Chapter 67 - Dungeon Construction and Operation

"Veldora, for now don't do any rampaging." Velgrynd pointed to Veldora, she knew what would happen when he did. "For now, make a goal to waste some time."

Even Veldora knows what will happen to him, although he can't help it himself. 

"Goal is it?" Veldora tilted his head, all that he knew was rampaging and destroying the cities of humans as a prank. "What kind of goal sister?"

"How about having a human form," Rimuru pointed out, he noticed that Veldora was not able to turn to human.

It's not like he was not able to, but more like he did not bother to learn how to do it. Even now, you could say he hasn't even achieved about half his true potential. When Rimuru fought him, he barely had any real skill in the way he fought, it was just raw storm magic that was fired at him without any plan. 

"But I do not know how to..."

"How about asking Sist-"

"Please no!" Veldora screamed at the top of his lungs, the voice echoed to the surrounding that alerted all living things near them and ran to different directions. 

"... Then what about Big brother?" Velgrynd changed suggestion, if it was Veldanava who had a lots, if not always have some free time. She was sure, he wouldn't mind training his younger brother, especially if this will help improve Veldora's character.

"Big Brother.. I'll try!" Veldora pumped his dragon fist, nodding to himself.

"I'll contact Guy, telling him that if he wants someone to dispose of a city or country you'll do it." Rimuru gestures with a thumbs up at Veldora, knowing that the impulse to cause mayhem won't disappear just from a simple talking.

The best they could do is limit it and control where the damage is to be done.

"Oh! Thanks Brother!"

"... Yeah.. You can just call me Rimuru." Rimuru's expression hardened. He feels weird having a true dragon call him that, especially since he knows all the true dragons. 

"No, from now on, you are my sworn brother!"

Rimuru smiled wryly, "Sworn brother, huh. Sounds familiar somehow..." In the end, he let Veldora call him brother.

Rimuru and Velgrynd returned to Citadel leaving Veldora to go to Veldanava.

Passing through the gate, he noticed that a large crowd was in the quarters of the enkis and sirens.

"Ah, I can already guess why." Rimuru muttered as he sensed Ramiris' aura in the middle of the large crowd.

"What a coincidence, me too." Velgrynd snorted as she left to read one of her books at home. "Good like with your work," She waved.

Walking near the spirits quarters, the enkis, sirens, Sprites, and Cherufe were all surrounding Ramiris.

Seeing Rimuru walking towards the crowd, they gave way to their master. It was quite a view, seeing the crowds of thousands upon thousands of spirits parting and giving space for just one person to walk forward.

Like parting the sea into half, Rimuru walked ignoring the spirits excitement from Ramiris.

Reaching his destination, he saw Ramiris chatting with Agni and Runa sitting down on three chairs and a table drinking tea.

"I'm happy to hear that," Ramiris smiled at the two, they had been chatting about the two's lives after going with Rimuru.

From Twilight's facility to Citadel, as well as the trouble they faced with defeating the Great Spirits.

"There you are," Rimuru said as he looked at the trio, gaining their attention. "Seems like you're busy, let's start tomorrow." He waved and walked away. 

"Thanks, Rimuru-kun." She waved back. 

The next day, Ramiris was in Rimuru's office, sipping tea as the four primordials came through the door. "Rimuru-sama, you called for us?" 

"Ah, yes. Remember your suggestions on our previous meeting? Ramiris here is willing to help us." Rimuru gestures to her, who smiled at the four. 

"I heard about your suggestion on making a dungeon, with my intrinsic skill: Small World, I might be able to make something like that." She explained to everyone in the room, she placed her tea on the table in front of her. 

"However, I have to maintain it to remain functional.... Rimuru-kun, I do want to help, but keeping it up all the time is too much even for me.." Ramiris shook her head as she looked at him, apologetically. 

Rimuru smiled at her, "Don't worry, with my Ulimate Skill: Janus and unique skill: Gluttony I should be able to make a imitation albeit a weaker variation." 

King of Passage Janus specialize in space manipulation via gates, and since Great sage analytical powers were incorporated in it, should increase the chances of making an inferior version. 

Even better, if Ramiris does not fight back. Rimuru could consume a sample of the skill: Small world via gluttony. Passing the information he gets from gluttony to Janus will guarantee a creation of a new skill. 

And with King of Devotion: Bhakti, Rimuru now has a vast amount of mana, second only to Veldanava, even more than Veldora himself. 

"My" Ramiris voiced in amazement and surprise, "You sure have gotten strong Rimuru-kun, fufufu." She clapped her hands. 

All six of them left Citadel, they went to one of the universes that was in Central. A certain barren world floats, alone with only a small moon and sun. It was personally placed by Rimuru in that specific area, he had consume the planet and brought it in that universe. 

Eliminating all life in the planet to make it much more convenient to modify to his liking. 

after landing on the planet, Ramiris used her skill to make a door to her labyrinth. "Now then Rimuru-kun, I won't fight back try consuming as much as you can." She turned to Rimuru who was walking towards the door. 

"This may take a while..." He commented as he touched the door, he went inside and the demons followed him. 

As Ramiris waited outside, she started to create life on the planet again. She used her powers as Queen of the spirits to create oceans and nurture the ground to be habitable again. 

"hmm~ hmm~ Hmmmm~" She hums as she flew all around the planet, it had been more than a month and Rimuru has still not returned from the door to the labyrinth. 

Yet, she returned to the front of the door, she could feel that her control of the labyrinth has been weakening for the pass weeks now. Sure, she was not resisting but for Rimuru to manage to control the labyrinth fascinated her. 

 Then, the door opened, and from the other side Rimuru who was being supported by Diablo and Testarossa as his leg was barely working from mental exhaustion. "Ramiris, this is all I could take the rest is too much for just Gluttony." He snickered as he laid on the ground looking at the surroundings. 

"Looks like the place has been decorated while we were gone," He commented as he could already sense wild life to be wandering around the land. 

"Fufufu, I had some free time." Ramiris giggled, "So, do you think you could make something similar?" 

"Well... not exactly like it, I couldn't make a labyrinth or create a different dimension just yet. I still need to boost my analytical capabilities on that part, but I did manage to copy the modification part." He pointed out, he then placed his two hands on the ground. 

Magicules coursed through the entire planet in a minute, and Ramiris could feel that Rimuru now has complete control on whatever is in the planet they were standing on. The air that the animals breath in, the fertility of the ground, the amount of minerals inside volcanoes, how many lakes and mountains. He could manipulate them all on his whim. 

"World Modification!" From his words, several tower like structures started to sprout from the ground like a tree. Each tower has a width of hundreds of meters and kilometers in length. Some of which are capable of reaching the clouds in the air, while others are able to reach the top of the ocean while being under the sea. 

"Kufufufu as expected of Rimuru-sama!"

"Amazing.."

"As expected of My Lord."

"The amount and quality of each dungeon is wonderful."

Ramiris was shock with what Rimuru was able to make, sure all he manage to copy wsa modification, but just that was able to create something like this. Image what he could have done, if he could create his own dimension just like her. 

Not only that, if he could copy her skill to manipulate to life or death of those inside her territory as well. From what she could tell, he is only capable of modifying the structure, not the control of the life of those inside, 

"I'll rest a bit, you four each get ten towers, I give you access to limited control and can modify the towers you chose. Make sure that there is a success rate, even if its only low. The monsters while probably naturally be born, since I connected the magicules of everyone to the inside of the towers." He getsures for them to go. 

They bowed their head, "Thank you Rimuru-sama!" Then all four disappeared. 

Rimuru laid his back on the ground, closing his eyes and letting the breeze and sunlight hit his body. His mental exhaustion in not only consuming the labyrinth but to also analyze the data he gathered has been straining on him, especially when you take into account how long he has been doing it when thought acceleration is mention.

"I guess that means, my help is no longer needed." Ramiris sat near Rimuru. She looked at his face as he tried to recover from the strain, she could only internally smile at his patience and talent.

Rimuru, without opening his eyes, opened his mouth."Ramiris, some day I will make sure my debt is paid to you in full." 

"I'm sure you will, fufu." Ramiris looked at the sky, "Make sure that you help me out as best as you can, when that happens okay?" She voiced, she doesn't know when, but she knows something will happen in the future that will weaken her. She somewhat knew, she blames Veldanava, probably planting the idea into her mind.

Rimuru nodded, "Do you regret it? helping me here, I mean." The entire creation of this planet will eventually allow Rimuru to create millions of powerful subordinates given enough time. Especially now that they know how Sages and Saints are made, with enough struggles and pressure on battles, they can awaken those who have potential. 

"Why do you say that?" Ramiris asked as she looked at his face. Of course she knew why, she had thought of it when she told him, that she is willing to let her skill be of use.

"I could become a threat, maybe not as an enemy, but because of my actions. Helping me here, could have lead to some dangerous changes in the timeline." 

"Rimuru-kun, the timeline is already changed, there is nothing we could do about it if we keep trying to maintain it. No one knows if things will go well or not, we should just do the things we think can lead to a better future and timeline for us." 

"I guess so... thanks." 

They kept quiet for hours, waiting for the return of the primordials. 

And as the primordials returned, they all returned to Citadel. Ramiris stayed with Agni and Runa for a while. Rimuru ordered the primordials to start using the dungeons on the volunteers.

"All right you lot," Carrera grinned as she watched the thousands of people kneeling before her. "This is one of the dungeons that was given to me by our Silver God, if you manage to reach the top, you will attain power better than you have now." She snapped her fingers and the entrance to the dungeon opened. 

"AHHH!!" The people shouted as they ran to the dungeon, with their equipment and weapons they prepared themselves to become stronger and much more useful. Theirs eyes, laced with a creatin amount of madness, that the primordials may have instilled in them so they won't fear death. 

In another one of the dungeons, Testarossa was sitting as she drank some of her tea. "Moss, how is the progress," She asked the demon child Moss, the child was named by Rimuru, majority of the Arcana's and others were given rewards for their brave efforts in battle. 

He was given the honor of receiving a name from his master, to which he was eternally grateful for. His ego has also flourish better than ever, he was now allowed to speak by Testarossa. 

"So far, 30% of those that went in have died, and about 5% have reached floor 6." Moss answered with a bow, Merlin could be seen standing from behind fascinated by the large structure before his eyes. 

"Make sure we get their souls, in the worst case that we can't turn them into human sages and saints, we could still turn them into lesser demons." Testarossa ordered and Moss bowed. 

Each floor of the dungeons have two demons taking the souls of the dead warriors. This is on all dungeons on all of the primordials, they knew that almost all if everyone will die in the dungeon, but they cannot just lose this much pawns. 

Those who still have the will to continue marching to the dungeon will be revived as a human. Jahil should be able to create a human body from his facilities considering what he was able to research all this time. 

For the others, they came up with the idea of turning them into lesser demons, and have them go to the dungeon again, this time their goal being evolving into greater demons. 

They would be relocated to a place where others would not know of their existence, they have specific dungeons just for them as they cannot really die. 

Ultima was talking to the people standing in front of her, "Most of you will die, but that's not our problem, Go!" 

Esdeath pinched the bridge of her nose from Ultima's quick speech. She had her group also marched into the dungeons, she had warned them that they will have a guarantee of death if they go in. That only those that are prepared to die should march in. 

She didn't tell anyone that those that died will be turned into demons, all they know is as long as you don't give up, you will be revived as humans, and not that if they give up they will turn into a demon. 

After all they might just let themselves be killed and not try. Beside, only those with the best potential will be turned into demons, the rest will be offered up to the Silver God Rimuru. (As food)

"Kufufufu this sure is an interesting process of acquiring power. Struggles and pain, the desire to survive through such disasters and horrors that will forcefully awaken their inner talent." Diablo was standing atop one of his dungeons, he watched as the other dungeons in his view were also being swarmed by people who were willing to die to become stronger. 

"We must get stronger, we cannot disappoint Rimuru-sama." He spoke to himself, as well as the others. "Kufufufu, not again, never."

A/N: I don't really wanna explain what's inside the dungeons, it's basically the same thing as the original dungeon anyway. The monsters and traps on each floor, with there being 100 floors. 

Also, the strongest on the floor 100 is special A, with the chance of turning into S-minus, the goal is not to kill it (the invaders may think so, but that's impossible.) but to survive long enough that your body evolve. 

Once evolve, the demons watching will take them out of the dungeon, even if they evolved on floor ten only, they already completed the test. 

The primordials kind of turned the warmongers insane on different levels, depending on who are you following. 

Diablo - moderate (he barely interacts with them.)

Testarossa - Intermediate (Seeing others punishment, so indirectly causing them insanity.)

Carrera - high (Her training with them, you could say they snapped.)

Ultima - extreme (Do I even have to explain why?)