The floating soul looked at the blue holographic screen blocking his sight for a few seconds, then tries to dismiss it – it promptly vanishes. The countdown is still there however, and now reads
[61:17:51 hours counting]
Looking around again the general sees that he is floating far up in the sky far above a landscape – no, it’s the inside of a titanic sphere with something like a mechanical sun in its center. It seems there is a black half-sphere orbiting around that strange sun to create day and night for the lands inside this sphere.
Around him something else floats - a mechanical-looking ball similiar to the sun in the center, but much smaller and with a strange, light blue glow, an orange crystal about one third the size of the ball and one green spark of energy or lightning in the air. Farther away he sees something like light grey asteroid swarms slowly floating around.
He checks the landscapes on the inside of the sphere - they look really strange for someone from Earth. The water is black, not blue, and there seem to be a lot less port towns than he would expect. Most cities and towns seem to be at rivers more inside the different continents - if those can be called continents and not islands that is. Everything looks small, but he can't decide if that is because he's extremely high up in the air or because they are indeed smaller.
Some of those island seem to be connected by road and bridges, but there are a lot of broken bridges visible as well - and why would anyone build a bridge into the direction of the ocean?
Let's table that strange landscape for later. What did the goddess say? Concentrate on [Help]?
Someone with an attitude wrote that – it would never have passed review if someone had programmed one of the army’s computers with such texts thinks the General to himself. So like a computer screen without monitor, and now I have two more keywords in addition to Help and Quests, that is History/Log and Status.
[Quests]
Only one choice... [The First Question].
“Blue core, what are you and what is your function?”
Spoiler: Link to documentation
“Blue core, what is the meaning of those classifications ‘Heroic’, ‘Unique’, ‘Average’ or ‘Divine’?”
Hmm [Complete Quest] as I already decided to go for the top and then let’s see what the other quests are, so that I know what questions to ask next.
[Quests]
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“HEY BAREEN! Would it have killed you to mention that if I fail, I’ll be sacrificed to become a distraction and delay for the war???”
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“Bluey, what exactly is a rogue dungeon and what are the differences to a normal dungeon?”
“Wait a second – I am to prevent a war over the possession of dungeons that happens outside of them and/or draw the conflict to enter them, but I will have limited influence outside my own floors? How does that even work???”
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“Back to the basics – Blue core, why are the dungeons sometimes considered to be treasures, and what is their function in the cycle?”
“How large are these lands and countries? Any Information on this or the size of the Sphere in your database?”
“So I need to find a way to lure all three empires into the dungeon without them fighting over the entrance. Is there a place where borders of all three empires meet? What is the area there and anything else?”
“Is it possible for a dungeon to have more than one entry? And can those entry points perhaps be connected by subterranean corridors one or two hundred kilometers long?”
<”Such an option is possible, but needs some additional restrictions. Choose: Either they can only be placed into a safe area, or they will not be available until the core reaches level 50. Additional minor restrictions will also apply”>
“Hey, I want to talk with Bareen”.
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“Did you hear my words?”
a computer-based search engine – no intelligence found here…
“Can you open the connection to Bareen for me to talk with her?”
“What is my level, and what is the average level by the time when a dungeon opens?”
[Status]
“There are soo many questions about this…”