Violet smiled in amusement as she filled yet another room with mushrooms. She had just finished up the boss room and made a new myconid. She decided to name it Mr. Mushroom, for the rest area. Now she was just spending the rest of her free mana for the night on glow-in-the dark mushrooms for all of the rooms on the second floor. It just didn't seem right to have an "enchanted forest" without them.
It had taken quite a bit of time to finish up the boss room, though. She had to spend 250 MP to increase the boss room's height by 8-Units. Then she had to do some research to unlock stone brick tower ruins, stone brick wall ruins, and stone brick bridge ruins. That had run her 126 DP and then another 333 MP to actually build everything. However, it had felt well worth it when she saw the finished result.
Redcaps had never really been Violet's favorite fae myth, but she still knew enough about them to know that they preferred to wander about in old castle ruins. It was only natural that she would recreate it in her own dungeon for her new redcap myconid, even if it did cost quite a bit. While the new medium basic myconid couldn't talk, only hum, the redcap variant had more of a broken speech pattern, much like she imagined a goblin might. The redcap had been quite excited as she tried to tell her
"Th-Thang.. yough!"
Well, the redcap tried to say some other things as well during her time in the room, but most of it was so difficult to understand that Violet mostly just smiled back at her new [Monster] with a pinched expression. She was certainly glad now that she had unlocked the pixies first as it would have been incredibly disappointing if the first talking [Monster] she had ever ended up with was something like her new redcap. Of course, she likely wouldn't have tried to make a redcap myconid in the first place if it weren't for her trying to recreate different aspects of fae mythology in the first place...
Besides the castle ruins, Violet had opted to create a moat around the area surrounding the castle. It ended up costing her 2-Units she could have used to increase the overall height of the room and the moat had still ended up rather shallow, but it just seemed right to have a moat of some sort since there was a castle. That had run her another 40 MP, but that hardly seemed that bad when compared to having to spend her DP.
Luckily, Mr. Mushroom, who was the only [Monster] assigned to the fairy retreat rest area, hadn't cost her any more dungeon points. All the research had been done already in order to create her boss [Monster]. While it felt a bit odd to have both the boss [Monster] and a random dungeon [Monster] be the same size, Violet could only accept it. Anything smaller and Mr. Mushroom wouldn't have been able to open the doors of the dungeon for her pixies, which was the main reason she had signed a contract to bring him here in the first place.
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She did learn one interesting thing from creating Mr. Mushroom, though. Apparently, most of the basic myconid fought using pure strength. They were rather weak defensively and easily damaged, but they also had supernatural strength that was far above what their bodies should naturally allow. It was mind-boggling in comparison to the redcap, which utilized a rather sharp scythe to damage its opponents.
Walking into the next room, Violet began to apply honey mushrooms, glistening starcaps, and luminescent morels, much like she had all of the other rooms. She had a few other varieties, but had decided to stick to just three so that the rooms didn't end up too filled with mushrooms, ruining the aesthetics she was going for. Mushrooms were a fairly cheap room feature to apply at a mere 5 MP / 100 Square Units. All of the rooms, save for the boss room, on this floor were 16-Units by 16-Units, meaning it cost her about 38 MP for each room or 722 MP to apply the mushrooms to all of the rooms, except the boss room. The boss room was going to end up costing her 150 MP to add the mushrooms to and would likely end up having to wait until tomorrow when she'd have more mana.
While it might seem wasteful to spend thousands of points worth of mana on some decorative mushrooms, Violet wasn't bothered by it anymore. It had certainly taken some getting used to before she could accept letting mana go to waste, but an entire season had passed and she had slowly gotten used to it. Sure, Avorn and Camellia would no longer be tenants soon and the dungeon would likely be empty for an entire month, after she unlocked the next floor, but there would always be new opportunities to earn mana and to build.
Besides, Violet was seriously considering the possibility of just sleeping for an entire month after she finished unlocking the next floor. The adventurers weren't going to come and visit her until after that long anyways, so there was no point in sitting around bored the entire time. Even if she considered the possibility of wild [Monsters] attacking her dungeon, she was fairly sure things would be fine. If they made it too close to the second floor boss room, the dungeon wouldn't allow her to continue resting. That was if some mere goblins and whatever else was in the area could even manage to make it that far.
Luckily, she no longer had to worry about the undead attacking her dungeon. A real shame since that meant she couldn't farm mana from them getting stuck in the slime parkour pool, but also a relief considering what was causing it. Without having to worry about a malicious non-dungeon entity targeting her dungeon, it would be much easier to take a much-needed break.