CH.412 Upgrading TinaWood dungeon

CH.412 Upgrading TinaWood dungeon

“You really should have told me just how customizable these things are. Now I have to start from the beginning.” Wilma complained, as she looked over the new duel disk designs.

“Had you asked, I would have told you. But you are the one that wanted to do it without my help.” I pointed out.

“... why do you have to be correct?”

“Because I designed the duel disks?” I said, but I then realized I should have said something else. “... sorry. But honestly, just let me help you. Even if you manufacture the outer shell of the duel disk, we’ll need to make the innards with HomeBase anyway.”

“... I suppose you are right. That internal mechanism isn’t something I could make.”

“I would say I can make a fabricator or something like that, but realistically, there is no point. HomeBase is a better fabricator than a fabricator.”

“... what even is a fabricator?”

“A device that could turn out blueprints into actual objects. It is a bit complicated to explain, so I won’t. And honestly, I’m not even sure I could build one.”

“Shame. I wanted to see one.”

“I should be able to make a CNC mill if you want.” I offered.

“Again, don’t know what it is.”

After a bit of Factory testing while Wilma redesigned her own duel disk, all five of the new duel disks were tested and ready to be manufactured.

Wilma went with a shield design. Well, kind of. Her duel disk looked just like a standard GX Duel Academy duel disk, but that isn’t what is so special about it.

The outer edge of her duel disk could emit a sort of force field that Wilma made based on the energy blade of my duel disk. You know, the one I have that allows me to summon more monsters and basically looks like those Arc-V duel disks.

So yeah. Wilma used some of that technology, mixed with Space Magic, to make her duel disk be able to project a shield instead. One that looks like a full tower shield. It actually really looked like the Wakandan energy shield from the MCU.

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... it might be wrong of me to say, but I do really like Wilma’s design. Just because of the utility of being able to use it as a duel disk or a full on tower shield.

I mean, I use my duel disk as a sort of shield, though it is mostly a parry tool when I fight against people with swords. Aka. when I train against my monsters.

And while yes having a full shield would be cool, I really don’t need one. I can just summon Millennium Shield.

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But back to the new duel disks. I made them all with HomeBase and handed them out.

Einar and Eline were both big fans of their disks. Eline was a bit hesitant about acting as a shield maiden, but I told her that she didn’t have to and that the shield feature was just a backup in case she ended up in close ranged combat and needed a shield. I did recommend that she learn how to use it still.

Einar was a lot more excited, as he got his second sword. Well, his two swords don’t currently match, as Wilma hasn’t made the matching piece yet, but Einar does now have two swords.

Unika really liked her duel disk, especially the little dart launchers I added. She wasn’t so sure about the saw feature though. She did also put a request in for Wilma and Karl to make her some darts that can carry paralyzing poison.

Paulina ... well, she was a bit disappointed that hers didn’t have any special features, but I honestly just didn’t know what to add. I even asked Paulina what she would have liked, but she admitted that she didn’t really know.

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(... why do you have to make it sound so dirty?) I questioned.

(It wouldn’t sound dirty, if you didn’t have a dirty mind.) She teased.

(... whatever. I’m preparing the incoming mana and miasma.) I told her, as I did the final check for the mana/miasma package I was about to send.

It looked just fine, so I started a countdown.

(Alright. It is coming in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.)

I then hit the send button, yes I made a send button just for this, fight me. I have to have one. It is almost as good as having a giant red button, which I need to make by the way. Not sure what the giant red button will do, but I want to have one.

Maybe I need to look into magical ICBMs [Intercontinental ballistic missile] that I can shoot with my big red button. Or maybe a HomeBase self-destruct button.

Or I could just make an orbital laser cannon or something like that. Just a shame I don’t have Orbital Hydralander or Satellite Cannon Falcon yet.

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I do have the regular Satellite Cannon, so I could do something with it.

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But enough about designing WMDs [weapon of mass destruction], this is about evolving a dungeon.

The mana/miasma package was successfully sent, and Alice soon confirmed that TinaWood received it.

I then heard some panicked screams from the System link, before I got the confirmation that the dungeon did in fact ‘evolve’. Yes I know, it isn’t really an evolution. Well, I suppose it is, but it is more akin to dragon evolution as it happens very quickly, instead of the more drawn out evolutions that regular people experience.

I then began to look over TinaWood using Dungeon Founder and it did in fact grow quite a bit. The rooms, which used to be about 100x100x20 meters, are now more like 300x300x40 meters. That is a 9x increase in area and an 18x increase in volume. A bit higher than we expected, as most Factory tests gave us an increase of around 7x for area, but within expectations.

The next objective after confirming the larger area of the dungeon was dividing that area up into different rooms. Including the new up and coming team challenge rooms where multiple people could enter. Other than them, the dungeon was basically the same, just larger in area.

Each floor, except the first one, would still have a challenge room and a few regular rooms. Floors 4, 5, 6 and 7 would also get the team challenge rooms.

The team challenge rooms also had a new loot table, because I couldn’t just go with the weapons the regular challenge rooms give.

The team rooms give out more ‘consumable’ type items, like potions and arrows, as well as clothing, like perfectly sized shirts and pants for the people that defeated the challenge room. They are a lot cheaper to produce than something like a weapon, so the challenge room could give out a set of clothing for each member of the party.

It can also hold some metal ingots, but nothing more rare than mithril and mithril ingots only appear on floor 7. Other floors have lesser metals, like copper, bronze, iron and silver. The silver is kind of the special one, as you can sell it for the most money, outside of the mithril.

You could also, very rarely and only by achieving the same ‘rollover’ reward as in the regular challenge rooms, get a Card Summoner skill orb. And yes, I naturally wanted to add it, because it is the most special reward that my dungeon can give out.

Also, as expected, an A-rank monster did end up spawning on floor 7. It was a skeletal triple hydra, aka. a three headed hydra, but it wasn’t really a challenge to the quartet of destroyers.

Christina ended up absorbing the corpse so that she’d have some more points for her personal use.

After we were done with remaking the dungeon, I wrote up a full report on it, including the new team challenge rooms and their rules. I then had Eline deliver the report to Zay and the adventurers’ guild so that they could share the new information. As well as the new map of the dungeon.

I’ll be keeping an eye on TinaWood for the coming days, but for now, it is a lot larger than it used to be, and it should be able to spawn more monsters. More monsters means more adventurers can go in at the same time, which should be good for everyone.

... except for the adventurers that get overwhelmed and die in the dungeon, but that is on them, not me. And no, there hasn’t actually been a single death inside TinaWood yet, but there have been a few career ending injuries.

And yes, I could heal those injuries, but I’m not a charity. They knew what they were getting into when they entered the dungeon. If someone died, I probably would resurrect them, but for injuries, that isn’t on me.