What Amy discovered was that not only were the penguins collecting things to bring back to her territory, but the ocean swallow seemed to have been flying back and forth to an island or islands nearby and bringing back tiny objects that it had found.

Amy took a deep breath and pulled up the descriptions for everything new within her territory.

Acid Seaweed

A light purple species of seaweed that produces tiny, very breakable sacs filled with sulfuric acid.

Shard Grass

It is a very sweet tasting seaweed that grows shards of racer sharp salt that it filters from its surrounding water.

Rok Octopus

A species of octopus that looks like a rock. This octopus has a sharp beak that produces a venom that will melt a crab’s shell.

Armoured Sea Bass

A species of fish that has bone-like armour that protects it from ramming attacks.

Arctic King Bass

A species of territorial bass that lives in a swarm of arctic bass and is their leader.

Arctic Bass

A species of school fish that will follow its leader, the arctic king bass.

Cold Skate

A species of flat, stingray-like fish that digs its way under the sand to wait for its prey to swim over it.

Boar Shark Egg Sack

A species of shark that has two bone-like tusks resembling a boar’s tusks and a line of sharp spikes coming down its spine from the dorsal fin. An egg sack from this species can contain two to four pups.

Giggle Coral

A species of light purple coral that, when water runs through it, produces a giggling-like sound.

Crystal Stingray

A species of clear stingray that produces a paralytic type venom in the barb of its tail.

Mangrove Oak Seed

A seed of a natural cross-species of an oak and mangrove that live in cold water coastal regions. This plant can live in both water and land environments. Still, it lives a lot better if it is near a large body of water of either saltwater or freshwater. It also takes after its oak heritage and can grow very tall if given a chance.

Rain Drop Dragonfly

A species of dragonfly that thrives in rainy weather. This insect gets its name from its rain drop-like tail, that when it flies, looks like a raindrop falling from the sky.

It was clear to Amy that the penguins and her swallow had worked hard to collect new species for her. Overall she gained 12 new species, and that was just without her direction. Who knows what they might be able to collect, so Amy took a mana thread and gave the penguins the push to find new species and stay safe when they go looking for new ones. Though she didn’t send out the swallow because she didn’t want to have the only long-distance flying creature she has, die.

After familiarising herself with her new additions, Amy placed the new additions, plus some of the creatures she already has, into her dimension. And with that, she got to work on her coral reefs.

As adding and increasing population in plants versus creatures uses a different style, she was going to add the two new plants before adding the new creatures. So Amy quickly started growing the shard grass and acid seaweed, not just within the coral reefs but also on the whole ocean floor, as she decided it needed some more plant life. Though the giggle coral was just going to be grown within her coral reefs.

With the plants taken care of, Amy moved onto the creatures. She already knew what she wanted to include for the coral reefs. She added the long-feathered pens, letting them grow between the corals and, on the sand, the spider crabs, air hoppers, redfish, and crystal stingrays. With a bit of mana and’ growth,’ Amy quickly increased the populations so that the coral reefs looked to be somewhat teeming with life. And, for just the core reef, her sodden salamander. She hoped that until she had monsters or she could figure out how to create monsters, the sodden salamander would be a protector of her core from invaders or things that might wish to harm her.

Amy figured that it would be easier to get the creatures that would be wandering throughout the whole water part of her dimension. The creatures that she wanted to be available throughout her dungeon are glass jellyfish, grey shrimp, armoured sea bass, arctic bass, arctic king bass, cold skate, silver anchovy, menhaden, rok octopus, and ice barracuda. Amy quickly injected mana and ‘reproduce quickly’ into the creatures and left them to increase their population. But she also had it so that after the third generation was produced, the ‘reproduce quickly’ was only triggered when population levels reached a certain point. She also placed all of the lava rocks in random places on her ocean floor. While there might be some strings of lava mana within them, that was for another time.

All that was left right now was the mini-icebergs throughout her territory. For those, she added rime moss, ice scaly-foot snails, as well as her glacial salamanders. Then, like what she did with the coral and open water creatures, Amy added the ‘reproduce quickly’ piece of mana with the same limitations.

With her sub-dimension finished and what was technically the first floor of her dungeon somewhat finished, Amy decided that it was time to officially open her dungeon and sub-dimension to the world.

She quickly exited the dimension, appearing back into her original core room, and started carving a small tunnel, one metre by one metre, to the outside of her dungeon. The tunnel was not a straight line. Instead, it was twisty and curvy, but it had a slight incline that eventually opened up to a more accessible, flat place on the iceberg’s surface.

As soon as she opened the tunnel to where the portal was, the same lettering that started this whole thing appeared in front of her.

You have officially created your dungeon. You are able to choose one creature or plant to be evolved into three monster varieties.