The Slime Dungeon: Book 1 (The Slime Dungeon Chronicles) by Jeffrey "falcon" Logue, Silvia Lew Page B

grow on holds your mana. You can remove your mana from parts of your surfaces as well, which will limit the growth of the plants if you so choose. Your slimes can feed on them as well, so feel free to experiment with them for a natural evolution."
    "What is a natural evolution?"
    "Sorry, I forgot you don't know about that yet. Natural evolution occurs in nature, when a monster satisfies certain criteria to evolve on their own into a stronger monster. Dungeons can cause evolution to occur by using their mana to compensate for the criteria, but like metals, you can only create what you are familiar with. For instance, you would not be able to create a gelatinous slime because you don’t know what it looks like. On a more important note the stronger the evolution, the more mana it requires. When you force a slime to evolve, the process will continue to completion even if you wish it to stop. If you use too much mana, you will drain yourself to death. Many newborn dungeons have accidentally killed themselves by going too fast from this, so be careful."
    "Gotcha! By the way, I think that plant is growing already.” Indeed, the herb had already taken root on his floor and was beginning to grow. Claire clapped her hands in happiness.
    "Great, now your room will be covered in beautiful plants in a day or two."
    Doc paused a moment, thinking about what she had just said. "Your old home didn't have plants because of the dungeon type right?"
    Claire drooped, "Yup, because the zombies rotted everything. Dungeon Pixies spend most of their life underground, but by our nature we love being near plants. Mommy kept some potted plants in her house away from the zombies; plants she had managed to bring in before the zombies were prevalent. I always told myself I'd have plants in my dungeon."
    "Your dungeon?"
    She giggled, "Our dungeon. Now, don't let the plants spread out of this room. We want to make these plants the dungeon reward for beating the boss. They will also serve to hide your body and my house."
    "Yes, dear." Doc playfully answered.
    "Stop that." She flatly stated.

Chapter 7
    As it turned out, Claire was right about the wait. Doc had never been so bored in his single month of existence. He sighed again as he watched the slimes bump into each other. It had gotten so boring that they had started betting leaves on which slime would be able to get by the overslime and reach the back wall.
    "Slime A is heading toward the goal, will he succeed?" He commented monotonously.
    Claire glanced over from the overslime’s top, "I'll bet two leaves on failure."
    Slime A was heading toward the back wall, but barely grazed the overslime and wobbled away. Claire and Doc sighed together at the sight. "That makes 50 failures to get past the overslime; and I owe you 100 leaves," Doc lamented.
    Claire groaned and rolled over, setting a pair of small twigs down she had been using to ‘knit,’ as she called it. "I don't even want any leaves. Can't we bet some of the gold you've been making? How about the silver or copper? I’ll even take iron at this point."
    "You know better Claire, that's all for the adventurers when they get here," Doc scolded. Since filling out into his full dungeon territory, Doc had come across a small silver vein and learned its properties. Finding the silver had completed, according to Claire, his list of metals used to create coinage for the adventurers. Doc decided to form copper and silver coins for the astral bag slime drops, but kept the mining area limited to copper.
    “[Sigh]… But I want to make some pretty things for my house," she pined, "I want some shiny things!"
    Doc chuckled, "Well, let’s see what the adventurers bring in. I'll let you keep some shiny things from them, okay?"
    This brightened her up immediately and she flew around the room in happiness, "Yay! Thank you, Doc!"  She blew him some kisses as she bounced on the overslime's head. He rolled his eyes and focused on his slimes.
    His slimes were now