Unnamed Nifilim wishes to be your servant do you accept? Yes/No.

Its mind was flooded by the soft voice which seemed to know all its feelings. It feared this Nifilim that could see everything about itself but felt conflicted as to what it should do. The Nifilim's soft voice was filled with undisguised rage towards sapients, and their goals seemed to align but would they always? No, it didn't believe so; nonetheless, it still accepted, why? Because the Nifilim would be useful for its magic and knowledge.

"Yes, I accept your wish of servitude."

Congratulations! Unnamed Nifilim is now your servant! New Title acquired!

Caretaker of a Nifilim!

Unlock Condition(s): Form a pact of servitude or friendship with a Nifilim.

Effect(s): Nifilim are drawn to you and trust you more.

Unique Dungeon Effect(s): Due to the Nifilim's Fallen status the Title also grants a 25% cost reduction to Mind, Abomination, Unholy, and Demonic Floor Themes.

It felt the connection forming and solidifying between the two. When the pact finished establishing it looked over to the Nifilim that was undergoing a change in appearance. Its old white color replaced by thundercloud grey. A mouth full of tiny dagger-like teeth formed below its beady black eyes which reflected the same indigo purple as the Core.

The Nifilim's mouth broke into a grin containing joy and madness, "You've accepted, and now I'm bound to you, you only keep killing, and our pact will be long, you stop, and our pact will be short." The Core had no plans to stop killing, so it ignored the rambling of the Nifilim and instead wondered how to speak to it, "Master wishes to speak? Then do as you have for all of your monsters." Hearing that the Core realized the Nifilim was likely speaking through telepathy, most likely the true version and not the limited one it currently has.

"You'll always learn new things, Master. You desire for knowledge, and knowledge will come even to those who don't want it." The Core was starting to get annoyed by the Nifilim's talking, "Master grows irritated, but I desire something from Master." The Core who'd been about to tell the Nifilim to shut up, stopped itself, curious as to what the Nifilim wants, "What do you desire Nifilim?" Its sight was met by that of the Nifilim, "A name which was never given to me, an identity to bring my hatred down upon the sapients, you my Master, I request you give me a name." The Core was a little confused as to why the Nifilim wanted a name to seemingly kill sapients, but it didn't care too much, "Then you shall be Cie." The Nifilim seemed to inflate with joy, "Thank you, Master!"

After waiting for Cie to calm its excitement down the Core asked what had been disturbing its mind, "How can you know my feelings and memories?" The Nifilim seemed to inflate again; it's soft voice soothing voice containing a sliver of happiness within, "It's simple Master, I as a Nifilim am well practiced in Mind Magic. Easily allowing me to view your unprotected mind, but you needn't worry about this any longer. Our bond formed by the pact allows me to shield your thoughts, and regardless Mind Magic would have a limited effect on you beyond knowing feelings and memories." It was delighted to know its thoughts would now be protected, but still peeved Cie could likely still access its mind.

Cie started speaking again, however, this time the Core was interested in what it was saying, "Master, you've left the Human outside alive to draw more of them to you, but you cannot continue along with your plan to kill everything that enters. Master shouldn't think I'm telling you not to kill them. I want you to kill them, and I want you to kill lots of them, enough to build a mountain from their bones. But if you don't make yourself worth potentially throwing their lives away. They'll ignore you making you need to expand outside, which would alert them to the fact you're vastly different than other Dungeons, and if that happens then, sapients as strong as the Wyrm living below will come to exterminate you. So you must avoid expanding further outside for now and make yourself valuable, immensely valuable, and when the time comes that you grow powerful enough, then bringing true death and terror can commence. If you become invaluable to the sapients, then you can kill more within yourself, and none of the sapients would care, only thinking about how to improve their profits. Just as they had when hunting my kind close to extinction, just like when they threw my kind into the pits of despair."

The Core no matter how interested was getting annoyed from how long Cie took to get to the point but listened all the same, "The first steps to luring the sapients would be to act as a young Dungeon with high difficulty and high rewards. You already have things which can help with that the Blood-roots, Elwind Stones, Storm Hide Bears for their pelts, and something which I can tell you how to make, but you'll need more than just these, and you didn't assimilate anything from the adventurers you killed."

Cie started floating away while continuing to talk and the Core followed along ignoring its surroundings, "Blood-roots will always be in demand giving you already a permanent source of adventurers. The Storm Hide Bear's pelt is valued for lighting affinity enchanted armor, so its value is high but limited to a degree but not much. The Elwind Stones, however, can last for hundreds of years meaning that you'll need to place only a few when you can make them or else you'll lower their value and thus your own. Now the thing I'm going to tell you how to make is only possible for you because you possess something which no other Dungeon has, the Titan core."

The Core only now realized it had followed Cie all the way out of the Swamp and to the Titan core, but it was confused, "What can I make?" The Core looked questioningly towards Cie, "Master, a Mana Spring, something which no other Dungeon should have because Dungeons cannot be born in the same areas as Mana Springs are made. Mana Springs are difficult to make artificially because the Mana required would exceed what any ordinary creature possesses, but you have the Titan core which can easily cause the creation of a Mana Spring, whether the Titan core's operating normally or malfunctioning like yours."

The Core could see Cie's expression change from the merry of moments ago to a more somber look, "But, Master something bothers me. We Nifilim used to live aboard Yeol Titan of Breeze which wandered the world allowing the Nifilim to learn many things which are passed down by History Transfer. A Mind Magic spell that allows Nifilim to pass down all of the history we've learned of, and among this no Titans we know of were called Melkev, and no Titan we know of has ever fallen on Cloud-Burst mountain. Moreover, the sheer size of Melkev's core is astounding. Nearly six times that of Yeol who had a fairly large core even among Titans for flying permanently. And Master this brings me to what I find most disturbing from this core, it blocked your access, meaning the will of the Titan still lives on within the core. Something which should be impossible if the Titan fell hundreds of thousands of years ago." Hearing what Cie said, the Core did recall the feeling of hitting a wall when it tried to form a connection with the Titan core, and the Core started getting worried it could be in danger until Cie assured it. "You needn't worry Master the Titan's will seems dormant even after the draining you've done to it, and you'll need to move into the pond to make the Mana Spring, but rest-assured the Titan's will won't awaken from something so measly as being moved."

Listening to what Cie told it, the Core ordered the Abomination out of the pond and began pushing the Titan core into the pond, while Cie continued talking, "Once you push the Titan core into the pond, just leave it there for a while, and you'll soon have a Mana Spring." Pushing the Titan core one last time before letting it roll down into the pond, the Core looked at Cie wondering what it would say next, "Good, now you only need to wait. Now Master, its time for you to make another floor before the one outside leaves to inform their guild. You should use the Isolation caves which would give you the appearance of being slightly hard and young, but nothing which should alert them. However, you'll need to hide the Titan core, if they find it they'll take it for themselves, and that would be disastrous for you."

The Core was somewhat displeased at being told what to do but felt what Cie said was reasonable and turned to make the second floor which would be the Isolation caves.