Buller

Chapter 49: Optimization of Space

When the Core began to have it harder with creating the line, having a harder time reaching the edge, it should have noticed something being wrong. But it didn't, instead of moving on without a care, not realising its process wasn't working exactly as intended. The Entity did luckily notice the flaws a while after, though the damage had already been done.

Small leaks. Ones were noting but a particle or two got through without being stopped. A simple like that mattered little to anybody,...

Chapter 48: Using Panels to the Extreme

Yes, the Core had gone on the offensive before. Multiple times, really, each bringing death and destruction for both sides. Mainly the Queen’s however, which did prove the experience to be a good one. The losses on both sides might have been something, yet the strategic advantage gained by it was quite substantial. The near-hundreds of ants killed had delayed the Queen’s efforts to attack by a huge margin, other methods used to distract the Core instead. The horde of undead would have lik...

Chapter 47: Making Rocks Explode

Watching rock explode again and again was perhaps fun to do for the first thirty times, but anything after that made it more melodramatic than anything else. The Core certainly knew that it had seen every possible way such an event could transpire, knowing more details about the process than anybody ever needed to know.

During the start of the process, the Mana would be directly injected into the borders of the stone, filled up with the Intent purposely made just for them. This was to m...

Chapter 46: Manipulating the System

[AN: Start of the chapter won't make much sense since Tables don't show on Patreon. Sorry about that]

[Light-Mastery]

Allows the user to manipulate the White sub-branch of magic with more skill.

Very Rare

Passive

… That certainly turned out better than the Core had expected. The actual sizes for each box could have been altered in minor ways but it was nonet...

Chapter 45: [Willpower] and [Wisdom]

What was the most important thing to consider when picking out what one wanted to improve? Well… there were many things to think about, the least of all being which one would prove to be worth the most with what could be improved. Take, as an example [Willpower] and [Wisdom]. Both showed themselves as being at fourteen each yet they were actually both still at twelve. How's that so? It was because of the very title that had allowed the Core to gain the three points it had to spend.

A ...

Chapter 44: Mastery of Light

How and why the undead took another step up the power scale was something the Core briefly wondered about before it had to constantly start repairing the walls stopping the creatures from coming inside and killing everything around them. There was no way it should have happened naturally, right? It didn’t make sense for that to happen. The moment that the Black Mana had hit some kind of density- requirement, though, all the creatures gathered had just increased in size and power. It was sca...

Chapter 43: Optimizing [Death]

Testing out the efficiency of a function meant to completely obliterate a creature was quite the hard thing to do when the Core itself had no real desire to put one of its own creatures inside. So… what was one to do when the stone needed to be seen if it could kill yet also not kill a creature?

One made a fake creature. A fake creature with all the specifications of a real one, having the sturdiness and general appearance of the real thing. With how much time the Core had go...

Chapter 42: The Answer to Everything

The answer to so many problems was very rarely not obvious afterwards. When a creature got the time to look back at their past actions, including the past not previously understood, things seemed to always melt together into one obvious mix of an answer. There were so many parts before, so many working, moving, and changing sub-areas that needed to be focused on. Yet, all that changed the moment where the Entity was past it, nothing nearly as complex. Maybe it was the stress that came with be...

Chapter 41: Alternatives

Character Screen

Name: -

Gender: Male

Level: 4

Class: Digger

Race: Giant-Ant

Title: Dungeon-Born

Health: 150/150

H-Regen: 0.12/sec

Mana: -/-

M-Regen: 0/sec

Stamina: 160/160

S-Regen: 0.15/sec

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Chapter 40: Replacement of Workers

How did one grow Moss in half the time while also having twice the growth? Well… the answer was to have four times the sources of energy. Two ants currently standing on the [Moss] could only do so much, but what would the result be if eight did it instead? It was quite the potential just lying on the ground, ready to be used by all. Or, well, ready to be used if the requirements to fulfil it had been up on the table.

For there weren't actually eight ants ready to stand on moss and not...

Chapter 39: Ignorance is [Bliss]

Digging wasn't something the Core ever thought it would have so much trouble doing. The first few minutes of doing it had been quite easy after all, so there might have been some part of the Entity that had grown over-confident again, taking larger swaths of material from the middle of the room. That might also have been why the entire floor nearly caved in on itself.

As luck would have it, there were a lot of smaller air pockets on the floor. Very few were oxygen or nitrogen, ...

Chapter 38

Character Screen

Name: -

Gender: Male

Level: 2

Class: -

Race: Undead Giant-Ant

Title: Dungeon-Reject

Health: 150/150

H-Regen: 0.16/sec

Mana: -/-

M-Regen: 0/sec

Stamina: 160/160

S-Regen: 0.15/sec

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Chapter 37

A voice. It was not the voice of the Core ordering anything from those under it. Neither was it the voice of the [System], though that hadn't been heard since the very start. No, this was the voice of something foreign, something that had never been experienced before. The sound of the vocals echoed in the Entity’s head over and over again. Was it due to the power of the wielder or was that just a normal effect? And who was talking anyway?

That question was put on hold for a moment, t...

OUT OF ORDER: Chapter 16

[AN: Forgot to put this in with the last batch so this is out of order. Sorry for that!]

The legs of the creatures stopped coming into its sight after a mere couple of seconds, there being enough to fully count up five [Giant-Ants]. None of those that had come in was a part of the Core’s repertoire, making it more and more obvious that there was no chance of the wandering group having come around alive. No… they had found death, and with their fatal wounds,...

Chapter 36

The world was bright, Mana of all kinds everywhere, plants showing up at every piece of the earth. There was nothing which laid barren, every piece of stone and wood and dirt covered with life. There was more than the Core had ever seen before. It was… beauty. There was nothing greater, nothing more complex than the sight that it had seen. It was truly life in its purest form. The Core could only help but emulate its greatness. Nature with its unstoppable power of randomness created a sight...

Chapter 35

How had the cores before the Entity anchored things in place? That was the question that the Core had for the world, even if none could answer it. So much thought had been spent coming up with the ideas of anchors, so many loops and hoops being jumped through to make sure it would work in theory. Yet, the Entity knew that it had been done before, knew that a thousand had thought of it before it had even had a chance of such a thing. But… thinking back, even more, it was near-impossible for ...

Chapter 34

Levelling up… that had been something that the Entity had not done much of. It was not due to a lack of desire for it or anything. The Core wanted to level up more than anything since the benefits were so good. There was hardly a moment where the thought of more [Willpower] didn't cause some minor annoyance, mostly because the Core couldn't attain it easily.

There were too many risks attached to level up. No matter what was done, no matter how much skill had progressed, there was alw...

Chapter 33

How did Mana-Veins work exactly? That was the question the Core had pondered for a long time. The things weren't exactly made of physical matter, the outer shell barely a layer of coloured Mana as it was. The entire thing was just enough to push other Mass out of the way so that it could move through the body efficiently. Yet, there was still some manoeuvrability in place that went changed constantly. The actual length of any parts changed alongside movements of the body. If there came a curv...

Chapter 32

The fight between the [Infested] and the level one ant was quite simpler than the other one. Within the first thirty seconds, everything had been decided. Both came at each other, just like before. However, the impact was quite different, the superior mass holding out and making it possible for the larger to flip the other on its back. While this could have been recovered from normally, the speed at which four legs were taken care of left no chance of mercy to come around. It was all a waitin...

Chapter 31

The two fought with a ferocity not seen much of before. The Core had witnessed the brutality of a varied degree earlier on in its life, having been a part of what was truly called straight-out sacrificial warfare. If both parties had quantity over quality, throwing the minions with no regard for their lives was the best tactic to have. A strong opponent could beat a hundred in one-on-on fighting, but could it beat a hundred at once? That was likely a no. And it was exactly what the ants had b...

Chapter 30

Mana could affect creatures through nothing but exposure. The intensity and time-controlled the amount of effect it had, and the concentration did seem like it had some larger part to play as well. The Core honestly wasn't too sure how it worked yet, only knowing the main factors. There had been some theories about pollution of Mana working its way into the final product, just from what the small glance at the data told the Entity, but there was another, larger issue needing to be handled bef...

Chapter 29

A [Skill] has been improved!

You have understood [Mana-Sense] more deeply

There were no lies to be had when it came to how [Mana-Sense] worked. It was a truly brilliant tool Utilitywise, not able to change much on its own but allow almost all other skills to have the edge needed to prosper. It was the sword that blinded the heavens, the lightning strike that started the fires of the world, and the wave of wings that made the mountains collapse. ...

Chapter 28

The time for the second enlightenment had come. First, the Core had figured out the secrets of Arcane and Colour, able to tell the difference between a moment and the next. Truly a fulfilling achievement, and certainly one which would prove useful shortly. Yet there was still another påoint that needed to be made. Another task that needed fulfilling, one that would require more detail.

To explain colours, one would need to know what colours were, how they worked, and what predictions ...

Chapter 27

[Mana-Sense] had been upgraded once before. In that time, it had achieved a more in-depth range of colours it could see, averages splitting up into more colourful divergences. The things seeming so simply turned into more and more complex parts, the Core’s mind able to understand that there was a complexity not seen before.

It had been a hard path to take before, the Entity not having been able to distinguish truth for miles. There had been ups and downs when it had come to making th...

Chapter 26

With the [Blood-Moss] being so little, the Core wasn't able to simulate an actual scenario where the Ant walked across it. Instead, it stayed with one foot on the plant, never moving around. There were concerns that the realism of the test would be strained, the fact matter of constant contact being quite unrealistic.

How fast was the plant at recognizing friend from foe? Would it siphon the tiniest bit of energy from the other creature before realizing who it was and then stop? If so, ...

Chapter 25

Moving back away from the talks of the System and how it worked, the Core thought back to the original goals it had created before the fighting. It thought of the tasks set out to the creatures. The main goal set forth was the protection of the [Moss] while also guarding the area around it. That had been shown off as a massive success, the retaliation from the attack coming in full force. And while it was perhaps not of the level desired, it would grow next time.

However, there also wa...

Chapter 24

Congratulations!

You have levelled up and reached level [4] You have been granted [1] attribute point.


Congratulations!

You have levelled up and reached level [5]!


The Core saw the two messages side-by-side, both coming at the same time. Which was weird, since one should have come much earlier than the other. It should have come within the first few kills during the skirmish, yet no such th...

Chapter 23

With each burst of Mana sent out in a desperate bid to keep every single one of its minions alive, it became more and more obvious. The container that was kept in the Mana was beginning to run rather dry, to the point where it was getting dangerously close to zero. It would only take one or two more before the consequences would startup. The Core could just feel it.

How many had been killed? Too many to count. Or maybe it would have been possible to count them if the Core had been able...

Chapter 22

The skill was taken with open arms, the Core not hating the name in any way. The hardship went through to get it, the work put into it… there was so much to unpack. So many creatures had been forced through a painful and short life, yet the trade was the ability to help so many others with one of the resources vital to their survival. A few deaths for the lives of everybody else. While it was something that would only come true with time, the Core felt that it worked just fine as an argumen...

Chapter 21

Stamina might have been a vital part of the body’s anatomy. No, wait, check that off. It was a very important part of anything anatomy. Even if the Core didn't have access to it through the system, it knew that there was some part of its crystalline shape that had some manner of influence on it. The [Giant-Ants], as an example, didn't have access to Mana through the system, yet those creatures were able to be influenced through that energy just fine, already having inner organs per...