Chapter 60: Recap and additional information
> Narration – Belenus
For sixty years,
I slept—not in peace, but in stasis.
I had made a single wish—not to save humanity, but to expand the world, to break the barriers of its own stagnation.
It answered in kind.
The world began to grow without me… but it had never forgotten me.
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The First Dungeon – Born from Earth Itself
The first dungeon wasn't spawned from my will or inventory. It was natural—a fracture, born from the Earth itself reacting to my wish. No blueprint. No design. Just pressure. Instinct. Mana given form.
It became a crucible—a birthplace of monsters and heroes alike.
Guilds rose. Classes evolved. Titans awakened.
But no one expected what would come next.
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Scene – Present Time: The Return of the Red Death
> Narration – First Person (Belenus)
The ocean boiled around me.
I exhaled steam hot enough to bleach moonlight.
My gills collapsed. My lungs ignited like bellows.
And with a single breath—I awakened into war.
My dorsal spines flared open—scarlet blades slick with magma light. My chest shifted, locking to the rhythm of my reactor heart.
> "Too eager, son," Mother said behind me, her voice molten silk. "But enjoy your hunt."
> "Thanks, Mom," I growled.
Then I ran.
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Scene – The Honolulu Ruins
The MUTO shrieked—bioelectric sonar pinging through dust and rubble. I tore through the ruins like a meteor given flesh. Skyscrapers crumbled. Asphalt peeled.
And when his field surged toward me—
I answered.
A rail-beam of compressed atomic energy fired from my jaws—scarlet-white, threaded with gravity.
It caught the MUTO's face.
Not enough to kill, but enough to scar eternity.
> "Mom… I didn't mean to level half the block."
> "You're fine, child," she purred. "The hunt demands ruin."
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Scene – Global Command Network (Simultaneous)
Nick Fury stared at the red-hot alert blinking on the SHIELD Helicarrier.
> "That thing just erased a city block with precision fire. Get me Stark. File it under Codename: Red Death."
A trembling agent muttered, "Sir… that was the smaller one."
> "Smaller? Then what the hell is the mother?"
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Scene – U.A. High Command
Aizawa's interface flickered with seismic readouts and thermal spikes.
> "That wasn't mindless destruction. That was controlled chaos."
All Might whispered, "The cry of someone trying not to become a monster."
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Scene – Capsule Corp
Bulma slapped a monitor.
> "That's not just a kaiju… it's an evolutionary endpoint."
She shouted toward the gravity chamber.
> "Goku! Vegeta! GET BACK TO EARTH NOW."
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Narration – Belenus
We cornered the MUTO. I leapt—beam charging through my throat, lancing him mid-air. His carcass split like stone under lightning.
But then…
She struck.
The female MUTO—vengeful, screaming—hit me like an asteroid, hurling me into a skyscraper. Before I could rise—
> CRACK!
Mother's tail slammed into her, launching her into the skyline with an eruption of flame and steel.
I stood again.
> And I howled.
My dorsal fins lit—red to white to blazing gold.
> I unleashed the Alpha Call.
She screamed.
Then she detonated—a failed scream folding into oblivion as her body exploded in a vortex of bioelectric death.
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Scene – Aftermath
I collapsed beside Mother, her flank shielding my spent body.
I don't remember sleeping.
Only waking.
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Scene – Shore at Dawn
I opened my eyes to firelight, crashing waves… and silence.
Three stood before me.
A man in red and blue, cloak billowing—Superman.
A thunder god with a humming hammer—Thor.
A genius in red armor, glowing arc reactor—Iron Man.
They said nothing.
They just watched.
Above them, a floating carrier dipped low—marked with the SHIELD, Justice League, and Wakandan insignias.
Mother rose beside me.
They parted.
They didn't fear me.
> They measured me.
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Narration – Belenus
Then came the whisper.
> "Red Death."
My name.
Not as condemnation.
But as remembrance.
A memory of something the world had survived… once.
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POV Shift – Soul Society
Zaraki Kenpachi chuckled.
> "I've missed this flame."
Yamamoto raised his head slowly from his shrine.
> "It walks again."
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POV Shift – Justice League HQ
Batman stared at the power readings.
> "This is not a new threat. It's the oldest one we never prepared for."
Wonder Woman closed her eyes.
> "A warrior of fire… wearing evolution as armor."
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POV Shift – Midoriya (U.A. Dormitory)
Deku's interface glitched as the shockwave reached Japan.
> "That name... that power..."
Bakugo frowned. "You sayin' that thing helped win the last war?!"
Aizawa watched the feed in silence.
> "Red Death is back. And he might be on our side."
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Closing – Hollow Earth
Back beneath the world, I felt it.
Not just the ground.
Not just the core.
But everything awakening to my presence again.
The Systems.
The Titans.
The gods.
They didn't welcome me.
> They adjusted for me.
Because the Red Death was no longer a name.
It was a global variable—the flame that everything must now calculate around.
Scene – Global Aftershock
The shockwave from the battle still rippled through cities and minds alike.
Governments scrambled. Intelligence agencies whispered about the return of a force older than history itself. Newsfeeds were flooded with images and footage—some blurred, some unmistakable—of the Red Death's destructive grace.
The world knew:
The era of complacency was over.
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Scene – The Rise of Guilds and Organizations
Decades before, the first dungeon's appearance had fragmented humanity's approach to survival. The natural dungeon, an ever-shifting phenomenon born from the earth's restless core, had forced nations to collaborate and compete.
From those crucibles came the guilds: knights, mages, and hunters organized not just for wealth, but for control of the expanding mana flows that reshaped the world.
As the dungeon's power spread, these guilds evolved into factions with political weight rivaling nations.
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Scene – The Multiversal Nexus and Super Organizations
From the dust of destruction, alliances formed across old boundaries.
S.H.I.E.L.D., ever vigilant, monitored dimensional breaches and Kaiju threats, coordinating with heroes and agencies worldwide.
The Avengers reassembled, battle-hardened and wary, their ranks growing with new heroes awakened by dungeon mana.
The Justice League, guardians of Earth's multiverse stability, prepared for the inevitable clash of cosmic titans and dungeon-born horrors.
And the Soul Society, watchful and ancient, perceived the subtle shifts in spiritual energy as the dungeons awoke even their hidden worlds.
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Scene – The Youth of the New Era
Among the rising generations, the U.A. students trained amidst these changing tides. Despite the growing threat, they maintained their youthful innocence—only 16 to 17 years old, their age untouched by the dungeon's timeline, yet their world irrevocably shaped by it.
> Midoriya (Deku):
The boy who once fought alongside legends now faced a world where legends were no longer myths but looming realities.
> Bakugo and Todoroki:
Their rivalry sharpened by the knowledge that their quirks alone might not be enough.
> All Might:
Once a symbol of peace, now a guiding force reminding them that true strength requires unity in the face of expanding chaos.
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Scene – A World Reforged by Expansion
The world had expanded, but not as anyone expected.
It was not a gentle blossoming, but a relentless growth of power, conflict, and evolution.
The dungeons weren't just places of danger—they were manifestations of the planet's will to evolve.
Titans and Kaiju rose from the depths, their primal forces now woven with the chaotic mana flooding the Earth.
Humans, gifted and cursed by the dungeon's power, were no longer merely survivors—they were instruments of a greater evolution, carving paths through the unknown.
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Narration – Belenus
I never wished for humanity to be saved.
I wished for the world to expand.
Now, as I stand among the ruins and heroes, watching this new age unfold, I see the result of that wish.
And I wonder…