Making Magic: The Sweet Life of a Witch Who Knows an Infinite MP Loophole Volume 7 [Parts 1 to 8] by Aloha Zachou

Author:Aloha Zachou
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 15: The Ancient Dragon’s Lecture

And so, our little garden tea-party-slash-dungeon-making-lecture began.

“First of all, what type of dungeon do you want to build, Lady Witch, Lady Guardian?” the Great Elder asked, looking at me with expectant eyes.

“Uh...” I smiled awkwardly as I pondered what I should ask him about.

“Teto has a question!” Teto exclaimed next to me, raising her hand.

“A question from Lady Guardian! What is it?”

“What kind of dungeon did you build, Mister Great Elder?”

I thought that was a very good question; perhaps knowing what the thought process behind that dungeon had been would help me come up with questions.

Good job, Teto.

“As I told you before, I built a dungeon to use as my lair. Back then, humans would often try to attack me, you see. I grew tired of it and created the most labyrinthine maze I could manage to repel them,” he explained.

A labyrinth with a dragon at the end, huh? This was probably the first thing that came to most adventurers’ minds when they heard the word “dungeon.”

“Yeah, that’s not really the direction we were thinking of going,” I said.

“I can imagine. What about a resource dungeon? You could harvest all sorts of things that you can’t grow in the Forest. You could also make it into a training dungeon to help the people of this land grow more powerful, or turn it into a giant mana production facility.”

The “resource dungeon” he mentioned definitely seemed the closest to what I had in mind.

“Let’s say I want to make a resource dungeon. How should I go about designing it?” I asked.

The Great Elder threw out his chest as if he had been waiting for this question. “First of all, I imagine you’re aware that you won’t be able to endlessly extract resources from an installation after placing it inside the dungeon.”

“Huh? What do you mean?” Teto said, tilting her head to one side in confusion.

“The dungeon requires me to pay operating costs, remember?” I told her.

Not only would I need to spend the required materials and mana to build an installation, but I’d also have to spend a certain quantity of mana daily to sustain it.

“Let’s say you have built an iron vein and it’s now fully depleted. If you can’t muster the mana to sustain it, it’ll just remain empty indefinitely. And even if you eventually find the mana to keep it going, it won’t regenerate its resources in a single day; it’ll be a much longer process,” the Great Elder explained.

“So what you’re trying to say is that I’ll have to produce enough mana to cover those maintenance costs,” I summarized.

The Great Elder nodded, looking satisfied by my answer. “Precisely. Most people commonly use one of three methods to do so: bringing in mana from outside, filling the dungeon with monsters, or recreating natural environments within the dungeon itself.”

“Uh-huh. In our case, the third option might be the best.”

“All that matters is that you balance the mana production and consumption of your dungeon. For example,

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