Pov Dungeon Core

  As I was finishing up the 60th floor, I realized that I had done this faster than the previous floor, even though it was bigger. I really didn’t have more of me working on this floor than the previous one, which meant that the overall power I can command for changing things in my dungeon has grown more than I expected.

  Is this because I’m getting ever closer to diamond rank? Perhaps that's true. The breakthrough was easy—in fact, not advancing has become harder. With more and more diamond ranks living here, my mana generation has started to spike.

  This time, I put nearly all of my skill improvement into Sub Dungeons, bringing it to S rank. The rest I put into Outer Vision, but it was too little to improve it this time around.

  I wanted to round out the current skills that I had, at least to S rank, although I’m guessing a few of them I would not be able to get that far, as they are of a different quality—like the dungeon gateway skill.

  Perhaps it was a waste of a breakthrough, but currently, I had no certainty in what new skills to get, and waiting for a breakthrough to get an idea of what new skills I would need felt like it would delay me for too long.

  I hadn’t done much with my sub dungeons as I simply didn’t have time. After I reconnected with my dungeon, I did figure out that I could now make my core floor even larger, but when I thought things through, to my surprise, it turned out it wouldn’t actually be necessary. It would be a waste of time to expand the core floor, and that was a weird realization. Basically, if someone already reaches my core floor, the last of my defenses, I feel like I have already failed.

  It took me three months and one day to expand the 61st floor. That was an incredibly short amount of time, but it wasn't much shorter than the last one. I don’t think that by the time I reach the 75th floor, I would be doing each floor in a few days—that just didn’t seem feasible.

  What I needed to do was actually make use of the 60th floor. Like every other recent floor, it originally only had a couple of dungeon rooms to keep everything still connected, and of course, the floor guardian room—or, for this particular floor, a boss room. Now, a bit of it was filled with high-density mana crystal.

  Owning this much of it in the outside world would make you the richest person by a factor of ten. It’s just that I needed to channel all this mana away from me because if I didn’t, not only would I fill up incredibly fast, but if I didn’t trigger a breakthrough, I would simply break. I wonder if the Pixies knew that they could simply kill me by knocking me out for about 20 minutes or so.

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  I’ve tried to fix this problem with dungeon rules and even thought about some skills that might help, but the only thing that seemed to actually help is getting to the next breakthrough so my capacity would increase. It would be nice if I could get more capacity using a skill, but every dungeon that has tried has shattered. I still have some of their memories with their explosive ends.

  No, there’s no way of doing this. It’s just not feasible, the same way as messing with time would not end well. You could certainly try, and you would succeed to a certain extent, but the consequences are just too dire.

  With me finishing the 61st floor, I increased my Outer Vision to S rank and a bit went into Extreme Environment bringing it to C rank. Testing the skill out was quite nice, as I could now see quite far away. Perhaps I should augment this skill with another one that would help my vision function like a telescope so I could see truly far.

  So during the expansion of the 62nd floor, I pursued this line of inquiry. Not only did I look at telescopes, but I studied spells that allowed you to see further away, as well as different kinds of eyes and other methods of seeing. Perhaps it was a bit wrong to put so much of me into looking into this skill, but I had a feeling it might be really important in the future.

  So this time, in exactly three months, I triggered another breakthrough. This time, during the skill phase, I thought about all that I had learned and about my desire to look extremely far away and understand what’s there.

  It was quite a while before I came out of my breakthrough, I realized that it had been the longest advancement I have had. Quite a while ago, I figured out that if I did things quickly and already had planned things out, I could reduce the time I spent in whatever mind space the breakthrough happened in. This time, the skill I wanted to make took a lot of thinking through.

  Now came the moment of truth. I looked inside and quickly found the new skill—Extended Sight: Rank E. I might have failed here, the name was quite simple, but the rank gave me hope. Of course, inside my dungeon, I could view everything, so the skill wouldn’t do anything, but when I tried to look outside, I couldn’t.

  That made me panic a bit, but then I realized I needed to use my Outer Vision skill to be able to see outside. However, the range hadn’t extended. I was only confused for a moment, as it seemed like I needed to use Extended Sight while using Outer Vision.

  The effect was immediate, and all of a sudden, I could only see blackness. I needed to rein this skill in quite a bit to be able to still view this world. One thing was clear—I could still only view from one point of view, which was a bit annoying, but it would have to do.

  For the first time, I could actually see what the moon’s surface looked like. In fact, if I used the skill correctly, I could see it the same way as I could see grass on the surface around me.

  I looked over the information from the satellite outpost, then I did some calculations and used my skills to zoom in on a particular location in space. It didn’t take long for me to see a planet that I hadn’t seen before.

  It was more towards the edge of our solar system, as they were calling it now. This planet was a lot smaller than ours. In fact, they think that our planet is too big to be natural, but they were not yet completely certain about that.

  The planet that I could now see was grey in color. There was no life there, not even an atmosphere. Seeing that was awesome. I could view it almost like I was watching it while flying from high up.

  I was impressed by how far I could see. I tried to use the skill on a few stars I could see, but all that did was make them brighter. The skill was still too weak, but it was only at rank E. Perhaps if I got it to S rank, I could actually see another solar system.

  Waiting until daytime was excruciating, but seeing the sun close up was magnificent. The power it had, the way it moved, and whatever those large arches were—they were amazing. My current worlds had fake suns, but perhaps one day, I could actually make a real one. Wouldn’t that be amazing?

  Also, I had a feeling that the power it could provide would help my mana generation quite a lot if I did it correctly. But when I looked at my current floor size, I knew that I was a long way off from that dream.