Author's note:-

Sorry, i got so engrossed in writing new chapters yesterday that i forgot the time and by the time i came to, it was already too late. (I hope it fools somebody.)

Well, actually i really was writing and forgot to edit, so i couldn't upload any new chapter.

From today starts the Upgrading of our little dungeon. It starts really slow, almost Snail paced, but don't worry, every new chapter there will atleast be one new upgrade and a lot of information. Hope that would keep most of you readers happy and there will be another massacre coming soon.

Ah... one more thing, I added date and time to the chapters to keep you all focused.

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Enjoy.

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Rocky's P.O.V:-

(D-M-Y) 6-01-01: Morning

"Hey"

Huh, did someone just call me?  Nah, nonsense! Who would call me in this darkness? I can't see anything here, so, how would anyone see me back?

Ah! Even my mana perception is not working here. No matter how much I try to see, the mana flowing in the surroundings; I felt nothing, absolutely nothing.

I noted something strange, it's not that I forgot how to use the skill, it’s like there is no mana in the atmosphere. Like I am trapped inside something which blocks all the mana, or someplace which had no mana to boot from the start!

"Wak...up"

Ah! It’s here again. This voice, I heard it again. I don't know why, but the voice seems, No, it feels kind of familiar to me and I am sure that I am not hearing it in my ears. Well, huh, everyone knows by now.

It feels like someone is directly speaking in my mind.

"Hey, Are you going to wake up now or do you want me to wake you up?"

And drum roll please, because she is back again, I hope not. I hope this is just a dream, no, not the darkness and everything; I don’t care about it, but her anger. I don't want to wake up to meet with an angry and fawning Minie.

If it is the really her, then it’s best if I keep on sleeping here.

"Are you sure you are not going to wake up?" her voice had a soothing feeling. Now that I think carefully, I don’t feel any anger or dark sentiments from her tone and I also can’t hear any grunting sounds. So does this mean she still has control over her anger, well, I hope so.

"No." I answered to her cause this sleep thing is really miraculous. It’s so relaxing and is making me mushy. I just don’t want to wake up anytime soon.

But her answer to my reaction was how I should say, mysterious. Instead of ranting and rumbling like a kid, she tried to get my attention by giving me ‘candy’, a reward to wake me up and it worked.

"So you don't want to see this."

See, she clearly understands at this point that, her anger won’t get the work done. So, instead, she is trying to make me think and frown, but it’s working.

"This! Wh-What are you talking about?"

I am eager and waiting. She has my attention now, but I just hope whatever it is which she is cooking won’t end up leaving a bad taste in my mouth.

"’This’, this is something which you will never be able to forget… after looking at it once."

Well, I should wake up now before she loses her loose temper. It’s not the danger of her going berserk, but that I am really interested, interested in whatever it is that she wants to show. It seems like something happened while I was sleeping.

"Ah... ugh... hah. So, what is it?"

I woke up feeling a bit jittery and worn down. I don’t know whether the effect of  sleep is to erase tiredness or to make one feel drowsy and fatigued.

She looked at me, I mean queen and after moving her head a full circle around her neck, she cranked her head to the left and said, "Come with me, let’s go."

She said that and then she started flying towards the exit. She looked beautiful. I don’t know what sleep is and how it works, but if sleeping made me feel drowsy and out of energy then it surely made her even more beautiful. Her radiating skin and glowing eyes are really enough of a clue to the benefits that sleeping brought to her.

She looked beautiful while flying away and moving towards the exit. Wait a minute; don’t I need to follow her?

"Ah, wait! Let me change, I mean shift out of the queen."

As I looked at myself, I found that I was still inside the queen, and all the talk between us happened while I was looking at her red, small, but cute face and she was looking at a … Sorry queen, but you really are a monster.

"Hurry up."

Her haste was enough to indicate that whatever it was, it was enough to make her behave like a child and to drag me with her too. But whatever it was, it was still in our own home and it wasn’t going to go away or leave anytime soon. So, I couldn’t help but complain to her.

"What’s the rush? What is so important that is making you so eager, to make me move my ass so early in the morning?"

Well, now that I see her, she looks different. No, she didn't grow taller while I was sleeping not has she become a babe, instead of a quantitative change there is more like she had a qualitative change.

Moreover, it's not a single one. It feels like she is going through more than one of such change. Her face, which was full of fear and terror stricken just till yesterday, has blossomed like a flower.

It feels good to wake up and see such a beautiful... Ahem, I mean a happy face. Her body language changed too. If all her movements felt stiff and mechanical yesterday, then today it seems like she is finally... Free.

Yeah, what am I even crying so much in the morning for, I have her, she has me, and we have our queen and don't forget about the little one.

Actually, now that I see the room clearly there are no little ones here.

“Minie, where is the little larva? He should be big enough now, right?”

She stopped and looked back at me. Her glowing eyes turned a bit darker as if trying to say, 'we could talk about him afterwards, and we need to be somewhere else right now.' But she sighed once before reluctantly answering.

“Oh, him, he is alright! He never got between the crossfire, so after the fight ended, he came out from one of the corners unscathed. He’s fine, but the experience and terror changed him and he grew, a lot.”

Why do I feel some tension here? Is he really alright? The thing is I completely forgot about the larva while we were fighting. Well, let’s see what became of him.

“Oh really, so where is he?”

“He is working in the tunnel outside the queen room. I gave him the respective information and the plan that you had devised to shape our dungeon. So, he is currently converting the small narrow tunnels into big and wide rooms, but because he is working alone, therefore finishing everything is probably going to take him a long time.”

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Her answers felt like she was in pain, not from any injury or anything, but emotionally. Like she had something really important to attend, but because I am acing like her stuck up boss and am not letting her leave, she is feeling mentally fatigued and is in return sulking.

“You know, you shouldn’t do child labor. What if someone righteous came to our dungeon and asked compensation from us or tried to blackmail us for it! What will you do then?”

A little joke, just a little one to make her mood get a bit better. Actually, I firstly want to go see him. After hearing her say that, ‘he has grown a lot’. Why wouldn’t I be tempted to go watch his growth?

“Ha-ha, yeah, right! I suppose we should go to see him first thing. Then you would know who is a child and who need protection!”

Huh, the way she looked at me. Is she implying that I am the kid here who needs protection?! Preposterous! But she is right though. What can I even achieve with a crystal body and limited movement?

“Not a body, just spiritual presence. You don’t have a body yet. Your crystal is just a shell and nothing more.”

“Y-You have no respect for my privacy do you? I never try to read your mind. Well, not always, but you!”

Yeah, she never leaves my thoughts alone, while I can’t even hear a squeak, if she doesn’t allow me to. I am not even able to block her out of my head or even restrict her movements. Though I also try to read her mind sometime and it’s a different thing that I am not even able to penetrate her outer layers of defense, but she is just too much.

Are you listening! I am going to file a report against you!

“Alright, alright. I’m sorry; I won’t try to invade your mind and read your thoughts, but please keep them in check. Be calm. I understand that you are excited to see the larva, but keep your thoughts under control, they are spilling out everywhere, like water from a broken fountain.”

“You!”

*sigh* she’ll never stop. I think it’s her nature to spy and read other people's minds. I don’t know what kind of an education her academy or organization provided her, but she has obviously branched from its essence and has taken a different route from it.

 I also think that she is taking her job a little too seriously and though she is trying to provide help to me by mind reading but it annoys me more, than doing any good.

But it is a good thing that she is changing. Even though her nature will take a long time to change, but even if only her character changed from an angry Berserker to a lovely angel then I think I’ll be able to handle her.

“Hahaa, come lets go.” And she who again heard my thoughts, laughed at my innocence and dim-mindedness. It is a continuous cycle, and I don’t see it stopping any time soon.

I was hovering in the air and felt my presence thinning and fading, So I shifted my presence to the walls, to follow behind Minie, my queen slowly and quietly regained her control over her body and went back to do what she was good at.

Well, when we came back, we both had another surprise waiting for us in our room, but I knew nothing and followed behind Minie and exited the room.

I followed behind Minie and she took me to see my now employed cute little larv…

Nah, not possible! I hurriedly checked my dungeon interface status panel to see whether we were invaded by some monster or anything, but no.

 I thought that my cute little larva evolved ant was eaten by the monster that I was looking at, but no. The interface clearly showed no invaders, so that was a relief, but I still couldn’t understand what that was.

And to increase my confusion, Minie called the monster and it came running towards us.

“Here, meet your new ant. Though it looks a bit bulged from here and there like it has cancer or something, but it still a worker ant. Here you have taken a look, so, let’s go now. Hurry up!”

I couldn’t understand what was happening. This was our monster? Something which evolved from that larva? How was this possible? I shouted at the running fairy and called her back.

“Wait a minute, just wait a minute! What the heck I going over here? When did my cute little larva gain so much muscle and what the heck are those sharp metal things hanging from his head? Just what happened here while I was sleeping?”

Hearing me call it cute and little, the monster… I mean the ant snorted and started shaking his head in denial like an angry bull.

Okay, I take my words back. It’s not cute at all. No, it’s not horrendous either, but mature. He has turned into a monster in a good way, and he looks exactly like her mother.

No, not like Minie! I’m saying he looks exactly like the queen but smaller, much smaller in size and also some small differences, but otherwise, if one doesn’t look at him clearly, then he would look like a miniature version of her.

If queens 50 meters height and overall package are enough to make anyone cover in fear, then his height is enough to make my expectations up and enemy’s hopes down.

He is about 5 feet tall, while standing on all its legs. He has sharp antennas, not regular ones and they look to be made of iron or some metal, instead of normal flesh and mana, but no matter what, they look really sharp.

Then his shell looks even harder than his predecessors, though I don’t think they will still be able to stop that knight’s sword or that chameleon’s dagger, but I guess it will be enough to stop the forward movement of most 0 rank adventurers.

Its body is also more, much more buffed and bulkier than his predecessors, it’s like he is on a drug or something. His one foot taller height is all thanks to his bulges. I don’t know whether ants have muscles or not, but he sure looks like some who workout regularly.

Am I happy, yes I am! I am so happy that I think that I would probably not be able to sleep for some days now. I hurriedly opened the floor option in the dungeon interface to check his status, and it surely didn’t disappoint me.

Buff Ant Worker(U)It is the same species of normal worker ants, but because of abnormal conditions in which it evolved from being a larva. His genetics changed and his overall strength improved to make him able to live in the chaotic environment. Though his strength has doubled to other normal worker ants, but it comes with a decrease in his overall speed/agility. His doubled strength does help him deal a heavy hand to the opponents, but his halved speed enables them to dodge him.Rank1Level0Abilities:

Antennae shot (Retractable)

Mandible shovel

Power Throw

“It’s a unique ant! But how did the ant evolve, don’t we need upgrades for that?”