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POV Unnamed Dungeon
???, Day Fifteen
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Nellie stared at what she had created. With only being a dungeon core for half a month in this new System-controlled Earth, Nellie thought of herself as making decent progress.
Nellie had raced through building rooms and pathways around her Outer territory. The Outer territory gave her 22 metres wide and long and 32 metres tall of stone, ice, and soil that she manipulated into a series of rooms and tunnels connecting them. The rooms were all somewhat similar, being around one to five metres tall, long, or wide. Five new rooms with the bryoria room and the melted ice cave created a sprawling system of caves throughout her territory, ending at a big five metre by five-metre room with a tunnel leading to the portal to her Inner territory. However, Nellie decided to keep the melted room isolated for now. Each of these new rooms was filled with every flora, fauna, and fungi that she collected, with an additional 30 species that Nellie meticulously added after her expansion.
The first room at the top of her territory was five metres long and one metre tall. Carved within two large chunks of ice and soil. It was a curved room in an s-shape with ten centimetres of soil. She filled the room with two tall species of grass; pepper grass and switchgrass; and a short growing meadow grass; common meadow grass. The pepper grass was a dry, gold wheat-like plant with unique seeds. While observing this species, she noticed that its seeds produced tiny sparks when the plant moved sharply. The switch grass was a species that grew just under three metres tall with green stems and brownish leaf tips. As the plant grew, Nellie noticed that the plant grew their roots deep and wide and that it seemed to stop growing just as it began to touch the ceiling. The common meadow grass looked like normal grass you might find in a meadow. It was short, around 70 centimetres tall, but the plant seemed to do well in the cold, frigid environment.
As the grass species in the room grew and spread, Nellie decided that she wasn’t done with the flora in the room. Throughout the room, she added a few low-growing and densely matted flowering plant that she named lilac rockfoil, a few dark green ferns that had these nodules along the veins on the underside of the leaves that she called spinulose woodfern, and the last was a shrub growing just over one metre tall with wooden branches and yellow honeysuckle flowers that Nellie named bush honeysuckle.
The second room was three metres wide and five metres tall. The room was a rough rectangular shape and had a few ice ledges and indents within the stone and soil walls. Half a metre of soil was laden on the floor and a bit on the ledges. In this room, she planted one of the unknown seeds that she found. Planted in the middle of the room. She grew the mystery seed with a string of purple sparks, and what appeared made her smile. On the island there was nothing bigger than large shrubs, but the seed grew into something bigger than a shrub. The plant that grew in that room was a tree that sprouted all the way up to the ceiling, with its branches spreading out, creating a large canopy. The tree had white papery bark with a small yellow shine that made her think of birch trees and had dark green round leaves. Nellie named the plant the yellow birch. Along with the tree, she filled the room with lilac rockfoil, spinulose woodfern, bush honeysuckle, and another new flowering species with strong reddish upright stems, yellow-green and red flowers and acidic red berries that she called red sorrel. She even strung up some bryoria lichen along the tree branches.
The third room was slanted downwards, with a height of two metres and a width of three metres, and it was sloped rectangular. It was encased in condensed ice, stone, and fortified soil. Nellie filled this room with a layer of soil along the floor with bushes and dense plants. She used the lilac rockfoil, spinulose woodfern, bush honeysuckle, red sorrel, and a grass-like plant that extends upwards in strong red stalks about 90 centimetres tall and grows in bunches that she called the carex sedge.
The fourth room was a long single tunnel that she shaped into a trinity knot. Only one metre wide and one metre tall, the tunnel would have been around fifty metres long, but since it curved and interested with itself, it was a lot more condensed than it would have been straight. The tunnel was filled with a lot of her newer, smaller plants. A cactus species that was bright white and had funnel-shaped flowers that only grew to 3.5 centimetres high that she named the albedo cactus. A small species of fern that only grew one thin, shiny, grey-white leaf out of the ground that she named white moonwort. A mushroom with a ringless orange-brown cap that had sticky white dots on its cap that Nellie called the orange-brown ringless mushroom. A moving vine species with strong roots and stalks that had the peculiarity of moving itself across the ground named the travelling vine. A deep green moss species with long leaves and strong roots that was named timmia moss. And lastly a type of slime mold that seemed to love to live on the exposed areas of ice she decided to call the ice mold. Along with bunches of common meadow grass, spinulose woodferns and bush honeysuckles filled up the tunnel, making it completely packed.
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The fifth and last room was with the biggest room. Five metres by five metres, she placed two of the yellow birch tree seeds in the room and let them grow throughout the room. Despite the competition for space, Nellie noticed that while some of the branches were intertwined, none of the leaves even touched one another. It was like the trees had a rule that they needed to leave about twenty centimetres of space with each other. Which Nellie thought contradicted the branch interweaving, but it was what it was. Nellie filled the room with grass, grass-like plants, orange-brown ringless mushrooms, and timmia moss.
Each of the five rooms had a single tunnel, one metre tall, connecting the previous room to the next. The tunnels were filled with just common meadow grass and timmia moss, but Nellie didn’t care if other species spread through them. Honestly, she expected it and wasn’t opposed to it.
Nellie had prepared all of the flora and fungi, but just before she added the fauna, she realized she had missed something. The luminous moss. Being underground, most of the rooms and tunnels were completely black, and those that weren’t only had a bit of sun that managed to get through the ice that reached the surface. The luminous moss was a type of moss that was bioluminescent and produced a good amount of light depending on the amount of moss. So she sporadically placed the moss along the ceilings, creating a dark but bright enough to see the environment.
With everything prepared, she spread all her new and old fauna species throughout the rooms and tunnels.
She spread as many tentacled mole worms (a worm that previously hungered for her mana sparks but not is a part of her domain, that has a mole like nose and grows to around 20 centimetres), foliage earthworms (a small five centimetre earthworm species that consumed things that are dead), twist harvestmen (a graceful light grey to brown legged harvestmen that grows three centimetres wide and five centimetres tall), black ticks (a species of black tick that she found love to live in loose soil areas), hairy pill beetles (a dark brown pill beetle that grows up to 18 millimetres in length and has small hairs across its body), burrowing pill beetles (a dark brown ever moving pill beetle that is 15 millimetres long and specializes in burrowing), red furry aphids (an one centimetre aphid that is a soft red colour with a fuzzy, white waxy substance that has a defense mechanism that shoots out a mixture of blood and feces at predators), frostwing grasshopper (a cold-dwelling blue-grey grasshopper species that is five centimetres long that has powerful hindlegs that is used for jumping), ice bush moths (a four cenitmetre wide moth that has transparent wings with a white border), ice melt mosquitoes (two centimetres long and is adapted to the icy environment), dark-stripped soldier beetles (two centiemtre long beetle with a tannish-brown colour and dark blue stripes that can feed on both nectar and smaller creatures), dusky solider beetles (a one centiemtre long beetle that is active in the dusk and dawn), belted springtails (a one centimetre long springtail that is dark brown and has black stripes and has a forked tail-like appendage), and the three arctic short-tailed shrews (a shrew that can dig within frozen soil, has large teeth, and can grow between ten to 14 centiemtres long) throughout the rooms. Nellie tried to be careful with what she pulled from the soil and above ground, but she considered this more important. And she watched the insects, crustaceans, mammals, worms, and arachnids spread throughout the rooms and tunnels, making their own space.
Along with finally completing the two rooms within her Inner territory, she had been quite busy. Over the seven days that she spent doing everything and tweaking things to be what she wanted. On the fifteenth day, she decided she was ready.
Pheew. Sighed Nellie as she looked at the expansion of her work. I’m ready.
With trepidation, she slowly excavated a twisty, winding tunnel from the first room, the s-shaped room, to the surface.
BOOM
The second the tunnel entrance was stable, a noise blasted through her head. Crouching down in pain, she gripped her ringing head. Blinking, Nellie remained disorientated for a minute as changes rushed upon her.
As the effects of the explosion sound disappeared, Nellie finally realized what happened.
It was like the Inner territory exploded in size and within her head. It doubled to ten metres in length, width, and height, and with the expansion, new materials laden within the new areas. A dark brown soil with what appeared to be laden with the dark, organic material of hummus that forms in the decaying of plant and animal matter and a bubble, one metre long and wide, that was completely filled with fresh water.
Not to mention the fact that her nebula core expanded in size and amount of circulating purple mana sparks in it. Even the condensed part of her nebula expanded in size. The tightly packed purple mana sparked space, growing to four centimetres from its previous two centimetres.
When Nellie looked away from her nebula and started looking around, a blue screen appeared in front of her.