Dungeon of Pride, Laplace

As soon as he tossed the three emblems inside, sparks started coming out of the main menu as the black spiral instantly swallowed the three emblems.

The sparks started getting worse and worse as they started expanding in a few meters around and quickly spread towards the whole of the main floor. Simon was jolted back as he reeled in pain "Uggh... -what's going on?".

The black spiral inside the [???????] spun faster and faster and after a few moments, whoosh... it suddenly stopped. Even the sparks that were wreaking havoc in the surrounding completely disappeared as if it was never there.

The place became completely silent. It was so eerily silent that he could even hear the sound of his breathing, seconds passed just like that but nothing happened. It seemed that the emblems didn't work on the bugged option.

Simon was downtrodden as the expectations that arose from the peculiar result were completely shattered after nothing happened for a while. What was he thinking? there was no way the emblems would work on something that was already defective without repair.

"Haaaahh @#$% @#$% @#$%… why the heck did I have to press that [Merge] option" he pulled his long black hair as he cursed out loud, he wanted to go back to that moment before he pressed that [Merge] option. But sadly there was no medicine for regret.

SPARK... SPARK...

Just when he had given up all hope, inconspicuous sparks started coming from the black spiral before he felt that the ground had trembled for a fraction of a second. The trembling was so slight that Simon nearly missed it.

While he was starting to think it was all just his imagination, the ground started trembling once again. RUMBLE RUMBLE… the trembling of the ground started intensifying until Simon felt that the whole dungeon was quaking.

The phosphorescence crystals on the ceiling started slowly dimming until darkness descended onto the whole floor as all of the crystals above stopped shinning. "What's going on now" Simon who was already distressed, looked at the peculiar scene that was happening all around the main floor.

No, it would be right to say that the same scene was taking place across all floors of the dungeon. He had never seen such an unexpected incident happening inside his dungeon before.

CRICK… CRACK… SHATTER

Simon who was the dungeon master of the dungeon could see just fine in this darkness as he stared at the strange sound that came from his front. It was as if cracks ran across a thin glass as the sound penetrated across the floor. The sound was so piercing that he felt his whole body had gone numb.

He stared with wide eyes as cracks started appearing on the space in front of him and moments later just like glass, space completely shattered. Whoosh... a black spiral that silently rotated, appeared in the place where the space was shattered a few moments ago.

Wind started blowing inside the main floor even though there was no breeze and felt quite out of place. From the moment he tossed those emblems inside the [???????], these peculiar events started happening one after the other.

"Seriously what is going on?" Simon dazedly repeated. The black hole like spiral that appeared looked exactly like the one that was inside the [???????] option of his [Main Menu]. Just many many times bigger. The black spiral was so dark that it seemed like no light could penetrate through it.

At this moment, an azure light started flashing out from the pitch-black spiral and illuminated the whole floor. The ray of light dissipated the darkness and gently shined upon the floor.

The light was so brilliant that it seemed like a primal ray of light that shone during the creation of the universe. A phoenix cry that had the ability to soothe one's soul, came from inside the spiral.

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At the exact moment, outside the dungeon.

Thick arctic clouds blotted the sky for thousands of miles with the spiral tower in the centre. The temperature of the entire Ghast;y Winding Forest started to drop like crazy and some places even had frost accumulated over it.

Deep inside one of the areas of the western region of the Ghastly Winding Forest, a pair of amethyst eyes suddenly opened as resounding thunder noises erupted everywhere. The place was on top of a tall mountain range that pierced the very dome of sky.

The pair of amethyst eyes looked at the artic clouds below and mused "My bloodline is being suppressed!! To think that it would be able to even overwhelm me, one of the Seven Kings, who exactly is that being?".

In one of three peaks of the north side of the Ghastly Winding forest, one of its overlords the Earth Splitting Lower Dragon was in a deep slumber. Suddenly its wide draconic eyes opened in a flash as it looked towards the eastern part of the forest with dread that couldn't be hidden. Its whole body shuddered intensely before it went inside its wide cave as if trying to hide from something.

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On the main floor of the dungeon Laplace

The phosphorescence crystals in the ceiling shone with a dim light as if affected by something.

The azure light coming from the spiral became brighter and brighter before a faint outline of a person could be seen. A jade white leg that was as beautiful as crystal and seemed to be carved by the gods themselves, passed through the spiral and stepped out.

A silhouette of a beautiful woman came into view, she had icy blue hair that fell to her willowy waist like a waterfall. Wearing azure blue clothes that closely stuck to her alluring body that possessed the ability to ensnare one' soul. Her features were all absolutely perfect and irresistible.

Her beautiful face, slanted brows and phoenix eyes held an endless attractiveness to them. Simon was bewitched as soon his eyes fell on her.

The entire air around the floor appeared to have been frozen as soon as she stepped out of the spiral. The temperature rapidly plummeted and frost accumulated all across the main floor.

Her phoenix-like eyes looked around her surroundings in curiosity.. It was also at this time that the phosphorescence crystals above returned to their former brightness as space mended itself and the black spiral swiftly disappeared.