Chapter 3:
<table><tbody><tr><td> Your larvae has evolved </td></tr></tbody></table>
My face change into that of a surprised one and Lucy asked me "What happened?"
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<table><tbody><tr><td> Your Level 1 Larva has evolved to a Carnivorous Caterpillar </td></tr></tbody></table>
<table><tbody><tr><td> Level 1 Carnivorous Caterpillar 30/30 Hp 22/22 Mp </td></tr></tbody></table>
<table><tbody><tr><td colspan=''4''>Carnivorous Caterpillar</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''4''>The Carnivorous Caterpillar is 40 cm long and 20 cm tall. The like to prey on small animals and as it levels up or evolves it will eat bigger animals. It reinforces it''s teeth with magic, but is extremely slow. It''s skin is harder and can withstand being stepped on.</td></tr></tbody></table>
<table><tbody><tr><td> You have unlocked the monster Carnivorous Caterpillar in the Dungeon Shop. Buy the it at the shop to be able to spawn it without having to go through the evolution process. </td></tr></tbody></table>
<table><tbody><tr><td> You have gained the trap, Ceiling Drop </td></tr></tbody></table>
<table><tbody><tr><td colspan=''4''>Ceiling Drop</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''4''>You have a area above your ceiling where you keep certain monster which will drop down when the area is opened. To open it, a certain mechanisim must be activated. Current Monsters useable for trap : Carnivorous Caterpillar.</td></tr></tbody></table>
Snapping out of my daze, I look towards the larva area and see a massive caterpillar, " The Larva evolved into a Carnivorous Caterpillar and I gained a new trap, ceiling drop."
She looks over to where I was looking and see''s the caterpillar. Various expressions appeared on her face, it went from shock to happiness to disgust. " Ugh, a caterpillar, disgusting. "
" Well you have to get used to this since there will many of them," I state the obvious.
She sighs and says " I know." Her face changes into one of deep thought before she tells me " Now back on topic, Apprentice and Novice are beginner levels where you don''t have to open up your dungeon. But when you reach H, your body will send out a ripple letting the people in this world know that a new dungeon exists. The good thing is that, they won''t know where. This ripple will also attract other creatures, so before people come, kill them and gain dungeon essence."
I become nervous and ask " Um, how do I become a H level dungeon?"
Nonchalantly she answered " You have to have a 100 monster to become a H level dungeon. I advise you to improve your dungeon''s first floor before becoming a H level dungeon. This way, you will have more protection. Now I''m going to enter my room and change it up. Don''t bother me, and don''t become a H level dungeon, until I come out. You better have improved the dungeon by the time I came out." I stare at the back of her figure as she enters her room.
I think about the whole day, and what I learned. It takes me around 10 minutes to create a room and 40 minutes to recover my magic to full. For the traps, it takes around 20 minutes to make, and for monsters around 5 minutes for 2 monsters. Evolving the larva took around 10 hours.
Returning back to the present time, I think about different ways to implement the new additions I got. Before thinking about it, I create 25 wolves and 25 larvae. After brainstorming some ideas, I went to work. I created 4 more rooms and added in the ceiling drop trap. It has different mechanisms for each room, like a trap step, trip wire or a 2 levers, 1 for the door the other for the trap. The paths were more diverse and had many more divergent paths. This addition made the dungeon more like a labyrinth and harder to clear. Different entrances to doors where added for example grand entrances or a path in which you have to crawl into to get into the room.
8 hours have passed since I began improving the dungeon, and 5 of the larvae evolved into something different.
<table><tbody><tr><td> You larva has evolved into a Level 1 Silkworm </td></tr></tbody></table>
<table><tbody><tr><td> Level 1 Magic Silkworm 10/10 Hp 40/40 Mp </td></tr></tbody></table>
<table><tbody><tr><td colspan=''4''>Magic Silkworm</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''4''>The Magic Silkworm is like a normal silkworm but makes magic silk. Magic silk is a reinforced version of silk to point it can cut people and can be used as an assassins tool. The Magic Silkworm injects its'' magic into the silk to create magic silk, and when it runs out of magic it creates normal silk.</td></tr><table><tbody><tr><td> You have unlocked the monster Magic Silk in the Dungeon Shop. Buy the it at the shop to be able to spawn it without having to go through the evolution process. </td></tr></tbody></table>
<table><tbody><tr><td> Magic Silk is strong, durable, sharp, flexible and stretchable. </td></tr></tbody></table>
<table><tbody><tr><td> You have unlocked the trap Trip wire </td></tr></tbody></table>
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<tr><td colspan=''4''>Trip Wire</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan=''4''>Trip wire trips the creature which runs into to it if the wire is made out of silk. If it is made out of magic silk, it cuts them and has a change of amputating them</td></tr>
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After getting magic silkworms, I started getting magic silk and regular silk where I kept in a treasury I made. This left with me with a total of 9 rooms. I added the trip wire in and made it difficult to reach my treasury. I put my core room farthest away with a room in front of it. The room had 15 wolves and many traps as well as the paths have many forks after clearing the room.
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My renovating of the dungeon took another hour and 5 larva evolved.
<table><tbody><tr><td> Your Larva has evolved into a Level 1 Burrowing Parasite </td></tr></tbody></table>
<table><tbody><tr><td> Level 1 Burrowing Parasite 5/5 Hp 10/10 Mp </td></tr></tbody></table>
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<tr><td colspan=''4''>Burrowing Parasite</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan=''4''>There are 3 different Burrowing Parasites. There are Control Parasites (1 cm black centipedes), Queen Parasites (2 cm white centipedes) and Soldier Parasites (1.5 cm brown centipede). Queen parasites burrow in the creature and live off its nutrients and its body. It then creates eggs which hatch out Soldier Parasites. The Soldier Parasites protect the Queen and burrow into creatures with her. They eat the creature the burrow into from the inside, after they finish all the parasites inside leave. The Control Parasites burrow into the creature and take control of its brain, controling it. If the creatures evolves and the parasite is inside they merge and the parasite becomes the creature. Sometimes it takes multiple Control Parasites to control 1 creature and when they all merge it might have bi-polar disorders.</td></tr>
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<table><tbody><tr><td> You have unlocked the monster Burrowing Parasites (all 3 centipedes) in the Dungeon Shop. Buy the it at the shop to be able to spawn it without having to go through the evolution process. </td></tr></tbody></table>
This evolution both creeped and scared me out. Thinking about centipedes crawling inside your body gave me shivers, and also made me happy since they can''t attack me. To add these bugs into the dungeon, I created tiny holes on the ground where they can crawl out of. Another hour passed, 10 of my larvae evolved into Carnivorous Caterpillars and also Lucy came out.
When I told her the changes she was happy, but when it came to the parasites, she screamed and ran into her room shutting it close. I sighed and started to improve the dungeon.
This is getting repetitive but after another 2 hours, another 5 larvae evolved into something stronger than the wolves.
<table><tbody><tr><td> Your Larva has evolved into a Poisonous Flame Salamander </td></tr></tbody></table>
<table><tbody><tr><td> Poisonous Flame Salamander 150/150 Hp 100/100 Mp </td></tr></tbody></table>
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<tr><td colspan=''4''>Poisonous Flame Salamander</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan=''4''>The Poisonous Flame Salamander is 1 meter long and 70 cm''s tall. Black with red spots, it''s tail is 50 cms long. It''s regeneration is amplified and can regain limbs in a few minutes. It''s poison it also amplified to the points it can release poison breath and gas and infuse it with mana strengthening it. The poison paralyzes the enemy and damages them. It can also breath flames and has the fire affinity allowing it to use fire magic. It''s camoflague ability is much stronger as well.</td></tr>
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<table><tbody><tr><td> You have unlocked the Poisonous Flame Salamander in the Dungeon Shop. Buy the Poisonous Flame Salamander at the shop to be able to spawn it without having to go through the evolution process. </td></tr></tbody></table>
<table><tbody><tr><td> You have unlocked the Spike Trap (Poisonous) </td></tr></tbody></table>
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<tr><td colspan=''4''>Pitfall Trap (Poisonous Spikes)</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan=''4''>Bascially the Pitfall Spike Trap with poison on the tip of spikes.</td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan=''4''>Do you wish to merge all Pitfall traps together and let all new Pitfall traps to merge with it?</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan=''4''>Yes/No</td></tr>
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Clicking yes, a blinding flash appears and another notification appears.
<table><tbody><tr><td> You Pitfall Traps have merged </td></tr></tbody></table>
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<tr><td colspan=''4''>Pitfall Trap</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan=''4''>A platform will cover the pitfall and a mechanisim will activate it. There are different variations. Current variations: Spike, Posion and Poisionous Spike</td></tr>
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Notifying the Lucy about the evolutions, she was surprised and happy. Afterwards we started working on the dungeon before I upgrade to H level.
To be continued.
Author: This is my 2nd story, 1st being Breaking Chains. Leave tips, comments and reviews. The break is here so more chapters more frequently.