Darkness, that was all he could see. It was everywhere he looked, darkness with small white specks flying around. He tried to move around, but he was unsure if it was working. As there was nothing but the dots to orient himself with. And with nothing else to do, he just began to try chasing after the dots. But he seemed to be unable to move. So, he just stared at the little dots, as they moved around. And just thought about different things like, what was he, who was he? He spends the time asking himself questions and trying to understand what was happening.

  A long-time after, or maybe it was just seconds that went by. There was no way for him to determine it. A new thing suddenly appeared. A flash and suddenly a massive amount of knowledge and images. They flashed through his mind so quickly that he had a hard time retaining it all. But there were a few images that burned themselves into him, images of mighty beast shattering mountains in their godly battles for dominance. He desired it, something in him burned to create these mighty beasts. God's among their kind.

  It took a while before he noticed that something new was in his vision.

  “System what is that?” he thought.

  “A dungeon core? What is that?” he asked.

  “Well that sounds mighty interesting,” he said.

  “Well there is nothing else I can do so I might as well do this,” he thought as he looked around the forever spreading blackness

  “How do I begin?” he asked.

  And before his eyes came, a seemingly infinite list of different types of dungeon cores, with different tiers and bonuses. It was almost too much, but he needed to focus. He only got one chance to choose correctly.

  “What do these tiers mean, do a higher tier mean that it is stronger?” He asked the blue box

  That was good to know and so he continued to look through the list. Some of the options would make him connected to a specific element like fire, water, earth or air. Which would increase the power of the creatures of that element. While others would increase his ability to create a specific type of monster, without elemental restrictions, like spiders, goblins, and trolls. A few of them even increased his ability to create treasure for the adventures that entered his dungeon.

  He looked through the list and while they all seemed good, they were all kind of restrictive too. For example, the elemental cores would only allow him to summon creatures of that specific element or a neutral element. Which the blue box informed him would later evolve into that specific element.

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  “Wait evolve?” He asked. He didn't know what but something about that word resonated with something in the core of his being.

  “That sounds interesting, are there any core types that I am compatible with, that specializes in different forms of evolution, that aren’t element-specific?” He asked.

  When he saw the last one, he felt it in his very core, this is the core type that most suited him. It was everything that he desired. But he still needed some clarification about it.

  “They all sound interesting, but what is the difference between “Chimera's evolution” and “Predators evolution” as their effects are very similar, and won't it influence the evolution you mentioned earlier?” he asked.

  Okay, that's good, and are there other ways to get monsters in my dungeon then through the bonuses? He asked.

  That was good to know. And none of these choices have any serious restrictions, that I couldn't live without. But then suddenly a question came to mind.

  “Wait you said earlier that higher tiers could get a shaky foundation, so if I am careful, and take it slow. Then that won't happen to me?”

  “Well then I have decided,” he said as he selected his choice.