As they were admiring their sixth floor, the child had an idea.
They still had a lot of empty space left in their sub-dimension that could be made into their seventh floor, and they already had an idea for it. They wanted it to be an hourglass shape with streams of water coming from the sixth floor.
You know what, thought the child, I’m going to do it.
With their mind made up, the child started digging out the room. It was 43 m tall, and at the two widest points, it was 40 metres wide. Having four walls, they declined until there was a hole of ten metres by ten metres, and then it widened again till it reached the bottom base.
Their goal was to have people climb or jump on spaces to get down, so they intentionally left the wall rough, not smooth, but they didn’t plan to leave the empty space empty for long.
Using the leftover ice, the child condensed them into pressurized ice rods and created various-sized grates. They planned to develop a system of grates hanging in the top part of the room by pressurized ice chains attached to the ceiling and other grates. The grates were small, only big enough to hold one, maybe two trees at a time.
As they built these ice grates, they also made square and rectangular grates that they were going to hang in the bottom section. Except they were not going to hang them horizontally but vertically.
The child started hanging them by the time they made over 50 of the grates. It took a bit of time to make the pressurized ice chains, but they managed to hang all of them up, and when they took a step back, they really saw their vision of the floor coming together.
Next, they need to add the water. The aspect of water was going to be somewhat significant in their vision of the floor. Their plan for the water was to fill the bottom of the room up, about a metre or just above a metre, and have tiny tunnels going from the water to the top of the ceiling and around the edges of the ceiling.
Digging out a tunnel from the sixth floor to the seventh floor, the child watched as the water level filled up to about one point one metre high before cutting off the water flow and shifting the tunnel so that no water would continue to flow into the room.
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Digging five five centimetre wide tunnels spaced around the room, they made the tunnels go up into the ceiling before having some smaller branches that had holes in the ceiling to create drips and allow the water to flow more easily down the walls and out of the ceiling.
Once the tunnels were dug, the child created a strong enough current that pulled water through the tunnels and up into the ceiling. As the water flowed up the tunnels and into the ceiling, the child was treated to watching as water flowed down the walls and slowly flowed from a few holes in the ceiling, making a slight rain effect. It also had the benefit of making everything slippery and more challenging to traverse down to the bottom of their floor.
Excited that their idea actually worked out, the child started choosing the plants that they wanted for the floor and rapidly started cross-breeding them for new and exciting versions.
They took almost all of their plants that would be suited to growing on the grates and placed one or two of them throughout the room. Taking these plants, they then started to cross-breed them together.
From the cross-breeding, they created: thorny orange vine, reaching vine, feathered vine, pruning vine, dangling fern, blue star fern, berry fern, black fern, yellow bell, mushroom bell, furry vine, bearded flower, dragon snaps, lightning snaps, jumping bell, dancing vine, platform moss, blackthorn bell and dropping berry bush.
As they were finishing cross-breeding these plants, an idea came to mind.
What if they inject some of these plants with their low-level healing potion? What if they do this during the actual process of cross-breeding?
The child carefully went through all of their plants, looking for plants that they wanted to try inserting the health potion and creating a healing process or something with a healing effect within the plants. They chose the mint fern, dangling bush, cold fern, strawberry bell, and silver vine.
With the plants chosen, they started experimenting with how to insert the low-level health potion into the plants safely and successfully.
It did not go well initially. Every time that they tried to insert or get in the healing potion into the plants it led, in some way, to the death of the plants. They either swelled till they exploded, had so much overgrowth that the plant couldn’t sustain themselves, or died as soon as the potion hit their systems.
But, after trying and discovering, they found a way to ensure that the plants would stay healthy and continue to grow normally. Still, even then, it did not always work. The trick was to take a seedling or a seed and insert a tiny bit of the health potion into them.
Still, it only worked a few times successfully, and they managed to make four plants with a healing factor in them.
The first was from the cold fern, which produced a slight healing factor in their leaves that, if mushed and made into a paste and put onto a wound, will help speed up wound healing. They called it the “press fern.”
The second successful insertion was from the silver vine. The berries on the silver vine contained a slight healing factor if consumed, but the addiction factor increased every time it was consumed; they called it the “consumption vine.”
The third was from the strawberry bell, where the strawberry turned into a light pink that has almost the same effect as the low-level healing potion. So they named it the “pink strawberry.”
The fourth plant was made from the dangling bush, where the roots contain a small amount of the health potion that allows those who eat them to feel refreshed. They called it the “refresher bush.”
Gladdened at their success, the child started to fully populate the seventh floor with all their new plants through the grates and even placed a few healing plants into the sixth floor.