Chapter 212: Insane People
he wind felt fresh on her avatar's skin as water lapped at her now bare ankles. Even the false sun above felt pleasant on her skin. It was a little slice of paradise and Delta hummed as she made two small dinghies that would be waiting for the first group to reach the level. She didn't want all the visitors to take the same path; if she let them explore and find a few orbs independently then cooperation would come easier.
After all, working together and prospering was the innate reaction when another party had something you wanted really badly, right? She was no history teacher. Delta ran her hand over the boats, watching beautiful flowing carvings of vines blooming stars instead of flowers slowly spread across the outer hull, finishing in a drooping arch at the front.
It wasn't exactly her own work but Delta didn't mind a hand with the small details to make things look nice. She was also pointedly ignoring the malformed washtub with crooked spindly handles haunting the ocean just out of her sight from her first attempt by herself without system guidance.
'Spooky tub can't hurt me, spooky tub isn't real' she said as a mantra as she went to work on another island. Having barely just half of the desired islands was okay as a new floor but it wasn't the stage Delta wanted to welcome people with. Delta wanted the fourth floor to arrive with bombastic grandiose superstar ultra passion!
Not one single iota less.
No one had technically gotten past Jellagon and had the mana resistance to arrive on the fourth floor proper but it was going to happen soon. People weren't stagnate, even if they didn't fight to the death in her Dungeon, their seeds (now 100% Dungeon replaced) were still growing from exposure and challenging their ideas as adventurers.
Those who struggled on the first floor were already beginning to show signs of unconsciously avoiding sign pop-outs or knowing to turn one way to get to the grove rather than left to the storage room. There were signs of adapting to Fran as a fighter with their skill, not just sheer power. It wasn't like this scared her, Delta definitely had the power to mess with the first floor but that wasn't something she wasn't to do.
Partially it was a Dungeon thing, the idea of going back instead of forward still eating at her, but it was also a teacher thing. You didn't suddenly bust out the college exam papers when the kids just started making good progress on the basic essay styles and two-page reports with two images allowed (but she drew the line at anything about size 18 point font).
It just didn't foster the environment Delta wanted as her legacy.