A Living Dungeon

High Rock Kingdom southeastern border, the boundary zone between high mountains and swamps.

Deep underground.

Within a spatial rift halfway between reality and the void, a newborn dungeon was gestating, and in the deepest room of the second dungeon layer, a sphere of light hovered in midair.

The surface of the light sphere rippled in concentric circles, spinning irregularly like it had just woken up and was still somewhat dazed.

In fact, Lucifer was indeed quite dazed at the moment.

His memory still lingered on the suddenly blinding high-beam headlights, his mind automatically playing the BGM of "we are all living hard," but the memories continuously and automatically welling up in his mind made Lucifer very clear on his current situation.

He had transmigrated, and to another world at that.

The knowledge constantly and automatically surfacing in his mind allowed him to roughly figure out his present identity.

A dungeon.

The most classic existence in countless novels, anime, and games, a place that provided endless wealth and adventure for countless adventurers.

Passionate battles, lost treasures, encounters within the dungeon, and so on—the most indispensable elements in standard adventure novels... this was the legendary dungeon.

Yet there was one problem: the current Lucifer was a newborn dungeon.

According to the knowledge automatically welling up in his mind, Lucifer roughly understood that the outside was a world resembling Western fantasy, where gods, the Abyss, and various fantasy races together constructed a world full of fantasy.

In this world, whether they were ancient ruins, secret realms born from the void, or divine kingdoms that fell during the mythological era, they were uniformly called dungeons.

Dungeons contained massive amounts of treasures, resources, lost forbidden magic, legendary epic equipment, and even fragments of divinity left behind after gods died, alongside divine artifacts, which would all appear within dungeons.

Every dungeon represented endless wealth and power, an existence that major factions and countless adventurers flocked to eagerly.

The many kingdoms, factions, and towns of this world were all established with dungeons as their centers.

And he, Lucifer, was now just such a dungeon, a dungeon conceived and born from the void.

The entire dungeon was a part of Lucifer, and the sphere of light located at the deepest part of the dungeon was the dungeon core, the place where Lucifer's consciousness and soul resided.

Three days left?

After adapting to his new identity, Lucifer did not have much time to dwell on it; according to the information surfacing in his mind, in three days, Lucifer as a dungeon would manifest in the world.

If he did not want to be entered and exited by all sorts of adventurers within his body, Lucifer had to figure out a way to make the dungeon stronger; otherwise, adventurers would forcefully march into the deepest part of the dungeon, seize the dungeon core, and completely become the shape of the adventurers.

The next second, a light-blue magic screen materialized in his mind.

[Dungeon Name: None]
[Layer Level: Lv2 (200/300)]
[Layer Creations: None]
[Special Resource: Adaptive Fungal Strain x1]
[Primordial Power: 500 (Dungeon Level Lv2, Primordial Power +20 daily)]
[Talents: Monster Creation (can consume Primordial Power and any materials to create various monsters), Flesh and Soul Absorption (able to devour and digest the flesh and souls of all dead within the dungeon), Layer Shaping (consume Primordial Power to remodel layer forms)]

Prompt: Three days until the dungeon manifests.

In three days, live or die depends on this wave!

Lucifer stared at the dungeon control panel before his eyes; this was his innate ability as a dungeon, and the Primordial Power on the panel was one of the core powers of the dungeon. Whether it was leveling up the dungeon to give birth to brand-new layers, creating monsters, or remodeling the dungeon, all of it required Primordial Power.

Simply put, Primordial Power was the source of life for the dungeon.

Without a moment of hesitation, Lucifer first used 100 Primordial Power to make up the missing experience needed to upgrade the dungeon to level 3. As the level rose from level 2 to level 3, the entire dungeon began to vibrate violently, and a brand-new dungeon layer rapidly opened up in the void.

The second layer grew a passage connecting to the third layer.

Lucifer concentrated his mind, and the brand-new dungeon came into view in his mind. Just like the two layers above, the brand-new third layer was also cave-formed, yet the area of the entire layer was more than half larger than the second layer.

The first layer of the dungeon was merely the size of an ordinary town, its low rock caves filled with a sense of oppression; meanwhile, the third layer was already ten times larger than the first, deep caverns resembling winding maze passages.

Yet just this was not enough; with a thought, Lucifer began consuming Primordial Power to construct a massive amount of false passages and entrances throughout the three layers of the dungeon, while hiding the passages leading to the next layer in obscure spots.

That was unless the dungeon was utterly incapable of completely hiding the entrance to the next layer; otherwise, Lucifer would definitely have hidden the passage completely.

The next second, the large light sphere containing Lucifer's consciousness and soul transferred to the deepest part of the third layer, and as the dungeon layers increased, Lucifer could feel his own strength increase quite noticeably.

The more dungeon layers there were, the stronger Lucifer's strength as a dungeon became.

Next are the monsters to guard the dungeon.

Lucifer muttered, looking at the dungeon's sole special resource, the "Adaptive Fungal Strain." Every treasure and wealth could help Lucifer amplify the accumulation speed of Primordial Power, while also serving as the best material for creating monsters.

Staring at the fist-sized adaptive fungal strain pulsating like a heart before him, Lucifer mobilized Primordial Power to infuse into it.

Monster Creation.

Pure white power symbolizing the primordial poured in continuously, the Primordial Power on the panel dropping directly to 280, and the fist-sized fungal strain before his eyes began to expand rapidly, countless mycelium starting to spread out from it, crawling along the stone cavern walls.

Vibrantly colored mushrooms grew, and when they grew to the height of an adult's calf, the mushrooms grew round legs and plucked themselves from the ground.

Success!

Lucifer watched the continuously emerging Puchi, low-level monsters commonly known as ground mushrooms.

[Name: Fungus Lord]
[Level: Lv3]
[Skills: Adaptive Evolution Lv3, Hive Mind Lv3, Reproduction Lv2, Neurotoxin Lv2, Spore Spit Lv2, Mycelial Network Lv1]
[Description: A brand-new monster created by the dungeon, possessing a hive mind, able to adapt and evolve according to different growing environments, and giving birth to different kinds of offspring. Compared to those seemingly cute ground mushrooms, the mycelium spreading across every corner is the truly terrifying existence.]

I hit the jackpot!

Lucifer looked at the description of the monster he created on the panel, his first reaction being that he struck gold. Adaptive evolution allowed the Fungus Lord to possess the ability to adapt and evolve according to different environments, while the hive mind allowed the Puchi it birthed to cooperate and divide labor like ants.

Much like the legendary zerg.