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Gustav threw Natasha into the dungeon, as the demon girl roared and complained.

"You can't do that! I am a Tower Lord!"

"You're nothing now, so get moving and get to work. You said you can make a portal to the demon world if you grow stronger, right? So go grow stronger for once." Said Gustav, he was being tyrannically cruel!

"Geez! F-Fine!"magicNatasha began rushing around the depths of the dungeon, her strength enough to pulverize most creatures on sight, and gaining EXP due to it.

"W-Wow! What is this? leveling up feels amazing!" she said as she began leveling up.

The way she was able to be assimilated into the Soul Records was a bit of a mystery to Gustav, but Gaia answered him after he asked her today. He hadn't done it before because he was too busy doing many things to have this thought cross through his mind.. "After the contract you did with her, it happened automatically. Similarly to the tamed monsters you have, they gain status and can level up after they made a tamed monster contract with you automatically." Said Gaia.

"Wait, so she's like my pet? This sounds oddly lewd." Sighed Gustav.

"I-I don't know what to think, but that's how it is, Gustav…"

Gustav sighed, as he walked to the back of his large house within his divine realm. He admired the large city far away, it had been rebuilt beautifully in this time, and the humans inside were prospering rather happily. The people had adapted to the leveling system and were progressively growing stronger.

Due to his inner world upgrading itself and becoming like his own divine realm, the entire space expanded a lot, making it even vaster of a land, the people here mostly didn't missed the world outside because this world by itself was much like the one outside, but more beautiful and way before the whole Apocalypse began.They had already built a stable economy in this little time based on selling and buying monster body parts, food, and materials to craft items, alongside items themselves. The dungeons supported this simple economy thanks to their magical ability to generate resources as long as brave enough souls entered their depths and challenged the monsters inside.

The city's buildings were remade by the aid of Annabelle, the first living house, which had spread her phantasmal power into many other buildings and used her molding capabilities to transform them into suitable homes. She even became the whole city as she expanded her phantasmal bod and soul across the paved floors, which she also constructed, and everything within it.

Meanwhile, there were also the gigantic ghost spaceships which had been fixed by the Slarkobs that Gustav captured and forced to cooperate with him. They were similar than Natasha an ended becoming part of the system, having levels and such, although they were somehow unwilling, they had given up to their prideful natures and acted more obediently of Gustav, with the help of their Undead companions which were kept in perfect and fresh conditions, the Slarkobs had become a small community within the divine realm, mostly dedicated to the research of items, the resurgence and spreading of technology and the combination of it with magic technology, and also as unexpected teachers of all sorts of mathematics, psychics, and the like.

They were certainly unwilling at first, but not much time passed before they became oaky with it at least. And the squid-faced aliens had begun to feel like their previous lives were rather boring compared to their new lives. There's always a lot to do and discover, and humans are not so bad when they decide to ignore their ugly non-tentacle-covered faces.

There was already a large tower growing in the middle of the city, it was a Mage Tower that Gustav had given the order to build, this mage tower would fuel the entire city with more Mana flow, making the inhabitants more refreshed and revitalized, while also making it so it can be used as a replacement for electricity with the new magic technology items being produced by the Slarkobs, where Anna and Gustav also take place into their creation a little bit.

Javier and his family, as the only shapeshifters, and as the strongest "normal" humans had participated in the latest battle as backup in the army, mostly leading the mass of other beings. They had gained a large quantity of levels through this, and had grown exponentially stronger, probably soon to reach the pinnacle of mortality. Thanks to their power and knowledge, this family had become well-known as "instructors" of newbies, amongst other things.

They had been advancing properly in this new world and had become quite the good fighters, Gustav recognized them as good allies too, and often invited them to his dinners or lunch when he had to celebrate something, albeit he did this on a whim whenever he felt like.

Life inside the divine realm was relaxing and tranquil, although many things were occurring outside with the dungeons, not much aside from that. It wasn't so different, but not having deadly monsters roam around your cities is a good plus. Containing the monsters inside the dungeons was the best thing there could be. And after Gustav was done with most of the monster hordes in the outside world, it should be possible for the dungeons to contain the monsters inside naturally and let the people outside prosper more relaxedly.

In just a few months he was already known around the world as a Hero of sorts, although Gustav didn't liked to eb called one and preferred to be referred by his name and nothing else, he wasn't able to escape the admiration of the people towards a heroic figure, something that humans always do and look forward to, someone to admire and follow as species. And he, as the one that has advanced the further in strength was the "chosen one" in this regard.

Despite his unwillingness to be called a hero, he acted very heroically, and despite him not liking heroic figures, he acted very much like one…

He sighed as he thought about this irritating fact, as he decided to open the item boxes to lighten his mood.

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