After dealing with the 51st floor, Yunan continued to take his wives and pets to the dungeon, spending their days training and evolving and their evening relaxing and having fun, the 52nd floor was full to the brim by a type of spiritual jellyfish, there were too many of them, they were harmless and only made it hard for the adventurers to pa.s.s through the floor, even killing these would not cause a reaction, according to what Sarah read from the guild introduction, the boss of this place was the only thing that would retaliate when attacked and it could order all the jellyfish-like being to attack as well. The spiritual jellyfish were called soul lanterns.According to some myth, the souls of the dead who can not return to the cycle of reincarnation would be preserved in lanterns and become jellyfish, only to be consumed by other creatures to eat away at the grudges keeping them from reincarnation, each time the jellyfish was eaten the soul would lose a bit of what was tethering it to the world, when that link is either fulfilled or eaten away the soul in the jellyfish lanterns would return to the cycle of reincarnation.
The boss of that floor was called the lantern keeper, it was basically an amalgamation of empty soul lanterns, the boss sp.a.w.ned them at varying intervals, some were brighter than the others while some were especially colourful, Yunan found out that the brighter ones contained more mana and left much more ectoplasm behind while the colourful ones were basically mana containers that had more mana then the boss of the wisps.
In this floor, while he was trying to finish mapping the floor, Yunan was able to gather enough mana to fill all the containers they had saved up as well as start a new brand of lava wine that was completely based on ectoplasm, this brand had the highest consumption from all the types of potions sold by the trading outpost, simply because it not only helped with the regain and rejuvenation of mental energy, it worked as a great catalyst for those training in spiritual arts, add the fact that it did not spoil and there were people buying it like it was extra lifespan.
Most of those who bought this new potion were actually those who were buying time slots in the spiritual cave, add in the fact that the lotus fruits that sp.a.w.ned from this wine could add Wisdom point without restriction, that made Yunan richer by another order of magnitude, still all these items were sold as limited items, when anyone asked why such items were limited, the response was always the same, "it"s boring to keep selling the same items". The smart ones understood it had to do with the location of the faction leader and the dumb ones thought it was a marketing scheme so that these items would cost even more after they were discontinued.
Little did anyone know that Yunan had stockpiles ten times larger than the amounts that were sold, particularly the ones that were sold were the defective fruits or the oldest layer of wine, with the current stocks, Yunan would be able to stop selling them officially through the outpost and start selling them as the guy who saw it coming and stockpiled things that did not spoil. There were many customers that demanded lotus fruits that had exclusively const.i.tution, dexterity or strength in them, the response was, if we accidentally make them, they will be available at the shop.
Yunan was very sure that it was impossible to find monsters that had only one affinity like these ghosts, therefore he didn"t even attempt to create a wine and fruit lines for each attribute, it was just a waste of time, but he did not shy away from dual attribute wines and fruits. Fruits that could add more were a bit more exclusive to members who had a certain threshold of exchange within the trading outpost, those guys who traded all the worthless stuff they had were not very happy about this treatment but who would listen to them, even if they wanted to stop using the trading outpost it was already too late, 65% of adventurers below the 80th floor were using it, thus, it was futile to try to escape the clutches of the system, especially since the quality check system gave all the users the ease of mind that comes with certainty of never being cheated.
2 years and 3 floors later, Yunan celebrated his 40th birthday with his friends and family, it has become a habit for these people to celebrate each decade of life that was happy and healthy and prosperous, even the few dark points in each chapter were covered by all the growth and beauty and riches that filled the lives of Yunan and his family, this year would be a busy one, Leol, muscles, Lili, kitty, Reina, Yunan, Drogon, Ophelia all had celebrations planned, they could not however get the birthdays of Debauchery because that would be asking both Leader and Fae how old they were, a very bad idea, too dangerous for a celebration.
Yunan did not look a day older than twenty years old, he looked like what you expect a pampered teenager from a rich family to look like: soft skin, a gentle and lazy gaze, a smile on his face at all times, he looked the part of a well mannered, well educated young master, thanks mostly to his latest conquest in the dungeon: the banshee floor. Other than the usual effects of the ectoplasm, them being beautiful vengeful maidens added a touch of beauty to whoever used that ectoplasm, something that Fae fed to her white pet slime, that slime was a king now, as big as a king-size bed and Fae did leave its side when at home, "too comfy" she would mumble as she floated inside it while it moved her around the house, with only her head visible.
As any other profit minded people, Ophelia turned that slime into a balsam and with the help of her fellow wives hunted the banshees to extinction, permanent beauty added with each application was too good to be true, but for any woman out there, beauty and youth were things they could never have enough of. Even Fortuna, an ageless beautiful G.o.ddess went nuts when she saw its effects, she even started selling it for shards of divinity to other G.o.ddesses who were more than happy to pay without negotiation.