Expanding (7)

"Phew... finally got this done, but now..."

I nodded happily to myself as I took in just how much this newly formed room had come together in mere hours, the boons of the System being made clear once again as something that should have taken a day or two now only took those few hours, and it was all with superior materials to what I had used once before.

The brick outer shell had gone down smoothly before I covered it up with the wooden planks softening the area up and ensuring that this rather sizable open space was ready to be converted into a few different rooms, each being tailored for children specifically.

Then I wanted to leave this middle part open and turn it into a play area of sorts, with as much cushioning and padding as possible to let them be a little rough whilst also having a few beanbags to rest on and shelves for books to read.

I wanted this entire area to be friendly and filled with possibilities for them to have fun, and to do so I was going to need some more materials than just wood and brick, but they were materials that I already had.

The various things of cloth I had became the shells of the beanbags, which I then filled with leftover bits of fur and other soft materials before strengthening up the cloth sack, ensuring that they wouldn't be destroyed easily.

Animal furs were made into carpets that I saved for later, and I took the time to ensure that each was strengthened that same way with basic, elemental-less mana before realizing I should probably stop thinking about decorating when I don't even have rooms to decorate...

But decorating was so much more fun than constructing these rooms... but I needed to build the rooms in order to decorate... but I didn't wanna...

Pouting, I stored away all the fur rugs and cloth that I had been using to make things and instead 'took out' the wooden plank walls, measuring out the size of this giant space I had and beginning by placing the walls in a n shape, leaving an empty middle but having space sectioned off from this middle that I could then turn into rooms.

Then I measured that and began to go at it as evenly as I could, and considering how quickly children seemed to grow, I needed to remind myself that they really didn't need as much space as I thought they did, so I managed to squeeze in about fourteen rooms total, five on either side of the n and four at the top of the n.

After the rooms had been correctly spaced out and encased in their shell of wooden planks, I went inside to each and began to create the exact same room in each of the fourteen rectangular spaces I had made.

A bed, shelves, desk and chair as well as a wardrobe, with a fur rug leading from the door to the bed and a myriad of pillows resting atop the sheets on the bed; even though they were filled with furniture and had little actual space left, they still felt rather empty, but that wasn't something that I could help since the thing they lacked wasn't something that I could provide.

They were missing a 'personality', and while I could give them a pseudo personality by adding some stuffed animals or other small toys, I would rather let the children decide what they wanted in their rooms instead of me deciding for them, so I left them as is, going from room to room and mirroring the furniture in each.

When I was done with the fourteen rooms, I moved back into the empty lounge and started to decorate that instead, my enthusiasm showing as the time spent seemed to spill from my hands like sand as I gave this lounge life.

I hung up simple tapestries on the plank walls to soften everything up a bit, used some basic shelves to keep some of those tapestries in place and took the time to think of a type of light source that wouldn't set everything alight, which I crafted and began to place on those shelves to illuminate the open area.

Various fur rugs connected together on the floor, the fluffy floor giving some color to the area whilst also protecting everyone from any scrapes and lessening any bruises they might get if they did fall, while the tables at the edges of the room were low and covered in some of the toys I had on hand.

Both of the corners nearby the entrance were turned into 'reading corners' with a few beanbags to rest on, and I converted the plank walls into bookshelves that I would eventually stock with various books to read.

There wasn't much need for a lot of furniture here, and the only other additions were some chests that I would fill with more toys later on; the middle was left open for play, and the walls were left rather bare so that they could be decorated by individual pieces made by the children, should any of them decide to be a painter or artist of some kind.

Otherwise, I hung a chandelier from the ceiling to light up the area even more before brushing off my hands, finally feeling finished with this part of the house after another couple of hours spend decorating and turning this space into something friendly and soft.

With this potentially giant and not seen before 'boom' of babies joining us soon, this was a much needed addition, but what I needed more than this was a giant den of debauchery just outside, so I rubbed my hands together excitedly as my mind shifted from happy, pure thoughts into lustful ones as I gathered everyone together and had them put their things together for me to store for now.

I needed to redo this entire level, after all~!