While it was tempting to start building challenge rooms and [Monster] fields right away, Violet decided she wanted to do things differently this time. Instead of doing what she usually did, she planned to focus on her own needs and desires this time. If her oversleeping had made anything clear it was that she could take her time doing whatever she wanted. Adventurers would likely, eventually, make it to her third floor, but they hadn't yet, so she could easily afford to take the next week or so for herself.

Violet started off with building a hallway that branched off immediately in front of the staircase room to the second floor. Then another one that branched off to the side from there, which led up to a brand new 32-Units by 32-Units round room. This was the first time she had built such a large room without it being meant for a boss room, but she needed a large space so that she could use it both for a shop and a home for herself.

The huge space in the room was a truly amazing sight made even more impressive by the seemingly endless height. It was like she was in a massive redwood tree that was unnaturally wide, compared to those from her world, and just as tall. The inner wooden walls reminded her of the artsy wooden cutting boards sold in the art center she once visited in her old world. The grains of the wood varied in color and the patterns were anything but consistent yet it was beautiful all the same.

Violet couldn't help but procrastinate as she stood there admiring the scenery. Somehow, it felt wrong to have a new home, as if she was betraying her husband, Lee. He wasn't here to enjoy it with her, so it would never be theirs. Sure, there was more freedom when you were building something just for yourself as you only had to worry about your own tastes, but it wasn't worth it if she had to live without her love. She wanted to feel his arms wrapped around her as they lay in bed together, his warmth enveloping her. The smell of breakfast cooking in the other room as she took her time waking up, only to be surprised with breakfast in bed. Even the sound of him getting too excited while playing games with his friends had always made it feel like home.

Shaking her head, she sighed. No matter how much she put this off, it wouldn't change anything. She had already wasted the previous day away 'observing' the adventurers as she lazed the day away in her dungeon core room. She had received plenty of tributes, including: cinnamon oatcakes, marble stone, and panther caps, a poisonous mushroom. There were also several repeats, which seemed to be a common theme lately, but she was just happy to see her total increase to 6,558 DP. It would be very useful now that she had to do a lot of research in order to create her own home and shop.

Would you like to spend 50 DP to research wooden partition walls using the [Base Resources] wood and nails?

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No

Would you like to spend 10 DP to research a wooden door frame using the [Base Resources] wood and nails?

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No

Would you like to spend 10 DP to research wooden doors using the [Base Resources] wood and steel?

Yes

No

Would you like to spend 50 DP to research false wooden ceilings using the [Base Resources] wood and nails?

Yes

No

As much as Violet loved the high ceilings, she found the way they looked endless to be a bit at odds with the ability to add walls to create smaller 'rooms' within the dungeon-defined room. The system description of all of the wooden options specified that the wooden building materials could easily be broken by adventurers, unlike the sturdy walls of the dungeon. Of course, she knew from the zombies, all that time ago, that the doors to her dungeon could also be broken down, if one was determined enough. The option to lock the doors seemed to reinforce the doors, making such a thing more difficult, but she was sure that a strong enough adventurer would likely still be able to get past it. Regardless, it didn't matter how strong the wooden walls were, just that they helped give the impression of privacy and a less open floor plan in her home.

Before doing anything else, Violet divided the space in the 32-Units by 32-Units round room in half via the wooden partition walls. One half would be for her home while the other half would be for a more public space to run her shop out of. The shop half was then divided in half again before one of those halves was divided into thirds. The undivided shop half would be for shelving for her to put [Items] on display, which she would only do when she was around to ensure no one stole anything from her. The other half, which had been divided into thirds, she planned to have the middle third for an entranceway while the two sides would be used for a public bathroom space.

Violet didn't personally have any need for a toilet as she didn't have the same needs she had when she was considered purely Humans, rather than a Dungeon Master. However, that didn't mean she had forgotten what it was like to have such needs. All the decent shops in the modern world also had public bathrooms, so it only made sense to provide such a luxury in her own shop space. Still, the furnishing could be left until later, she still had to figure out the layout for her home half of the room.

Since Violet enjoyed eating, sleeping, and inviting Elivyre to visit with her, she wanted her home to reflect that. So, she divided her home into a few different-sized sections with the wooden partition walls, being sure to add in wooden door frames and doors where necessary. There was a decent-sized space for a bedroom with a walk-in closet. A kitchen with only a partial wall used between it and a living room space created a more open floor plan while still dividing the space neatly. Then, the last area was a bathroom, which she did actually have some use for. She still needed to bathe and clean her clothes, even if she didn't need to use a toilet. Although, she certainly still wanted to include one of those since it just felt right. Violet didn't like being reminded of her inhuman status. Besides, any guests she invited over should be able to use her private bathroom instead of being sent out to use the ones on the shop half that everyone else would use.

While it was tempting to work on furnishing today as well, Violet decided to put it off for now. She wanted to ease herself into the idea so that she could, hopefully, make the whole process less stressful. Instead, she decided to use a small portion of her remaining mana to build more hallways and four new 16-Units by 16-Units round rooms going in the opposite direction of her home. She spent a lot of time distracted by the adventurers below and was hardly as efficient with her mana as she could have been. At the end of the day, there was still a direct path from the second floor stairs to the dungeon core room, but she just couldn't be bothered to care about that. It wasn't like rerouting the hallways would really slow adventurers down without locked doors, [Monsters], [Traps], or challenges anyway.

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