Dungeon of Niflheim

Next was the lesser yuki-onna, the final monster available to evolve and one with a great deal of promise. A C-rank mage class would do wonders against their current enemies given that for the majority their resistance towards ice magic only accounted for 1st and 2nd circle spells.

Yuki-onna 2400DP, C-rank: A mid-level spirit of ice and snow adept in magic of the same element. Intelligent and quite beautiful in appearance with skin white as snow. They tend to live deep within regions with high levels of ice mana and prefer to live amongst their own tribe isolated from others so as to avoid confrontation. Though they’re still rather mischievous and playful their personalities are far more polite than their lesser kin. Able to easily communicate in common tongue as well as the spirt language.

‘Only a single choice but it makes sense.’ Yuki-onnas were a type of spirt race with a very specialised set of abilities it’d be a little strange for it to either alter its race or come out with a close combat class.

Frost clicked the screen allowing the lesser yuki-onna to become a full yuki-onna once again sending the monsters surrounding them into an awe, far more than with the frost dwarves and frost wolves evolutions.

The yuki-onna as well as the ice revenant were C-rank monsters a much higher class and on the same level as Findlay and Kiba, they’d surely take on a much more respectable role in the war.

Clap!

After confirming the lesser yuki-onna’s evolution Frost clapped his hands together and eyed up the over 300,000DP decorating the corner of his screen. A strong look of desire was shown on Frost’s face, and he subconsciously licked his lips, looking forward to the intense sensation brought on by spending another large amount. Though there was a slight nagging feeling, should he continue to wait, hold off until the DP levels were over 500,000 or perhaps even a million. The thought sent a shiver down his spine and his senses swept inward finding the large vat of divine energy stored within his body.

While using aura he could only utilise a tiny fraction of it and although that fraction was under his control it wasn’t quite the same as the powerful stream that came about from his over 100,000DP spending.

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Frost managed to regain his senses with a swift shake of his head, stopping the oncoming build-up of drool.

“The question however is what to buy?” Of course Frost had no problem spending a few tens of thousands on additional C-rank monsters, traps and perhaps even another spawner or mine but to spend the entire 300,000 and feel that rush was to be honest quite a tall ask.

‘Wait a minute maybe its not.’ Frost had a lightbulb moment as more than a few ideas came to mind. His official entry into B-rank would have unlocked more than just C-rank monsters. Higher quality items, materials, weapons, armour as well as spells should now be available plus he could begin outfitting the sixth floor and perhaps lower floors with 2 star environments, each of which cost several times more than their 1 star equivalents. There was also the plan to create his unique monster race and proliferate them throughout the dungeon.

With rekindled delight Frost began browsing through the menu discovering all that had now been unlocked.

The first thing Frost examined was of course his repertoire of monsters which thanks to the monster stampede had already expanded quite substantially.

C-rank monsters were now available for direct purchase starting at a minimum of 2000DP a piece, averaging four times more than their D-rank counterparts. Though his options were limited Frost now access to the ice revenants and yuki-onnas achieved through the recent evolution but also ursas, the same monster that he recently felled as well as one that he hadn’t come across yet.

Glacial manta, C-rank, 2000DP: a large manta ray like creature that dwells in frigid climates. Uses unique sensory organs to manipulate the nearby ice aspected mana to float and fly through the air. A rather non-aggressive monster that lives in large pods to protect themselves from carnivorous flying monsters that enjoy feasting on their flesh. Its combat strength for a C-rank monster is quite frantically abysmal, only gaining such a ranking for its size, flyer status and fairly tough skin.

Frost didn’t have access to many flying monsters and those he did have access to were at best F-rank, so a C-rank flyer was a welcome addition even if its power was lacking for its class. Not every monster needed to be strong, he needed ones that attracted adventurers for their resources/materials. This rather weak and non-aggressive monster was said to have a tough hide and rather succulent flesh, a positive combination and one Frost needed to exploit if he was too have a high functioning territory.

Frost had grown past the naivety that strength was all that mattered among his monsters. Unfortunately he didn’t unlock the monster he really wanted to fulfil the role of a high ranking material draw, the mammoth or rather even a juvenile mammoth. A massive elephant creature covered in thick hair and armed with powerful thick tusks. Like the glacial manta they were known for being rather non-aggressive with many large countries and empires in the inner and core regions farming them like cattle and like cattle they provided a vast amount of materials. Their hide, fur, tusks and of course their meat were all highly regarded, truly a very profitable monster and unlike the glacial manta had fairly devasting power when enraged. That’s most likely the reason they weren’t unlocked.

The four monsters, the ice revenant, yuki-onna, ursa and glacial manta were all considered low level C-rank monsters. The ice griffin however despite Frost felling one a few weeks ago was not unlocked as it was at the very least mid-grade. The mammoths should fall under a similar level thus remaining unavailable.

“Looks I still have a lot of work ahead of me.” Frost unphased by the missing monsters revealed an expression full of determination. Strength was a major part in unlocking these new monster castes, but it wasn’t the only method. Expanding the dungeon, growing his knowledge and even personally defeating such creatures and or killing them within the confines of the dungeon would work just as well. Frost was confident that the moment his strength reaches a sufficient level, or the dungeon grows to a certain level the ice griffin would automatically unlock.

Apart from C-rank monsters pretty much everything that was 3 star level and below had been fully unlocked, granting Frost access to truly top tier weapons, armour, skills and more importantly higher level mines. Dark’s recent update had given star rankings to almost everything including mines and environments and they were locked just like everything else until Frost and his siblings reached a certain level -it wasn’t as though they could afford the super high ranking environments and mines anyway, but this system helped to promote improvement among his children, something that was needed if they wished to survive and carve out their place in Nova.

4 star weapons and armours were still off the table, but some half step options were added, none however surpassed his current weapon, so he only looked at the list briefly.

Several high ranking skills such as [wyvern’s maw] were available for purchase but 4th circle spells were still locked likely due to his magic abilities still being equivalent to C-rank.

Skills such as the [wyvern’s maw] cost a whopping 20,000DP per book, a grand expense that could quite easily burn a hole in one’s coffers and exactly what he needed right now.

After noting down a few choices, Frost moved to where the big money was.....the environments and mines. Right now he currently had 5 mines. 3 iron and 2 glacial, simple features that provided relatively common materials, the limit in what his monsters could currently work with. However that was set to change.

Once the frost dwarven smiths evolved they’d likely become ice dwarven smiths a much higher archetype that wouldn’t be so limited in their production capabilities. Higher materials could thus be used and fashioned into higher quality weapons, 2 star in particular and perhaps after some intense training 3 star but Frost wasn’t thinking about ice dwarven smiths right now but two others.

The first being his sexy orc succubus girlfriend Daki who was set to join them in the dungeon once the stampede was dealt with. She being a very skilled smith with lots of potential, could quite easily handle 3 star and perhaps even 4 star materials, surpassing the ice dwarves. Frost had also promised her that her smithing talent wouldn’t go unused and that her shop and supplies wouldn’t be inferior to what she had in Kranor, only superior.

A frigid iron or perhaps ice borne titanium mine would make for a very nice welcome gift, one that would likely result in him being rewarded.