The core was feeling happy at the moment. The conversation with the delver went well, it even went on to get more of its kind! Hopefully that means that it will reach its goal sooner rather than later. Waiting was something it had practice at but it didn't want to wait anymore than was strictly necessary. It wouldn't be so eager to risk it's soul otherwise.
The Core went through its dungeon once more, checking-in to make sure everything was up to par. The invaders wouldn't come for some time but when they did they would be met with a welcome party so grand they would die in a moment!
The first 4 floors were repopulated and the minor issues that it noticed during the invasion, like the Armored Beetles not attacking the Swordsman because of a misworded order, were fixed.
It observed the rest of its own floors, seeing if it noticed any more issues that weren't yet apparent due to a lack of adventurer's.
It didn't perceive anything off, but it did add a couple of degrees to its 9th floor by making the lava river wider and deeper along with lowering the temperature of its final floor by summoning another Lesser Winter Spirit.
Just imagining the invaders dying by its hand brought the core joy, truly being deprived of something so vital to its being and then gaining it made it quite emotional.
Not so much that it would forget the fact that it had a human blueprint but enough so that it wasn't as worried as it should have been.
The Core, on its 8th floor, decided to test it out. First checking it, the energy used in the blueprint was different to what it was used to but it likely was just a result of the human not having a God rather than it being actually a different energy, and after making sure it was without any holes, followed its instruction to make a human.
It summoned its mana to attention and used it expertly to make the base, the outline and then fill it in. Creating a human identical to the one that died here in its halls.
Then the creature shook, foamed at the mouth and finally collapsed, laying on the ground, dead.
The core paused, it followed the blueprint correctly, so why wasn't it working?
It looked at the corpse and saw that the mana inside it was... quickly leaving it? In it's mana-dense dungeon?
The Core absorbed the corpse and decided to redo it, this time paying much more attention to how the mana inside the dungeon monster reacted.
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It found that the moment it left the energy alone it started to rebel at being placed where it didn't want to be, resulting in the monster's death.
In the blueprint the mana was perfectly content to remain in this form, so why didn't it do so in reality?
The Core decided to investigate it further, it was an excellent distraction from the constant waiting and it couldn’t deny that it was curious as to why the mana so vehemently opposed being made into a constantly spinning circle, this resembled some spells and those, the mana, to its knowledge, had no problem executing.
It checked the blueprint again, once more noticing the weird energy but dismissing it as it decided that the blueprint must be incomplete or wrong in some way or another. The Swordsman was difficult to understand, so it made sense his blueprint was also.
The Core decided to mess with the design a bit, the large semi-translucent organ near the stomach, that was both in this dimension as well as the soul realm seemed to be the main catalyst for the mana’s rebellion.
If it just got rid of it, then surely the monster would work!
It didn't.
The creature's heart didn't even start beating, the moment it properly manifested it slumped over, not once even alive.
Was the organ so vital to a human's life? But in its instructions it was told to aim for the head - especially the back of it - or for the top most area of the chest, where the heart and lungs are.
If this organ was as necessary as it seems to be, then surely it would have been mentioned?
The fact that it was both in the physical realm and soul realm was also interesting, why wasn't that mentioned as well?
The Core reread the introductions just to be sure, but no new information was there, it was the same text that it read 307 times before.
With more questions that it knew what to do with The Core looked at the blueprint again.
This time it actually considered the fact that a different energy source might exist, but upon checking the guidebook and finding that it didn't mention anything, it decided that it was right the first time.
It also noticed another oddity, the bodyparts didn't seem to be named. It didn't notice the first two times because it is used to ignoring such irrelevant things but now that it did, it is becoming much more obvious that the blueprint is not only damaged but also incomplete.
If it wants it's own dungeon monster of a human variety, it needs to figure out how to make sense of the blueprint.
With an unknown amount of time to spare it began to experiment, removing various organs to see which ones were causing it problems.
Turns out the answer was all of them.
No matter which organ it removed the reaction was allways the same! Unless it removed the most problematic one, in which case the creature wouldn't even come to life.
Even removing multiple organs didn't work so it decided to add organs, but the human body didn't have enough space for new ones so it instead replaced the old ones with new ones.
The humans still died and it didn't know of an organ that was as peculiar as the most problematic one to replace it with.
Finally it started to mold the mana in different ways, a process that yielded around the same amount of failures if not more because of how many possibilities there were with shaping mana.
If mana was so malleable then why did it resist the hybrid organ? It didn't have the answer to the question so it's only choice was to test it.
The Core couldn't help but wonder why the human body was so much more complicated than the animals from the forest as it reabsorbed the failed results of its experiments.
