Nauvis makes dungeons
Nauvis looked over all the life her engineer had found on the newest world he ventured to. it had magic energy in abundance. That always led to the most fascinating creatures, her oceans had improved so much with the addition of mana and magical beasts added to the food chain.
Her gaze swept throughout the landscape, the occasional godling staring back at her with terror in their beings, as if she would kill something herself. She had monsters for that.
No. She'd just take a few designs and be on her merry way. Gods weren't that interesting anyway.
One creature in particular drew her attention, it was a living building. Nauvis believed the human word was Genius loci? And it functioned much like the filter feeders from her world, building a sturdy defense and luring in food to devour.
Something like this would fit right in on her world, and the way the 'dungeon' learned how to create and enhance life! It was like a little Nauvis, making deadly creations to room its own small world.
She took the basic design of the creature, along with its database of creatable monsters and set too work.
Before Nauvis discovered magic she had needed to rely on evolution, the best she had been capable of back then was merely accelerating and enhancing evolution. Now she could copy and craft life wholesale, which meant she didn't need to cultivate a breeding population that had the traits she desired over centuries.
Instead, she just willed it so.
And just like that dungeon cores began growing on Nauvis, small little alcoves growing rapidly deeper as the constructed their first floors, wether in the deeps of the ocean, her deepest caverns or on her highest mountain. Already her mana flows, a new addition to her weather patterns, began shifting flowing towards all of the new dungeons and giving them the mana they needed to create their first traps and defenders.
Nauvis immediately noticed a minor issue, most of her creatures were far larger than the dungeons could house.
Well they would grow larger and adapt, and the smaller tunnel sizes kept the larger creatures from just crushing them outright. Mostly, okay over thirty dungeon cores had already broken in the first hour, it wasn't her fault the oceans were so hostile. Well, okay it was but Nauvis wasn't going to be doing anything about that. Her oceans were just the way she liked them, vicious and hostile.
What dungeons did survive in the depths? Nauvis knew they would grow to love their new homes.
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Had a few other snippets in the works 'the engineers dragon' 'theology (warhammer)' and 'Byzantine kidnaps Guilliman' but this is the only one I actually finished.
Posting it the same day as another chapter because it's way to short to be on it own.
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