You have absorbed the monster “Undine.”

Undines, a monster branch to the sentient race of the Sirens that became mana-wrapped and turned into monsters, is a type of semi-sentient monster that will try to consume whatever mana they can get their claws on. Whether from consuming a sentient being or living in a source of extreme mana, these monsters will seek out and defend mana sources that they make their own

You are now able to re-create this monster using your mana.

As the blue screen popped up, the child gained an image of the monster in their core. Not like when they were looking at it, but they gained an intimate, detailed knowledge of this monster. And when they went to mentally touch this blueprint, they felt almost two-thirds be pulled into the blueprint and created a small egg.

The egg was golden, and as they watched the egg, it grew and grew from their mana until it was a metre tall. Once it finished growing, the child watched as a clawed hand broke out of the egg. As the monster escaped the egg, the child realized that it was almost identical to the one they crashed through and massacred their dungeon.

But it was smaller than the one that invaded their dungeon, almost like it was a child.

They could tell that the monster was female. She had long brown, seaweed-like hair, white skin, and razor-sharp claws on her fingertips. The child had two ways of breathing: a set of lungs that she could use to breathe air and a set of gills on the edges of her neck. Her eyes were a bright green with hints of blue and violet, and she looked very pretty.

The female child slowly moved around and discovered her abilities on the fourth floor.

As the child watched them explore themselves, they created a room for the young monster to live within, just off of the tunnel connecting the fourth floor to their core room.

As the young monster starts swimming around, they direct them to start to make the room their home. The monster collected pieces of kelp and grass and made a comfortable little nest where they lay down to sleep. And the child watched all of this, and they realized that they couldn’t be calling the undine monster as a monster or her the whole time. So the child decided on a name.

Let’s call you Dwyn.

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A blue screen popped up, scaring the child.

You have named the undine monster “Dwyn.”

Dwyn is now your first-named monster.

As the blue screen popped up, the child felt a deeper connection to Dwyn than they had before they named her. A deeper connection than they had with any other monster within their dungeon. Naming a monster somehow made them have a deeper connection than they have with other monsters.

As the child left Dwyn to sleep, they went to go fix their floors with the minimal amount of mana strings they had left.

Slowly everything was righted, and the child just floated within their territory as they waited for their mana to build up again.

As they waited, Ivory came back on the third day with their bucket filled with new plants, animals, and a bit of water. They added them into their territory and gained a female water shrew, a couple of grey water snake eggs, praying mantis eggs, and mosquito and dragonfly eggs from within the water. They also gained a seed of water-living trees called mangroves.

They collected, named and added these new additions to their floors and waited as their mana slowly began to re-fill to its original amount before the undine invaded their dungeon.

For days they waited and watched the goings on of their surroundings.

They watched as the adventurers made their way through their second dungeon and began to breach the top floor of the third floor.

POV Alexis Miftern

Alexis was a small-time merchant that focused his business on the trade of dungeon-made products. Whether in raw materials or finished products, he made his money by finding dungeons that were not yet exploited by merchants or trade routes.

And through his contacts, both within the guild and in through the different ports within the Togiak continent, he heard of a newly discovered dungeon, just off the coast of Port Kivalina that had the dungeon expert, Aleessia Fariwik, to come look at it.

It was then that Alexis knew that he had to get over there and see what this dungeon was and what it could offer in the potential for trade.

POV Dungeon Core

It had been two weeks before the child felt their mana was at the same level as before they created Dwyn from the monster blueprint they gained from killing the invading Undine.

During this time, the child watched every interaction between humans, sentient beings, and their monsters within their dungeon, territory, and the areas that they could observe.

And they noticed something unusual. Some of the adventurer groups didn’t seem to be there to fight monsters and take their cores, like a majority of the groups that go through their floors. Still, they seem to be harvesting some of the plants and animals or even in one case, taking them out of their dungeon alive. It was disturbing to the child as they watched the animals and plants being taken out of their territory and their connection to them completely severing.

But, with the harvesting and collecting of some of their animals and plants, the groups have been leaving things behind.

Shards of broken glass, pottery and weapons were left behind. And one group that were mainly harvesters and collectors, but could still fight really well, that made their way all the way to the third floor, seemed to leave them little gifts.

The main group leader, named Jackson, spoke to them, “Here’s a trade for what was taken,” and left them a small paper pocket of seeds that dissolved in the water before they collected all of the seeds.

The seeds were inherently harmless, most being fruit-producing seeds and edible plants. Still, they were seeds they did not have yet and may not have acquired much later in life.