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

2.2 Short Guest List

While Violet hadn't exactly been expecting her dungeon to instantly become popular with the number of visitors increasing in a matter of hours, she hadn't expected the first day to be so slow either. Whereas there would normally be a small handful of visitors every day, even with the recent winter weather, Violet spent all day waiting only for the dungeon to remain empty. While it was good not to have any [Monsters] to fight off, she was disappointed not to have any opportunities to interact with adventurers.

The first person that ended up showing up for the day was David and Alice. Even then, Violet got the feeling that it was only because he was under contract and was required to show up every single day. The way he was constantly glancing around and kept telling Alice not to run around made it pretty obvious that he was more on edge than usual. It was honestly pretty disappointing for Violet, even despite her knowing that David was never quite going to trust her.

It was like he expected her dungeon to have become a lethal killing machine over the course of a single day. As if her first floor was even capable of such a thing. She couldn't put the new [Monsters] she had unlocked on the first floor. They were only available for the second floor or higher floors. Slimes would be the most dangerous thing that could be on the first floor for the rest of the time. Well, her pixies and myconid could go to the first floor and even leave it, but that was a different matter entirely.

Besides all that, she couldn't exactly add [Traps] to the first floor now any more than she could before. The deal was that she couldn't build any [Traps] on the first floor, except for directly outside her dungeon core room. A room that wasn't even on the first floor anymore, which really just said it was impossible to install any [Traps] now. Unless David planned to bring his daughter to the second floor, which wouldn't be very smart on his part, there was no reason for him to worry.

Sighing, Violet picked her sword back up off of the ground where it had fallen when David knocked her over during their sparring. Turning back around, she said

"You should really relax. Also, I'd like to talk about the current deal we have. Now that I have a second floor, I don't really have any need for you to leave the dungeon anymore. However, I also don't really want to do swordsmanship practice with you more than once a day. I can't change anything on the first floor while you are on it, so you don't have to worry about that. I also can't assign anything more dangerous than slimes to this floor and it's impossible to put any [Traps] on this floor now. So, you can rest easy and do whatever gathering or challenges you want after I leave each night.

I do have a contract with another group of adventurers for the winter, though. I'll be telling them that they no longer have to wait for you to leave before they can come in for the night. So, you may have to deal with there being multiple groups in the dungeon from now on."

David flinched at Violet's obviously accusatory statement. However, he played it off as he replied

"Alright, we can do that. It will make things easier for us, anyway. It isn't good for Alice to stand outside in the dead of winter, she might get sick. Besides, it's a decent walk between here and the nearby town, so it isn't like we can go home and then come back that easily either."

David didn't really talk much more than that for the rest of their time together. After an hour, Violet went back upstairs. Her mana was already full and she was eager to get back to building her second floor. While she did feel more motivated to train harder after the recent intruders, it wasn't like she needed David to supervise her as she did sword swings. She just found it helpful to spar with him each day since it helped in ways that practicing alone couldn't.

The first thing Violet did was to go to the flower hunt challenge room. She removed the late-stage dandelions, chicory, lavender, black-eyed susans, beebalm, and butterfly weed flowers. She also removed the windy weather effect. She hadn't set a specific weather pattern, just the windy option, before because she wanted it to blow the seeds of the late-stage dandelions around. However, she wanted to get rid of the plants that didn't fit the forest theme as well, so there was no point in the wind anymore. Perhaps she would find a new use for the combination of windy weather and late-stage dandelions for one of the first floor rooms later on.