Samical extended his thoughts again. He could feel power had seeped into him. It was aganizingly slow but would given time alow him to create even without any outside influx of mana. His skeletons where still standing in their alcoves and Lib was still at his side but the body of the mouse was gone.

"Lib where is the mouses corpes ?"

"You have absorbed it master.. when anything dies in your Dungeon you will absorb it completely. The knowlege to create it as well as any mana it contained will pass to you immedietly but you will also recive the raw building blocks of it as well. You will find if you search your thoughts you have a list of things ... for lack of a better understand say that they are in your invintory or stores."

Samical searched his mind and found quickly what Lib was talking about. It was a sort of mental list but Samical knew that it was more then that now. It listed a resource and its quantitiy that he had at his disposal.

Interesting Samical thought , so I can stock pile materials and mana to create with.

"Lib what benifit does having these materials gain me since I can create things out of pure mana like my current minions?"

"Master the more physical material you have to incorperate into a being or space the less mana you will need. It will also allow you to create new things using mana to give them life or structure. In this way you can create unique things in this dungeon and don't have to completely rely on things from the outside entering into your domain."

Samical thought about this for a second. Going back to the list he looked it over again.

Fur - 2 grams, Skin 3 grams, flesh(including mussle and organs) 3 grams, bones 3 grams.

Not a lot to work with there but its a start.

"Lib I know I can gain materials, mana, and knowlege of thigns killed in my dungeon... can my creations leave my dungeon to find and retreve things for me ?"

"You can my lord but ... your creations can only be away from your domain for half of the time they have been in your service. SO your skeletons there have been created a day ago , they can exit the dungeon for 12 hours but after that time they will become enert and unless you can retreve them or expand your control to where they fall. All of the resorces used to create them will be lost. "

"Well then I will just have to expand my control won't I, what restrictions do I have for building my dungeon?"

"Master in your current state you control only this this room the tunnel and a few feet of rock around those."

"How can I exert my control over a larger area ?"

"You must consintrate your thoughts on those areas and work at seeping your mana into them , you can also have your creations travel to those locations and disperse the mana they are created from, be warned if you have used materials to create them they will be lost."

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So expanding was going to take time and a lot of mana. Samical thought about his situation for a while why his passive mana generation continued to gather him power. A thought occured to him and he acted on it to see the results.

Reaching out with his mind he found his two skeletons, and gave them instructions. Right away both skeletons left their alcoves and moved to the wall oposite the tunnel and started to dig. It was slow going as they had no tools and bones alone didn't assist much when digging but at least they didn't have to dispose of the waste material. Samical just absorbed it greedaly as it came into his domain.

Slowly the Skeletons were carving out a tunnel through the dirt and rocks.

"The Rocks!!' Samical cursed himself for not thinking of this earlier. "Lib can I craft tools as well ?"

"Yes master anything you can think of can be created if you have sufficent mana and/or materials. "

Samical checked his inventory. "Just enough for one" with a flex of his will Samical formed a stone pickax in the hand of one of his skeletons. That skeleton was able to carve out the tunnel much faster and was making great progress even in the areas of larger stones it could break off pieces of them and keep digging.

Samical noticed a small tickle in his mind. Something had entered his dungeon and it was close. "How did it sneak up on me like that " Mentaly searching he discovered the intruder and it also answered his quesion of how. It was a night crawler earth worm that was in the pile of material the skeleton with the pick was creating. That skeleton had moved outside of his control area but as he had expanded into it he had noticed the worm before absorbing the dirt and stone.

"Not much to learn there but still waste not want not, besides maybe I can find a use for a lowly worm. Sending a thought to the unarmed skeleton Samical had it pick up the night crawler and bring it into his room properly before squishing it. The life and materials gathered from the worm where almost nothing but Samical did learn how to create worms.

A thought occured to Samical

"Lib , how do I modify my creations and how much can I modify them ?"

"Master all you must do is picture the modifications you want and as long as you have enough power and resources you can create it. Be warned there are limitations. 50% is the max modifcation that can be applyed to any being or object. This includes any and all modifications even if they are intangable such as intelegence."

"Intelegence ... so I can make things smarter. Only 50%... is modificaiton beyond that possible ever?"

"No master all modifications must be made to any particualr thing at 50% or less per modification"

"O ... so if I modifyed something then say destroyed it and made a new one I could modify that new one 50% ?

"Yes, master that is correct"

Samical thought for a second one idea after another passing through his head. "THE WORMS!!!" Creating a simple night crawler Samical expanded its size. It wasn't much to start with as the worm was a mear 3 inches long and about the thickness of his pinkie... well if he had a pinkie. Pushing mana, and flesh, and skin into the worm he as creating he expanded its width to about a thumb. He let the worm riggle around for a few seconds letting its form solidify and then destroyed it , reabsorbing the materials, mana and the knowlege of how to make this larger worm and then repeated the proces expanding it again another 50%. He contiuned this cylce of creating, modifying , destroying and creating again for what seemed like an eternity. In actuality it took all of a week but by the time he was satisfied he had what he was calling a tunner borrer. It was a worm four feet long and a foot wide that could bore though soil and soft rocks.

Having only enough reserves to make a second one Samical sent the pair off to dig him a tunnel leading out from his room and down at an angle. Samical watched them work and was proud of himself. This would make his dungeon much easier to carve out while still allowing him the mana and resorces from the worms leftovers.

Again he was drained and needed to rest. But before he did he sent the skeletons back to their alcoves. Then he turned inword and fell into a deep medetation while his worms tunneled and bored though the ground.