I create camping tents and sporadically spread them all around the sixth floor so I have safe spaces on this floor. The tents are simple but cover all the basic necessities. A camp fire area, a tent big enough for six people to sleep on the ground and the disgusting hole in the ground. I deem my sixth floor finished and start digging my spiral staircase down to my seventh floor.

It's a quick job and it doesn't take long to hear the customary ding. I ignore it and start digging a small room. I'm so thankful for my spacial affinity. It makes my job so much quicker. I expand the room to six and a half miles in length and width, just a bit bigger than my last floor. I don't want people getting exhausted of my dungeon because my floors keep doubling in size. I pull up my notifications and I'm very happy with what I see.

[Congratulations on finishing your sixth floor. One thousand and two hundred dungeon points as a reward. Please choose the ecosystem for your next floor and also your next starter monster. Monsters will be based off ecosystem.]

[Grassland, wetlands, desert, forest, coral reef, tundra, terrestrial, savanna, rainforest, freshwater, lake, taiga boreal, mangrove, swamp, volcanic, mountain.]

[The system registers the desire of the dungeon core to have the system design a labyrinth for the next floor. This action will cost seven hundred and fifty dungeon points. Do you consent?]

That doesn't seem outrageous considering I'm getting what I want without doing any work. I consent to the charge and wait to see my empty space transform. It's a quick transformation compared to the ten minutes it took to get the forest in order. And I don't even need to wreck any tunnels for monsters on this floor.

[Congratulations on choosing your seventh ecosystem. This ecosystem is incompatible with your current location, but it's what you chose to do this time so below are your available monsters. Hint. Any monster summoned from another floor will adapt in different ways due to the influence of the new ecosystem.]

[Plague rats, cockroaches, rock slimes, rock golems.]

What a shockingly short list of monsters. I'm guessing I made my labyrinth too early to get any of the good stuff. I guess it makes sense, I'm only seven floors deep after all. I can always add monsters from other floors.

I don't like the idea of plague rats but they do drop an antidote after you kill ten of them so I guess it's not that bad. It's more like a debuff if you stay on top of it rather than death. These cockroaches are different than the giant ones, they are small and easily stepped on and they emit a burst of light so you are blinded.

Disorienting. I like it. They don't have a drop but i'll add a copper coin. The rock slimes are rather dull in my opinion, easily defeated by fire or ice and only drops a diamond. Ha! Compressed rock drops a diamond. Good one system. The golems are straight foward, flawed with their core visible at the center of it's chest.

They drop a golem core or pieces to construct a golem. Ready to be turned into a low level golem of their own making. I'm not sure what else they would need for it but it sounds straightforward.

It almost reminds me of Lego pieces. The golem don't have a set figure. Some are humanoid and others are animalistic.

I start by making my altar at the end of the labyrinth and this time I just make all my monster figurines right away. There's only going to be six monsters on this floor anyway. It's done in a flash and I move myself down and make my normal enchanted cage and get started on summoning my monsters.

I summon two hundred pairs of plague rats, considering they need to be killed in groups of ten I feel it's necessary. Then I summon three hundred and fifty pairs of cockroaches and finally I summon two hundred illusion flowers and scatter them across the floor. Muahaha.

I bet they make the system design even better. I want to let those settle before I summon the rock slimes and rock golems. I'm sure they will take out there fair share of the smaller guys on the floor just by wandering around.

I do wonder if I should summon a large monster to roam the labyrinth but I think the stone golems should be enough of a challenge on this floor. It is completely dark down here except for the exploding cockroaches. It's probably pretty hard to pick up drops in the dark so i'll add some of my fake stars along the walls for a little light scattered around. It's a little scary honestly. Perfect.

Considering it takes me so long to go over all my floors now I'm going to only check on my first four floors after I've had another delver. Until then I'll only check on floor five and below once they get made.

It has been some time since I've paid any attention to the mine, so I focus on the fifth floor and find it's awfully quiet.. Where are all the goblins? I focus on the center of the mine and find the village mostly empty. It looks like a big battle happened recently. I focus on the kobolds and find that there are at least two hundred now. So yeah that makes sense. The goblins couldn't overcome them even with them with numbers so once the count was near even it was a massacre. I decide to cut off the contact between the two floors. It's not worth it. The kobolds will always win.

I summon twenty pairs of goblins and give them all a pick axe because by now they have lost all the ones they had. Poor guys have had it rough. I bring the gem lioness pride to the goblin village and convey an image of them riding them and left them to it. That should help them in the future. They couldn't handle a grown man if they can't deal with kobolds maybe a child but I draw the line at children. I couldn't live with the guilt.

My skunks have stayed the same thankfully, but other than them I truly hate what this floor does to monsters. They turn out to all end up being walking jewelry drops. Rings, bracelets, necklaces and even a tiara and crown, from the lion and the lioness pride. They are simple but really pretty.

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They are no meat drops on this floor except the moles and rats. That's just gross. But it's fine. At least they have slimes that drop clean water. You get rich or die on this floor. The giant bats are finally able to do minor illusions and I couldn't be more thrilled.

They still drop a sonar headband to help find gems and ores though so that's an upside. The metal slimes come in all varieties but the most rare is the magic ore slime. I think there's only one so far, it's really hard to find. There's a lot of iron slimes and copper slimes. There's some gold and platinum ones as well.

Well I think it's been long enough and I summon one hundred rock slimes to hang out with my rats and cockroaches. I don't think they can tell where the illusion flowers are. I also summon one hundred water slime so there's access to clean water.

It won't be long before I summon the golem army to roam my labyrinth. I can already picture it. It's going to be great. I was almost expecting a minotaur or a shadow monster for my labyrinth but a golem army totally makes me happy. I'll make another one in the future that will most certainly have them.

Interlude.

On a different planet in the same universe.

Katherine has been a slave in the house for just over five years now. She had tried to escape countless times. All of her attempts had ended in failure. Some times she made it as far as the city wall before being caught some times she didn't even make it out of the yard.

There was one time where she actually made it to the forest. She was being chased but it didn't stop her from taking deep breaths of leafy green air. It smelled like freedom. It had kept her going for a very long time after that but they also cracked down hard on her.

The only reason they didn't cripple her was because she belonged to the family and pig man alone didn't get to make the choice. His son didn't want to inherit a broken toy so they chained her up all the time. She had a near permanent black bruise on her ankle from it.

She still prayed to the system but her prayers had become fewer and fewer over the years. It was difficult to admit it to herself but she was starting to lose faith that she would live to see her second tail come in. The urge to be free drove her mad. She missed the smells of the forest, the damp moss, the rain, the flowery meadows, the soft wood of the young trees and the fungus.

She missed bathing in lakes and rivers and being a wild girl. She resented these people so much. She doubted they would free her even if she did go mad. She was more of a tool than person to them.

She stayed in her room full time while chained up. They brought her a bunch of magical items that needed to be filled with mana daily and then left after making sure she didn't do anything stupid like try to keep one.

After using all her mana she would be weak and defenseless and pig man would come and enjoy his time with her and then leave when he was done. She would fall asleep hating the world and then do it all over again.

Until one day something actually happened. After years of being stagnated at level four she heard a system notification early one morning. She was sleeping soundly so she thought she was dreaming.

It was the best dream she had in years so she didn't want to wake up but the ding was so persistent. She couldn't remember it ever behaving like this before. It was being annoying. In her grumpiness she finally shot up in her bed and came to the realization that it was still going off.

She was ecstatic. She really did have a system notification. She pulled up her notifications as she tried to hold back her sobs. The system had found her and was giving her a chance to become stronger.

[Congratulations. You are so faithful to the system it has decided to reward you. There is a dungeon, in a hidden location waiting to help chosen ones become stronger. It will not be easy and you may die. But if you succeed you will shed the bonds of slavery and become a Queen among men with power and riches untold. If you accept you will be teleported away. If you still live and wish to return you may ask the system to teleport you home at any time but you will not have access to the dungeon again for at least fifty years. Do you accept?]

She couldn't stop sobbing, the system hadn't forsaken her. It might have taken some time but she was finally given a chance. She would stay in the dungeon until she could destroy everyone in her path. If that took fifty or sixty years she didn't care. She would live in this dungeon and change her life. She would truly come back and be a queen.

She was not just a normal fox girl, it turned out she had royal blood in her veins. Not very much but she did. Her grandfather had once been in the running for crown prince but didn't want to deal with the violent side of nobility so he abdicated and fled in the middle of the night and lived a humble life until someone found them and got rid of them all.

That pig man had told her everything over the years. She would get revenge. Her family was innocent. More so her poor commoner mother who fell in love with a prince unknowingly.

She pushed accept and disappeared in a flash of light. And then the room was silent except for the rattle of a chain as it hit the floor with a thud after losing the ankle that had kept it on the foot of the bed for so many years.

Back in the dungeon.

While Lilith was getting ready to summon her golem army she received a most random notification and couldn't help being surprised.

[Congratulations! The system has found a candidate for the dungeon. Please give her a twenty four hour grace period. She was a slave and has asked for strength but needs rest first. Please remember with your title you earn extra dungeon points for each exploring visitor. Grace periods count towards this as well.]

Ok first question. Did the system really find someone this time and not my patron Goddess? Is that ok? Next question. Grace periods are real? That sounds made up. I won't go against the system though so twenty four hours it is. And lastly and this is more of a statement but a slave!?! Isn't that my worst nightmare? Being enslaved. I shudder.

I really feel as my core trembles. Poor woman. I guess I'll have to set up a good plan to get her ready for my lower floors. She's gonna kill a lot of voles.. Poor little guys. I'm sure they are going to think I have a grudge with them. But I doubt she could handle the foxes or the wolves. The giant rats have adapted well and given up their earth affinity and are full snow monsters now.

I send out the message to my first floor monster about our incoming guest and warn them to be on their best behaviour and lead her to the safe zone at the center of the large tundra floor. I come to the decision that I'm going to leave some water loot drops and some great prairie chicken jerky with some fruits and veggies from the fourth floor in the cabin.

It's nothing fancy but it will fill her stomach. It's not like she's bringing pots and pans to cook with. And while it might be a good loot drop for her I don't know if the rest of the world would appreciate a pot or pan as dungeon loot. Sounds lame actually. Before I could find my own way out of thoughts I was interrupted by the flash of light that occurred at the entrance to my dungeon.

You have got to be kidding me! It's a demi human fox girl! System! I'm so in love! Can I keep her!?!

[Absolutely not.]

Bleh. What a firm answer. I'm not backing down. She's adorable! I'm gonna keep her.