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I quickly send Gairy on his way, and begin working on the mobs for this floor. I finally have a place to use snakes, and Oh boy do I use them, I pump them up with mana of various types, and release them throughout the little landscape.

The air snakes are weird, because they have venom that is very painful, but not deadly, but the most dangerous thing about them is that they have wings. Imagine that. A flock of snakes flying overhead.

The fire snakes came out pretty much the same as Heracles, pumping heat, and flame into their opponents.

I don't know what happened with the stone snakes, because they became huge, like, bodybuilders' biceps thick, and about 40 feet long. They weren't actually venomous but they constricted, and were strong enough to squeeze a cultivator to death.

The water snakes did not like this environment at all, and kind of just died without any large bodies of water to live in.

The dark, and light snakes, were the weirdest. The dark snake had two super dangerous effects, it was completely invisible in the darkness, so that would be very useful during the night time. On the note of night time I realized I only put day, and night cycles on the evolution floors, so I fixed that post haste. Also their venom was very deadly, and would cause the flesh to literally rot wherever it spread.

The light snakes didn't change at all, but their venom could heal. This wasn't very useful as they weren't cooperating much on this floor so I just got rid of it, but I saved it for later.

Now the air snakes were not very strong, so I made a lot of them, and they lived in flocks, each one was only about F-9. The stone snakes on the other hand were low C ranked, and quite the threat. The fire snakes were right in the middle at high D rank, and the dark snakes were also technically low C rank, but I think I might need to remove them, as they are definitely stronger.

Finally to begin working on the boss. To honour Heracles, I make him the boss of this floor. I basically over the course of a couple days or so I pump more, and more fire mana into Heracles slowly. I also add in some earth mana.

In the end, Heracles grew to be nearly 40 feet long as well, and Mid C rank. His scales are spaced slightly farther apart, and in between each one is a little vein of fire. Pushing up against him heats whatever its touching, and can burn it, or just heat it up incredibly fast.

For the boss room, I make it a smaller copy of the main room, but the entire thing is burning, and Heracles is rampaging through it.

To set all that up to work properly, I make it so that the entrance into the floor closes after every fight, so that the pixies I have set up, have time to regrow all the vegetation, and revive Heracles if he dies.

Once all this is done. I release it to the public, and begin working on the evolution floor.

For the evolution floor I chilled things out a lot. First I add some Elk, and Deer, than I take the horse, and change it until I have something eerily similar to a Bison, I add some wild dogs, I take some gophers, and change them to something more similar to prairie dogs, I also add some large predatory birds.

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Once it's all done I carve a tunnel from there to the goblin village, on the fifth floor, and they slowly start flooding in.

Also using any remaining power I have left, I actually expand the seventh floor evolution floor, so that everything has more space to expand. The rats, and the moles don't really notice it other than the grinding of stone slowly shifting, but the goblins, totally notice it.

It's kind of funny because they hoot, and holler, and dance back and forth while watching the wall slowly slide away, revealing more terrain for them to conquer, and explore.

I watch as the goblins on the fifth floor, slowly light the tunnel with torches, and creep through. A small goblin war party of 30 or so. They slowly take step after step, sliding deeper, and deeper into the tunnel, until they spot light on the other end, and they poke their little green heads through.

The first goblin steps through, and he spins around waving his spear above his head, while hooting, and hollering in the joy. The other goblins follow close behind, and do the same. They all dance, and quickly begin to jog back down the tunnel towards their village. They sprint through the tunnel, their bodies faintly illuminated by the torches before they break through into their village, almost every inch of space consumed by their expanding village, the majority of them are starving as they are running out of food, and only have small farms scattered throughout.

They quickly begin gathering space, and rations, and they drop back into the tunnel, and continue their journey into my depths, before breaking back into the prairie area, to the fading dusk of my worlds.

They drop camp, and begin to sleep. The next morning they wake excited, and a hunting party disappears into the tall grasses looking for something to hunt.

Actually looking down on this I think it's too safe. They will never grow stronger without opposition, so I also drop in 10 or so earth snakes, and 5 or so darkness snakes. This way, if they are left to breed for too long, they will grow exceedingly strong, and may even drive them out, but if they are managed they will be fine. I even add a flock of 30 or so air snakes way off. Those will be a pain, but will hopefully force them to be careful.

All of a sudden I feel an explosion on my seventh Evolution floor. It's so strong, it's caved in several tunnels.

My attention flies to that floor, to find Talon pinned in a corner, while two of his most trusted enforcers approach him. Their spears held high, and their shields held close. The battle train had exploded while they marched. It had wiped out most of the forces, and these two opportunistic rats had seen their chance. They were going to kill Talon, and become the new Boss. Talon waves his knife ahead of him, in panic, and he clutches his staff close in his left hand.

A pop rings throughout the tunnel, and Talon's ears begin to bleed, but a smile spreads on his face anyway. The right most enforcer falls over dead. His throat a fountain of blood.

“No one, outsmarts-outsmarts Talon, yes.”

He drops the small handheld musket he had beneath his cloak, and turns to his other enforcer.

The other enforcer, who quakes but snarls, knowing there is surely no way Talon can beat him.

He has no such intent though, and he turns, and sprints away. He runs forward, approaching the corpses of his fallen soldiers, and he raises a musket to his chest. He rapidly packs the dangerous powder into his weapon, as the pitter patter of his betrayers feet approaches slowly. He quickly drops the copper ball in as well, packing it even tighter. He pulls back the hammer, and levels his weapon at his opponent, who peeks through the dust and his eyes grow wide as his stupid under-developed brain remembers the existence of said weapons.

POP the bang echoes throughout the tunnel. The betrayers' brains coat the ground, and his corpse collapses backwards, pulled by the weighty lead laden arms of gravity.

Talon chuckles, and tosses his weapon to the ground. "Need to arm-claw myself better, yes! So no more betrayals can scratch-pierce me again, no! Never again!"

I chuckle as his words echo throughout the cavern.