The Crafter's Dominion: A Dungeon Core Novel (Dungeon Crafting Book 5) by Jonathan Brooks (best english books to read TXT) 📗

lair – which was even safer for anyone around – Sandra began to experiment.  Starting with Fire Mana, she brought out exactly 50 units of it, causing it to condense in place, similar to how she had first discovered how to create Elemental Orbs of different sizes in the first place.  A glowing red orb of condensed Mana floated in the middle of the Bearling lair, though it wasn’t as condensed as she could make it—because it wasn’t done yet.  Then, taking 50 units of Water Mana, she brought it out and condensed it in a similar fashion, until she had two mostly condensed orbs floating next to each other.

Then she forcibly tried to combine them.

She was certainly glad that she had begun her experimentation where nothing and no one would get hurt, because when the two types of raw Mana touched, there was an explosion that tore chunks out of the stone ceiling and floor of the lair with how much force it expended in less than a second.  As the dust settled, Sandra saw that a portion of the wall had collapsed, but overall it hadn’t done as much damage as she had feared.  Where did I go wrong? she thought, which was quickly followed up by, I have to remember that for the future if I need to blow something up.

“What happened?”

Sandra explained what had occurred to Winxa, and the Fairy nodded as if the result was obvious.  “You tried to combine Fire…and Water?” Winxa asked with a hint of suggestion in her voice.

“Yes—oh.  Yeah, okay.”  It seemed very obvious now that she thought about it; even with enchanting, combining Fire and Water-based rune sequences (as well as any other elemental opposites like Holy and Nether) was a very tricky business, because they tended not to play well with each other.  Using a catalyst was usually the only way to get them to work together, and even then you had to make sure the two rune sequences only touched through the catalyst, otherwise…BOOM!  It usually wasn’t as spectacular of an explosion as this just was, but Sandra was using Mana, which was quite a bit more potent than the elemental energy that people had access to in their bodies.  Some things that the Dungeon Core had created – like the War Machine and Deep Divers she had created – used two opposite elements together (Spirit and Natural), but they were technically two different enchantments that worked to accomplish a goal, not one whole enchantment combined.

Can I use a catalyst?  She thought about it for a little bit, but she couldn’t think of anything that was unsubstantial enough to be used for the creation of an Elemental Orb.  That, and she had the distinct impression that such a thing would be impossible while manipulating Mana in the way that she was doing.  So…how?

When nothing came to mind, she switched up her tactics.  She needed to prove her concept was going to work in the first place, and then she would look into combining opposite elements.  This time, she pulled out 50 Fire Mana and 50 Earth Mana…and braced as she forcibly combined them together.

Luckily, there was no immediate explosion – but there was some pushback from the Mana.  The two different elements just pushed against each other in a ball of swirling red and brown colors, steadfastly refusing to combine like oil settling on top of water.  No matter what she tried, even devoting more of her concentration to force them to combine, condensing them further and further, nothing happened.  She mentally felt the swirling ball in the middle of the room was close to succeeding, but something was obviously missing.

A quick thought caused her to change the swirling ball into a cube, as it had helped her to condense larger amounts of Mana in the past.  Despite it being easier to condense both elements together, still nothing happened; no solidifying of a new dual-element Orb or Cube.

Sandra nearly gave up, but thoughts of the other crafting she had done lately intruded on her thoughts.  Not the Silver and Gold PEEs she had enchanted, but her gem-cutting and shaping for the powerful enchantments that were required.  It was the various facets that were cut into a gemstone that provided the structure to the enchantment, itself, so why not Elemental Orbs?

A cube obviously wasn’t working with its 6 sides or “facets”, so Sandra tried to think of the shapes she used for gemstones.  The problem with picking one was that they were so varied by type, with some having a dozen facets, while others had 40 or more.  They all had a general shape of a “sphere”, however – it just depended on how many flat-surfaced sides it needed in order to achieve that form.

Two of the PEEs, however, needed a dodecahedron – a 12-sided shape – for their gem to be cut correctly, so Sandra thought that it was probably a good place to start.  Fortunately, it was much easier to think of the different facets than to actually shape them with a grinder, and within a minute she had formed the shape with the 2 elements combined together.  When they were in place and still pushing against each other, Sandra removed her concentration from everything else in the dungeon, focusing on this one thing.  With every iota of concentration, she forced the Fire and Earth Mana to condense down smaller and smaller, until there was barely a distinction between the two colors.

New Monster Seed created using your Advanced Elemental Monster Seed Origination

skill!

You now have access to:

Tiny Fire-Earth Elemental Gem

Origination Raw Material Cost: 0

Origination Mana Cost: 100

Monster Min. Mana: 25

Monster Max. Mana: 100

 

Currently locked:

Small Fire-Earth Elemental Gem

Average Fire-Earth Elemental Gem

Large Fire-Earth Elemental Gem

The new Gem appeared where the Mana had been, floating in the air for a split-second before falling to the