Dungeon of Niflheim

410 Chapter 410: Toast and eggs

Frost spent some time with Kiba for a little while before teleporting back to the private space.

He quietly opened the door to his bedroom to see Maya but unfortunately.

“Fuck off!” He was met with a loud roar and a sudden hit of physical aura sending him flying back out the room.

“....Guess she’s feeling a little better heheheheh.” Frost chuckled while dusting himself off.

The dungeon was fine in regards to dealing with the monster stampede and materials were still being collected just not stored. It was fine for the iron collected at the mines as well as the bones and fangs of deceased monsters, but the meat and blood was sure to spoil unless they properly stored it soon. A loss Frost really didn’t want to suffer. Such products would be a stable in attracting residents to his external camp after all.

Frost sat on the sofa and opened up the dungeon menu, it was time to do some expanding. He immediately manoeuvred to the dungeon design section.

At the moment he currently had six floors all fully outfitted with their own environments, expansions and added features, enough to handle the current level of monsters as well as the increased activity to be expected once the camp was up and running. The sixth floor was still hallmarked to be some sort of safe zone, an internal village where outsiders and intelligent monsters summoned by him could live together.

Frost planned to integrate the ronsos to this floor after expanding their numbers, they’ll also be in charge of managing some of the key areas within the external camp and would serve as the face of the dungeon thanks to their almost sapient characteristics.

“Another four floors would give me an even ten, a nice round number and an additional 40 tons of storage for the dungeon vault.” Frost added four floors the cart without hesitation, no longer taken aback at spending 60,000DP in a single go.

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‘There’s no need to outfit them with environments yet, just existing should be enough for now.’ Frost hovered over the environment choices feeling as though he should at least outfit one of the floors given the amount of DP he currently had.

Tap tap tap

Frost tapped the edge of the sofa with his fingers while deep in thought. These floors would effectively serve as the next section of the dungeon, so he wanted to make a noticeable change not just in difficulty. The sixth floor already had a 2 star level environment- though it was the cheapest available- so he wanted to continue that level of quality for this new section.

Tap tap tap

‘This dungeon system thing really is a black hole in terms of money haaaaaaaa.’ Frost sighed internally as he imagined the price of outfitted something like his 40th or 50th floor.

Tap tap tap

‘Maybe I should try something similar to the [beginner’s ice magic], have the next five floors or so contain the same type of environment. That way it’d be more familiar to the adventurers, and it’d have some kind of pattern instead of me picking environments randomly in an effort to try them all.’ Frost stopped tapping his fingers and sat up straight, he had his answer well at least some of it.

‘Now I just need to choose which one to proliferate.’

· Frozen tundra 11,000DP

· Winter highlands 10,500DP

· Winter forest 12,000DP

· Ice maze 12,000DP

· Ruined artic castle (interior) 12,000DP

· Ice caverns 11,000DP

· Frozen mountain trail 13,000DP

· Polar seas 13,000DP

. Glacial steppe 16,000DP

The choices available in the two star section were quite similar to those he had already apart from a few additions.

Frozen mountain trail was an environment based on the landscape seen a kilometre or so up one of the glacial mountains. A harsh terrain with low levels of oxygen, frequent freezing winds and near invisible cliff edges that would spell an adventurers doom if they fell.

The polar seas was a water based environment wherein the surface would be made up of differing chunks of ice drifting on top of the water, similar to the giant lake in the Gamma sector which Frost avoided, glimpsing only the edges. This environment is not only deadly in terms of simply navigating across it safely it’s ideal for aquatic monsters that flourish in frigid temperatures. Unfortunately Frost lacked much access to such monsters at this time thus the polar seas environment was struck from the list.

As Frost jostled between 2 or 3 prime choices the sound of a door could be heard opening, Nanna and Loki had woken up.

“Yaaaawwwwwwwnnnn!” Nanna let out a big yawn and rubbed her eyes to removing the build up sand. Loki was following behind her still quite groggy and holding her hand.

“Hmmm Master, Good morning.” Loki noticed Frost sitting on the sofa and instantly woke up, greeting him with an animated voice before letting go of his sister’s hand and dashing forward.

Nanna blushed from showing Frost her yawning face. “G...Good morning master.” She quickly put on a more acceptable expression before following Loki’s lead.

“Good morning Nanna, Loki. Did you sleep well?” Frost moved the dungeon menu to side and tapped the sofa, beckoning the children to join him with a bright smile on his face.

“Yeah I had an awesome dream.” Loki with his innocent personality responded in a bubbly tone before climbing onto the sofa and sitting to Frost’s left, leaving the right side for Nanna.

“Hoh what was it about?” Frost asked, genuinely curious about it. He cared deeply about every part of their lives, treating them as if they were truly his son and daughter. A feeling that didn’t go unnoticed by the children, it was no wonder they warmed up to him and Maya so quickly.

“I was finally an adult so I could fight in defence of the dungeon. Findlay and you were both in it as well. A dragon came to eat us and the two of you tried to fight it but were unfortunately beaten.” Loki started animating a fight scene making Frost gasp and clap along as he did and Nanna to giggle at her brother’s antics.

“When the dragon was about to deal the finishing blow I appeared in my adult form and beat it out of the dungeon and as a reward I was given a bucketload of candy.”

“Hahahahahaha that’s fantastic you certainly earned it.” Frost laughed with joy and rubbed Loki’s head with affection, loving his natural childlike behaviour. He then turned towards Nanna hoping to see the same kind of behaviour.

“What about you Nanna did you have a good dream as well?” He smiled gently an expression that would make any number of women swoon.

Nanna blushed pink from ear to ear out of embarrassment, she did have a dream, but it wasn’t one she wanted to talk about especially in present company. She did however get an affectionate head pat like her brother making her smile.

“Maya mentioned that the azure spark quail helped to promote pleasant dreams and a good night’s rest once its energy boosting properties ran out. I’m glad to see that was true.....I can’t wait to try it myself.” Frost pulled Nanna and Loki close, hugging them.

“Did Maya not make you a serving once we went to bed?” Loki asked with a tilted head, completely oblivious to the fact that he dobbed her in last night.

Nanna looked around but didn’t see Maya anywhere, she was also usually up before them, ready to prepare their breakfast.

Nanna tucked on Frost’s robes and asked, “Where is Maya, Master?”

A mischievous and somewhat proud grin subconsciously grew on Frost’s face.

“Maya’s currently resting, she and I did some special training last night and she’s a little worn out because of it. So she’ll likely be in bed for a while.” The grin on his face widened as he spoke making Nanna feel that something was off, but she chose not to dwell on it. Maya and her master cared for one another, and Maya was so strong that nothing bad could ever happen.

“Ok....Will I start making breakfast then, Maya already taught me some basics.” Nanna stood up from the sofa, suddenly feeling the urge to make up for Maya’s absence.

“Hoh what did you have in mind?” Frost wouldn’t mind simply purchasing breakfast directly from the menu but the idea of eating something handmade by Nanna was too adorable to pass up.

“Toast and eggs.” It was the only hot food she learned to make so far.

Before meeting Frost and Maya, during the dark times when she and her brother were still abused slaves all their food was nothing, but scraps and gruel and it was never warm. Nanna had never been allowed to handle fire or magical devices during such times and though Maya was adverse to letting her -due to it being dangerous- she did eventually teach her how to make fried eggs and toast without her help.

This would be the first time however Maya wasn’t by her side keeping an eye on her, but she felt confident that she could pull it off.

Frost smiled from ear to ear as his heart thumped loudly, Nanna was just so cute.

“That sounds perfect, you have my permission to purchase what you need through the menu chef Nanna. Please make us four servings and do be careful.”

“Un.” Nanna nodded in confirmation, a joyful smile adorned her face as she skipped over to the kitchen and put on her apron. A pink one with a picture of a unicorn, one of the many apparel purchases made by Maya while they were out shopping.

“While Nanna’s preparing breakfast how about you help me make some decisions in regards to the dungeon Loki?”

“Yes yes yes.” Loki nodded back rapidly, incredibly excited by such a prospect.