Right off the bat, Avery invests the mana from demolishing the blanket into recreating said blanket above the pit. Thanks to not being extremely large or anything like that, it immediately falls in. Demolishing it again, she spends a full minute trying to generate it on top of the opening and rapidly placing created rocks, which were for some reason categorized under ‘stone weapon’ for one mana each, on the edges to hold it in place, before deciding it was unfeasible with her current options and demolishing everything and moving her attention back to the entrance. Deciding to start with a tapestry, she covers the left wall with the cloth.

For some reason, it looks just like a blanket.

Annoyed, Avery demolishes the ‘tapestry’ and builds it again. Again, it is just a blanket on the wall. Leaving it there for the moment, she moves to the opposite wall, and tries her hand at the engraving. Simply going through the menu, Avery selects the engrave option and applies it to the wall. A point of mana evaporates from her core, and the wall uniformly indents by about a centimeter.

“Auuugh!”

Maybe the problem was that she wasn’t thinking about anything specific, and just using the things. Applying the engraving to the wall again, Avery thinks about the layout of her rooms, and applies the effect. This time, the centimeter indentation was limited to an outline of the dungeon, showing the openings and sizes of the chambers within, with a divot where the pit stood. That being done, she tries the same thing with the tapestry option, imagining the unmarked wall as she places the cloth over the new map. With twelve mana, the right wall as seen entering the dungeon is converted to a hidden map, a tapestry filling a centimeter deep indentation that would otherwise leave the room lopsided.

For creating your first Hidden Secret, you gain a one-time bonus of 5 mana regeneration! For creating a map of your first floor, you gain a one-time bonus of 5 mana regeneration! For generating a Hidden Secret, you gain a bonus of 5 mana regeneration!

Not bad at all! That was extremely worth the investment, even with the wasted time trying to cover the pit. If she could think up more secrets to fill the rooms with, Avery might have this problem dealt with before-

Carrying a wooden box this time, the Invader walks back into the cave.

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Two rights later, Ham comes across a wooden door. Not locked, but engorged by moisture enough that the wood had swelled shut. Rather than attempt to open it through the application of force, which would require effort, he presses his palm against the wood and channels his negative energy into the structure. Over the course of a little over half a minute, the wood ages and cracks, falling apart in splinters. Without any interesting things within the room immediately upon entry, Ham kicks aside a rusted gauntlet left on the stone in front of the now lack of door, and walks in.

On the right side of the room, a mural depicting male examples of the various races of the world, without shirts, all smiling and clasping the shoulders of the creature next to them. In the center is a blank circle, wherein a crystal ball is implied to be resting. Ham finds it both disconcerting and a waste of paints. Unfortunately, every other wall of the rectangular room has an unexplored door within it, rendering his coin-flipping method somewhat unusable. On the wall he came from, there is an iron door, which he decides immediately is going to be discounted from the coin flip, as it would take longer than the others to decay into nothingness. Instead, he assigns the doors to either side of the coin, and comes up with the door across from the mural, immediately next to the iron door. Confidently striding toward the thing, he falls into a pit trap.