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Interestingly enough, those guys seem to have been the actual Bosses, there were no other bosses after them, we swiftly cleaned the last floor of the dungeon and even carried out the trees we got, even the grass, the ground, and I cut down large chunks of ores growing underground too.
After stealing everything I could, I began to inspect things out as the rest of the party was celebrating by having another snack, this time they were eating roasted eel and catfish.
I wanted to see if I could find something like a Dungeon Core. I remember hearing from the Elders that there was a Dungeon Core, and depending on its mood, the monsters would be aggressive, more passive, or stronger or weaker, and this mood was also unpredictable.
I used my Dig and Mining Skill to dig through all the underground, constantly expanding my senses. At some point, I reached the spatial walls below and couldn't continue forward.
It was hopeless.
We completed the dungeon so how the heck can we find the dungeon core? Where the heck could it be? If we don't know about it how did others knew about it? Who found it?
Damn it!
CLASH!
I used my claws to hit the spatial walls below me as I saw them tremble a bit.
Hmm…
"Benladann, can you come down for a bit?"
Benladann came rushing as I decided to do some experiments with her Chaos.
"Benladann, can you hit this spatial wall with your axe infused with chaos?"
"You want to break it?" she asked.
"Yeah, let's experiment a bit. I have the feeling that something could be done there."
"Sure… I hope nothing too bad happens though…"
Benladann accepted my proposal as she did as I asked her. Her axe was infused with her powerful Chaos attribute, gaining a deadly dark red color fused with black.
CLAAAAAASSSSHHH!
Benladann hit it once but nothing happened.
"Keel going for a bit," I asked.
"Hmm… Fine." She sighed.
"Thank you," I said.
CLASH!
CLASH!
CLASH!
CLASH!
"Nothing is happening… Huh?"
Benladann and I noticed that something weird happened, a crack, as if hitting glass, had appeared.
"Hmmm…"
System, what's this?
<Analyzing… Crack in space. The spatial walls that maintain this entire biome can be cracked through the attribute-distorting power of chaos, apparently. It might heal over time…>
Can you see something below it?
<Analyzing… There's a vast room below, a presence of unknown origins lay dormant there.>
Oho.
"Benladann-chan, I think we hit a gold mine!" I laughed.
"Eh?"
"Keep smacking! I'll help you."
"A-Alright then dear…"
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!
We combined our efforts now, as both of us started to smack the crack!
After 5 minutes, the crack expanded a bit more!
And a bit more!
And a bit more!
After 20 minutes, it was expanding several centimeters.
And after half an hour, almost a meter.
And… after a whole hour…
Crack… crack!
CRASH!
A large hole opened up!
"Hahahahahah! We did it! Let's go!" I laughed like a maniac that has done something unthinkable!
"It really opened? But what's down there? I hope we just don't fall into the void…" said Benladann.
"Don't worry, I'll protect you," I said, as I grabbed her with my dragon arms and flew down below in my dragon form, by reducing my size, I managed to sneak in.
We arrived in a place of complete darkness.
It really felt like a void.
The light from the crack simply didn't come down here.
But as I flew down below, I suddenly felt floor, physical floor, made of bricks.
"I can't see anything!" said Benladann.
"Don't worry my princess, I shall carry you like this."
"D-Dummy! I-I am not a princess…" she said shyly.
"Alright, here."
"Uwah! Eh?"
I dropped her on the floor as she fell standing. And realized there was a floor.
"See? There's a floor."
"I still can't see anything…"
"Alright, wait a bit."
I used Photon Bullet but maintained the bullet instead of firing it, and accumulated mana into it until…
FLASH!
A flash of bright light emerged, illuminating a large amount of this place.
It looked like a giant room made of black and blue bricks.
"Wow… Eh? There's something there, in front of us…" said Benladann.
"Indeed…"
We walked towards it as the darkness dissipated.
What greeted our sight was… a watermelon-sized orb of white jewel.
It shone with almost no luster, it was covered in dirt and dust, it even had some mold over it.
"A ball?" asked Benladann.
<Report: It is a Dungeon Core, it seems to have been dormant for thousands of years since the dungeon's natural creation. To activate, probably infusing large quantities of mana might do the trick.>
I see…
"Indeed, I think this is a Dungeon Core. Let's infuse pure mana together." I said.
"O-Okay…"
FLASH!
We touched the mana core as we infused our mana, the overflowing rivers of ethereal energy flowed through the ball, as it slowly began to glow brighter, bit by bit.
"It is glowing… So amazing…" said Benladann. She was sometimes so cute and innocent with her reactions… She was really the cutest wife there could be.
"Indeed, it is reacting to our mana, keep pouring."
"Alright!"
We continued for a little while, after a few minutes, the entire room glowed.
It was as if all the walls, ceiling, and floor grew brighter, there were several runic tattoos across everywhere. These signs activated and made mana flow once more everywhere.
FLASH!
"Ungh… I am getting a bit tired." She sighed.
"Here."
I gave her an MP Potion made with my blood, which was as high as B-Rank in quality!
"Oooh!"
She quickly drank it off in a second, her mana was recovered in an instant!
This was the power of my potions as of now! It recovered almost 60% of Mana in one single shot.
Feeling refreshed, she continued to pour mana with me, and after 10 minutes, it finally happened, something!
"Look, look!"
The flashing light coming from the orb made the dirt and other things it had over it dissipate into ashes, as the Dungeon Core was once more fully awakened!
FLASH!
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