POV Guild Master Chiura Ogi

It has been a week since the Tsethem group has come back with their survey on the dungeon, and it has been hectic.

We have finally moved out of the guildhall in Corondale into the newly constructed guildhall in Porta. It took a couple of days, but Chiura was able to negotiate with the carpenters guild to work continuously to build it.

There was a lot of work just moving everything to Porta and getting everything set up. Chiura did not think that they would find a place close enough to the dungeon to be able to walk within 30 minutes, but far away enough that if anything dangerous came out of it, they could protect the village. She had to pack up and move all the paperwork, samples, maps, and everything that she brought with her initially to Corondale, which was a headache in and of itself. But she settled in and got back to work.

Chiura sighed at her musings and glanced at her desk, which held paperwork stacks that kept on breeding and growing.

‘Oh, how I hate paperwork. Throw me into a war zone, and I’ll be fine. But just looking at the growing piles of paperwork makes me want to cry’ thought Chiura getting depressed at the sight of an ever-growing pile of paperwork.

Just as she was getting back into working on the paperwork, a knock came from the door. The door opened, and Kaya, the receptionist that came with her from the Corondale guildhall, opened the door and said, “The village elders are here to see you on the first floor.”

Sighing, Chiura realized that she forgot the appointment to survey the new changes being made to the village. She got out of her comfortable chair and walked to the first floor to greet the elders.

“Ladies and gentleman, thank you for agreeing to this meeting,” said Chiura as she walked towards them.

“Hmmph, like we had a choice,” grumbled Fernando, a crotchety human old man who did not want the village to change in any way.

“Hush Fernando, this is a great opportunity for the village. We won’t have to rely on hunting and gathering anymore. We can have an economy and be known as a dungeon town!” exclaimed Neda, a young-looking water nymph. Chiura couldn’t believe that Neda was over 500 years old when she first met her, but then she remembered that water nymphs age slowly.

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Before anybody else could comment, Chiura cut them off. “Shall we get started?” she said while gesturing to the door leading out of the guildhall.

As the group walked out onto the street, Chiura saw many changes from the time when the guild and the people associated with it started arriving in the village.

There were many changes within the village. There were more stores and houses were built, two new inns were currently being built, a dock for ships was built in the lake, and the local masonry guild was now improving the roads into the village. Even a town planner was sent out here to help with everything before merchants and adventurers flock to this area for the new dungeon.

The group of elders and herself walked through the growing village and talked about the new things occurring and any concerns they had with what was going on.

One of the things they asked was when the dungeon was open to adventurers.

“Well, the dungeon has already been surveyed, and the first floor has been somewhat discovered. So it is currently open to adventurers, and aspiring adventurers from 5 am to 10 pm every day. If you have anybody that wants to become an adventurer, please send them to the guild to be evaluated and receive their ranking. Also, if you have any requests you would like adventurers to do, please do not hesitate to give them to the receptionist so they could be placed on the request board.”

With that, the meeting ended, and Chiura went back to her office to tackle her ever-growing paperwork before it became an accursed paperwork monster that would follow her around and eat her, and dealing with political problems that are never-ending.

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POV Teaghan

She had spent a couple of days thinking about it, but she decided what she wanted to do for her fifth floor. Unlike the previous floors, Teaghan decided to make this one filled with water. But, as she still had to include a forest somehow, she decided to make use of her new water vines and create small islands where she would place steam trees and other trees on top of them, creating a floating island. But the best thing about her idea was that these islands are not held down or are locked into one spot. The water vines should allow gradual movement of these islands across the floor.

Teaghan decided to make this her biggest floor yet. She pulled up the dungeon interface and selected “create floor”. When she did this, she created the floor at the largest she has ever had, at 400 metres. The floor had a slope that sloped downwards on all sides until it reached the middle of the floor.

In order to quickly fill the room with water, Teaghan created a series of tunnels from the water tanks in between the third and fourth floor to the fifth floor. When she opened the tunnels, water rushed onto the floor, quickly up the floor two-thirds of the floor. Teaghan closed the tunnels and realized something as she was watching the water, it was perfectly still. This was not what she wanted. She wanted the islands to be able to be moved by the currents in the water.

As Teaghan was thinking about how to simulate a current effect on the water, she somewhat vaguely remembered an experiment that she did as a kid. She could remember how she simulated the ocean currents’ effects by using a flame to heat up water with salt in it. As the heated saltwater was less dense, it rose to the surface, then cooled down, becoming denser and sinking.

But Teaghan could not figure out how to simulate that response without salt. Then it hit her, why not try it with mana instead of salt and heat. She used her mana to push the bottom water from the middle of the floor up. As the water was displaced to the bottom of the floor, she pushed up again. She did this repeatedly. After a couple of minutes of doing this, she received a blue screen.

Congratulations! You have created the specific environmental effect: Water Currents.

Reading the blue screen, Teaghan checked to see if the effect was in place, and it was. As she watched it, she saw that the water moved in a circular motion around the floor. With the floor’s basic environment created, Teaghan set out to create the rest of her floor.