As I headed back to the Dungeon Core, I disarmed the first Static Lightning Trap. This kind of trap, unless you got a plan like the one I just did, is almost completely useless and I should have done this a long time ago, but because of the ever increasing tasks list in my mind, I forgot about it and let it consume so much Mana.
As I headed back, I found Muddy wondering around inside a room. Looking at him eating the lose stones in the ground, leaving it sparkling clean, gave me an idea.
"Muddy!"
The blob of mud suddenly stopped and turned to me...or at least that's the impression it gave as it has no face.
"The walls of the Dungeon were damaged because of the giant monster running around, I want you to repair them, making them all polished and flat as you did to the floor."
The blobs biggest lump of mud goes up and down, I read it as a nod.
"Good, you may start."
I observe Muddy a little as he keeps on cleaning the floor, after he finishes, he approaches the wall and ...
"!?!?!?"
He crawls through the wall as if it was the floor. It was like gravity didn't affect it as it went up, down, right, left, at exactly same speed. When I noticed, it had already finished repairing, cleaning and polishing all the wall and was starting to do the same in the ceiling.
"Wahhh!?!?!?"
Really, gravity doesn't seem to work on it, how the heck is he doing this??
Sigh...
Leaving Muddy work alone, I continued my way.
...
As I arrived the Dungeon Core, I approached it and said:
"Status!"
[Understood!]...
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Name: Unnamed Dungeon.
Rank: E
Avatar level: 26/40
Floors: 2/2.
Task Force: --
Defense Force: 1F.
Invaders: --
Allegiance: Neutral
Available Mana: 825u
Available Miasma: 122380u
Productivity: 170u/d
Event Log:
-New commands available, "Turn on The Sun" and "Turn off The Sun"
-Magicraft The Sun has been connected to the Dungeon Core.
-Magicraft The Sun was summoned.
-Creation of Miasma draining tunnel complete.
-New source of Miasma detected.
...
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Good, it seems I still have a lot of Mana! The Productivity rose as well because I took out the trap. Let's see how far I am from the next Rank.
"Expansion!"
[Understood!]...
[This is the list of requirements for the next expansion:]
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-Defense Force expansion (2/5)
-Task Force expansion (0/1)
-Traps installed (0/5)
-Conversion of Miasma (5000/10000)
-Floor Expansion (2/2)
-Rank D Monster Core (3/3)
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I really wanted to rank up now, but no matter what I did, it was impossible to rank up for the next 24 days, as it would take 25 days for the Miasma conversion to reach the required amount.
Well, since there is nothing I can do about this, I might as well keep working on my farming project.
I touch my hand in the Dungeon Core.
"Teleport, 1st floor stairs."
The World goes blank and a second later I find myself in front of the first floor stairs.
Taking note of the darkness around us, I suddenly remember I forgot to turn on The Sun again after testing if I could turn off.
"Turn on The Sun!"
[Understood!]...
The Sun light appears, blowing away the darkness and showing my 1 km radius circular fields divided in 4 sectors by roads that extended toward the 4 cardinal points. Ruyk, who had stopped crying and had fallen asleep while still climbing to my hammer, was suddenly woken up by the sun light and fell on the ground, waking up confused.
"Wah!? No! Monsters!!! Wait? Hmm??? Beautiful!!!"
"Ruyk, stop staring The Sun and follow me, we got a ton of work to do!"
Ruyk looks around and he asks:
"No more Crawling Monsters??"
"No, no! No more crawling monsters! Now come!"
Ruyk nodded his head, got up and start running after me.
"Yes Master! Wait for Ruyk!!!"