Dear Diary,

It seems that it's already late fall and it will soon be winter. David brought me a crate of rotten apples today. The smell was awful, but I guess I shouldn't complain too much. Even garbage has value to my dungeon as the system can convert it into more useful resources.

David is still struggling with a lot of the dungeon challenges. He's supposed to have been a mid-rank adventurer before he retired, so I don't really understand why he is struggling so much. I could understand, at first, because many of the challenges in my dungeon aren't something the people of this world would be familiar with. Where normal dungeons seem to have traps to dodge and obstacles to jump over in the course of completing a challenge, I have them doing jigsaw puzzles themed after my cute slime monsters.

Still, Alice has figured out the slime-themed jigsaw puzzle well enough that she completes it nearly every night. Meanwhile, David is lucky if he can complete even one of the other challenges and he refuses to let his daughter attempt most of the other ones. I can, sort of, understand not wanting her to attempt the slime parkour one. The platforms are slippery and it would be easy for her to hit her head and then drown in the water below, even if her father could go save her. However, surely the others, which are much safer, would be fine for her to participate in?

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Regardless, I am happy to be making decent progress in my dungeon. I even got David to agree to take a break and leave the dungeon once a night so I can have two rounds of mana to spend on dungeon upgrades. It's been a while since it was suggested, but I'm really starting to see it pay off now. My latest project is actually a koi pond, which I'm hoping the locals will enjoy. It would be good to get some of them to regularly visit the dungeon since I'll be able to get more mana that way.

It probably seems a bit frivolous, but I've actually been pouring a lot of resources into the new pond room. I made an island in the middle of the pond for a willow tree to be placed on and there are cattails and watercress to compliment the water in the room. Rather than putting any monsters in the room at all, I've paired some jade tree frogs with the koi fish, making the room super peaceful and more lively. It's been really peaceful to relax in the room and I can only hope that others will also enjoy it.

I'm actually also planning to ask Theodore about getting me some lily pads and lotus flowers for the pond too. It'll make the pond look more messy and busy, but I'm sure the koi fish will enjoy the covering and the scent of the lotus flowers is bound to be lovely. The only thing is, I'm not sure what the limitations are when it comes to what plants from my world are also in this world. Are the worlds practically identical in terms of plants and animals? What about magical plants, does this world have anything like that? It's hard to know and being stuck in this dungeon makes it difficult to learn anything new about the world around me.

Looks like David is back from his break, I'll have to get back to work.

-Violet