After they had finished making their mana-adapted creatures, the child looked at the seed left behind.

The seed was light blue with brown mixed into it, and as the child grew the seed, they found that it was an aquatic plant that grew these large fleshy fruits right off of its stem. At the top of the stem grew a large, flat, firm leaf about 55 centimetres long. They called it the "fruit water pad."

They realized something as the child thought about what to do with the fruit water pad.

Oh crap, thought the child as they just realized that they hadn't glanced at or touched the greenhouse since the beginning of their time stuck in the five islands.

When they looked at the small area that they called the greenhouse to see if there was any change or anything different, they found a room filled with and overgrown with plants.

The room was filled with more than the original ten seeds. It seemed that during the time that they ignored the plants and seeds, they had all grown and begun naturally cross-breeding with each other.

The four plants they have already hatched from the seeds, the bearded bush, cushion moss, red trumpet vine, drooping orchid, and the six other seeds hatched and started cross-breeding together. This created an overly stuffed room filled with plants.

Carefully reviewing all the new plants, they found 16 new species, including the six that grew from the rest of the original seeds.

After going over everything, they gained: ash pearls, spider flower, pygmy orchid, dusk daisy, parasitic dart, soaking cardinal, spiral orchid, hive flower, acalypha string, covering algae, climbing algae, three-petal cardinal, tentacled cardinal, parasitic cardinal, walking pygmy orchid, and the shaggy bush.

Seeing the room and its overgrown, squished, and not strategically placed plants gave the child an idea of a potential floor feature. But they didn't even want to touch the idea of an eighth floor before they finished creating their sixth and seventh.

They were quite happy with the sixth and seventh floors, so they went onto one of the last processes they had to do in order to finish their floors, creating monsters.

Now, the last time they created their monsters, they didn't really think of the big picture. More like what they needed at the time for each floor at a time, and they didn't think of the other floors that these monsters would inhabit. It was only later that they discovered that there was a monster limit and that the monsters they had made already were probably not the best choice in the long run. So this time, they were going to truly think about what they wanted.

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They had three slots to fill, and they got to work.

The child scoured every creature they had within their dungeon and territory before deciding on three beings that they wanted to become monsters.

The covering algae.

The yellow finch.

The green mantis.

These are the creatures that the child chose, ones that are fit for most of the terrains that the child was leaning towards. Coupled with the fact that they already had two fully aquatic monsters, it made a choice to have two fully non-aquatic monsters easier to bear.

In truth, it would have been much better if they had more options so that they could make one of the fish or sharks a monster. Still, they knew at this point that they needed to have the other types of terrain covered, not just the aquatic one. And they knew that there was a possibility of them gaining a fish monster from the outside.

Starting with the covering algae, the child worked on making its core. Then, taking a string of their mana, they rolled and condensed it into a small two-centimetre wide sphere that they delicately sewed into a piece of algae that was 30 centimetres wide and 20 centimetres long.

As soon as the mana core was sewn into the algae, the core and the plant started to change.

The core condensed itself even more than what the child did, making itself a one-centimetre-long sphere before it flattened itself and became hidden entirely inside the algae.

While the core was shifting and changing, the algae itself was changing. Growing thicker, the tendrils connecting the whole of the plant became stronger. The roots that allowed it to swim, move, and grasp became longer and significantly stronger, and they became more specialized. The roots meant for latching onto things became a lot more versatile with hook-like claws; the swimming, climbing, and moving roots gained these web-like add-ons that they could use to help them manipulate and move around whatever environment they found themselves in. As a result, the carpet of algae was a lot more puffier and a darker green. Seeing the algae monster's nature playing around with what they did as a creature, the child named it the "engulfing algae."

You have created the monster species "Engulfing Algae."

You now have two available monster species slots left.

The child repeated the process on other pieces of covering algae and placed them within both the sixth and seventh floors.

As soon as the monsters began to populate the two floors, the child received two notifications and felt their sub-dimension expand.

Congratulations! You have completed your sixth floor!

Present Creature Species: 47

Present Plant Species: 25

Present Monster Species: 1

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

Congratulations! You have completed your seventh floor!

Present Creature Species: 50

Present Plant Species: 28

Present Monster Species: 1

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

After reading through the two blue screens, they checked to see how much bigger their sub-dimension expanded.

It grew 30 metres in height and length, leaving its sub-dimension to be 113 metres wide and 115 metres high. And since their sub-dimension usually grows after each floor, the child guessed that the growth was now 15 metres per floor.

There was some shifting around of the rooms and tunnels, but in a small section of the ice, there seemed to be a five-metre by five-meter solid cube of grey stone.

Hmmm, that stone could become fascinating if I use the magma mana string. But that will be for another time.

After checking over everything, the child went back to making their monsters.