I needed to check out the shop before I did anything else. The shop would help me before setting my creatures out.

Shop! I said, and a light golden screen came up. At the top left of the panel, I saw my dungeon points that I already owned. The center of the panel was a list of categories. Each category had a drop-down arrow to expand what items I could see.

At the moment, browsing skills is all I’m doing till something attracts my attention. Opening the tab for skills, I thought that if I picked out a superb skill, it would always help and be active.

There was a teleportation skill that had a cooldown of 30 days. So, I could teleport the dungeon to an unfamiliar area for one day;When the day was over, I would return to my original site. It was nice, but I wasn’t rushing to explore another area when I didn’t know what was happening outside. I don't need this skill right now so I'll get another one.

There was another skill called The Arena of Evolution. By summoning a permanent arena where my creatures could battle each other, they would have a higher chance of getting new skills and evolving. This skill cost 20 dungeon points, but it was nice to know one was here.

I’d have to put it on hold. I love the evolutions of my creatures, but I don’t have an extensive selection of beasts to spend my dungeon points on this. It may be slow, but if my creatures can train in the rooms, perhaps they can unlock of more evolutions, but not as needed.

I may get all the skills I need in the future. All of them were excellent. On the downside, they weren’t giving me a lightbulb moment. For now, I would have to leave them alone can keep searching.

I have to save enough points for that extra skill to name my other beasts that A.V.A mentioned. That skill would be the second skill I would get unless something changed.

I kept scrolling, and skill caught my eyes. It was a passive skill called memory absorption, where if a living, intelligent creature came inside the dungeon and died, I could have its memory. I liked this skill because I could pass on memories to my bosses or named creatures, and they could improve in skills.

The price was my total of 16 points. I have a plan that will help me with most of my problems. I said buy and saw that my point balance went down to 0.

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[Ding!] The Host has bought a new skill from the Dungeon Shop. In addition, the Host’s skill list has been updated.

“Can the creatures survive outside the dungeon?” I questioned.

“Although the beasts won’t disintegrate as soon as they leave the dungeon, they won’t last more than a day. This is because if a dungeon-born creature walks out, they need to survive on our ambient Qi, which means they would need to come back; also, if our creatures go outside and they happen to die, the Qi that we had invested would not come back to us.” A.V.A expressed.

Hmmm, so they should be okay for a couple of minutes. After that, I could gradually find out the maximum time they could stay outside by sacrificing my weaker creatures like my Katydids.

I need to ensure everything is in order before more enemies come, and I suspect they will come soon. There was no way that the ambient Qi escaping would not go unnoticed by more intelligent beings that could feel the changes in the influx of pure Qi. Time to move the core to a unique room.

I picture a place for the core to go in the new that I was still working on; I would call it the left-wing of the crossway. So now my body’s core disappeared from the second room that was done and appeared where I wanted it to be in the unused space, which was at the center of the room again.

I mentally called up all my creatures for a meeting in my new core room. Tiānwáng was in front of all the group when they arrived. So I opened up my connection with everyone.

Some of you will go out of our home. Your mission is to look around and bring back any materials and creatures that I don’t have. Then you all are to go into groups and escape back here. If you encounter any fight, you Cannot win if you think your group can win, capture the being involved, alive or dead, and bring it back. Do not stay out for more than 10 minutes.

I got them into groups, and they would be taking turns rotating on exploring the new world that we arrived at. I still want to set up a perimeter for defense, just in case.

Each group will have one of each creature, making about five groups in all, with a few extras that will only be staying as permanent defenders like Tiānwáng. The leader of each group will be one of my Guardian Monkeys. Due to them having a beast core, they would have the intelligence to come back, unlike my other creations.

My goal will be first to finish up this room, the crossway, and the other three rooms connected. Then, I would be adding more traps periodically as I get more blueprints unlocked in the next step.

Finally, I would like to decorate the first floor more before moving onto the second floor. I have an idea for my theme, but I want to see my creatures’ options get me first.

While one group is out, I would have my creatures battle each other to gain more fighting experiences and find a battle path suitable for each one.