Peter did not feel the need to open up the question of what they needed for the group. He already knew. Luckily, Delilah was already with him when he awoke. He was eager to get started. She of course wanted to start with the development pond, but Peter wanted to keep her with him for the summoning's. She pouted, but he just tapped her nose telling her she could wait for dessert. She did not overly mean it anyways. She also was excited about what new summons they would get. Most of the dungeon was, Peter however only allowed Boris and Delilah to accompany him. Boris since he would not give input unless asked, and then he could handle the admin parts while the good times still rolled for Delilah and himself.

  Peter went over what they had and their requirements. “Okay, we have 11 S tier type cards in total and 6 rare tier up increases. We will use the 3 random S tier type cards first since we are not quite sure on what they will be. We also need to prioritize using the demon millennial and void faction member types where we can, so that we can prominently display them like I agreed to. At some point, preferably with the demon millennials type card, I would like to create our first SS tier unit. As far as our needs, I would like another S tier alternate realm unit or two, and then a couple S tier mages.”

  “Sounds good, lets get started,” Delilah said eagerly. Soon they were both scanning his interface. Despite there now being 65 available type cards to choose from, both Delilah and himself were intimately familiar with the list. How many times had they discussed possible combinations and results? How many 1,000s of combinations had they proposed? True to what he said, he began with the first random S tier card.

  S tier Flower type card (10:00)

  “Taacchaa,” Delilah snorted, seeing the result.

  Peter however, had grown up playing a game called Plants versus zombies, which clearly the plants were the better side. Most of which were walking flower-like units. Perhaps he could do a little reenactment of his youth. Plus he had wanted access to plant type units for a while. With only 5 currently in existence, one being blacklisted, three others implanted in major factions, that only left the vine type which he already had. The flower type might not sound like something dangerous, but he was sure it was not just some sissy, try again option the interface had given him. He had 10 minutes to use it, so he quickly made a decision. It was actually one of the former random type card he decided to go with, fairy. It took a card type transfer, but he had 42 of them.

  Sanguine Rose fairy S: ATT: S -, DEF: B(-)-SSS(-), SPE: S

  Flower bud fairy A (+): ATT: A (-), DEF: C-SS, SPE: S (-)

  Petal storm fairy S (-): ATT: S (-), DEF: C-SS, SPE: S (-)

  It was not a difficult decision. Of course he would go with the sanguine rose fairy. He used the design card increase as well as another increase both on the special attribute. It was enough to bring the special attribute as well as the unit’s overall rank to S(+). Peter was eager to see what it could do, but his desires were interrupted by an interface message. It made his smile even wider.

  [Rookie condition met, summon 10 S tier units as a rookie’: 1 S tier design type card]

  “Muhahaha, they shall all kneel before the greatness that is I,” Peter said with his best maniacal tone. Delilah clearly still did not get or appreciate the concept of dark overlord or mad scientist. She just felt embarrassed for him. Apparently, just another S tier card was not enough to get her excited.

  The sanguine rose fairy was a small diminutive figure with white hair. The little fairy looked either incredibly tired or bored. She did not respond much when asked what she could do. It took a bit of prodding to get more than one word answers. Apparently, she needed blood to demonstrate her power. It took less than 5 minutes for Boris to retrieve some C tier spawner units.

  It was a bit messed up, sacrificing one of his own units for a demonstration, but it was not like he would lose anything. The spawner could only ever have 5, and it would only respawn if one was killed. He had 41 C tier spawners, and 17 new support cards to create even more in the future. All the ones that had died from the congregation were back, so Boris had rounded up a few for Peter’s nefarious purposes.

  “Okay, you can kill it,” Peter replied to the fairy. A green and yellow dart frog just stood there waiting… to die.

  The fairy just looked at Peter, with an expression of, ‘and how do you expect me to do that.’

  “Oh, my gosh,” Peter turned to Delilah, who happily unsheathed her knife. Two knife stabs in the frog head later, blood started flowing from the frog to the diminutive fairy.

  The fairies white hair and eyes turned blood red. She rose into the air sucking up every last drop. Way too much blood to be contained in the little body, but it was all going somewhere. “Hahaha, you want a demonstration,” She cried out with a savage smile.

  “See, she gets it,” Peter commented as they watched. Delilah just elbowed him. There was only so much stupidity that she was willing to tolerate.

  Seconds later energy in the form of a red rose streaked out stem first. The stem impacted the cavern wall before the rose imploded into the stone. It did not do anything. The fairy settled back toward the stone. Her hair was once again white and she looked ready for a nap.

  “Should we do it again,” Delilah asked, clearly having enjoyed the spectacle.

  “No, we can just assume that it does something pretty awesome,” Peter dismissed the idea. “She seems like she would be quite a powerhouse as long as things were dying around her.”

  “Yeah but unfortunately, I doubt there will be many beings with blood in a stone golem army,” Delilah countered.

  “Would it be demoralizing if she used our own fallen?” Peter asked tentatively. Delilah gave him a ‘What do you think?’ look. “Great, I guess we will have to shelf her for the time being. Hopefully, it works with bug goo, undead sludge, etcetera. Otherwise she would only be useful in certain battles.

  One random type card out of the way, Peter used the second. This time there was a 40% chance that he would get a restricted type, but this time the odds did not go in his favor. His second draw was just a regular type.

  S tier softshell turtle card (10:00)

  Delilah started laughing. Peter’s mind whirled. The random type card could give him any card type not currently in use, which Peter could see why no one had picked this. While Peter would not say that any option was necessarily useless, some were clearly better than others. Restricted card types were restricted for a reason. They were too good to be used heavily, but softshell turtles…?

  The best thing about a turtle as a unit would be the high defense of their shell. Still he had only 9 minutes to make a decision. How could he use something that would likely be slow over land with a low defense? A mage type? No, he would still have a hard time moving them in and out of position. Peter could think of a few good ideas such as going for an incorporeal being, but he had no guaranteed way to make that either. To hell with it. When there was no good course forward, there was always the turn the table card he had courtesy of his ally. Peter decided to go with fallen.

  Snapper slime S(-): ATT: S(-), DEF: S(-), SPE: S

  Reptilian wraith crawler S: ATT: S(-), DEF: S, SPE: S

  Chilled glacier turtle S(-): ATT: A, DEF: A(+), SPE: S, SPE: S

  “Oh well those surprisingly don’t seem like too bad of options,” Delilah stated.

  Peter had to agree. The snapper slime was the weakest, and Peter could not imagine it being better than the nightmarish creation. Still slimes seemed to be more on the difficult side to obtain. This was only his third one to ever get as an option, but Peter felt he liked the look of the last option the best.

  The reptilian wraith crawler was clearly capable of alternate dimension travel. Always nice, but the crawl part made it sound slow. Picture wise it did not look overly impressive either. He was sure it would be good, but that final option.

  The picture showed a turtle with a white head and body. True to the softshell turtle card used on it, the creature did not have a hard shell, but the eyes were piercing blue. Glacier blue since glaciers were the only place he could think of where you would see a blue that sharp occurring naturally. Still it was the name and the double special attribute that pulled his attention. Chilled and glacier were almost like the interface doubling down on it.

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  Peter went with the ice turtle. He used the design card’s increase on defense which brought it up to rank S(-). Peter elected to use the tier up increase as well. He randomly selected the first special attribute, and the creature was summoned. The frost turtle popped into existence. Peter immediately started backtracking. It was like a cold wind had appeared in front of him, really cold. The turtle appeared with a large head, long slopping neck and a flat body. Everything except the eyes was white.

  The turtle quickly demonstrated its abilities. It was definitely slow, it could only move at the speed of Peter’s normal walk. Quite slow for a creature of its size, but the turtle was clearly a mage type. One of its special attributes was a domain skill. It could form a bubble of subzero temperature around it. It also could condense the water in the air or its surroundings around its actual body. Not like a standard turtle shell, but more like glacier blue armor. This unfortunately was the special attribute that he had tiered up to SS(-).

  It was only unfortunate, because the other special attribute was a sub zero ice beam, similar to armageddon dragon’s void beam. Still they were left with another incredibly survivable unit. The B tier one off kept both special attributes, but the SS(-) domain skill was tweaked to the point where they could just form the glacial armor around their body. The now S rank turtle’s domain power was so powerful that Peter had to immediately demand it stop despite him being hundreds of feet away. C tiers would likely die if they got close for too long of a period. Stronger units would find their movements hampered.

  There was one downside to the unit. It would not play nice with others at least not others not of its type. The B tier one off seemed to be just fine around it. Peter immediately thought of using it as a defender on one of the earlier floors, but that would likely mean a guaranteed loss of the unit once it was overcome. Once again the unit seemed like it would be better against most enemies, other than the core type he planned to face in the upcoming year. Peter tabled the matter. The turtle had been sent off to the beginning of the first floor where it could no longer make him shiver.

  The summoning continued.

  S tier Plasma card (10:00)

  With a 60% chance of getting a restricted card type, he finally pulled his second one. This time it was one he knew well by word of mouth. It was the most desired type for the elemental faction, and it gave an increased chance of tiering up, making it his seventh elite type card. It was also a possible method to perhaps coax the elementals into aiding them against the insect faction in 2 years time. All that could wait till later, for now he needed to decide what to do with this card.

  He had several new type card contenders as well as probably plenty of other type cards he would love to try. Peter finally decided to go with eclipse. He was picturing some solar wind elemental or something of the sort.

  Space cessation mage S(-): ATT: S(-), DEF: S(-), SPE: S(-)

  Shadow/light celestial S: ATT: S(-), DEF: S (+), SPE: S, SPE: S

  Light devourer S: ATT: S, DEF: S, SPE: S

  “We have to do the space cessation mage,” Delilah declared immediately.

  Peter gave her a look of ‘are you crazy.’ The other two options were stronger, not to mention they just sounded awesome. A celestial in this case had nothing to do with holy power, but was a race of elementals. Just like the elementals put the plasma type above any other type they desperately wanted, the celestial was the most sought after race a unit could belong to.

  The light devourer was clearly a fiend from the sixth layer. The most difficult demon type for the demon cores to get. Once again also sought after.

  “Just think this is a space magic based mage. Not innate like I am. This is a mage that should be able to unlock the mysteries for us,” Delilah prodded.

  Peter sighed. He knew Delilah was probably right. Glenda and the other mages had never made any headway with teleportation. Neither had Merlin been able to crack the code despite devoting a good amount of time. Almost every centurion had the capability, but it was said to be a key difference between dungeons in the intermediate division. Being able to teleport units in and out of battle, or potentially even between dungeons was a game changer.

  Peter selected it, then took a deep breath. He hoped he would not regret this, hoping he would not regret what he was about to do. Peter used the design card increase on top of a tier up increase on the unit's intelligence. God forbid he got the unit, and the guy was not capable of developing the capability for his dungeon. Peter felt a bit relieved seeing a visible change in the guy's attributes. Not much but the guy’s special attribute went from a S(-) rank to S rank.

  The guy was a gray man like Merlin, but unlike the other who had a sort of mutton chops this guy was clean shaven, with wide open haunted eyes.

  “Please tell me you know magical theory related to space,” Peter asked with a slightly hesitant tone. He was slightly hesitant to hear the wrong answer.

  “What do you think? I’m a damn space mage,” the guy replied with the same demeaning manner that Peter was used to. Merlin treated him much the same. He had to wonder if it was a feature of these gray men.

  With prompting, the mage demonstrated his ability. It looked like he was just forming a magic barrier. “Whats the difference between what you’re doing and a normal mage’s magic shield,” Peter finally asked. He was less than impressed by the visual display.

  “The difference is that I can completely lock down a section of space, or create a wall through all space time. Incoming attacks: magic, physical, illusion, sound, you name it… blocked. Say this little lass here wants to jump to the alternate dimension. In a space I control it would be impossible.”

  “Oh really, let's see you try,” Delilah challenged.

  “Haha, very well little lass, Do your…” the guy stopped because Delilah blinked from the physical plain. A moment later she appeared back at Peter’s side.

  “Well…?” Peter asked. The guy smiled sheepishly, no longer looking down on them.

  “Okay, whatever. Hopefully, you are good at teleportation theory. You are going to work with Merlin to develop that for now. Boris, can you escort him to the magic college?”

  Hopefully, that had not just been a big mistake. Peter turned his attention to the next big summon. It was time to shoot for a SS tier unit. He had 9 S tier design cards, as well as 41 card type transfers, so he should be able to make whatever he wanted from the type cards in his possession. Hopefully he would nail it on his first try since he intended to use 3 elite S tier type cards forgoing his own design card. Peter used 3 card type transfers to make a S tier card for Plasma, black hole, and abyssal fiend.

  Collapsing star fiend S(+): ATT: SS(-), DEF: S(+), SPE: S(+)

  A shame Peter had been hoping for at least 2 to tier up, but with a rare tier up increase, he could easily get there. The question was what should he tier up? The picture was that of a black gorilla like monster with red plates and horns protruding on the shoulders, knees, waist, and sides of the head. The face was elongated in a more wolf-like snout. The fingers extended into long black claws. A large set of bat-like wings completed the picture. It was pretty much death incarnate. Peter wondered if there was a visual terror effect or something.

  Peter considered for a long moment but eventually elected to go with raising the defense of the S tier. It already looked like a melee killing machine. The special attribute was already at the top of the S tier. If he made it more difficult to kill what could bring it down. Unfortunately, the tier up only brought the fiends defense up to a SS rank. Still it was enough to bring the unit’s overall rank to a SS(-), making it his first SS tier unit.

  The fiend appeared just as terrifying as he would have expected. The special attribute was actually quite complementary with the creature's high attack. It could flare energy into its claws, teeth, or horns. Peter could not really get a close look due to the extreme heat, but it looked like steam billowed off whatever was flared like smoke. The fiend could already run its claws through the rock quite easily. Until its plasma energy bar ran out it could carve through the rock like butter leaving molten rock behind.

  The plasma energy bar was obviously the first thing Peter noticed. The energy depleted far slower than any bar he had seen indicating this creature's staying power in a prolonged fight. Perhaps, Peter should have boosted the attack or the special attribute even further, but then he saw the defense. Peter had seen plenty of units with resistances. His new chilled glacier turtle had the highest resistance he had seen near immune to cold, but he had never seen anything with more than a few resistances. Most often moderate or below.

  The difference was that this guy was near immune to three things: flame, plasma, and void energy. It had high resistance to infernal flames. Then there were a good ten other resistances at the moderate level, including mental and cold energy. On top of having a SS rank defense… Basically this thing was a unkillable killing machine. It would likely take SS or SSS tier attacks to bring him down easily. How many A tiers could this thing rampage through before enough damage accumulated?

  The interface just loved rewarding those that had more with even more. Peter had noted the messages before minimizing them. He looked at them now.

  [Rookie battle condition met, ‘Summon a SS tier unit as a rookie’: 1 user chose card

  Battle condition met, ‘Summon first SS tier unit’: 3 S tier design type cards

  Rookie battle condition met, ‘Meet 5 standard battle conditions as a rookie’: 3 user chose cards]

  “Mehehehhee,” Peter started laughing again. The only thing he was really out was 3 uncommon user chose cards. In return he got five user chose card and 3 S tier design cards to replace the ones he had used. It was almost like the interface was telling him to try it again.

  Peter knew however that it was not the case. Helen, Emma and Fellette had all agreed. Battle conditions whether for rookies, the other divisions, or standard were always the same. If it had taken him till year 800 to summon a SS tier unit, he would have gotten the same thing since it was a standard battle condition. The difference was that he got to open that present earlier than most, and an additional user chose card for being able to manage it as a rookie. Honestly, logically he should be getting heaps more for accomplishing something that had likely never been done. Most weaker intermediate division cores did not ever have a SS tier. The other feat, meeting 5 standard battle conditions as a rookie condition, gave the better of the two prizes.

  It left him with two options. He could meet the next step of the summon number of S tier units, he was sure there would be. He had just hit it at 10 an hour ago. Already, he was at 13. If he was guessing he could hit the next one at 20 or 25. Worse case he figured would be 50, which would likely be unreachable. As far as SS tier, he felt like he would hit it again if he were to summon 3 as a rookie. He had noticed a pattern with these conditions. Would he get another standard battle condition too? Maybe, but he felt it was unlikely.