“So, did you kill the king?”, Lazarus asked

“Nope”

“But why, though? Wasn’t that our purpose?”

“There is no need for that now, the situation has changed”

“why what happened?”

“Before that, are these the mana stones you collected, couldn’t you find something better.”

“Do you know how hard it was to find them, seems most of the stones were supplied to the people who are fighting in the war?”

“This won’t be enough to restore your teeth and where’s crimson?”

“I don’t know, but I did hear rumors that people’s pieces of jewelry were starting to disappear from their houses.”

“Let’s just hope she completed the task that I gave her, and we need to prepare fast, the elves would be invading this kingdom soon.”

“What wasn’t the war on equal footing before what changed?”

“Seems like some high elves had decided to join the battle, which gave elves more advantage. The battle has already been over, and now they are heading over here with their army. The king had planned to escape on his own. This kingdom is doomed.”

“So, what now? do we escape?”

“Escape? Why should we run?”

“It's not a joke, I don’t have my fangs yet, you said you can’t use any high tier spell without a mana stone, all we have is crimson, she may be able to take on an army, but there is no grantee since the high elves are involved, we all might just lose all of our life.”

“You really underestimate us, that dragon is stronger than it looks, and; let me tell you I always have a solution, I am going to create a mana stone.”

Diiiiiinnnnnnggg!

“The bells have rung, the elves are here, listen I have a plan, find crimson and convey her my plan.”, I said to Lazarus

The battle had begun.

The remaining kingdom soldiers had begun to protect the kingdom.

The wizards had created a barrier. The time for me to take action had arrived.

From the middle of the city, I rose high in the sky. The task I gave crimson was to create tunnels. Deep under the kingdom, I had her create tunnels. Which, upon completion, will take spherical shape and act as a magic circle. It would cause the entire kingdom to act as a temporary dungeon. Being a dragon, it should not have taken her much time to create the tunnels.

From, the above, I saw the terrain, the mountains, the sun that was about to rise, the walls that the elves were trying to climb, the barriers that the humans were trying to protect, the closed shops down on the street, the panicked faces of the humans below and the march of the elves ahead.

Soon, the circle began to take form. The land started to shake. The fighting suddenly stopped as everyone’s attention went towards the red markings that had suddenly appeared all over the place.

[The Land is turning into a Temporary Dungeon]

[Temporary Dungeon Has been Made]

Soon, the people inside the circle began to fade. Their bodies began to slowly turn into red liquid. The liquid would then slowly approach me and begin to take shape in the middle of my hands.

The high elves had noticed my action. They must have assumed that I was performing some kind of spell. With three of them, they used combined magic to create a giant ice Dragon.

When I had a chat with the king, I had found out some exciting things. Like, how Alric was sent to fight the necromancer just a few weeks ago along with the combined forces of various nations in the desert. I had also escaped the dungeon just a few weeks ago, not only that, but if I was created during that very fight, that would mean he and I got trapped in the same time, but the thing was I also seemed to have gotten out from the dungeon the very same day. The time, the 2 years I spent inside the dungeon and the 3000 years dungeon Alric spent inside the dungeon was nearly nonexistent outside. The dungeon could control the flow of time inside the dungeon, making the time nonexistent. Now, As I was the master of the dungeon. I had gained the ability to control the flow of time inside my own dungeon, even the temporary ones.

I stopped the flow of time right before the ice dragon entered the circle. I and my temporary dungeon entered a separate dimension in time. When I would make the time flow again, I would exit the different dimension and enter to the time right before the ice dragon entered. At the same time, the required preparations would have been already made.

[You have entered a Separate Dimension]

Now that the time had stopped, I began preparing the mana stone. Nearly all the people in the kingdom had now turned into liquid. I now started to condense the mana stone.

[Initiating construction of Mana Stone]

The condensed liquid was now taking the shape of a circle.

However, then I had gotten too greedy.

I could control the flow of time only inside the dungeon. But I thought, what if I could manage it even outside?

That’s when I tried to turn the mana stone into a tool that would help me stop the flow of time. I wanted to give it some of my authority over the flow of time.

[Failed]

[The authority cannot be transferred]

[You have tried to create something that would disturb the laws of nature]

[Gods are now watching you]

[You have committed a sin]

[You will now face Divine Retribution]