After gathering Mana for a bit I realized that I could draw in about 1 Mana Point every five minutes. Because of this, it took me under fifteen hours to gather 250 Mana.
After checking that I have the amount I think I do, I start to put my plan into action.
The first thing I do is expand my dungeon by four more rooms in a line with the two I already have. Making my total rooms six, all of them in a straight line. Next, I fire a Mana Arrow at the bug I noticed in the bush in the room next to my core, killing it and the bush. As soon as they die I feel a new kind of energy enter me. Looking at my stats I confirm that I now have 5 Life Points. Satisfied with this outcome I open my Edit Monster skill.
As soon as I do, I see a blue screen with a large box in the middle, The monsters I have killed to the right, And a Mana and Life Point cost in the top left. By focusing on the two things I have killed up to this point, I can tell that the grass was actually a young berry plant and the bug was a type of beetle. Knowing I don't have much Life Points I only make two types of beetles. One that lays eggs about once an hour and has a life span of weeks, and one that has a life span of hours and brings food to the queen. This way they are always dying getting me Life Points without me doing anything.
After I was done making them I lost 20 Mana for making them and it took 5 Life points to summon them in.
As soon as I did summon them the worker went over and started to bring back parts of the plant I killed. After watching it for a bit I went back to work on my dungeon.
The next thing I did was buy the trap skill and the upgrade trap skill for a total of ten Mana. After purchasing them I was able to make five types of traps. The first was pitfall trap that made the floor under it cave in to reveal spikes below it and costs 10 MP. The next is a similar trap where the spikes fall down from the roof instead and cost 15 MP. The one after that is a thin wire that when pulled fires an arrow from a hole in the wall and cost 10 MP plus 1 MP per arrow. The second last one fills a room with poison gas when activated and cost 25 MP. The last one is similar to the third but is a much smaller dart that has paralysis poison on it and cost 20 MP and 5 MP per arrow.
After looking over what I can get I realize that these traps were most likely made for hallways and I will need to spend another 5 MP to unlock them and 5 more to place the hallway. But knowing I have to do it I buy the hallway And learn that they are 2 meters tall, 1 meters wide, and 15 meters long and can take any shape I want.
After buying one that connects to the last room from my core and goes ten meters before turning and going five more. Sensing that the edge of whatever I'm in is right at the end of the hallway, I start to place traps. The first thing I do is place a pitfall right at the start of the hallway so that as soon as they enter they will set it off. After that, I put I an arrow trap that fires right at the small edge that is created to get past the pitfall trap. After that, I leave the hallway empty till the corner, where I put another pitfall trap and pay 5 Mana to upgrade it to level 1. Making it harder to see and making the spikes harder and sharper.
After this, I start to talk to the AI again
(Adam) "Is there a way to upgrade rooms to make them stronger?"
Yes, the upgrade walls skill makes walls stronger. Also the floor and roof count as walls as well.
(Adam) "Thanks"
Knowing this I buy the skill for 5 more Mana and upgrade the walls of every room I have for 1 Mana each. Costing me a total of 42 mana. I then upgrade them again, this time costing me 84 mana. To do this I had to go to every wall one at a time and focus on upgrading it. I then had to go again to upgrade them the second time. This process took so long that by the time I was done I had gathered 20 more Mana and had gotten 2 Life point from a beetle dying.
But with this finally out of the way, I move onto creating the creatures that will defend my dungeon. The beetles that I made were obviously just to get LP when I had none and will serve no purpose in the future. I will need something that is strong and able to defend me from whatever may enter my dungeon trying to kill me.
With this in mind I now I only have beetles to use, so I need to be smart. Reopening my menu I start working on something new.
The first thing I do is make the beetle larger. Much larger. 1 meter long and 25 centimeters tall to be exact. The next thing I did was make their exoskeleton much harder than before. Hopefully, strong enough to block a sword strike. I then moved onto their muscles. I made them much denser and more efficient than before. With these two things, they should be able to fight an average person. But just to be safe I make it so that their pincers on the front are much stronger then they would be even with their muscle density.
By the time that they are done it cost me 99 Mana to make them and 15 LP for every worker I summon in and 25 LP for every queen I summon in. The good part is that since they are stronger there magic core is able to keep them alive without the need for food. I also made so that they are capable of thought and made them live they make warring clans that try to gain territory from each other. The last thing is that since they live off their magic core they have an infinite life span and don't die of diseases.
Since I still need more Mana before I can finish the design, I decided to watch what the beetles are doing. When I look in the room I left them in I notice that they are already at their third generation and the second which has about 20 members look likes it's about to die off. I also notice that they are now out of food but still are looking everywhere for more food. That's when the second generation starts to die and the third swarms them to be used as food for themselves. As I get 42 Life points I watch as the beetles rush in and start to eat their dead elders. I then watch as they start fighting and killing each other for whatever they can get. Killing and eating each other for food.
I watch stunned as I get 38 Life Points, as the only three beetles are left alive start to bring food to the queen. Not knowing what to do about it I just leave. But right before I leave, I see them get ready to fight again as I gain 4 more Life points.
Staring at my core I felt sick as I start to think.
(Adam) "They may have just been bugs, but I have never seen anything like that. I should have expected this. I made it so that they would do whatever it takes to gather food for the queen and stay alive long enough to do that. eating each other fits into that. Besides, I was planning on killing people. This shouldn't even faze me. Maybe I was just too naive in the way I was thinking. No, I need to do this if I want to live I need to kill everyone that comes into my dungeon. I have to get used to this kind of thing." As I make up my mind to keep going with the plan I feel Mana finally enter me.
This text was taken from Royal Road. Help the author by reading the original version there.
Using this I complete the creation of my new race of beetles and start to gather mana till I have five and go to the room where I keep my old beetles. Knowing what I have to do I start to circulate my mana for the first time in a while.
Once it is ready I fire a mana spear at the queen killing it and gaining three more life points. Looking at the last beetle, it starts to run around in a panic not knowing what to do. Ignoring it I move to the room next to my core and summon the first new beetle queen and worker in it. And since they don't need any food as long I there is enough mana they won't die.
I then move over to the room next to the hall and put the other beetles in it. With almost no resources left I open the entrants to my dungeon and start to wait when I notice a blue box just appeared.
Are you done yet?
(Adam) "Ya, I'm done. why?
Good because I have been holding back the notifications for you so that you could finish. But I don't know how much longer I could do this for.
And with that, I saw a flood of boxes appear.
Level Up
Level Up
Level Up
Level Up
Level Up
Spell(s) unlockedtelepathe(Special)
item box(
For completing your dungeon you have unlocked a new Title
True Dungeon You are now seen as a true dungeon. Effect: You can now be found by magic tools
Rarity: Common
For killing your own creation you have unlocked a new Title
Overlord You rule with an iron fist. Effect: Those under you are easier to controll
Rarity: Common
Looking at the new boxes I do my best to smile despite not having a body, Thinking about the adventurers who are to face me.
Name:??? Race:DungeonClass:MageSub Class:N/A Lv: 6 Rooms:7 Floors:1 MP:0 LP:9 Mp/h:11 Titles +
Reincarnated Human
Dungeon Lord
Hero Candidate
Demon lord Candidate
Paradoxical Existence
Questionable Sanity
Mana Hoarder
Late Bloomer
Prodigy
Genius
Unbound
True Dungeon
Overlord
Skills +
-Stats
-Shop
-Dungeon Sense(novice)
-Create Room(novice)
-Create Monster(novice)
-Edit Monster(novice)
-Mana Sensing(novice)
-Mana Gathering(novice)
-Mana Circulation(novice)
-Mana Activation(novice)
-Magic Aptitude(novice)
-Create Trap(novice)
-Upgrade Trap(novice)
-Upgrade Wall(novice)
-Telepathe(special)
-Item Box(novice)
Spells/abilities +
Mana Arrow(F-)Jobs +
(Authers notes) I'm thinking of naming the blue box finally. But since I am horrible at names, does anyone have an idea for it?