Chapter 24: Chapter 24: The holy land. The refuge. Paradise.

What is a dungeon-core, exactly?

Here is what we know, based on the results of examinations conducted during several dungeon demolition events.

A dungeon-core is to be considered a living entity, in that it is ‘alive’ in the same sense as any other monster in a dungeon is.

A dungeon-core can range from being a mobile creature to being entirely immobile.

— We do not know how immobile dungeon-cores lord over their domain, exactly. But our assumptions are that they act as a central brain of the dungeon and so, a dungeon is to the dungeon-core as our bodies are to us. It seems that they can simply will actions to happen, like we would the lifting of an arm, and these will begin to happen.

A dungeon will immediately begin to collapse in on itself the moment a dungeon-core is destroyed. The standard protocol for a destruction team is to thereby extract the dungeon-core out of the dungeon and destroy it, when they are safe.

Dungeon-cores exude magical dominance out over an exact distance from their point of birth. They are never able to leave this territory and if they are forcefully removed, they will simply die then and there. This is the preferred method of destruction for a core.

In the rare instances when dungeon-cores have communicated with destruction-teams, it seems that no common ground could ever be found. This has only been documented as happening twice in the last several decades. Both cores initiated a self-destruction process, rather than undergoing peace-talks with the teams.

The motivations of a dungeon-core are multifaceted. But most seem to just follow an innate, animal desire to grow and to expand.

The most notable outlier however, the DARK-dungeon, was built for the sole purpose of killing as many humans as possible, as was made very clear by the dungeon-core.