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What's in a Name? The Second

Alright! Some good feedback for the first poll. This one will run for a few days to make sure everyone who wants to vote can.

Choose your favourite! I know Cadmus isn't technically a dragon's name, but it means 'he who excels' and i think that's neat.

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I watched for a while as Instincts practiced flying with Wave and Taura. The differences between Dragon and Wyvern were stark in their contrast.  Wyverns were sleek, aerodynamic, and practically built for speed. Being part of their front legs, their wings gave them precise control, letting them perform aerobatic feats that dragons weren't built for. Dragons were stockier, tougher, and, as a consequence of th...

What's in a name?

Instincts, having gained a body and becoming more than a being of mere instinct, needs a new name!

I'm leaning towards dragon-themed, but I'm not deadset on it.

I'm going to leave a few options, but feel free to make your own suggestions. If there is enough support (Likes) on a write-in option, I'll make a second poll with them added, and dropping the least-liked ones from this poll.

Chapter 127

AN: To celebrate my 27th birthday, here's chapter 127!

To a new year of DWAS!

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Instinct's body was ready, lying inside it's rotunda beside the dungeon soul's monster core.

I was going over last minute checks as Huea rode Wave on her way to the Core Island. The body still had it's soul, but without any mental expansion or development it was a small, simple thing. It had enough brainpower to run ...

Chapter 126

AN: Unedited, but honestly when is it ever actually edited in time?

Happy New Year, everybody! Sorry about missing the Christmas upload, but I lost most of this chapter and had to rewrite the whole thing. :/

In other news, I'm going to be taking the next two weeks off. My future-mother-in-law is staying with us for the next week, and my fiance got time off she wants to spend with me.

See you in two weeks! (On my 27th birthday, urgh. How the fuck is it 2025 already.)
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After making sure Halley was properly escorted to the surface and conveyed my message, I decided to check on a few things. A little bit of spying said the CHI raid group was taking a little break to repair their armor and get Lilliette a new arm. The first prosthetic she'd had was made of Mithril, and from what I could tell, this second one was being paid for by the guild to be Moonsilver.

Someone had the t...

Chapter 124

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I turned a page, and the paper rustled, echoing in the empty room. Ahh, even if I had no skin to feel the paper in my skeletal hands, just being able to turn pages and read a physical book again is bliss. Reading something through my Children's eyes isn't the same; it's like looking at a screen. This book was about me; 'The Teachings of The Creator.' A book that is, effectively, my bible.

Aside from having ...

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I noticed the exact moment the fleet returned, with their precious cargo in tow. As I'd expected, there was no instant reconnection as my Children passed back within my domain. It made sense, unlike with the fish in the ocean, the air wasn't saturated with my mana, and was probably the only part of Atlantis and it's environs that I couldn't claim. Dolphins, whales, and a dozen large species of fish ...

Chapter 122

AN: Unedited again. I hope you like it!

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By the time I refocused on the freshly renamed CHI raid, they'd made it about halfway into the 'safe' path over the Third Peak. I followed their tracks back, noting there weren't any bodies or signs of combat. 

They'd yet to encounter any Tailed Foxes or Snowbolds, and I decided that It was time to change that. And oh! Look at that, they've entered an Aval...

Chapter 121

Unedited. Sorry for the delay guys! I know you've be on the edge of your seats for this one.

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Well, I certainly wasn't expecting the mage to explode the dinosaurs head up from the inside! Note, look into making the inside of my monsters as damage-resistance as their hides if possible. Perhaps mana reinforcement?

Either way, there wasn't much else dangerous enough to be a threat to the guilders in the Geot...

Monster Corpses Vs Dusting+Loot

Hi guys.

I've thought about this concept a lot since I started writing this story. and though it's far to late to impliment it into the story as is, I was wondering what yall thought about the idea if i was to write it into the final published version.

Monster corpses are how things work now; the monster dies, and guilders can harvest the corpse for whatever they want to take. The rest gets removed by dungeon monsters and either eaten or buried.

Dusting+Loot leans into m...

Chapter 120

AN: Edited!

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The Geothermic Valley was one of three more unique paths on the Eighth's Second Peak. One would take you to the mountain's peak to be harassed by the Air Court and Pyry. The second was the Fungal Caves, which was more of a dead-end side-quest than an actual path. 

In this verdant, fern-filled valley, I had placed some of the chickens I purchased from an animal trader on the surface. ...

Chapter 119

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Port Laviet, The Medean Duchy, Theona

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Tamesou Akio took a deep breath of the fresh ocean air as they moved through the bustling port city. Sailors and dockworkers bustled around loading and unloading cargo using surprisingly sophisticated wooden cranes. The arrangement of ropes and pulleys made loading huge crates full of cargo a breeze. Akio kept near his friends on the cobbled streets rather than exploring the wooden docks. Though It had been three ...

Chapter 118

AN: Unedited. Sorry for the delay!

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Switching out the rabbits from their old experimental evolution system to the new one was fairly easy, though it necessitated a change in lifestyle. Before, they'd live in their burrows until they reached maturity, then rise to the surface as one of their three evolutions. Now, the ability to evolve was imbued in their cores, and they could roam the grasslands of the tent...

Chapter 117

AN: Unedited, but that's par for the course by now.

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The Isid-Haythem-Cliche raid group carefully picked their way across the glacier. beyond the fact that the ground itself was treacherous, filled with cracks and canyons hidden by layers of snow, the glacier was populated. No monsters called this slowly growing hunk of ice home, though. It was the sole Domain of the Ice Court. The manabeings were ...

Chapter 116

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Are you sure? It's going to take a while to make something like this...

Am Sure. You promised!

I did promise, and I will be able to make it. Alright then. Just be aware that I haven't done anything like this before. 

... can do it...

... I'll, uh... just get on with it then.

I pulled away from Instinct's core with a weird feeling. I w...

Instinct's Body

So it's come up a few times now that instincts is going to be getting a body, something it can use to move around and interact with the world. This form is going to be draconic in some way, because Instincts' motivation has always been to become as powerful as possible. If it can't be the dungeon, it'll be the most powerful monster it can be.

Since I've been incredibly torn on which way to go about this, I'll be presenting you all with a few options. Feel free to throw in...

Chapter 115

AN: Unedited. Enjoy!
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It was fairly easy to roll out the new Evolution Framework to the crabs; we just had to perform the ritual on the females, and all their progeny would be capable of Evolution. We didn't even need to do it on all the females because of just how many eggs they lay. A dozen were chosen (by raffle, again) to have the ritual performed on them. Even if the females not changed ...

Chapter 114

AN: unedited, and very late. But it's here. Enjoy!

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In the depths of the experimental chambers on the seventh floor, a dozen Children milled about the ritual circle. They checked the integrity and quality of the ruinic carvings, the flow of mana through the room, and a dozen other little things that needed to be perfect. Masters of their crafts, with analytical minds nurtured over months, thes...

Chapter 113

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Over about twelve hours, I was focused almost entirely on Taura and her transformation into a Wyvern.

It was a pretty drastic change, after all. She'd originally been a minotaur, and I was changing her into a flying lizard. It certainly wasn't an easy change, either. Every monster I've made before this was easy in comparison. Leviathans? Just giant whales; the time taken was just to infuse them with the app...

Chapter 112

AN: I know it's more than five hours and two days late, but it's here! Also unedited.

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I spent the next month in a sort-of half-trance.

First, I established two new islands; completing the roughly circular arrangement of the Elemental Isles. Gravity and Sound filled in the remaining two opposing spaces. Though they weren't exactly opposing concepts like some of the others were.

Perhaps my circul...

Chapter 111

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The Isid-Haythem-Cliche raid group didn't spend too long on the Eighth, understandably. It was entirely unknown territory, and they'd been expecting to fight a boss on the Seventh. They were unprepared for the new climate, and after a short time spent exploring the first peak they all decided to activate their teleport crystals and leave. I spent the next few days focusing on the Eleventh.

F...

Chapter 110

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Yeah, The Isid-Cliche-Haythem raid definitely noticed the lesser numbers of enemies. Well, when they bug Kata for an answer, she could answer truthfully. 'The Creator sees that you struggle so, and so has lowered the difficulty that you might descend further and view the glory of His works.' 

Or something like that. I don't actually know what she'd say, and I'm not going to read her min...

Chapter 109

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It was easy to make the changes. I ordered the Children to perform fewer patrols. In the cases where I could, I placed enchantments on the entrances my monsters used to access the main dungeon rooms. They would only allow so many through, and they would only reset half an hour after at least one of those monsters died.

That would only work for those whose breeding grounds were inaccessible, though. Monsters...

Chapter 108

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"So, given all you've told me... Your morals have definitely changed, and you haven't noticed. You thought it was the original soul in the core, but not much has changed on that front after removing that soul. Occam's razor suggests the answer must be because of the body your soul is in, the core itself. Also, I have to ask, what the fuck is up with that; Who is Occam and how do I know about his razo...

Chapter 107

Unedited, but it's here!

I said this on DIscord, but for those of you not on there, I'll repeat it. From next week onwards, chapters will be uploaded on Tuesdays, not Wednesdays. This is due to my new job, where I work all day Wednesday.

So, yeah. Chapters will now be uploaded 24 hours earlier than before.

See you next week!

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The new island was coming along nicely. It'd taken a week to...

Chapter 106

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I left Kata, Huea and Hallmark to talk on the Ninth and moved on. I still had a few things to check on before i would allow myself to dive back into designing islands on the Eleventh.

Firstly, I checked on the Metal Ants again, and found myself impressed by their progress. They'd already cleared out a couple of chamber and the queen had begun to lay new eggs. Workers took the eggs to the second chamber, whe...

Chapter 105

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With my favorite raid group having left the dungeon, I could move on to addressing some problems their visit highlighted. Number one; the Ratten were underpowered, but I had a feeling that was inevitable. They were on the floor directly after the Warren, which was occupied solely by Ratten. The guilders were just too used to fighting them, and that wasn't something I could fix. The Poison Clan would prob...

Chapter 104

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It was Isid who dealt the final blow. Her Manablades intensified to levels I'd never seen from her before. The blades attached to her forearms pierced the thinner metal where the core rested in its chest with unerring accuracy, and the Shadow Spirit's core broke. The Spirit fled the body as it fell to the ground, disappearing into the shadows thrown by the raid's Light sprites.

The Darkness manabeings had made ...

Chapter 103

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After only a few days of experimentation, the holding cells were full to bursting with undead. I didn't want to just keep expanding the cells to hold more of them, either. Keeping the undead there did nothing for anyone, except stress out The RIsen. Thankfully, I had an idea for just the place to put them. While castles, ruins and other decaying vestiges of civilizations were known throug...