Auna spent enough time explaining what had happened that morning that they were ready to enter the dungeon. They knew they would have to let their food settle a bit before running around killing monsters. The information Auna had given them left everyone confused.

They spent time bouncing ideas around and asking each other questions. Jensen was oddly quiet. Though Auna assumed it was because he truly knew some of the answers if not all to the questions they were asking. He really wasn’t just going to tell her.

“Okay we know where the stairs are for level one, and we already scouted the whole map. Isn’t it unheard of to find no monsters in a new dungeon? It isn’t like they were killed off so fast none could be born.” Auna was pretty sure it was Mateo speaking.

I have a feeling you can tell them apart, but you aren’t doing it for me because you’re a jerk. Auna thought to Mr. Voice being partially right. Mr. Voice just wanted her to figure out how to tell the boys apart herself. Jensen seemed to be able to, so she should be at some point as well. Auna sighed.

“It is very odd but have a dungeon with such landscaping on the first floors is as well odd. Mr. Merlin said that happens in some dungeons but much lower.” Auna continued walking in the bright field of flowers.

“I could make a very big farm in here; too bad the weather doesn’t change.”

“Girl that is all you think about. If flowers are growing, then it must rain sometimes, right?” A triplet said.

“Auna, I tried to identify them, but I can’t. Can you try please?”

“Sure. My skill says it is a magic flower. It grows in dungeons with high levels of mana. It makes the soil around it rich in nutrients. The different colours represent different effects to the soils, and potions for alchemy and medicine. Monsters don’t inhabit the areas where these flowers grow.”

“Wait if no monsters inhabit the area where these flowers grow. Doesn’t this mean no monster will ever leave this dungeon?” Bruno asked looking at a purple flower.

“What it means is this dungeon is very odd, why would they grow on the first floor. Also, if they only grow in high levels of mana does that mean this dungeon really is too dangerous for us?” Diego was speaking directly to Auna.

“I agree. I don’t think we should go further into this dungeon even the second floor might be dangerous. We might have been lucky last time. Maybe we should research these flowers, and the oddities of this dungeon.” Auna was stern already putting her weapon away, she would ban people from the dungeon if she had to for their safety.

“Does this mean I could grow seeds in here?” Ciela was hyper focused on her farming as per usual.

“We could use water magic to water them, we should research all about if other people tried farming in a dungeon as well.” Jensen was encouraging her even picking her up.

“Fine we can leave. It makes sense at least. We did get ahead of ourselves.” Chloe put her weapon away as well.

“We should go to the library right away. We might be able to find some things about the information the Gods gave Auna as well.” Meredith put her weapon away as well.

Soon they all arrived at the campus library. The library was a big place they enlisted help to find some books that would interest them. There was a whole section on dungeons divided into smaller sections.

“This book here also said the dungeon flower usually grows in patches of three or four in a small corner of a level. If all these books are saying it no one must have ever seen this before. I think you were right about it being lucky we had no issues on the second floor.” Diego put his book down sighing.

“Also, from what I gather dungeons don’t usually have multiple floors at once being so big. They are usually more spread out having one per ten floors. To have two back-to-back means it is defiantly a scary place.” Jensen was grinning as he pointed out his section.

“I read that there have been some farming attempts in dungeons however the crops either don’t grow due to the soil, get eaten by monsters, or sometimes change into something different.” Meredith set the book face open on top of the other ones in the middle of their table.

“See here, some reports say carrots went from orange to black. Blue apples turned green. They haven’t done many tests because the patches of soils are small. Once the flowers are removed monsters will come near.” Flipping the page Meredith continued.

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“The soil has been removed from the dungeon and used to grow crops without any issues. So, once it is removed there is no issues. However, anything grown in the soil is usually a magical vegetable or fruit when appraised. Though some are good ingredients for alchemy most appear to just be infused with some mana.”

“I want to plant a garden. We just have to be careful not to remove any on the outer parts of the floor, so monsters don’t travel.” Ciela was almost drooling.

“Well since we have decided to hold off on exploring the dungeon why don’t we help the kid garden? We could also try making different potions with the flowers see if we can get useful skills. I’m sure using Aunas’ doors we can dress up and sell some without people knowing it is us. Pretty sure we are all a part of the guilds as well, so they will let us sell under our dungeon name. The guild way would be less shady, but I’m all for the shady way of dressing up.” Jensen was messing up Cielas’ hair as he spoke. She was too focused on her book to care though.

“I think doing it under our dungeon name would be best we could set up a shared account with us eight. We could register as a party. Dungeons will recognize up to ten people together as a party so eight is within regulation.” Auna began closing the books.

“It is recommended to enter a dungeon with at least four people, being double that size usually means we can’t participate in cramped dungeons. So, if we register as a party now, we can get the required years and dungeon dives to upgrade to a small guild. Being a small guild would allow us to pay one fee for sending in two parties to cramped dungeons.”

“Wow Jensen you really know a lot about the guilds and how they work.” Chloe was organizing their books to be put away.

“Yes, yes I do. My father spends a lot of time in the adventurer’s guild because the guy that runs it in our area is an old friend.” Jensen helped reorganize the books, handing one to Ciela. “Sign this one out.”

“Yes, big brother.” Ciela was gone like a flash leaving Jensen to stare at the air with an open mouth.

“Awe how cute. She likes you.” Mateo was hiding his grind behind his hand.

“Why did she call me that?”

“She calls me big sister from time to time. We have nicknames for each other. She must think we are very close. She just figured a close person to me would be another sibling, probably.” Auna shrugged. “What book did you give her?”

“A book on the different flowers and what they do. We can copy the information of any of the ones present in the dungeon. Then return the book. I figured it would look the least odd if a kid majoring in agriculture signed it out. If any of us sign it out the librarian might question us.” Jensen straighten still looking at the space Ciela had left.

“We will go to the dungeon tomorrow as planned but only the first floor. We will have to keep an eye out to make sure no monsters attack us.” Auna started restacking the books with Chloe.

“Hello lady Auna.” The doctor had come up with Mr. Merlin.

“Hello doctor how may I help you?”

“Well, I thought I asked you to rest. You aren’t studying too hard right?”

“No doctor we are just looking into dungeons for fun.”

“Yeah, sorry doctor dungeons in Mr. Merlins’ class caught my attention, and you all know how I am I just had to research more about it. My friends here thought they could help make it go faster. Which it did because we are done now. And Ciela here found a book about interesting plants she didn’t know about before. So, we all had fun.” Jensen put his hand on Cielas’ shoulder as she returned trying to hide the book.

“Yes, I am aware of your condition lord Pearl. Please don’t push lady Auna so much she is still sick.”

“Sorry doctor this might be partially my fault. We got side-tracked in class a few times I should have been in better control.” Mr. Merlin looked a bit red.

“Alright well don’t let me catch you over working yourself lady Auna, or we may have to revisit if I need to recommend a lighter class load. Now go rest somewhere.” The doctor dismissed himself.

The children soon left the library.

“Wow he really is watching you, my moon should I be jealous?”

“No, you shouldn’t be. He is a doctor he is just making sure a student doesn’t become too sick. The school could be in big trouble if he does allow one to get very sick.”

“Stop being so negative he might just care.” Chole moved a piece on the board game they were playing in the common lounge.

“I don’t know I might have to agree with her on this one. My family is her sponsor, and she comes from a well know duke family as well.” Meredith moved her piece.

“True, I know these two can be downers but yeah I have to agree this one time.” Diego smiled. As the other triplets nodded.

The children played games until dinner time. All of them were given medicine Aunas’ more bitter tasting than theirs. Soon they went to bed after a long day of research and playing games.

The morning came quickly the children opted to sleep in, eat breakfast, then head to the dungeon.

“Chores first.” Auna said as she stepped onto the grass of the crater.

“Yes, but my moon you go lie down in your old room. You need a lot of rest.”

Auna did eventually go lie down, being woken up a few hours later.

“Okay Ciela you brought your seeds, right?”

“Yes sister. But isn’t something a bit different today?”

Just as Ciela said that it started to pour. The children were shocked but ecstatic at the same time. They spent the next two hours playing in the muddy rain. It finally stopped just as quickly as it started.

“Yeah, we should leave a bowl here to see if it rains daily or every few days. Coming to check when we do chores.” Diego nodded as he looked up at the sky of the dungeon.

“That doesn’t matter right now. What were we thinking Auna you need to warm up and get into dry clothes.” Jensen grabbed her shoulders as he guided her to the exit. He took her out before anyone could complain, walking right through the moon door into his dorm.

“Take a hot shower you can borrow my towel and clothes. No arguing I know you. You’ll go back to your room dry yourself half off and crawl into bed. Shower, now.” Jensen pulled out a pair of sleep pants and a shirt.

“Jensen dude if we get caught with her in our room, we are going to have to answer a lot of questions.” Diego said grabbing Auna a towel and pushing her towards the washroom.

“That’s why we have to be quick.”

“Auna, did you go to the boys room?” Meredith was standing by the moon door looking angry.

“Yeah, he wanted to make sure I properly warmed up. I’m going to lie down.”