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He was already pushing the next door open as he asked and rushing through to the one beyond it, barely even noting the lack of a rest area that all of the magic towers had given them with his curiosity not able to be contained. The first floor had been both fun and a challenge, certainly something he could have completed in a far easier manner if he’d let himself but that would have cut down on some of the entertainment he’d gotten from it, something he was already hoping he’d get again as he passed through to the next stage.

With that one looking like it might be a bit easier at first glance. All around him were raw materials, metals and woods and stones and clay, with the tools to use them too, all just waiting for him to get his hands on them with a new plaque waiting in it all to tell him the rules.

“Including walls and a roof, build your ideal kitchen. Floor ends in five hours.” He read aloud, feeling his brow crease as he did.

Unlike the last floor, this one’s win condition seemed murky. Hell, all it had said he needed to make was the walls and ceiling. If his ideal kitchen was just an empty room where he stored fresh fruits and vegetables to snack on, would that be enough to finish that section?

He supposed it was possible but he didn’t want to risk it when there were other factors he didn’t know about. What if it asked him to use it after and he was left missing a pivotal tool, making whatever dish it would want him to cook impossible to make? Or worse, what if it forced the others with him to do some cooking to satisfy the second floor of the trial?

In both of those situations, he was sure he’d be able to make it work but it was better to try and do things right the first time and immediately got started, this time employing his magic now that there was a time limit as he looked at what he’d been given to use and began shaping it to his desires, wood being reshaped into a knife block with the knives following soon after, pots and pans and cutting boards being next along with shelves to hold them all and a few other storage bits too.

And then, what was a kitchen without dishware? Plates and bowls were all easy and cutlery no worse, leaving him to only have the bigger items to focus on soon after. A stove, an oven, a cooler, and a freezer, all necessities to make a proper kitchen and all things that needed enchantments placed. The gods hadn’t seen fit to grace him with any magic materials for power among what he’d been provided and while anything he made could be powered entirely through one’s own personal mana supply, there was no rule stating he couldn’t use anything he’d brought himself and if he was supposed to be making his own ideal kitchen then a part of that ideal included something with a power source, it was a conveniences he just couldn’t give up on.

Then with magic materials out anyway, he thought of more he’d like, thinking back to the conveniences of Earth that weren’t so commonly found on his new world and finding plenty of inspiration in that as he built and shaped a mixer and blender to give himself some more variety and continued on, adding whatever little touches he felt were missing before equipment-wise, he was complete.

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Once that was finished though, all that left was containing it, putting some of the remaining materials to create counter spaces, walls, and a roof for his ideal kitchen, making sure it was plenty spacious to move around in but otherwise being done, only an hour being spent.

“Uh, did you do something wrong?” Jake asked him as he looked around. “Doesn’t look like we got an exit.”

“The sign said the floor ends in five hours, I’m taking that as both the time limit and the soonest we can leave.”

“And if you’re wrong?” Amy asked him, not seeing how he could feel so sure of that while he just shrugged.