Chapter 68

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"Oh, Kharon, I didn't expect to see you." I sat back in my chair and set down my pen, and pushed some of the papers that I was working on to the side.

"I figured I should drop by and check on you. It's been a little while since we last spoke." Kharon walked into my office and sat down in the chair across from me. His robe bunched up slightly across his legs, and his scarlet eyes bore into me.

"That's true. How are you doing?" Aw! How sweet of him to think about me. In all honesty, though, we haven't really spoken in a while, but work is work, and it's bound to happen.

"As well as I could be, I suppose. I really dropped by because I wanted to talk about the increase in essence and what the next steps for this domain are going to be." He crossed his arms, and his eyes dimmed slightly.

Ah yes, I almost forgot about that. I got caught up in planning out the next expansion for the domain. "I was actually going to ask about that. What happens at the next tier, and how do I get to it."

"The next tier of the domain will allow you to build past T2 mobs and will cut your essence costs down. As for your next question, you just have to expand the menu and click on the upgrade option once you cap out. It's really quite simple."

When he said that I felt a little stupid after everything I had been through, I really thought there was something elaborate behind that. But at least it was something simple. "Thank you, Kharon! On a different topic, what do you think of the domain so far?" I asked as I reached out and grabbed a new sheet of paper, and quickly prepared to take some notes.

"It's not bad. It shouldn't be too much as long as the parties are diverse enough to handle the mobs. But gauging from the party that was recently in here, then most would probably get slaughtered if they don't tread carefully, which isn't a bad thing. This is a domain after all, so the difficulty has to be much higher than that of a dungeon."

I nodded my head as I quickly jotted down what he was saying. I was glad that I didn't have to restructure. Hopefully, the parties that visited here were diverse enough to handle themselves. I was also happy that the following domain level would allow me to create higher-tier mobs. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy with what I have, but at the same time, some more variety wouldn't hurt anything. "I understand. I think I will leave everything as-is for now. Currently, however, I am working on an additional part of the domain for my first major expansion."

I slid the paper over to him, which had a skillfully drawn forest with a road and a small river that led to the lake. The forest traveled out about four more kilometers and encircled a small area that I marked out as a town with branching roads that went out in all directions. The issue that I was running into was the locality of the domain. Which was somewhat mind-boggling to consider. My domain currently was a sphere that totaled almost nine kilometers from point to point. With that being said, a spherical expansion inside would shift everything outwards while maintaining that same four-and-a-half kilometer radius and preserving the land's size. My mind almost couldn't comprehend that fact. It was all so much to take in. But, I started to realize I wasn't entirely human anymore, so things like this were going to be commonplace. Maybe I should make a map to keep better track of everything. As kharon looked over my drawing, I looked through my inventory and tallied up all the resources I had at hand. I still had a fair bit of stone and steel left. I had a surplus of wood, which sadly would dwindle once I had this town made.

My notebook made its way back into my hand as I jotted everything down and did the math in my head for what was to come."I like the idea so far. There are a few things, though, that I have questions about. The first is resources, aren't we low on them? The next is, how do you plan on allowing adventurers to traverse the size? If it's too large, then they will refuse to do so." He set the piece of paper down and slid it over to me, which I took and put in my notebook.

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