Chapter 64 - The mystery behind dungeons

Chapter 64 - The mystery behind dungeons

The explanations began slowly, and soon became huge dumps of information that I had to sift through

To start it off, the being I have been talking to this entire time called itself the Planetary Core. When I first heard this I blanked out a little, I had been talking to the core of this world this entire time?

It went further to further clarify that it was a system of laws congregated together to keep this world alive, so I could also call it this world’s Planetary System. I cut it down to System for short just to make it easier when I was addressing itThe inaugural upload of this chapter took place via N0v3l-B1n.

The System had gained consciousness when dungeons first began appearing on this this planet, and could only begin to act a step behind the enemies and play catch up as they began their invasion

Essence of our young world was used to awaken the first groups of hunters, paying an expensive price to grant them inherent skills that enabled them to stand against the onslaught of beasts

This wouldn’t be enough to stand against the droves of enemies though, so the System performed its first drastic measure since it gained consciousness

When the beasts died, their essence was lost in the environment and could be re-absorbed by the surrounding world inefficiently

The System took the drastic action of using more than half of its essence to form a system of power that was compatible to the beings in its planet that knew nothing about the new fantastical and magical things they were experiencing

The awakened would now be able to quantify and observe their strength with the advent of an attribute panel, and most of all, the key factor of being able to get stronger by snatching the essence from the beasts they kill.

The System used more than half of its essence to implement this new system of power where the essence of dying beasts would be extracted, and the skills & abilities that were buried deep in the beast’s essence would be turned to the source of strength for the hunters. Thus, came the advent of skill books, items, and cores

Some beasts that later came to be called TITANs and BOSSes had a denser collection of essence that allowed for skills and items to be extracted from them, while for other beasts, only cores that reinforced the strength, vitality, and focus of the awakened individuals could be drawn out

This new system of power allowed this world and its inhabitants a unique ability that most likely was not existent anywhere else in the universe that allowed for the extraction and absorbance of the power of your enemies.

I was speechless for the first time in a while. I thought about what this implied and then asked something I couldn’t bring myself to ask before

"How do I...fit in all of this"

The System took a pause when we go to this point

[When I regained enough essence to become active again, I saw that the situation was not heading in the right direction and that I had to act once more. I felt a level of frustration as I had enough essence and power to even bend some natural laws, but I couldn’t make use of it to plainly erase the invaders because much stronger universal laws are in place to prevent such direct intervention]

I felt my mind start pounding as I listen very closely to the next words

[So I calculated countless possibilities, and came to the one with the highest chance of success, while it also posed the greatest danger. But, this path would allow for a truly strong person to rise and protect the planet, so I attempted it.]

I listened with rapt attention while waiting for the voice to continue

[I created a backdoor from the planet’s core and connected it to a single human that had the least restrictions, someone who wasn’t yet even awakened. This channel would allow the possibility of things that are normally impossible.]

My thoughts were moving rapidly as I heard this...this was why I felt that I had infinite mana to cast whatever skills I wanted without restriction.

This was why my [Focus] was blank. All of that energy...it wasn’t just coming from nowhere. This made me recall something I had read about in school years back, that energy couldn’t be created nor destroyed, only transformed from one form to another

It felt like lessons finally kicked in when I thought about my mana, and how the skill books and cores came to be. But, could the common laws I knew about even be applicable at this stage we were at now? As for just how much energy an entire planet contained...could the tremendous essence even be quantified?

My thoughts were interrupted as the System continued

[But...this came at a huge cost and introduced a vulnerability that was not there before. You are connected to the planetary core, and the planetary core is connected to you. If you ever faced destruction...the entire planet will follow.]

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