*HISSSS* Heracles immediately slides forward, and strikes at the raccoons side, and Julia follows close behind. Lychee steps forward, and swings his right hand. The raccoon quickly jumps backwards dodging away from Lychee's swing.

*Fff-chunk* Lychees swing digs into the side of the cave, and showers everyone with dirt. The mouse at the back of the lineup screams in fear, and scurries backwards shortly.

*Hiss, shlunk* Heracles buries his fangs deep into the flesh of The raccoon's right legs, the sizzling of the raccoon's flesh, and the smoke rising from the legs affirms the pain the raccoon’s feeling. The raccoon screeches in pain, and tuns to Heracles - *SCHLUNK* - a swing from Lychee buries itself into the side of the raccoon's head, killing it instantly.

Uuugh…. The mana rampages through my body causing my mind to convulse in a mind breaking pleasure high, power feels sooo good.

The mouse didn't even get to fight. Maybe we venture onward? Ok, ok just for a little bit, they can keep going. I smile, and guide my minions forward, they head towards where my miner broke through into another place. As my minions get closer I notice. Why can't I see in there? I push my mana against it, but instead of gaining any traction I just bounce off.

Enter the cave, kill anything you can, and come back, with information.

While my minions can't communicate with me, I can look inside their minds, and memories.

My minions venture forward into the darkness, without my guidance anymore, following the structure I originally had for them. Snakes up front, Lychee behind, and the mouse at the very back.

I smile, and turn my attention back to the bodies of my miner, and the raccoon. So what should I make with this? I guess I can just remake another miner, I'll use the soul of the one that died. I begin to make, and shape the blueprint for a new miner, and when I use my mana to open up his soul to alter his mind, I find his memories of his life, foggy, gone, hidden. It seems that when they die they forget their past memories. They don't seem to be completely gone, but they cant be accessed. Ok. This time I imbue it with earth mana to hopefully make it tougher, or stronger. Which seems to work well, because when the blueprint is filled out with the body of the former miner, it is bigger, with more muscles, and seems to have an innate ability to soften the earth around him, making it easier to dig through. Perfect.

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I turn to the body of the raccoon. I'm going to make you into a wonderful defender. I smirk. I start working on the blueprint. I'm going to buff you up, with earth mana, and maybe some more rare type of mana, like a mixture like… MAGMA. Magma will be perfect. I begin to pump the body with magma mana. As much as I can muster, which is quite a bit, leaving me completely drained. I smile, and begin to fill out the blueprint. The body of the raccoon is lifted from the ground, the bones fill in with stone instead of bone, oh interesting, the muscles are thick, and pumped up with mana, *KER-CHUNK* Woah! Holy shit. What is coming out of the walls!? Oh. Is that copper? It's helpful that there is a copper vein right by my cave, but why is it being used in this raccoon? The copper heats with mana, and forms sheets, and tubes, the tubes are inserted into the body to make blood vessels, and fill in crucial spots in the heart. The skin is covered in plating of copper, making him armored, and his claws are once again, remade with copper. The blood forming in his veins seems to be boiling, which would explain the need for metallic veins, to keep the boiling blood from just burning right through.

Once the raccoon is done forming, its body hangs in the air. It has nearly doubled in size, and is covered with copper plating, as well as copper claws. I smile, and begin working on the raccoon's mind. I changed it to understand that it needs to focus on dealing as much damage as possible, as well as protecting the few weak spots it has, such as its eyes, and the pits of the arms, and legs. I also leave its basic instincts like eating, walking, and reproducing. You are the perfect defender, good sir.

I flinch as my minions burst back into my domain. The mouse is missing, Lychee's body is cracking, and degrading rapidly, as well as missing his entire right arm. My snakes seem to be mostly okay, except for a shallow gash along Julia's head. I quickly feed Julia a small amount of mana, which closes up the minor wound fast enough. I quickly order Lychee to get to my main room, so hopefully he can transfer to a different rock. I quickly order a small team of Juvenile mice, to bring in a large piece of rock for Lychee to hopefully possess. The rock is hard granite. I grimace. Hopefully he is strong enough now to be able to break it.

I quickly guide Lychee to the other room, where the rock is. Lychee immediately views the rock, and begins the process of tearing himself slowly away from the rock that is degrading below him, and attaching himself to the new rock. I grimace, and check Heracles' mind to try to view what happened. When I enter his mind I immediately recognize another dungeon.

A pale green dungeon core sits near the back of the cave, several more raccoons crowd around it, as well as what appears to be a small red fox. I sigh. Ok. How did the mouse I sent in there do? I check Heracles' memories, and I find a coward that backed itself up against a wall. As soon as it realized it was up against a wall it started screeching, and fighting for its life, while it didn't actually kill anything, I think a team of those gray mice might be able to. I frown, and rush my forces to the tunnel to hopefully defend against anything that comes through. I guide my raccoon to the forefront

I hope i'm prepared enough…