"Congratulations master on gaining your new class" the Lion spoke up, breaking the silence that had been brought on by my sudden lightshow.
"you got a new class?" Asha asked with shock in her voice. I furrowed my brows in confusion as I turned to her and asked.
"You sound so surprised, why?" Asha looked at me like I had grown a second head. It was almost as if there was something she expected me to know, but I didn't. It was Asare who came to my rescue.
"Master the fact of the matter is that, every living being are always allocated their first class during their first awakening at eight years old. Subsequent classes are incredibly hard to get, and most time getting a second or third class depends greatly on a number of factors including luck, talent and wealth. People who have no access to those three factors would only be able to rely on time and severe training to get another class.
However there's a special class on Shearath called the Siphoner. This people can serve as a medium to transfer, or copy the class of one person onto another. However the person receiving the class would have to pay a toll that includes a certain percentage of the soul and memories from their life.
Of course such methods have their own dangers as it's possible the receiver of the new class might loose a memory that's crucial or important to their character, life and even the love they have for certain people in their lives. They would also experience a drop in strength.
So The mistress's worry is not unwarranted. We're all afraid you might have given up something really important.....are you ok master."
I blinked in surprise, so this was reason? I had to admit though they were spot on about their worries. But I didn't pay anything other than giving up my farmer class and the memory of....oh! I think I get it now.
"I did have to pay a price, it was my farmer class and the yNo memory of all it's skills and every trick I've learnt In regards to farming. As of this moment, I know absolutely nothing about farming, as if this is the first time I'm hearing about it. This is weird." I answered and mused as I shifted my gaze back to giant stone doors and the lion on it.
"Husband are you okay? Asha asked as she came close and placed her hand on my shoulder in worry. I turned to her and gave her the brightest smile I could muster.
"I'm fine Asha, it's just weird losing a memory and actually being conscious about it. It's as if one moment it was there, and then the next it was missing. It was spooky." I answered. Asha looked at me shook her head then proceeded to pull my cheeks apart, stretching them way past their limit.
"Owowowowowowowowoe!"
"Spooky hunh! Next time you want to contemplate the extent of a spookiness, then can you do us all a favor and not be so spooky about it. You have a tendency of passing out or going into a coma every once in a while, so we're always worried. If it's not so serious, then don't embellish it humph!" Then she proceeded to hit on my head for good measure.
I felt wronged, it was not as if I did this on purpose. I turned to look at someone who would support me, only to see every other person turning their heads sideways and focusing on the blank grey wall. Traitors the lot of them, are they that scared of Asha, or were they really betraying me. So not fair.
"Master! The Beastiary awaits." I heard the lion say, bringing an end to my pity party.
I turned and made my way towards the gate, I could hear everyone behind me take deep bated breaths as I placed my hand on the stone gate. There was a massive flash as a dot of light began to trace the contours and edges of the gate, then there was a massive boom and a cloud of dust was released into the air.
It dissipated almost immediately, and then the gate split in half from the middle and began to slide into the wall with one half sliding into the left wall, and the other half actually sliding down into the earth than right like it's counterpart.
At first all I saw was a bright light behind those gates. I had to squint for a second, and by the time the light faded, I was at loss for words. Was this a dungeon, or was this a resort for monsters.
This was the single most beautiful thing I have ever seen in all of my memories. I was looking at a cavern almost five hundred meters wide and long, hour glass like pillars of earth stretched from the ground to ceiling as they demarcated and divided the cavern into multiple sections.
Those pillars had caves hollowed out of their frame, and while this pillars were not even half of a quarter as big as the towers in the pit, it was so wide it would probably take twenty full grown men no shorter than six feet tall standing around it before it could be measured.
At the foot of these pillars I could see the rats scurrying about with a carefree and nonchalant attitude. The bats which were the majority flew all over, screeching their pleasure at the tranquility of their new home.
Massive glowing crystals stuck out of the walls, ground and roof, even on the pillars in irregular intervals as the bathed the cavern in a variety of colors.
There was no vegetation to be seen, however I could see a huge lake on the east side of the cavern, and it sparkled a brilliant silver from where I was standing. It was really beautiful. I turned around to see that everyone else was as awestruck at the sight as I was. I gave a simple chuckle and left them to their devices. They needed the break anyway. A simple mental command brought up an entirely new system Interface before me.
DUNGEON: UNAMED
DUNGEON CORE: UNAMED(ACTIVE)
DUNGEON RANK: TIER 0
OWNER: KAEL COR
FLOORS: 1
BIOLOGICAL ENERGY: 0%
ENERGY: 500/500
MONSTERS:
• BOVINE: 0
• FELINE: 0
• CANINE: 0
• URSINE: 0
• ARACHNID: 0
• SIMIAN: 0
• AVIAN: 75
• REPTILIAN: 0
• RODENTS: 50
• INSECTOIDS: 0
• HUMANOIDS: 0
• ENERGY: 0
• BOSSES: 0
DUNGEON SUB ROUTINES:
TELEPORTATION CIRCLE(INACTIVE)
BREEDING PENS(INACTIVE)
ECOSYSTEM(PARTIAL FUNCTION)
ENERGY ABSORBTION(ACTIVE)
FLOOR CONSTRUCTION(INACTIVE)
MONSTER CREATION/MODIFICATION/EVOLUTION TOOL(UNINTIATED)
The stats page of the dungeon was not that complicated, it was easy to understand. Many of it's sub routines were inactive and I think that was because it's rank was too low at the moment. The rank of the dungeon would probably increase when I have created more floors, added more monsters, or even advanced my dungeon owner class to the next stage. All in all I was satisfied with what I was seeing now, but there were important things I had to take care of right now.
From where I was standing, it was on a hill overlooking the cavern, at both sides of the hill was a set of stairs that would lead me down into the cavern proper. I went down the stairs and made my way through the cavern, the monsters all fluttered and crawled around me, but a simple mental command sent them away. It took me quite a while, but I eventually got to the center of the cavern, where I finally found what I was looking for. The dungeon core.
It was a crystalline sphere the size of a soccer ball, it's crystalline surface was white and misty, with numerous golden runes swirling all over it's surface. The dungeon core was probably white because it did not have any chosen attribute, though I'm not sure if that was bad or good. Dungeons core with a particular elemental attribute, would be very efficient in creating monsters from that particular element, and because the monsters and the core share the same attributes, their strength in the dungeon would be five times as powerful and effective.
But there was a downside to this, dungeons with particular attributes could be countered. Though there were no definite charts about which element could counter the other as there are numerous ways in which an element can be used. For example water countered fire, but it was also just as effective against earth, and completely useless against air.
Meanwhile air counters fire and water, but has little to no effect on earth, but fire burns earth, and even counters air making it so that both element of air and fire were a bane to each other. Of course fire would need five times as much effort to counter the wind. And then the earth can withstand a lot of damage being the most resilient element, however water can wash it away, fire can melt it, and even the wind given enough time can wear it down.
So basically all of the elements were in balance to each other, countering and even enhancing the powers of their counterparts. But a single attribute dungeon would have a very limited number of tricks and abilities in it's arsenal. When I got to the core, I placed my hand on it and tried to communicate.
"Master, what can I do for you." The dungeon core asked directly into my mind.
"Don't worry, I just want to give you and the dungeon a name." I replied.
I was also supposed to give the tower a name, but because it was not any close to awakening, I had held back in hopes that it might choose when it had a fully functional consciousness, or I suggested a name for it.
"My gratitude Master." The dungeons voice replied.
"Your name shall be Soren, and as for the dungeon its going to be called the Pride Dungeons. What do you think about the name." I asked after I finished naming him.
"It is most acceptable and pleasing master. I like it."
DUNGEON: THE PRIDE DUNGEONS
DUNGEON CORE: SOREN(ACTIVE)
DUNGEON RANK: TIER 0
OWNER: KAEL COR
FLOORS: 1
BIOLOGICAL ENERGY: 0%
ENERGY: 500/500
MONSTERS:
• BOVINE: 0
• FELINE: 0
• CANINE: 0
• URSINE: 0
• ARACHNID: 0
• SIMIAN: 0
• AVIAN: 75
• REPTILIAN: 0
• RODENTS: 50
• INSECTOIDS: 0
• HUMANOIDS: 0
• ENERGY: 0
• BOSSES: 0
DUNGEON SUB ROUTINES:
TELEPORTATION CIRCLE(INACTIVE)
BREEDING PENS(INACTIVE)
ECOSYSTEM(PARTIAL FUNCTION)
ENERGY ABSORBTION(ACTIVE)
FLOOR CONSTRUCTION(INACTIVE)
MONSTER CREATION/MODIFICATION/EVOLUTION TOOL(UNINTIATED)
It was acceptable. For now there was nothing much to be done here. The create monster menu from my tower would probably no longer exists there anymore, which meant all of the biological materials I gain now, will have to come down to the dungeon for analysis, absorption, modification, evolution and creation, creating monsters subservient to me.
In the dungeon, the elemental and soul energy of the tower had all merged into one single entity, so all I needed to do was make sure there was enough biological energy to carry out the birth of any monsters. Well this was it, I have made a great achievement here. Even if there's nothing much to show for it in the dungeon apart from the pretty scenery and the rabble of bats and rats that were flying about, I knew that in time there would be an army waiting for me below the earth, and this was a force that no one would see coming.