I own Nothing of Tensura
Lying on the floor in my living room, No one in sight to help, I felt my life leave me. Slowly the cold breath of death creeped in, and I accepted it with open arms, not like I can even move them, I can't even twitch my fingers currently.
My thought drifted to the end and If I were to be reincarnated. I would like a body free approach, like being a ghost or dungeon.
Notice. Reincarnation as Unique race: [Dungeon Core, using a golem as a blueprint. Successful. Converting the mind to think with the soul.
Hmm? Is someone talking? What's this new feeling? Eh, doesn't matter, I guess.
If I were to be a dungeon, I guess I would need some help. Something to manipulate the surroundings? Maybe some creature creation to make helpers? And something to bring people back to my dungeon, like strengthening them and myself to make some more monsters. And some loot creation.
Notice. Unique skill: [Dungeon Heart] has been acquired.
Another voice? Ehh I might as well just get on with this.
And so I closed off my mind and passed out.
With no more thoughts I had started to pass on into my next life, falling through a tightening passage, being squeezed more and more as time goes on until I'm at the size of a human head.
And I woke up again.
I had woken up in a void.
A blank void, no colour, but one could say it was black.
The only thing there was me, a humanoid white ghostly body with no features.
As I was floating there, moving to look round the void I was in.
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I really was alone. I couldn't even make sound here. Was I truly dead, is this the afterlife, purgatory? Heaven? Hell? Something else?
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I started to count after a few seconds to slow down my thoughts and hold off some panic.
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It's been exactly an hour and I started to get bored, so I started to learn to think multiple things at once.
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3 days, 5 hours and 25 minutes later I was rewarded for my progress.
Notice. Extra Skill: [Parallel Thought] has been acquired.
After that, it suddenly got much easier to think multiple things at the same time.
The skill caused a white orb to exit me, and I automatically gave it my task of counting time passage. And now I can tell easily that it's been 3 days, 5 hours, 26 minutes without even truly thinking it.
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89 days, 59 hours and 50 minutes has passed since I woke up. I had since acquired the Extra skill: [Thought Acceleration, although I hadn't used it since I don't want to make time faster for me at this moment, i barely even have things to think on after 30 days, I can't even sleep to pass the time.
And so I just spent this time thinking of random things and memories. It seems I had forgotten my old name.
Continuing on that thought for the next 10 minutes, I suddenly understood. Not the answer to my question, but I finally understood a fragment of myself. A fragment of my being that had finally attuned to my soul. A skill, my Unique Skill: [Dungeon Heart].
My final wish, utilising a fragment of it [Analysis] I went to understand it in detail instead of understanding its existence. Unique Skill: [Dungeon heart] is a skill unique to the will that's carved into the soul, Being made up of the Sub-Skills:
[Domain Manipulation] the ability to manipulate the surroundings within the user's power.
[Analysis] the ability to analyse within my domain.
[Creature Spawn] the ability to create a creature that follows orders, sometimes can have a soul making its own decisions.
[Dungeon Treasure] the ability to hold a subspace to store non-living items in it.
[Dungeon Loot] the ability to create loot using magicules, the building blocks for magic and magic creatures.
[Absorber] the ability to passively absorb magicules into myself, strengthening me.
And finally [Bestowal] the ability to strengthen people in my domain.
Utilising these abilities, I fulfil a passing dying wish to be a living dungeon. Furthermore, I analysed myself and turns out I am a dungeon core, a unique sub-race of a golem. And so with all that done, I had slowed down my [Thought Acceleration] back down to 0 and went back into thinking. The one thing I can do right now.
I focused on the energy I can now feel inside myself, I felt the "pool" being stretched as I absorbed more from my surroundings by the sub-skill [Absorber].
Following on the external energy flowing in I analysed the surrounding magicules and what is causing some disturbances with how they move and interact hoping for something new to happen, and some time later I gained a new skill.
Notice. Extra skill: [Magic Perception] has been acquired
Information filled my head and I used [Parallel Thought] to analyse the sort the data.
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It turns out light and sound is effected and effects the magicules, and so with that I can finally see and hear.
I'm just a crystal ball at the size of a head in the middle of the forest. And with some sadness I found that there is no other creature around, only trees.
Utilising [Dungeon heart] I apply [Domain Manipulation] to my surroundings, I cover myself with a tree to make it so I'm in its trunk showing through and build my domain by moving the surrounding trees and earth to make a maze around me. Pitfalls and unstable walls were made and magicules were absorbed and my domain stretched.
Analysing myself, I found an aura leaking and it apparently can push beings away, so I lowered the intensity to draw things into my dungeon.
Satisfied with my build, I moved my focus back into my core and found my drifting self, a slight fogy humanoid completely void of anything but white, as orbs floated behind.
Bringing my focus out of magic perception in shock, I returned to the void into the figure in the that I had saw in the core.
Shaking myself off of the shock, I went to redecorate the internal core, focusing on the data from [Magic Perception] I went to build the area internally.
The void slowly turned into the outside view, where I can "float" around the surroundings.
Notice. Extra Skill: [Astral Projection] has been acquired.
My focus was brought from my task, revealing that I was still in my humanoid form floating about, but I was outside my core thanks to the new skill working.
With the sudden joy that came with my success, I floated around my domain. Looking outwards towards the edge of my domain, I noticed that my sight started to deteriorate towards the edges, then returned to the void.
Making sure to remember that I went back to my core. Creating a [Parallel Thought, idly noticing another orb appear behind me, I focused it to be making up and categorising creatures and weapons.
Floating above the core, I looked round at my domain in excitement. Looking forward to the future and my plan's.
