The King of Tricks and Magic

Chapter 90: Dungeonization

Chapter 90: Dungeonization

[ Name: Ren Arken

Age: 14

Race: Human

Strength: 200,000 (+1,300,000 [Mana])

Agility: 300,000 (+2,300,000 [Mana])

Vitality: 800,000 (+1,200,000 [Mana])

Mana: ~~~

Spiritual: ~~~

Intellect: 300, 000

Unique Skills:

-Magic cards -appraisal -evil gaze -strengthen -leap -basic magics -Magic mastery -Grimoire of death -Real Clone [Heavenly Slime] -Eye of Wisdom -Sword God -Fenrir Arken -Predator of the sky -Wild Beasts Skills -Knight’s soul -Defiler of the banished, Ataraxia]

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A sinister world.

A world filled with malice and evil.

A world enveloped by dense demonic mana.

Inside a huge and sinister demonic castle, a gathering is running.

The gathering, the party of demon lords.

The gathering of all 72 demon lords.

The Walpurgis night.

“Are the preparations completed yet?” A deep and powerful voice sounded.

“Yes, Baal. The preparations we needed have completed. The only thing left is to wait for the right moment to attack. That’s why we gathered everyone here today,” (???)

“Indeed… It’s wise to have you handle the strategy, Agares. We depended on Paimon too much on the past to strategize our war plans,” Baal the 1st rank demon lord said.

“Is it true that Paimon suddenly vanished from the demon world?” Vassago the 3rd rank demon lord asked.

“It’s true, Vassago. Even her retainers didn’t know where she had gone, we couldn’t guess anything as well because of the lack of information,” Agares the 2nd rank demon lord answered.

“Nope. There are two possibilities, Agares,” Baal suddenly cut in

“Hm? You mean?” (Agares)

“Yes, Paimon is a genius. I believe she had a lot of trump cards hidden behind her sleeves, so the answer is only two, whether she found a very powerful foe that could finish her before she could do anything, or,” (Baal)

“Or?” (Vassago)

“Or she found a new master,” (Baal)

“Baal! It’s presumptuous! Are you suspecting Paimon to betray the demonic emperor!?” (Vassago)

“Calm down, Vassago. I said it’s just a possibility,” (Baal)

“What makes you said that, Baal?” (Agares)

“Hm… Just a hunch. But you see, my guts keep on giving me a signal of danger, Agares. I keep on getting a feeling that I will die if I enter the human world,” Baal stares the distance with a serious face.

“….” (Vassago)

“I see… If what your guts told you are true. Then maybe that enemy could only be defeated by the demonic emperor,” (Agares)

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Inside the special class pharmacy, a person is reading a book next to the fainted Oz.

“Seriously, Ren. You fainted too much,”

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—Tarot Empire’s Imperial Capital—

Demon Oz went to the imperial castle’s treasure as Slime Oz’s instructions, along his way, Demon Oz got awed by the extraordinary design of the imperial castle, the mysterious but beautiful and colorful runes that cover the mighty pillars of the imperial castle impresses him the most.

“So this is the treasury… It’s very different from the scene I saw before I fainted…” Demon Oz muttered with a wry smile.

The treasure is located behind the throne room, 10 elite imperial guards guard the treasury’s entrance. Only the emperor, his clones, and people the emperor permit to enter the treasury may enter it.

Demon Oz slowly opened the treasury’s door

*Sound of opening a door*

!!!

“This’s… (Demon Oz)

Demon Oz could feel an enormous amount of mana that so dense that a magic beast could recover from the brink of death even if it had lost all of its limbs and is having excessive bleeding because of the dense amount of mana.

It gave pressure yet pleasant. It’s so dense that it should be suffocating but yet it soothes the soul. The treasury is already filled with a lot of gold coins and treasures but because it’s very wide, it still felt kind of empty.

There is only one thing that makes the treasury very precious.

The huge blue crystal that has the form of the whole forest of Everdeen. The imperial dungeon core.

“Beautiful…” Demon Oz couldn’t help but mutter as he saw the dungeon core.

Demon Oz approaches the dungeon core and slowly touches it. But suddenly.

<The owner of the dungeon core had detected>

<The dungeonization type: [empire] will start>

<Initializing the process

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Completed>

<The information for the dungeon [Empire] had been successfully gathered>

<Adjusting the dungeon options with the dungeon type: [Empire]>

<The host and the subjects had already upgraded>

<Congratulations! The dungeon [Empire] system had been completed!>

<100,000 Dungeon Points had been rewarded as starter>

<Dungeon points will be rewarded according to the host’s progress and subjects state annually>

<Accumulating host’s subjects, vassal kingdoms, and their loyalty

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Finished>

<Congratulations! The dungeon had been upgraded!>

<F —> D++>

<1,000,000 dungeon points will be rewarded>

After the prompt, a huge board suddenly appeared in front of Oz.

[Tarot Core [Dungeon] [Empire] [D++]

Ruler’s Title: Emperor

Subjects: 340,000

Vassal Kingdoms: 7

Loyalty: High

Wealth: 854,000 Gold Coins

Dungeon Points: 1,100,000

[Dungeon Shop] [Dungeon Core Setting] ]

Demon Oz observes the board while feeling flabbergasted. The board shows only the numerical points at first, but when Demon Oz touched it, all of the details of the subjects, vassal kingdoms states, loyalty, and empire wealth got shown on the board.

Demon Oz skipped most of the details, feeling that he should leave it for the Slime Oz to handle. One thing piqued his curiosity more. The dungeon shop!

(If my thoughts are true, then…) (Demon Oz)

Demon Oz touched the [Dungeon Shop] bar and a huge list appeared before him.

“Bullseye!!! HAHAHAHA!!! We’re invincible!!!” Demon Oz shouted as he read the list.

What Demon Oz thought is right, it’s just like playing a dungeon making game. Various kinds of things appeared, and all of it could be bought with dungeon points. Facilities, monsters, golems, entities, spirits, portals, upgrades, and more.

“Phew! Calm down… I need to calm down… Even though we share the same memory and knowledge, I should still let Slime or the real Oz handle this. I mustn’t mess this up,” Demon Oz tries his best to calm down his excitement.

“Ah! Let’s try opening the settings too,” (Demon Oz)

The settings contain the dungeon system settings such as administrators of the dungeon core, move the dungeon core, change the dungeon core form, and more.

“This one! Let’s give the administration permit to other clones too,” Demon Oz mutters.

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Oz slowly opens his eyes as he saw a somehow nostalgic ceiling. Oz closes his eyes once more as he tries to remember what happened, and at that time, A huge amount of information suddenly got transmitted into Oz by his clones, and a huge excitement overwhelms his heart.

“Ren?” A voice suddenly sounded beside him, Startling the excited Oz.

Oz raises his body and finds out that the owner of the voice is Peter that is holding a book while sitting crosslegged. Oz felt like shouting because of his excitement but he tries his best to suppress the feeling.

“What are you doing Ren? Are you okay? Your expression kinda weird,” Peter asked Oz as he knitted his eyebrows.

“Ah! Nothing. Do you know what happened, Peter? And why are you here?” Oz asked Peter.

“Hm? Of course, I’m looking after you, idiot. And I’m the one who wanted to ask you what ha-” Peter suddenly stopped his words.

“Peter?” (Oz)

“Ren, since when do you enter the archmage rank?” Peter asked Oz with a strange expression.

“Hm?” (Oz)

Oz knitted his brows and try to feel his mana.

!!??

“You’re right, I suddenly went ascend into the saint rank,” Oz exclaimed in surprise.

“You… Do you remember what happened when you passed out? Or what caused you to faint?” Peter asked Oz.

“I don’t really remember. All I remember is I suddenly felt my body so limp and lost my consciousness,” (Oz)

“I see… I only sense your mana at the rank of a master magician since four days ago, but your rank suddenly ascends to the archmage rank today. It’s possible that your mana rank ranked up because you got an insight from the battle with the demon emperor that triggered your breakthrough,” Peter explained to Oz.

“Indeed… Your explanation does make sense,” Oz mutters

(So even though I actually fainted because of the upgrade the prompt mentioned, I also got a breakthrough on my mana rank. Hitting two birds with one stone, lucky!) (Oz)

“By the way, Peter, how many days have I fainted,” (Oz)

“You’ve fainted for four days, Ren,” Said Peter.

“Four days, huh…” Oz mutters as Peter saw Oz’s eyes went distant as if he’s thinking of a lot of things.

“But Ren, there is also one thing that disturbs me. Why does your mana felt like you’ve honed it for years even though you’ve just entered the archmage/sword saint rank?” Asked Peter.

“What do you mean?” (Oz)

“You see… When people first enter the archmage/sword saint rank, their mana flowed wildly and their task is to calm it and tame it to help their progress on their mana cultivation. But in your case, your mana had already honed to the point that people would hardly notice your actual rank,” (Peter)

“Really?” (Oz)

“Yes, it should be impossible since you’re a dual cultivator. You use both sword saint and archmage cultivation, because of the combination of both of them, your mana should be running wild because of it’s the first breakthrough to the sword saint rank,” Peter said with full of suspicion. He’s thinking that it’s impossible without a secret technique, and he’s hoping that Oz wants to teach him it.

(I see… It must be one of the upgrade results) (Oz)

“Hm… I don’t know how should I answer that question. So I have no comment about your suspicion. But Peter, let me give you a question too,” (Oz)

“A question?” (Peter)

“What is your REAL intention on coming here. You even brought an unusual friend,” The atmosphere suddenly changed as Oz’s mana suddenly enveloped the pharmacy room.