The Dangerously Cute Dungeon Volume Two [A Dungeon Core LitRPG]

2.1 A New Adventure Begins

Not too long ago, Violet had been tragically murdered alongside her beloved husband. After her tragic death, she was reincarnated into a new world, one filled with magic and [Monsters]. Without meaning to, she became bonded to a dungeon core and became the owner of her very own dungeon in the process. Without meaning to, she unwittingly inflicted a handicap on herself, causing herself to become forever stuck with the theme of a cute dungeon.

However, Violet didn't give up and, instead, chose to turn what might otherwise be a weakness into a selling point. Slimes were cute and weak, but that made them perfect for those who would normally be too weak to conquer a dungeon to practice their skill sets. When she ends up contracted into making a first floor without [Traps], she turns it into an opportunity to make it appropriate for young children, locals, and beginner adventurers alike.

Even when a follower of the god of death plots against her, constantly sending the undead into her dungeon, she doesn't give up. She picked up her sword and personally fought off every last enemy sent her way. Eventually, things even came to a head as the necromancer behind it all came to destroy her dungeon in a fit of anger. The battle ended up being a struggle as Violet was overwhelmed by the number of enemies combined with her lingering traumas. However, in the end, she still managed to overcome even that.

Now, all of Violet's efforts had paid off as she had unlocked the second floor of the dungeon and received plenty of useful upgrades alongside it. Before getting started building, though, she wanted to review all of the tributes she had received thanks to defeating the recent intruders. human remains, blood, a black mage's robe, cotton shirts, cotton pants, leather boots, leather belts, a leather satchel, iron swords, a wooden magic staff, a mana cost reduction enchantment, empty potion vials, corks, a waterskin, and a few other miscellaneous repeats. It all ended up amounting to 101 DP, bringing Violet's total dungeon points to 256.

Looking over the items, she frowned. She had thought that something like necromancy might mean the user would have to have dead bodies to resurrect. There certainly weren't any human remains in her dungeon that could have been revived. Yet the necromancer had been using a leather satchel rather than a magic bag. Well, perhaps it was possible that the skeletons and zombies could have been made from pure magic, there were certainly plenty of empty potion vials among the loot that had been absorbed by the dungeon.

Of course, Violet didn't exactly know how any of the classes of this world worked either. She had no way of knowing what types of classes were available, what variations within each class existed, or anything else for that matter. She could only base things on her experience playing games and based on her observations of the people of this world. Even then, the common sense of this world didn't necessarily match up with the things she had experienced in the video games of her old life.

Shaking her head, she decided to move on to other things. Unfortunately, some of the mana that was earned between the battle with the undead and Theodore's visit had gone to waste. However, there was still 100 MP to play around with and an entire second floor to work with. First, she spent 10 MP on building two 5-Units straight hallways. One went to the left of the staircase room and one went to the right. Then 40 MP was spent on building two 10-Units by 10-Units roundabout hallways to go at the end of each of the 5-Units hallways. Then another 10 MP was spent on making another two 5-Units straight hallways that connected to each of the roundabout hallways. Finally, 32 MP was spent to create a new 16-Units by 16-Units room for one side while the other side was filled with the 16-Units by 16-Units square flower hunt room that was originally on the first floor.

Theodore's advice about moving it from the first floor to the second floor had seemed like a good suggestion to Violet. There wasn't really a good way to make the puzzle easier without completely changing what the concept was. However, since she had made the room in loving memory of her husband, she didn't really want to change the basic premise behind the challenge. Still, there were a few tweaks that she wanted to make to the room.

First, Violet walked to the room, curious as to what changes may have been present now that it had changed floors. The basic design for a new room on the first floor was a wildflower meadow which meant that there would be green grass, a sparse smattering of dandelions, and a bright blue sky overhead. Even rooms like the slime parkour room had green grass and dandelions on the edges of the room where water didn't fill the space. However, the dandelions and bright sky were no longer present in the flower hunt room.

There was now a forest of trees with dark wooden trunks and a mix of dark purple and magenta leaves. The grass was also a much darker green with areas where it became sparse and dark soil could be seen. As the day cycle had never been officially set, the bright blue sky had also been changed to a sunset level of light with pinks, blues, and purples covering the sky. The rest of the room remained the same with the plants she had added showing up throughout the room and the stone altars in each of the four corners of the room.

Violet wasn't entirely sure what she had been expecting from an enchanted forest theme, but she still, somehow, felt disappointed. The thought of magical glowing mushrooms growing at the base of the trees or glowing lights floating through the forest, like fireflies or will-o'-wisps might cause, were very much missing from this forest. It just felt... incomplete. Still, it wasn't entirely that surprising considering how the wildflower meadow theme had really just been barely met by the dungeon's basic design. Violet had to put in the work to make the meadows really stand out and it would seem that this floor would be the same.

Shaking her head, she decided to finish up her second floor. She moved the hallway that led straight from the stairs room to the dungeon core room and connected the new empty forest room and the flower hunt room. The dungeon core room would now be accessible only after going through one of the other rooms on the floor, instead of being able to be gotten to by just walking straight forwards.

The last 8 MP that Violet had was spent on four bread rolls that she promptly stuffed into her magic bag. She wouldn't always have extra mana to spend on new merchandise, but it would certainly still be nice to get some extra dungeon points. There were bound to be plenty of things she needed to research for her new floor, after all.

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