The Dangerously Cute Dungeon [A Dungeon Core LitRPG]

1.13 Room Upgrades

After David and Alice left, Violet was once more alone in her dungeon. Well, she did have the bees and her cute slime and kodama [Monsters], but it just felt different to have people around she could converse with. Shaking the thoughts from her head, Violet decided to start expanding on her dungeon.

Her mana was once more full and Violet felt it was time to add a new room that she could build a puzzle in. So, she entered the disorienting building view and began to look through her options. Her wildflower meadow room was an 8-Units by 16-Units rectangular room, but a square room seemed ideal for the sort of puzzle Violet had in mind. Sighing, Violet decided to spend an entire 32 MP to build a 16-Units by 16-Units room in between her first room and the dungeon core room.

Violet left only 5-Units of hallways between the two rooms and was only slightly disappointed this time when she wasn't given any discount due to the 16-Units of hallway that was transformed into a room. She already knew to expect it this time, but it was still disappointing. Of course, it was still better than expending mana to build a new hallway for the room to branch off from. Violet was sure it would be even more expensive and slower to build when it came time to build hallways alongside the rooms.

Violet took a moment to reorient herself after exiting the building view before walking over to her new room. The room was already filled with grass and dandelions and had a sun shining overhead. This was likely due to the floor's flower meadow theme, but Violet wasn't sure if she really wanted all of her rooms to have the same scenery as it was bound to become boring after a while. Still, Violet supposed it did have to be better than having everything be made from the same gray stone bricks the hallways seemed to be made from.

Violet wasn't sure if 18 MP would be enough to build her puzzle, but she figured it wouldn't be bad to start doing some research using her DP and [Base Resources] so that she could build the puzzle once she had enough MP for it.

"System, I'd like to do some research using my [Base Resource] wood to make a wooden jigsaw puzzle."

Searching the database for 'jigsaw puzzle'...

Violet waited patiently for the system to do its thing, but was only met with another system prompt when it finally finished.

Unable to find 'jigsaw puzzle' in database. Now searching the host's memory.

Violet felt a headache building up and then her vision began to grow hazy before she fell unconscious. It took quite some time before she came to again and Violet groaned as she sat up from the ground. The grass might not have been as bad as falling onto concrete, but it certainly still wasn't very pleasant.

Please designate a theme for 'wooden jigsaw puzzle'.

The system prompt was a good reminder to Violet of what she had been doing before passing out. Violet hesitantly answered

"Oh, uh... Just make it a basic slime."

Would you like to complete research and build [Wooden Slime Jigsaw Puzzle] for 50 MP and 200 DP?

Yes

No

Violet balked at the price as she selected [No]. She didn't have sufficient mana anyhow, so she wasn't sure why she was even given the choice. Perhaps the menu would have complained about insufficient mana had she selected [Yes], but it was still strange to be offered the choice.

While a single apple tree did cost an entire 20 MP, it still seemed like a lot to have to spend so much mana on a single puzzle. Perhaps the size and complexity of the [Item] had something to do with it? It wasn't as if Violet had wanted a normal-sized jigsaw puzzle, after all. She wanted to have a giant puzzle that took up most of the space in the center of the room.