New day

After yesterday's incident nothing else occurred, so it became the next day. As soon as he woke up, he inhaled and shut his eyes to feel the energy in his core.

'I feel more refreshed...' His eyes reopen, 'My mp should be restored.'

{Good Morning}

'Did anything occur last night?'

{3 intruders visited the dungeon, but I wasn't here when it happened so I wasn't able to wake you up for it}

'Oh? What were you doing?'

{I was talking to the other systems about their monsters and if they were having the same issue}

He nods, 'Right, I forgot about that. Open Experience'

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•While You Were Asleep•

Exp Gained: 1300

Micell??- 300

Ratman - 500

Ratman - 500

Dungeon Level 3

625/ 10,000 (+975)

Core Level 2

4450/5000 (+320)

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Cyrus's eyes widen, 'Question marks? Why are there question marks next to the micell's name? It even has more experience than a normal micell'

Pics takes a while to answer, {I'm just as confused. There shouldn't be an error in the system}

'Who fought them?'

{I don't know, but I can take out footage from last night.}

'You can do this and you don't tell me? This is getting old' He sighs 'show me'

Immediately, from the back of the room, an object shaped like a brain slowly lowers down from the ceiling. It consists of medium sized black squares with a pink outline on all of them. Cyrus moves towards it with a puzzled look on his face.

'What is this? I was expecting a huge screen'

{It's the brain of the dungeon. It helps you see past memories that happened in the dungeon and other stuff as well.}

'I see.... so it's like an actual brain. Got it!' Cyrus continues to examine the brain a bit more before speaking. 'How do I activate it?'

{It depends on what you want to do with it}

'I want to get the footage from last night of course'

{Say Memory Trigger}

'Memory Trigger' After he repeated those words, numerous screens on the brain starts to flash light, making Cyrus step back a bit. The color of the lights are pink, but only four were white. Unlike the other squares on the brain that are in different positions from each other, All 4 white squares are connected in the middle of the brain.

After a few seconds, words started to form on the white square with a male voiceover to match.

[•Brain Activated•]

[Hello, Cyrus. What memory would you like me to remember?]

"Show me what occurred last night with the 3 visitors"

[Affirmative]

Lights of different colors started to flash nonstop while the 4 squares show a loading screen. It took a while, but it finally finished and the 5 monsters were shown on the screen. They're all huddled together, sitting down with something in their hand.

'What are they doing? Zoom in' Although the quality lessens the more it zooms in, he can still clearly see that they were playing goldfish.

'Out of all games, that's what they're playing? How do they even know that game?'

{It's very unclear to me as well}

Cyrus remembers when he used to play that card game before he left the orphanage. It was the only card game they had sadly. There was something else he remembers about the game, but it doesn't come to mind so he leaves it alone. The scene then focuses on the message appearing and Quinn going to fight the visitors.

"I've been wanting to see what Quinn's power was." He grins. When they walked on the arena, Cyrus was able to get a better view of them. Especially of the oddly buff micell in the group.

"Who gave birth to that?? I've never seen such a muscular micell!"

{I guess not all micells are weak} Cyrus kept watching and it eventually reached the fight scene unveiling Quill's power.

His eyes sparkle "His power is Psionic tendrils? Wow..."

As the fight was about to finish, Cyrus hears words from the micell that were questionable.

"Rewind the part where the micell was talking about experiments"

[Affirmative]

[—..."What can I say? Thanks to my boss's experiment.. anyone can have a body like no other" ...—]

"What's up with these experiments?"

{What do you mean?}

"Isn't roach an experiment in a lab?"

{That might be a bit of a stretch to connect both of them}

"Maybe..." He sighs. "The footage doesn't help much"

{We'll just leave it alone for now until we get more clues, but there should be only one type of micell}

"Alright, then let's head back into the village and get more information" He closes his eyes and quickly a notification pops up.

[Activate Fake body? Yes or No]

"Yes"

[Fake body forming now...]

Cyrus opens his eyes to see his soul fly out of the core and particles forming in thin air. Second by second, a body part completes as his soul gradually gets pulled inside. Luckily, the cloak and the mask was still on him so he didn't have to worry about hiding his identity. As soon as it was finished, Pics teleports him outside of the dungeon.

{Where to first?}

'The guild "Hidden"' He tried to remember the path to the village the best he could, but to no avail he couldn't. So, instead Cyrus climbs the nearest tree next to him. Once he got to the top, the view of the village was clear.

Cyrus makes binoculars with his hands 'Aha, dere it tis!' After determining it's location, He heads down the tree and walks in the same direction towards the village.

{What are you going to do when you get there?}

'Just a simple chat' He smiles

{You sound like you're going to do more than that. I think you should lay low. Especially since there was a request from the guild to stalk you.}

'Trust me! I'm not going to do anything bad' Minutes later they arrive at the wall and proceed to climb over.

{I still think you should go to the entrance}

'Nah, that's such a waste of time' Once he jumps down from the wall, he hears a gasp making Cyrus's hostile aura immediately spill out. It was the little micell he met yesterday that tried to warn him.

{Are you going to kill him?}

Cyrus stares at him for a while making the boy shake nervously.

"M-mister? Why did you cl-climb the wall?"

Cyrus walks up to the kid, drops to his level and smiles, "It's too much of a bother to go through the entrance. Don't tell anyone!" He holds up one finger to his mouth as another way of saying don't say anything.

"Ok" The kid smiles

Cyrus tilts his head "What are you doing back here?"

"I'm playing hide and seek with my friends!"

Cyrus nods and whispers into the kid's ear, "Ok, just to let you know, One of them is hiding in the barrel behind me and another is in a box to the right of us."

The little micell grins, "got it!" He was about to let him go until Cyrus remembered something.

"Wait, remember when you told me about the person asking for help?"

"Yea"

"What do they sound like?"

"There voice was a bit high, like a girl's"

"Did they say anything else?".

"No"

"Great.. Thanks kid"

"You're welcome!" He runs to find his friends while Cyrus leaves in defeat.

{At least the voice matches the girl you met}

'I guess... I'm just gonna go find the guild'