CHAPTER NINE
About Fifteen Hours Later
JESSIE'S POV
My mana finally has refilled. Time to make myself a little fox buddy. It says fifty mana in the menu. I have one-fifty. That would leave me with ten mana for other things. Probably just to carve out the room I'm making out some more. Well, back to business. I decide I want to make my fox special, so I start by putting the fox down. Before it finishes I pause the process, and a little menu appears;
Creature Customization
Modification
Price
Enabled/Disabled
Base Fox
25mp
Always On
Sleek (+1 Agility, Sleeker Fur)
5mp
On
Waterproof
10mp
On
Colour Scheme - Rainy
5mp
On (Customisable)
Agility Boost (+5 Agility)
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5mp
On
Agility Boost 2 (+5 Agility
5mp
Off
Strength Boost (+5 Strength)
10mp
Off
Health Boost (+10hp)
15mp
Off
Sturdy (+10hp, +10 Strength)
25mp
Off
Monster Core (Allows Respawn)
25mp
off
Total
50mp
N/A
Hmm… Interesting options. It's also interesting to know that I could have gotten a fox for only twenty-five mana if I disabled everything. Of course, that would mean that my fox would be a completely random colour, and it wouldn't stand a chance against its wild counterparts. I decide to spend the extra mana to get it sturdy and a monster core. Means my little buddy is gonna be an expensive guy, at a whole hundred mana cost. While I'm at it I also make it's colour scheme more grey, making it into an interesting orange-grey colour. I like it. I press resume on the spawning process, and my little buddy finishes spawning in. He is SOO CUTE!! I give him the order to just wander the room I put him in. speaking of that room, I spend my remaining fifty mana into digging out more of said room. This room was gonna be my little monster lab. In the future, I'll probably add a connected room to experiment with traps in. I also plan to make the entrance a locked door with a little doggy flap for my animals. Don't know how I'll do that yet, but it's nice to plan in advance. I smile as I watch my little fox explore what little of his room is complete. I'm probably going to need the little guy to collect me some materials for his new room, but I'll save that for some other time and just watch him for now.
JAMES' POV
I have this down to a process now. Dig, wait, repeat. So boring. Almost done the room though, so that's a plus. I'm still getting a little experience from all the rats dying, but that isn't really much. Maybe I should try my chances at making a trap… No. that would be against my principles. I’m a builder, not a fighter. Though, building traps, crafting tools, and crafting weapons all fit into that category. What could I do without killing? I mean there is always decorations, but after a while, I bet it would stop giving me enough experience. I am only half the way to level three, and Jess is like half the way to four. I'm gonna fall way behind if I don't find a solution to this. I mentally sigh and look around to see what Jess has done. Only to find she made a room coming off of my center room. Looking in it reveals a fox. Makes sense, she did build traps, and I did get a message for the dungeon having killed its first fox. I watch it wander around a bit, but after a while, I get bored and go back into my little hibernation mode I do while waiting for mana.