Chapter 9 - How to make your Dungeon Part 2

Right now the most pressing matter is to open up an entrance or at least create more rooms to disperse the elemental dust. Elemental dust will try to bond with any mana it is near too. Even if the Mana is inside a crystal, like my core, it will only take a bit longer for it to permeate back into my core. Without hesitation, I converted all my mana into DP. Leaving myself with 86 DP and almost no mana left.

Then using Dungeon Perception, I checked the land around me. Thankfully the land around me was automatically claimed after I finished the tutorial so I didn't need to waste DP. Since it was already claimed for me in a square. About 25 meters every direction.

Checking around it seems I'm near the side of a mountain. If I was to directly expand towards the mountainside to open up a pathway, it would only use 15 DP. Using only 5 corridors.

After doing some quick calculations, I had enough to make a basic dungeon.

Firstly I moved my dungeon back a space and put a room where it was before. Then I created a pathway directly towards the surface, stopping just 3 meters from opening up an entrance.

The lime color lightened slightly as it spread out to attach itself to the mana in the newly opened space. While it's true that Elemental Dust can impede the flow of mana, that is only true if it is thickly concentrated. Right now I should be mostly unimpeded to absorb mana.

Thanks to the upgrade after the tutorial both mana absorption and purification were automatic so I'll be constantly emitting toxic Elemental Dust. As long as I have an entrance the dust won't be able to concentrate enough to hurt anyone, but right now the vicinity of my core is rather dangerous.

After contemplating a bit I decided to straightforwardly make an entrance.

I won't get anywhere if I don't have an entrance and it will only worsen the longer I put it off. The outside seemed to be at nighttime, as little light came through.

I summoned 3 Lesser Dryads to protect my room.

They... are a bit worse than I thought. All they are is a vaguely humanoid-shaped tree stuck to the ground. They had arms made of vines which separate into tentacle-like fingers and a head that also seemed to be made of vines but with a bunch of leaves growing off it, in place of hair I assume. It seems my Lesser Dryads are just this, for now, they can't really mimic a human being like in the stories. Chances are people would just run when they see them. After that, I covered the entire room with moss and little glowing fungi. Allowing my Lesser Dryads to slightly camouflage themselves by hiding in the shadows created by the glowing fungi.

All that cost about 50 DP in total.

Currently, I have used pretty much every tab in my control panel. Except one, I opened up Forums.

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Newborn Dungeon

Plant Dungeon

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It seems Dungeon was the default name and I couldn't change it, unlike the rest of my Control Panel, this was written in Common Tongue, which is the main language of this world. Its similar to English but its alphabet has 34 different letters. For now, I set my name as Plant Dungeon, since that was the only thing my dungeon has right now and it doesn't sound as noobish as Newborn Dungeon.

Beginners Thread

[Pinned Message] Chaos God Dungeon: Hello! This is a thread made so newborn dungeons can ask senior dungeons for information. Since your here, it must mean you have already gotten All Language Knowledge from your rewards after completing the Tutorial. We usually speak Common Tongue here since it is simple and widely used.

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World Tree Dungeon: Have you guys heard from Black Labyrinth recently? He hasn't been on for a few weeks

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Cave of Desire: I heard a hero party recently tried to challenge him, he should be busy trying to deal with them.

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Palace of Seven Hells: SO ANNOYING! So many heroes are popping up nowadays!

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Palace of Seven Hells: Right now there are more heroes in my dungeon than there are Bosses!!!

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Library Dungeon: Now now Seven, isn’t it your fault for only having 7 Legion Rank Bosses at any one time?

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Palace of Seven Hells: I need to fit my thematic! Plus I have plenty of Raid Rank Bosses, and Party Rank Bosses to fill the gaps.

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Library Dungeon: So weird, what are you delusional?

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Palace of Seven Hells: Aren’t you the pervert creating a dungeon with over 50 Legion Bosses!! Fuck where is game balance! Where is justice!

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Cave of Desire: Whenever I hear you guys argue I just feel amazed.

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World Tree Dungeon: ^^^^^^The rest of us usually can only afford a few Raid Ranks yet you guys are audacious enough to have so many Legion Ranks. That is the true injustice here Seven.

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Palace of Seven Hells: Unfilial juniors!

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Demon Town Dungeon: It seems nothing has changed huh.

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Void God Dungeon: You guys have been going on about this for the last few centuries already. Do you guys really have so much spare time now?

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Cave of Desire: Hello Senior Demon Town, Senior Void!!

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Palace of Seven Hells: Aren’t you as bored as we are! And fuck where’s my respect as a senior!!

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Demon Town Dungeon: Seven it’s just impossible to take you seriously.

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Cave of Desire: Seven you don’t deserve your juniors respect.

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World Tree Dungeon: ^^^^^

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Undead King's Castle: Seven you are going senile perhaps you should retire?

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Palace of Seven Hells: ;-;

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What the hell? Aren't Heroes supposed to be unbeatable boss characters? Since when did they get job changed to common mobs? Ignoring the culture shock, there are boss ranks? It seems Legion Rank is the strongest then Raid Rank then Party Rank judging from the names. However, since I'm here there's no point in lurking. There's a bunch of stuff I want to learn, especially about evolution.

Cave of Desire: Undead King has the fighting died down yet?

Undead King's Dungeon: Not yet, Ice and Flying Castle are still arguing in the main thread.

Void God Dungeon: We came here to escape the fighting.

Demon Town Dungeon: These youngsters' typing speed is too fast we can't keep up at all.

World Tree Dungeon: What are they arguing about this time?

Demon Town Dungeon: They're fighting over which race would be the best wife.

Cave of Desire: What?

World Tree Dungeon: ^^^^

Plant Dungeon: Hello Seniors

Palace of Seven Hells: THERE IT IS MY SENIOR STATUS!

Void God Dungeon: A new dungeon?

Plant Dungeon: Yes I only recently passed the tutorial.

Demon Town Dungeon: Since you have a name that means you have already set up a dungeon. Let me guess Carnivorous plants?

Plant Dungeon: Close senior, I have a few Lesser Dryads.

Palace of Seven Hells: That's pretty rare hey where are you @World Tree Dungeon.

World Tree Dungeon: Here. Plant, Lesser Dryads are a creature that requires some time to strengthen., for example, they can only take a human like form after evolution, but the chance of them gaining this ability depends on how many and what kinds of humanoid beings they have seen before evolution.

Plant Dungeon: I see, thank you Senior Tree.

Demon Town Dungeon: Hows your dungeon coming about? Are you the Dungeon that was born with pre-set information?

Plant Dungeon: Right now I only have a straight path with a room and a few Dryads. But I have about 20 DP left over. What do you mean by pre-set information

Demon Town Dungeon: So you started with about 80 DP huh? That sure is low I'm guessing you woke up early. Pre-set information is when you're born with bonus information on new creatures and items, I've only seen this happen a few times before.

Demon Town Dungeon: You can tell when a Dungeon is born with pre-set information by the updates our Control Panels get.

Pre-set information? This has happened before?

Plant Dungeon: I think so. I have a bunch of knowledge on items and monsters that aren't from this world. What do you mean by woke up?

Cave of Desire: Thank You Plant! It's thanks to a Boss monster from your memory that I was able to reap great harvests!

Void God Dungeon: Demon is just talking about when a Dungeon Core gains sentience since you only had enough for 80 DP that means you woke up quite early.

Plant Dungeon: I see, and its ok Desire since you're the one who actually summoned it.

Plant Dungeon: By the way what were you guys talking about when you mentioned Legion, Raid, and Party Rank?

Library Dungeon: Oh that's just how we rank boss monsters.

Library Dungeon: Legion Rank Bosses can take on a few hundred to a few thousand enemies of the same rank, Raid can take on tens of enemies and Party Rank can only fight enemies in the single digits.

Library Dungeon: So, for example, a Gold Rank Raid Boss is only a Gold Rank, but can fight up to 100 non-boss Gold Ranks.

Plant Dungeon: That seems extremely strong....

Palace of Seven Hells: You should see the heroes! Those cheats are always at least a dozen folds stronger than the normal people of their rank!

Void God Dungeon: As a Dungeon who can fight up to 10,000 heroes, you have no right to call other people cheats.

Plant Dungeon: Seniors what is evolution? I have some knowledge on it but I don't really know how it works.

Library Dungeon: That's a good question.

Library Dungeon: Evolution is when a creature changes from its previous form, into another one that is generally stronger than the last.

Library Dungeon: There are many pathways to evolution, but generally a creature will only be able to evolve depending on what it did in its previous form.

Library Dungeon: For example, a Slime that ate a lot of healing herbs will gain healing abilities in its next evolution. When one of your monsters evolve you permanently unlock that evolution.

Plant Dungeon: Evolution sounds really useful.

Library Dungeon: It is. Evolving your creatures is the main way Dungeons get new mobs.

Cave of Desire: Plant the best way to evolve creatures is to create an ecosystem!

Library Dungeon: That is true since by having your creatures do infighting allows them to gain more fighting experience. However, doing that would be dangerous since there's a chance your own creatures will turn against you and it leaves your dungeon weakened.

Plant Dungeon: Thanks for the information, I have Monster Loyalty so I don't think they would turn against me.

Demon Town Dungeon: Plant what summons do you have right now?

Plant Dungeon: I have both Ant and Hornet Hive Queens, Lesser Dryads and various other stuff from nearby.

Library Dungeon: Hive Queens huh? They make decent Bosses if you evolve them a few times, but at the start, they are too weak.

Library Dungeon: You have a weird selection Plant. Your main monsters all take some time to become useful.

Plant Dungeon: Haha I noticed Senior...

Cave of Desire: Will you be ok? You don't have anything too strong right now.

Plant Dungeon: Hopefully, but I guess I need to get strong quickly.

Library Dungeon: Plant you should focus on evolving a Lesser Dryad from the beginning and then have your Hives evolve somehow.

Library Dungeon: The great thing about Hive species is that their Queens also get experience when the individuals kill an enemy.

Plant Dungeon: I see thank you, seniors.