Bloom

Ruussttleee.

Now, now hold on here.

That should have worked perfectly.

The smoking crater in front of me looks like the remains of an atomic bomb strike. It wouldn’t be so bad if it was just that, the attempt at replicating a Core with Chaos magic caused minor issues.

I watch a shambling monstrosity attempt to climb up the melted walls of the pit. Due to the abundant heat, all of the pit’s walls are smooth as glass providing no handhold. That won’t be enough though as the Core continues to summon more monsters every second. Eventually like African army ants they will pile up and escape on the bodies of the dead.

Well, at least they would if I wasn’t here.

Creeping Chaos Crush is a mild mannered spell that has several components woven into one. First the creeping part of the spell means it doesn’t take effect immediately. Instead, the spell powers up gradually over time. With the addition of Chaos to the spell, in terms of energy cost it is vastly more efficient than elemental mana. Of course the final part, Crush gives obvious name to the effect.

Gravity slowly rises in the pit, bit by bit, until everything including the Chaos Core I created are nothing but fine powdery mush.

I mean, that really should have worked out better than the last eight attempts.

At this point, perhaps I need to re-think my Dungeon building method?

For the first time in a long time, I think I might need some help.

Rustle.

I am not going to go kidnap some innocent Core and force them to assist me.

I’ll bribe them instead!

Bribery works wonders from what I’ve experienced so far.

Besides, do you really want our nascent Dungeon to be created by someone with a grudge against us?

That just seems like a really bad idea.

Even from my view of what a bad idea constitutes.

Rustle.

Exactly, we should definitely find a professional to assist with this.

Let’s go ask Emily for help, I made her smarter, she might have a better idea of how to approach this.