C: 3 - First Enchantment

[A/N: Whoops, Feel asleep after I got home from a nine-hour shift]

It took who knows how many days, but Kohl managed to finally create his Enchantments, he even found two ways to do so at that! But they were not the ways he was aiming for.

For example, the first type of enchantment he managed was 'Intent.'

Such as flooding an object with mana and adding an intent to what the Enchantment should do.

Such as if Kohl filled up a sword with mana and gave it the intent 'The Blade will become very hot upon saying "Flame On" and will extinguish when the phrase "Flame Off" is said, allowing for a sword to become very hot and catch on fire.

Of course, Kohl would have to guide where the intent is supposed to work, or the entire sword would burn very hot, which includes the handle.

But what Kohl found, is that only one or two 'intents' can be placed on a single object before it would begin to break down, causing the previous two intents to cease.

The other Enchantment type? Runic Symbols.

For example, carving a Bear on grieves would give someone great strength and vitality, but the amount depends on the understanding of the symbol and how much mana is inputted into the item, the Runic Enchantment relied more on Images, Feelings, Understanding, and just like the first, the amount of Mana in the enchantment.

Kohl had found two types of Enchantments so far, Intent and Runic Symbols, but for the life of him, Kohl could not understand why it couldn't recreate the Enchantments of Tamriel.

Frustrated, Kohl set aside that project and focused on the two Enchantment Styles it did discover.

In the last five days since it began attempting to enchant, Kohl was only using the 500 Mana it had left after using half of the mana in its core to improve it, and now that five days, it used the 500 Mana to once again improve its core, raising its capacity from 1,025 Units to 1,050 Units.

Kohl has also kept an eye on the forest, and only a few patches of land remained that still haven't matured yet. A few more Spirit Trees cropped up as well, along with two more Wood Sprites and even a Water Sprite.

Focusing on the Runic Enchanting for now, Kohl wondered just what kinds of images he could make and if there were any limits.

Searching through the stories, Kohl soon came upon an entity that would surely test to see if anything could become a Rune.

Creating a slate disc the size to fit perfectly in a human hand, Kohl used mana to slowly and delicately carve away at the stone.

The image of a large mass of conjoined skeletons forming a giant creature formed in Kohl's mind. The Creature had a cloak of inky darkness and wielded a sickly-looking sword. The creature gives off an Aura of Death and Illness, around him were many skeletons, Liches, and other Undead.

It was Gravelord Nito, the first of the dead, one of the original Lords who possessed a Lord Soul, a Slayer of countless dragons and those who lived, and a living manifestation of Death, Illness, and Decay. Gravelord Nito's origin comes from the story of the world of Dark Souls, and if this worked, Kohl figured he could make a runic image for any entity it knew.

Infusing 100 units of mana, Kohl watched with fascination as the rune gave off a sickly green and black glow.

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Name: Slate Disc of Gravelord Nito (Changeable)

Item Grade: Unique-Rare

Item Type: Artifact

Level Requirement: 50+

Bonuses: +500 HP, +1,000 Stamina

Grants Skill: Miasma of Death Lvl 5 - Release a fog of death that drains 25 HP per second to those in it, the Miasma will remain for one minute before disappearing and can only be summoned once per day. The Fog's Diameter is 10 Meters. The Fog deals true damage to the living. Undead are immune to the Miasma.

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Kohl was glad to see it worked, and based on the Bonuses and Skills, Kohl wondered why it was cheap compared to the stats of his created monsters.

Is it because this was not creating life? Was that why it had such bonuses and deadly skills?

Vowing to experiment later, Kohl hid the disc underground to prevent tampering from the Sprites, and for once in a while, decided to take yet another nap to regain the mana it expended.

10 days later, when Kohl reawoke, found that the rest of the forest was fully grown and once more, a few more Sprites formed and a few trees awoke, becoming Spirit Trees.

There were nine spirit trees, seven wood sprites, two water sprites, and the single earth elemental roaming the dungeon, and Kohl was wondering if there were other ways to naturally spawn monsters, instead of having to create one himself and then copying its template and pasting the monster over and over again, costing a lot of mana.

Perhaps when Kohl can find out how to make a mana attractor or generator, he could automate the process using the ambient mana in its dungeon so that his mana could be focused elsewhere.

Wondering, Kohl opened up the System Shop and searched Mana Attractor, and froze upon seeing the prices.

The cheapest Mana Attractor was 5,000 System Points, and the seller stated that it only generated 10 Mana a day!

For the price, it wasn't worth it, in fact, it would probably be easier to figure it out on his own.

But, while he was at it, Kohl began looking through the shop.

Much to his surprise, Kohl didn't find a single template or item that was based on the stories he knew, sure, there were some that were incredibly similar, but not exactly the same as the things he knew.

Although Kohl couldn't say for sure, the shop offered countless things, or more accurately, his fellow dungeon cores did.

If his brethren didn't have access to the stories that he did, It meant that Kohl would have countless things he could sell in the shop if he decided to recreate them.

It meant that Kohl also had countless ways that he could overcome his brethren if he ever came to needing to fight.

All Kohl would need is time, time to make the things he knew, time to make the champions of the stories.

Kohl had a plan for the layout of his Dungeon, and the redwoods were only a small part of it, Kohl wanted to make a large circular area that would contain sectioned biomes with the center being a circled grass plain for the Adventurers to rest and gather.

Around the planes, which would act as a safe area, would be various biomes, all having their own specific monsters and animals. It would also give Kohl the ability to be diverse in its monster use, which was another positive.

At the moment, Kohl was planning on a Swamp, Desert, and an Arctic Forest. Kohl might expand the biome variety later on, but for now, those would be suitable for implementing a wide variety of monsters across this 'Starter' Zone.

It would take a while, but at least now Kohl would focus on expanding his Dungeon.

Once he makes the starter 'zone' and begins spawning monsters to inhabit the biomes, he will begin searching for a decent dimension to connect to.

Was Kohl over-preparing? Yes, especially since more than likely, his siblings would have begun searching for Dimensions to breach at his current stage.

But Kohl wasn't stupid, if the stories were any indication, any Dimension he Breached could be extremely dangerous, even to something like him.

What if Kohl accidentally breached a Dimension that contained the Chaos Gods and their ilk? Kohl would either be enslaved or would perish not long after the breach.

Call him paranoid, but it's better to be safer than sorry.

So the cycle continued, Kohl, slept, regained his mana, awoke, pumped mana into the Dimension, expanded it, then repeated.

By the time Kohl was done, he didn't even remember just how much time has passed, but now a wide empty space took up most of the space of his Dungeon, with the Redwood forest only taking up a corner of it.

The forest would have collapsed too, destroying everything he made if he weren't keeping the forest from spilling out, like water flowing to the bottom of a cup.

Kohl would estimate that the diameter of his dungeon was now that of 100 miles, quite a lot of area, but Kohl doubted that it was large at all compared to his siblings.

Getting back to work, Kohl began filling up the empty space once again with dirt and rock, but due to his capacity, he had to sleep multiple times before he could fill up the space with dirt and rock.

When Kohl finally finished, a vast swath of empty and dull land lay before his 'eyes' with just a single corner of the land having a small forest.

Now, onto the next step, Kohl needed to expand the Redwood forest and begin shaping the land to their respective biomes.