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Chapter 320 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Pov Dungeon Core

I was so small compared to this gas giant. It was also so much bigger than my biggest floor. I would need to be three times bigger to be able to fit it.

There was one skill that I haven’t upgraded for a really long while, that was space expansion. The problem was, if I did that, it would take me a lot longer to expand the following floors, and from the calculations I’ve done, I am not entirely sure if it would be safe for me to do it right now. Who knows how f...

Chapter 19 In space with a junkyard ship

It was time for the last deceleration burn, and then about two hours of slowly drifting towards the docking bay I purchased. Well, I didn’t purchase it yet just promised the station authorities that I was going to pay to stay in there for two weeks, which was going to cost me 167,000 mana credits.

Another reason why I couldn’t just stay here to rebuild my entire ship. The docking fees were going to bankrupt me if I was going to do that.

One of the programs I made for the commu...

Chapter 319 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Pov Leader of the Beasts

It was weird to be out in the open and having so many people look at me who weren't from our clans. Yet I didn’t want to miss seeing a dungeon leaving this world with my own eyes.

It threw us quite a few curveballs by the end of it, but even now I’m a bit sceptical about all of this. How was it going to make something as big as the dungeon go into space?

The knowledge he shared—that I believe. Others will take a bit longer to convince, but one ...

Chapter 18 In space with a junkyard ship

I was getting a little bit anxious about what we might find in the Trade Centre. Currently, my interactions have been pleasant or being attacked, but I’m guessing this would get a lot more varied as I continue to meet more aliens.

What was also causing my anxiety to go up is the state of this ship.

I had been a bit too wrung out to truly dive into this, but well—we are quite fucked. The biggest problem is the radiation shield.

Turns out it’s incredibly useful, not just...

Chapter 318 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Pov Unknown

"Master, that signal I’ve been trying to get a lock on—it's not showing up even a little bit anymore. I think whatever experiments they were running, they either ended it well or figured out that someone might see it."

"That was the weak diamond world core signal, right?"

"Yes, although I’m not sure it is. Our devices should have easily been able to detect that, and it is in a region that is way too young to have any of these types of cores. I’ve also loo...

Chapter 17 In space with a junkyard ship

There was so much pain, but pain meant that I was alive. Still, shouldn't I be feeling nearly no pain because of some of the cybernetics that should filter that out? What I tried to do was just breathe slowly in and out, trying to get enough strength to actually open my eyes.

“Lola, are we still flying?” I finally managed to get out when I felt some strength returning.

“Master, you're awake. That's good. I was afraid you wouldn’t wake up.”

“You should have more f...

Chapter 317 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

The 91st floor was done. The shape of it felt weird. I think the weirdness comes from the fact that I’m just not used to it, but there is a right feeling underneath that.

Perhaps it's because this floor is now a perfect circle like myself—but of course a lot bigger. The radius of it is 21,500 kilometres, which means that I could actually fit the world I was currently on into it with some room to spare, although not a lot.

Fortunately, this world’s size is an anomaly in many ...

Chapter 316 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

The worlds were finished. All I had to do now was add the correct world to the lists of the available gateways to the correct people. I contemplated not announcing anything, but I believe that would be a bit too evil. So everyone found out that the worlds were ready, and while I was quite busy, it was important to take time off and observe the happy faces of everyone who had won.

Turns out the ant nations wanted to use this world as a place where young Queens could go and start their co...

Chapter 315 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

The competition came to an end, but my mind was mostly elsewhere. For a long while, I focused fully on the competition to go through all that had happened. I did so because I needed to make sure the points were all correct, just in case.

After a week of doing this, I was certain we had the correct winners. The competition was over, but I had yet to announce the winner, and everyone was getting restless.

One of the ones who was really restless was Rafe, because he now had about 100...

Chapter 16 In space with a junkyard ship

The journey in this current was a lot smoother, but time still stretched on. I was also trying to figure out if I could make my machines, especially the printers, work in this type of gravity.

The simulations we have run have not been promising, and honestly, I’m just happy that they seem to be built so sturdily that they can survive a lot of acceleration, even if they couldn't work during the current one.

Fortunately, I was going to get a small break to this routine, as we were...

Chapter 314 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Currently, the tournament was in full swing, but it was hard for me to concentrate on it. The reason being a fight that happened about a week ago, basically at the start of the tournament. I often revisited the fight, and I think I needed to do it once again.

It wasn't anything special, at least not special enough for me to properly focus on it from the start. The alert, however, kept climbing up until a lot of me was focused on this fight—especially on one of the fighters and how he ...

Chapter 15 In space with a junkyard ship

We were on our final approach to the drop-off location. From this close, the space station looked quite big. The design of the station was actually not that alien—the protrusions kinda reminded me of natural-looking big stones.

What I wanted to do was use my strongest lidar to get a better picture, but that would probably be taken as a hostile action, so I refrained and kept our sensors mostly passive.

I had woken up one of the drones that had the capability of moving in space b...

Chapter 14 In space with a junkyard ship

The 3D printer was about to finish. During this time, I had only just managed to collect a tiny bit of mana and inject it into my core. I believe it had some effect, giving me more power, but if I had to guess, I would say it was under 0.01%.

This truly would take forever. I guess that’s why people challenged the portals—because killing there would get you a lot more mana that you barely had to do anything to integrate with your mana core.

So, for right now, I definitely neede...

Chapter 13 In space with a junkyard ship

“I guess there’s no pushing it back any longer. Lola, I’m going into the spiky-looking death chair.”

“Please don’t call it that.”

“Well, it's going to be dismantled after this, so fine.”

The best chance for me to get my cybernetics and connections to properly integrate with my new mana rebirth body was to have them active. So nothing went into shutdown.

None of the drones had anything to do so they were just hanging out—some did play with each other...

Chapter 313 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

The research teams found another problem. It seems that gravity wasn’t going to be the only problem when we got to space. Fortunately, that problem was mostly solved, but it seems that not entirely like I had expected.

Turns out there are terrifying things out there that have such strong gravitational pull they even drag light into them, and nothing seemed to be able to escape when you got too close.

That can be avoided, we just couldn’t go close to them. What couldn’t be av...

Chapter 12 In space with a junkyard ship

One week and two days later

I felt stiff.

When I tried to move my hand, I couldn’t—it felt so heavy, and there was something stopping me. My mouth was so dry that it was hard to even open it.

What’s happening?

Then I remembered—the surgery.

It took me a while, but eventually, I managed to croak out, “Water.”

Only a bit later, I felt water trickling into my mouth, and everything started to feel better. When I opened my eyes, I co...

Chapter 312 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

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Feeling better so chapters I write. Not writing has become harder and harder. I do not know how to feel about that.

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The next week was incredibly fun. The absolute panic at the start—where everyone was scrambling to understand what this new task was all about and then trying to find solutions—was entertaining to watch.

Many were struggling to understand how to defend against something greater than themselves, with most coming to the conclusion that they n...

Chapter 11 In space with a junkyard ship

Three weeks and two days later

The screens to my left and right, which would allow me to see everything around my ship when sitting in the pilot’s chair, were gone. What replaced them were storage vessels that held the different bio-cybernetic organs that were going into me in about an hour.

Drones were moving about, practicing the surgical moves they were about to perform. These were the medical drones I had brought with me, so this was their job, but it was st...

Announcement

Like I announced on Discord no chapters today. Unfortunately, my hope of this being the regular sick I get did not come true. Seems I have gotten myself some asshole virus. I don't know when I will feel good enough to write again, but it will most likely be a few days.

Chapter 311 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

This was simply the best—watching everyone scramble to adjust to the new achievements and goals. Overall, I was disappointed. Way too many went chasing the new and shiny things. But I guess we will see how they do in the long run.

This time, the challenges were more in line with how you can change the environment around you instead of what you and your people could produce.

Watching everything happen while continuing to expand my next floor, building, and doing everything else f...

Chapter 10 In space with a junkyard ship

Three days later

"I don’t think it’s going to fit."

"Lola, stop being pessimistic. It needs to fit."

"I understand that, believe me, I want it to fit, but I think it’s just a bit too big."

"Trust me, it’s going to fit. I just might have to dent the surface a bit."

"Wait, what?"

I used my left hand this time and pushed the surface of the housing that protected the computer core. It bent in a bit, and I managed to fit in the quantum c...

Chapter 310 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Pov Dungeon Core

The first month of the competition was already so much fun, and this was just the first month, where basically nothing special happened—only the first step of the evaluation.

I released the leaderboards and watched the shocked faces, once again capturing their likenesses. The future was going to be good when new versions of the coins were released, and someone found their own face there.

What they were so surprised about was the leaderboard. No one was sho...

Chapter 9 In space with a junkyard ship

Lola was still gathering information about our local area, and I had just finished a 12-hour programming session—I was tired.

We would later have to test all the programs in simulations, which would take some time. Too bad we couldn't use any of the quantum chips. We simply wouldn’t have the room for such luxury. The cooling solutions took up too much space, and, of course, it meant we needed to constantly burn our supply of liquid nitrogen.

Liquid nitrogen was also one of the...

Chapter 309 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Pov Carl

I was trying to enjoy my quiet meditation session, but I knew that the time I had was cut short, and it was only a matter of time before someone burst through that door. ETG could have at least given some more time for everything to settle down, but from the rumors we had heard, I think this is a better alternative to the wars that were brewing.

The ladders and positions that had chances to win large rooms or even worlds just made me realize how big he truly was. The chal...

Chapter 8 In space with a junkyard ship

Two days later

I finished the quantum transponder. The communication PC was also basically done, as I had many components ready in storage—especially the really good processor that I wouldn’t even be able to make with the best nozzle I have for the 3D printer.

This will put me well past the minimum specs for a PC like this. I still have some components to build that are a lot better than the current communications array, which should allow for a much better co...

Chapter 308 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

I was now 81 floors deep. Quickly, I reconnected with my dungeon and checked if anything had gone wrong, but nothing had. Then I looked inside to see if I had managed to get the correct skill.

What greeted me was a skill called Space Push: Rank D. Not exactly the name I was expecting, but I guess it’s time to test it out a bit.

This was going to be strange. Slowly, I loosened my hold on Hold Location while gradually increasing the usage of Space Push. We dropped a bit as I hadn�...

Chapter 7 In space with a junkyard ship

As the printer continued to make parts for the better quantum PC, I continued to read everything Lola had gathered thus far.

It would just take money to get me connected to Lola in a lawful way. Another way was to be connected magically and that seemed a bit simpler than the technological solution. I just needed to be connected to her during my mana rebirth.

One thing was unfortunately true—I was going to have to get a job. Running a ship was not going to be cheap.

This wa...

Chapter 307 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

With my latest breakthrough, I managed to get Aura Crystal, Hold Location, and Extended Sight all from rank A to S. That would help me a lot, but I hoped that with the next breakthrough, I would be able to make a skill that would help me in my future plans.

Hopefully, they will have this spell to travel through space worked out, and hopefully, it will be enough to actually get across the distances between stars.

Of course, I started to expand my 80th floor, but as I looked over ev...

Chapter 6 In space with a junkyard ship

Every once in a while, I glanced at a screen with the translated homepage image. There were some other things there as well, but my eyes always moved to look at one location.

It had been nearly an hour and a half because when I tried to reconnect in half an hour, as the instructions said, it didn’t work. Then the instructions said to wait an hour, if that didn’t work the wait needed to be two hours and so on and on. Otherwise, I just sat there quietly, thinking.

"An hour has p...

Chapter 5 In space with a junkyard ship

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So I guess this is the choice of the two stories I will continue to write. Man this is fun to write. Hope you all will like this surprise chapter.

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Unfortunately, it seems that the cosmic radiation is even messing with this type of signal, so currently, it was the third go-round, and I hoped this one would be stable at the correct times so we could get the missing pieces of code to properly retrieve the blueprints to whatever this was.

With every repeat of the...