Attention domain is being invaded

Attention core in danger

All pawns to arms

DEMON NOW IS NOT THE TIME.

Ha stupid demon can’t it see that I’m going to die. And I don’t own any “pawns”?

As the dust began to settle I saw the outline of what had destroyed my home. It was nine of me tall, three of me wide. There was something fading behind it at about five head from the bottom of the outline. And in front of it was a large bulky tube like thing that connected to its arm.

And at the same time Sally started acting up.

I mean she was glowing like crazy.

She even started to concentrate her mana. I didn’t even know she could do that. But when she released it is when my jaw hit the ground. You know if I had a jaw, or mouth for that matter. But that’s beside the point she started to send arms of mana out grabbing as many rock as she could. She grabbed Grant, Jezebel, Philip, Kimberly, Tim, Veronica, Ramasse, Jade, Corbin, Ryan, Irowe, Jasmine, Saul, Cortez, Hector, Fernando, Zoe, Guenever and all of the Bert’s, all of them. She pulled them towards herself and started to organize them around her. Once they were laid out like she wanted she sent out five tendrils through each and every one of them with Sally at the center. Then they were all speared through though they began to move together as if they were only a single being. It stood up on two legs with a rock tail on its back, as well as two large arms. There was no designated head or torso, just arms, legs, and a tail. The gem that was Sally still glowed lightly at the center of the construct she had orchestrated but now there were concentrated veins of mana running throughout the construct.

By the time the construct had finished forming it stands at four of my heads high. Than it rises up and moves itself in between myself and the outline in the dust cloud. I would like to say I was flattered that they would protect me like this, but I get the distinct impression that it is more out of duty than out of their fondness for me.

Finally the dust has settled enough to allow me to get a good look at this “intruder” that the demon was talking about. The creature before me is covered in a black sleek sheen with diluted orange lights running along its body. The being's head is box like with indentions on the top and a curved neck piece that runs along its elongated jaw. I can now see its second set of feet that are set behind it, along with a large tail with a four blades at its end. The creature's legs come out of a draped shell that encases its lower body. And the bulky tube now looks more defined with a large central tube and two smaller tubes on the bottom of it that lead to a half cylindrical piece where everything connects. The creature's right arm is even fused to the thing at the other end.

All in all I‘m terrified of this massive black being, without eyes and I assume a without a soul. For I wouldn’t be surprised at all if it devoured any and all life it came across.

Oh man I don’t want to die.

What to do?

What do I do?

What can I do?

Awwwww I can’t do anything. I don’t even have spare mana to use.

What did demon say about pawns? Something about calling them to arms.

Well Pawns attack that soulless creature and defend me!

Please!

Please save me from becoming this things next meal!

Oh, please just attack and kill the invader!

And as it my pleading had an effect the construct lurches forward and begins its charge towards the black beast. The first thing the beast does is level it’s fused arm tube towards the construct while grabbing a weird protrusion with its six clawed hand. But then it just sit’s hesitates for a moment until it pushes the tube onto the underside of its fused arm. Then it does an unexpectedly quick spin, considering its size, sweeping its tail right at the construct blowing it away as if it were an insignificant pebble.

When I saw the construct slam into the wall my heart gave out and I realized I had no hope of surviving. But for some reason it rose again and charged the beast again. But this time it was tailless.

Once the beast noticed the construct was rushing at it again, it raised its right arm and took a stance of some sort. The construct seeming to not learn its lesson leaps towards the beast. Only for the beast to swing it’s raised arm down at the construct sending it into the ground, sending up another cloud of dust. But the beast isn’t done with the construct yet and raises a leg up in preparation to strike. I can only stare in horror as the beast deploys five claws directly below its foot just before it slams down its foot.

The force from the beasts stomp clears the dust that blocked my view allowing me to see the constructs body. The mana that was flowing through all of its limbs had dispersed and began to float back towards me. But the core of the construct still glowed giving me a sense of hope that all wasn’t lost.

Oh how wrong I was.

The beast slams its foot down again leaving the core in a poor state with a very dim glow radiating from it. Than picks up the constructs core and puts it somewhere in its black folds along its draped shell. Then the beast moves to the middle of the room as if it owns the place. The beast stays there but is constantly moving its head around as it watches for a new threat, as if I could do anything that would be a threat to that beast.

We stayed that way until a beast came into the room behind it.

Attention domain is being invaded

I can see that demon.

This one didn’t come in with any fanfare so I was able to see fairly clearly. It was about six of me tall while slouching and two of me wide. It had six arms the ones on its back had four joints that looked exposed bone. The other two pair of arms where coming out of its torso with the top pair being large with a strange ability to change its hands into a variety of different complex shapes. Its bottom pair was smaller with four long fingers. It’s legs were half the width of its body and had spikes pointed towards the ground that came out of its calves. Its head was featureless and smooth being balloon shaped with a single ridge running down the center of its face with a flat cover on the bottom. Its body had some round protrusions coming out of it but was mostly covered in scales with some larger scales covering its large flat sections of its body. It was a black creature like the other beast but it had a few glowing blue scales. It also carried a round object that was just a bit bigger than me.

The new creature stopped next to the beast and just stood there looking around just like the beast had been doing before it arrived. They both paused their searches when they looked towards each other from time to time. Then the creature held up the round object towards the beast. The beast responded by pointed towards me.

Let me tell you something today started off good. But as it goes on it gets progressively worse. I have thought that it couldn’t get any worse at least seven times today and have been proven wrong each and every time. I can’t even describe the amount of despair I’ve felt today. I get a glimpse of hope only for it to be dashed into trillions of pieces while still leaving a lingering image of the futile hope I once had.

I’m sick of it!

I’m not going to take it anymore.

I have mana for goodness sake.

I can at least destroy those two and get back to my boring peaceful life.

But to do anything I’ll need more mana. And the only way to do that is to forcefully pull it out of anything and everything around me. So I quickly condense what little mana I have left and send it out to pull it all back into me. Hundreds of small threads fly out of me and grab onto various thing around me. They grab the ground, the air, they even try to grab the creatures that threaten me but can’t pull in any subsequent amount of mana off of them. Some of the threads fly back into me with chunks of mana in their grasp.

Warning piece of domain lost

So the mana I’m collecting is from my domain.

Thanks demon, I’ll use that to end them.

With the information demon just gave me I now know that this mana is already mine to impart my will upon. So I’ll work with what I got. I gather all of the mana I have and I send it out throughout my domain. As mana moves through my domain I impart it with my desire of the destruction of the invaders.

I watch as the world around me begins to bubble, rising and falling sporadically. Only after a few seconds had passed, stone spikes where emerging from all sides.

The creature and beast acted immediately to the change happening around them. The beast grabbed the creature's object hastily and charged towards me. While the creature jumped back and waited be there exploded hole.

The stone spikes kept growing in size, while maintaining pointy points. But they didn't seem to pierce the beast. Some scratched its shell but it didn't stop the beast from reaching me, it barely slowed it down.

When the beast arrived at my body it set down the round object next to me. A hatch opened which cut the object in half horizontally allowing a hollowed out space to be revealed. All while the beast was hammered with spikes ramming into it. The beast then reached towards me, and as the beast descended upon me I saw the light.

Core in danger of capture

Self-detonation recommended

The world slowed around me as I considered what demon had said. I could end it all and detonate myself and probably take the beast with me and allow my rock brethren some peace. Or be captured and… well, who knows what they’ll do to me but I don't think I'll like it.

Detonation it is!

Dungeon detonation sequence initiated

As soon as demon said that I saw all the mana from the room suck back into me, I assume most of it was my domain. And as it came crashing down into my being I felt overwhelmed by the power held within, as all that magic was sucked dry from the world I knew. I saw the spikes fall still, the walls begin to crack and shift and Petter begin to slip from the hold he was in. I began to shine with a radiant light that eliminated the whole room. I felt the power begin to push at the walls of my body seeking a glorious explosion of power and magic.

That is until I was ripped from the ground and fitted into their weird sphere object.

Than it all stopped. With the only thing I felt was overwhelming power within me swirl around, having no place to go but around and around the inside of my being.

Attention connection to asteroid A7836.X2837.Y3092.Z-0097 severed... Dungeon system assist designated “demon” by dungeon core #04 terminated... No existing system detected… System development beginning for dungeon core @ mana stasis vessel SM3.23.04…