sewers when there was no warren nor tunnels when they first surveyed the area. ¡°Why is there ratkin in the sewers! And why do they attack us¡± said the lieutenant lizardman, ¡°perhaps the warrens of Lash and Bugo are rebelling and now are allied with the humans, replied to the servant merfolk. The captain lizardman slaps the servant ¡°I could put you to death for suggesting rebellion merfolk¡± the lieutenant lizardman laugh at the situation and began planning for the next assault. Back in the evolution phase¡­ Plans and blueprints of different humanoid android scattered about a center console where the transparent manifestation of the commander, with an exhausted face and impeachable rage the commander lay there defeated. ¡°Why can¡¯t you just cooperate the beta 1.0 android is the oldest design that I know of!¡±
Reviewing core memories. Opening suggestion to the core...
¡°Finally, a cookie!¡± the commander is looking at different support bots mainly the drones and spiders¡­. Silent rage of the commander resolved in a sigh as the latest spider bot is selected.
Spider bot selected¡­ New Titanium and tungsten alloy as body frame and Titanium sheet as body amour. New telescopic eyes available New torch function available New shooting gadget available Ammo creation available. YES / NO
¡°Yes¡± I came back from a portal to the smell of burning, as I use my new body to look around the carnage around me my new heart skipped a beat at my ratkin tower. ¡°My liege the lizardman are coming back please be careful they are more powerful and organized as we thought.¡± That was the dying breath of my ratkin.
Notice!! Ratkin dead (9) Ratkin may not be resurrected but you can summon new ratkins Aviable chances (8)
My sensor picks up the footstep of another lizardman. With my new avatar needing a spin and an old feeling that was long dulled long ago. ¡° the hunt begins¡± I whisper in the air. This new body was meant for support and recon the healing dart that are shot of my ¡°spinneret¡± can be replaced by small ammunition, ammunition that I can create with mana. I crept on the ceiling making sure to create a loud sound. the lizardman goes to the stone I had thrown looking at the direction of the sound. I positioned myself 45% degrees and with a silent wind I shot. The lizardman was hit in the neck passing through blood vessels killing him in slow agonizing death as I look it in the eye. Looking around the new tent for the ratkin is destroyed and bodies almost unrecognizable blood and guts spilling scattered in walls and floors, the heads of my ratkin is on pikes of wood, words beneath them unreadable.