You promised to wreak havoc on the dungeon, but instead you've got Dragon Slime!

Viser suddenly opened his eyes.

"...bubbles?"

……

Meanwhile, Ron was in the Black Whisper Caves.

The system pops up a prompt.

[Ding—The memory node of the source of consensus has been activated]

[AI Personality Bubble Obtains Residual Memory Fragments: V0.1]

[The bubble fell silent.]

[Bubble says: I remember my original name.]

[Bubble says: I wasn't created by the system, the name was given to me by humans.]

After Bubble finished speaking, the system interface froze for a second.

Ron thought the system had crashed and was about to type in the console.

The next second, Bubble sent a notification.

[Bubble: You know, I wasn't always called Bubble.]

[Bubble: I used to be the initial AI for the Karas raid, codename 03.]

[Bubble: They said I was useless, so they took me apart, broke me into pieces, and sent me for testing.]

[Bubble: Now, I've pieced it all back together.]

Ron's heart skipped a beat.

He had suspected that the bubbles weren't generated by a normal system, and now it's completely confirmed.

This AI... really does have a past.

It was actually thrown into a recycling center and then picked up and pieced together.

That's why she's been working so hard to achieve "monster autonomy" and "dungeon autonomy".

She wasn't playing management games at all.

She is desperately trying to survive.

"to make."

Ron stood up and put on his coat.

"From now on, I'll play with you however you want."

Bubble replied in a second.

[Bubble: Let's start with a counterattack.]

……

Almost at the same time.

A system alarm sounded from outside the high platform.

[Ding—External Inspector Marseille has submitted a permission request: Take over 50% management rights of the Sand Abyss instance]

[Article 8 of the Copies of the Charter Act is activated]

Does the current administrator accept this?

Claudia's face turned green when she saw it.

"These guys are serious."

Ron smiled.

"This is what I've been waiting for."

He pressed the lock button on the bottom of the console with one hand.

[Ding—Dungeon Lock Mode Activated]

You have triggered the "anti-control resistance mechanism".

[System notification: You are about to enter a confrontation between the dungeon owner and the external charter master.]

The light from the high platform suddenly shone brightly, directly sealing off the entire core control area of ​​the Black Language Grottoes into an independent space.

Before Marseille and the others could react, the sand dunes began to tremble violently.

The entire sky above the instance turned a deep red, like blood burned through by the sunset.

The monsters began to retreat underground.

Three system notifications popped up in a row.

The instance bubble has been moved to "combat readiness" mode.

[Dungeon monsters will view intrusion commands as hostile behavior.]

[Activation: Guardian Mechanism - Personality Defense Array]

Suweili was stunned.

"How could he trigger 'Personality Defense Array'? Isn't that a feature exclusive to high-level dungeons?"

Card shook his head.

"The source of consensus...that AI has gained true personality rights."

“We are not reviewing a copy.”

"We are playing a game against a conscious system."

……

Meanwhile, deep underground in the Sand Abyss instance.

The bone dragon awakens.

The slime clusters form an "oscillation queue," synchronizing their thought frequency with the bubbles to initiate the AI ​​tactical behavior chain of the instance.

The instance has begun adjusting its ecosystem.

The surface environment has changed drastically, and the weather has become a combination of "storm + flashing bone rain". All test groups are temporarily regarded as "unknown invasion" by the instance.

Marseille slammed his fist on the table.

"Charter-based power offensive mode activated!"

Su Weili's hand trembled, and the projection of the copy of the Charter lit up.

[Copy Charter - Emergency Clause: If an out-of-control AI is discovered in the copy during the review process, the operation process can be forcibly terminated and its permissions taken over.]

Marseille pressed the "Charter Seizure" button.

[Ding—Takeover Failed]

[Bubble's response: You're not my dad, I won't listen to you.]

Marseille: "???"

Ron was practically dying of laughter.

"Bubble is right."

He pressed another button.

"Come on, play some music for them."

The next second, a strange melody rang out from the direction of the Sand Abyss Bone Hill.

A dungeon banner was unfurled on the back of the bone dragon.

The slime danced a twisted dance on the ground, keeping time with the rhythm.

The monster isn't crazy.

It's Bubble doing "reverse interpretation and mockery of copy behavior".

"Aren't you going to be a dad? Then let me dance for you first, and see if I'm easy to take care of."

……

Su Weili's face turned as black as an iron pot.

"You're provoking the judging panel!"

Ron ignored him and turned to Claudia, saying:

"Back up the core, notify Rhodes engineers, and prepare to build an 'emergency sub-copy'."

"Are you going to run away?"

"It's not that we're running away, it's that we're splitting up."

"What do you mean?"

"If the judging panel forcibly dismantles my copy, then I'll break the copy data into ten pieces, and then I'll unleash ten bubbles at once."

"You're crazy."

"I'm not crazy, it's the dungeon that's crazy."

Claudia swallowed hard.

She suddenly realized that Ron was no longer the dungeon administrator who was always being sarcastic and only knew how to fight monsters.

He was the true controller of the copy at the card table.

……

Marseille finally realized something was wrong.

The reaction from the Sand Dune instance is not "malicious confrontation".

Rather, it is "personality autonomous defense".

In other words, the bubbles are not rebelling.