Coming out of the storm were five battered ships declaring flags with a circle of five-petaled flowers and three claw marks stitched in a golden thread that slowly made their way toward Alexis's ship.

On those ships were beings that looked like humans, but they were too far away from the child to fully see them.

Trailing behind and around them was a large amount of debris. Wood, cloth, and other materials began to spread around the plateau. But that was not all.

At the bottom of the plateau were these small wooden containers

The child watched as three of the containers crept closer and closer to their territory. As the containers drifted and their iceberg drifted, they could finally grab them.

Studying the boxes, the child notices some faint writings on the lids of each of the boxes.

The first container, about a metre thick and tall, was made of a thick, waterproof, beige wood that the child had to pry open to look inside. On the top of the lid was the writing Ⴆ𝝈ቢ𝖊ی ပی𝖊ᕷ ẜ𝝈𝛤 ቢ𝖊匚𝛤𝝈൩ߥቢ匚უ. ی𝖊ቢᕷ ե𝝈 讠یߥቢႦ𝖊ㄴ. When they pried open the wood, it revealed something surprising.

Inside the container were carefully wrapped skeletons of small creatures. Each skeleton had its own wrapping, and there were fifty of these small skeletons. The child quickly made them a part of their territory, put them back into the box with their wrappings around them, and placed the box into a little spare room within their sub-dimension.

The second box had the writing ߥㄴ匚ђ𝖊൩讠匚ߥㄴ ൩ߥե𝖊𝛤讠ߥㄴی. ی𝖊ቢᕷ ե𝝈 եђ𝖊 ђ𝖊ߥᕷꘫပߥ𝛤ե𝖊𝛤ی 𝝈ẜ եђ𝖊 ե𝝈Ց讠ߥᶄ ߥㄴ匚ђ𝖊൩უ ђ𝖊ߥᕷ ꘫပߥ𝛤ե𝖊𝛤ی on it. And even though they tried to read it, it didn't seem to be coming to them. Hopefully, the beings on the ship speak this language and will be able to understand it soon enough. The wooden box was much smaller than the first, about 60 centimetres long and 50 centimetres tall. It contained these small, clear, amber-coloured stones with little insects and mammals trapped within them.

The last box, the smallest, contained the writing ẜ𝝈یی讠ㄴ讠ی𝖊ᕷ ی𝖊𝖊ᕷی. ی𝖊ቢᕷ ե𝝈 ᒩߥ匚𝝈یቢ ߥե եђ𝖊 ߥՑ𝛤讠匚ပㄴեပ𝛤ߥㄴ Ցပ讠ㄴᕷ 𝝈ẜ ᶄ讠౮ߥㄴ讠ቢߥ. When they opened the box, they found what looked like seeds but were not. Instead, they appeared like rocks but were shaped like different seed shapes that they have seen before.

Quickly making them part of theirs and placing the wooden containers with the first, the child stared at the ships, wondering what the heck they were transporting.

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What the hell are they doing moving this stuff around? As the child stared at the five ships with wonderment about why they had all of these things on ships all at once. Well, they're mine now.

The boxes and everything within them were placed in special keeping, and the child continued on with building their ninth floor.

The first ten levels within the canopy part of the grates they placed: hive flowers; blanket flowers; lightning and dragon snaps; drooping, mist, pygmy, spiral, and walking orchids; red trumpet, silver, consumption, thorny orange, and reaching vines.

The following 15 levels, they placed: feathered, pruning, furry, and dancing vines; mist orchids; strawberry and water strawberry bells; frozen strawberries; acalypha strings; string and creeping moss; sticky mushrooms; spider and bearded flowers; dangling, press and bird ferns; frost petals; and bearded bushes.

The next 20 levels were the levels that they wanted to represent the root systems and the ground of forests. So they placed: acid berries; ice, dangling, refresher, dropping berry, and shaggy bushes; sticky mushroom, jumping, and blackthorn bells; three-petal cardinal; blue star and berry ferns; dusk daisies; black dripping and black spotted red mushrooms; cushion, platform, and sliding mosses; and parasitic darts.

The child placed more aquatic living species in the last two and a half grates. Floating vines; floating mosses; dangling ferns; soaking cardinals; sinking bells; brown bush, and eel grasses were all placed in the bottom grates.

Of the non-aquatic species they added: grey water and damascus snakes; mskagok and healing mskagok mosquitoes; wai and skimmer dragonflies; green mantises; running, tormissus water, kenoda ground, and loxomerus ground beetles; clouded white butterflies; white and elachista moths; cold water bees; brown singing frogs; long-jawed orb and ice weaver; and crystal dwarf spiders.

For the aquatic portion of the room, they added: blue-ringed, angel, and knobbed sea snails; wandering and spark anemones; weaving and rock crabs; sawtooth and white ribbon eels; grey tassel, striped goby; shaded flatfish, silver anchovy, ripple angelfish, swift pinfish, cloak spadefish, longnose spookfish, shortnose chimaera, kelp frogfish, and blue halfbeak species; red-tentacled box jellyfish; flow krill; grey oysters; giant sea lilies; pink and red sea stars; orange mottled sea squirts; burrowing sea urchins; and blacktip sharks.

With the room coming together, the child added ravenous snails, alluring vines, scythe mantis and sphere ice krills as their monsters.

The floor-level blue screen popped up as soon as they placed their last monster.

Congratulations! You have completed your ninth floor!

Present Creature Species: 59

Present Plant Species: 49

Present Monster Species: 4

Due to the completion of the ninth floor, the sub-dimension size will expand.

Their skin itched as their sub-dimension expanded another 15 metres wide and tall, and their floors got shifted around. Then, as soon as everything settled, the child started to make their tenth floor.

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They were screwed.

They knew they were screwed as soon as they saw the storm clouds appear on one of the stormy oceans, the Huracan Ocean.

They knew it as soon as the ships began to get damaged.

It was not like they weren't aware of the dangers of not timing the time of their voyage through the Huracan Ocean, especially when he was carrying costly cargo to many guilds across the Togiak continent. And many of these objects they have are very old and hard to find.

They had already lost one of their main cargo ships, along with three armoured ships, to the storm. It was not unusual, but they still lost many expensive items, and when they left the storm, he and his crew breathed a sigh of relief.

They spotted an anchored ship within the plateau as they puttered with their battered, almost sinking, remaining ships. And they slowly made their way to that ship, hoping they could help fix up their damaged ships.

"Maybe we can recover some of the lost products?" Murmured his first mate to him as they sailed away from the storm.