NOVEL WEB Chapter 23: Nature!
I was truly happy to have more Mental-stress to play around with, I already have tons of ideas! My goal is to make the weirdest dungeon possible; If the church is too busy being weirded out, then they won't have time to stop incoming attacks!
Plus, I'm seriously late to a dungeon 'trend', floors! Floors are the basics of dungeons, they're there to separate the... rooms' altitude? Whatever, it's important I have them as those floors will serve as goals for adventurers or the church itself; All of that will result in more people getting here and me getting to learn from watching them.
I guess we could consider what I currently have as 'Floor 1'. It's going to be a sort of test to see if you can even stand a chance against the rest of my dungeon, after all, if you can't go through the Depression-Hallway, what chance do you have against everything else?
I also know just how I want to make my next floors single rooms only; They'd all follow a specific theme and will make stuff a bit more focused and interesting.
And so, after talking to Lethe a little bit, I went to start the construction of 'Floor 2'.
I had a pretty simple idea, since I could enlarge or un-enlarge space and could also make portals... what if I made portals that change the size of things that go through them? It was pretty simple to make too, all I really had to do was make the space the object was in smaller. That's how at one point Almond became as big as a lion and how Lethe got a living blanket.
The size changer portal would be incredibly important for 'Floor 2', but first I had to make the way to that floor. I started out with a simple cylindrical room dug out from the ground around me, and then augmented its height until it hit around five hundred meters total. I then made a curved staircase go from the top all the way to the bottom, and I also made the steps just small enough to be slightly uncomfortable but not enough that anyone would mention it. Then, along the way I added size changers to make anything that goes down the stairs slowly get smaller; I then modified the stairs to also get smaller but not in any noticeable way, the result was a staircase that would make you smaller without you realizing.
Then I added some energy reversal areas along the way, making sure to keep anyone properly disoriented.
I made the entire 'transition room' go from perfectly clean white stone at the top, to dirty wood at the bottom in a smooth gradient. Right there at the bottom, there would be the portal to transport people to the second floor.
Now, onto the second floor! I started by making a small five-meter by five-meter room, I then copied some dirt from the outside and threw it in there. All I had to do now was to take some plants from the outside and put them in there! Now, this might look like a small ordinary garden to anyone viewing it from the outside, but the truth was that I would make this an extremely cool floor.
I put a portal inside the garden and then put another at the bottom of the staircase; The result was a floor that would look like a massive forest/garden to everyone going inside! Those who went in there would need about four days to get from one end of this floor to the other! After that, I added a few runes to the roof and walls of the room to make it have the same sky as the outside world.
I added in a few classic traps such as the ground sometimes disappearing underneath yourself making you fall down onto indestructible wooden spikes, or like the one who simply teleported you to a random position in the room. I wanted to add monsters but felt a bit tired from how much creativity I had used up. I'd have to make them later, for the moment I moved the space fishes down there.
I then connected the end of the second floor to my core room and the end of the first floor with the staircase.
All in all, this was a productive day!
POV: Jerome
I still couldn't believe what had happened, all of the pain I'd felt... The worst of it all was the 'scar' I got from it; It's a rune that people often put on pets, and it meant that it was owned by someone. I didn't like being treated as a pet, but I didn't have much of a choice. I knew that I didn't really have much of a say in anything now that that 'cat' was in control now and made me follow it wherever it wanted. I didn't know where we were going, but I knew I could see something in the distance, an end to the madness perhaps?
Why can I see my reflection though?
