Space Core

If I were to be honest, I'd say that seeing Lethe in a full blown panic attack was really scary. Lethe was the first person I had talked to in years, I didn't want her to panic, and I certainly didn't want to be a cause of the panic. In the end, It had taken Lethe around an hour to calm down, when she looked at my core again I saw the worst sight I could imagine. The face of a person so broken from loss that you could feel it in the air around her.

I guess losing her dungeon is taking a much bigger toll on her than she let me see, would make sense, she did say she ways more than a century old. I can't imagine working on something for that long only for it to be destroyed and taken away from me.

Though a few moments after looking back up, her face transformed back into one of normality. That... was sad.

"S-So, anything else you wanted to ask a-about?" she asked after a moment.

Now that's just depressing, but I guess she wants to take her mind off of what had just happened. So I put what had happened into the back of my mind and graced her with another question, "Yeah... I do, Is it possible to have more than one affinity?"

Lethe slightly trembled at the mention of affinity, but responded to me with a smile. "Y-Yeah, it's possible to have more than affinity. Though only two, it's called the secondary affinity. To get a secondary affinity, one must create the type of mana specific to the affinity, and then absorb it. But it's important to be careful, affinities require different amount of mana to get. And once you've started on one, you can't change to another."

Damn, I planned to see if I could get some sort of earth affinity and then change it to another, more powerful one. Guess I'll have to be careful with which one I choose.

"Also, " Lethe continued, "some affinities don't go well with others, a good example would be the water and fire affinities. If you had fire as your primary affinity, anything related to water would go terribly for you. At most, you might be able to make steam, but not much else."

And that just makes it worst, the only affinity that I could see going with the space affinity was the time affinity. Even then, I didn't know if it even existed. "...would it be possible for me to make a dungeon without using my affinity?"

Lethe shook her head quietly, "No... when you make a dungeon, your affinity gets immediately woven into it. Anyone with at least half a braincell can tell which affinity a dungeon has just by walking inside the first room."

Things were just getting worse and worse... "Guess I need to practice my affinity if I want to have any chance of being a successful dungeon."

My stressed out companion gave a small chuckle before nodding.

After that, I focused on a part of the room opposite to her, hopefully she'd manage to go to sleep. I prepared myself to pull on the fabric of space as I had done countless times before, until I realized that I had the [Space shaper] skill. It wasn't hard to activate the skill, after all, I just needed to concentrate on activating it.

But what came next was something that I never would've expected.

I suddenly knew everything about where I was, not in the way that my normal dungeon sense did, but as a simple acknowledgement of everything. I knew why everything was put how it was, And I knew just as well how to change it.

I focused on the air just before one of my walls, and made it extend. All of a sudden, the wall that I was looking at disappeared and was replace by the longest corridor I had ever seen. I knew that if any living beings wanted to walk its entirety, they would die long before the halfway point.

But quite quickly, a problem showed itself to me by kicking my head so hard it turned into a blackhole. I had a headache so bad that I felt like throwing up even if I didn't even have any kind of mouth to throw up with.

[WARNING, MENTAL STRESS LEVEL RISING TOO QUICKLY. MENTAL STRESS: 57/100]

I think I've already realized that! It hurts so bad... oh so bad. I just had to do something, anything to get rid of that pain. I knew that I needed to get rid of the practically infinite corridor that I had made.

Undo, Undo, UNDO, UNDO. Then, as if nothing had ever happened, the pain had disappeared with the distorted space I had created.

What the fuck just happened here?

[NOTICE, MENTAL STRESS LEVEL IS BACK TO MANAGEABLE FOR HOST.]

[SKILL GAINED: UNDO.]