Author review; This one is, to be honest, sort of a... How do I say this... Power fantasy? The main character quickly found something cool to do, and it was way to overpowered. And I got bored of it.
The main character is someone very bored and feels empty, so he goes for thrills, at least that's how I imagined them, or how I remember them. And he's a dungeon core!
So cool and dashing!
PS; The MC is a monster that disdains normies, and off-handedly says a lot of twisted things.
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I feel weird, I feel empty... Not emotionally, that would be like every other day. I can't even fill the normal void with thrills and other fun things like usual, you can't do that when you can literally feel nothing and you are in a literal empty void.
What am I even supposed to do? Wait for some goddess to say 'I feel bad for you, isekai you are now.', or something? I'd rather not, being chained by some duty to save the world isn't my style. And an isekai harem wouldn't fill the void. Even a real harem would just do so for maybe an hour every day for a week before I fall back into the void of boredom and emptyness. I even think the previous would worsen the void with 'annoyance' and 'indignation'
Maybe xianxia? It's a good genre to join, there's a lot of variety and there is a lot of funny wording in it that I would enjoy. It just mattered what kind of xianxia it would be... would it be 'I transported into a novel world and now am stealing plot armour from the protaganist while I have more than 500x his.'? Or 'I woke up as an expert, but these morals are killing me, and my cute/sexy/cold-jade-like-beauty childhood-friend/disciple/martial-brother-or-sister/master won't stop bothering me, and may have extracted the fact that I am not the old me!'?
I like the 'I got an overpowered system after I saw the horrors of the real world and turned into an evil guy that killed all I hated whenever I felt like it, doing a bunch of evil shit on the side, romance is for normies, I don't have attachments to my family and don't have some super talented sister, btw.'. It's more free spirited that way, I always found that 'family is everything' message kind of dumb. We use books as an escape from reality, not to get preached to about the importance of family. That is super painful for orphans, who can't feel the supossed 'magic happyness' that comes from family.
Maybe it's a japonezo one? Well, it could, I guess. But those are annoying to read personally so I don't have to big a repertoire of reads, they didn't really fill the void with all the normie in my everyman. but a status would be cool, magic would be hyper cool. A dragon, both western and eastern would be uber cool, the western more.
What else? 'School bus/class transported to another world'? No, I haven't had a class or anything like that since I rigged the explosives. That school sized firework was really entertaining! It filled me with happiness and acomplishment for a whole month! Though some red blood got on my pants! It was so irritating to buy a new pair of pants.
uhhh, maybe 'I got a cheat skill from a clumsy goddess, now my normie being stands at the peak!'? Naaaaa, I'm not a normie. Never liked those kinds of 'peace is good and stuff, take it slow and it'll be fine!' since that never worked for me. And a normie standing at the top of a cruel and heartless world is dumb, he'd obviously get tricked with poison and die a painless death without knowing what happened! And don't talk about how he has 'poison resistance', resistance isn't immunity! And it's impossible to be completely immune to some kind of element! A specific poison, sure I can understand that. But not all god damn poisons!
Well it could be some necromancer, dungeon, mage, or bored god taking my soul from earth for some reason. the bored god would be the worst, but the mage would also be trash since I might be contained for the rest of my life in the name of research.
A beastmaster xianxia would be good too, maybe a 100x system or something would be good. Becoming a beast in a beastmaster xianxai would be cock and ball torture mentally and physically since all of those protags get nice and obidient masters that would get in the way of my fighting and murder with a 'Murder is bad and I have morality!'
Dungeons... No, just no man. please god and devil no. They're fun to watch and they're intresting, but you got to live as one for centuries! I, am, not, going to let the void stay empty for that long. And I don't even know if I get a navi clone that never stops being angry at idiocy or not, same with a system, or if that system is even helpful! I don't read too much of it since so many of the novels 'struggle with morality', that means 'Waaahh! I don't want to kill the people that want to kill me in my eyes!' my eyes since most novels talk about how they don't actually want to do it. Why don't people with balls become dungeons? Since they had the balls to fight the unknown and had been shown to go against the system and other higher powers when they were stifeled?
[Yes.]
Eh? God damn it! When a system/god responds to something it's always relevant to the plot! I feel my chances at becoming a dungeon have already doubbled! And that means that this higher power thinks of me as a normie! I take great offense to that! I'll have you know I killed a man in a combat zone before I died in the midst of WWIII! I was rich enough to avoid it but the void was filled with the blood of the innocent and combatants, so I entered with connections.
[Well... You were mistakenly bought from a world's afterlife instead of a salery man with the same name as you, and you were already bought.]
I feel no pain at not being wanted by dumbasses that don't know how to make a good peak dungeon or adventurer, you're just idiots that got lucky every time you succeeded. You must've used billions, if not trillions of normies per success!
[Sadly that is true, please don't salt the wound. And its a few quadrillion, actually...]
pfahahaha, what losers! man, I am salting that wound so it leaves a twisted and burning scar that will never, and I mean never, go away. You're just gamblers putting your lives in the hands of fate, are you bald? You sound as if you were a monk, ambtiba, fate is good and all, let it ruin your life if it wants to.
[Stop...]
No, only actually smart people deserve that! Oh! You're one of those trashy luck made people that only got where they are by the wheel of luck! No talent or drive that makes you special in the swarms of normies!
[Stop!]
Why? You aren't worthy! you must've thought that all your achievements came from your own efforts! Man that's funny! The face that you made when you learned that you had no hand in your own life and triumph would be priceless!
[STOP!]
Na, your stupidity really needs to made fun of. It builds character, you know, it makes your one dimensional personality something with depth. Oh! sorry, you must have the problem of someone on a two dimensional plane trying to understand what the third dimension is!
[STOP IT NOW!]
Ah! That must be why your friends never put any emphisis on it! They couldn't see beyond what they were! Predictable little troglodytes, unable to forsee the others of their kind due to their lack of actual inteligence, not the stuff on the screen deary. The real stuff, you must not know what it is since you don't have it.
[Enough! Youaregoingtobereincarnatedasadungeoncoretyouwillgetafairytohelpyouyoucanseeyourstatusbysaying'status'inyourmindoranywhereelseyoucansayit. Done! now go away!]
Aww, little baby unable to brave the real world? don't worry! Your good ol' friend idiocy will help you see a nice little world without all the stress brought about by real actions and effects~ No need to have a mind to make friend~ They won't even break you out of your beautiful fantasy because they're in their own~ Some of them will even be sexually frustrated enough to do you even with way better looking and with more than one dimension in their personality partners available~ Not like they could even see that extra dimension anyways, sure! A princess will help you out for no reason except you seem like you need it~ It's all because they're good people~
[Why are you here?! Wait.. Iandthepantheonabovewishvastlyforyoursuccess (I and the pantheon above wish vastly for your success)]
Eh? Why am I fading? My mind will never falter in the path of powning noobs! You can silence me, but you can't silence the truth! Stop hiding from it or die alone! Oh wait! You don't have to worry~ Your one dimensional children will stay by your death bed~ Oh! Sorry! They'd probably die before you did! Since, they wouldn't be special in any way!
... No screams? Shame, it was the only thing that was worth anything. Wait shouldn't your mind be a treasured artifact? It abundant flaws make it valuable enough as a warning to the youth!
...I'm waiting for you trashy reaction of frustration! Come on! Give me the entertainment made of your emotional agony!
..... What now? Oh there goes the transport! Ohhh! Come on! Dragon tamer legends here I go making ya!
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No... No.... No..... No... NO! Don't look in the drawers! What's in them? Something your allergic to, I tested it in your sleep, you had a terrible reaction to a gram on you skin. That was horrifing, I haven't had the chance to safely throw it away.
Wait... I wasn't hiding the bodies from my wife! I killed her after she saw [Redacted]! Shame that I wasn't able to pass on my genes, not to sad. my wife would've tainted my genes with her normie plague anyways.
Now, where am I? I'm probably a dungeon of some kind due to the reaction of the loser to my dissing of dungeons, I wonder if he commited suicide from that. I hope so, they're contaminating the genepool.
Uhh, let's see, I was told something about 'Status'?
[Generating status...]
[Name; null. Race; Core.]
[the rest are currently [Redacted], please progres with the totorial.]
Aw, I'm a dungeon core! Shame, oh I can see now! Must have something to do with mana and shit. I want mana and magic! Give me my mana sense!
Ah... That's the stuff, weird light blue particals in the air. Classic mana!
So 'tutorial'?
[Turorial 1/10
As a new born dungeon core, you need some space to play around! Make a 3x3x3m room with your core inside. Rewards; mana bar, mana data pack.]
Uh, how am I supposed to do that? Grind the earth with mana? I don't even know how to move mana, do I make some kind of aura or something?
You'know, let's go with instinct! That's how novel people do it!
Now, what is my name? Null? Sure, I'm to lazy to come up with one.
Null, free you mind and let your sub-concious do the work. Slowly let the mana around you flow around you, don't stifile it with order, bring chaos with pure energy. Slowly the mana started to revolve around me without any direction, causing small loops of mana to appear, some mana flowed into the wall getting knocked back, some blasted outward in a ring pattern.
Everytime mana moving from my power disintegrated (?) The earth.
Alright! that worked! I wonder where the dirt went? Must be an inventory or something. I don't care anyways.
Let's try that again but conciously, now. Null, feel the sub-concious instinct inside you, copy it, make it your own. Control it, become one with it, become the wizard you were always meant to be! Feel what it does and do it yourself!
I don't have any idea how long it took to finish, but at the end I felt filled. Magic is so cool, how big was my room anyways? No clue on specifics since it's a sphere, but I was told I did the quest.
So I can see my mana, I got 100/100. Must've lost track of time, happens often, usually taken out of it due to annoying normies screaming about what I'm doing is demented.
Now this 'data pack'? Ahhhh! Why does it hurt so much!? It's litterally just info! Why can't you just give me it in screens?!
An unknown period of time later, I started to play with mana way more. Mana is magic incarnate! You can make earth mana or fire mana, mana is everything! Mana can become matter! Real matter! But it's not energy I think? Because fire isn't an element or molocule, it's made of heat and air from air mana. So is fire mana heat mana? No, there's actually heat mana, harder to use, but it is there.
Is mana energy, and elemental mana or whatever you make it 'infected' with a concept? Maybe, I don't really know. That data pack had only the most basic of elements and some off-shoots. It gave vague ways to make it, and ran away leaving me in the dust.
I couldn't continue to any of tutorial with a bit of magic could I? I had no idea to use my own mana, and I've been working with 'ambient mana', mana that is naturally in the air and stuff, for a while.
Let's try a classic, magic missle! It should be easy, just pack a bunch of mana and hold it still, then shoot.
Again I have no idea how long it took, and after casting it left a sort of 'mana deprivation zone' where I took the mana from with little ambient mana. It was a tiny little zone, but that zone blasted a bit of rock, and that made me filled again.
I didn't really know what to do so I went with air mana since there should be air somewhere in my sphere, I guess? How do I use air mana? Let's see... 'Imagine the mana becoming breathable, to become physical, to become a gas.'
Whaaa? Let's think of ambient mana as fluid with different concentrations in different places, sort of like the time right after the big bang with cosmic soup. And my mental energy is the heat that evaporates it into a gas. Right now it will be... the soup that is air as a liquid.
Let's be honest it's not too hard to think of air as a liquid, but I just made sure to think of it as 'with little co2' Since I was thinking of polluted earth's air.
Now I just imagined something for my ease, it just became air man, it just works. And it did! Man mana is easy! Or maybe I have strong imagination? I don't really care, it is what it is.
Oh and a moss had grown in my sphere, I didn't like it so I got rid of it with a bolt of mana to make a missle since the disintagration didn't work.
Back to the air, I felt I could control it like mana but with more difficulty, or release it and let it become 'Real' air that wouldn't deal 'magic' damage. I made a plane out of the bit of air mana, and than made the side get shot out at the wall! It made a cut into the rock the size and thickness of the side.
What's that moss doing there again? Magic missle!
Now water, let's think of it as water droplets being formed in rain clouds that slowly drip become a ball of water floating in the sky.
I opened my eyes to an annoying ping that got me out of the groove.
[You have not worked towards the tutorial for <7 months> please continue with the tutorial]
NO! Magic is all I need! I looked at my status too and saw I was eight months old, this is nice, I can fill the emptyness for so long! Magic is amazing!
Back to water mana, that was done now, though not all the mana was transmuted though. Not that it matters, I wanted something better than mere water so I just imagined the water turning into a maliable ice that bends to my will. This isn't that hard, since fantasy novels made it easy to imagine with a few magic circles in my mind going around it.
It took less than a minute! I turned it into a sword, a scale, a miniture dragon figurine with anime ice flairs. I liked it so I gave up control, and it fell to the ground and shattered like normal ice that started to melt.
I felt saddened and wanted to make something that would make everything null void, hey! My trash name actually works with the void! Let's gooooo! Void me up boiiii!
This was easy, just think of the feeling I have of emotionally and have the mana just become the physical representation of it in elemental form. I looked at my weird darkness, weird since I don't see light, I see the existance of something. That includes light and space itself, it meant that dark void was litteral nothingness. I don't even know how I can control it, if I ever choose to turn it wild it would probably destroy a small country on it's own.
This wasn't a black hole, that would have a really small part that I could barely see in the middle.
If I think of this void as a plague that infects beings with nothingness or 'null', so what if I make something with concentrated existence or 'stats'?
Ohhh! Magic is so cool! But first... Die moss! The moss died instantly. I'm so happy that I made an actual room instead of a sphere with my crystal core in the bottom, turning it all into nothingness btw.
I dismissed the void like a father releasing their son onto the world, but just found out he would destroy the world so was brought to an end in tears. With an oath to resurect the son.
I would bring him back! I swear upon my name!
-Written in the 29th of august, 2022