Erik and Rugrat were silent as Glosil finished talking. Their eyes tracked over to the Fire imp that sat on top of the headquarters table, eating pie as Egbert stood beside him, like a proud parent.
“So you’ve ruled over the Fire floor since it got locked away?” Erik asked.
“Yup. Well, I didn’t know what was going on. I was having a nap and then when I woke up, the floor was all sealed up. I told those beasts,” the imp waved his spoon with an angry frown on his face, “no fighting anywhere but my volcano on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Sundays. Then the winner gives me a massage!”
“A massage?” Rugrat asked.
Egbert’s hand smacked the back of the imp and he turned his hands to the side, karate-chopping his back.
Davin had a look of pure bliss on his face. “O-ooh-oohh, th-aa-ttss th-eee ri-iii-ggh-t sppp-oo-t!”
Erik put his fingers in his ears, swallowing as he saw Egbert karate-chopping Davin with enough force to shatter most trees.
Davin moved around to really allow Egbert to get in there as he ate his pie in bliss.
Erik and Rugrat looked to Glosil.
“This dungeon’s weird.”
Erik and Rugrat shot a glance at each other, agreeing.
“So, moving forward?” Erik asked.
“Well, Davin here has a great understanding of the power structure within the different floors. We just need to get an entrance to the Wood floor and we can take it; just let Davin bring everything under control.,” Egbert said.
“He does formations too!”
“Fun games! Though magic creates more lights,” Davin replied, his eyes shining.
“Lights, explosions?” Erik asked.
“My redneck senses are tingling.”
“I’ll take that as a yes.” Erik ignored Rugrat and looked back to Glosil, who blinked, as if it were completely normal to have a pie-eating imp getting a massage from an undead while his bosses were talking about explosions.
“The Earth floor is still being cleared out. Should take no more than a week or two. Depends on the plants, really. The formations there are being rebuilt. It is our plan to move the formation core to the Fire floor and repeat the process on the floor above, the difference being that we remake the formations and the formation lines, instead of remodeling the floor,” Glosil said.
“What is our next move?” Rugrat asked, looking to Glosil.
“We might as well try out Davin and Egbert’s plan on the Wood floor and see if it works, and then look into the Water floor. If it works, then it will save us a lot of time. If not, then we can use the same tactics we used on the Fire floor,” Glosil said. “Though we’ve still got training going on in Alva, Vuzgal, and with the soldiers from Vermire. It won’t be long until they’re trained up.”
“If we need to, we can hold off on clearing the floors until we’re sure we can take them,” Erik said.