The dungeon core whistles in appreciation. Let's workshop that wolf amalgam, because, while fun, it kind of tears itself apart. Instead let's take a copy of the bear, it had in the Evolution Tundra. Lets increase strength by a ton, and give it a fun affinity to the cold. Its room was large, but not huge, about the size of the first floor, and it was just a small, snowy, garden, large snow drifts cover the entire room, and three large evergreens lay scattered throughout the room. The snow drifts will make this difficult for people, because of mobility, but if they prepare at all, and bring some cheap snow shoes they'll be fine, or if they have an affinity, and a way to get around it.

The bear ended up looking large even for a brown bear, as well as having thick fur that worked like armor, and being in a biome that benefits it, and hurts others. It's already Mid C-ranked but mixed with the biome, and I don't think I can justify throwing this down already. Fuck. Maybe… Another Gobbo? I leave the small snow biome, and start working on the boss. It's just a gobbo but I infuse its body with cold mana. This turns the Gobbos skin an icy glacier blue, and its eyes a subtle gray. For vibes I gave it a loincloth made of wolf fur, and a hoodie that covers his shoulder, and head. The hood has the head of a wolf on it giving him absolute vibe points.

I dropped him into the room, and he was low to mid C-ranked which is what I was aiming for. He seemed to enjoy climbing the trees, or laying in the really deep snow drifts, and just sleeping. For weapons he had a staff to channel mana, and a knife. I had an idea to give him an ability to get stronger mid fight by using the knife to kill people. But to be honest… I don't have even a clue on how I would do that. So instead I just left him with his cold magic, and his knife.

Finally I open this room up to the public, and move my crystal room all the way to the back of the new boss room.

People immediately started challenging the new floor, and it was so fun to watch their reactions to the big wide open floor. Most people just gawked, with their mouths wide open, and then turned, and ran off, but a couple of people dove headfirst into the snow, and just started moving on with it.

Eli

“Where did I put the fucking heart!” Alistair stomps around the giant corpse on the floor looking for the pickled heart in a jar. The corpse is nearly ten feet tall, and needs a large heart to support that body. Eli recalls Alistair lecturing him on the difference between an anatomical amalgam, and a pure amalgam.

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“An anatomical amalgam is a body of some sort that actually has all the necessary bits. A heart, lungs, muscles, and the like. These are far cheaper, and much better in the long term, because, all you need to do is direct their movement in place of their brain, and keep their heart pumping with your mana. The hard part is actually making all their bits, and connecting them properly. A pure amalgam is an amalgam that does not have all the necessary bits, and as so your mana is substituting for all those necessary bits. A zombie, or a skeleton could sort of be classified as a pure amalgam, but they are in a different category from pure carnimancy. But that's why we are going to be making anatomical amalgams, they are far more mana efficient in the long run, if requiring more know-how, and work in the moment.” Alistair lectured like this for hours talking about any number of things.

But anyway they had spent the last week working on making a team of amalgams to pull the monstrously large carts that Alistair had commissioned. The other problem is they also need to be able to perform guard duty, because the Orcs certainly won't let anything through that they could eat, or that would be worth any value.

Alistair's solution was to make something akin to a giant meaty gorilla as opposed to walking on two legs, or really walking on four, it instead lumbered around like an orangutan, or gorilla. On four legs but easily able to stand up on two, and still use those arms. The front arms have 2 joints instead of the one in human arms, being the elbow. This gave it a greater range of motion. Even this wasn't enough so Alistair gave it another pair of arms jutting from the rib cage of this one. That was the difficult part as it needed to connect with something. Instead we just supplemented it with more mana. Where the hands would be replaced by heavy meat hooks. So those arms could be pulled back, and used to pull the wagons, or they could be pulled forward, and used as combat implements. The whole thing was nearly ten feet tall, and rippling with muscles pulled straight from Orcs, or bought from butchers around the city from dead bulls.

When the first wagon that Alistair had specialty built was done, all Eli could do was drop his jaw to the floor in awe. Each one was nearly the size of a house. They barely fit through the street, and use monstrous bronze, and steel wheels with studs throughout to give it more traction. One of the huge wagons required two of his huge Amalgams to pull it. But thats exactly what they did, and within a month or so we were almost done packing our gear up into our two way over sized wagons. We only need one more Gorilla amalgam, and we will be done. So… Cut back to the start where Alistairs running around looking for a heart.