Even when whatever bits of my mind finished sorting the various inputs were done, everything I could see was full of bright, shifting lights. Ansae herself was actually painful to look at, and the multitasking I had been musing over before was shot entirely to hell by a thousand colors going every which way. And then I felt like an idiot because I could just turn it off.

　　Suddenly I could actually comprehend what was going on, and found I`d missed a great deal. Shayma was outside the city, headed up along the river, and as she glanced back I could see there were some twenty or thirty people with her. So she`d managed to convince Iniri?

　　And Ansae was sitting on a chair on the porch of the cottage, whittling at a piece of tayanten wood. [Wisdom] told me that it would be an incredibly bad idea to let this continue. Either she`d wait until Shayma and the rest arrived, and who knew what would happen then, or she`d get bored. And given that she could probably blow the entire dungeon to kingdom come, I didn`t want that either.

　　But she seemed interested in staying. To be fair, the lake cottage was nicer than the blue-lit cave from before, even if it did lack gold and jewels. Which gave me an idea.

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　　My mana income was maybe barely enough for a test of the spatial manipulation effects, so I figured it`d be worth trying to make a very, very large room for her.

　　I cleared out a fairly significant room to start, and dumped spare experience into the Expansion spatial field, which claimed it`d let me make a room bigger on the inside. In fact I maxed it out, taking up half my banked experience, but apparently it couldn`t turn into the next tier without something else to merge with. Probably its companion, Compression, which was meant for shrinking the size of a room. But still, that meant that the space inside improved to a ten-to-one ratio.

　　I put it rather far down from the cottage, since I didn`t want to overlap the human` and dragon` areas, and I had no idea how much room they`d each end up taking.

　　The field began to draw on my mana income, then actually surpassed it, but with nearly five thousand banked mana after my level-up I wasn`t that worried. I was, however, fairly annoyed as the expansion drew on stone resources, which wasn`t covered by the description of the field. At least I had plenty to spare.

　　I wound up with a room five hundred meters on a side, and no doubt due to the spatial shenanigans it showed no signs of collapsing. As a bonus, once the final size was reached the field...flexed, then solidified and stopped drawing mana. It was permanent now.

　　Time to turn it into habitation.