Using the corpses of dark wanderers as the flesh and blood materials.
Adding rocks and ores.
The most important part was the final touch of delicacy and insight, both of which were essential for a master smith.
As for the appearance, he would use a human-like form.
However, two arms and two eyes were far too inefficient for a human.
Hair was unnecessary in a high-temperature environment, and the palms needed to be larger and coarser with a stronger grip.
Combining these conditions, a new monster was created.
He had four arms, stood about one hundred and sixty centimeters tall, and was broad-shouldered and thick-waisted.
He had no hair on his head, deep purple skin, and four eyes evenly distributed across his face, allowing him to precisely perceive changes in materials.
At the same time, his deep purple skin helped him capture temperature fluctuations more accurately.
[Name] Well of Eternal Imprisonment's purple-skinned blacksmith
[Level] lv11
[Skills] Forging lv4, Flame Resistance lv4, Great Strength lv4, Mineral Scent lv3, Precision lv3, Dynamic Vision lv3, Flame Sensing lv3, Temperature Sensing lv3, Hard Skin lv3, Hammer Arts lv3, Mineral Manipulation lv2, Rock Manipulation lv1
[Description] A monster servant created by the unknown existence Dalun Li. It can identify ores, sense temperatures, and precisely forge weapons and equipment, with a chance to create mana equipment containing magical power.
"My Lord, I offer you my loyalty."
The purple-skinned blacksmith prostrated himself on the ground, his four arms pressed firmly against the surface.
Looking at the blacksmith before him, Dalun Li suddenly realized something.
As he created more and more intelligent monsters, interactions between them in the Lava Stratum had become inevitable.
For intelligent monsters to communicate, they needed names.
It was impossible for Dalun Li to name them one by one; they had to name themselves.
Furthermore, the names could not be too complex, or it would become troublesome.
"From now on, you shall be called Purple Hammer. For the purple-skinned blacksmiths, the naming convention will be Purple as the surname, and their names will be based on the tools a blacksmith uses."
Hearing that Dalun Li had personally given him a name, Purple Hammer trembled with excitement.
Could he truly deserve such an honor?
This was the Lord of the dungeon, the existence who had created this entire dungeon and created them.
To think he would personally name him.
"As... as You wish, my Lord."
After teleporting Purple Hammer away, Dalun Li proceeded to set a naming rule for the skeletal shamans, allowing them to name themselves for mutual communication.
They would use White as their surname and body parts as their names.
The dwarf miners, who served as miners, also possessed a certain degree of intelligence. Dalun Li designed their naming convention with Grey as the surname and the types of ores or rocks as their names; if there were duplicates, a geological term could be added as a suffix.
This way, through their names, he could directly determine roughly where a monster came from.
Moreover, it would allow monsters to identify and communicate with each other.
Oh, and there were the monster merchants.
Since monster merchants had to interact with humans, they would use Mane as their surname, choose their own names, and add a common landscape feature as a suffix.
Once the new surname rules were promulgated, the intelligent monsters throughout the dungeon began to ponder their own names.
After all, the Lord's tasks had to be completed with all their might.
Dalun Li continued to create monsters. Intelligent monsters were a minority, so he only created a portion of them.
Mindless monsters were the main force of the dungeon and needed to be created in large numbers.
Next, he adjusted and transformed the environment of the entire eleventh floor to make it more suitable for the survival and reproduction of the monsters he had created.
Among them, the most numerous main force of the entire floor was the lava gargoyles.
The rarest, and also the strongest, were the heroic gargoyles.
The heroic gargoyles looked like hero statues clad in armor; until they moved, no one would suspect they were monsters.
Aside from their usual patrols, the lava gargoyles would curl into a ball during rest, clinging to stone walls or camouflaging themselves as rocks.
The patterns on their exterior were indistinguishable from the rocks in the environment.
The reproduction method of the lava gargoyles did not follow the maternal reproduction of the gargoyles on the floors above, but rather fission reproduction.
By accumulating energy, they would split off rock seeds from their bodies, which would then take root in the rocks to grow and reproduce.
The heroic gargoyles were the same, but their reproductive capacity was low, and their numbers were very few.
The lava frogs, on the other hand, used sexual reproduction and were oviparous.
Their eggs did not possess the resistance the lava frogs had while soaking in magma, so they usually laid their eggs in hot spring areas.
This floor was not entirely composed of lava; Dalun Li had also created some hot spring areas.
Underdeveloped lava frogs were tadpole-shaped and mainly active in the hot springs.
Only after developing to a certain stage would they migrate into the magma to live.
As for the poison smoke monsters, they were closer to plants.
They took root in rock crevices and spewed toxic mist to launch sneak attacks.
Their growth and reproduction were exactly the same as plants.
They scattered seeds.
As for the purple-skinned blacksmiths, Dalun Li arranged for them to live in the mines with the dwarf miners.
This would allow them to quickly smelt the ores dug up by the dwarf miners into ingots and forge weapons.
Since both intelligent races lived beneath the surface of this floor, Dalun Li created large grottoes underground so they could build and live there.
The sharp claws of the dwarf miners could cut through stone, allowing them to build houses directly out of stone within the underground mines.
They would provide Dalun Li with enough weapons and equipment to sell to adventurers.
Next, one more type of monster was needed.
Dalun Li did not just intend to sell weapons and equipment; he also planned to have the monster merchants sell alchemical potions.
He wanted to create a type of monster capable of alchemy.
However...
This time, Dalun Li failed.
Several attempts at creation failed to produce the desired result.
'A monster with alchemy skills actually cannot be created.'
Among humans, those with a talent for alchemy were extremely rare.
Most people with alchemical talent were alchemical craftsmen, and among them, even fewer could become alchemists.
This special talent was indeed not something he could create on a whim.
Unless he was willing to create a guardian.
But even if he created a guardian, the other party would vomit blood from exhaustion before they could refine enough potions to supply the entire dungeon.
He wasn't some kind of demon; how could he oppress his own guardians like that?
Moreover, guardians could not be created casually.
A guardian's power was immense, and their help to him was also very significant.
He had to have a certain number of floors as support, plus precious special materials, to create a new guardian.
Forget it, the matter of alchemical potions could wait for now.
There was another very important matter: food, the food sold by the monster merchants.
Dalun Li went to the hidden space on the seventh floor.
Growing here was that very substitution tree, the substitution magic tree.
Rate on N.U.
