"I don't have any time to help you, but from what I've seen, your design looks quite feasible If you make some more minor changes," said Beatrice as she waved her hand once again, causing the design to once again fall down in front of the three Beatrices
Quickly after that happened, the eyes of the three little humans fell onto the design, which had some markings on it, which indicated some issues.
Although they had found most of these already before asking for help from the main body, there were still some things that the three of them had actually missed, which made them feel quite embarrassed.
A few moments later, the three raised their heads from the design and looked at the place where Beatrice was just a few moments ago.
Sadly though, Beatrice was now gone, having silently disappeared while the three little guys were focused on something else.
...
The moment she began descending to an even lower floor, Beatrice suddenly felt the concentration of elemental energy around her decline, as it returned to normal levels.
Only a few moments later, though, Beatrice could finally see the next floor, which was nearly completely barren.
This was a second storage floor that Beatrice had created.
Unlike the first one though, this one focused less on the bulk storage of resources, and much more on safety and maintenance.
This is where Beatrice planned to keep the items she felt unsafe leaving on the other floor, or just valuable items in general.
Just now though, this floor was nearly empty, having only a few spell books, alongside a few other items littering it, occupying around 0.1 percent of its space.
But even though this was the case, 5 different small Beatrice's still littered the halls of this floor, looking after the few items stored within it whilst conducting their own research.
...
After staying on the eight floor for just under a minute, Beatrice finally began descending to her destination, the ninth floor.
"I need to add a second method of transportation between these floors, the stairs are way too slow," mumbled Beatrice as she came closer and closer to the ninth floor.
Compared to the temperature on the first floor, because of its depth, the ninth floor was quite warm, being the perfect temperature for human survival.
Because of this, as well as the inevitable safety reason, Beatrice decided to place her human farm on the ninth floor.
As the name implied, this was a project created by Beatrice, which sought to destroy her reliance on the outside world for experimental subjects though creating her own underground civilization.
Of course, civilization was quite a bit of an exaggeration, as what lay on the ninth floor was currently a small town, around 700 people in size.
But even so, Beatrice considered this very much a success, as when she first built this place, she inserted only 423 humans.
Of course, Beatrice also played a part in the rather extreme growth of the population, as occasionally, her little clones would give the inhabitants of this town a few 'suggestions', without them being aware of it.
After a few moments, Beatrice suddenly arrived in front of a large gate, which blocked her way, causing her to suddenly send her mana into it, making it open.
Only a few moments after Beatrice opened the gate, three Beatrices came to greet her, causing Beatrice herself to faintly smile.
"To be able to detect my arrival so soon, it seems as though you've done well, and have a good grasp over the floor," said Beatrice, causing the leading Beatrice to nod.
"Yes, we're monitoring the entire floor twenty-four hours a day, but even more this part, as any human escaping could be catastrophic," said the small Beatrice as she began leading Beatrice to her destination.
Unlike all the other floors, which were created out of a material reinforced using Earth Magic by the ants, the floor of the ninth floor was mostly grass, simulating a natural environment.
Furthermore, the Earth Ants had also rerouted a small underground river in here, creating a lake, which allowed the inhabitants to both obtain fresh water, and also farm.
Right now, Beatrice was walking behind the three Beatrice's up towards the source of the river, where the main base of operation of these Beatrice's lay.
As the river had to come in, its entrance into the floor was the only entrance to the underground home other than the main one, which prompted the Beatrices on this floor to be quite paranoid about defending it.
This was actually the reason they placed their base of operation there, both to prevent the humans from escaping through there, and also prevent anyone from coming in.
Of course, both escaping and coming in was much harder than what one might assume at first glance, as surrounding the underground estate stood the enormous colony of the earth ants, acting as a defensive force to fight against any sort of attacks.
After walking for a few minutes, the four Beatrices finally arrived in front of a stone wall next to the mouth of the river, which was coming out of a huge mountain, which seemed to stretch into infinity.
Of course, this was merely an illusion.
After arriving in front of the stone wall, one of the tiny Beatrice's suddenly stretched out her hand, onto the rock, causing it to quickly sink into it.
A few moments later, a hole suddenly appeared within the stone wall, one large enough for a tiny Beatrice to enter.
"Wait just a bit," said a tiny Beatrice before walking into the mountain.
Beatrice did not have to wait for long, as after a few moments, the door suddenly increased in size, allowing her to walk in alongside the other two Beatrices.
What greeted Beatrice inside the mountain were 15 Beatrices standing in a row, seemingly ready for her arrival for her arrival.
At the same time, a few hundred ants stood next to them in a neat formation, slightly bowing to the arrival of their mistress.