Takagi Saya fell to her knees, tears welling up and dripping onto the cold floor.
"…It's all my fault."
Her voice trembled with guilt, the weight of everything pressing down on her fragile shoulders.
"Saya, this isn't your fault." Her mother, Takagi Yuriko, placed a hand on her daughter's shoulder.
"Like the Dungeon Master said… it's just another ending. Another stage play."
Her words were meant as comfort, but they carried the truth in her heart as well.
From beginning to end, Yami Tsukishiro had been calm and indifferent.
He had never once believed this war could be lost. For him, all of it was a performance—a spectacle to observe, not to fear.
"But… but…" Saya choked, clinging to her mother.
The images of mangled corpses, shattered limbs, and rivers of blood replayed endlessly in her mind.
Too many people had died already. More would die soon. To them, it was nothing but cruelty. Cold-blooded, merciless cruelty.
And yet… maybe there was a point.
Because even after witnessing it with her own eyes, Saya couldn't deny one thing: those deaths didn't matter to him.
Perhaps it was because Yami knew the truth. The fallen would eventually become part of the Muliverse Dungeons .
Their deaths were nothing more than pieces of a puzzle, swallowed into something greater.
No sense of grief. No sense of loss.
"The contamination level of the origin crystal is still rising. It won't be long before it reaches one hundred percent."
Back in the throne room, Yami Tsukishiro sat on his throne, projections of the High School of the Dead world flickering all around him.
He didn't bother turning them off. That was, after all, an idea Saya herself had suggested.
It would prove useful in the future, when targeting ordinary civilized worlds.
Now, all that remained was to wait.
To wait for Ella and her legions to bring the world fully under his control.
Two days passed in the blink of an eye.
Marikawa Shizuka and the others gathered daily before the glowing light curtain, helplessly watching as Ella's undead army swept across city after city.
Nuclear strikes had rained down. Millions had perished. But the undead did not fall. Instead, they grew stronger.
Saya's condition only worsened.
Her once sharp eyes were now hollow, her body growing thinner by the day. The slaughter of tens of millions had broken her spirit.
No amount of comfort from the others could mend her. Watching her listless state left them with only worry.
And then—finally—after countless cities were reduced to ruins, after the High School of the Dead world had burned and bled beyond recognition…
The crystal before Yami Tsukishiro was no longer tinted. It was drenched in pure black.
[Crystal of the Origin of the World]: High School of the Dead
[Source Contamination Level]: 100%
"100%," Yami muttered, eyes flashing. "It's time to end this."
[Ding! The origin crystal of the High school of the Dead world has reached 100% contamination!]
[Ding! You have gained complete control over this world!]
[Please choose: Rule the World… or Devour the World!]
Just as he had expected.
Reaching one hundred percent changed everything.
Between the two thrones, Yami Tsukishiro's expression finally grew serious.
This world had no value in ruling.
"…Devour."
The word left his lips like a decree. He didn't know exactly what changes swallowing a world would bring—but he was eager to find out.
"Look! Everyone, look up at the sky!"
Mine (Akame ga Kill!) pointed toward the projection.
Gasps followed. Above the Gate of the World, a black sphere appeared—like a dark sun bleeding across the heavens.
Ella felt the tremor in her soul.
"Master, should I return?"
Without hesitation, she recalled her undead legions into the Undead Space. Her body turned into a streak of light, vanishing into the Gate of the World.
The next moment, she was back before Yami.
"Master."
"Well done, Ella." Yami pulled her into his lap, praising her softly. "Stay with me now, and watch as this world becomes part of the Dungeon."
Ella closed her eyes briefly, content, as the black sun continued to twist above them.
The sphere writhed violently, reshaping itself into a colossal black hand that stretched across the sky. Five fingers unfurled, blotting out the heavens. Darkness surged, devouring the light.
"Mother!"
A child's cry echoed beneath the abyssal shroud. But it was the last voice that world would ever produce.
On the outside, Busujima Saeko and Miyamoto Rei from Highschool of the Dead, along with Marikawa Shizuka, stared in stunned silence at the fading light curtain.
"…What just happened?" Rei whispered.
Even ocho Shinobu tilted her head, confused.
"It just… went completely black…"
[Ding! The High School of the Dead World has been swallowed. Extracting the Origin of the World…]
The crystal in Yami's hand shattered with a sharp crack, dissolving into a black wisp.
As Dungeon Master, he immediately felt the shift—the entire Multiverse Dungeons was transforming.
[Ding! The Muliverse Dungeons has swallowed its first world. Analysis complete: 100%. New permissions unlocked!]
[Ding! The upper limit of personal meme level has increased!]
[Ding! The Second Level of the Ancient Battlefield has opened!]
[Ding! Dungeon magic stone resources have been generated!]
[Ding! A new monster prototype has been unlocked!]
[Ding! Origin of the World analyzed—C-rank monster meme acquired: [Source of Infection]!]
The flood of prompts made Yami rub his brow.
"Too noisy…"
But one detail caught his attention above all.
The Earth of the High School of the Dead world had been swallowed whole—yet the Gate of the World remained open, permanently.
He narrowed his eyes. The Gate still linked to the larger universe. The planet was gone, but the stars, galaxies, and vast cosmos were untouched.
"…So the Gate defines 'world' from the perspective of its inhabitants." He thought of Saeko and Rei. For them, Earth itself was the world.
Which meant
"In the future, they will need to rule those universes themselves."
A thin smile spread across Yami's face, his eyes glittering with anticipation.
"Forget it… let's check them one by one."
Yami pulled himself out of his thoughts and focused back on the flood of prompts. His gaze scanned over each one carefully.
Bit by bit, the changes in the Multiverse Dungeons became clear.
The most obvious: the second floor had opened. A brand new battlefield to explore. Then there was the mention of a "new monster embryo"… and finally, the increase in his personal meme limit.
So that's what it meant—it referred to the upper ceiling of meme levels. He hadn't thought much about it before, but now it made sense.
His attention shifted to his resources.
Magic Stones: 673,000!
"…Six hundred and seventy thousand?" His eyes narrowed. "I had barely over a hundred thousand before. Where did the extra five hundred and fifty thousand come from?"
Until now, Yami had been so focused on the High School of the Dead world itself that he hadn't paid attention to his balance.
He quickly skimmed through the backlog of prompts.
And then he understood.
The extra 550,000 magic stones weren't from him—they were from Ella.
The humans she had slaughtered were individually too weak to generate stones. Killing one didn't matter. But once the death toll reached into the millions… the Dungeon converted them into stones in bulk.
The result? Over half a million stones, harvested by the Undying Legion as they crushed hundreds of millions of mortals.
Yami exhaled softly, rubbing his temple.
"…Well done, Ella."
With such a windfall, he wasted no time.
It took 250,000 magic stones to raise the SS-rank meme [Shadow Monarch] to Level 7.
[Note: Correction — Chapter 5's figure was wrong. The requirement is 250,000, not 150,000.]
Without hesitation, he invested the stones.
[Ding! 250,000 magic stones consumed. SS-rank meme [Shadow Monarch] has been upgraded to Level 7!]
He immediately tried to push it further—only to find the next upgrade required one million stones.
"Tch… too big a gap." He gave up on that for now and turned his focus elsewhere.
Instead, he raised his other top-tier memes.
[Ding! 76,100 magic stones consumed. SS-rank meme [Star Dragon] has been upgraded to Level 6!]
[Ding! 76,100 magic stones consumed. S-rank meme [Word Spirit] has been upgraded to Level 6!]
Satisfied, Yami opened his personal status.
[Name]: Yami Tsukishiro
[Rank]: Seventh Level
[Title]: Shadow Monarch
[Race]: Human
[Magic Stones]: 270,800
[Memes]:
A-rank: Ox Talisman (Lv. 7)
S-rank: Word Spirit (Lv. 6)
SS-rank: Star Dragon (Lv. 6)
Shadow Monarch: (Lv. 7)
The Ox Talisman had also risen to Level 7—not because he had manually upgraded it, but automatically.
Just as Yami had suspected, the talisman's true limit had never been Level 6. With the increase of the meme level cap, it had broken through on its own.
"Hissss~"
He slowly exhaled, releasing a long breath of turbid air. A wave of warmth spread through his body, and with it came an intoxicating sense of power—from flesh to spirit.
"Master… your body feels so hot."
Ella pressed her pale cheek against his chest, trying to soothe him as though cooling a fever.
"Haha, don't worry," Yami chuckled, ruffling her snowy hair. "I just got stronger. This feeling of being filled with strength… it's addictive."
Ella tilted her head, red eyes glimmering. "What about this one?"
Her small hand slipped downward.
Yami's body froze.
That thing… yeah, it was definitely "angry."
"E-Ella…" he forced a dry laugh. "You can help me put out that fire later. But right now, I need to focus."
It was tempting—painfully tempting—but business came first.
He forced his mind back on track and turned his gaze to the newly unlocked second floor.
Unlike the endless bones of the Bone Graveyard, this place stretched out like the ruins of an ancient battlefield.
Skeletons still littered the land, but the aura wasn't eerie—it was desolate, solemn, a land scarred by war across countless ages.
The name of the new floor was indeed fitting: Ancient Battlefield.
No need to rush. He would construct it step by step. For now, he took out the newly unlocked core item.
[Item]: Infinite Prototype
[Race]: Orc
[Effect]: Can create infinite monsters.
This was different from the prototype that had birthed Ella, the mouthless undead girl with white hair and crimson eyes. This one was for the orc race.
"…Armor, physical strength, and speed. Those are the only memes that match, huh?"
He checked compatibility. No other meme fit.
"Fine. Fuse those three for now."
The options were limited—he could only work with what he had.
[Ding! Spend 10,000 magic stones to hatch the infinite prototype?]
"Incubate."
[Ding! You have successfully created a monster from the infinite prototype. Please design its appearance.]
Yami rubbed his hands together. "Heh. Time for the familiar 'character creation' phase again."
When he had shaped Ella, he had envisioned a flawless undead maiden—snow-pale skin, red eyes, long white hair. And she had manifested exactly as he imagined.
Now, for the orc prototype…
He closed his eyes, letting the image form in his mind.
Beside him, Ella fidgeted. Yami was deep in concentration, yet the "protrusion" pressing against her still made her restless.
While he pinched her cheek absentmindedly during his work, Ella pouted and tugged lightly at his clothes.
"…Master…"
[Ding! Please name the created monster.]
[Designation: Beast Queen Girl]
The prompt echoed as two sassy, heroic female voices overlapped in the throne room.
"Master!"
The voices rang out together—sharp, clear, brimming with power.
Yami opened his eyes, a faint smile playing on his lips.
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