Going over all of their aquatic creatures, the child started picking out a few to mana adapt.

They chose the silver needlefish, wandering anemone, blue sea lily, tree coral, and the pygmy red shark to mana adapt. Even though some of these creatures, such as the blue sea lily and pygmy shark, weren't present on the seventh floor, they decided that they wanted to mana-adapt these creatures anyways.

Using a water mana string on a silver needlefish, the string changed the fish to be almost invisible in the water. The silver scales of the fish were replaced by water scales, and they were not see-through. The water scales held the colour of the water around them, making the fish extremely camouflaged and practically invisible in the water. The child named it the "wiha needlefish."

They enhanced the wandering anemone with lightning mana and ended up with an anemone that would occasionally send small electric shocks into its immediate area. The anemone turned a dark purple and gained interior organs that produced and stored electrical charges before it released it into the surrounding area. They called this the "spark anemone."

The blue sea lily they enhanced with swamp mana, and the process enlarged the sea lily and turned it a light brown colour. The animal grew to about 50 cm tall, which was not the only thing that changed. The fury tentacles elongated and would more actively grab fish in their reach and inject a sedative before pulling the fish to its mouth at the top of the stalk. Seeing the result, the child actively placed them around the sixth and seventh floors. The child named it the "giant sea lily."

Just as they decided what type of mana string they should use for the tree coral, the child felt a large group of the same species as the three blue-grey beings with feathers for hair.

Dropping what they were doing, they raced to where they felt the group enter and saw that three of the beings in the group were the original ones that netted the small group of ice krill before leaving.

The child watched as the original three that gathered their ice krill seemed to be escorted by a pair of more menacing blue-grey beings. The first seemed to be a woman with a purplish-blue plumage; she stood at two point five metres tall, wore what seemed to be the enforced version of the fish skin garb, and carried two rough short blades attached at her waist. The second, a man, had a dark midnight blue plumage, stood at around two point seven metres, and carried a long three-pronged weapon with very sharp points on the prongs.

They watched as the group spoke together in their clicking language, as the leader of the original gathering group pointed at the dungeon's entrance.

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As they spoke, the child started to understand the language more and more, especially when the group entered the dungeon.

The group of five crawled through the entrance tunnel and made their way into the first room.

"It's so ccliiick!" Exclaimed the female warrior as she had to crouch down low due to the one-point five-metre high room. The child decided to call the two escorts warriors because they looked so similar to the adventurers from the five islands. Still, the way they held themselves was different and the way they acted. It was like how the child knew that the original three beings that first entered their dungeon as they floated on top of the plateau were gatherers or hunters, not adventurers as they understood them.

"You knew what we were getting into when we were assigned to escort the gatherers, Remu." Replied the male warrior, who seemed to be exacerbated already by the female warrior Remu.

"Ya, well, I didn't know it was going to be this short, Sucha! Look at us! We're basically on our knees here!"

Which was quite funny because the two warriors were on their knees. The drastic change in the gatherers and the warrior's height made it much funnier to the child, as the gatherers seemed to be used to stooping or being in more cramped places.

The gatherers quickly made work of gathering some of their flora and fauna in the first room and continued to do the same thing, room after room, until they reached the fourth room. As they worked, the warriors defended them against the ice krill monsters living on the first floor.

At first, when the first group of krill attacked, Remu and Sucha started striking at them with surprising efficiency with their weapons. But they soon switched tactics when they realized that they were taking enough damage that it was ineffective to continue on the way that they were.

With a flick of Remus' wrist, the krill were slammed into the wall, and the gatherers quickly collected the corpses.

The group of five made their way through the rooms and tunnels when they hit the fourth room.

As soon as Sucha spotted the portal to their sub-dimension, he yanked Remu and the gatherers behind him.

"We're leaving." He said with a commanding tone as he pulled the group out of the room and pushed them into the corridor.

"What, why?" Cried out the head of the gatherers as he didn't even get more than a glimpse of the room before he was being rushed back out into the tunnel.

"That, right there, was a portal. We need to report back to the council of elders right now." Leaving no chance for arguments, Sucha made sure that they left as quickly as possible, but as they left, the leader of the gatherers left a seed behind.

As soon as they were out of the dungeon, they dove into the water and swam back to where they came from.

The child watched them leave before they continued on with mana adapting the tree coral and pygmy red shark.

Using an ice mana string, they merged it with the tree coral and created this tall, crystalline coral. Like ice, but it didn't have the coolness that ice had, the coral grew in small branches upwards, even growing out of the water. They decided to call it the "verglass coral."

With the pygmy red shark, they used heat mana strings, and the shark adapted to the heat by elongating their fins to have these small tubes that released heat. As the shark swam around, it would use these tubes to, for a short time, use heat to speed up to catch prey. The child called their new creature the "kisos shark."