Labrynth collapsed inelegantly onto the cold, hard bluestone floor.
She lowered her head, her gaze falling onto her small, fair, slender hand.
Resting in her palm was a metal ring she had just dug out from the spider's abdominal remains.
Its surface was smeared with sticky green fluid, emitting a red glow that appeared especially glaring within the dim sixth floor of the dungeon.
Labrynth wrinkled her delicate little nose, then grabbed the hem of her tattered white Gothic dress, wiping the metal ring vigorously.
As the pungent slime was gradually wiped away, the ring finally revealed its true appearance.
A dark silver ring, its surface engraved with fine, intricate magical patterns.
At the very moment, the ring was cleaned—
Buzz!
Within Labrynth's eyes, a semi-transparent pale blue panel popped out.
Lines of dense data streams refreshed rapidly across the panel, ultimately settling into a clear segment of item information.
[Item Name: Ownerless Magic Ring]
[Quality: Common]
[Effect: After equipping, slightly increases the efficiency of magic release and reduces magic consumption.]
Looking at the brief and straightforward description on the panel, the heart that had been lodged in Labrynth's throat finally dropped heavily back into place.
"Phew… that scared me to death."
She let out a long breath of turbid air, raising her small hand to pat her developing chest.
In her previous life, as a seasoned web novel reader, the moment she saw this glowing ring that had dropped from a monster's stomach, countless cliché yet deadly conspiracy theories flashed through her mind.
Things like "an ancient powerhouse's remnant soul hidden inside the ring, preparing to possess her," or "a tracking mark deliberately left behind by an enemy"; just thinking about it was chilling.
Fortunately, it was simply a pure magic amplification item.
Without hesitation, Labrynth slipped the dark silver magic ring onto the index finger of her right hand.
The instant the ring fully fit against her skin—
Boom!
A gentle yet exceptionally clear stream of magic power surged from the ring, flowing along the meridians of her index finger into every part of her body!
Her magic circuits, which had become somewhat depleted due to repeatedly using [Mental Visualization] and constructing traps, were instantly nourished, becoming full and smooth once more.
The semi-transparent panel began to flicker violently again!
[External magic amplification detected!]
[Recalculating personal attribute data...]
[Calculation complete!]
Labrynth could feel that this fragile body, which could not even lift a ten-pound stone, was now filled with an unprecedented sense of strength and lightness.
However, the surprise was far from over!
Deep within the panel, the racial Talent icon that had remained dim and locked since her reincarnation—[Heart of Silver]—suddenly burst forth with dazzling, radiant light!
Clack, clack, clack!
Along with a series of phantom mechanical sounds resembling heavy gears interlocking, the dim icon shattered with a crash!
Replacing it was a massive, brilliant roulette that only she could see!
The roulette was forged entirely from a mysterious dark-gold material, its edges engraved with countless ferocious abyssal demon reliefs.
At the center of the roulette was a miniature black hole emitting an endless pull, while within its slots flickered hundreds of thousands of mysterious icons in varying colors.
The information on the panel transformed into silent text, slowly flowing out beneath the roulette:
⌜Hidden Talent: Heart of Silver (Activated)⌟
[Description: Silver Demons are those favored by the abyss. Each time the body's Level increases, one ability can be drawn unconditionally from the exclusive skill pool of Silver Demons through the "Heart of Silver".]
"A gacha draw?!"
Labrynth's pure white eyes widened, her breathing quickening.
In this perilous otherworld, where even a random scavenger could easily take her life, nothing was more exhilarating than directly obtaining new skills!
This was practically a top-tier cheat tailored specifically for her!
Labrynth licked her dry lips, staring intently at the radiant roulette before her with the same intense excitement as spending money on gacha draws in her past life's games.
"Heavens above, please grant me a world-destroying forbidden spell!"
She took a deep breath, her mind suddenly moving as she fiercely spun the pointer at the center of the roulette.
Buzz!
The dark-gold pointer turned into an afterimage, spinning all across the roulette!
Golden light, purple light, red light intertwined and flashed crazily before Labrynth's eyes.
The pointer gradually slowed.
It passed over an icon radiating terrifying heat—[Explosive Fireball].
It passed over an icon exuding the aura of death—[Undead Summoning].
Eventually, accompanied by a crisp, ethereal "ding" sound, the pointer steadily stopped on a mysterious icon emitting a deep silver glow!
[Draw Complete.]
[Obtained Rare Skill: Remote Mental Manipulation]
"A rare skill?!"
Labrynth exclaimed in wild delight.
Before she could carefully examine the skill's description, the silver-glowing icon detached from the roulette, transforming into a streak of light that slammed into her forehead!
Boom!
At the instant of skill fusion, Labrynth felt as though a supernova had exploded deep within her mind!
An ultimate sensation of her soul being thoroughly cleansed!
She abruptly closed her eyes.
At that moment, she felt her perception being infinitely amplified.
Originally, her awareness had been limited to the narrow range of what her eyes could see and what her ears could hear.
But now, her mental power was like an invisible, extremely fine web, spreading incredibly outward in all directions with her at the center!
Ten meters, twenty meters, thirty meters!
Within this range, the dust floating in the air, the shadow insects crawling within the cracks of the floor tiles, even the internal texture of a collapsed stone pillar in the distance; all of it was reflected with absolute clarity in her mind!
Labrynth suddenly opened her eyes, a streak of silver lightning flashing through her pure white pupils.
She locked her gaze onto a broken stone slab weighing several hundred pounds, thirty meters away.
Previously, if she wanted to use [Mental Visualization] and [Silver Castle Lord] to reshape this stone, she would have had to walk over personally and crudely construct its form in her mind.
Now!
[Deconstruct]
Labrynth remained seated, not moving even a single finger. With nothing more than a thought in her mind—
Whoosh!
The several-hundred-pound stone slab thirty meters away began to tremble in midair without any warning.
Right after, under incomprehensible magical control, the solid stone instantly disintegrated, turning into a storm of fine stone powder!
[Reconstruct, Spear]
Another thought.
The swirling stone powder gathered and compressed wildly in midair. In the blink of an eye, a two-meter-long stone spear with an incomparably sharp tip floated into existence!
Looking at her creation in the distance, the corners of Labrynth's lips curled upward uncontrollably, and she finally couldn't hold back a burst of exhilarated laughter.
"Hahahaha! This feels amazing!"
Combined with the original materialization ability of [Mental Visualization], this newly obtained [Remote Mental Manipulation] was practically a divine skill!
She realized she had broken free from the constraints of tedious "manual labor."
Now, she no longer needed to personally move bricks and mix materials. She had become a top-tier architect with a god's-eye holographic sandbox view.
As long as it was within the range of her mental power, and as long as she had enough Emotion Points and magic, she was a creator who could freely mold the terrain of reality.
Just as Labrynth was immersed in the ecstasy of obtaining her new ability, her peripheral vision caught sight of the panel.
There, the proficiency bar of the core skill [Silver Castle Lord] was flashing with an intense red light!
[Proficiency: 99/100]
With the frequent construction of traps just now, the killing of the Shadow Webweaver Spider, and the recent long-distance creation test, the proficiency of this skill had been maxed out, on the verge of breaking through the bottleneck of Level 1!
The smile on Labrynth's face gradually faded. She was very clear about her current situation.
Based on what she had heard after transmigrating—the three adventurers' conversation—the former overlord of the sixth floor, the Skeleton Lord, had disappeared, leaving this place as a massive power vacuum.
Today, it had been three low-level iron-rank adventurers and a Shadow Webweaver Spider.
What about tomorrow?
Would it be a fully armed silver-rank mercenary squad? Or perhaps even more terrifying abyssal monsters?
Relying on just a few crude pitfall traps and ground spikes was nowhere near enough to stop true powerhouses.
If she wanted to survive steadily in this crisis-filled dungeon, if she wanted to turn this place into a secure fortress, she needed a far grander and far more lethal defensive system!
"Since I'm just one step away from leveling up…"
Labrynth slowly stood up from the ground, dusting off her skirt.
A burning desire for construction blazed within her pure white eyes.
"Then I'll use this new skill… to go all out!"
"Initiate! Dungeon Reconstruction Plan!"
Labrynth took a deep breath as her mental power erupted without reservation!
Her gaze rapidly swept across the ruined bluestone floor beneath her feet, the collapsed massive stone pillars in the distance, and the surrounding ruins marked by the passage of time.
Under the holographic sandbox perspective of [Remote Mental Manipulation], the entire area within a hundred-meter radius transformed in her mind into a three-dimensional model that could be freely edited.
A grand and complex three-dimensional labyrinth blueprint began to take shape in her mind at a terrifying speed!
"Not complex enough… the pathways here need to fold!"
"Set a dead end here, double the wall thickness!"
"Increase the vertical differences, create visual blind spots!"
Countless geometric lines collided within her mind.
The moment the blueprint was fully finalized—
Labrynth suddenly spread her arms wide. Her will surged forth like a breached dam, while the Emotion Points she had painstakingly accumulated on the panel plummeted like a waterfall.
Rumble!!!
A frightening, low rumbling roar echoed throughout the silent sixth floor of the dungeon.
The low-level magic rats and shadow insects hidden deep within the ruins screamed in terror as they fled in all directions.
Under this unbelievable, magical control and mental restructuring, the entire space within a hundred-meter radius seemed to be seized by an invisible giant hand.
A violent reconstruction began. The solid stone slabs on the ground churned like boiling water.
Soil and rubble fused in midair, forming thick, massive Silver Castle stone walls that rose from the ground.
The once flat and abandoned cavern hall was torn apart within just a few breaths.
Interwoven stairways formed out of thin air; some leading upward, some breaking off midair, and some even hanging upside down from the ceiling.
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