A weed has absorbed enough mana to evolve.

Weed has evolved into Sapling

As this window formed in front of the girl and fairy, they heard the sound of rustling and when the look they see a tree sapling form in one of the sections.

“So it's already growing!” Misty said happily.

It's been three days since they expanded the first time and the day before they had expanded the distance cloud reached from the shore outward 4 meters to 8 meters and once more to 16 meters.

The reason for this is because the island was getting unstable for the amount of clouds and with more clouds it meant that the island would have less chance of falling.

The girls also summoned more wisps of all types and now the clouds were getting denser. Also an hour ago, they had expanded the 6 meter in diameter island to 9 meters. The cloud growth and land growth are different because of their mass so it only grows 3 meters per upgrade and the cost is bigger.

With the next upgrade to the land, the thorn bush warrior went working again to undo knots. Misty got curious and checked the clouds with Dia and to their surprise they found knots similar to those on the ground and together they learned to undo them causing lots of water and air mana to start appearing in the pool.

Another thing that appeared after the upgrade to the land was this.

Upgrade to the land has unlocked new minions.

Brown Cap Mushroom

One of the most common mushrooms in the world. It is edible when boiled in water. They grow anywhere, but they develop the best on humid land. Warning, can cause nearby plants to die out.

Rose

The most well known flower that is used to express a man's love for their woman, but it can also describe a vengeful woman filled with thorns and in places it is considered the symbol of death.

Lily

A flower with many different colors. In this world the color can also represent its highest magical affinity. It is a flower that naturally draws mana to it and causes it to flow into the earth. This flower has many alchemic properties and is used in medicine making.

Misty made sure to keep some facts about the flowers from Dia, especially the roses, and had her plant the flowers. She even planted the roses with intent for it to have no thorns, but instead it formed an ability to retract and expose the thorns. It was ironic because now it was even more like a cunning woman who hides her thorns.

The lilies came in red, blue or green, but none were brown, and she planted them closer to her dungeon core, but still outside the circle that was made for the water to keep the roots of the plants out.

Finally, the mushrooms were planted in one section alone near the edge of the island so it wouldn’t injure other plants.

Without much else to do, the girls play more as they fiddle with the dungeon and even try some things like how to control mana and how to use magic.

When they both got bored, they returned only to find the thorn bush warrior with its leaf arms crossed and tapping his left root.

“Why are you here!” Misty shouted but the ex-fairy pointed at the ground where a message was written.

‘Stop fooling around! Summon more wisps and tell them to gather and increase the size of the clouds and tell the earth wisps to work on the land. They can produce small grains of minerals and later make ore veins if you set it up early on!’

“Don’t tell us what to do!” Misty shouted.

The flower turned around and wrote something else.

‘Even if the goddess says you are ‘qualified’ you aren’t going over all the workings of the strange dungeon system. This is a totally new system to the world so stop playing and learn it properly!’

“What’s she saying?” Dia asked.

‘Stop calling me ‘she’ I'm a man!’

“Not anymore! The goddess put you in a female flower.” Misty shouted back and then explained what the flower was saying.

“How far can the island grow if I let the wisps work instead of gather?” Dia asked confused.

‘It will keep growing forever and the land will be really unique with mountains and hills and when you fill it with flowers and plants it will look really pretty!’

“Really!” Dia said happily.

Misty facepalmed when she noticed the girl could read as long as the words went with her simple mindset of wanting a fairy island in the sky.

Before Misty could react, Dia told all the wisps to work instead of gathering mana and then summoned a lot more wisps, totalling 40 air and water wisps, 30 earth wisps and 20 fire wisps.

The work was as expected, the air and water wisps gather mana and injected into the clouds. As for the earth wisps, they float around for a long while before they descend ‘melting’ into the ground near the edge of the island and slowly a lump of rock begins to form. As for the fire wisps, they gather fire mana and some would follow an earth wisp and melting into the earth causing the dirt to dry up and form a harder rock. Some of the earth and fire wisps went over all the harder rock foundations, even a water wisp came, and they began to rework the edges. Slowly the dry dirt began to turn into clay and was dried by a fire wisp, forming a primitive brick that held the water even better and channeled it with less erosion.

The flower went to its spot for several days not moving and since the wisps were no longer gathering, the pool had a much slower absorption rate, but the result of the change was significant.

The more mana rich clouds caused the cloud water that was filling the garden to be more mana rich and with the earth wisps entering the fields they injected earth mana into the soil. This worked as fertilizer and soon several weeds evolved into plants.

Some that were near the herbs took their form, but those near the edges were different. One of which was the Thorn Lily.

This was a weed that was born in close proximity to a thorn bush and a lily flower and formed a more powerful attack flower. A thorn bush has one thorn shooter, but a lily has up to five since one plant will normally sprout with five others.

Another is in a similar situation, but the result was even more wild.

It is a Spitting Thorny Flower. It is different from the original thorn bush and the thorn lily. This one is two meters long with a 20 cm trunk that splits halfway into two flexible branches that end in a big bud. Once it opens it reveals a rose flower, but inside is a big mouth filled with fangs and green spit that is made of acid that it can spit as well as thorns from the original thorn bush plant it came from.

Dia wanted to immediately get rid of it because it was scary, but that wasn’t possible. This was because the plant naturally appeared and was already part of the dungeon system and she needed it to improve the defense of the dungeon.

The plant was lively like an octopus and could remove its roots from the ground. Doing so it planted itself at the edge with Dia’s order to be away from her.

The ex-fairy seemed to pout as it made circles in the ground and then wrote, ‘If only I was that spitting thorny plant! That thing has the greatest evolution capabilities as long as it’s fed a lot of humanoid corpses. It would eventually gain sentience and become humanoid.’

Misty had interrogated him and he said that it would evolve first into a really scary looking thorny flower, slowly gaining a mask like face, before it would gain a real human body.

Dia didn’t want it if it was going to get scarier, but Misty said that they would wait to push it away from the island after the island grew, before making it scarier and only when it becomes cute that she will let it back.

Dia was happy to hear that, but was sad that she wouldn’t be able to get rid of the plant quicker.

Beside that, there were many different types of trees that began to pop up and were actually slowly filling up the small space. The unique magical trees were actually either taking over or killing off competition while getting slowly stronger. Obviously the strongest are those closest to the center of the rock, however with the slow but constant expansion of the island it has now reached 11 meters. The clouds are stretching almost 25 meters offshore and the density is enough that below, droplets of water were condensing and falling forming a thin rain coming from the cloud. The clouds were buoyant enough that something could jump in and swim in the clouds due to the unique features that the dungeon domain gives them.

While the little cloud dungeon slowly expanded, it didn’t go unnoticed.

Besides the fairies, who naturally knew where any dungeon was located, in the Mortal World there are people who earn the title of Archmage. They can be good or bad, but the title will always be appropriate for the one bearing the title due to the power they pack in their magical arts.

Many of those near the location she was born had noticed a magical disturbance and tried using scrying magic that can normally find where this disturbance originated from, but the scrying pendant kept moving and many mistook this as a sign that the spell didn’t succeed. However those extremely powerful archmages knew the meaning of this.

It was the birth of a unique moving dungeon of some kind. The evil ones even gathered their things within a magical space as they wish to acquire this dungeon as their base. A moving dungeon is the perfect place that would allow them to live in a place of dense mana. That said, none of them could find this moving dungeon even when they were just under the location the scrying pendant was signifying. All they would ever see is a clear sky and a forest filled with monsters or animals. Sometimes it would go over extremely dangerous locations that the archmages themselves wouldn’t dream of entering and they had to find detours.

Slowly they started to give up and await for it to stop. If it was a moving dungeon then it would try to locate places of dense mana and once it did it would stop. They would then be able to enter it when the dungeon opened to the world as it was clear the dungeon was still closed and moving.

Soon the archmages, or any mage for that matter, that had been following and searching for this dungeon had all but given up, but that didn’t mean everything gave up.

Although unintentionally, insects slowly began to rise into the sky. Spiderlings made silk parachutes to catch the rising winds and bugs with wings flew as best they could. Being thrown around and feeling the cold many died, but those who could gradually overcome nature were able to rise before the dungeon passed. Soon one or two would get caught in the clouds and enter the dungeon domain. They would either drown in the cloud water or it would enter from the air and slowly start sucking up the mana and move towards the source.

A few bugs, like butterflies, didn’t have much strength left and would simply land on a weed and lay the eggs before collapsing dead to be absorbed.

Some lucky spiderlings also made it onto the island and slowly they began to crawl around and feed off the mana while it still had no bugs to eat.

All this was noticed by Dia who was scared of all the bugs and wanted them gone.

‘No! These will be our defense soon enough. I don’t care what they turn into, but they are useful! If it makes you feel better, there is a way to make a butterfly fairy by mixing the wisps and butterfly. The ex-fairy said.

Dia was crying to get the bugs off, at least the spiders, but both Misty and Grivmir, the ex-fairy who Dia is calling only Mir since it's more feminine, were reluctant because spiders are strong when magic has changed them to monsters. Since they did not have a second floor, second island or anything that could push the undesired creatures away they were reluctant to let go of a fighting beast.

“We will have to give up for now.” Misty finally said dejected. “There will be more, they seem to be rising in droves. The butterflies we can at least keep and make proper strong nature creatures from them.”

‘I can’t wait until the island is big enough and the girl gathers enough mana for brownies and gnomes.’

“That’s right, what are the most basic fairy creatures?” Misty asked curiously.

‘Wisps…’

“I mean after that!” She shouted and kicked Mir’s bud head.

‘Can it! Anyway, it’s just small things like gnomes who are earth spirits, they take care of and live in earth, but some live in forests and is what we most likely will create. Besides taking care of earth and the fertile soil, they protect and care for the roots of plants. There is also Kobolds wh...’

“Aren’t Kobold dragonkin? How are they earth spirits?”

Pow!

“Ouch!” Misty complained after getting hit by the leaf hard enough to hurt, but not be dangerous in the least to her life so the restriction didn’t affect Mir.

‘Be quiet or look through the information in your tiny but thick skull! The kobold I am talking are different and are not the origin of the dragon kin you know. These kobold are tiny, no more than 20 cm tall and are like small fur balls. They are very playful and like to help out. Next are Nixies. They are like river pixies and enliven them. They are the most basic type of water spirit and normally become the Nix, Pixies and other water spirits. After that is the Fire Spirits and Salamander.’

“Before you hit me, salamanders?” Misty asked strangely.

‘Again, the monster salamander and the spirit are different. These are spirits that heat up the flowers and are intimately connected to the world of butterflies and insects and are incredibly difficult to see unlike the monster that is 10 meters long and 3 high. As for fire spirits, they are spirits of transformation (dying, decay and regeneration), they help transform the dead into nutrients for the soil making the land more fertile.’

“Misty? Aren’t fires only for burning?” Dia asked suddenly appearing floating above them both, reading the long string of messages written in the dirt.

“Not always. A carefully controlled fire can be very gentle and not hurt and can cook and do other things.” Misty said trying to not give the girl any ideas.

Dia nods.

‘The final ones and pretty much the most important for a dungeon in the sky is the Air Spirit, Sylph and Elves. DONT!’

The message came quickly and Mir lifted her leaf to hit Misty who moved back. Nodding when she saw that the fairy wasn’t going to ask she looked back down.

‘Elves in this case are a type of fairy. The sentient race of elves were originated from the spirit which is why their lifespan is so long and they have such a great deal of magical power, but they bred with humans forming the race that is known today but the originals, like the fairies, have wings. The elves of the Spirit World are the size of a human, they glow, have four long wings and like the sylphs are sensitive to the area they live in. That said, the sylphs are sensitive to the changes in the air, like how the wind is blowing and which direction, while the elves are connected to the life of the area they inhabit. Since the girl wants a fairy world or a spirit type dungeon, she will need at least the basics I have spoken of above besides the elves which are much harder to acquire. Even so, the chances of them appearing any time soon is small, but they will appear eventually.’

With the end of the lesson on spirits, the two wanted to make some spirits. Dia childishly pointed at an air wisp and shouted at it to become a sylph, which resulted in the wisp freezing in the air before it went back to gathering mana and infusing into the clouds.

“WHY~!” Dia asked teary eyed and looked at Misty and Mir.

Mir lets her bud head hang down and shakes it with her leafy arms dejected at what she saw. She couldn’t believe the goddesses would make a four year old a dungeon and that she was now forced to babysit a newborn kitten who was an impulsive pain and an infant dungeon with a mentality of a newborn as well.

‘You can’t just command the wisp to become a random spirit. First they need to gather a lot of mana in their own body, which they do while they improve the clouds and island. When, and only when, they have enough, you need to gather a few of them together and add more mana that pooled up in your mana lake to them so they can fuse and only then will they become a new monster. If it was a normal monster like a bug, then only letting them drink from the mana lake or letting them grow naturally is enough and it would become something new, but if you want to control it you would need to add the mana yourself.’

Dia looked confused until Misty translated into simpler terms which resulted in Dia asking…

“Mir! Teach me magic so I can make pretty fairies! I want to have lots of fairies so we can play and swim and run and jump and and… um we will do lots of things!”

The flower looked really exhausted at the question and exclamation from the child.

All Mir could do was stretch out her leaf and write, ‘When you're ready…’