The first thing that the child tried to do to right themselves was to use their mana strings. Their idea was to lasso their iceberg and somehow pull the iceberg back up. But it did not work. No matter how much they pulled, they could only lift the edge of their iceberg a couple centimetres off the ground. No matter how many mana strings they used to pull, they could not shift the iceberg any greater than before.

The second idea they had to fix this was to grow multiple pillars of the iceberg into the sand that would continually grow until the iceberg was righted.

Taking multiple ice mana strings, the child grew ten wide pillars off of their iceberg into the sand and rocks. It took a couple of hours, but the child was able to slowly start lifting the edge of the iceberg that was laying on the ground. Once the iceberg was tilted enough, the child, using their own mana strings, pulled it down with a big whack and splashing sounds as the iceberg righted itself.

Once the iceberg was right, the water from within their dungeon started to pour out. Once settled on the sand and rocks, their iceberg was tilted slightly on its side. And since the entrance to their dungeon was just above five and a half metres from the bottom of their iceberg. Since the water level was five metres, water poured out of their dungeon.

Quickly, the child detached one of the ice columns and created a half-bowl barrier to stop the water from spilling out. But that was only a quick fix.

The child knew that they had to remake their entrance tunnel to ensure they were not leaning and spilling out water. Still, since they could not close it up without damaging their core, they would have to see if having another access point would make closing up the original one okay.

They dug out a tunnel that went straight up until it was a metre above the first room before going sideways and exiting the iceberg. Once this alternate entrance was created, the child quickly closed up the original entrance and watched as the water quickly filled up the new entrance tunnel before stopping just before the tunnel turned sideways.

Even though no more water escaped the dungeon, it still reduced the water level. The rooms lost almost half of their water, and with the outpour, small portions of their creature population fell into their outside territory along with some of their monster ice krill. The child quickly re-distributed the piles of pressurized ice pebbles and re-anchored the surviving kelp across the rooms. All of the dead or too damaged to keep kelp was dragged into the room where all of the plant seeds were kept. They then collected all the monsters pulled out with the water and placed them back into the dungeon. The one thing that changed in their dungeon was that the rooms had a significant reduction of water that they didn’t know how to replace.

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But as the child contemplated how to fix the issue, they noticed something occurring in their dungeon. The few water mana strings that they had in circulation started to produce the same type of water in the ocean very slowly. So, with the problem seemingly fixing itself slowly, they went back to fixing everything else that was disturbed by the storm and then being pushed onto their side.

They turned their attention to the plant room and went about righting it. They carefully removed all of the plants and the seeds that were buried under the soil. Once they held the plants above the soil, they took their mana strings and churned the soil and dead kelp plants together before separating the plants and seeds into their own sections and replanting them into the soil.

The child looked over their dungeon and the rooms within the iceberg itself once more before deciding that they were satisfied with it for now.

Turning their attention to their krill and snail caverns, the child connected all of the rooms together before opening multiple exits and allowing the swarms and snails to explore this new area they found themselves in.

Just as they released the krill and snails that tended to live outside their iceberg, they searched for all of the new things in their territory.

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POV Andrissus Catemarino

“Hey boss, why are we going out to the Five Islands again?” called out the new member of their little group, Jassian Weete, a wannabe adventurer who could not make it in the trade and was born far enough inland that he had not seen the ocean before arriving at the trade port. He had recently joined his group, the Andri Scavengers, as menial labour but seemed to be a quick learner. His group scavenged the icebergs and nearby islands for interesting things that get caught up on them that they could sell or trade for.

“A major storm just went through the island chain.” Responded Andrissus, who was absorbed in preparing his ship for the journey.

“So?” called back Jassian, who still seemed confused about why this was significant enough for them to travel all the way out to the last island chain before reaching the next closest continent to them, the Arinarae continent.

“We are now currently in iceberg season, where large pieces of ice fall off from the ice sheets in the North and float with the current past us. There are sometimes artifacts from past civilizations, expensive materials, mana-soaked ice, or extinct plants or animals trapped within the ice.” As he lectured, he stopped his work and turned his attention fully to Jassian. Seeing him entranced in what he was saying, Andrissus continued.

“Most storms in this area pass through the Five Island chain. This leads to things washing up or getting stuck, and we have to get there before any of the other groups get there.”

“So there’s a greater chance of us finding treasure?” exclaimed Jassian, who seemed to get in the mood to find treasure.

“Maybe, you never know what the storm and ocean will deposit on those islands.”

With that, Andrissus returned to readying his ship with the rest of his crew.

After an hour, they were all ready to go.

“All right, is everyone ready to go?”

“Yes!” called out his ten crew members.

“Then set sail for the Five Island Archipelago.”

As soon as he said those words, everybody scrambled to their positions. Soon, the ship started sailing for the archipelago.