Harvest Dungeon 28 Chapter 28 - Minions

Zephirah looked around, we had shifted around as I changed the floor leaving us standing by the portal to the surface. All we could see was the pathway down to where it turned to the left and headed for the arena tiles.

"I am guessing you want to plant the blue gra.s.s on the raised platforms, and winter vine in the back gully?" Zephirah asked.

I nodded. Of course she would be able to see everything I had done, she could probably see every part of the dungeon, no matter where she was.

"It was a good try." Zephirah told me.

I frowned, "what do you mean a good try?" I asked.

"Jason sweetie. We have badgers as our minions." Zephirah reminded me.

I nodded not getting what she meant.

"If the giant mice are three feet tall, how big do you think the giant badgers are?" she asked me.

I frowned, I had thought of that, but I was thinking they would be around the same size as the mice. It seemed like I was wrong. Then why was Elisia and her ilk so small?

"Oh, now I understand." Zephirah commented having been following my thoughts. "For Elisia and the other dire wolves their size doesn't follow the same rules as giant beasts."

"Well let's go see how big they are." I commented irritated.

"Don't be mad, I thought that was common sense." Zephirah told me.

I glared at her, "Giant beasts in a room that is only eighty feet by eighty feet. Where is the common sense in that?" I asked her.

Zephirah seemed to think about that for a moment then frowned herself. "Um, maybe we should use the large size?" she asked.

"Do we have that?" I asked.

"Ummmm…." Zephirah said as she seemed to gaze off into the distance.

"It will be fine." Vanessa said hugging my arm as she tried to calm me down.

"Don't worry, I am fine." I told her then wrapped my arm around her waist and gave her a squeeze. No matter how or why she was there I was thankful for her presence. She was the only one that seemed even remotely human, and I still needed that. I just hoped things went well with whatever Zephirah had planned for later.

"Okay, seems we did luck out. The energy print we received includes the fierce, large, and giant versions of the badger." Zephirah told me.

I glared at the little sprite, "You knew the whole time and just wanted to mess with me." I accused.

Zephirah giggled then flew around my head in a lazy circle. "Would I do that?" she asked trying to sound innocent.

I wasn't buying it.

"Do we need to go back inside to create the minions and guardians?" I asked.

"Nope. We can create and manipulate them out here with the dungeon configuration." Zephirah replied while continuing to fly around me slowly, always staying just out of arm's reach.

She didn't need to worry, I knew she could read my mind so trying to catch her for punishment was useless until she was distracted.

"I heard that." Zephirah said giving me a glare.

I sent her an image of holding her over my knee while spanking her tiny a.s.s till it was red and swollen.

Zephirah seemed to shiver then moved a bit farther away from me.

I chuckled, I had half expected her to like the idea.

"Like h.e.l.l, with my size you would leave me swollen from my shoulders to my knees!" Zephirah yelled at me.

"Huh?" Elisia asked looking at us curiously.

"Don't worry about it, they are just arguing in his head again." Vanessa said then kissed my cheek. "Can you finish soon, it is still pretty cold out here." she told me.

I frowned but stopped trying to mentally punish Zephirah.

I shifted back into the dungeon configuration then looked for the minions and guardians option. It appeared when I thought of it.

While the minions and guardians were separate, the minion portion included an option that showed the guardian version of the minion I was examining. It became very apparent that the giant version of a beast was meant to be the guardian, while the fierce or large were the actual minions. At least until we gained access to the magic beast versions that were above the normal type of beast.

For minions I had access to smaller versions of the earth golem and stone golem. Plus earth slimes, large mice, and large badgers. I didn't see any point in getting the fierce version, at least not at this time.

I selected the large badger and was given the option on where to place it.

"Simple enough." I commented as I left the dungeon configuration.

"It gets more complicated when we have access to mutations and…." Zephirah started to say but I stopped her.

"Not right now. Those little tidbits just make more questions. Let's get this all settled first." I told her then looked to the large badger. I had been expecting something like a four feet tall american badger, or maybe a honey badger. It was neither. It had a similar build to the american badger, but was completely grey in color with a wider head and longer claws than what would be seen on my world. As both made the beast more powerful I didn't mind the difference. The beast was four feet tall at the shoulder with nine inch canines and foot long claws.

"Look into its eyes." Zephirah told me.

I did as she requested. Rather than seeing bright intelligent eyes, I found dull lifeless eyes.

"That is the biggest difference between the minions created from energy prints and those from a racial gem. They aren't mindless, but they only have enough intelligence to recognize friends, attack enemies, and follow simple orders. We can upgrade the minions as a whole to be more intelligent, but it is costly as it affects all minions, even those from racial gems." Zephirah told me.

"That is the second time I have heard the term. What is the difference between a beast and racial gem?" I asked.

"Are you sure you want to know?" Zephirah teased.

I glared at her in reply.

"Fine, a beast gem is just a racial gem for beast races. There are gems for any and every race you can think of; dragons, serpents, angels, demons, elves, humans, all of them." she told me.

I shivered at the thought, yet I was a bit curious about what it would be like to have an angel gem, or maybe the demon gem. A succubus was a demon right?

I shook my head to clear my thoughts. The idea of a willing woman with no issues against a romp in the sheets, was becoming more and more appealing the longer I was around Vanessa.

"So is there anything else we can do with them?" I asked Zephirah trying to direct my mind back to work. If they weren't intelligent, what could we use them for?

"They will attack anyone who isn't recognized as part of our dungeon. If we had the right kind of materials or circ.u.mstances we could try to mutate them but..." she said then shrugged.

I nodded then shifted back into the dungeon configuration. I had initially intended to make some badger burrows for them to stay in. As I was thinking of where to put them I realized that if I placed them low enough they were going to redirect the ice mana from the path I had intended.

I considered it for a while then decided to make a small change. I shifted the last row that was at the lowest point in the floor so that it was also slightly tilted. I would put six blue gra.s.s back there and two winter vines for now. Once I did that I started to make a one large burrow below the pathway with five tunnels up to the pathway for the badgers to use to attack the invaders. Then I shifted the badger I had already made into the burrow and added five more. It was crowded, and the burrow ended up becoming its own little floor practically. I was curious as to how much room above and below I had to work with, there should be a limit, right?

"Sixty feet." Zephirah told me.

"Why so much?" I asked.

"You normally get thirty feet to make a floor so you can adjust the height and create burrow like what you are doing. Plus traps and what not. Pitfalls take up a lot of s.p.a.ce." she told me.

I nodded, "then add on the one to two spatial expansion." I finished for her.

"You got it." she agreed.

I nodded then shifted my attention to the arena. I created a giant badger and after some thought moved the previous earth golem back down to the second floor to fight there. I put the giant badger in a burrow in the wall opposite the exit portal and placed the earth golem in front of the door. Once I had them made I gave instructions that the earth golem would close the giant badger into the burrow when invaders entered the floor, then release it when they attacked the earth golem. Unfortunately since they had limited intelligence that was as much as I could do for ordering the pair.

I had some other ideas in mind, but those involved my own magic so I would have to experiment with it later.

Now I needed to get the crops planted and we could move on to the last floor. I still had two guardians left that I could make.

"How many minions can we have?" I asked as I shifted my mind out of the dungeon configuration.

"Thirty, ten per level. At least until we upgrade that option." Zephirah replied. "Was there a specific location you wanted the winter vine?" she asked me.

I frowned then nodded. "The lowest two tiles." I replied.

Zephirah nodded then waved her hand. "Okay done." she told me.

I hesitated for a moment wondering if she was trying to mess with me again then shifted into the dungeon configuration to see that she wasn't this time. All the blue gra.s.s and winter vine was planted where I wanted it. The older winter vine was in the lowest tile, while the blue gra.s.s which was nearly ready to harvest was closest to the arena.
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"If you could do that, what do you need me for?" I asked with a wry grin.

"Maybe it's your devilish good looks." Zephirah said then shrugged.

I shook my head wondering why I had even bothered.

Zephirah giggled then quickly flew up to my face gave me a peck on the cheek then flew off again before I realized what she was doing.

"Are we done?" Vanessa asked.

I nodded, the keying of the doors I would do later. I was sure that Zephirah could open the doors as we needed until I had the time to craft the spell I wanted to use. I could use an actual key or gem that we each carried, but if we ever had one lost or stolen it would give the holder full access to the dungeon, especially since the price to change the locks was pretty high.

Crafting a spell onto a key so that it only worked for certain people would resolve some of that worry, unless someone cracked my spell. Uggh, this was so much trouble.

I guided everyone along the path with my arm around Vanessa's waist. Zephirah settled onto my shoulder as we walked

'Seth has been really quiet.' I thought to Vanessa without looking at the serpent on Vanessa's arm.

'Not surprising, the serpents and dire wolves, really, really, really don't like each other.' Zephirah replied back.

I didn't feel any worry from the sprite, yet I couldn't help but feel it myself. The longer he was with us the more I worried. I couldn't get the image of his hate filled gaze out of my head.

'You are worrying too much.' Zephirah told me mentally. 'The binding spell that was placed on him when he swore allegiance is a nasty piece of work. Breaking it has very serious consequences.'

I nodded and relaxed a bit. I wasn't sure what those consequences were, but the fear I felt from Zephirah when she mentioned them was more than enough for me.