Mikoto looked at the dungeon entrance in awe when she got below the bridge of the river at the outskirts of her village. It perfectly captured the details she made, and the ones she added.

"Amazing, so this is what it looks like in person." She muttered in amazement.

Unlike the cardboard dungeon which felt like an expensive personal project, this clay dungeon felt legitimate to her. It gave her the same feeling when she first took the qualification test for taking an adventurer's license.

She looked around for a moment before sighing in relief after she confirmed that there were no people around here. This was a rural village so she wasn't worried about security cameras unlike the capital. The people who currently lived in this village became sparser due to many acquiring Skill Boards with some having decent skills for dungeon diving.

Everyone wanted to be an Adventurer. It's the most lucrative career at this age after all.

So no one would be in this remote village.

She took a deep breath, and then pumped herself up before she finally took a step inside her dungeon. She prepared her heart, clutching her baton which was part of an old kit she cobbled through for her adventurer career. Of course it failed so that was why she was in this village.

She didn't know if the monsters within are not hostile like the one from the cardboard dungeon. She hopes they are, because she didn't want to know what it feels like to be hit by a fire ant's toxin now that they are large.

When she entered, she immediately noticed the bright torches that were held by the wall like a fixture. She is glad that she manages to make the dimensions just right. The array of torches are reasonably spaced so it can give light to every corner of the dungeon.

Mikoto walked through the halls for a moment before she stopped when she noticed some noises. They were the sounds of chittering beyond the hallways on a bend, and it didn't take long before they showed themselves.

They were the Fire Ants, now larger than common ones. By just one glance, she estimates that their length is the same as her foreleg. She clutched her baton tightly as she looked at the ants nervously.

"Stop." She said, and suddenly the ants stopped on their tracks. "Can you turn around?" Her request was immediately followed and they turned around.

The sounds of chitin echoed as they skittered. She sighed in relief after she saw that.

"Okay... so they listen to me..."

After that, she walked towards that bend where she saw those ants now moving around in this hall. There were at least more than twenty of them.

"Just passing through..." She said as she carefully took her steps so she wouldn't crush them under her foot. She didn't want to find out what will happen if she hurts these monsters.

They simply let her and ignore her as they do their thing. This shows that the monsters are at least not hostile to her.

After she confirmed that, her steps became confident on her trek within this dungeon. Her meek expression from awhile ago quickly changed into a face of fearless wonder.

She got to the part where she encountered a hallway with a trap. The trap she put here was the arrow trap, the one that shot arrows on the small holes of the walls on each side. She knew where it was. She remembered how she made this dungeon after all.

She still remembers those times when she was preparing to become an adventurer. She studied traps so she could disarm them when she encountered one. Of course it didn't matter because she got beaten by a single monster before she could realize her dream.

She crouched on the floor and then poked the floor where the arrow trap was located. She looked up and didn't see anything. She takes a step forward and does this again. Nothing. She continues doing this until she gets past the arrow trap.

Seeing that the trap is not working and she is already on the other side of the trap, she decided to test something.

"Activate the trap." She ordered.

Then she squeaked as arrows suddenly shot on the walls. The arrows vanished as they shot through the halls on each side of the walls, which made the hall look as if nothing was wrong with it.

She stared at it for some time, now a bit nervous about her actions. She saw some of the arrows hit the spots where she crouched awhile ago. If they activated when she took one step at a time, she would become a human pincushion and die.

"... Err... I still have to check something..."

She was a bit scared, but still tried to push her hand forward. On the part where the arrow trap would activate. She stepped forward when nothing happened and then finally stood on the area where the arrows would hit.

After it didn't activate, she finally sighed in relief as she took a step back.

She ordered it to activate itself again and it does so, which meant she could ignore its cool down time. She recalled traps having a cool down of thirty minutes before it functions again to the next foolish party that will pass it.

"Great, then I don't have to worry about the traps of my own dungeon killing me!" She was happy about this discovery, and her steps became more lighter.

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The tension within her body was gone, and in exchanged it looked like she was on a casual vacation as she walked on the halls of her dungeon with a light step.

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Her newest dungeon gave her a lot of fun. She saw how the doors worked, and it was very hard for her to open them by herself. Though when she ordered the door to open, it complied with her words and opened by itself.

She saw the chest made entirely out of clay, and the ones that were painted, and she could open them with some difficulty. Within were the loots she had chosen for each of these chest. Most of them thematic to this kind of dungeon.

She had seen the improvements of the details of the dungeon as she got deeper within it. When she got to the fourth phase of the clay dungeon, she touched the walls first as it was the part where she painted even the walls to look like dungeon walls instead of a clay that was simply shaped like it. She was surprised at the smoothness of the wall. It felt like she was touching stones themselves instead of clay.

"So painting them changes the structure of the material... huh..."

She was still unsure about that. It might be some sort of magical effect and it might actually still be clay that had the texture of a stone. Her suspicion was quickly proven true when she took her chisel knife and carve that stone wall for a bit. After an inch, she saw the clay part of that dungeon. Then it repaired itself after she stopped carving on it.

"I see... so paints simply layer them with the texture of that material. It doesn't really change their whole composition..." She nodded, satisfied with this discovery.

Then she resumed her trek within her dungeon. Arriving at the other interesting platforms she made, like the disconnected platforms where adventurers had to jump to the other side, or else they would fall on the pit. She wasn't confident that she would be able to jump that far. It was a two meter jump, now she saw it.

She wasn't that athletic. She knew her limits.

Good thing she made multiple paths on her dungeon. She made it labyrinthine as much as possible. The other path was full of traps like a pit hole trap and a spike trap. This were dangerous, but she knew it wouldn't harm her so she managed to pass these traps unharmed.

Finally, she arrived at the boss room of this dungeon. When she opened it, she saw the large figure of the fire ant princess. Unlike the other fire ants whose comparable was comparable to her shin, the fire ant princess reached her knees by its height alone, and approximately her torso with its length.

The princess simply stared at her, and it might be her imagination but she thought she saw it bowed for a moment.

"Hi...?" She greeted it, and then she heard it chittered as its wings flapped in excitement.

She already knew that every monsters understood her, so she excused herself by telling it that she was checking stuff before she goes to the door beyond this large room where she added a single room with three painted clay chests on it. She quickly opened these chests and got the loots she was hoping for.

"One of the chest have a chunk of jewels, the other has one of the armor sets, and the last is a skill orb. Great, everything is working as intended!"

Satisfied with her mini-adventure, she left the dungeon after she put her loots on her Treasury.

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When she arrives at the entrance of her dungeon, she notices the skies is just turning orange-y. It seems like it is already afternoon. She is planning to go back to her house with her scooter when she hears her phone beeping. She takes her phone and then looks at the notifications on it.

It was an announcement from the official site of the Adventurer's Association of this country. She was subscribed to this site as she wanted to be updated to the new dungeons and new adventurer stars of this country.

"... Oh, the cardboard dungeon is being advertised on the official site?" Joy filled her heart when she saw the contents of the advertisement.

They advertised the skill orb drop on the boss room of the cardboard dungeon. She looks at the comments on that post, and see that many are interested by that.

"This is great. With this advertisement, many people will visit my dungeon!"

She nods at that in satisfaction.

"Now then... should I make another floor for the cardboard dungeon?" Once more, she thought about that.

She couldn't enter the deeper floors of the cardboard dungeon anymore, but that doesn't mean she couldn't see how it looked like. Lately, she was having fun watching others venture within her dungeon and hear their thoughts about it.

Then she look at the entrance of her clay dungeon.

"Hmm... I should add more minions on the clay dungeon before thinking about that." She said.

By exploring the clay dungeon, she realized that there were a lack of monsters within the clay dungeon. Most of the fire ants were cluttered in a single hallway or a single room, and there were only few who roamed around the hallways.

She knew every minions she had would respawn after some time when they got killed. Though their numbers aren't enough to fill every part of the dungeon. She feels like the adventurers will grow bored if they ever set foot on this dungeon. She wants it so they will encounter at least one monster every few bends, and each room having a group of monsters within it.

"I also need to give them food huh..." She muttered to herself.

She wasn't an expert of ant behaviour, but she thought they might be looking for food with the way they kept roaming or cluttering around in a single spot. She thought she might have to put something for them to eat when she got back home.

And then, another thought occurred within her mind.

'Should I report this dungeon to the office?'

Along with an outpost, there was also an association office built just on the main road near the path to her house. The Association Office is the place where adventurers and civilians alike go to either submit their loots for monetary gains, or request some materials from the dungeon which will be turned into a quest. This is also where people report their findings on a dungeon, register as an adventurer, and many more.

She already gave up registering after she saw that the qualifications would force her to go to Sapporo for the test. She wasn't sure she could handle a goblin again. She got beaten up badly that she was hospitalized at that time, and repeatedly at that as she tried at least ten times before her parents forced her to stop.

Those thoughts ran through her mind as she returned to her home with her scooter.

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Mangekyo was a D-tier Guild owned by the Minorizushi Corp. Their Guild was based on Sapporo, and have hundreds of adventurer parties on their employ.

The Guild was either a state-owned or a corporate-owned business focused on dungeon diving, exploration, and resource gathering. A guild consists of many adventurer parties with administrators, managers, board directors, vice leader, leader, and the other miscellaneous positions reserved for civilians.

"A weak dungeon with a guaranteed drop for skill orbs. This is it. A good place to profit!" The man within the office grinned as he saw that. Greed filled his eyes as he stared at the announcement.

There were other Guilds based on Sapporo, but most of them were focused on the high tier dungeons on Hokkaido. Only mid tier guilds like them would be interested on something like this.

And they were the strongest mid tier guild compared to the others. They can monopolize this dungeon and acquire many skill orbs which they can sell for exorbitant prices.

"Hahaha! I have to make an appointment quickly!"

With that, the Guild Leader of Mangekyo moved with a large grin on his sinister face.

"That dungeon will be Mangekyo's property!" He muttered under his breath.