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

2.14 Just Desserts

The next morning, Violet went down to the first floor. Since the dungeon had absorbed her tributes, she now had 646 dungeon points, which left plenty to play around with. As she planned to change some of the first floor rewards to be assigned to the second floor, it only made sense to start by assigning a new reward to the first floor rooms to replace the old ones.

Violet had to spend a while thinking about what sorts of new rewards to offer that would be suitable for the first floor. Since she wanted them to be suitable for all ages and not a niche flavor choice, it would usually seem pretty simple. However, Violet struggled with coming up with ideas more than she thought she would purely because she didn't have any chocolate to use. So many candies and desserts used cocoa powder or chocolate for flavoring that it took a while for her to move past that fact and think of alternatives.

The first thing Violet decided to research was walnut butter.

Would you like to spend 20 DP to research walnut butter using the [Base Resources] walnuts and salt?

Yes

No

Violet selected the [Yes] option and immediately proceeded to the next step in her research process.

Would you like to spend 20 DP to research engraved wooden boxes using the [Base Resources] wood and iron?

Yes

No

Would you like to spend 10 DP to research brown candy liners using the [Base Resources] brown paper and beeswax?

Yes

No

One after another, Violet selected the [Yes] option before finalizing her research for the candies.

Would you like to spend 30 DP to research walnut fudge using the [Base Resources] walnut butter, butter, milk, vanilla, and sugar?

Yes

No

Would you like to spend 50 DP to research a box of walnut fudge using the [Items] walnut fudge, engraved wooden box, and brown candy liners?

Yes

No

While she could have just researched the walnut fudge with the packaging, Violet much preferred to have the flexibility that having both recipes researched unlocked brought with it. Of course, an additional 50 DP had to be used to set the box of walnut fudge as the new reward for the slime parkour room as well. So, this easily brought her total dungeon points down to 466, but it felt well worth the investment.

"Please set the weather in the slime parkour room to be always overcast and sunset weather."

This request ended up costing another 75 DP to accomplish, but it was a much-needed adjustment. With the much better reward and the change from the stormy midnight setting to a sunset overcast one, the challenge would be much more reasonable for the first floor. The wooden platforms would no longer be slippery and it would be easier to make out the aqua slimes after they jumped out of the water. However, the platforms would still be the same distance apart and the challenge would certainly still be a difficult one, which is where having a more worthwhile reward came into play.

Feeling satisfied, Violet moved on to the rainbow ball maze room where she also needed to replace the reward. The challenge seemed to be of a reasonable enough difficulty for the first floor since both David and Tobias's party had already successfully completed it, from what she had heard. It was just that the chamomile shortbread cookies would be better suited to the second floor than one meant for children and beginner adventurers.