Dungeon Maker

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The subordinate spirits of the House of Mammon began to gather at Scathach's mansion.

It was almost noon.

Gusion looked calm. Although there was still fatigue on his face, he didn't fail to smile.

It was yesterday when he fought a deadly fight with Yong-ho. Even though he took rest all day long, he was not fully recovered, so Yong-ho delayed making him his subordinate spirit later.

Actually, he summoned them for a different reason.

Each of them took their seat comfortably. The blue water, which could be called the specialty of Scathach's mansion, served as a jelly-like chair, where they leaned comfortably.

"Okay, master. May I reel out the story from now on. I would like to start, then."

Holding Scathach's waist with one arm, he spoke somewhat awkwardly.

Yong-ho responded with a more awkward expression, "That's enough. You don't have to use honorific language. Just tell me as you used to. I'll treat you the same as I did before."

"Hmmm. That's why I like you, master."

He gently grinned at Yong-ho then gave up using honorific language.

Leaning on his chest, Scathach also giggled.

"Alright. Where should I start talking? Actually, I've been imagining this moment for the last one thousand years, but I find it rather hard to speak in front of you like this."

Yong-ho did not press him. Aamon, who arose in the air as the flames of the red lotus, also waited calmly for his words.

Finally, Gusion opened his mouth.

"It's a thing of the distant past. It happened a thousand and hundreds of years ago when Master Mammon was still alive."

Scathach fidgeted with her fingers to help Gusion. Some of the blue water went up and became a map of the demon world in the distant past. About half of the demon world was unified under one name.

"There happened all sorts of strange things in many parts of the estates, or the territory of Greed, ruled by Master Mammon in those days. For example, a whole dungeon or a small town disappeared altogether."

Kaiwan leaned forward when he used the expression 'disappeared.' She asked with a glance, and Gusion nodded and continued, "Sometimes a dungeon evaporated without leaving behind even a single piece of it, and sometimes the city was destroyed as if it were attacked. Since there were survivors left behind, this strange phenomenon was known a long time after it happened initially."

Nobody knew when and where this kind of bizarre phenomenon occurred. It was because there was no guarantee that it would occur only in the village or a dungeon.

"At the end of the day, Master Mammon began to investigate the bizarre incidents in earnest, but he had not made any progress. He just doubted it might be some sort of twisting or earthquake in the affected area or dungeon. But it was too weird to call it a simple twisting. It was possible for the being created as the twisting to destroy the surrounding area, but it was impossible that the village or dungeon disappeared altogether as if the whole affected area was torn down and taken into another world."

Gusion grabbed a part of the water that formed the map of the demon world. Although it was a model, he erased part of the demon world and continued, "The more Master Mammon investigated the incidents, the more severe the situation became. The bizarre phenomena increased as time passed by, and the damages of the affected areas increased as well. In some cases, the affected dungeon was fine, but all the people inside it died without any wound as if only their souls escaped out of their bodies."

Gusion paused for a moment. After catching his breath once, he continued, "While Master Mammon was in the thick of investigating the events, the Queen of Sloth in the neighboring country visited him. Actually, the Queen of Sloth was investigating the same phenomenon in her country."

"If that's the case, this kind of strange thing didn't take place only in the territory of the King of Greed, right?" asked Ophelia.

Gusion replied with a nod.

"You're right. That's the point. This strange thing occurred throughout the demon world. This was happening not only in the territory of the King of Greed and the Queen of Sloth but also in the territories of other kings."

Gusion reached out for the map of the demon world. Then there popped up small holes everywhere on the map. Then he erased it one by one.

"About six months have passed since Master Mammon started investigating this strange thing. Finally, Mammon discovered the cause of this weird phenomenon. To tell you the conclusion, it was the result of twisting. However, it was different from the usual twisting. Beyond the twisting was an alien world, which was not the same demonic world. Moreover, the alien world was too much different from the numerous worlds that had a temporary passage to the demon world until then. It was a very special world."

Gusion took a silver coin out of his pocket. Then, he made it float in the air with mana, which was round and flat.

"It can be compared to both sides of a coin. It could be called the twin of our demon world. A world that has been always connected to the demon world, but a world where people could not meet us in the demon world, nor should we."

The silver coin that Gusion floated in the air rotated round and round. Everyone's eyes turned to the back of the silver coin, which was not visible at first.

"The twisting that occurred from that alien world affected the demon world. Sometimes, it evaporated the whole area, and sometimes, it absorbed all the souls around the twisting. In some cases, the beings that came from the twisting were engaged in destruction."

The first two cases were particularly problematic. If this kind of phenomenon were allowed to continue, the entire demon world could collapse.

"This alien world was the twin of the demon world, but at the same time it would bring about the destruction of the demon world if something went wrong."

Gusion grabbed the silver coin and whispered, "Master Mammon called the world a 'celestial world."

***

In many cases, the meetings of the five directors of the Dungeon Market proceeded with the participants reading their one-sided reports. And that was the same when they met face to face instead of meeting in the virtual space.

As a result, the meeting was short as a rule. When the five directors met, their meeting usually didn't last more than two hours.

But this time, the meeting lasted long. They couldn't wrap up the meeting in a few hours. Dubbed the strongest mana, Abrasax, called for another meeting on the second day. Indeed they convened a second meeting when Bifronz, the best intellect, agreed.

Actually, they already discussed all the important agenda at their yesterday's meeting.

Orobas, the strongest Herculean power, looked at Abrasax with a curious expression, and Samael also showed great curiosity about the second meeting.

Abrasax, who was dragging on without any interesting agenda, put down the toys he was playing with. Then he casually said in passing, "Today the King of Pride will attack the King of Envy."

It was nothing new to the participants. In fact, for the past several months, the King of Pride and the King of Envy were engaged in fierce fighting.

Sitri tilted her head slightly, feeling out of place. Abrasax raised his head and looked at her.

Then he said, grinning at her, "Some of you already know what I mean."

Sitri narrowed her eyebrows. The five directors looked at each other.

Right at that moment, some already began to move.

***

There was a huge twisting between the celestial world and the demonic world behind this very bizarre phenomenon. Unlike other twistings, it was not temporary. Other twistings continued from the existing twisting that was always active."

Scathach's waterdrops became one and created a large map of the demon world again. One of them was separated and placed high in the sky.

"It's the door to the celestial world. Mammon had to close the door. Only then could the demon world be protected from this bizarre phenomena."

Now, Gusion began to speed up the flow of the story.

Ophelia, who kept swallowing while listening to him, asked quickly, "Wait. Why is it so unilateral? If the celestial world is a twin of the demon world, aren't they supposed to be equal?"

"I don't know about it. But what was clear was the fact that the power of the celestial world was like poison to our demonic beings. Those of us with weak mana had to lose their lives simply by being exposed to the power of the celestial world. Only those with at least three horns could fight even when exposed to the power of the celestial world."

When he replied, Ophelia made a blank expression. He mentioned at least three horns.

It meant that only a handful of people in the vast demon world could confront the celestial world.

"In no time, Master Mammon could find where the door was located. However, shutting down the door was not easy because our master found the existence of the door too late. Not only was the power of the celestial world abundant around the door, but there were also too many beings from the celestial world."

Gusion paused for a moment.

As if suppressing his emotions, he clenched his teeth several times before continuing.

"The five kings who ruled the demon world at that time gathered in one place because any king alone could not shut the door of the celestial world."

Greed, Pride, Envy, Lust, Sloth.

A twisted smile was on Gusion's face.

He continued, "A dramatic alliance was formed secretly. Since they were supposed to be exposed to the celestial world, the five kings chose their elite troops. They wanted to concentrate their elite forces all at once to shut the door immediately. It was a simple solution in some way."

Scathach was silent. Aamon also did not say anything, either.