Looking at the message before him, a series of questions formed.

  “Why am I only getting access to the boss-monster function now?” he asked

  “And why wasn’t this covered in the tutorial?” he quickly added. You would think that such things would be covered in the tutorial, as it is in the nature of tutorials to cover the basics.

  “Well, I guess that makes sense,” he said to himself. But he was still a little irritated since it would have been nice to have known earlier.

  “But now you got to make up for it, so tell me everything you know about the bosses” he requested.

  It was good to finally know this, he thought to himself. He did feel that something was missing before he would be able to dig a new floor, and it good to finally know what that feeling was.

  “Okay then. Tell me about the different options there are to getting a “Floor Guardian” He requested.

  Looking at the different ways he could get a boss only 4 of them seemed interesting. [Boss promotion], [Theme Boss], [Natural Selection] and [Boss creation]. These were the only ones that seemed interesting to him. Because all the others were just boring in comparison.

  [Boss summon] was just summoning a boss version of the monsters he already has unlocked so there was nothing extremely new in that, and [Random Boss summon] was just a coin toss. He had an equal chance to get something good as he had to get something bad. So, in his opinion, it was simply not worth it.

  Now came the time to sort the others. Starting with the [Boss promotion]. It was a very viable option, choosing one of his already established monsters to become the boss, could be very good. He could select the monster with which he saw the most potential. From there it would then just continue to grow in strength without having to worry about dying as it would just be resummoned after a while.

  [Theme Boss], it was the same as [Random Boss summon] but with this one, he could at least be sure that he would get a monster that was perfectly accustomed to the floor. But he didn’t like the gamble, so he opted out of this choice.

  [Boss Creation], the choice of designing his unique boss was very appealing. A monster that he knows will be fully adapted to the environment, capable of killing everything. But he didn’t want to waste the creation ticket. He wasn’t sure he was ready to design his monster. He wanted to observe a few more monsters, their traits, skills, and hunting style before he begins to design his creatures.

  In the end, there was only [Natural Selection] as a choice. Who was he kidding? As soon as he saw it. He knew that he was going to select this choice. It offered such variety, in comparison to the others. No two bosses were ever going to be the same, and it builds upon his core ability so there was never really a choice. So that was what e he did.

  Selecting [Natural Selection] he could feel how a wave of information surged through all the monsters in the dungeon. He could feel how they all instinctively now knew how the boss system worked. He could feel as 4 creatures inside his dungeon immediately tried to lay claim to the title, but they were quickly overshadowed by a fifth overwhelming presence. When it laid its claim on the title of “The Apex” no one contested it, for they knew that there was no winning in single combat against this creature.

  When he looked after it, he found that it was the metal-infused Giant Centipede he was just looking at just a few minutes ago. He watched as the title took its effect on it. Before his eyes, he saw its body grow to twice the size it was before. Its carapace breaking into cracks and then reforming for every burst of growth. Its mandibles became even thicker and tougher, with metal infused carapace on the tips. Its eyes shone with a newfound intelligence. When the transformation was over, it stretched itself into its full size. An aura of pure domination immitted out from it, pushing down on all nearby monsters. Every single creature in its immediate surroundings knew that this was a superior being, that this creature could kill them without even trying. It was an awe-inspiring scene to watch.

  But, as soon as the aura spread around it. The aura disappeared and the centipede just continued, on its way as if nothing had changed with it. Seeing this he then decided to take a quick look at its status to see what had changed with it.