Once the miner is done digging, I view the room, and begin to contemplate. Perfect. I begin to make the burrow for the mice, using mana this time. How are Mice burrows usually… aren’t they usually just little holes on the ground? Well that won’t work because I want a lot of them. Maybe I make an ant colony style thing for them to live in? But then it will be difficult to access them for my animals…. Nah doesn’t matter I’ll make it ant colony style and just order them to leave before I kill them.

I start working on the burrow for the mice, this time using my own energy instead of making the miner do it. Compared to the last time I had to dig something using my own mana, this is a lot easier. Maybe due to me growing stronger or my mana more potent?

Once I’m done building the burrow for the mice I guide the mice to their new home where they get comfortable. I quickly order them to breed so my stock of cattle can expand.

I quickly return my attention to the more central location of my lair. Now that I’ve built a second room, I should probably move back their.

Move me to the back room.

I command Lychee to push me to the back room, where I will be safer from intruders. Which he quickly and dutifully does, using the flat part of his hands to push me along towards the back of the cave.

I turn to my miner questioningly. What should you do now? I guess I could just make you dig a really long tunnel? Eh, why not.

Dig a tunnel west until I tell you to stop.

Now I just have to wait until my miner hits something fun, or my mice finish breeding, and give birth.

10 days later

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My mice gave birth yesterday. It seems I intended for my mice to be the same as regular mice, but as they sit in the mana rich environment of my lair, they must be changing. They gave birth to ten pups, which I don't know if that is a lot compared to other mice, but it feels like a lot. The mice are hairless, and squirming little brats, but when they were born in my Lair they seemed to automatically become one of my minions. They are growing exceptionally fast, one of them has already figured out how to walk, and others are already growing hair. I think it's because of the exceptionally mana rich environment they are in. I started feeding mana into one specifically, and it quickly became the size of a full grown mouse, with thick steel gray fur.

*Crunch-S-Sliirk* A wet chopping sound resounds throughout the cave. A visceral slurping. The sound of death. *Sluuuurp* Well that's creepy as hell. I peer throughout the cave. The sound seems to be coming from the tunnel my miner was digging. I don't know what I'm freaking out about, I can literally just go look. I pop into the scene to find my little miner dead. His body being dissected, and eaten by a giant fucking raccoon. Guts strewn across the tunnel, blood soaking the earth, his skull split open, like a watermelon dropped from a height. His hands are chipped, and the raccoon is bleeding from its arm where it looks like my miner tried to fight back. But… Little buddy didn't stand a chance.

I grimace at the bloody sight. I don't know what my miner broke into but whatever it is, it is dangerous, and I cant force my sight to go in it. The raccoon does the opposite of what i want it to do, in that its starts heading deeper into the cave, where I am hiding. Well that sucks.

Julia, Heracles, and Lychee, go into the tunnel, and defend me.

My snakes glance up from their burrow where they sleep together. They slowly begin to slither in the direction of the tunnel, Lychee following close behind. I also direct the large steel gray mouse to follow at the back of the line. Heracles, and Julia slither side by side at the front of the group, while Lychee is right behind them, and behind Lychee is the mouse. They slowly crawl along the very long tunnel, growing closer to the raccoon. The mouse at the back of the line, shakes in fear, barely just born, and already sacrificing his life for his Dungeon.

My minions strive forward, and while they travel, I formulate the plan for how they will attack. My two Snakes go along the sides of the tunnels, and surround the raccoon. Lychee will immediately engage, with the goal of cutting off the raccoon's head. The Mouse will only engage if Lychee is defeated. All the while Julia, and Heracles should be pumping fire into its sides.

This will be fun. I wonder how Lychee will grow if he kills out. My snakes grow by consuming a piece of their mana, which causes their body to grow, but Lychee's body is a rock. So, if he kills something, and eats a piece of his mana, how will he grow stronger? I mean technically his body is a bunch of Lichen attached to a rock, so will the Lichen grow, and be able to attach itself to bigger rocks? Will he abandon his current rock? Will he grow more intelligent? Will he grow stronger so he can attach to more durable rocks? I just don't know, all of this is a question.

*Click* the raccoons fingers clatter off a rock. The two forces meet, face to face. The raccoon, simply sits, and stairs, in silence, surprise.

*HISSSS* The raccoon starts screaming immediately.

Oh, well, I guess we're fighting now.