Isekai Dungeon Architect

With her awakened skill, Aria figured out the core code the dungeon was using for the connections.

She did that in a way that a normal human being could never comprehend.

The code was too complex from a human perspective. Not only had the dungeon used Original Elvish as the core entry language, the code was made in a way that did not seem to be made by an artificial lifeform.

As intelligent a consciousness as a dungeon may be, there was a certain difference between possessing the ability to work upon the rules that it was created with, and being able to understand the general relevance of everything to come up with a solution of your own.

Dungeons, as such, were entities that followed the rules so well that the only goal of their lives was to figure out how to break these rules that they were made upon.

Once the dungeons were able to do something of their own, they achieved enlightenment and were set on a new path of evolution.

The dungeon core's development also happened at this stage, but that was everything. The dungeons, as Aria understood, could not create a code as unique as the one this dungeon was using.

Which meant this code, whatever it may be, had come from the original creator of the dungeon— figuring out the way the dungeon used it also made her understand how the code could be used.

So, when she decoded the connection structure and used some of her energy to solve the problem, she was able to save the fifty percent of the people that were still bound by the dungeon trial.

[ "You have succeeded in answering the dungeon's questions… also, your skill just bloomed." ]

Aria's green eyes had a certain magic circle inscribed inside them. This magic circle, triangular in shape, was constructed of primordial runes that were said to be the source of all existing languages.

The triangle made of runes, with the same text creating a complex spell structure inside its boundaries, made her already attractive eyes look far more appealing to the beholder.

With an increase in level, her energy had also replenished. She was thinking more clearly now. And, with the code in her hands, she had access to something far more valuable than the dungeon could ever reward her.

But the code wasn't just an answer to the dungeon's questions.

"..."

As Aria watched the individual strings connecting to the dark dots vanish one by one, she realised she wasn't just a guest following the dungeon's lead anymore.

The dungeon had branded her as an Anarchist, and that branding had taken away the restrictions she had as a mere guest.

-Ooooooooooooooooong!

[ "...do you truly intend to use the code to ask the dungeon questions and bring back the people that have passed away just now?" ]

If Rose can bring back the soul of a creature that had clearly passed away then it should very well be possible for the people who died in this state to come back to life, right?

Aria had her doubts that the people had not yet lost their lives completely, so she wanted to give it a try.

[ "Then you shall have the assistance you require." ]

Just like how all the creatures of this world have the potential to evolve into a higher form, all the skills that exist have the potential to bloom into a higher version of themselves that possesses powers beyond what they previously had.

Her skill which had granted her exceptional reaction time, enhanced calculative powers, superhuman cognitive abilities, as well as a greater memory by allowing her to use more of her mind, had blossomed into a superior skill.

Now, she had the ability to utilise greater powers of her mind.

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[Saint Origin (SS).]

A supreme cognitive skill evolved from Task Division (S), a manifestation of higher-tier processing born from a complete mental synchronization between soul and the world.

{Saint Origin} allows you to fragment and distribute consciousness across multiple cognitive threads, each retaining full creative autonomy while remaining tethered to the central soul-core.

These fragments can independently execute, calculate, and even manifest spiritual constructs within both physical and metaphysical domains.

Unlike mere parallel thought, it grants the ability to sustain simultaneous creation and command processes, allowing you to design, battle, and perceive on a celestial bandwidth.

Each divided thought becomes a saintly echo of the self: pure, precise, and carrying a spark of the original's will. When united, these echoes amplify the Architect's essence exponentially, forming the basis of what ancient systems once called the <<Halo-State>>.

▪ Effect: Enables the user to split consciousness into 3–9 autonomous cognitive threads.

▪ Special Trait: Each thread can access full skill functions and energy manipulation at a sustainable cost.

▪ Passive Bonus: Mental overload immunity; thought synchronization accelerated by 300%.

[#Hidden Parameter: Divine resonance may trigger spontaneous miracles under extreme emotional states.]

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The skill effects weren't small. The skill may not have any physical or magical effects but a skill that allowed someone mental powers beyond skills was simply unheard of.

If there were any other people that possessed a skill anything like this one, then they would either be in the Castle in the Sky, or in a place where light does not reach.

Either way, this power allowed Aria to divide her mind to the maximum possible sections as she started generating a code as complex as the one the dungeon had presented to her.

With her new energy, she started threading the new code in a way that wrapped up the white world in different ways.

Aria had believed this place was endless on all sides, but that was not the case. All this time, this mind space had actually been as small as a common room of their inn.

The code spread on all sides, and it asked the dungeon a question as well: are they really dead?

She asked the question and thought about the first person that passed away as she was trying to figure out the code.

Just like how she had failed to solve the dungeon's code while figuring out the solution, the dungeon, stunned by the sudden questions of the Anarchist that it could not control like the guest architect, could only answer with what seemed like the most plausible solution: the person in question.

[ "The dungeon has failed to understand your motive." ]

'As it would be the case with all artificial lifeforms.'

She used her new skill to create a code so complex that it assembled itself in the form of a structure.

Here, Aria gained another enlightenment and fused her {Creation} skill in the mix, using her creativity to create a data structure that was different from the dungeon's questions, but at the same time, something familiar.

She used her mind power to the limit, pushing the boundary of her new skill, using every bit of the power that she could, squeezing the very last drops of her stamina.

Her body, still glowing in the dungeon's hallway beside the branch manager, was about to tap into her lifeforce as the energy source.

[ "This is dangerous. We cannot go on like this." ]

'It's almost done…!'

Aria did not stop.

Pushing the limits of her current state, she increased the output, pushing her new mind powers beyond their limits, piecing in a puzzle of 10,000 pieces, and at the end, while crude compared to what this dungeon was, she finished her first actual architecture.

[Ding!]

[Warning! Warning!]

[The dungeon has detected the presence of a threatful element in the mental holding cell.]

[The dungeon has assessed the threat to be a <Contradiction>.]

[The dungeon cannot analyse the contradiction!]

[Ding!]

[Placing in emergency measures!]

A tower-like structure of only six floors. It was white instead of the one they were in right now. It had six angles instead of a round surface like the one they were in right now.

It was smooth and did not have any excessive attractive features. It was a simple pillar with floors, as simple as this very blank room.

The creation was done using the code that she had just learned from the dungeon core. The construction was the physical manifestation of the questions that she was asking to the dungeon.

The problem was the dead, and what happened to them, and the answer to that was simple if the dungeon wanted it to be that way… it could just undo what it did to them, returning them back to how they were.

Assuming they weren't actually 'dead' dead, then they were most certainly in a state similar to the Naga. And if that was the case, they could certainly be brought back.

And, under the very rules that lead Aria to this stage, the dungeon also needed to do what Aria wanted it to do: answer her questions.

The answers were also not that complicated if the dungeon could handle this question… this structure that it had branded a Contradiction.

Now, the decision was up to the dungeon.

[ "Will it choose to follow the rules and analyse the question structure as it should and release the dead souls in the process? Or will it choose to do how you did it and follow the best path of dealing with us directly?" ]

Aria had been thinking about this a lot since earlier. Her skill that she had named Rosaviel was not speaking the way she usually did.

She had been more curious and more chatty than ever before. She was also doing something like what the dungeon did but better.

Aria knew she was up to something, but unlike this dungeon, she did not have to worry about her own skill.

'A skill is the owner's heritage.'

That was an elvan saying she had learned from the code she just learned.

And for the most part, she believed it to be as true as it could be.