As the child considered what they wanted to do, regarding what animals they wanted to place in the water and have within the air and grates, they noticed another storm just at the edge of their peripheral on the easternmost edge of the plateau.

Typically, this wouldn't catch the child's attention, but this storm looked particularly nasty. A wall of pitch black with flashes of lightning going off within it, mountainous waves, and wind they could feel pushing against their iceberg kilometres away. Along with the nastiness of the storm, the child noticed that there seemed to be debris of some kind floating out of it. Still, it was too far away to see and impossible to reach, so they put it out of their mind and went back to populating their seventh floor.

Most of their creatures, unlike their plants, haven't been … touched or changed in any way, and they thought that it was time to change that.

While they have been gaining new creatures as they slowly made their way in the current that only seemed to be circulating within the plateau, it was usually only one or two every couple of days. So, they focused on the best creatures for shallow water and a primarily air-orientated room and enhanced them with mana threads.

Of the creatures that they wanted to live in the air and around the grates, they added: yellow finches, grey water snakes, brown singing frogs, long-jawed orb weavers, crystal dwarf spiders, white moths, clouded white butterflies, tormissus water beetles, elachista moths, cold water bees, green mantises, paddle mosquitos, and skimmer dragonflies.

The fauna that the placed in the water are: silver spindles, silver signal minnows, knobbed sea snails, grey oysters, blue sea lilies, grey tassels, silver anchovies, ripple angelfishes, red-tentacled box jellyfishes, spindle crabs, rock crabs, pink sea stars, red sea stars, wandering anemones, decorator worms, brevis quids, blacktip sharks, pygmy red sharks, sand triggerfish, purple spotted pufferfishes, speckled groupers, silver needlefishes, kelp frogfishes, blue halfbeaks, white ribbon eels, burrowing sea urchins, and eyelash clams.

As all of their creatures settled and explored the room, the child started picking out some of them that they thought might be worth adapting.

Out of the creatures operating within the air and grate environment, they chose the paddle mosquito, skimmer dragonfly, grey water snake, and cold water bee to perform their adaptations on. And they already knew what they wanted to do with them.

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For the paddle mosquito, they took swamp mana and inserted them.

For the paddle mosquitos, they planned to have a "twin" situation. The child wanted to use swamp mana to somehow make the mosquito an unknown danger. Something that, if they bit them, it could damage or infect the person with swamp mana, and they wouldn't even know it. At least, that was what the child wanted. A sort of silent killer, well, not so much a killer, but a danger. Taking that swamp mana string, they inserted it into the mosquito and pushed the mana into them. Quickly, the insect began to change.

The first thing that changed was that the mosquito lost its feathers. Then the blue markings along their body tinged into a brown-blue colour. The real change that excited the child is that their saliva became saturated in swamp mana, creating a unique effect that turns the saliva into poison. So if the mosquito goes to feed, they inadvertently poison their food source. They decided to call it the "Mskagok Mosquito," and they weren't done with it yet. What the child wanted was to have the majority of this mosquito be poisonous but to have like three percent of it have healing powers. Making it so that the adventurers may not want to kill it due to potentially killing the healing mosquito if they can make the healing mosquito identical and actually imbue the healing potion into the mosquito successfully.

As the child made their way through mosquito after mosquito, trying to get the healing potion to stick, they caught movement, about a kilometre away, on the edge of their vision.

With them being on a plateau with enough life within it, seeing movements out in the ocean did not concern or really interest them.

But this time, it did.

They noticed three figures in the water as they watched for that movement that caught their eye. What they saw was unlike what they'd seen before. They have encountered humans and that one adventurer with furry triangle ears, both humanoid and sentient groups. They have encountered the siren, a non-sentient humanoid monster, but what they saw in the distance differs.

The three figures stood at around two and two and a half metres tall, and their skin was a mix of different hues of blue and grey that managed to camouflage them significantly in the open water. The camouflage was good enough that it was the only original movement that originally caught their attention.

They were human-like, with two arms and two legs, one head, and moved as easily as fish in the water. And they were moving towards them.

As the three beings came closer and closer, the details of the beings came more into focus.

Their facial features looked very similar to the dungeon delvers in the five islands, but their nose had a sort of mucus seal that seemed to cover the entirety of their noses. Furthermore, the mucus covering their nose seemed to cover all of the beings' bodies that the child could see.

While having very similar features and physicality to humans, the three beings' hands and feet were very different. Their fingers were around 15 centimetres long, and between each of their fingers were finger webs that helped them swim significantly. The same long toes and webbing also was part of their foot anatomy.

Another eye-catching feature of theirs was their feather-like hair. Almost the same colour as their skin, the feathers all took on one blue or light grey shade.

And it looked like they could be a more organized and intelligent group of beings. Each of the beings was wearing two sets of coverings made out of what looked like fish skin, and they were carrying bags that appeared to be full.

As the child was studying these three beings, they swam closer and closer and quickly reached the iceberg.