Chapter 67: Against The Chaos Dragon! 1 (1/2)

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The tiny Dungeon Core had suddenly popped into existence over the accumulation of miasma.

The first thought it had was the universal desire for expansion that all Dungeon Cores are born with.

It had intelligence, but it seemed primitive at best… It quickly flew into the underground, and like a seed, it planted itself into the ground.

It gathered energy and miasma, and after a few hours, a complete and fantastical thing happened, the dungeon began to form, the earth moved away as bricks emerged out of thin air, torches, and even monsters appeared…

However, it wanted to expand more. But it was limited by energy and resources, it could not easily expand as much as it wanted anymore…

Like any other dungeon that has ever been born, it desired to expand and grow bigger, to cover the entire planet- no, the entire galaxy!

Dungeons were simple life forms that improved for this sole and primitive desire which they all are born with.

However, it usually depends on their desires that they can expand more, sometimes, as time goes by, they change and gain new desires. But all Dungeons gain a new desire after the first one…

The desire of eating.

They want to eat, to appease the hunger for power and energy they all have, so they must sacrifice the very monsters they gave birth to, while also forcing them to reproduce by themselves to generate more nourishment. Usually, this process is slow, however.

This is why dungeons become immense structures, they desire to bring forth meals inside of their very stomachs, they generate riches to entice them, and monsters and traps to kill them.

They can absorb the corpses and convert their organic matter and souls into energy, and gain more power to expand further.

Of course, monsters are sometimes faster.

However, as long as they can absorb the souls, they gain a moderately high amount of energy, often leaving the physical bodies to the monsters that killed them.

But dungeons such as the Boundless Abyss are highly intelligent, desiring to even devour the physical body of Chaos. In which case, they employ the Dungeon's Will by expending energy, using it, they can control the monsters inside and also the dungeon structure itself.

But of course, for the little dungeon core that emerged out of miasma produced by Chaos near his castle, there was no such power, it lacked sufficient energy.

After a few hours of being born, it was impatient to get a meal, it had set up multiple deadly monsters and traps, although it decided to not spend energy making riches, as it found them useless.

And then, finally, a group came inside the dungeon!

But it was doing everything wrong… for it! It was eating the monsters, and rushing inside without stopping. Somehow, the traps were not working against them either, or merely didn't even damage them.

Multiple times Chaos stepped into a trap and was bathed in boiling oil, but that didn't really cause any damage to him, and Abyss would lick his entire body to clean him with her tongue and slimy body after that… She was a very serviceable maid and couldn't tolerate seeing her master getting nasty.

The Dungeon Core began to feel frustrated and even fearful, as Chaos reached the last floor…

It quickly used all the leftover energy it had and infused it into the last boss, enhancing its power to its limits!

FLASH!

BOOM!

The moment Chaos broke apart the gate to the dungeon boss, what he found inside was… a dragon!