Chapter 2: Bunny Troubles and Altar Woes

“They swarmed me like a plague, overrunning the entire dungeon. They buried me with a myriad of corpses.” Okay, okay not really but these things really are like a plague, even worse than adventurers. It started with one little rabbit coming in and nibbling on the moss but then all of a sudden it was like it was injected with jet fuel it shot off like a rocket. I was in the middle of modifying the bird wyvern evolution path at the time and I couldn’t be bothered to care about one little bunny. Not to mention that at the time all I had was a single dove and an apple tree; the bunny would have probably one if they fought. Still I thought I was done with them but now as soon as the first rays of sunlight started to light up the entrance of the dungeon a literal swarm of them burst through the entrance and into well me I guess.

They swarmed the moss sheets which I had been slowly nurturing into a carpet across the dungeon floor, it was like they were on cloud nine. Apparently, the moss is like an aphrodisiac to them so I quickly had a giant rabbit orgy happening right at the entrance to the dungeon. This is so humiliating, the first creature to come into my dungeon and what does it do? Does it attack my monsters or come for my core? No, it eats a bunch of moss and starts to have sex all over me. Sending my flock of doves, by now I have 21 of them and 3 have already reached level 2.

The rabbits didn’t even notice the attacks not that it would have mattered since they did almost no damage. I’d almost given up on stopping the horde of bunnies when I realized that maybe I could contract these as new monsters and have something besides the dove wyverns. Sure, they were rabbits but for now they were stronger than my birds and in a new dungeon’s book any monster is a good monster, well except for undead. Spawning undead is how you get walked by the crazy fanatics.

Monster Contract initiated with level 4 rabbit and the bunny horde by the Dungeon Core Joseph.

After I felt the connection snap into place I sent the bunny pictures of lots of moss and happy bunnies. It seemed like it hardly thought about it when another message popped up.

Monster Contract successful. The level 4 rabbit accepted on his behalf and that of the bunny horde.

· Level 4 rabbit becomes a dungeon monster

· 12 level 3 rabbits become dungeon monsters

· 37 level 2 rabbits have become dungeon monsters

All of a sudden, I felt filled with energy. I was a lot more powerful than before. Apparently, me and my monsters formed a kind of symbiotic relationship. While they could survive and grow stronger off my mana; I benefited from there protection and could apparently get stronger by contracting more powerful monsters. That was something to consider for the future. It might be better to contract a strong monster instead of killing it for the momentary rush of power.

After the rush of power, I built three more rooms and expanded the size of my first two rooms. In doing so I learned something about my core room prevented me from making it bigger or permanently stationing a monster there. It was fine for a monster to wander into it in search of food or something but it would always leave after a few minutes.

With the restructuring of the dungeon the dove’s nest got moved to the fourth room and I decided to build a lair for the rabbits in the third room. For now, I had tons of them but if an adventurer came in they could wipe them all out in minutes and leave me with no rabbits.

Rabbit’s Den (Lair):

1 evolution point

A rabbit monsters lair it will continuously spawn more of any creature with the rabbit racial class or one of its rank ups.

Size: 4 burrows (with the blessing of love rabbits have 10 kits each time)

Spawn Rate: 5 times normal (normal time: 30 days for gestation, 60 days to grow up) (Dungeon natural rate: 20 times)

40 level 1 rabbit monsters will be born every 21 hours and 36 minutes

Upgrades:

· Size: double nest size (8 nests), 1 evolution point

· Spawn Rate: double spawn rate (10 times), 1 evolution point

· Level: improve all spawns to level 2, 1 evolution point

So, it takes longer to get a batch of rabbits but I get more of them. In the time it takes to have a batch of rabbits I can get 40 rabbits and only 30 doves. Still with the two of these lairs always active it should ensure I hardly if ever run out of monsters, unless of course I get swarmed with a ton of adventures. Maybe I should upgrade. No, I already decided earlier I was going to try for new monsters on the altar one more time before I did anything else.

As much as I feel kind of leery about using the altar I decided to gamble on it. If I gamble on it I can get a basically two for one deal. Hopefully one of the two can become a real monster. Plus, it can’t be much worse than doves or apples can it? I was half right in the end, they weren’t worse than the previous items but they weren’t much better either.

I got a regal looking white swan and a red rose from the altar. Part of me wanted to cry at my luck. Flowers, doves, swans, bunnies, what is next a … No never say those words, don’t even think them! If you don’t speak it, it won’t happen. Still I guess I can fit the swans into my bird evolution scheme. After spending an evolution points to evolve the swan into along the bird wyvern path, I ended up with my boss monster a red swan wyvern. It was even a cool color; swan wyverns were definitely my best creation yet.

Still after everything that had happened I knew I couldn’t let anything go to waste so I went to pick up the rose from the altar. That’s when I saw the rose had slid to the ground and the altar was drastically different. As I looked to the altar I noticed it had drastically changed.

Where before the altar was more of a simple stone cross with a few pink gemstones now it looked like a regal statue or totem o some kind out of white marble and adorned with a massive gemstone. At the top of the altar was a grapefruit sized pink gemstone in the shape of an apple. On the right side a white swan rose up out of the ground and cradled the gem with it’s neck curved like half a heart. On the left a stone dove looking like it had just landed on a pretty rose completed the statue. All in all, it was stunning and much better looking than before. At least there wasn’t a rabbit I thought but then I saw it hidden behind the rosebush just barely visible.

A new trait had also been added to the altar which had me considering a couple of things, but other than that the status page was the same. Still I could think of a lot of ways where people could get into some awkward situations with this skill.

Love’s Aura: All creatures that engage in sexual activity inside the dungeon have at least a 50% chance of pregnancy, contraceptives are ineffective. This even affects creatures that are normally unable to get pregnant without fulfilling special conditions at a reduced rate, they have a 25% chance of getting pregnant. This buff affects all monsters, humanoids, plants, slimes, and some undead.

So, from what I could gather this meant that anyone even travelers who had sex in the dungeon was affected by this. Wow some people could get in trouble with this. All the players around here are gonna be in trouble, if they try and get it on around me. That gives me an idea, I have a feeling that pretty soon I’ll be able to create challenge rooms and if I have challenge room… Haa this is gonna be so fun.

Still now I got to figure out what to do with my last creation. In the end I planted the rose in one of my rooms. I’d realized I could speed up its growth with a little mana and soon it was large enough for me to take a few cuttings from. Soon I had those cuttings planted and within a couple hours my dungeon was looking pretty good if I do say so myself.

It was all white stone with a carpet of pink. The walls were adorned with the green and red of the roses and everything had a faint pink shimmer to it. Now if I was a little girl this place would be heave. I’m not a little girl though I’m a grown man. Someday I will turn this dragon into a dragon filled nightmare and not this, a little girls happy place with bunnies and pretty little birds running around everywhere. I swear on my core that one day everyone shall know of me, Joseph the Dragon Dungeon.