The Underworld 2

After the whole day of working, they finally made a progress. Anthena's worker makes a ten-meter dip staircase and has already made tunnels in eight directions. Each tunnel extended outside the dome's walls. In the end, they build a room with 350 meters cube [ L (10 meters) × W (7 meters) × H (5 meters)= 350m³]. The black pepper ants used three rooms as their colony, they transfer the larvae inside of one room, one room for the storage of their food, and one room for Anthena.

Considering how fast they build eight rooms, the whole underground world will finally emerge within a few days. The wall of dirt Lucas is working with are also making a progress. The amount of dirt the ants piled from the construction made five feet thick wall, with 3 meters high. It took him the whole day just by hammering every part of the wall. He wants to continue working, but the black pepper ants need to rest too.

Instead of wasting his time, he went to Melon Queen. Melon Queen's eyes were shining when he saw Lucas coming but turned pale when she saw Coco. Lucas laughs on her reaction and shook his head, "Haha, you know why I'm here? Because it's quite awkward to call you queen all the time, and I'm here to tell you your new name. Are you ready?"

"Shoooo!" Melon Queen jump when she heard him, she always wants a name, but the person who raised her only plan to use her as a weapon and decided not to name her.

"Melon, a juicy melon, a destructive melon. You will be Pulpsiyon!" He said feeling excited about the name he made.

"Stupid, where is the destructive and juicy?" ???

"Eh? Oh, Rita! You don't have a common sense are you?" He asks sarcastically, "Pulp is juicy we all know that, and 'Siyon' is from 'sion' of explosion!"

She raised her eyebrows and sneer at him, "You say I don't have common sense. Now that you say, you have terrible naming sense!"

She push Lucas on the side and caresses Pulpsiyon's face, "Poor thing, you have an evil master. It's lucky that idiot adopted you."

"Shoo~" Pulpsiyon smile brightly and rub her head on Rita's belly.

Rita was pushed and fell on her butt, she was shocked but looking at Pulpsiyon's face, she can't help but laugh, "Haha, stop it, your too big little girl!"

"Haist! Since you're here I'll take my leave, " He turned around and wave his hand to the girls, "You guys should rest too."

Lucas went out of the dome and hide from everyone's sight. In a corner of the wall, where there's neither coconut cannon nor black ant peppers roaming.

He went to the store page and bought 20 large magic pots. Ten music pots, and 10 lava pots. This pots will help him develop the behavior of his future warriors. The music pots will make a harmonious soldier who could fight together, and the lava pots will make a hot-headed soldier who will fight back no matter the situation is.

He filled the pots with cultivated soil, and think of what should he plant. He has a bag of lychee seeds with twenty seeds and a bag of Blood Orange Eagle with ten seeds. He planted two seeds of lychee crocs each lava pot, and a single seed of blood orange eagles to the music pot.

After making sure that everything is okay, Lucas transferred each pot between the coconut cannons.

The lychee crocs might take too long to bear fruit that ranges from ten - thirty years if planted normal, six days and above since Lucas cultivated the land with the hoe's effect. While the blood orange eagles need half of that to start bearing fruits.

He took a look at his status if his body is still okay. But finding out that his stamina drops to 83%, he suddenly felt tired. The battle the other day took a lot of his stamina, added with the mental stress, he suddenly want to take a nap.

"Where should I sleep? Grandpa Neil and Hugo always sleep on their truck, while the girls sleep at the felines basket. Hmm... Fufu I'll visit Della and Ranrem first!" Lucas smiled lewdly.

The dome's only source is the light from the moon and stars, the material of the dome is glass and it spread the light inside the dome. But it doesn't mean it lit up every corner of the dome.

He walks inside the dome strangely, he looks like hiding something in the middle of his legs. He keeps hiding the sinister smile on his face but every time he thinks of sleeping with the girls, he will laugh unintentionally and forget to hold back his voice.

When he was already in the front of the basket, he slowly approached the edge and took a peek. 'Nice! Nice! They look so cute!'

Slash!

"Ahhhhhh!" Lucas was about to hop inside the basket when a paw slashes between his leg. He screams like a girl and roll in the ground.

He looks up to see who did it to find two pairs of shining eyes are looking at him. Inside the basket, the sound of movement can be heard. A girl slowly took peek from the edge of the basket, Della looks at the culprit and was to find out who it is, "L-lucas!? What are you doing here!?"

"I want to sleep here, can't I?" Lucas asks sarcastically.

"B-but you're a guy!"

"I just want to sleep, why are you against it?"

Della's face turned red and her shyness, she was too embarrassed to reply and was kind of weak. After she gained enough to recover, she nodded her head shyly. "O-okay, but, y-you can't do anything."

Lucas gulped his saliva and stand up from the ground and hop inside the basket, "Fufu, of course, I won't do anything."

Della is an intelligent girl and knows everything a male could do. From her childhood until now, she can tell that something behind his word can't be trusted. She walks slowly next to Ranrem and sleeps beside her.

She was a bit worried about him sleeping together with him, but the exhaustion kick-in and sleep deeply.

In the middle of the night, she felt a movement on her side but she did not give it a thought, she was so tired and need to wake up early the next day.

3 AM

Lucas walked out of the basket with a bitter face, his shirt is ripped and his body has a countless wound. 'Damn cat! I'm only able to kiss her! It's better to focus on the plan for now. Don't worry junior, we will be able to taste a juicy meat one night!'

The first he did is feed the peanut butterflies with mana water, he discovered that this butterfly really doesn't have a short lifespan. The leader, Deysi, is still in the middle of the group, her beautiful wings are her biggest asset. Lucas smiled satisfied and went next ended his everyday routine.

His everyday life is the same. After a whole week of work, his effort finally shows a progress. They decided to make another meeting. As expected only Neil, Redford, Buckler and Lucas attend it.

Redford is a bit annoyed because of a sudden meeting, "So, what is this meeting for?

Lucas smirked and get near them, "These past few days, we finally made a huge progress. The wall of despair is finally part of the dome and given the name 'Fortress of Despair'. The wall fifty meters away from the fortress is finally standing and showing the might of solid soil, and the indestructible glass, and given the name 'Wall of Proof'.

"Anthena and her colony are able to dig 300 meters beneath the ground with 48 rooms. 16 rooms in the 50 meters deep and every 50 meters there's an additional 8 rooms of the same size. The tunnels have sub-rooms that can be seen in a colony of ants. And now the underworld is under construction, base on our plan, the underworld will have the size of a whole city so the construction will be a bit slower. Added with the hardness of the bedrock, it will surely take some time.

"I want a generator and a ventilation system or something like that. The rooms are so dark, the light can't penetrate in the tunnels. You've seen my new planteros right? Thanks to the fact that it did not grow into a tree and we can still transfer them inside the rooms. I want the first 8 rooms to be their breeding ground. I also want the next eight rooms to be a place where we can stock are foods. The next eight rooms, in the hundred meter mark, will be used as the storage of mana grains. The hundred and fifty mark will be a place we place our generators and ventilation, I have worked at that place whenever I have time. It freaking dark inside and only torch is the source of light, even breathing is hard.

"That place is hell for me and I even ask Anthena to make the main tunnel/stairs twice wider. The rooms in the 200th deep will be the place for water creatures, the rooms in that place are made like a pool. That place is not something I can reach and will be fixed when the time we can finally afford the generator and ventilation.

"The 250th and 300th is no joke, the black pepper ants who like the heat can survive but not us! So I want to have an advance order for these things on my hand!"

Neil was immersed in his thoughts, he also has the same but something is bugging him, "Lucas, I enter the underground yesterday since I'm free. The distance is too near and too small. Also, why do you have to transfer those planteros?"

Redford and Buckler also nodded, planteros can grow outside and much better than the underground. Also, why did he choose the new ones, and left the old ones within the surface?

Lucas smirked and replied calmly, "Do you know, what are those planteros? Those are the Gourmet Hunters trade with us! And those are the rarest thing I know. Lychee Crocs and Blood Orange Eagles, what do you think will happen if these creatures were known to the public? Also, when I saw that freaking bird, it's beautiful it's eye-catching, but it lacks the strength! It can fly, but what will happen if the elite it encounters can fight long range?

"About the underground world, the rooms in the hundred meter mark is twice larger than the rooms above, the 150th rooms has the largest rooms. I requested to have every room do have different designs to fit to the theme of the room."

When they heard him, their first reaction is surprised. Those planteros grows faster than they thought, also having each room different design seems interesting. But something really is wrong with Neil. He was not even smiling, he wrote something in a paper and look at Lucas, "I just calculated your expenses you bastard. Generators are not that expensive, it cost 3000 mana grains each, 8 of them costs 24,000! A Fan Ventilation that uses electricity cost 100 only, and you have to buy twice the room numbers which are 96, and you will spend 9,690 mana grains. A weatherproof wire cost 10 per meter! Let say you need 400 meters, and you got 8 generators, and you need another set of wire for your lights. It will be 64,000... Plus... A battery that could store electricity for a city in one whole week, cost 25,000. 124,690, where can you find that amount!?"

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When they heard the amount of mana grains you need to pay for the plan of his they were silent. Even Lucas was shocked with the discovery.