Dungeon Robotics 110

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Regan

A few days had passed since I got back to my main core. Just trying to clean up the mess that was going on in my aura took a solid day of carefully crafted magic-tech. I had to spend the time though, as I couldn’t have mana resistant beasts popping in and out of my dungeon whenever they felt like it. 

My new core was starting to remind me even more of a Dyson sphere. I’d had to create plates of mithril admentatium to house the spell construct that stabilized the space-time in the influence of my dungeon. That stopped the creatures from forming cracks. There was still some investigation that was required into the source as it wasn’t a permanent fix.

The energy to power the stabilization was quite high. I had three Fuilium reactors for it alone. The issue, however, was that the mana expenditure continued to rise. It was increasing slowly, but it told me something very wrong was happening outside the space-time field of the planet. 

The various objectives were set for the people that I felt were best suited to complete them. I had Puppet and Z2 heading down with the others to find Louella. They were used to working with each other and I feel like I can trust them to find out what the situation was down in the Beneath. They were taking Rens with them as a sort of guide.

Next, Ezal and her boy toy were back in the valley working to keep order while Louella was gone. Vaihdetta had been prepared relatively well for a long drawn out war with Thonaca thus they were operating almost on autopilot, country style. The glass tablets had been so integrated in their government. I could keep tabs on everything going on. 

I needed to give Louella credit. She must have known that I would be able to tap into them and she still made the decision to use them in her government. Either way, I was getting the information to Ezal so she could act on it as she saw fit. I felt it was best if the mortals governed themselves. 

That being said, I was dealing with the more sinister issue with a small force of Librarians. Elements that had managed to get to the valley legit but have since soured into problems. More than one person had illusions of grandeur after they saw the power available to the valley.

The mood in the city had improved after the interdimensional beasts stopped appearing and slaughter groups of people. Guards also seemed to appreciate the chance to relax some. Having to worry about responding to something that could rip them apart certainly would cause some stress with you job. 

“Master. When are we going to leave?”

I glanced at Julie next to me before I turned back to the screen in front of me. “Soon.”

“Father. We need to end these enemies once and for all. Their threat has last for much too long.”

Looking to my other side, I grabbed Anubis’s shoulder. “You’re quite right, but we can’t run off into the sunset. Things are not as they should be. Something is working behind the scenes and I can’t tell if it is related to the necromancers, the celestials, some long dead race, or something else that could inhabit this universe.”

“I understand. I just worry for the Lady Alara and my bothers and sisters,” Anubis replied.

I gave him a smile. Anubis was probably one of my strongest weapons against the undead threat, but I would much rather treat him like my son. I might have plenty of ways to create weapons, but I didn’t want that to be my driving force forever on this planet. I was glad that he treated the others of the dungeon as his family. 

“I know. Soon. There are only a few more things before we leave.”

I turned back to the screen and continued to calibrate the sensors. I had come a long way to fusing Earth technology and Murgin magic. My magic-tech was unique in this world with only the constructs of the millinimum gone Arcarin race being the only thing closest to it. They were hailed as peace lovers and scholars, but after my encounters with the Construct, I wasn’t sure if that was the truth.

While I was trapped in the sub-dimension and the time since I returned my satellite network had continued to expand without pause. Faster even, as the addition of the Ly’call in the station had increased my mana absorption for that aura. I had most of the Eruio continent covered by this point. 

I was calibrating the satellites to find concentrations of high latent mana. I wanted to map the flows of mana at least in this section of the world as I’d found that most of the cities were built on lay-lines. If the ancients were smart enough to do that, then I might find even larger secerts hidden away. I was tired of things popping out of nowhere thus it was time to be proactive in hunting these issues down.

With a few last formulas entered, I deactivated the screen. It would take a while to anylze everything, just the continent of Eruio was the same size as North and South America merged with a few bits of Africa from Earth. It was a lot of land to cover and the recent incident has already proven that the surface wasn’t everything.

“Ignea.”

My fairy appeared a moment later. “Yes father?”

“Implement the variations once the drills hit the depth to allow them. I can’t sit back and allow my main core’s development to be hinder with the level of the powers that are moving in the world.”

“I will see that it is done. When do you think teleporting will be feasible again? Some of the mortals are cut off from their families that were in Tearfalls.”

“I don’t have a timetable for that. It will likely be a while. When Izora finishes her project travel should resume to some semblance of normalcy.” 

“Got it!” 

“How is Glint settling in?” I was worried the fairy would be lost or sad with being separated from his former master’s core. He had Lena and Ignea, but it would still take time.

“Okay for the most part. He likes hanging around Nova of all people.”

“Might be due to their similar elements. Whatever helps with his transition?” I said giving her a shrug. I went through and made sure that everything was settled and would be stable until I returned with Alara. With a nod, I turned to Julie and Anubis. “Time to go.”

I moved us to the newest ship of my assembly line. The only form of teleporting that remotely still worked. Even with just this, I felt like I got a splitting headache for a moment. If I didn’t have so many more pressing matters, I’d likely turn all my resources towards figuring out the cause. 

I shook my head and looked ahead as we stood on the bridge of the vessel. Named the Winter, it was ready to take on anything that the Lich core could think to throw at it.  It was probably the safest place out of all my cores besides my main core with I had beefed up again. I made a smirk, every time I claim that something comes along and proves me wrong.

“Something funny, master?”

I laughed having been caught. “Just thinking how the universe works sometimes.”

“Indeed. Less than a year ago, I was a nobody that murdered for sport. Today, I am master’s instrument of death. Definitely a change for the better.”

“It really has been less than a year.” I thought about when I arrived in Murgin. It was towards the middle of spring. Now we were half way through winter. I flexed my hand fascinated by how far I’d come in such a short time. Some of the reports I’d read, gathered from the locals, stated that some dungeons only had thirty or forty floors for decades. “I certainly broke the curve on that one.”

Julie strode forward and threw her arm out. “All forces ready for launch!” 

All around us screens flickered as the Third fleet rose into the air from the Steel Spire. Watching the fifty ships rise into the air, I wondered if it was overkill. I decided better to have more than not enough. Fifty thousand automata between tier two and three should be a nice bat to the face to the necromancers. 

“Commence operation!”

With a roar, the ships began to head east. We couldn’t cross the mountains due to the lay-line that capped the them. My bigger ships could survive it, but some of the smaller vessels would be torn apart in the process. Not to mention what would happen to the beings made from mana and metal. Many of my children would short-circuit. The day detour was the better choice. 

“Any news on the whereabouts of,” I paused trying to remember her name, “Helicilia?” 

“No. Both the traitor princess and the lich have no definite answers. She could be at their capital, or hiding in a hole,” Julie replied shaking her head.

I rubbed my chin in thought. “That’s unfortunate. She’s as big a problem as that Cassin. She needs to be dealt with.”