-Dungeon Heart’s POV-

The first thing I did was to expand my power through the walls of the place that once was my home. To be honest, my home was never that large to begin with. It consisted of simply three rooms: Kitchen, the forge room, and bedroom. I suppose it would have counted as four rooms if you included the small bathroom that was wedged between the bedroom and the forge room.

Surprisingly it took me an entire day to expand my territory over this place. Even though the entirety of my home couldn’t have been more than 30m x 30m (98.5 feet x 98.5 feet), it still it still required me quite some time to “claim” the area by infusing my mana into the walls, and hence transforming it into a part of me. I suppose you could say that the entirety of the dungeon was a living being. If I had to simplify it, then it you could think of the dungeon core as the brain and soul of the dungeon, while the dungeon itself the body. I suppose that the monsters and traps would be kind of like… an immune system of some sort? I am not sure how I feel about that thought, so I will just put it aside for now.

Rather, I have a lot to do right now. Even though I reclaimed what had been once my room in one day, it still took me another three days to reclaim the one kilometer hallway that led from the forge room all the way to the outside of the mountain. Even though the hallway was narrow, I had to wait for my mana to permeate the walls and turn the area into a part of what is considered my dungeon, and the further away the area is from me, the dungeon heart, the longer it takes to do that. I asked Echo about it and Echo simply said that it was due to mana density.

Apparently, dungeons are like gateways for mana for the world. The dungeon core takes in ether from the earth, and then channels and refine this ether into mana in large quantities. Naturally, this meant that the area with the highest concentration in of mana could (...)