The Villainess Is My Cute Daughter

A small orange warning box popped up right below the numbers.

[Note: Due to the system going offline during host’s recovery, the cattle could not be artificially inseminated for six months.]

Adrian read the warning and casually swiped it away mentally. He didn’t really care since there wasn’t anything he could do about it while he was busy fixing his broken mana veins and heart for half a year anyway.

’Okay.’ Adrian thought. ’Do the math for me. Tell me exactly how much land I need inside the dungeon to repeat the breeding cycle with twenty thousand cows instead of the original fifteen thousand. And calculate how much extra land I need to grow the super grass to feed them all.’

[Affirmative.]

[Calculating...]

It barely took a second.

[Land required for Cattle: 200 Acres.]

[Capacity limit: 20,000 adult cows + 20,000 calves. Maximum capacity 40,000.]

[Land required for grass cultivation: 93.338 Acres.]

Adrian looked at the number and his OCD seemed to trigger.

’Just make the grass area one hundred acres.’ Adrian said. ’Calculate how much mana it will cost to apply the twelve times temporal overdrive across all three hundred acres. But make sure you factor in the twenty two acres I already paid to upgrade.’

[Affirmative.]

[Extra acreage required for upgrade: 278 Acres.]

[Temporal Overdrive Upgrade Cost: 2,846,720 Mana.]

Adrian looked at the huge price tag, but two point eight million was basically just a drop in the bucket for him now.

’Okay.’ Adrian confirmed. ’Use the mana and set the whole area up for me.’

[Affirmative.]

Adrian shifted around to make himself more comfortable.

’Show me the stats of my Dungeon of Prosperity.’ he said.

[Dungeon Status]

Name: Dungeon Of Prosperity

Rank: SS

Dungeon Master: Adrian Sterling

Mana Reserves: 4,000,000/4,000,000

Current settings: Custom Dungeon

Unlocked Settings: Temporal Overdrive, System Share, Monster Catalogue, Organic Synthesis, Undead Unlock, Unique Biomes, Resource Dungeon.

Adrian read through the whole thing. It was going to cost exactly four million mana for the next core rank up, and he didn’t even hesitate. He dumped the four million mana straight into the core and authorized the massive upgrade.

The system processed the massive transaction.

[Dungeon Core Upgraded.]

[Please select one new Dungeon Ability from the options below.]

Two glowing blue screens appeared side by side.

[Sentient Core Awakening: Grants the dungeon a primitive consciousness that slowly develops and learns over time.]

[Dungeon Door: Allows the host to turn any door in the real world into a direct entrance to the dungeon by spending mana.]

Adrian read the first option and immediately threw it out of his mind. He already had that exact same skill running on his second dungeon core, the one he took over from the high elves. And since he could just access that core through his Dungeon Link anyway, there was no reason to have duplicate abilities and waste slots.

He looked at the second option.

’I really fuckin like this one... I like this one a lot.’

He glanced across the carriage cabin, noticing that the three girls were just quietly looking out the glass window.

Adrian smirked.

’Honestly.’ Adrian thought to himself. ’Even if I had to pick between having a sentient core and having magical doors, I still would have picked the doors. It wouldn’t have even mattered if I owned that second dungeon or not.’

He selected the second option.

[Dungeon Door ability unlocked.]

Adrian leaned back and crossed his arms.

A lot of his problems were basically solved right now. Being able to turn a random door into a direct portal to Oresfall opened up a ridiculous amount of options for military and business scenarios.

He turned his head and looked out the window. There was just empty fields out there with a few dry bushes and some tall grass passing by as the carriage kept rolling forward. He knew the geography of this place, so it was going to take them at least a week or two just to travel back to Oresfall at this pace.

He could easily just reach over, touch the wooden carriage door, spend some mana, and step right out of his original dungeon entrance. They could skip the entire journey in a single second.

But he didn’t do it.

The reason? It was because the new ability being able to do all this, was something he just understood from reading a simple description.

’I’ve read enough novels and played more than enough games to not take these things at face value... better not embarrass myself here. I’ll just test it out later once I get to Oresfall.’

He rested his head back against the plush cushion.

’Let’s just enjoy the nature and the long ride for now.’ Adrian thought.

Adrian then shifted his attention back to the system and looked the first few notifications that he had ignored just now.

[Congratulations. The dungeon has successfully evolved into a SSS rank dungeon.]

He read the words and then his eyes slowly drifted down to the next one, which completely caught him off guard.

[Hidden Quest Completed.]

[Hidden Quest: Upgraded two independent dungeons to SSS rank.]

[Reward: Unlock hidden limiter on daddy status.]

Adrian frowned.

’A hidden limiter?’ Adrian thought to himself.

He swiped and cleared the notification boxes from there.

”Status screen.” Adrian commanded mentally.

Most of his stats were pretty much the exact same as they had been before, but one specific thing had actually changed a little.

His daddy status had been stuck on ”Papa” for well over a year. He had checked it dozens of times during this time and he had gotten so used to it that he never even expected it to change, but now the word ”Papa” was completely gone.

[Status Screen]

Name: Adrian Sterling

Title: Baron

Knight Rank: D Rank

Mage Rank: Third Circle

Mana Veins: B Rank

Daddy Status: Aria’s Shield

Demonic Blessing: Dungeon Master

Divine Curse: Pacifist’s Shackles

Dragon’s Blessing: Draconian Mana Veins

Skills: Gust (D), Telekinesis (B), Frost (E), Pain tolerance (B), Self Healing (C), Dad Strength (SSS), Daddy’s Love (SSS), Daddy’s Spanking (SSS), Dungeon Link (SSS)