Popping into the elementle dungeon Steve got a view of a full campaign being waged on his jungle goblins. A large group of elves were gathered around a clearing at the end of his little mud village. Every so often they would summon a wolf out of the ground and send it rushing off after the few remaining goblins in the level 10 zone he'd set up. It seemed that word about his dungeon has begun to spread bringing power people over. Steve was very intrigued by the earth wolves they could create but they seemed a little bit too powerful against his goblins. Just letting them sit there infinitely spawning minions to fight was a dungeons job wasn't it?

Diving into the spawning menu Steve used a large chunk of his energy spawning ten level 10 earth goblins and fifty level 1 goblins of all types to rush the group of invaders. His goal wasn't to wipe them out but to simply push them back and out of the dungeon with the hord. Acting as a tank the high level earth goblins took the limited amount of ranged attacks charging in an trying to engage the summoners. The sight of the earth armored goblins followed by the rest of the hord made the elves flee ordering the few wolves cover their retreat.

"It's good I was able to chase them off without killing anyone " Steve said observing the elves as they fled his dungeon. One of Steve's largest worries was that all his dungeon creatures getting whipped out and basically having to start from scratch. It could easily end up like when the scourge ants instantly killed spawning goblins draining energy. A sense from the knowledge stored in his head made it seem like that could cause problems or possibly dungeon collapse if things lasted long enough. He'd have to think of a way to keep his dungeon from getting overwhelmed while still letting the world's inhabitants grow with him.

Taking the idea of his fortifications in his universal mysterious dungeon Steve planned out a series of small bunkers, forts and tree houses he'd place across his level 10 plus zone. He only had the energy for a simple tree house but he had to start somewhere at that would keep Null and a few of his level 10 goblins from getting ambushed by those stone wolves. Directing his goblins gather around and patrol the area of his very first tree house Steve started set out level 5 and level 10 spawn points around his higher level zone. With a sigh Steve also set twenty percent of the dungeon energy to infuse into his level 10 zone boosting the growth of plants, animals and passively enhancing materials. Since his local core was basically empty nothing had changed but over time it should help level his goblins while making the environment charged with elemental energy. Cracking his spiritual knuckles Steve got working on refining his dungeons layout.

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Zig breathed heavily limping back to their barricaded camp. It had taken him much effort and scouting but he'd gotten a glimpses of the scourge queen, a towering bulbous creature five goblins tall and twenty long. It was was tended by ants Zig hadn't seen before small as him with goblin like fingers on long arms attached to a round torso that floated off the ground. He had was lost gazing at the strange creature when he was ambushed by one of the floating creatures he had missed. Normally ants couldn't hurt him since he had reached level 30 getting a set of spirit armor but the monster must have had an upgrade similar to his spear allowing its hand to easily part through his defense and peirce his side. Shaking his head at the thought Zig entered the camp seeing Kobo gazing over towards the battle happening on the planet above.

Their camp was on the outside the the mountain going into the portal. They didn't sit on a cliff but flat rock the gravity of both plants holding them at a right angle. The two remaining strike team members watched the ant hord roll endlessly against the goblin fortifications. They discussed plans to attack the queen as soon as Zig recovered knowing that if they failed the scourge ants would never stop.

Somewhere in the void :

A wounded beast floated though endless space blood dripping out of rents in its scales. Vinte's mind was hazy her pack killed or captured and her left alone and defenseless. She was a young dragon barely level 600 not even strong enough to play without one of her parents watching over her. Fretting about what to do she felt a strange feeling wash over her and she froze. "A spacial ripple " vinte's head snapped to her left as if she could see something in the distances. "A newly formed plain?!" Hopefully and excited Vinte rushed towards her possible salvation.