After we leave my dungeon we would to the southeast where Asher’s dungeon is. If you are wonder the position of Asher, Owen and my dungeon is like this.
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With my dungeon in the north of the triangle the three dungeons made it was easy to get to the other guys.
It didn’t take more than a minute to reach Asher’s dungeon and find Owen, Zach and the dog demi human maid arriving as well.
“So you guys are finished the morning work?” I asked.
“Yep, i set about ordering the imps to dig out a few more rooms. I was lucky that these imps learned earth magic quickly. They can expand at an ok pace but it still takes a bit of time since they get tired.” He replied.
“All monsters have their pros and cons. Kuroko-sama was able to somewhat surpass that with her slimes though.” Kawi said eyeing me.
“No i didn’t, the slimes still get tired, it's just that it's slower. They still have stamina like us.” I replied. “Also, i am currently stuck with goblins with no way of mining up high except making them mind a ramp and mine down from there.” I said.
“Ah, i guess there is that. Having a monster that can fly is convenient huh. I guess imp’s are good in that aspect since they are literally the bottom of the barrel in the demon hierarchy but if i want to rank one up they can become some rather nasty monsters.” Owen said and looked in the direction of my dungeon and sees the trees. “And i guess the slime tree’s growing are just as nasty.” He said with a grin.
“It’s just a matter of properly thinking of a good way to utilize a monster.” Kawi-san said.
I hugged her for defending me.
“Wh-what are you doing!!” she shouted.
“Thanks for defending me Kawaii-san~!” I said
“I-it’s nothing and don’t call me that~~!” she said while blushing and a small smile appearing on her face.
“Ah! Kuroko is finally here!” A sudden voice from a certain redhead said.
When we looked into the dungeon entrance the redhead came running out with a tired Asher and maid behind her.
“Why so tired?” Owen asked.
The reply was simple. Both of them pointed at Margaret who was jumping and running all over the place.
“Ah!” Everyone unconsciously said in unision.
“Well, all that’s left is Stephanie, Emily, Nova, Eleonora and their maid chaperones. And there is Stephanie and Emily.” I said after looking at the far off forest where the two elves came out.
“Look up and you should find Nova.” Asher said while sitting down and sighing in relief.
Confused we looked at him before we looked up and saw the little girl with large dragon wings on her back and in her small arms was a crying blond princess while hugging from behind to not fall out was the maid that accompany her
She was already in a straight 90 degree dive with her wings tucked close.
When she reached about 20 meters from the ground she spread her wings and slowed her descent and gently reached the ground.
“Hey hey, I’m here~~! Where is the food.” She shouted while letting down the princess on her feet.
Unsurprisingly, the she collapsed with tears all over her face unconscious.
We simply look at her with pity at having drawn the short straw.
I looked at Kawi who sighed and walked over and picked her up before taking her to the shade of the dungeon entrance. She then used healing magic incase there was any injury probably from the massive amount of g force that came with flying so fast. She then cleaned the princesses face of tears and snot. She left the girl sitting there since there was little she could do.
When Stephanie finally arrived she simply looked at Eleonora and sighed before looking at the smiling dragonoid who was sparing with the redhead.
“Let’s eat before problems start appearing.” She said and sighed again.
We all agree and start to pull out some blankets so we could sit on it.
We began to tell each other what we did during the morning.
When Asher told us that his dungeon had been raided a few times by some animals and died and got more skeleton works he was happy but then i asked a simple question.
“Hey Asher, why don’t you make a graveyard up here that will spawn the undead monsters you kill?” I asked.
Everyone looked at me staring with blank expressions.
“What?” i asked.
“Well, I never thought of it.” he said with the others nodding.
He did a dry laugh and spoke with his dungeon.
The next moment the ground shook a bit as an area of his domain suddenly had a long meter high old rotten wood fence appeared. The area inside the square was about 1000 m2 in area.
In the empty land we could see quite a number of small dirt mounds appear.
“There, the undead monsters will spawn naturally. Soon the area here will also begin releasing Miasma because of the energy coming out of the graveyard.” He says.
“Ah Asher-sama, why not change the landscape to a scary forest. Thinks like dead trees that can be undead treants hidden in a dead forest landscape.” The cat demi human maid said enthusiastic. “It should be a great place for dark based creatures that would gather naturally in a favorable location like this.” She said.
Asher looked at his ring for a moment.
“I need more mana to make a huge landscape change apparently.” He said.
“Then change the area around your entrance. Its where its most important.” I said.
He nodded and after a moment we could see many trees started to rapidly grow to full size around the entrance before drying up.
“Wow that looks good. It goes all the way to the entrance of the graveyard and even some inside.” The cat maid said.
It really was impressive actually. If you ever saw an anime that had the old abandoned mansion with the dead forest around it then you should more or less understand what i am talking about.
The area itself seem to get more menacing and yet we just laughed it off because we knew it was a small growing effect of the new dungeon layout.
The maids said that layout changes like this would vanish when the dungeon core is removed while think like what i did with the slime would result in permanent changes.
Strange how that works. So it would be like me having Shai make a pond out of mana which would vanish but digging a pond and directing a flow of water into it which would leave it after she is removed.
We each gave suggestions and obviously the guys told me to make mimic chests but since they don't have much use for mining it was thrown out at the moment.
When we were done lunch we were going to return by Eleonora and the maid that was with her and Nova both begged to switch.
Nova was already preparing to fly off when they did that.
"Um... I can switch, since i can fly by myself i can follow without worrying myself." Kumi said.
The result was that Kumi switched with Eleonora who was crying and thanking her. She had woken up halfway through lunch and sat as far as possible from Nova.
As for the maid, the half elf switched with her for similar reasons.
So the three flew off towards the lake while the rest of us walked to our dungeon.
The time for us to return home was before dusk so it was about 7 hours from now at around 8 but the walk takes about an hour so at 7 pm we need to gather.
The maids would monitor this so we could each work on our own projects without worry.
Eleonora followed me back to Shai's domain and i quickly told her what i did. Afterwards i went and picked a few of each fruit to examine. The results are rather interesting.
Mimic AppleA fruit made by a mimic that copied it tree.
This fruit taste just as good as a high quality apple produced in plantation and is perfectly safe for sentient being consumption. That said, the nutrients within make it much healthier to eat.
On the other hand, because the dungeon is it is affiliated to hunts monsters, this fruit is highly dangerous to monsters that aren't part of the dungeon. A single bite will kill any small or medium sized monster and weaken any large creature.
The fruit will be made dangerous to sentient beings should they be marked as invaders.Mimic OrangeA fruit made by a mimic that copied it tree.
This strange citrus fruit has greater amounts of nutrient than regular fruits. The juices can be extracted and it possesses the same smell as a regular orange and can be processed in similar manners.
This fruit is highly dangerous to any monster not affiliated to the dungeon of the mimic and will die should they eat it. Small and medium sized monster will die should they eat it and large monsters will be weakened greatly and gain internal injuries caused by the extremely acidic juices that react greatly within a monster.
The fruit will be made dangerous to sentient beings should they be marked as invaders.Mimic PearA fruit made by a mimic that copied it tree.
A bland flavored fruit for both humans and monsters. This harmless fruit has a prudent scent that is very attractive to monsters.
While the fruit itself is harmless, the mimic that makes them has a much more violent temperament towards invaders and will attack with its roots using them as spikes.
The fruits nutritional value is just as good as its flavor, non existent, that said, it seems to have some unknown alchemic properties but which kind is currently unknown.
These are the only fruits as of yet. I was surprised to find that unique plant trees make flowers with strange types of reproductive organs.
I asked Shai to keep a look on this and to inform me of any changes and what is actually made from them.
After examining all the fruits and possible effects, that includes picking some of the leaves which have this description on all of them.
Mimic tree leafA small ball of slime in the shape of a leaf.
These are found on mimics that have taken the form of a tree.
These leaves are unique because they developed the capability to mimic a real leafs ability to gather sunlight and use it with a plant's photosynthesis.
The narrative has been illicitly obtained; should you discover it on Amazon, report the violation.
These small packets of slimes can be used for alchemy but effects are unknown.
Enough said right, we gathered a number from various trees and store them by tree type careful so that we don't mix them.
I was planning to pass them to the alchemy teacher because he would most likely want to test something like this out.
Using an hour above ground we head into the dungeon and after i hurriedly unsummon my slimes that came running for a kiss...damn it. They took my first kiss...wait sorry about that back on track.
First off, the slime animals have been multiplied by feeding them mushrooms and bugs.
Obviously that would cause problem for the bug population as well as the farm but because Shai loaded the room temporarily with more mana than normal, the reproduction rate of the flies and the growth of the mushroom was abnormal.
Because of this, all the slimes were capable of growing completely and now i had a surplus of diggers.
We move to Shai's room and have her call all the mimics so that we can quickly distribute them to each spot we needed them to go.
When we arrived, the dungeon boss was in its slime form just below the dungeon core lazily napping.
"Well, let's decide more or less how to expand." I said while sitting on the ground in front of the boss and pointing my ring out and making a map of the dungeon in 3d appear in front of me.
"So this is your current dungeon huh? It's not as big as Nova's but considering her minions lay lots of eggs it will need to be very large." Eleonora said.
"Mistress, going by the idea of the tree slimes, we can dig out a maze like this and near the end we make a large forest with half real trees and half slime." Shai said as a blue colored image began expanding from the current room we are in and making twists and turns and branching off into dead ends that could hold a trap or a room with monsters.
Near the end a large dome shaped room opens up. The maze had light slope so by the time it reached that room it is 7 meters lower so it has lots of space.
The room she imagined had a lake in the corner and trees. On the walls she wal make mushrooms grow but a luminescent variant. The mimics would mix into the forest as trees themselves.
This place could hold a lot of birds and other flying monsters.
The other two looked in wonder at this but i was skeptical. It would take a really long time for this to be made and the trees to be grown even with mana speeding it up.
"This plan wouldn't work." I finally said. "We don't have time, at the end of the year, you need to be removed and the dungeon would collapse so there isn't a way for such a large room to be finished by the end of the year." I said.
Shai only replied with a sad "oh" which also made me sad since she was trying to help and this was most likely a way to unwind since she wants to touch and experience a part of the outside.
"Can you spawn bats Shai?" I asked.
"Huh oh um...yes mistress, i can." She replied confused.
I thought a bit.
"Do you plan on having the bats carry the slimes?" Eleonora said a bit shocked.
I shook my head.
"They wouldn't be able to swing the pickaxe if they were." I replied.
I thought hard closed my eyes for a bit and after a while i began to massage my head trying to make it work.
In the end i had nothing.
"Sigh, if only we had imps like Owen." I finally sighed.
"Is that all mistress needs? Why not ask the demon prince or read a book on them." Shai said.
"It was easier said than done, an imp is a demon relative of the goblin. The are similar except imps have wings and are naturally drawn to do evil while goblins are semi intelligent monsters that live more with 'fight and survive' mentality." I said sighing.
"You seem to know a bit about its origins at least. Let me fill the blanks then." Kawi-san said with a smile.
"Imps are, like Kuroko-sama said, demon versions of goblins. They are about 10 cm shorter but because of the demon origins the are slightly stronger.
They are capable of flight even when the wings don't look like it can support it. They have a natural fixation to dungeons and are the prime race used to build it because a dungeon is a safe haven where they can survive in our world without the need to eat. They instead live off the ambient mana in a dungeon and grow stronger with it. Anything else needed?" Kawi said.
"That is a large amount of information. And the last thing is what structure summons or spawn them?" Shai said which makes me and Eleonora tilt our head and say "huh?".
Kawi-san just giggles before continuing.
"From your faces, you don't know about demons right?" She asked and we shook our head.
"Ok, there are two ways to gain Imps, the first is through summoning them from the underworld or in Owen-sama's case, the demon nation. And the second is construct an imp spawn pit. This pit is a large pool of blood that naturally gathers a lot of mana and gives birth to imps who are loyal to the dungeon and its master." She finished saying and i heard a cheer from Shai.
"Thank you miss Kawaii-san. I can summon them now and i can magically build the pit in a room now." Shai said cheering. Unlike her though Kawi-san was all flustered by being called that.
We just laughed. When we turned to the map, the original plans Shai made vanished and a new smaller maze was made.
In it was several dead ends with smaller rooms made for mushroom farms and small sized room with high ceiling for trees to grow.
A bit away hidden behind a magic rock wall near this room would be mined out the imp spawn pit.
Speaking of hidden i ask Shai to hide all the mushroom farms. Make a few easier to unlock and have monsters in them but others such as the first one hidden really well. Even using a real rock wall with mechanical door to move the stone if needed. Since the rabbits and slimes have a separate tunnel into the farm we could do that easily.
Inside the corridor that led to the spawn pit the corridor branched off. The path that leads to the room with the pit would gain an even better hidden door while at the end of the second path would be a trap room. The floor of the room would be changed into a pitfall that would take the victims into a spike pit. At the center of the room was the only safe platform which would have a treasure chest which was a human bait.
then in the spot where the first door to the spawn pit is hidden the path goes the other way and begins making a twisty maze with a few dead ends after many turns and lots of traps.
When i saw a nice long path i asked Shai to add a rolling boulder trap to roll down. The path was raised to a 10 degree slope and a magic effect to make the area to dark to see was made. That would make whoever climbs up have to pass a certain point before seeing the dead end or in this case. The massive boulder rolling down.
There was a path branching off halfway up the corridor where the boulder fell from. This one down a twisty corridor which held many hidden traps. The entire corridor had the same darkening effect which makes spotting the traps harder and at the very end was a dead end. When the victims reach this point then a metal door will rise up halfway in the corridor and a laughing gas trap will be released.
Why laughing gas? Simple really, you can’t focus while you laugh and eventually you will suffocate from lack of air since the gas will push the breathable air up. Rather cruel even more so against animals since they will simply suffocate. As for where the metal door will be made from. That my friend is magic. The door will be built with a gear system so that it can be raised quick enough to not let the victims out and the gas vents will be on the ceiling and hidden in corners of the room so that they can’t be broken and plugged.
Even if they are all plugged, the victims will suffocate because the area will be sealed off so no new fresh air will come in.
Now on the path that branches away from the corridor with the rolling rock. The path leads to two rooms.
The first is the new boss room which is kind of like a small forest room though i guess calling it a scenic park would be better since it's a small room with fruit trees there to help the boss fight. The other is an even smaller room which will hold several mimic chest set to attack invaders not marked as guests.
Though mimic chests are a sentient being trap, this was more of an “incase” trap. If something happens and someone appears and invades they will at least face this much.
“Well, one path leads to hell and the other to the end of the dungeon? Isn’t it rather simple?” Kawi san asked.
“It would be but i will attempt to add magic in this spot so that those coming here will be more prone to choosing the path with the traps. The same with the fork between the mimic room and the boss room.” Shai replied.
“Well, we can go with this. It’s a good start so let’s get the diggers busy.” I said agreeing to the plan and finally letting her go.
The slimes behind us all took form in the creature they mimicked and summoned their tool slimes.
The rabbits quickly found the spot we would dig in and began ripping into the wall. It was really quick their speed. Soon a hole appeared near the ceiling opening the way for the goblins who made a latter and began jumping in.
“Wow, your slimes are really efficient.” Eleonora said looking at the rapid progress they were having and the increasing noise from the hitting of the pickaxes and claws.
“Mistress, if you want you can leave me to managing the digging. You can return and have time for yourself or maybe even expand more with the slimes on the surface. You still need to figure out how they reproduce as it is much different depending on the race they are.” Shai said.
We agreed and left the dungeon to do as she suggested and worked the rest of the day on breeding.
The tree slimes developed slime pollen. They stretch the branch near a similar tree and release the pollen. The result is that a large number of the fruits the tree has become slimes. I examined the pollen and found it was very tiny nucleus and the fruits were the slime body so mixing both causes complete slimes to drop out of the tree and expand the forest.
We strategically expanded the slimes and i keep several for the professor who will most likely want them.
With the tree slimes taking up around 50% of the domain and the smaller bush slimes covering more of the ground except a path i planned out we leave happy with the results.
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Current dungeon plan
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