Ding, dong

Calypso goddess of dreams and nightmares is calling, do you want to answer.

So what should I be doing right now, throwing out trash? No, murbaks eat them.

Calypso goddess of dreams and nightmares is calling, do you want to answer.

Maybe ironing socks? No, still don't have legs.

Calypso goddess of dreams and nightmares is calling, do you want to answer.

Oh, I know, I need to dust of my core, yes that's what I should be doing.

Calypso goddess of dreams and nightmares is forcing call through.

What do you think you are doing ignoring my call? Did you already got tired of living?

- Oh dear goddess of course no. I wwwaaasss, that's right, I was trying to save this dyeing hedgehog.

-squik- come weakly from little critter. This guy was that one hedgehog that gone before the rest of the line and got his paws and snout ripped off, right now there were also some others things spilling from the wounds on his sides.

- squik, squik, squik - Oh shut up, you will walk it off.

Oh so how did you want to heal this needle rat. If I remember you don't have anything to hell it with. To think that pervert like you would want to save another male, or maybe your preferences changed? Maybe you want that dream with that's giants big spe...

- No, no I'm still hetero, no right now I'm even more, I'm crystal sexual. And I'm saving this courageous warrior, ( with stupidly got himself mutilated by going before the rest of the line), for the better protection of my dungeon. I will try to feed it my mana to try and help him recover, ( maybe he will even evolve, or go kaboom, either way I will have some fun)

Oh, thought it could be fun looking how this rat explodes from being pumped up with mana...

- squik, squik - it looks like this guy wasn't happy with exploding into pieces.

I have different work for you. In certain kobold tribe there is... no wait a second... there was an dream weaver that did me a favor in the past. And before her demise moment ago she asked me for safe place for her tribe, so I told her about this new dungeon with whom her tribe could make a contract. Do you understand what I mean by that?

- I think so, from I understand there is small tribe of kobolds going straight for my dungeon and in exchange for contract, I will have them become my slaves, I mean servants, and I will allow them to live in dungeon is that right.

Yes that's right. And as you told it yourself you will get new servants so even if I send them to you without asking its like I'm making you a favor, to small and weak little you. So you are still be in debt with me on three favors. Aren't you?

- Yes, yes I understand. But could I know at least how many there is coming and how much longer before they come?

Originally there were two hundred of them, but if they will be dropping dead with this speed further, then in the two months that it will take them to get to your place there should still be something around hundred coming to your dungeon. I only told them what to do to get safe place to live, after they get to you and make contract they are all yours.

- I understand i will try to get ready for them as fast as I can.

What is with this half assed answer shouldn't you be more grateful for this gift I gave you, you ungrateful bastard.

- Of course I'm grateful but there is a lot work to be done before they come and its dangerous for me if they decide to try something against me.

Oh don't worry if you die they will suffer from my hand for the rest of their life for taking my toy... I mean my debtor from me.

Please care more for your toys and don't allow others to destroy them, remember children under fifteen should not be playing with dungeons.

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- Could we think about plan that doesn't risk me being destroyed?

Annoying you should better...

Close to the communication screen appeared ball of yellow light from witch sleepy voice of young woman sounded.

- Sister you are still using this voice to text system, why won't you simply talk to them, are you talking to that new dungeon that you were talking about becoming your slave. Ah, good morning mister dungeon. Really sister you shouldn't be like that, let me help you.

Communication screen disappeared and in its place appeared purple ball of light from with angry voice of young child sounded.

- Waat, are you doing to your elder sister Rozana, take those blobs of fat from my head, you are always like that...

After this exchange both orbs disappeared. That was quite shocking. First toy, and now a slave stepped on by loli with whip. Oh why it's not women with hot body at least. It looks that Calypso has some complexes about some parts of her body, on the other side her younger sister Rozana, if I remember correctly she should be goddess of sleep, is quite well developed, can this communication system get video talk module like now. In future I need to remember not talk or think about those well developed parts of female body when in contact with Calypso. And Rozana, thought she sounded sleepy she was talking like machinegun, I got a feeling that when she fully starts talking you won't be able to talk back at all, so I should be careful with her to, at least Calypso allows me to talk, even if she does not care about my opinions at all. Gods, what I got myself into, don't answer it was rhetoric question. 

And now back to my own predicament. So Kobolds, what do I even know about them. ah yes now I remember, Lizard-dogs that's how they are called by common people. As a race they are really divers in their looks, thought they are humanoids their height is only around one meter, thought their physical strength is not much lower than that of humans. Their bodies can be covered in different colors of scales and dog like fur with light brown skin under, they also have tails in some cases dog like in other knee-length lizard ones. They have dog ears and some of them have horns going from the front of the head, their faces resemble humans thought some have short dog like muzzle.

If I remember correctly they breed at most twice as fast as humans at the best of times. I also think they have three different advanced species, each of them makes some of their features more visible than others, one becomes more lizard like, another more dog like and last more human like. If it's about their culture I think they believe that dragons blood flows in their veins, that's at least what I heard before but for now it's unknown what kind of culture and beliefs those coming to me will have.

So what should I get ready first? Of course defenses In case they will turn hostile, or for this matter if there will be any other hostiles coming my way, you can never go wrong with better defenses, that's what my experience as a farmer tells me. When I will feel that my defenses got stronger, they will never be strong enough, I will start building some space for Kobolds, I think that water, food source, and big room for their group to live in should be enough for the starters. Wait the moment I forgot there needs to be place for all the filth and I think that murbaks will help with keeping its levels under control. If they will need to build something there should be some threes somewhere close to the entrance that they can use for that. Yes that sound like a plan, it's time for some work.

- sssqqquuuiiikkk

Ah, I forgot about this little bastard, really how tenacious you are to even be still alive. Well I could simply go and leave him alone to die but more fun will be to use it as experiment material, and he even gets a chance to survive, how merciful and generous I am, If I had hairs there should be wind blowing that would make them flutter.

- squik

- Yeh, I'm coming, what's the haste it's not like anyone died, yet. You are only spilling somewhat on floor.

- squiiik

- Ok I know it's painful but doctor will start pumping you with the medicine right away and you will be getting better, or you will go kaboom, either way you will stop filing pain.

- sqquuaak

For better control I activated my mana sight, and started observing as my purple mana started to enter hedgehogs body. It looked like filing up half crushed, and full of holes at that, bottle with water, Almost everything I thrown in him spilled out. So I started to control my mana more directly, molding it to block the holes and make the rest of it fill the body. After a moment Sqitak, that's how I will call little bastard from now, started to grow until it looked like a ball. Because  of that I started to lessen the flow of mana and opened some previously blocked holes to lessen the pressure. After some more time I was able to stabilize levels of mana in his body but nothing more happened to him, there was only an round hedgehog squiking. Ow well, we need to wait maybe something will happen.

Now we should return to more serious things like what kind of hair should my future avatar have. Should they be long enough to flutter on the wind or short so no one can pull on them. What color should they have traditionally heroic blond, or maybe black for that serious menacing feel, there are also more fantasy colors like blue and green. Oh, what to chose.

- squik

- Oh be quiet I have some serious thinking to do here about my future.

- sqquuiik

-What's so urgent that you are being so loud Sqitak, it's not like you are dying anymore.

I returned to reality and started to look at Sqitak once again only to see some new changes happening to his body. His body and needles started to become purple in color after that ended hid needles become thinner but grown both in number and length. Their tips stayed sharp but rest of the needle become like hairs thought somewhat ticker. Those new hairs grew until they covered Sqitaks whole body. After process stopped I appraised him to see what kind of evolution happened.

Needlehair

All its hairs have hard and sharp needle at its end, those hairs can be manipulated by it. the stronger Needlehair gets the more its control grows, at its peak every hair can be moved independently.

Wow just wow, I was thinking here about my own hair to be, and here fate gives me living toupee, and what should I do with it, get it on my top of my core and tell everyone that those are my new hairs? Fuck you god of fate, if you are pretty women, if you are male or ugly we should act like this never took place. So we have our first evolved hedgehog and its Sqitak.

- How do you feel there Sqitak, all appendages back in place?

- Squak

- I will take this as a yes, now you can scram back to the rest and show of your new hairstyle.

- Squak

And there goes little bastard speeding away from me as fast he can go looking like fifty centimeters long purple hairball. But who would thought that mana pumping process not only will save his live but also evolve him, it looks like it's time for some more experiments.