[Z]

“Wake up.” A voice commands me. I turn over to my side trying to block away all the bad vibes.

“Wake up.” The voice commands more raising its voice slightly.

“No, go away.” I say closing my eyes shut.

“Z WAKE THE FUCK UP,” an all too familiar voice shouts out.

“Okay, okay I’m up,” I cry in defeat opening up my eyes. My hallway opens before me. And the mind of Enkindle is there ready to interrogate me.

“You told me you didn’t need sleep,” she says as I look over my terrain.

“I don’t but a lot happened last time so I think my body just took over.”

“Is that what you mean by a lot,” she points to the ants that are trapped in the air type cave.

“Yes they invaded while you slept so I had to deal with them. They actually pushed me into the ranks.”

“What! Why didn’t you start with that idiot? What’s your ES now.” I go and check my spiritual body quickly.

Affinity:Earth

Rank: Fledgling

Essence Storage: 144

Essence Regeneration Rate: 1 Per Day

“WOOOW!” I yell this is better than I hoped for.”Are you seeing this Enkindle.”

“Yes I see it idiot,” she says.”How did you do this? Increasing this much is incredible dangerous you should’ve torn something.”

“I did a goddess came by and saved me. Said something about not being like my past brothers and that I couldn’t expand that rapidly anymore.”

“Who was the goddess Z?” Enkindle ask her tone slightly fearful.

My excitement goes down slightly. Why is she so terrified?”I think she said her name was Lilithian.” As I say the name a odd feeling enters my mind. I feel like I’ve heard that name before.

“Z,” Enkindle says softly,”she was the one that destroyed all the dungeons fived years ago.”

My mind goes slack. How….why?

I feel nauseated which is hard since I have no stomach.

“Z.”

“I’m fine,” I say.

“Are you sure?” Enkindle ask softly.

“Yes lets just move on,” I say brushing her off,”I think with this much essence we can make the army we need to take this place.”

She is silent for a few seconds but decides to drop the issue.”Yes I agree. You should start by getting rid of those dead ants they are unsightly and depressing.”

“You got it.”

I zoom in on the ants looking at their dead bodies. They are piled on top one another in a failed attempt to escape. I exorb them all then I make a air hole where it was before. None of the ants have returned with their eggs which is a good thing.

“Enkindle I have a plan on how we are going to make the army.”

“What is it?”

“I’m going to expand my territory to the brim then manipulate the dirt to create several chambers that will have an air hole to the surface. I’ll use these as a breeding ground for the ants then once they are big enough I’ll flood them into the colony conquering it in minutes.”

“That won’t work,” she deadpans me with no sympathy.

“What why?”

“Z,” she ask,” do you know the birds and the bees.”

“What?” Why is she making an analogy with things I know nothing about.

“Do you know how living things are born?”

“Of course,” I say offended,”a male and female have sex and then females either lays an egg or gives birth to a live organism.”

“Then how do you expect to mass breed ants when you only have female ants to create.”

“Huh.” I go and check the ant eggs I can create and…..”Oh I see your point.” I say slightly defeated.

“I mean girl on girl action can be fun.” Several loud thumbs vibrate through the hallway.”But you are not getting a baby out of it.”

“I said I see your point, but what I can do then?”

“Nothing really,” she says,” you just have to cultivate and make more eggs slowly.”

I give a mental nod to her then prepare myself.

“I’m about to use the majority of my essence to expand,” I tell her grinning,” get ready for a much bigger view of the world.”

I push my essence out into the earth. I start by making a complete sphere around myself, then I start expanding down the hallway, each individual grain requires approximately two to three essence to subjugate which eats up my reserves quickly but I’m able to make it all the way to the end of the hallway and into a much bigger cavern. I run out of essence once when I reach there so I am only able to see things that pass right by entrance of the hallway.

“Wow this hallway is long,” I say. I wasn’t able to go deep so I can’t move the dirt around as I would like.

“For our current size I would say you are correct,” Enkindle says looking at the new walls. I haven’t connected them either so they are ragged and uneven.

“What is my size by the way,” I ask.”I know I’m small but what do you think my actual size is?”

She thinks for a moment contemplating.”I say very small.” She says unhelpfully.

“Thank you for such helpful advice Mrs. Obvious.”

“Don’t you get attitude with me I never went to school how am I supposed to know numbers.”

“....... What is a school?” I ask innocently.

She sighs angrily.

“Moving on, I think I am going to subjugate all the dirt surrounding the colony eventually making a bigger sphere around myself. This will also allow me a complete view into the colony letting me track their movements.”

“Fa-ine.” She says with attitude.

I roll my mental eyes and sit down to cultivate.

[Dungian]

I pull my red dress back on my body leaving a sleeping goddess of purity on my grass couch I pulled her long dress over her body as a makeshift blanket. I quietly tiptoe to the ant hole to check on Z. He’s doing fine, actually better than I hoped. With this new upgrade he may be able to meet the three month deadline. Now he may need a few pushes here and there, but I won’t tell him the specifics.

I’ve learned with dungeons its best just to let them grow, their natural instincts will propel them forward.

But what pushes should I use. Putting a rare mineral where he is about to expand to or should injure a small creature and just let it happen to fall in his body.

The rare mineral sounds like a boring one, but dungeons need to be able to summon different types of materials at a moments notice. The terrain here literally only has sand and poor quality dirt throwing in some iron or lead will drastically increase his defenses and he may get a ant evolution if he is smart enough.

I stop myself from going into the possible outcomes of giving him different elements and how they could help him.

I need to focus more on his progress and what Lilithian did to him last night. From what I can see she healed his spiritual body like she said she did, but ….. Oh that little.

With her healing she made it impossible for him to expand with sudden large amounts of essence thrusted at him, Which would have let him gain ES astronomically fast. Now the essence will go elsewhere most likely to expanding his territory or be given off as ambient essence used by cultivators.

I throw the sleeping goddess a snake eye. She has hindered his development to a much slower rate, much to her liking no doubt. I don’t care what she says she has some distrust to my children.

Just because one destroyed a kingdom she thinks that they are all bad. This wasn’t even the worse time another dungeon destroyed three kingdoms aw while back but did she complain. No they had different gods that weren’t here so she was okay with them being destroyed.

I stop my mental rant about her as I see her get up.

I put on my smile and go talk to her. Just because she has excent skill with her fingers doesn’t mean that I will be controlled by her.