Dear Diary,


    I seem to have a lot more freedom now that I have a second floor. David will come looking for me if I don''t go to greet him on the first floor, but, otherwise, it always remains empty of everyone but me, my rabbits, and my pixies. I recently came to a new arrangement with David where I will only remain for an hour for swordsmanship training each night before leaving for the second floor. He is still free to complete challenges to earn their rewards and for his daughter to earn experience points by defeating my slimes, but I wanted to have more time to build on my second floor and make the most of the incoming resources.


    I changed the weather in the slime parkour room to make it brighter and less slippery from the rain as well as removed the rabbit holes in the floodplains meadow to make that challenge easier and more fitting for the first floor. However, I''m steadily increasing the difficulty of the second floor. My horned rabbits and giant spotted rabbits have a whole network of rabbit tunnels and fruit bushes to hide in for every room I have included them in. I''ve also started adding briar patches amongst the trees in the enchanted forest of the second floor. It''s considered a trap, even if its not exactly lethal.


    Speaking of unusual and nonlethal traps, I have a butterfly wall trap, which has nonpoisonous nontoxic butterflies that won''t harm anyone. I decided to utilize it as a warning system for adventurers towards the beginning of the floor so they know to turn back if they aren''t ready for a proper dungeon. I can''t keep taking things easy, I have to think about my own future. Invading monsters and people who try to take advantage of dungeons are supposed to be rare, but I''ve already had to deal with that, to some extent.


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    I guess the odds aren''t really all that matters, though. If you can live for all of eternity and have hundreds of thousands of people visit your dungeon over the years, then even a tenth of a percent can add up. If it''s one person for every thousand to visit my dungeon, then that could still mean hundreds of people make it to my dungeon over a couple hundred years. None of these stats are based on anything I''ve been told, it''s mostly just me speculating. However, I think the point still stands that something being rare doesn''t mean much if you''re around long enough to experience it all.


    I won''t lose hope, though! I''ve already come this far, so I just have to keep working at it. I don''t want to overdo things as that will scare away the adventurers who I need around if I want to keep building my dungeon''s defenses up, but I can''t be so lenient that it costs me my life either. Besides, I owe it to all of the monsters I''ve summoned and contracted with who would die with me should my dungeon fall. I may not feel inclined to name them all and I might not spend all my time with them or properly provide accommodations for them because I just don''t know what they need, but I, at least, don''t want their efforts on behalf of my dungeon to be in vain.


    -Violet