You probably know the whole stick with isekai scenarios and the situations influenced by ROBs who pick a random person to go on a grand adventure in another world.
Well, I was happy to learn when I died that I was on a ROB's isekai list; the only downside is that their first words to me were.
'How the hell did it take so long to kill you?'
Now anyone would be apprehensive if that's what you hear when you first meet someone, especially just after dying.
Does explain how I died and the stupid probability of a meteoritic Headshot; no joke, I had that life flash in front of my eyes and saw the meteor like an inch from my face coming through the wall. . .
I could tell the ROB was both annoyed and perplexed at my constant survival; to be honest, I don't blame him.
Born with cancer, which I beat; hit by a truck with brain damage while I was a kid, still survived; electrocuted but survived by immediate CPR; my yandere Ex who locked me in an attic and kept me as a snuggle toy for a month until I escaped; cancer again this time with coronavirus at the same time, which I survived by a hair.
"Well, sorry for liking to live; let me guess, you wanted me dead from day one."
I can tell I got it in one with the ROB being silent for a moment, but it does speak.
'I had too, you fated too and were close to developing Full Dive immersion technology way before your race should have. Now, that might not sound so bad, but unless your race was at least Interplanetary colonisation of 3 planets, such technology is extremely harmful for the development of a race.'
Hearing his reasoning and learning the reason was my life's research kind of ticks me off, but he just continues.
'If not to that point, it would cause the race to focus on solely internal development and the possibility of artificial immortality, such technical advances can't be sustained by one planet without destroying the race in the process.
Hearing the reason, I'm still salty, but if it would have snowballed into the doom of my race, yeah, sure why not? I'm dead already, it's not like I can change things from here.
'As compensation, you're getting reincarnated as a random sentient entity in the meta-multiverse; no idea what, but the only restriction is that it's not the same world you're from.'
I feel apprehension at its words, but I can just feel as my current form is squeezed, then sent like a pneumatic tube from the ROB's realm into a new form.
The journey is like a waterslide, bumps and all, and at one point my consciousness fades. When I regain my consciousness, I find I'm in a 5-meter-cubed stone tomb, and the only key distinct thing in the room is a Glowing White crystal in the centre of the room, floating unsupported by anything.
I look at my hands, and they appear hazy like mist but still form digits which I can control.
With nothing else to do, I go to the crystal and try to touch it; in my vision, a Screen appears.
[Welcome Dungeon Core: #1025 to the Dungeon Core Assistance System]
[You are currently a Dungeon Core that has formed underground due to condensed Mana hardening a gemstone of certain Quality; your role in this world is to survive against those who enter your realm in search of treasure.
To stave off those who enter your realm from harming you, you must form Monsters to protect yourself.
Due to the amount of Mana being processed through the Dungeon Core, the Dungeon will have to create an entrance to the surface within 1 month, or the core will rupture and die.]
The Dump of information about my new situation is dreading and exciting at the same time.
I'm a dungeon core. I liked those novels when I read them in my past life, so I get the premise.
[The First step of any dungeon]
[For any Dungeon, before they can do excavation, they must determine the Core aspect that forms the cohesion of the Dungeon; this decides the types of Monsters they can form, as well as the environments for the Monsters to reside in.
If the Dungeon core doesn't choose in the next 24 hours, their Dungeon Core Aspect will be chosen from the list below.]
I just look at the list, and it's actually very extensive, with a ton of options from Arial monsters to Undead monsters. Looking through the list, I come up with some ideas for good choices and how they could be very powerful, like a Dragon Dungeon, but I assume it requires a lot of development to get from their essentially rough start to great late results.
Now, depending on the person, they would say a specialised choice with either a strong start or a strong end game would be better, but in my opinion, I would prefer an all-rounder option like maybe Slime; but with that, though, it reminds me of a certain purple slime Dragon, and a thought comes to me.
I check the list to see if the option I'm thinking of is on the list, but it's not. Thinking it's worth a try since I have nothing to lose, I speak out loud to the system.
"I Pick Pokémon." I wait for a second, and nothing happens, so I shrug in my mist form, but a second later a Screen appears.
[Dungeon Core Aspect Chosen: Pokémon (Hidden)]
[The Dungeon Consciousness Has Chosen Pokémon (Hidden). The Dungeon Core can now create and recreate both Pokémon Monsters and the environments for Pokémon Monsters.
Due to the allocation of resources, full access to the Pokémon Aspect is restricted. Restrictions are determined by the 'Type' of the monsters, which they are all defined into. Dual 'Type' Monsters will only be available when both Types' are available. Also, the level of a monster cannot be higher than the floor's depth +5.
More 'Types' will become available when your dungeon reaches a depth of 10 Floors.
Currently Available 'Types' are;
Bug.
Normal.
Rock.]
Now this is interesting.