Dungeon Prowler : One Man Army 312 Useful Ignis

Business was booming to a point where the mana gathered by syphoning stealthily from millions of adventurers was used up to the very last drop on expanding the vaults and the s.p.a.ce inside the portable home, even the genie was not getting enough to upgrade as much as it wanted, if it was not for Yunan who was draining mana on the 51st floor perhaps the portable home would be at a deficit, thankfully the 51st floor housed a few mana beings that were not included in the monster list. Generating mana was now becoming a priority for Yunan, who was working on a very large project that required lots and lots of mana.

Defeating the 51st floor boss turned out to be easier than to learn about merging spells, a simple skill that required a lot of mental energy to execute and even much more efficient mana manipulation, thankfully, everyone in the new Valyrians was able to use mana manipulation on a master and grandmaster level, Yunan being at sage level helped the others tremendously by simplifying the process and method for them. His luck was still regenerating after the stunt he pulled on Debauchery some years ago, and thanks to the infectious luck, all his party members got something nice from killing the boss.

The boss was a five coloured ma.s.s of mana, to successfully defend against it, they needed to use spells strengthened by merging, they did not use any aggressive spells in the first 5 times they fought it, it was a training opportunity that their teachers would punish them if they did not use it, it was funny how they looked when taking turns at withstanding each attack by the boss until it just ran out of mana and died, being who they were, Yunan had to open the chest and give out the things that were needed, then if nothing was needed, the rest would be sent to the vaults to sit until it was time to use it.

Ignis made her greatest contribution by discovering a path for the ectoplasm to be of use, she and Yunan were absorbing it thanks to their innate affinity with spiritual energy, after discussing with Ophelia and some trial and error, Ignis and Ophelia managed to create two items, one was a solution that helps restore mental energy and relieve mental exhaustion, the second item was a mana generator based on the ectoplasm, one had to add a monster core and the ectoplasm would defuse mana from the core, since the monster cores were a natural resource that will never dry out as long as the dungeon exists, Yunan decided to make as many of them as he needed, mostly because the cores were in abundance inside the vaults and very few people cared about them, that gave Yunan and idea.

Yunan felt like an idiot, if he was selling information, why couldn't he buy mana, especially when people were not using their mana at all, a compensation of points to spend in exchange for items or gold would make introducing the new virtual currency much easier. What Yunan was amazed about was how cheap mana was to buy, a container that can store about half as much mana as any run-of-the-mill adventurer had, was worth less than ten beads of metal pearls, that same amount could be used to nurture a few million metal pearls, the cost to profit ratio was almost non-existent, and Yunan made use of this immediately.

A new functionality was added to the mana rings, donate mana, anyone at anytime can activate this function to gain some points, a notification would then be sent to the members when they had enough points to spend on some merchandise, the response was overwhelming, all the mana shortage was covered and dealt with almost immediately, the genie started upgrading itself as soon as possible as well as improve the mana efficiency by reducing the spending on things that can be manually done by servants, as well as remove some of the costs by changing the priority of mana consumption, for example the corpses that have yet to be eaten after all this time were to be either disposed of as Lava wine or to be sold as cheap items in return for mana.

As for the gains from the bosses it included the first book related to the phoenix legacy, it was called "dream invasion", it allowed Ignis to make the person under the effect daydream if they were awake, effectively reducing their combat ability by influencing their daydreaming, or use the dream world to invade the mind of its target when they sleep and gain information by recreating scenarios and scenes to make the target divulge information willingly.

Ignis was so happy with that book that she was all over Yunan like a puppy rubbing on him for even more luck, that bought her a sitting with the wives and the talk about the birds and the bees, Drogon and Sapphira each got a book that talked about ascension for their respective species, eventually both books were displayed on the golden library, where golden books that could be read multiple times were stored for the use of every person in the portable home, those were being treated as literature by mother Theresa who was having her retirement in the house.

Mother Theresa who had been getting on with the years was now the most pampered person in the portable home, she even had herself new pets, the fist sized little feisty bird brought back its wife and built a nest in the back garden, the birds spent their time hovering over mother Theresa because how kindly she was, even taking the initiative to bring her out to the back garden for a stroll daily, otherwise they just chirped about on her shoulders as she read from the golden library, she liked the style of quiet days and boisterous evenings, but she knew her time was close.