I have almost completed this floor. The only part that I am missing is the last part of my floor a kilometer only filled with moss an a few big ferns here and there. The stepped pools combine again into a river now shining blue form the algae. Lets use the last plants they gifted me. I made the river wide, slow and shallow. By this point the river has cooled down that it is now cool to the touch and flows towards me. Next to my core all the water that make it gets removed by a source crystal that somehow removes water.
The plants that I got the fire-rose and water-hyacinth. If I just planted them everywhere it would not be fun. So I modified them by the only way I know. By chucking highly radioactive substances where they grow. I selected them with the intent of confusing and annoying adventurers trying to find the flowers with actual affinity.
[lesser illusion affinity]
This trait gives an increased amount of affinity to illusions.
+50% illusion affinity
[minor vexing pollen]
This trait gives the ability to releases pollen that subtly confuses and irritates creatures
+25% confusion, +12% auditory distortion
[lesser predatory instinct]
This trait enhances the ability to detect and react to movement
+50% reaction speed (prey), +25% accuracy (prey)
[lesser radiation scarring]
This trait gives more mutation chance at a cost
+50% mutation instability, -25% health
Four traits that’s nice. But what’s with [lesser predatory instinct]. A voracious plant. What is it going to hunt? Dirt? Sunlight?!. And then we have [lesser radiation scarring] while it gives more mutation chance they are more unstable and negative. -25% health on top of it almost anything with this trait wont live long. Luckily the 2 other traits are good. [lesser illusion affinity] another affinity to add to my collection. Then we have 3 plants with affinities in the field. And finally [minor vexing pollen] the thing I was looking for. An entire field filled with flowers with this trait. That would certainly annoy any adventurer without a mask.
The flowers that got mutated by the radiation and my powers have gotten also very strange. The colours of the flowers are very varied, but still similar to what they were before. The fire-roses have now orange, pink, white and many more. The same happened to the blue water-hyacinth. Although I have now many coloured flowers I just kept the original shape and colours of the flowers. I then placed the normal rose and hyacinth unmodified scarce throughout the field. I did the same with the illusion affinity flower. The illusion flower is purple. The flower looks like many small rose flowers tightly packed in a sort of sphere on top of the stem. The flower itself becomes illusory hiding itself. But it does so pretty bad.
Then I modified all three of the flowers replacing the elemental mana heart or other trait with [Gigantism]. with a bit of tinkering I made all of the flowers around 4 meters tall, since the roses are bushes they grew bigger than the other two. So the enlargement of the flowers is bigger with the hyacinth and illusion flower. The flower tops of those two are the size of kobolds! About a meter wide. The roses are a bit smaller only 20-30 centimeters wide, but a large thorny bush instead.
Then I created the [minor vexing pollen] flower filling every available spot. Only one in 100 is a affinity flower. Now that I think about it the guild leader of the acquisition guild probably wanted me to upgrade the fire-red kelp from [lesser fire affinity] to [fire affinity]. Well if they wanted better affinity plants or creatures they must go deeper.
Now the only thing this region needs is creatures. Well what shall I use. The leaches, nah river is big but too open. Already used badger, so only two left the raptor or lesser drakeling. The drakeling would be too big after I sized him up. A large creature towering over the flowers. Hmm maybe just one then and several raptors.
I of course gave the singular drakeling [Gigantism] making the drake 8 meter tall 19 meters long and 3 kobold laying on the ground wide. She has big red scales a pretty stubby tail only 4 meters long, a big jaw for eating adventurers and 2 big blue horns pointing backwards. The adventurers can go play hide and seek with her.
The raptors while I have their pattern I have no idea how they look like. I created a male and female version. The male was a bit more colorful having bright blue and green feathers and a few big ones on his head. The female colors where more camouflaging greens and browns. Both had a beak with sharp teeth standing on two strong back legs. Their arms where less muscled than I thought bit way more flexible and manipulative. But both the arms and legs ended with big sharp claws, although on the hands just one big claw and 3 smaller. The female was a decent amount bigger 30 centimeters bigger than the male. The male was around 120 centimeters tall if his head was aligned with his tail.
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Now lets modify them, in the empty spot [Gigantism] goes without saying. Then do I want to keep any of the other two. The intelligence one will be useful then the raptors can work together better. The reflex one should I keep it for the speed or change it for resistance, magic or strength. Checking in my list of traits it would seem that I don’t have many strength increasing traits. Most of them are either affinity, resistance/resilience and mana traits. The only one I have is [lesser radioactive boost], but that one comes at a steep price for the creature. And it doesn’t fit this area. Then I remember that some of my snakes have [lesser natural stealth]. With the thick thicket it will work well.
Now this region Is finished I call this region The whispering field. While I can’t be affected by the spores I do wonder what people hear. Whispers? or maybe enemies charging them? It will be fun to see them get confused and struggle. Being a dungeon really triggers my old kobold trap desires. Maybe in the next floor I am going to put some snares or a snare plant.
Lets see what my [Dungeon core] trait says to get the next floor.
Floor progress
- Have a pathway from the entrance to the core. The size of which must be the size of the circumference of the core. (unfinished)
- Have 10000 or more maximum mana (finished) (9.674.249.246 maximum mana)
- Donate 10000 mana to the world (unfinished)
- Have 5 different flora (finished)
- Have 5 different fauna (finished)
- Created a boss arena (unfinished)
- Created a floor boss (unfinished)
- (optional) Kill at least 5 adventurers (finished) (reward: strong monster pattern similar to already owned)
- (optional) Have at least 5 adventurers in you for 2 weeks (unfinished) (reward: Pattern trait upgrade)
I didn’t expect that the list would look like this. Also Kill at least 5 adventurers progress is finished!? What are they doing up there on the moss plateau. I focused my attention near the entrance. A I see the snakes with [lesser radioactive boost] poisoned a few with radiation. While the persons felt fine the radiation killed them. Maybe I should reduce the amount of radiation snakes. And 1 died trying to climb down the cliff he fell. The rainbow amphibians are happy with fresh meat. The rest of the expedition is fine. They even made a little camp around my statue.
Now lets see what else I need to do. Hmm, the first one is annoying but doable. My core was after all over +9025% bigger than the normal 20 centimeter cores. So let’s see that’s around 18 meters across. So every passage way must be at that size? Well I can create 1 big tunnel and many smaller ones, but it will be easy to see the path to the core. Or I just make every “small” passage 18 meters wide and tall. So the entrance to my little cave was enlarged to a round top gateway. Let’s improve my core room as well shall I.
I put myself on a totally normal sized pedestal only 400 meters tall. If you stand at the bottom it looks like a giant pyramid with a blue orb on top. Decorations can go later.
Next requirement donate 10000 mana to the world. So that’s where most mana comes from dungeons. And life itself I guess. But isn’t 10000 a insignificant amount compared to a high level creature? I think that that number will go up very fast. 10000 isn’t much with my mana algae. With all life including the algae I am currently producing over 100.000 mana per/h. so I finished that one.
The dungeon arena and boss. I extend the rivier a bit and make a 500 diameter pit 20 meters deep. I make it so a thin layer of water covers every part of the pit. Flowing towards my core where it gets destroyed. I then make a staircase in the middle of the river into the pit. The staircase also covered in 15 centimeter of water. The pit I fill with normal sized red hyacinths, but the floor is made of stone so they grow out of small pits. I then make a altar in the middle of it. on it I write “those who want to pass to the next floor. Put a drop of blood on the altar.” Then I putt a gate in the way to the core. The gate only will open after the boss has been defeated. For now it is open for I don’t have a boss yet.
The boss will come later now we have the last requirement an optional one Have at least 5 adventurers in you for 2 weeks. The reward is something I really want. With that upgrade I can improve [Gigantism] to [greater Gigantism]. the group going to my core is made of 6 people so I can ask them to stay in my dungeon for 2 weeks. Hopefully they will accept. Maybe I can bribe them.
Speaking of them they are currently in the whispering field. Very close tom my core only 700 meters until the arena. Four of them really seem to struggle stabbing anything that moves or makes a sound. The two unaffected are the Human with scars and the alchemist who already had mask on. The human currently is carrying two of his party members one of which is the familiar felinid, seemingly been knock out by someone. Another is being held to the ground and forcefully being given a potion. That potion is either a antidote or resistance potion. The last one is being herded by a few raptors. They seem to have fun. Eventually the raptors surround him. He then fall unconscious because of the sheer panic he is in. The human shooed the raptors away. The raptor I think made laughing sound as they quickly ran away into the flowers disappearing.
The group then made it out of the whispering field. They set up camp to wait for the unconscious party members. The two who were carried by the human woke up the fastest. Both rubbing their heads where they were smacked. The one who fell unconscious by panic woke up panicked. Shouting “Many large bird with teeth. So-so many teeth thousand each beak and there were thousand large bird things. I heard them so many.” The alchemist gave the human a potion who force fed it to the panicking party member who then quickly regained his composure.
Then after a quick thee break they got up and went inside the arena. The human looked sad for some reason when he saw that the gate was open. They then entered my core room. Which was only illuminated by my most beautiful massive core. I really should add a lot of gold here and become like a true dragon.
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