I've recreated more copper raccoons. Same absurd size, same copper armor, and veins. I've recreated the copper raccoons 4 more times, so now I have a squad of five copper raccoons. I need a new name for them as a species. Copper Raccoons is a mouthful, so i'm going to go with Cancuns. Like kind of a mix of copper, and raccoons, but also cocoons already exist so CANCUN'S! Are you proud of me? I chuckle.

Now that I have a stronger force I need to go drive off my enemy.

You know, I've really learned something from my enemies' mistakes. When facing other dungeons; overkill, is not overkill, because if you fail during an invasion then your opponent will drastically grow in strength.

I smile. Time to play with the opossum…

I get to work on making the blueprint for my opossum. First I make it larger. This is difficult to do without other meat to use, as fodder so it can grow easier. So, I sent out two of my Cancuns, as well as my group of +sized mice.

Bring me meat. Dead or Alive.

I return my attention to the opossum. The main thing I did was make it larger, and far more muscled. I use mostly fast twitch muscle, this thing is going to be a sprinter, and it's going to be fast. I reinforce, and lengthen its teeth, and claws with copper. Its teeth simply have copper plating, but its claws actually have copper mixed into the claw reinforcing it, and lengthening it. The next thing I do is attempt to make it more intelligent. I don't really know how to do this, because I've never really studied the brain, so I basically just make the whole thing bigger to fit the much larger animal. Once it's done it will be almost 3 feet long. Too big to really fit in my tunnels.

I frown, and turn my attention to my miner.

Expand the tunnels. Make them far wider. I also want you to expand the tunnel to the enemy. I will deploy a Cancun, to guard you.

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I swiftly return my attention to the blueprint of the SUPER OPOSSUM… What else should I give this thang? Thicker skin, and fur? Yeah, why not, make it more resistant to slashing, and stabbing. I just grab its skin, and basically make magical copies of them, and layer them over each other until it is twice as thick as before. I smile. Perfect.

I finally begin altering its mind. I allow it to retain basic functions, such as reproduction, and eating, I also imbue it with the knowledge that it is a predator, and can hunt, and kill as it likes.

When imbuing it with mana to increase power, or give special functions, I imbue with dark mana. I haven't really worked with it in the past, so I'm curious what will happen. I smile. As i pump it full of dark mana.

*Clunk* I blink in surprise. Oh. I'm out of mana. That's no good. I guess I can wait for my hunters to return. I smile, and turn my attention to my regular mice. Both of the females were pregnant last time I checked. I smile, and when I open my eyes, and view, a burrow filled with 15 baby mice. Both of the female mice gave birth, one gave birth to nine cute little mice pups, and the second gave birth to six. fourteen of them look like strong healthy mice pups, one of them looks rather sickly, and weak, it appears that in total 18 pups were born but 3 of them died shortly after birth. Well, that's no bueno. I shrug, what are you going to do.

I turn my attention to my miner, and find him on break eating blackberries, from the vines growing abundantly through my lair. The Cancun I assigned to guard him is also eating. The hunters I sent out just kept coming back with more dead things. There is a large pile of bodies in the front room of the cave, in various states of being eaten, or damaged. None of them died in my cave, though, so I didn't get any of the mana that comes with it. But while my attention was elsewhere it was a good food source for my carnivorous animals.

I shrug, and try to use the bodies to fill out the blueprint of the opossum before realizing. Ope. I need mana to fill it out as well. Of which I have none. I can either have my hunters bring back living things, which will be difficult, and slow, or I can have my hunters only feed themselves, and let the pile of corpses draw in some hungry guests. Which will be slow, but easy.

I think I'll do the latter.