Dungeon of Pride, Laplace

Blinking his eyes a few times, Simon questioned her in confusion "Why do we need to go away from the main floor?".

"Of course, it is for the Null Elemental. You will understand once you create a floor for it and yes keep it extremely simple, a small floor will suffice" Irene said in a mysterious tone.

A floor for the Null Elemental? Simon did not know why Irene would ask something like that from him; nonetheless, he complied with her request. He made a small floor less than a kilometre wide and made it extremely simple.

The floor was below the newly created 35th floor which was the territory of the mutated monsters, the Fire Fanged Mouse and the Fire Eater Rat.

Teleporting the four of them to the new floor, Simon looked at Irene and asked "We are here! Now, what were you going to show us with the Null Elemental?".

Irene observed the new floor and nodded "It is good enough. Now, you just need to place your hand on it once again and think of a name." She replied looking at him.

The naming she was talking about was unlike the Naming process where you have to mark a monster with your brand by bestowing it a name.

The Null Elemental was a spiritual entity that was already linked to him and there was no need for Simon to mark it with his brand. Hence the name can be assigned without using ones mana and without any risk of it failing.

The Null Elemental refused to be touched by anyone other than him and only because he had formed a link with it, that he could touch it.

Simon thought that he would have to go through the same thing once again but to his surprise, when he touched it once again the scene around him did not change.

Next was to give it a name, he thought long and hard for a good name but in the end, he could only come up with 'Wisp'.

The moment he decided on that name, the Null Elemental made some movement and brightened a little.

"Wisp? Is that the best name you could come up with?" Irene asked rolling her eyes at the name displayed at its status.

"Hehe, big brother is so bad with names" Cecilia tried to suppress her laugh but she still couldn't hold it back.

Simon's eyes twitched on their remark and he couldn't help but think internally 'What is bad with the name Wisp. It fits, after all, it is a ball of light'.

While he was thinking all that, the Null Elemental started making some movements and slipped inside the ground as easily as something incorporeal.

"What!?" the Null Elemental just disappeared inside the floor.

"It has already started gaining its spiritual sentience. No wonder it disappeared inside the floor since it could read your thoughts and goals. Right now, it has formed a link with you that will gradually deepen and you will be able to communicate with it more easily" Irene smiled without getting fazed by the Null Elemental's action.

Simon looked like he was still out of the circle so Irene had to clarify for him "The Null Elemental you named Wisp is linked to you. It can read your thoughts and naturally is aware of your goal which is to strengthen your dungeon". <br/><script>ChapterMid();</script>

"Since it has bonded with you now, your wish is the Null Elemental's wish. It hasn't disappeared inside the or something and instead is trying to assimilate with this floor. You will understand what I mean after some time".

By now, Simon became so lethargic to the incredulity of events that he no longer had any energy to become surprised. Taking her words at face value, he decided to return to the main floor along with the two of them.

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After observing the battle between the Lightning Draconic Serpent and the Orc General, he was once again reminded that strength was the most important factor in this world. If he didn't have the help of the mysterious woman, the Lightning Draconic Serpent might have been subdued by the Orc General and he would have been unable to keep his promise with Aldebaran.

There was also the quickly rising numbers of the adventurers that were diving inside the dungeon. If he didn't become strong enough and outpace them, he would put his dungeon along with its inhabitants at risk.

His dungeon, Laplace was currently doing quite well and the DP it is generating every hour is fairly good. The density of mana inside the Dungeon is also becoming relatively concentrated and the population of the spawned monsters is steadily increasing.

Thanks to Cecilia's existence, his dungeon was doing exponentially good compared to any other low tier dungeon and if continues on, it wouldn't be long before his dungeon ranks up.

Arriving at the main floor, Simon decided to use the mana crystals produced by the transformed trees of mana to increase his level as soon as possible. He also bought 50 seeds of trees of mana for a hefty 25,000,000 DP to be planted on another side of the main floor away from the pond.

Although staying away from the pond of serenity will limit their growth, he believed that as long as Cecilia was here, there was no way it was going to be of concern.

He has already seen the miraculous changes a Forest Spring Royal Spirit could bring, he would be an idiot to even doubt it anymore.

Increasing the ceiling of the main floor and installing a new mountain that was about five hundred meters big, Simon tasked Cecilia with sowing the seeds and taking care of them. Later on, the mountain would undergo such incredible changes and become a place where many precious and rare treasures could be found but that is something for the future.

Taking care of the things he needed to take care of, Simon cleared his mind and sat at the stone near the pond of serenity. The thick fog of mystical energy lingering near the area became even more pure with time and the gathering of mystical veins beneath the pond became even more apparent.

These high number of mystical veins carrying pure and unpolluted mana was continuously being deposited inside the pond strengthening and empowering it every day. The previous trees of mana that has transformed to become trees of mana crystals were also being heavily benefitted by being near the pond of serenity and soaking in the abundant and unpolluted mystical energy.

Simon wouldn't be surprised to find their rate of growth and mana crystal production accelerating.

Beside the pond of serenity, covered in the thick mist of mana in a cocoon was the Bloodthorn Demonic Warhorse who was undergoing some changes. He could feel the strong life of the warhorse and its quickly growing aura.

It wouldn't be long before the Bloodthorn Demonic Warhorse came out of it and displayed its newfound strength and power once again.

Simon continued to stare at the Pond of Serenity for a long time remembering how he was unable to even soak in it for half a minute.

The bottom of the pond was full of unimaginable treasures like the Scarlet Mutation Crystals, Serenity stone and many others. If he wanted to utilise all those treasures, he has to build up his endurance and body, slowly increasing the time he could soak inside the pond.

Now that he was level 320, he was confident that he could endure longer than half a minute but that was not enough. Harvesting all those treasures one by one would take more than a few minutes not to mention diving and surfacing also ate up quite a few seconds.

The depth of the pond wasn't that big; however, the water inside the pond felt just like a concentrated fluid with very high viscosity making it quite difficult to move around.

Although the pond was currently too much for the current him to handle, he knew that it would become something essential in the future.

Simon opened the [Archive] function of the main menu and peered at the progress of the adventurers. The adventurer party that successfully managed to breach floor 12th was a group of ten adventurers with a steady lineup of five warriors, three mages and two assassins.

The average level of their party was around level 200 and had undergone at least two class change. After breaching the mud lands occupied by Lizardmen and Pirodiles, they have reached the 13th floor which was inhabited by Anemodactyl.

The Anemodactyls are monsters with thin skeletal frame and are capable of flight. What made them special from the normal monsters was that these monsters were able to use [Wind Slash] and [Wind Blast] skills.

The floor was more than fifteen kilometres wide and the ceiling was quite high. There are more than four hundred anemodactyl on this floor alone and are divided into many colonies.

Fighting any of them was like poking your head in a bees nest guaranteed to get stung. Previously when he was fortifying the dungeon in preparations for adventurers diving inside, he made it so that they can't breach each floor easily and the difficulty to do so goes up the more they descend.

Every time any team of adventurers clears an area or a floor, the monsters get spawned back after only a few hours, ready to fill in the numbers and block the rest of the adventurers.

DP is generated from the adventurers who are seen as intruders every minute and when they die. The DP earned this way is then used to spawn more monsters and the excess keeps piling on to be used later on for the development of the dungeon.