Chapter 40 - Beasts
Day 55
Neo's POV:
Before Neo concentrated on his new research speed or experimenting with beasts, he started to instance his first floors. In the near future, he would get a lot of visitors to his dungeon and he couldn't change rooms while there were people in them. So he decided to get it out of the way. On the first floor, he created nine new boss rooms for his big bad wolves. While he wanted to do more, it would increase the walking distance too much in his opinion. Later, when he had access to permanent portals, he would increase the number of instances further. At the moment, he knew how to make this portals, but he'd have to invest some time to figure out how to integrate their mana supply into his dungeon, like he did with the lighting. Another problem were the missing materials he usually used to create portals. He decided to make a mental note of the issue and keep on with more pressing matters.
For each wolf room on the first floor, he created a copy of the second, third and fourth floor. All of these instances would get back together in the mining floor on his fifths level. There he created nine more bear rooms.
Next was the start of his goblin fortress on level six. He extended its size by a factor of five and made connections from his ten bear rooms to different parts of the fortress. He let the exit of the level the same, but he tripled the size of his pig farm on level seven and he even created the boars he'd forgotten before. Then he created two more farm boss rooms which let to different entrances to his maze on the eighths floor. The other levels stayed the same for now, he would see how many visitors where coming and adjust later. The last change he made, was to install magically reinforced doors on level one, five and seven in front of the boss rooms. He set them up that they would close for an hour after a group went through them. This way, he would be able to prevent his instances from overcrowding. All in all, he'd spent half a million m2 on this reconstruction work.
After this, he went on to create some more beasts for his post level ten floors. He wanted at least one monster for each element. First he created a new squirrelling, he did not push it all the way to D12, he needed some little weaker creatures, too.
Together with the wind magic, it got even faster and its cutting power with the steel daggers improved.
Neo thought about what creature he wanted next. Then he had an idea that he really liked.
Now this rabbit was even scarier. It was pretty weak in a fight, but you didn't want to get near it.
The next monster he created was a fire panther.
He forewent to create a water creature, he didn't have water areas after all. He thought about which creature was good for life magic and found a solution that satisfied him. Because of his goblin origin, it didn't become a beast, it became a monster.
The last creature he created was another earth magic monster. He took the design of a hobgoblin and let it grow as much as he could. At the same time, he infused life energy and earth mana. The result wasn't bad.
This was enough development for now. He would take care of his named creatures later, after he could form normal beast cores.
After this he dumped the rest of his floor area into the 12th floor. It became a massive cave with a size of almost one million m2. He wanted to create a large forest here, where his beasts could live and hunt. At the moment, he didn't had enough plant material, so he went for using saplings again. After all of this was done, he had a look at his status information again.
There wasn't much life energy missing for the next level, but maybe he would create some more C rank beasts first. He wasn't sure, yet. He saw that the affinities were missing from his main menu, so he tried to concentrate on them.
It seemed like infusing mana into a creature was a good way to improve his affinities. For now, Neo was contend with the current stage of his dungeon and he possessed Wolfgang's body again to help with the research.
