Gairy walks forward, into the main area of my dungeon, and wrinkles his nose.

“This is horrible. Do you never get any Dungeon divers?”

I frown. “No.”

He shakes his head, and his eyes get wide. “Boy are you lucky to have me. Dungeons get energy by killing things inside their domain. You get things to come inside your domain, by A. having a mana rich environment for them to soak up mana, and get stronger. B. By tying rewards inside the blueprints of your monsters. Get it? Once you've found something in your dungeon you can recreate it, sorta. You can transmute other materials to make it. You can turn wood into gold but wood has less mass than wood, so you would need a lot of wood to make a bar of gold.”

I shake my head, as my mind reels with all the information being pumped into it. “Slow dow-”

Now because of this, you want A, your dungeon to be pretty, and B you want your dungeon to be FAIR. If a newbie walks into the first floor, and finds some super overpowered fuck, guess what, they are going to assume you are a Failed Dungeon,” He puts this one in air quotes, “And destroy you.”

I shudder.

“So either you need to start expanding FAST, because you are just about big enough for humans to discover you, or you need to move into the mineshaft.”

I shudder at the thought. “I'll expand this one” I quickly begin the process of making a blueprint for a miner, and in no time flat, I have a fleet of miners, expanding my front cave.

Gairy nods. “With how small you are right now, you can have one main, big room, with a boss room, at the end, or a couple smaller rooms, with a boss room at the end.”

I imaginary shrug. “Big room, I guess.”

While my miners continue to dig, I converse with Gairy. “So, I don't really like just the empty stone room, do you think I could give it nature vibes? How would I do that, and how would I get light in here?”

Gairy nods his head at me, “Well, you can make stones that mimic the sun, by simply channeling light mana into a rock.” Gairy picks up a rock, and it slowly begins to glow.

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I nod, and recreate his demonstration, and am left with a big glowing rock, which I embed in the ceiling. “Gairy, take a couple Cancuns, and go out, and gather some plants, and mushrooms.”

Gairy nods, and takes a squad of 4 Cancuns, to start searching for plants for my cave.

I turn my attention back to my dungeon, and begin working on the boss room. The boss room is perfectly circular, and the walls have intricate designs showing plants, and humans, and animals fighting. The floors are plain enough, but do have just some random squiggly line for decoration, and the ceiling mirrors the floor. The room is about 12 feet in diameter. This room is for Lychee. I would have put someone like Megs, but I think she is too powerful for the first floor, and so will start making a second floor.

On the note of difficulty, I don't know what to do about the regular mobs for the first, and second floor. I think for now, I'm going to just put a couple Cancuns on the first floor that will act independently, and on the second floor, I will put Cancun's that work as a team. As well as Megs for the boss. I don't know what to do, about Heracles, and Julia. I feel they might be a little under powered for this so far. So I don't know yet. For now, I'll just relocate their base to the old base of that other dungeon core. I smile, lean back, and enjoy the site of my work.

Gairy reenters the boss with an assortment of mushrooms, grasses, and other plants, which I plant amidst the blackberry vines growing up the walls, all over my base. I smile. My Dungeon is so pretty.

Gairy starts speaking. “So master, when people kill your mobs, they will get a portion of their mana, and increase in strength, but, you don't want to have to manually recreate them every time. That's why I'm going to teach you how to make wisps.”

I tilt my imaginary head. “Ok. Go on.”

Gairy continues, “A wisp is basically just a mana construct you imbue spells on, and are common in dungeons. You can imbue them with the blueprint of whatever creature they will make, and when one of those creatures dies, they will go over, recreate their body, and put their soul right back in. You do have to refill them with mana every once in a while though. ”

I nod my head, “So won't dungeoneers just attack my wisp?”

“No, they won't, because well, they can't see them.”

I nod, “Ok, explain how they are made.”

“Basically really similarly to make any other mob, you make the shape of them, which can just be a little ball, than you pump them full of a ridiculous amount of mana, they do need a soul, which you can alter to just keep recreating Cancuns, when they die, and you can instinctively give them the knowledge of the blueprint you want them to make, and remember to give them a blueprint with some rewards inside of it, as well as a reservoir of rewards for them to choose from.”

I nod along, and begin the process of making a Wisp, for making more Cancuns. It takes me a while, and to be honest, I don't understand the whole thing, but once I'm done, I've got a little guy, floating around, who will… Hopefully make other Cancuns!

“Yippeeeeeeeeeee!”

Gairy covers his ears, and sighs.