A couple weeks later more and more adventurers were reaching beyond the tenth floor and were starting to notice a stark change in not just the monsters but also the local environnts and resources available.
Frost after listening to his populace as well as the adventurers guild started purchasing extras for certain floors such as unique plants and herbs that were key ingredients for potions and even magic devices. Slowly but surely his Dungeon was becoming more and more attractive and hopefully with enough ti there'd be little difference between it and the Glacial mountains.
Though no B-rank adventurers deigned to visit yet Frost was gradually getting ready for them.
"Yuna how goes the monster evolutions, anything interesting today?" Frost asked from behind his desk. Across from him was a rather beautiful young woman who was adorned completely in white. Both her hair and skin were as white as snow.
"There is one master, an ice sli has finally reached the goal you previously set." The woman, Yuna replied with a soft voice and a small smile that seed revealed pearly white teeth and two short fangs. Though she looked similar to a human woman Yuna was in fact a monster, Frost's third B-rank and third nad monster.
Previously Yuna was simply known as the leader of the yuki-onnas, the one with the highest level as well as the one with the sharpest mind. Below Findley and Khuno she served as head of Frost's magic corps and was just below them in authority.
Following her efforts in the war with Karrick and her skilful managent during the Dungeon's day to day tasks Frost promised to grant her a na once she achieved an evolution, growing from a low C-rank yuki-onna to an upper C-rank yuki-onna maiden.
There was even a glorified ceremony for her ascension into the ranks of nad monsters. Frost used the opportunity to raise the spirits and motivations of his monsters, but he never thought that by granting her, her na she'd be able to evolve for a second ti. Yuna after receiving her na beca a maiden of ice a B-rank monster.
After which she firmly cented her position as fourth in command, below Frost, Findley and Khuno but definitely above the rest of the officers even those that had beco upper and even peak C-rank species.
Her role also changed to Frost's direct secretary, she followed him throughout the Camp and helped him handle the overall day to day tasks, taking a great burden off his shoulders but it still wasn't enough, Yuna was just one person after all.
"Oh that's perfect, do we have any important etings in the next hour?" Frost who was initially rather bored and lacklustre sprang to life upon hearing Yuna's words.
He'd been trying to evolve his ice slis to the point where they could take on non-blob like forms -a stage where they beca truly difficult to handle- forever. Unfortunately in the lower ranks slis were miserably weak making the process long and difficult. So many of his slis died just before managing to reach max level but finally one had succeeded.
"Nothing important just the regular eting with Ringwald but it can be pushed back." Yuna replied in a calm and professional manner taking her role as Frost's assistant very seriously. Though she had less authority than Findley and Khuno her current role allowed her to be by her beloved master's side the most which was far better in her opinion.
"Great, push it back we've got an evolution to handle." With a wide grin on his face Frost rose to his feet and slapped his thighs before quickly walking into a nearby room. Yuna promptly followed him after asking one of the ronso guards to inform Ringwald about the eting push back.
Once Frost and Yuna were in the room they closed the door and used the Dungeon system to teleport themselves to the max level sli's location.
A mont later the two arrived on the 6th floor where mainly E and D rank monsters could be found.
"Where is it?"
"It should be in this area; I'll summon all those nearby master." Yuna then opened a communication channel to all monsters in the vicinity and a few monts later Frost spotted a large sli with partially ford limbs make its way towards them as if filled with excitent.
"lower D-rank large limbed ice sli." This was the last stage before slis would beco slioids, an important threshold.
"Finally after so many arduous months one has finally reach this point." Frost had a smile that reached from ear to ear as he nodded approvingly as the sli drew near. Only he knew how many failed attempts there'd been, the painful losses, wasted efforts and spirit crushing defeats.
Frost had wanted slioids in his roster for quite a while but no matter how much he improved personally or developed his Dungeon the option never appeared. Now however that was about to change the mont when the sli in front of him evolved, its new species would automatically be available for purchase and the long mocked weaklings could finally reign supre hahahaha.
Frost felt giddy just thinking about it, slioids weren't just strong, they were tenacious and far, far harder to kill than their weaker sli counterparts.
"Um master." Yuna poked his side drawing him out of his personal revelry.
"Is the nearby area clear?" The signs of an evolution would surely draw over nearby adventurers. Frost tested this a few tis, allowing his less important monsters to evolve the mont they reached max level without his input. The result was that the change in the ambient mana and the glow of evolution quickly drew nearby adventurers like sharks to blood in the water.
A recently evolved monster was always rather weak the mont they evolved given that they weren't used to their new physical form thus it was the best ti to kill sothing of a higher rank and rarity.
Frost didn't want anything to go wrong with his sli's special evolution thus he wanted the area to be completely devoid of people.
"Unfortunately no master there are several parties in the nearby vicinity, an evolution would surely attract their desire."
"Haaaaaa looks like we'll have to do it on a lower floor or within the training space." Though there was now a charge whenever the training space was being used and its myriad facilities were also no longer free of charge Frost still used fairly often. It was still the ideal room to train in given its durability, isolation and repair functions.
Frost quickly checked to see if anyone was using the training space at the mont and upon learning that it was empty he teleported the three of them there. A small dose of DP in comparison to the vast reserves and daily inco of Dungeon was thus removed but Frost no longer cared about such small charges. His excitent was still at the peak.
"Slioid hahaha finally a slioid." Only Frost knew how much he wanted this particular monster. He didn't even really know why he was so obsessed with it. Though slioids could be considered as strong they still weren't the strongest nor were they the fastest, sported the best defence nor did they even have the most sought after materials but still for so reason he was drawn to them.
"Little one ti for you to evolve and break free from the shackles of weakness." Frost gave his permission for the sli to start its evolution and a mont later the large silverly blob started to condense into itself, and an obvious glow flowed from it core. No matter how many tis Frost saw it the process of evolution was always a magical event that brought joy to his heart.
The entire process of evolution didn't take too long a couple minutes or so later the glow died down and the silver blob that was previously spherical in nature was now in the rough shape of a humanoid, it was lacking so definition, but it was certainly a stark contrast compared to what it looked like previously.
The monster now also had eyes and could be considered as having so basic intelligence.
The silverly slioid looked with its brand new eyes and inspected its new body in amazent, it was so different from what it had before. It had truly evolved into sothing brand new.
"Hahahahaha my first slioid hahahahaha!" Frost laughed without restraint as joy overwheld his heart, this was what he was working so hard to achieve. The slioid's form was the exact sa as described in the monster encyclopaedia he had.
"Though it's very rough and clearly lacks definition it's an obvious step in the right direction." Frost cupped his chin in thought and nodded his head as examined an evaluated the young ice slioid before him.
Species: Young ice slioid
Na: None
Rank: D
Level: 1/40
Though it was still considered a D-rank monster it was in the upper stages similar in strength to that of the lesser yuki-onna's and the frost troll warriors.
As the slioid evolves further its ability to morph into different forms as well as its intelligence would grow and grow making it one hell of an adaptable monster.
Frost spent the next half hour or so interacting with the slioid, testing its capabilities and level of intelligence before having it reassigned to a lower floor and returning to his duties as Lord of the Camp but this ti with a little more enthusiasm in his heart.
The Dungeon's tasks were more enjoyable but his duties as the Lord of the Camp was no less in important as it heavily affected the Dungeon's inco.
Just as Frost and Yuna were about to return to the office and et with Ringwald Frost received a communication from his Father, the first one since the gathering.
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