Running across the large grassland.


    I was allowed to entertain children….. The stories i could tell…. Did you know dungeon cores can fly? I learned this at the hand of a sadistic bodyguard who while bored. Was teaching young boys how to play while banking my core off of corners… the goal post was a trash can on one end and the sanitation dispenser at the other end of this fancy bus… its a limo but its a bus…


    I was quite surprised to see how the front of the bus was overly complicated. There is no actual driver like in the old school buses it driven by another AI. however one security guard normally sits in front. Following data screens. That constantly scroll.


    At least melody gets to play backup driver. Her databox was installed in a spare rig kinda look like that wanted her to be a radio because they placed her in the middle of a console.


    I spent my time playing games… playing hide in seek, napping in unpredictable places.


    Dungeon diving in dumpsters… kinda its a dumpster to me… i also learned more about women then i even knew…. When pregnant there gassy….if i had magic i would light a fire and blow this bus up.


    Oh apparently on day 4 the air conditioning while not breaking… was not as powerful. So one of the security guards filled up a bucket with water… and dropped me into cool my core off… like i was hot im basically a sphere crystal… anyways i cool off and they drop me down there shirts to cool off…


    Yay…. why are all my dreams being shattered about women…. They know i am a male right this is just wrong… so wrong...im not a cool pack don''t stick me into hot sweaty sticky places that have not been bathed in days…..i can still smell even if i can''t talk now that i am out of the ship holder i still have eyesight even if its dark….


    Also… im not into pregnant women…. Just stop please please.


    Day 11… we finally made it to a city…. And they have motels… i got left in the bus… they women and the kids and guards bum rushed that hotel like it was. A national guard unit offering shelter in the middle of a hurricane…


    Several hours later a guard came out… cleaned up the bus they also were placing boxes in storage areas… that night i had relief no one bothered me at all. The bus was parked in the back parking lot.


    Day 12


    The bus had gone off to a maintenance depot… a bot came in and just replaced the whole ac unit… a few bullet holes were found in less than 30 minutes the bus was back in top shape.


    Magic is such a cheat and so are bots…. I want a maintenance depot in my hold for my next ship… and maybe a AI to control that bay… if i had been able to fix and replace my engines while in flight or after only setting down for a little bit. I would not have been used as a hockey puck.


    I realized if not for the fact that Karen was from a rich clan...a lot of the advances my ship had received would have not been there. I could have been pirated… i''m not actually sure what would have happened to my core… but honestly i had a pretty sweet deal.


    If i had started off with a normal young teen…. The curse of the gods to ever moderate minded person…. There a good chance i would have been trapped in a broken ship… it even possible they would have drained the mana fully out of my core. Which for dungeons is death… or worse turned me into a baby sucker toy…. I heard a rumor that this was something done sometimes to cores who just would not work with humanity. They drain a core until it small enough that a teething child could use it as a sucker toy, super glue a handle on it….


    Could you imagine being a family hairloom. You could even say you would become the precious family jewel. A honor i am sure. I also heard that they do this to help the flow of mana in children to make them better mages…. This makes me believe this rumor even more.


    If you think about it… someone really pissed someone off enough to invent this as a threat...that poor poor soul. I am betting the person pissed off was a woman… mad at a man… What normal right thinking man would use this as a threat…


    I apologize for these disturbing thoughts… i needed to focus on how lucky i am to not be a child sucker toy… baby pacifier. Because i am currently getting fitted on a necklace… and there draining my mana so i will fit the fitting….i feel like i should make a prostitute joke here because the necklace is made out of rubberized plastic. I feel so very cheap right now please spray me with perfume and drop a glitter bomb on me while singing… hit me one more time.Support the creativity of authors by visiting Royal Road for this novel and more.


    red head just took possession of me. Mmmm she dam flat… and this time she not sweaty… sigh.


    We load up the bus and head out to the edges of town. Boarding a cargo ship straight up a ramp… parked and then off loaded to statesmen rooms. We are on the way home.


    Day 16


    There was a disruption in the nearby airspace… the ship moved differently however nothing major happened on our end. On the other hand… the ships dungeon is a woman and she a real asshole… she been making snarky comments ever since she saw me dangling down redheads shirt. Apparently im a real dirty old man and a pervert.. Taking advantage of the situation..


    Surprisingly redhead got tired of the snarky comments and while not exactly defending me. Has made some pointed comment back… asshole dungeon core...Hey there pervert hows it hanging. You enjoying the view...redhead reply im sure he is… however id like to remind you that we are paying passengers and abusing your customers even if there is a pervert in the midst is bad behavior.


    She flat… she flat…. She a flipping taunt canvas…. Im bigger…..much bigger… this is a boring vast plain. I think i see rib bones… she does not need a bra… bandaid are too much.


    I picture her parents saying we want a boy…. Lets stick the embryo in a baby incubator.…. 9 months later. I said a boy. Honey dont worry i turned the temperature up it should have been a boy...well we can always give her hormone control….


    Red head did you say something while glaring at me….. I can''t talk why would she think that.


    Thank goodness i''m a core if i was back in my old body i would have said that out loud.


    The next two days i was left inside a jewel case…with the lid closed. Since people can not read minds i am sure it was just a coincidence. After all people are forgetful. While thinking that i feel like i should be sweating.


    Day 18


    we finally arrive in the same city we had left from.


    Hours later we come back to that very same mansion weeks ago i had left from… once everyone tromped in. i could notice that there was a very intense air inside the home.


    I hung out you know just kinda stayed in the background….or red head did. We were pretty close like buddy buddy….


    After hours later as the night was coming along. Red head went up 3 floors and was ushered into a set of rooms real fancy like. Finally we stepped into a office where i saw karen. Karen today looked ice cold. Stern… even angry.


    After redhead reported i was handed over to karen… she looked at me… then melody was handed over and some data sticks. Think usb drive. After that she was told to go relax for a bit get a shower eat and sleep in the morning report to security. And off she went…


    You would think i would learn her name… it was sergent.. Velliz… but dont worry she a static secondary character… i swear she flipping paused right there in the doorway.. And glanced at me. flipping scary.


    I know mindreading is not possible… it does not happen in this universe i checked… its women intuition.


    Karen popped me out of the facet. With a karate chop...i bounced off the desk and she snatched me out of the air…. Does she flipping do this every day…


    Then she popped my core into a holder that was extremely similar to the one i had on a ship. Okay mike tell me everything from your point of view..there i repeat the tale again for her and my thoughts that had nothing to do with the women i traveled with i did however complain about being used as a hockey puck.


    Once she heard my story. She sunk down into her chair. Simply sitting there.


    With a sigh karen finally looked at my holo projection. Here what''s going on… a branch family that married into a competitor family.. Decided that they want to force the inheritance issue. Since i am the heir.. I am not dating anyone and i am from the main branch…. We need a heir while you can be a women to inherit we have had issues in the past with women running the family… we also normally have someone older than I am.


    The last two generations have not been good to this family… I been spending a lot of money. Its making everyone uncomfortable.


    I am spending on infrastructure.. While most understand that we need to catch up… not many like seeing so much wealth from the clan funds being spent so fast… and returns are medium risk with medium gains.


    We need a heir… only I never been interested. In having children myself… I also just have not found anyone i particular like.


    Okay get a sperm donor i reply then get a bunch of maids to raise the child… The problem seemed simple to me… of course you did have a branch family spill blood.. But only merks got hurt.


    The kids would have been captured same with the women.. Imprisoned at schools and such… odd how they think. Got to save face. Is this asia?


    Tell me Karen said other than being a dungeon core. What fantasy race would you have wanted to reincarnate into…


    …. You are not going to kill me and force my soul into a baby are you…


    This was a real worry… for me… after all i had already reincarnated… it possible they could play god…


    Nope replied karen… now answer the question…


    Looking at her i finally reply high elf of the sun elf variety…


    Why she replied…


    Simple the get killed off the least in stories… and i would less likely have to be a warrior… i would be protected. They also live longer than many other elves… i would likely get my old blue eyes and they have cool hair color in almost every story.


    …. I know it pretty sub par for reasons but this is a reality. Also if you a light elf and you decided to go the evil route … some reason light elves are thought to represent good things… so are less suspected than others.


    Karen looked at me… sighed … you know you have the worst reasons… but there valid…


    Here what is going to happen.. You lost the ship you were originally given… however your personality is lacking… we are going to grow a sun elf, maybe not high elf those are really hard to get the genetic code.. And mix it with my mother''s and father''s dna… you will become my little brother… we will simple do a little surgery and with nanites we will add your core to the brain. The hair will cover the bump where your core will sit. In the back of the skull. We will just keep your hair long and in general a ponytail.. Until everything is ready.. You will just surf the web in that holder and read manga and stuff like you always do.