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

2.23 Old Fashioned Candy

"What do you think, love? Do you think they'll like it?"

"Huh?"

Cedar asked, causing Violet to blush before dismissing his question.

"Oh, nothing, just talking to myself!"

Cedar looked at Violet with a bit of skepticism. This wasn't the first time he had heard her talking to someone who wasn't there. Yet she always seemed unwilling to clarify when asked. She just turned beet red and then tried to play it off as if it was nothing of importance.

Violet looked down at her drawings with an expression of concentration. She had been hoping to get more challenge rooms done on the first floor this week, but there simply hadn't been enough mana to do everything she wanted. Still, she really hoped the children, like Alice and Henry, would like the new puzzles and rewards she had implemented.

Since she had decided to go with a candy store theme for her tribute room, she ended up designing five challenge rooms with old-fashioned candies for their rewards. The only problem was that she had only had 199 MP left to spend for the week by the time she started working on them, so she had only gotten around to making three of them. Still, she was rather looking forward to implementing the other two sometime in the next few days.

The first room she had designed was a 3D slime-themed jigsaw puzzle. It was a bit of a recycled idea considering she already had a slime-themed jigsaw puzzle, but it still seemed like a fun idea. When she had first designed the other one, she had even caught some of them trying to stack the puzzle pieces that were meant to lay flat, as if it was a 3D puzzle instead. Now she would actually have one, which she was sure would result in just as much chaos and confusion as the first one had.

Of course, she couldn't just simply make it a 3D version of the first one, it was necessary to improve upon the first design! So, she had used blue dye on the wooden pieces so that the finished result could look like an emperor basic slime when complete. Although it would have been pretty neat to do an emperor rock slime, Violet worried that the grays and browns would end up looking too similar to the first design, so that idea had been quickly scrapped for a basic slime instead.

As for the reward in the room, this one had been based on the peanut butter "kisses" that used to be very rarely given out at Halloween when she was a kid. Some of the older folks enjoyed them and wanted to share their love of the candy by sharing them with the new generation. Apparently, many of the parents disapproved of it, though, as the wrappers tended to be harder to check for signs of tampering and the candies were often handmade. However, after Violet had expressed interest in the candy, her mother had brought her out to buy some from a specialty store nearby and she had fallen in love with the soft, chewy, and sweet candy.

Of course, there weren't actually any peanuts among the [Base Resources] cataloged in her system. That much hadn't changed at all since she had made the walnut fudge. However, it also seemed a bit boring to just do a walnut candy again, so Violet opted for making pecan "kisses" instead. It ended up costing 20 DP to research the pecan butter, 10 DP each to research black and orange wax paper for candy wrappers, and then 30 DP to research the pecan "kisses" themselves. Of course, as per usual, it also cost the same amount as it did to research the [Item] initially in order to set it as the reward for the challenge.