Chapter 191: Fusing The Dungeon With The Spiritual Realm, Creating A Divine Land!

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As the two bubbles began to collide with one another, a loud dimensional tremor echoed through Riven’s soul. The pressure was intense, almost enough to shake his concentration, but he slowly regained his composure as he watched the two massive spheres already slamming into each other.

One bubble contained three floors, or four if the abyss was counted as one, of dark caves. It was a small fragment of a planet long destroyed, drifting across space and time until it had reached Earth and manifested as a Gate.

The other bubble was a beautiful, vast, and colorful series of mountains, forests, lakes, and rivers. Large gardens of flowers and caves inside the mountains made up most of its territory. In terms of sheer size, the Spiritual Realm was at least four times as big as the Dungeon’s interior.

FLUOSH!

"Wow..." he muttered in shock, unable to muster the words as he quite literally felt like a deity within his own soul, controlling these two small worlds and forcing them to collide, to combine into something new.

Riven witnessed the miracle in pure awe, unable to resist the shock that ran through him as he saw the two bubbles explode and then begin to fuse. Their vital components and matter mixed into a primordial soup of creation, swirling with raw energy that felt both ancient and newborn at the same time.

RUMBLE!

The entire endless sky of his soul trembled once more. Dimensional tremors echoed everywhere without end as the two realms continued to fuse in a strangely beautiful, chaotic dance.

Skies merged with the earth. Earth mixed with the skies. Living beings were thrown together — some ran in panic, others hid in fear, while a few simply stood still and let it happen, trusting that their lord would protect them from this catastrophe.

In the end, the mountains, the caverns, and the labyrinth fused into a completely new realm.

Riven had expected the cavern dungeon to simply appear underground, but that was not the case at all.

"T-This is...?!" Riven asked as he saw the shocking view before his eyes, what was happening was something he never could have imagined in his wildest dreams or fantasies, a new world being born right in front of his eyes.

FLAAASH!

Bright light surged from every angle. The two combined bubbles began to grow and expand even further, becoming more than the simple sum of their parts. The pressure of creation itself pressed against Riven’s soul as the new land took shape before his eyes.

"Unbelievable...!"

What stood before him now was something far greater than either original realm. Grasslands expanded outward in rolling waves of green. Mountains rose sharply into the sky. An ancient castle and a winding labyrinth surged upward from the center. Towers of stone appeared alongside a rocky wasteland that bordered the grasslands. Misty forests, dark swamps, and more began to form in the distance.

"It created a completely new world?"

Before Riven’s eyes, he had just played the role of a god. He had created a world by fusing fragments of a destroyed world and a spiritual realm together.

Unlike the original Spiritual Realm, which had resembled the wilder areas of Japan with its vast mountains covered by dense green forests, and unlike the dungeon’s dark caves and the deep black abyss of nether and miasma underground, this was something entirely new.

Or rather... it was the beginning of his "Divine Land."

Ding!

[Congratulations, you have successfully combined the D-Rank Gate "Dark Cave Labyrinth" with the Tier 2 Spiritual Realm "Spring Paradise" to create a completely new Realm.]

[You have created the first ever Spirit Dungeon Realm "Giant’s Paradise"!]

[New Biomes have been created: Dark Nether Swamp, Misty Forest, Rocky Wastelands, Giant’s Battlefield, Great Spirit Giant King’s Castle.]

[All Dungeon Monsters and Spiritual Realm Beasts have been adjusted and evolved or fused to adapt better to this new environment.]

[The Believer Race "Giants" and "Yokai" have gathered into two separate Villages.]

[Mana, Nether, and Spiritual Energy are now being produced in large quantities within the Spirit Dungeon Realm and will help replenish the Realm’s requirements and the Lord’s power.]

[Your Authority as a Lord has grown stronger.]

[You have gained the ability to open Spirit Gates linked to your Divine Land, allowing designated Subordinates or Familiars to enter and exit freely while carrying a fragment of your Lord Authority in the form of a Spirit Crest.]

[Your Spirit Dungeon Realm "Giant’s Paradise" Rank has increased to C Rank.]

Riven exhaled slowly as the golden sea of his soul faded. His consciousness snapped back into his body, and he found himself once again standing in the quiet living room of the manor. The Sovereign Codex floated open in front of him. Outside the window the sky was only beginning to lighten as the sun slowly made its way into the sky. Elisa and the others were still asleep.

It seemed that despite how catastrophic and loud everything had felt inside his soul, the outside world remained completely peaceful. Not even a single vibration had reached reality.

Vladimir and the Shadow Self stared at him in silence, waiting for an explanation.

"It worked," Riven said, keeping his voice low so he would not wake anyone else. "Better than I expected. The Dungeon and the Spiritual Realm could indeed combine into a Spirit Dungeon Realm. It’s a completely new thing."

"Oh?" Vladimir raised an eyebrow, a flicker of interest crossing his pale face. "Interesting. Do you believe that can help us move more easily? Or perhaps teleport you wherever we need to go?"

"It should," Riven answered after a moment of thought. "But we should probably test a few things first. First of all, let me check how everything looks and works inside. I’m also worried about my Believers."

"Believers...?" Vladimir raised an eyebrow again, this time with clearer curiosity.

Without waiting for a further response, Riven raised one hand and exerted the power of his Authority as a Lord. A crown of soft golden light appeared above his head for a brief moment, pulsing with quiet power.

Then...

FLUOSH!

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