After the four people entered the room, several other people came in after them carrying various items and equipment. The four people in question consisted of a human, an elf, a dwarf, and what appeared to be a woman with red, iridescent scales covering her body. The group was clothed in what Null could only figure looked like some kind of metallic composite armor with various glowing orbs embedded in them. Furthermore, they each had what looked to be some kind of high tech, magical monocle over either their left or their right eye. Each of them also had a cloak on that had different symbols. The human''s cloak had the symbol of a gear with a magical stone set inside of it. The Dwarf had the symbol of a mountain with a high-tech city. The Elf had what appeared to be a cyborg tree, and the scaled lady had a dragon on it.


    The Human walked up to Null.


    "Good to meet you Null. We''re going to be helping you out with your mobility issue. I''m Lieutenant Willis. The Elf is Sargeant Branchleaf. The Dwarf is Sargeant Stonehammer. And finally, the Dragon''s name is Ember Wrathfire."


    Willis leaned closer to the core and whispered


    "Just between me and you, Ember has a bit of a hot temper"


    "Hey! I heard that!" Ember said indignantly


    Willis laughed


    "I''m just joking. Everyone here is good people. Now. We''re essentially the special production team here for the Dublo. We make the special purpose stuff."


    Willis clasped his hands together.


    "Now. On to the point of all this. We''re here to help you out with mobility. As I''m sure you''ve already heard, most dungeons just get around using hover pedestals, and we''re pretty sure that won''t work out for you."


    Yeah. That was my understanding as well.


    "Now. All the same, I figure we should try it out just to be sure."


    Willis went over to the pile of equipment and grabbed a circular disk with glowing stones inset into the side. In the center of the disk was a circular hole with curved sides. Null was looking at it with curiosity but also noticed that Stonehammer and Branchleaf also seemed to be staring at it intently.


    After placing it the disk in front of Null, Willis spoke up again.


    "Now. All we have to do is put you onto it, and with any luck, you should be able to utilize it to fly around. Is it fine for me to pick you up to place you on it"


    Yeah! Sure thing! Let''s give it a go.


    With Null''s permission, Willis picked him up and placed him into the center of the hover pedestal. The hover pedestal adjusted itself to comfortably fit Null in the center of it, and null felt a connection establish with him from it.


    Okay... I felt the connection establish with it. Now what?


    "Try doing something with it. Hmm... maybe try willing it to move in a direction or something like that? I''ll be perfectly honest here, I''ve never had to explain to a dungeon core how to use one of these before. It normally just comes naturally to them."


    Null tried out the suggestion.


    Nope. Nothing.


    At that point Branchleaf spoke up with a bit of panic in his voice.


    "Nothing? Nothing at all? Are you sure about that?"


    Umm... Yep. Let''s see. Trying to will myself to hover in a direction. Yep. Not working.This narrative has been purloined without the author''s approval. Report any appearances on Amazon.


    Null saw the elf look a little relieved but still with a bit of panic in his voice. Meanwhile he could see Stronehammer struggling to hold back a laugh, Ember looking amused, and Willis just facepalming in disappointment.


    "Okay. Well, maybe you need to focus your will on the pedestal itself? You said you were trying to will yourself to move. Try it out on the pedestal."


    Okay. Good point there. Let me give your suggestion a try.


    With that, Null tried to focus on the pedestal through the connection. With that, he tried moving again.


    Nope. Still nothing.


    With that statement, the Branchleaf looked like his hopes and dreams had been crushed while Stonehammer just started to laugh audibly.


    Umm... What am I missing here?


    Ember walked up to the core with a bemused expression.


    "Well, those two had a bit of a bet you see. Stonehammer figured that we''d have to manufacture something entirely new to help you out with the mobility. Branchleaf there scoffed at the idea and figured that there was no way you wouldn''t just figure it out immediately. As such, he offered a bet where whoever was wrong would be buying drinks for the whole week to the winning party. Stonehammer accepted the bet."


    Null gave a bit of a guilty laugh.


    Oh. Got it. Sorry about that.


    Stonehammer laughed again.


    "Yer got nothing to apologize fer. In fact, I should be thanking you. Free Drinks fer me all week!"


    Stonehammer gave a cheer while Branchleaf with a dejected kind of sigh joined in with a faint cheer of his own.


    "Yeah.... free drinks for Stonehammer all week... Coming out of my pay."


    At that point Willis stepped in again.


    "I did tell you that bet was a bad idea. At any rate, we know that the hover pedestal doesn''t work. Now we need to figure this issue out for Null here."


    Ember spoke up.


    "Hmm... we were told about how you essentially have human senses. Can you give us a rundown of them again Null?"


    Null was happy to accept the question. Anything to get out of the discussion about the bet.


    Sure thing. So, as far as I can tell, I can see perfectly fine. I can also hear everything perfectly well also. Now that I think about it, I guess that I''m talking as well? Not really sure how the talking is working now that I think about it.


    Branchleaf spoke up while stroking his chin.


    "Your essentially using broadcast telepathy. Anyone in your vision can hear it. I''d imagine you could refine it with practice to target a specific person, and once you have more practice with sensing things through mana you could probably talk with someone outside of your vision as well."


    Willis pulled out a what appeared to be a magical whiteboard and began marking down the discussion points.


    "Alright. So, we know that you can do things like sight, hearing and talking. Got it. Anyone got any ideas?"


    Ember spoke up.


    "Well, it appears to be that Null here is able to do things that he could naturally do in his previous life. I figure we''d have to make a way for him to move that would just feel natural to him. I''m drawing a bit of a blank on how to do that though."


    At that point Stonehammer spoke up.


    "Hmm. Wha about prosthetics?"


    Branchleaf stroked his chin.


    "Interesting idea. For sure that area of engineering is a bit understudied, since healing magic just allows the reattachment or regrowth of limbs over time. And for the most part, it''s just a stopgap measure while waiting for a healing mage to be able to see them... But still..."


    Null could see the team contemplating it. Stonehammer replied with excitement.


    "Exactly! We could build Null a body with using prosthetic technology. I figure maybe we just have ta give a hover pedestal arms an legs, and it should be good to go."


    Ember scoffed.


    "I don''t think it will just be as simple as giving it arms and legs. I would know. Transformation to human form does require it to be a comfortable fit for the dragon after all."


    Stonehammer shook his head.


    "Comfortable fit? Wha do ya mean by that? The lad is clearly a dungeon core. Aren''t the Hover Pedestals comfortable enough?"


    Willis interjected.


    "Calm down a bit Stonehammer. Would you mind explaining your idea Ember?"


    Ember nodded with a satisfied smirk.


    "Certainly. My suggestion would be to build essentially a human style magimech suit that fit the proportions Null decides on."


    Null spoke up excitedly.


    Ooh. That sounds really cool! I''d be happy to try it out.


    Willis nodded.


    "Alright. Sounds like a plan to me. Anyone have any objections?"


    The rest of the team shook their heads.


    "Alright. Then."


    With that, Willis and the team spent a few hours to take measurements of Null, ask questions regarding how he would like the proportions to be, and settled on a design. With that. The team left to build Null a prototype Magimech suit to try out. As they left, Lieutenant Delars walked back in.


    "Well. Unfortunately, I have some bad news."


    Alright. I''m ready for it.


    "You remember the conversation we had about the Demon spawn and how they turn into Demon kings every five years?"


    Yeah. Kind of hard to forget about the crazy psychopath that''s intent on enslaving the world population.


    "Well, it appears that at some point he mixed some demon spawn that take longer to grow up into the mix. A new Demon King has emerged. And it''s here three years early."