Preparations And A Huge Overhaul (1)

Hey, Shun here!

I had a lot of fun playing open world games with creative modes and workshops so that I could customize things for myself. Thus, when I became a Dungeon Master, I was more than happy to be one.

Let the creative juices flow!

Speaking of creative traps, I thought of making a funny tricky question for dummies. I'll try to make one puzzle door like this.

Who knows? Some idiot might fall for it.

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(Shun's POV)

Rokuko remained in a daze for some time after Haku left, but she came back to normal eventually. She checked out the DP almost immediately and, after seeing the 230,000 DP, passed out with her eyes rolling in the back of her head.

I carried her back to our Master Room after that and let her take a rest for today. I guess all those things were quite hard to take in.

After placing her to her own bed and telling Tsuka to look after her, I went to sleep on my own bed, accompanied by Zenko and Ikumei. These girls has been sleeping with me everyday, probably because they are seeking some warmth from others.

It's not like I mind sleeping with them but man were their body heat extremely hot. Given how a dog's and wolf's body heat is many times hotter than a human, I thought it was already a given. However, multiplied by the fact that they are kids, this temperature climbed up to a higher realm.

"Good night Zenko, Ikumei."

"Nn… Good night, master."

"G-Good night, master…"

When I said good night to the two, I heard a squeak of protest coming from the bed next to mine.

"Good night to you too, Tsuka."

"Squeak~! Good, night, master!"

This was a tiring day overall so it is fine to take a break for now. Tomorrow, we'll start the preparations for our Dungeon Battle in earnest.

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It's now the 26th day that I've been here, living in a fantasy world. I'd say the entire experience up until today was eye opening, to say the least.

Although there were definitely times when I witnessed some unsavory scenes, it still didn't diminish my love for fantasy worlds. Like the modern world, it has its bad sides as well.

"Hey! Zenko! Stop eating using your hands! You too, Ikumei! Didn't Rokuko teach you how to eat properly?" I said to the two beastkin girls who are using their hands to eat their meal.

"Yes…"

"Yes… master…"

"Then follow it as much as possible, okay?"

""Okaay~""

"Right. Rokuko. Do you think we could win against your sister?"

While we are eating our breakfast, I initiated a conversation with Rokuko.

"I-I don't know for sure but… I think we can win!"

"For sure. The rules were designed to give us a fighting chance… However, she has a pretty huge advantage over us."

Rokuko looked surprised after hearing me say that. She seemingly didn't understand how Haku had an advantage.

"Really? I know that Number 89 is really amazing, but she gave us a whole extra 20,000 DP to use, didn't she?"

"There are many loopholes that she can use to go around the rules that she stated. For example, she didn't mention resources she already had in the conditions at all. I think it will still be perfectly legal for her to bring out a dragon she had already placed in one of her dungeons, since that technically wouldn't be her using DP. Chloe coming up is also not out of the question."

"Eh? I didn't think about it that way…"

"I mean, she probably won't go that far, but I wouldn't be surprised at all if her monsters come swinging with magically enchanted weapons or something like that." Rokuko sighed and shook her head.

"Haaah… Shun, I didn't know that there can be so many crazy loopholes like that after knowing the rules. It's like… really impressive…" Rokuko said with a gesture. She looks really cute doing that, especially now that she's in her loli form.

"Hey, that older sister you love so much made those rules with that loophole in mind. She intends to exploit it. That's what's really impressive here."

"I wouldn't expect anything less from Number 89!"

"Yep. She's basically a monster, and I do mean that in a good way." She probably wouldn't take advantage of the loophole too much if she is going against Rokuko, but I doubted she'd show mercy to anyone else.

Since I will be her main opponent this time, I guess I need to go all out here. This might be my only chance to finish one of my missions, after all.

Also, the consequences of loosing isn't that heavy if you ask me.

"Alright then. Rokuko, Zenko, Ikumei. It's time for us to work."

What were the first things I bought with my newfound 230,000 DP? Iron ingots, shovels, and pickaxes, isn't that obvious?

Iron ingots because I need to make more Construction Golems. As for the shovels and pickaxes, it's for the Clay and Stone Golems that I'll make.

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It's day 27 and the first thing we did the last time was expand the dungeon some more. I used the Construction Golems to dig holes before expanding it, roughly the same size as the floors we bought using 10,000 DP. Digging holes made the DP expenditure of an entire floor cheaper.

Since I've been wanting to expand upwards, I used [Add A Floor (10,000 DP)] to add two upper floors which costs 20,000 DP in total. I've already thought of the main theme that we'll be using for the upper floors and I have Clay and Stone Golems to work on it.

Also, since we have the DP now, I bought Rokuko a skill or magic scroll of her choosing. In the end though, she bought a summoning skill that I didn't expect she would buy, the [Summon Rabbits Skill Scroll(7,500 DP)].

I guess she became extremely fond of rabbits because of Tsuka? Right. Even if I didn't really know if it will work, I drew up the picture of a Horned Rabbits, the Assassin Bunnies, and some other rabbit monsters for her.

I hope she can summon them eventually. That would be cool.

My main role in this operation was making more golems as the dungeon got mined out. I let Rokuko, Zenko, and Ikumei give the mining golems more detailed instructions while I focused entirely on making new golems.

Since I have the foresight to actually buy [Great Magic Power] Sense at a cheaper price through the [Dimensional Chat Group's] [Dimensional Shop], I am having it quite easy right now—even with the huge mana expenditure. The [Mana Potions(150 DP)] are quite expensive but only restore a little portion of my huge mana capacity so I opted to buy [Mana Potion (Barrel: 1,000 DP)].

It's really cheap. Like, seriously. It's a barrel of mana potions and it only costs 1,000 DP?

Maybe what made the potion expensive was the flask-like thing that contains it. It does look like a crystal glass. Just a wild guess, though.

While we are busy with work, Rokuko suddenly started a conversation with me.

"So, um, are we really going to dig out the basement floor? That seems like a lot of work… Why don't we just get rid of all the clay and stuff with DP?"

"'That'll be a huge waste. Didn't you already know that we are saving all those clay, stones and such for later use? Look, we even got many irons from continuous digging."

Since we're already added around two floors even before Haku suggested the Dungeon Battle, we only intended to add two more basement floors and two upper floors. Meaning, they will be the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh floors of our dungeon.

Our plan is to make our dungeon into a labyrinthine in nature, with numerous, interweaving hallways, moving walls, traps, and puzzles to solve. Everything can be realized with the use of DP but it is extremely expensive(for example, the Moving Labyrinth modification that costs hundreds of thousands of DP).

By the way, it'd take 10,000 DP to make a new floor on its own, but digging out the hallways beforehand made it only 5,000 DP. Plus, manual digging would net me tons of materials to make golems with.

"Rokuko, I'm counting on you to give detailed instructions to the Clay, Stone and Construction Golems using the map."

"Okay Shun! You can count on me! We're partners, after all."

"While you do that, I, Zenko, and Ikumei will go and create some traps. I'm pretty sure Haku will be using Goblins as her main scouting unit so I'll assist these girls first in making a pitfall trap that could target the bigger ones…"

Based on what I've seen in the Monster Catalog, she might use Lizardmen, Minotaurs, or Wolves, which are clearly larger and bigger than Goblins. So, I guess we could make weight based pitfall traps.

How did I know she would use them? Well, simple. I already have information regarding the [White Labyrinth] from way back when I gathered information in Tsia City. According to some adventurers, the most common monsters in that dungeon were Lizardmen, Minotaurs, and etc.

"Okay! Leave the directing of the Golems to me!"

"You're really reliable, partner."

"Hehehe… we're basically partners in body and soul, after all." Rokuko smiled brightly and resumed giving the golems digging instructions.

I, on the other hand, joined Ikumei and Zenko in making pitfalls near the entrance of our dungeon. Since I thought it would be a nice idea, I thought of making a tunnel that would lead to a [Dummy Core (5,000 DP)].

Why did I go out of my way of making a tunnel that will lead to the Dummy Core, you ask? Well, that is because, for some inconceivable reason, you can't place the Dummy Cores and Dungeon Cores into places that does not have any passages which will lead to them.

Weird, but that's just how dungeons work.

Thanks to the castling function, I could instantly swap the real Dungeon Core with any Dummy Core. In other words, the more Dummy Cores I placed, the more opportunities I had to keep the real Core safe. The castling function wasn't as useful in this situation since Haku would win if she touched even a Dummy Core, but still.

I could just hide them right before she got to them. The number of Dummy Cores she hadn't almost found would basically be how much HP our dungeon had left.

"I will dig out a lot of pitfalls."

"Then, then! I'll put flooring on the bottom of the pitfalls!"

It sounds like Ikumei and Zenko are competing or something but I didn't intervene since they're finally becoming more active.

"That's the spirit you two. I want you to put spikes on that flooring after you're done, so be careful not to fall in yourself. I'll be the one who will put the covers over the pitfalls once they're all dug out."

"Roger!"

By the way, the covers would be Flat Golems. I know. Amazing, right? Golems were great even outside of doing physical labor.

Since I could seemingly reshape anything with the use of my mana, it was reaaally easy to make this cover. I had some experience since I already made wall-shaped golems inside the fourth to sixth room of our first basement floor, including the other rooms in some other floors.

I had them move around our labyrinth so the correct path shifts around. That would make things pretty tricky. I attached tires hidden underneath like some sliding windows to stealthily enable them to do so.

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※~To be continued~※

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Author's Remarks:

※ Alright. Time to get creative and think of a few things that could be placed in the dungeon as traps, puzzles, and etc.