The second expedition into their territory by humans allowed the child to learn a lot:

1. Humans are not able to currently enter their dungeon.

2. They need to move their entrance and make a platform to allow easy access to the entrance tunnel.

3. Increase the tunnels that lead into other rooms.

They planned out a long, winding route that was a metre wide and 75 centimetres tall. The tunnel was wide enough that it would allow people to be able to move in it and was tall enough that they could crawl through the tunnel. It moved around the iceberg and had enough curves that anybody who entered their dungeon could not see into the first room.

Their new dungeon entrance was just above the water level and created a pressurized ice platform a metre around the entrance.

The tunnels in between the rooms on the first floor and through the portal also needed to be expanded. So they made the tunnels 75 centimetres by 75 centimetres, and they tried to keep the tunnels having at least 50 centimetres of air.

They also increased the height of their second-floor rooms by an additional 50 centimetres.

The child looked over the new changes before moving on to creating their third floor.

Unlike how they thought their sub-dimension would expand, the area that expanded was around their core room, pushing and shifting their second floor to the side and up a bit. As a result, the new expansion of their sub-dimension was 10 metres wide and 10 metres tall.

Within the new expansion were bigger veins of black stone with silver flecks, a couple of small patches of soil, a few chunks of the grey-brown rocks, and a room of beige sand, the same colour as the outside sand, that was one metre by 90 centimetres.

The idea that they had for their third floor was to create one big room that was made out of two levels.

The way that their sub-dimension expanded, it gave them an empty area of around 15 metres. If they moved the soil to the upper room for plants and their land animals and moved the sand to cover the water portion of the floor, then they could get two separate floors in one.

They dug out the room, making it ten metres wide and 12 metres tall. The upper part of the room is seven metres long, with 70 centimetres of pressurized ice floor, leaving two metres of free area, and the upper part of the room is seven metres tall. The bottom part of the room is a full ten metres wide and just under five metres tall. Underneath the top part of the room was one metre by one metre circular pillar holding up the top part of the room. Along the pillar were nudges and indents, enough so that plants or any other creature or plant that they collect can live in or around the structure.

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Once the room was built, the child built a tunnel hidden partially behind a stack of coral in the fourth room that was completely hidden that led toward the third floor. They only opened it up to fill the floor with water and closed it up when it was filled up.

As the tunnel opened, water flowed into the room. It flowed down off the top part of the floor and started filling up the bottom part of the floor. Soon it filled up two metres, and the child closed up the part of the tunnel that was underwater.

Just as the child started moving the dirt around on the upper part of the floor, they noticed three more ships appearing on the horizon.

They watched as they approached the five islands and anchored next to the two ships from which the two groups came.

There was movement on those ships before the three new ships sailed to the first island that they encountered in the island chain.

Figures moved around the island, clearing away plant life and bits of the interior forest.

As they watched the figures build wooden structures, the same group as before began to row toward their territory on dinghies.

I wonder if they’re going to explore the dungeon this time?

POV Divan

With a sigh, Divan continued to fill out the never-ending guild paperwork about their experience with the dungeon.

When they had returned to the guild ships to report back their findings, the assistant guild master Vasir, went into a flurry of actions that somehow pulled my group in with him.

As soon as they told the assistant guild master and the scribe about what they found and all of the details that each of the group’s members remembered about the dungeon.

Once they told the guild master and guild scribe everything they knew, it triggered procedures upon procedures about the discovery of new dungeons were activated. Somehow that led to a mountain of paperwork that the leader of the discovery group needed to do.

And that was how Divan ended up being stuck doing paperwork, but at least they were almost done.

After an hour of writing and filling out boxes, Divan handed the paperwork back to the assistant guild master. As Vasir combed through the paperwork for any mistakes, he went to get out of the chair.

“Sit back down,” said Vasir as he continued combing through the paperwork.

Divan sat back down and waited until the assistant guild master finished reviewing his submitted paperwork.

Once Vasir was done, he set the paperwork on the edge of his desk, sighed and started speaking.

“The Blue Suns did a good job in confirming the new dungeon. But we need more information about it, and since you’re the highest ranking group here currently, the job will go to you if you accept.”

After thinking about it for a minute, Divan replied. “So, our job will just be to map and collect information on any plants, creatures, and monsters the dungeon possesses?”

“Essentially. You will have to begin to map at least the first floor, and if available, bring back samples of plants and bodies of animals and monsters. But most importantly, I need you to categorize the dungeon’s attitude. It will be a registered quest, and the guild is willing to offer your group a standard 30 silver coins first-time dungeon exploration bonus depending on what you find.”

Divan continued thinking about what Vasir had said. “All right, we’ll take the quest.”

Pulling a piece of paper with the guild’s stamp on it, Vasir responded. “All right, here’s the quest. But just be aware there are no rescue teams in the area. So if something happens, you will be on your own.”

He took the piece of paper and went back to the team, resting on the top of the deck.

“We’re going back to the dungeon.” It was the first thing he called out when he saw the group.

“What?” Stated Caliso.

Handing the guild’s quest to Neronia, who, after reading it and passing it to the other group members, he continued speaking.

“Gear up. We’ll be heading out in 30 minutes.”