{the dungeon core}

  That’s not fair they skipped my very large stair they just floated down. With that kind of magic it might be possible to float down the cliff to the lower lake. I need to create a flying creature that can attack adventures when they fly or float. Now let’s see if they have brought any unsuspecting lifeforms in my dungeon.

  Now this is interesting and annoying I can’t seem to manipulate my dungeon around them. Sapient creatures must have some protection. So is seems that I can’t make a giant hole beneath them or create life directly next to them. Not that it matters much can drop a boulder from 100 high unto them or create creatures further away to attack them. The protection also prevents me from inspecting them and other life they may be harboring.

  Fortunately the possible dragon descendant had some dirt fall of his shoes after he landed at the bottom of the stairs. Let’s see what life in that small clump may be, after they moved away enough. In that little clump I could only see 2 lifeforms, both plants.

  Level 1

  Species: mountain fern

  Mana: 0/0 Regen: 4 mana per/day

  Species traits [minor resilience], [lesser cold resistance], [photosynthesis]

  Level 2

  Species: lighting skyalgea

  Mana: 1/1 Regen: 12 mana per/day

  Species traits [lesser buoyant] (air), [lesser electro-synthesis], [photosynthesis]

  [minor resilience]

  This trait gives the ability to resist non-magical damage.

  +25% resistance.

  [lesser cold resistance]

  This trait gives the ability to resist cold.

  +50% cold resistance.

  [lesser buoyant] (air)

  This trait gives the ability to stay buoyant in said medium (air)

  +50% buoyancy (air)

  [lesser electro-synthesis]

  This trait automatically turn excess mana into electricity.

  +50% electricity from mana, +25% lighting resistance

  The traits from the fern are to be expected form a mountain plant low temperatures and harsh weather forced the plant to be more resilient. It is nice to get more ground flora. I only need more of a tree like plant or change the rootgrove into a more tree like structure. Then we have the lighting skyalgae. A plant I have heard about. Story’s tell that if the clouds turn green you should seek immediately shelter. For the lighting storm that may follow will be devastating. There was a city trying to harness the power of these algae. They made the clouds above their city hold many lightning skyalgae to power their magical devises. Unfortunately the city had been reduced to rubble after a massive storm made the already massive population grow even bigger. The amount of lighting build up and a person who was far away from the city saw a giant lightning bolt strike down unto the city. After the person arrived to the city a giant crater was all that’s left of the city. So now its forbidden to go grow the algae that much.

  The lighting skyalgae fits pretty well with this floor with its already pouring rain. So I shall add them in the steam cloud up above. Now hoping that the algae will survive the heat and radiation. While the trait [lesser buoyant] (air) could fix the possible flying adventurer problem. The trait doesn’t let the creature that uses the trait fly around just float in the air. The firebeetles do have remnants of wings. They can probably move around while floating after I remake their wing. Flying bugs that spew fire now that’s fun!

  An the other use the trait might have is making the rootgrove float. Then together with the [insoculation] trait to create a giant mess of roots and branches. That would make the lower lake much more dense and fun to traverse. Now that is for later let’s see what those four adventures are doing. Hopefully they don’t die to my snakes that would be a shame.

  {The scouting party}

  The four of them stand before a giant kobold statue. Alfred the fox-kin looks up at the statue “It would seem that the core of this dungeon is probably a kobold. Unless you guys think otherwise?”. Giri the quatre-dragon and Vinella shake their heads, after which Giri starts looking around again to spot danger. Ichthy the felinid sets down her giant backpack and grabs a book. He opens the book on which nothing is written in. Then he grabs a pencil and starts sketching the entrance of the dungeon.

  Giri looking around the massive cave “They said it was going to be a giant dungeon, but this big. I have never seen a cave this big before. Not ever my grandma’s cave is this big.” Alfred nods “That’s why they send me with the scouting party for they expected big monsters” Alfred grabs his big hunting rifle and shows it off. Giri scoffs at him ‘show off’. “Hey, Ichthy are you almost done for this part of the dungeon I see some movement in the distance.” Asks Vinella while pointing in a certain direction. “Yeah almost done” Ichthy says as he packs his book back into his backpack.

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  In the distance they see a long green snake like creature slithering slowly towards them. Alfred points his hunting rifle towards the creature. The gun itself begins to glow blue with mana and electric arcs. Then Alfred shoots at the creature that now withing 50 meters is. The shot itself hits the creature directly tearing a hole directly through the body of the snake the bullet even goes into the floor. “That creature doesn’t have much resilience” Alfred said while reloading.

  Ichthy look up to Alfred “We still need to see how powerful these creatures are, not obliterate them.” The four of them walk to the corpse of the snake creature. The snake is over 4 meters long covered in moss. Giri pokes the snake with one his swords “Is the moss part of the snake, or just growing on it. Also this snake has legs, look.” Giri grabs a leg and shows the sharp claws attached to it. Ichthy sets his glasses right “This snake is two creatures. A moss called snakemoss and the snake itself a snakerat. The rat part probably gave the snake legs, or the dungeon gave a snake legs.”

  As they were inspecting the snakerat it began to rain. The rain they felt was warmer than any of them knew. Vinella drenched in her robe “The environment of this dungeon is a hazard on its own. High temperature, rain and the air is different. It feels as if the air is heavier and more reactive.” Vinella shakes her head “But that is for the research guild to figure out.”

  While the rest of the group was inspecting the snakerat Alfred started looking around “This place is truly massive. Hey Ichthy what are those crystals and glowing bits of roof?” Ichthy looks up to the crystals “Those are source crystals, the crystals produce resources or other stuff like these ones producing light. As for the glowing bit of roof that could be either magical ore or lightonium ore. Can’t be certain my inspection trait does not work that far.” Ichthy looks back down again “If it is lightonium we shouldn’t get close to it, it might poison you.”

  Giri “Source crystal this early? Normally dungeons only get that past the 5th floor. This dungeon will be a good resource farm then.” Giri also looks up to the crystals and points towards a red glimmer in the steam “I think that’s where the water is coming from. Very hot it seems.”

  After they take some samples of the snakerat they go towards the side of the dungeon towards the tree like plants. While they were walking towards the wall they got jumped by two sneaky snakerats. Ichthy quickly hid away from the monsters and Giri drew his weapons going after the one near ichthy. Vinella prepared a fireball and threw it behind the second snakerat. The explosion threw the 4 meter long snake over Vinella. Alfred surprised by the big explosion hastily jumped away from the flying snake stumbling into the moss. The snake lay unresponsive on the ground burning.

  Giri on the other hand tested the snake. Checking for weaknesses and attack patterns. ‘hmm the snake favor to coil around their prey, then biting and scratching the prey when hold.’ After a few doges and prods form Giri he lobbed the head off the snake. “These snakes look a little different for they have no eyes. Also the moss on these ones is more in line with the moss on the ground compared with the other one” Ichthy looks at the dead snakes “While my trait doesn’t say that they are different creates the are indeed different”

  Vinella looks at the burning snake and the spot where the fireball landed “It seems that I was right with that the air is more reactive. Normally the fire from the fireball should be stopped by now even more because of this rain.” They take a few samples from these snakes as well after putting out the fires and continue their walk to the wall.

  15 minutes later they arrive at the wall covered by big root like trees. Ichthy touches one of them “These plants are rootgrove, very common in the underground. Normally they wouldn’t grow this big, but so far only the moss is not big.”

  Alfred looking at the roots as well “Are they worth anything? Useful to harvest?”

  “No, not really the only use these plants have is that it is decent wood especially of this size.”

  Vinella pointing past the rootgrove “Those crystals behind them might be worth something. Those crystals are quartz right?”

  Giri nodding “Those should be indeed quartz crystals. Let’s see the quality of them”

  The group walks though the thick rootgrove branches until they come to the crystals. The quartz crystals where of pristine quality growing up wards of 5 meters tall and 2 meters at the widest. Alfred whistling as he touches one of those crystals “Crystals this big should sell for a big penny, sadly we cannot bring them with us. Too big and too difficult to bring them up the giant stairs of the entrance.”

  While that Ichthy grabbed some quartz samples Giri and Alfred pocketed some of the smaller crystals. They moved deeper into the floor until they reach a giant waterfall pouring in from the ceiling. Giri points towards the now more clear giant red source crystal “Seems I was right this crystal produces most of the water here.” They pass the waterfall sticking to the right side of the river that the waterfall was producing. The river itself was around a kilometer wide, but not very deep only around 5 meters at its deepest.

  The river itself was also steaming, but cold enough that you wouldn’t burn yourself. The source crystal was 4 kilometers high after all a lot of heat gets dissipated into the air. The party looked into the river to see only a red kelp was growing inside of it. The kelp mostly stuck to the middle of the river where it was the deepest. So they checked again to see if anything else lived in the river but they found nothing. Giri then removed his already scares clothes to swim in the river to grab a piece of kelp for Ichthy.

  After giving Ichthy the piece of kelp he had wide eyes looking at the kelp “T-this kelp has a fire affinity.” Alfred looked at the kelp “Well, let’s grab some more of it. We will be rich if we bring this to the town.” The soaking wet Vinella looked at Alfred “Alfred, we still have a dungeon to explore, but on the way back we can bring some. Not now.”

  After reassuring Alfred they followed the river downstream. A few snakerats here and there attacked them, but this time they were prepared. Except when one of them started glowing blue greatly increasing the speed and strength of the snake. It caught Giri off guard and took a swipe from the snakerat. Giving him a small gash on his side. The snakerat then got killed by Vinella who threw a magical ice dart at the snakes head impaling it.

  Then after a hour of just walking and battling they started to see the boiling lake. The lake over 4 kilometers wide only giver 500 meter between the lake and the wall. The lake itself was over 8 kilometers long. The lake itself had a red colour form all the kelp in it. And they saw a few red beetle like creatures. The beetles where 2 meters long and a meter wide and tall. The group saw that the bugs where spewing fire at the water with the highest concentration of fire-red kelp.

  Not wanting to get burned by the bugs for the flames reaches over 5 meters far. The group stalked trough the rootgrove on the wall getting past the bugs. While they were stalking Alfred made a note that the lake just suddenly ended. As if there was a giant drop at the end of it. And Alfred was right after they stalked trough the rootgrove for a few hours they arrived at the cliff. The cliff obscured by steam, mist and rain. They couldn’t see the bottom of the cliff until the rain subsided for a minute letting them barely see the bottom. At the bottom was a large amount of rootgrove and Vinella could swear that there were some colourful flashes down there.

  Near the edge of the cliff they found a piece of rock that sheltered them form the now returned rain and rested for a few hours. Then they went back to the entrance of the dungeon bringing as much fire-red kelp as they could. Then at the stairs Vinella casted some spell that made them very light and jumped out of the dungeon.

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