10/6 11:06 (Autumn, Day, Yggrar, Guild Grandmaster Private Laboratory)
The Guild Grandmaster stepped within her laboratory, her Senses examinating the entirety of it to seek anything off within it, things that certainly wouldn't be hard to find considering how, upon the closing and Sealing of the room, time is automatically stopped for everything inside.
Stere Hapu needed only to remember the state she left this laboratory the last time while controlling both the age of the objects within, confronting them with their age upon her previous Sealing of the room while controlling all of the times her laboratory was opened at all from its creation, searching for any irregularities.
Not even ten seconds after this process started, the Shapeshifter finished examining the entirety of the four hundred meters wide laboratory before confronting the age of the objects with each others and with the passage of time from when she herself opened up her lab.
Similarly Ladere herself Casted various Spells, both throught Magecraft and Spiritual Magic, to scan the entire laboratory for any other being while closing the door behind them and Sealing it, and them as a consequence, had in a completely separated space.
Thing quite easy to do considering how this laboratory was surrounded by the World Tree's roots and so more than enough Energy was present to passively twist space, time and even Reality itself slightly and it just needed a little push to activate this effect.
Once satisfied that her Spells, her five Spirit Lords and both her "Hunter's Instinct", "Threat Detection" and "Enemy Detection" Skills found nothing that shouldn't already be present, she moved to almost the opposite part of it in a separate but important part of this place by, with pure speed alone, crossing almost four hundred meters in a tenth of a second while negating the impact her speed would have had on the area around her at her shattering the speed of sound ten times over.
"I see you are feeling lazy today." The Grandmaster commented calmly at her former tutor.
And she was mostly correct as normally the blonde would have moved at a slower, even if similar, speed while not damaging her surrounding by using pure skill alone, without Casting any Spell or her Spirit Lords help in safeguarding the laboratory's equipment.
Stere Hapu sighed before smiling, eager to finally complete her pet project, ceasing to Mimic the mental-focused Guild Master in charge of Astrar in favor of one of her more physical B-Ranked Adventurers, her own Existence and physical capabilities increasing, easily reaching her waiting assistant.
There waiting for the two was a great, 10 meters of diameter and 1 meter wide circular table with another smaller circular table two meters wide at the exact center, both of them floating while bright crystals illuminating the room from the roof.
The currently black-haired woman carefully jumped over the external table and between her steps her shape trembled, turning into a grey slurry that scattered into multiple masses, masses that grew until all eleven of them formed new copies of the Grandmaster's current form, ten moving in concern and stopping each one before a predetermined section of the larger table while the last remaining one climbed to the top of the central table before nodding to her tutor.
Said tutor, a naturally aggressive especially for an High Elf, nodded in response sitting down, entering a Deep Meditation and breathing in deeply once before, as she breathed out, showing off the might of an High Elf as her five Spirit Lord leaving from their previous Vessels within her own body.
Five mass of Fire-, Water-, Air-, Lightning- and Earth-Attribute Mana condensed within their own forms, each one of them a slightly altered version of her own body, showing off the depth and age of their Bond, as they moved to between the two tables, each one of them being paired with two of her student's copies.
All ten Copies started to Mimic each a different individual before Stere Hapu's primary body, as she had no true shape or body, recalled all her copies spread around this World to maximize the reach of her Unique Skill and starting to copy a specific Person; the Number 7, "Magic Queen", intending on using her mastery over all Magic to Cast a Grand Ritual, to actually be reductive in its nomenclature.
The black metal forming this entire separated room shifted, following her will, creating a vast complex Runic Array while she retrieved the Magic Items made by her Clones working together with various other Beings.
And the final step of the pre-Ritual preparations was completed by Stere retrieving 10 A-Ranked Dungeon Cores, glowing iridescent crystal orbs with a range of one meters, the enormous Offering to Fuel this Grand Ritual.
If a E-Ranked Magicrystal is comprised of 10k Magicules; a D-Ranked one of 100k Magicules; a C-Ranked one, one million; a B-Ranked one, 10m; a A-Ranked one, 100m; a Dungeon Core, finally, offers 10 times what an equivalent Ranked Magicrystal would.
There were 10 of such A-Ranked Dungeon Cores, floating utop the outer table, presenting a treasure worth 10 billion Magicules and an equivalent amount of Potential.
The Doppelganger casted a last, longing look towards the fruits of the lasts two centuries worth of labor, both her own and Ladere's, containing enough power for her to immediately jump to become Number 7 and vastly increasing her Potential, sighing before starting to Chant, Runes starting to violently glow, the separated dimension of this Room trembling because of the amount of Energy being Channeled.
The Cores followed that example, glowing brighter and brighter, before slowly shattering into small mites that started circulating, waves of Energy being constantly released only for them to be deflected by the Runes to further function as Fuel for the Ritual itself.
While the eleven Clones were harmoniously Chanting, each one a different one, the Spirit Lords intervened, bridging the gap between Planes to direct and control ever more Energy to the Ritual itself, anchoring it ever deeper into Reality and starting to forcefully Manifest it in its entirety.
Hours passed as the Cores finally finished shattering, their pieces condensing in a single perfect and blinding sphere over Stere's central body, shaking and pulsing with power, the Runic Array constantly changing to balance the immense amount of Energy from the Planes, before finally the Chanting slowed down to a stop.
And the moment the central Doppelganger stopped, the orb shattered in an instant releasing a wave across the entirety of this World, a satisfied smile formed upon the Guild Grandmaster's face before she laughed, glad.
This was only possible because the Rules were still unstable.
*Emergency Alert.
*The Rules upon the World will change.
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10/6 13:09 (Autumn, Night, Dunrar, hidden Dungeon)
The nameless Poison Cultivator felt the change on his Status but didn't bother visiting it as he looked down upon this World's System, viewing it as vastly inferior to his World's Cultivation and being too pridefull to use it.
The only thing he cared about was its positive effect on his creation, noting the acceleration of his Gu's birth, and braming the time that it would be born and he would kill his current master.
Said master was instead covertly watching him, being disappointed in his lack of intelligence and foolish pride.
He, after all, was not the first Cultivator to arrive on this World and being Suppressed by the World's Rules and a way to survive and even thrive was long since found.
A Cultivator just needed to train and grow with the System, adapting to it.
In fact he was not even the weakest of the Cultivators that reached this World as the weakest of them arrived at a lower Step that he currently was and by using the System reached Immortality, the Fifth Stage of Cultivation, within ten years of arriving while having like no knowledge of Cultivation.
And his visit held immense repercussions to this age as before he left this World, he took the seed of a weeping willow, brought it in a safe island and shared with it his own knowledge of Cultivations.
Seed that over the millenia grew to the World Tree, the Living Core of Yggrar.
They sighed, their own and their Monsters' Status already controlled to make sure they didn't lose any combat capabilities, before deciding to ignore for now the surprising naive so-called Poison specialist.
Instead the Dungeon Maker controlled the Sealed androginous Ancestor, making sure the situation was under control, and for the first time using their Authority over Dungeons to force the unresponsive Vampiric being to share with them their newly gained Title, function added with the recent change in the Rules, feeling their Existence, that of their Boss and even that of their Monster increase as they were now the "Subordinates" of one of the Top 10.
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10/6 13:09 (Autumn, Night, Astrar)
The Iriblades stopped momentarily upon feeling the change in the rules of the World before resume their previous actions, that is to say they restarted their training to adapt to the changes as they were already training in a private and secure room.
After all Klevel just increase in Rank and all five of them needed to make sure they mastered the changes caused by the strengthening of his Holy-Attribute Magic and the Guild previously sent a message to all high Ranking Parties to be carefull around this period, evidently reguarding this event.
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10/6 13:09 (Autumn, Night, Midrar)
Luna observed this last message, wondering at the culprit behind the change of the Rules and the reason why, eager to know, before turning to her Status, a sharp smile spreading on her face.
Her Mates, likewise, were monitoring their own Status, this alert distracting them from their previous conversation.