At the final battle where the heroes assaulted the necromantic forces that surrounded the necromances necropolis. The grand structures of bone were filled to the brim with tomb lords and skeletal abominations, zombie kings, and banshee queens. The surrounding mountainside where the necromancer had set up his home was filled with the unquiet dead.

A skeletal warrior with a wandered far away from the main forces. The weakest of the undead they strayed far from the necromancer’s seat of power. Placed directly in the team of heroes’ path. This skeletal warrior was different, created from the corpse of a minor noble noted for their skilled swordsmanship this undead held a beautiful sword embedded with a large pulsing black gem. Within this gem was a soul and this soul was alert. After a few weeks, its death had been accepted and memories had faded. Scraps of knowledge remained alongside a desire to create, destroy and grow.

The soul pulsed as it ‘looked’ at the clearest item within its vision.

Dungeon Menu

Core Spirit

Level: 1

Dungeon Specialty: Not chosen

Name: N/A

Mana: 0/50

Dungeon Body

Levels: 0

Rooms: 0

Defenders: 0

Traps: 0

Shop: To access please found the dungeon

Shop Points: 0

To its own fleeting scraps of knowledge, the last menu it had seen was far more informative in comparison to this one. With separate tabs for skills, spells, talents, and overview. What was not on its previous menu was the shop. Which the soul currently had no further knowledge. The soul currently waited because what it could tell from its ‘vision’ its trapped presence within the gem had gone unnoticed by the undead. It ‘blinked’ away from the menu as its surroundings started whipping wildly about. From what it could tell the sword was being swung at the larger beacons of mana that was closing on the sources of cloying, sluggish mana. Just like the one that wielded him. Its own mana swirled along the blade preventing the use or escape of his own mana. The world swirled around as the sword was swung around. It abruptly stopped as the skeleton holding the sword was beheaded by a swordsman hero.

The sword flew through the area the came to a screeching halt as the blade of the sword got stuck in a fissure in the earth.

The soul felt the restrictions ease as the dark mana that channeled down the sword vanished and upon the ‘screen’.

Dungeon Menu

Core Spirit

Level: 1

Dungeon Specialty: Not chosen

Name: N/A

Mana: 1/50

Dungeon Body

Levels: 0

Rooms: 0

Defenders: 0

Traps: 0

Shop: To access please found the dungeon

Shop Points: 0

The soul felt exultant and it felt the power of its own mana was regenerating. It quickly started pushing the mana it had into the metal of the blade confining its gem. It saw the sources of massive mana move off, cutting down the dark mana sources as they went.

The soul turned its attention away from them and turned its attention to using its swiftly regenerating mana into claiming its confines.

A Few Hours Later

Skill Gained: Claim Territory

As the sword saw it a rush of knowledge entered its mind and it started using its mana more efficiently to claim territory around it. Once it claimed a meter of territory around the sword it changed tactics. Using the mana, it started trying to move the earth that the sword was buried in. Small bits of the earth at a time the sword stared sinking deeper into the ground. And soon enough.

Skill Gained: Shape Territory

The soul grinned and started moving faster.

Many Days Later, Many miles underground

It felt safer, away from the necromantic hordes and the discerning heroes the first mile of the tunnel dug straight down was closed back of and much of the other stone was absorbed or pushed elsewhere and now the soul felt safer in its current resting place it brought up the ignored notifications.

Skill Gained: Pocket Dimension (Dungeon Variant)

Patterns Gained: Soil Level 1 – 11, Common Stone Level 1 – 4, Granite Level 1 – 2, Bone Level 1 – 8, Moss Level 1 – 5.

Achievement Gained: Earth Mover

Level Up.

The soul felt a burst of strength but before looking at the Status Screen focused upon the Achievement.

Earth Mover

An Achievement awarded to Dungeons who move far through the Earth before founding their Dungeon. Experience Awarded, Options in shop Unlocked.

The soul then opened the screen and immediately felt a burst of annoyance.

Dungeon Menu

Core Spirit

Level: 2

Dungeon Specialty: Not chosen

Name: N/A

Mana: 23/50

Dungeon Body

Levels: 1

Rooms: 1

Defenders: 0

Traps: 0

Shop: To access please found the dungeon

Shop Points: 10

Upon looking at the screen it focused upon the name. Now far away from its warden, it felt no desire to hide and therefore pushed a thought at the screen.

Name change: N/A – Unbound

Warning this change is irreversible

Warning making this change will found the Dungeon, Core Spirit. Are you prepared?

YES NO

The soul, now named Unbound, pushed at the YES option, and rumbles spread through the earth surrounding the dark pulsing as the core consciousness ceased to be.

After Unbound woke up he could feel the environment around him in a way he never could before, and instincts warred through his mind to push out his influence and defend against all who tried to harm him. Before that, the knocking on his mind spoke of new notifications.

Congratulations you have founded your Dungeon new options are now available.

Please choose a Dungeon specialty to access new options.

Pushing towards that a new list opened before him.

Dungeon specialties

Subterranean (common):

Spread out through the deep depths of the earth and find its treasures with this option. Massive caverns, Mineshafts, Flooded caves, Tombs, and more. Defend yourself with the sightless beings that lurk in the dark depths of the earth.

Unlocks (Defenders): Insects (subterranean variants), Cave moles, Deep kobolds, and Animals (subterranean variants).

Unlocks (Plantlife): Molds, Moss, Mushrooms, and Deep Ivy.

Unlocks (Traps): Pitfalls, Rockfalls, and Boulder trap.

Unlocks (Environment): Compressed earth, Basalt, Iron, Copper, and Quartz.

Undead (Uncommon):

The unquiet dead march at your command. A tireless force of defenders that inspire fear in all of those that come against you. Tombs, Graveyards, Grant Necropolises, Skeletal Forests, and more. Defend yourself with the lost and forgotten.

Unlocks (Defenders): Skeletons (animal variants), Zombies (animal variants), Crumbling Skeleton (Humanoid variants), and Rotten Zombie (Humanoid variants).

Unlocks (Plantlife): Vampiric moss, Poisonous mushrooms, Skeletal bush, and Blood grass.

Unlocks (Traps): Pitfall (Bone spike variant), Pressurized Bone spikes, and Locked door.

Unlocks (Environment): Barricades, Dug Grave, Fossils, Necromantic Glyphs, and Bone dust.

Magic Forest (Rare):

The strange and the mystical. Reality seems to twist in the depths of a forest, where everyone fears to be there alone. Burnt forest, Clear glades, Secret pools, True Illusions, and more. The natural world comes to your aid.

Unlocks (Defenders): Animals (forest variants), Treant (juvenile), Dryad (juvenile), and Fae (Fairy subtype).

Unlocks (Plantlife): Mana grass, Mana bush, Mana vines, and Mana trees

Unlocks (Traps): Pitfall (concealed variant), Falling tree, and Grasping roots.

Unlocks (Environment): Illusionary forest, Misty forest, Silent Forest, Waterfall, and Animal dens.

Void (Legendary):

Separate yet not. A rule to itself and free of forced ties to reality. Unique and ever-changing this Dungeon variant creates its own dimension for adventurers to explore. WARNING changing to this Dungeon specialty may harm your soul during the change and have other unforeseen consequences.

Unlocks (Defenders): Four free purchases from the shop costing less than 10 points apiece.

Unlocks (Plants Life): Four free purchases from the shop costing less than 5 points apiece.

Unlocks (Traps): Four free purchases from the shop costing less than 10 points apiece.

Unlocks (Environment): Four free purchases from the shop costing less than 5 points apiece.

Unbound looked at his four choices and even as his instincts pushed towards the last option weighed them up and what could benefit him. The first seems safe to him, stable but slow. The second his mind refused to consider whilst most memories had fled his death at the hands of undead and his life surrounded by life refused this issue. The third caused his past life to jump with joy at the idea of working with massive and powerful forests. The fourth was worrisome because he could see how he had unlocked or earned the other three options, how he could have earned that specialty however it seemed a truly unique and customizable option that his instincts pushed towards.

Slowly he made his choice.

Warning once specialty has been chosen it can not b changed. Continue?

YES NO

With a final mental push, he lost consciousness once more.