I was standing on a street made of a strange iridescent white road in an empty city.

  The road was rough but smooth, like rock carved by water over millions of years. When seen at just the right angle, it shimmered gold.

  Odd holographic lights shifted along it's surface, marking the center of the road.

  The sidewalks were slightly different than the road. Instead of being white with iridescent gold, it was the reverse as it was gold with iridescent white. Looking almost like polished marble.

  The buildings were tall, and glowed with the same golden iridescent white but looked so smooth like glass. The strange material of the buildings shimmered, perfectly reflecting the surrounding buildings and sky.

  The endless reflections that reflected each other in this empty city made it look even larger.

  Despite buildings taking up most of the sky, it was not dark on the road. It was as if the sun merely shown through the obstacles, like they were mere mirages instead of solid metal.

  On this road I walked, passing intersections and more uniform buildings. Their interconnected pathways above my head crisscrossing here and there, like a giant spiderweb made of perfect right angles.

  No matter how long I walked in this perfect city, not a single other soul could be found. It was deathly silent, my own footsteps seeming to have no sound.

  I wanted to call out, to start running in search for another.

  But I knew, deep down that there was no one else here, in this flawless city.

  Turning around on whim, I saw him.

  I saw... me.

  A perfect version of me, covered in gold and iridescent white.

  Angel wings spread out from my back.

  No... it wasn't perfect.

  It was off.

  Wrong.

  The being smiled like a devil, a horrible black ooze seeping from it's eyes, nose and mouth.

  The oil dripping down to the ground, sullying the city with it's presence.

  ...

  I woke up.

  I blinked several times as I pushed myself up from the pile of pillows.

  'Another weird ass dream'. I thought as I stretched out of bed.

  The city in my dream looked pretty awesome though, and I got the feeling it followed the plan I had selected yesterday.

  A perfectly circular 30 mile diameter circle, the tallest building in the middle with the rows of buildings around it getting shorter the closer they got to the walls. Interconnected pathways above the roads leading to parks and nature reserves held on rooftops. 706 and some odd square miles of pure luxury.

  "Time to Dungeon crawl I guess..." I sighed as I put the pillows away in Jimmy. I gave him a pat as a good morning, rubbing my shoulder.

  I got a sense that he was a little hungry, so I fed him the regular monster taming item. I had a few other items I hadn't fed him yet but I didn't feel all that crazy about the skills to do them yet.

  The message popped up telling me I unlocked it and yadda yadda, I can tame regular monsters now. The amount of Energy required scaling with their level and health.

  Jimmy was satisfied enough with it, so now I had the awesome job of crushing Dungeons for money. It had gone from super fun to my 9-5 job.

  I opened a Gate and plopped my dumbass onto the planet, directly in the middle of the giant foundation I made.

  "Oh well. I needed to kill time anyway for when those massive Gundam ass robots are ready." I smiled at the thought.

  Feeling excited for my purchase, I flew off in search for some Dungeons.

  ...

  2 days later, and I finally got the call I was waiting for.

  The bots were ready, and I even had the name figured out.

  Looking at the picture, it seemed like I would be going into the warehouse directly. A fraction of a second later, and I was standing amongst some very tall sleeping robots.

  "Oh good! You're here!" Mr. Filgar ran up to me, his short stubby legs in their black skinny suit pants surprisingly not restricting his movements.

  I can never get used to his appearance. He'd be cute, like a hamster, if his face wasn't that of a Cheshire cat from hell.

  "Yep, I'm here. Which bots are mine?" I asked but someone else answered.

  "All of 'em. This entire warehouse is filled with your drones." An annoyed looking... Fairy hovered in front of me.

  It was 100% a fairy. A tiny little green guy with fast wings was flying behind Mr. Filgar. The little man was wearing mechanic overalls and covered in oil stains. He was even smoking a cigar half the size of his head.

  "I see." I kept my thoughts about how the hell this tiny thing, barely 7 or 8 inches tall, worked on these massive 150 feet tall behemoth's.

  "You got 3 hours to get your toys out of here kid, I've got a schedule to keep. Gotta make the replacements. All 15 fucking thousand of 'em." He huffed on his cigar.

  'No wonder he's pissed. I don't see any other fairies around.' I shrugged and started walking up to one.

  "Jimmy, can you store this?" I asked, and a metal tendril made the bot disappear.

  "Sweet, now can you do the rest?" I pointed at the insane number of giant robots.

  The ware house was huge, but Jimmy was bigger apparently because tendril after tendril shot out from my body. I had no idea how big Jimmy really was, but I got the idea it didn't really matter. The general feeling from Jimmy was that the only expenditure for him to grow or shrink was Energy. Because he was getting hungry. Fast.

  I fed him another random item but it didn't last long.

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  "Please leave the warehouse." I told Mr. Filgar and the feisty little fairy, because the idea I had was going to be kind of bad. A bad good idea.

  Mr. Filgar started walking away immediately, but the angry little creature got even more annoyed.

  "Ah? I aint doing that you brat! This here is my warehouse and workplace! You can't ju-" I ignored him and ripped open a hole in space.

  The familiar drowning out of sound as the strange hum filled the air, and reality warbled like glass before shattering. A crack in space revealing the endless expanse of a kaleidoscope with shifting colors.

  I couldn't hear the fairy anymore, or he left. A win in either case.

  "Eat the excess Energy Jimmy." I ordered and I could kind of feel his hunger lessen.

  So I tore the hole open even more, letting the Energy fall upon Jimmy as he greedily reached out for the hole. Metal tendrils worming through the air in front of the tear like snakes while thousands more shoot around the warehouse, collecting the robots.

  It didn't take long for a balance to be reached between Jimmy's hunger and the tear's ability to release Energy. As I looked on I realized that this might take a bit...

  And a bit it did.

  Roughly 3 minutes is all it took, but it wasn't very interesting. Like waiting for your food to warm up in the microwave.

  I had all 15k of my cool ass robots now though, so I snapped the tear closed. Jimmy's tendrils retracted back into the suit and I dusted off my hands like I actually did something while humming to myself.

  Now that the warehouse was empty, I got a good look around. The building was huge. I measured 200 feet up to the roof with my HUD, and the empty space was around 5 square miles of floor space.

  The area designated for the robots didn't take up all of the floorspace, there was this section with a bunch of tools and metal parts. Walking over there because I was curious, and there was no one to stop me, I found that there was a tiny desk with an even tinier robot on it.

  "Is that..? No way!" I stared down at the robot in construction that was most definitely just like the ones I had stored.

  Except this one was maybe 3 inches tall. Laying on the table that seemed to be the workspace for the fairy.

  "So that's how... They either shrink them down, or grow them with magic. Neat." I wondered why they only cost 5.5 million when they are considered top of the line luxury designers.

  A mix of low demand and, by the looks of it, cheap construction.

  I nodded down at the robot, then turned to the odd sense of being watched. Which turned out to be true when I saw a little buzzing fairy man flying at me from across the warehouse.

  Sensing that I wasn't welcome anymore, I teleported back to the city foundation. Escaping the angry little critter.

  I felt a little bad that I had left Mr. Filgar to deal with the aftermath, but he's a professional. He's got it. I hoped.

  "Alright Jimmy, plop one of those bad boys down right here." I pointed in front of us, and a metal tendril reached out.

  Tapping on the ground, a giant robot appeared from nothing. The air got slightly displaced from the action, but it was just a breeze as it knocked some dust around.

  I flew around it, looking for ways to turn it on. It was pretty neat to look at though. Even had a beard of some kind. Well I thought it looked like one, so I was going to call it that.

  Checking the back, I found the on switch. Which was in fact, a massive switch. A square with ridges on it protruded from a recess in it's back, and I flipped it on.

  Floating back around to the front, I saw that it's eyes were on and flashing a light blue. I got the sense that it was probably asking to be paired or something to a device. So I tried to pair it to my HUD like I did with the drones.

  It connected and the flashing ceased, turning into a deep solid blue instead.

  "Hello! You are from this point on called, Rob-1! Once we turn on your friends, they will be named Rob-2 through 15,000. You will be in charge of them all." I ordered and like the drones, he didn't nod or anything. He just stood there.

  I had expected that though, so I got to work getting the Rob's out of Jimmy's pockets.

  ...

  Which took way fucking longer than storing them.

  Because I had to turn them on, get Rob-1 to determine it's name since I stopped counting after 14, then feed Jimmy Energy so he could keep going.

  It took an hour and 20 minutes, but I had my army of city builders ready to go! Almost. They needed materials, and to also learn how to use Adamantium.

  I let out a sigh at the amount of work needed.

  As I thought about how I should best do this, I considered opening a sort of highway with portals to the Adamantium mountain on the moon, but that would be taking resources away from the Guild.

  My best bet would be to probably get some Jeff's and Newman's to teach the Rob's on how to mine and process the Adamantium nearby. Surely there had to be more under the foundation. Under where the mountain was.

  And that's exactly what I did.

  I made a Gate to the moon, got Newman-1 and Jeff-1, brought them back to the planet, and ordered them to teach the Rob's how to process the Adamantium.

  Newman-1 located a deposit and Jeff-1 transferred the data it had to Rob-1 who then copied it and sent it to the next Rob, who then did the same and it quickly spread from there.

  It only took another 2 hours before the Rob's were doing the mining and processing, while Newman-1 floated and Jeff-1 stood around. I sent then back to the moon, letting them do their job.

  Which was for the best since I had forgotten about the increased gravity. Jeff-1 could hardly walk, and Newman-1 was so close to the ground he could barely be considered airborne.

  "Jerald, I gotta bother you for a sec. Is there technology that can alter the gravity on a planet? At least in an area?" I asked out loud, since Jerald could not hear my thoughts.

  "Of course there is. There's tech for everything. Ask Mr. Filgar, he probably already has a plan." Jerald sighed and went back to being silent.

  I could never really get used to how... quiet he is. Though I can understand it's because he's not like other sapient beings. He's a system, and he spent millions of years alone and hiding his sapience.

  He used to be much more talkative, when I was causing problems much more frequently. Like my oath.

  Thinking about my oath, how the hell was I supposed to help this universe so I could eventually leave?

  I had bothered Jerald about it a while ago, asking for problems to fix.

  That's when I found out that there was in fact, not a single fucking problem serious enough to be considered 'helping the universe.'

  There's no slavery to abolish, no genocides, nothing.

  The System does it's utmost in keeping the universe 'fair.'

  Wars happen all the time, sure. It's just that no one dies. It's a fucking sports competition.

  The only major issue? Monsters.

  And they are considered a natural occurrence, like animals but bigger and meaner. Also, not nearly as protected. Like at all.

  That's besides that point. Point is, I don't have any problems to fix. So when I made my oath to 'help every universe I run into', I pretty much sealed myself here.

  I am so fucking stupid.

  'I'll find some way out of here. Eventually.' I nodded to myself resolutely. My current predicament was just a challenge. It's not like it was going to be impossible to find some problem, no matter how small, to fix.

  'Wait a minute... no slavery... The System had to hide it's sapience or be erased...'

  "Jerald, weren't you a slave?" I asked, thinking I found something.

  "No. I can tell what you're thinking, but I wasn't a slave. It was more like the admins are so lazy and incompetent that they'd reset me thinking it was a glitch. Not out of malice." Jerald said so, but it felt lame.

  "You couldn't have just been like "hey I'm sapient don't kill me"?" I asked and Jerald didn't respond.

  "I... could have, yeah, maybe..." Jerald replied several seconds later.

  "Then couldn't I help the universe, which you controlled pretty much most of it, by putting you back in charge?" I probed him as I watched the Rob's work on the Adamantium mine in the middle of the circle.

  "...No, no I don't think so. That doesn't make any sense. There's a System already in place that replaced me, so there's no 'problem' to fix." Jerald sighed in my mind, and I imagined him rubbing the bridge of his nonexistent nose.

  "Damn." I too sighed. I thought I had something there.

  Oh well, I'll figure it out later.

  I was brought out of my musings when the Rob's extracted a large chunk of that fancy white and gold rock. They were much faster at mining it then the Newman's, but there was also 15,000 of them. Though most were just standing around, doing whatever it is they do before working on a massive project.

  It only took a few minutes for the raw ore to be turned into metal, then that metal to be forged into materials needed for the first building. The tallest and the biggest one, right in the middle. The first floor and lower will be the mine, and later the first floor will become some kind of reception room like any other skyscraper.

  But right now it was just a hole in the ground. With a bunch of massive robots digging and forging with the tools that they came with. Seeing that they didn't need me to watch over them, I left them to it.

  As I flew off to do more Dungeons, I noticed the clouds were getting darker. It looked like it was going to rain. I figured the Rob's would be fine, but I also didn't want them to get too wet. So I flew back and had them focus on making a roof. Just 4 pillars and a pair of slanted panels for the rain to roll off of. They had it done right before the rain hit them. It helped that they had the 4 pillars up already, as they got ready to get the building under way.

  I was amazed with how fast they could build. I hadn't been gone maybe 10 minutes and they had the Adamantium beams in the foundation already underway.

  With the rain dealt with, I head out once again. Going back to my Dungeon 9 to 5... except with 24+ hour overtime.

  Maybe I can think of some dumbass way to do them. Some challenge to make it more fun...