It could layer multiple times. This allowed me to quintuple both the mana density and the physical density, the mana conductivity (yes, I tested - It would be stupid to leave out the possibility that this could make stuff like mythril - and indeed, it seemed to be the way to make more core to expand myself) and the best part, allowed me to violate the conservation of mass and energy, because I could now turn mana into amethyst and amethyst directly into mana, with just a small application of pure mana to push them around.
Now that I could do this, I decided that my core room would be a massive spherical amethyst, smooth on the bottom half, with me dead center on xyz axis poles made of amethyst as well. It wasn’t very big yet, from my best guess only a foot across, and me three inches. I also figured out - much faster this time, knowing the trick - how to generate chalcedony, agate, and granite.
Now, my domain had by necessity expanded to the top of the surface crack, which was about 100 feet long. This wasn’t close to the necessary depth to actually generate a geode, but hey, magic. Maybe I could ask the wisp when it got here. I wasn’t even close to ready for any sort of creature to come into my domain, so I made a 5-foot-thick grate of granite of dungeon stone (just ultra-hard granite, with five stacks of mana infusion) for the mana to pass through, and turned the rest of the distance to my core “room” into a 10-foot tall/wide tunnel.
At this point, I discovered that I was at the base of a mountain, in a winding river canyon. I was on a ridge that would have been a highway on earth, but was for now just a wide stone outcropping ramping down to the banks. Across the way, there was an abandoned fort that looked to be infested with bandits.
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Before I could look around more, the mana in my core geode started moving. It collected in an orb, expanded into a ring, and started to spin. The mana lattice formed as the representation of 4D cubes, presumably representing space (better write that one down) and the inside of the ring suddenly *cracked* and started showing somewhere else. Enter: The Wisp, I suppose.
It was made entirely of mana, though I didn’t look too closely for now, and perfectly spherical. It was blue as well, though it would probably be invisible depending on if people in this world could see mana, but as it came into the room, it shifted color to orange.
I am. It - she, by her voice - didn’t seem to hear me.
Then she started sending concepts and memories - stuff like her name (Marcy), her gender (female), and how to project my thoughts in a way she could hear.
[I presume that I am significantly more intelligent than most baby dungeon cores?]
She was speechless for a good ten seconds.
[Good. Hopefully, that will make your job a lot easier.]
[I have decided on Gregory Davies.]
[Yes. I will not elaborate further yet, I have things to build and small prey mammals to kill and mutate for my own twisted goals.]
Before that, though, system had decided on its course of action.
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Congratulations, Davies, I have decided in your favor.
I will record your actions, and allow you to make five skills based on them, in order to allow the house you would like to run. Please input the skills you would like to make.
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I shared the screen with Marcy.
[Do I have to choose right now?]
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No.
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[Excellent.]