CHAPTER ELEVEN

About Fifteen Hours Later

JESSIE'S POV

Mr. Fox came back after an hour. He was carrying a dead spider. I should be congratulating him for helping lower the population of those things, but he brought the body back. Usually, when an animal brings the corpse of it’s kill back to its master, It is bringing it as a gift. I don't know how I feel about that. I had him put the body in the water trap, and sent him out to go gather something else. He hasn't yet returned.

With my mana pool full again, I continue work on my little kennel type room. I finish digging out the last of it, and because I don't have any materials to use, I start digging little tunnels throughout the dungeon for my little guys to go down to access other rooms easier. I start by making a doggy door type thing into the center room, and then make a passage to the first room. I copy the little lockdown thing onto the passage, but of course at a smaller size due to how small the passage itself is. This leaves me with a third of my mana. I really don't know what to do with it though. I add to the passage to the first room, making a little turn off into the second room. I add some more roping to my trap room, but I still can't finish it until I get some loot to place. Now I’m out of mana, but a message comes up;

Level Up

You reached level Three. Congratulations

Rewards:

* Fabric Material

* Fox Pelt (Bringing up the fact you have it)

* Cotton

* 10 Stat points

* 150MP

My mana bar has been completely refilled, and I got some stat points. I don't like the fact that I have fox pelts, but I bring the matter up to James so that he can have something to do. The cotton will be nice to make a little bed for my fox. Speaking of the fox, He's back. He's carrying a bundle of moss covered sticks. I don't know whether I am proud of him, or confused because he was able to understand my orders so well. I decide the former, and when he puts down the sticks, I make him a little stick and cotton bed and then give him praise. He seems to be reacting to it, but I'm probably just imagining things. I take my attention off him to see what the moss is, and he wanders through my little passages to go sleep in his nice new bed. The moss seems to be just usable as a decorative, so I place some in the entrance to simulate it spreading into the dungeon. I head over to my kennel room and place little stick and rope walls between the different areas where I plan to put beds and stuff. I think it looks cute. I look at my start screen. I can either raise my mana regen by two more points, or I can start raising my maximum mana. I decide that getting my mana regeneration up is still the priority. Once I’ve put my points in, I look at my stat screen.

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Core Name:

Jessie

Level:

4 (25/400xp)

Core Type:

Dual Ruby

Core Partner:

James

Core Integrity:

100%

Mana:

0/150 (8MP/hour)

Intelligence:

40

Wisdom:

10

Perception:

10

Charisma:

15

Strength:

LOCKED

Agility:

LOCKED

I smile happy with what I’ve done today.

JAMES' POV

I decided to scrap my trap. I left the room with the stone chest, but I destroyed all the trap components. Jessie showed me that I could make fox pelts. She said to keep whatever I make from it away from her ‘Kennel’ and her fox. I also got access to sticks, cotton, and some moss. Leaves me to wonder how much that mysterious ‘Magic Lady’ is helping her. I mean, there is the chance that her fox did bring some of that stuff in, but I really doubt it. Somehow, I have a full mana pool. Probably killed a lot of spiders. I dig out two more standard rooms past the center room and move the core. And suddenly I am completely out of mana. I mean I was only able to get the last room done because I levelled up. I pump the five points from level three into Intelligence, pumping my mana regen to five per hour. Still not much, but I'm finally on par with what Jess started with.

Planning ahead, I could probably make some armour with the fox pelt if I make myself somewhere to set up all of the required stations to properly work it with. Maybe I should do a Jessie, and make my own room on the second floor. Of course, my room would be a crafting room and have a section the adventurers we eventually get can work in. We'll see how it turns out when I get to that point.