The Crafter's Defense: A Dungeon Core Novel (Dungeon Crafting Book 2) by Jonathan Brooks (top 10 novels txt) 📗

of anyone, but she now also knew that sometimes it was unavoidable.  She had traveled and seen enough when she was Human not to be completely naïve about the way the world worked, after all; that didn’t mean she couldn’t try to stop death and destruction before it happened.  And if it did…well, what she was doing with her defensive rooms was likely to be more than enough to ensure her own safety.

Not wanting to create anything specifically designed to kill something, she left off finishing the traps in rooms 14-17 (though they still had plenty of constructs inside them) and turned back to something a little more therapeutic: crafting.  However, blacksmithing didn’t really appeal to her at the moment because of the association with death it had, so she turned her attention to her new skill.  Sandra had to admit, she had been wanting to play around with her new skill but wanted to make sure nothing else needed her attention before she really investigated what she could do with it.

Organic/Inorganic Material Elemental Transmutation Menu

Transmutation Options

Elemental Orb Required (Size/Qty)

Mana Required

Additional Seed Material (Size/Qty)

Unlocked (Y/N)

Metals

Copper

N/A

N/A

N/A

Y

Nickel

N/A

N/A

N/A

Y

Tin

N/A

N/A

N/A

Y

Lead

Earth (Large/5), Fire (Tiny/2)

0/25000

Earthenware Clay (Large/4)

N

Bronze

N/A

N/A

N/A

Y

Iron

N/A

N/A

N/A

Y

Steel

N/A

N/A

N/A

Y

Titanium

?????

0/1000000

?????

N

Platinum

?????

0/5000000

?????

N

Orichalcum

?????

0/20000000

?????

N

Mithril

?????

0/50000000

?????

N

Fibrous Plant Seeds

Jute Seed

Natural (Average/2)

0/20000

Oak (Average/2)

N

Flax Seed

N/A

N/A

N/A

Y

Cotton Seed

Natural (Large/3)

0/30000

Maple (Large/3)

N

Bamboo Seed

?????

?????

?????

N

Ramie Seed

?????

?????

?????

N

Clays

Earthenware Clay

Earth (Average/2)

0/5000

Iron (Average/2)

N

Stoneware Clay

Earth (Large/4)

0/15000

Iron (Large/4)

N

Ball Clay

?????

?????

?????

N

Fire Clay

?????

?????

?????

N

Kaolin Clay

?????

?????

?????

N

That…is enlightening.  After she had thought about her skill, a menu had popped up describing the different types of materials she could unlock with the use of Elemental Orbs, copious amounts of Mana, and a surprise additional material that was needed from another type of material.  For instance, to unlock Lead, she needed Earthenware Clay as a material, which she could unlock with two Average Earth Elemental Orbs, 5,000 Mana, and two Average Iron Orbs.

There were also many unknowns on the menu, though everything still had a Mana cost; however, the Elemental Orbs needed for them – as well as the additional materials – all had question marks, which indicated to her that she was going to have to experiment with different combinations of things to achieve success.  She didn’t mind experimenting a little, especially if it meant unlocking some of the higher-quality metals like Titanium and Platinum, but the Mana cost for those were quite expensive.  For instance, at her current intake of Mana – which was now quite considerable – it would still take nearly four months of saving up every drop to afford Mithril.

Regardless, what Sandra was currently excited about were the different “Fibrous Plant Seeds” like her Flax Seed she already had; it ultimately meant there were other plants that she could use to make cloth with – ones that were much more durable and easier to work with than Flax and the Linen that was produced from it.  The only problem, however, was that she needed an additional material that wasn’t something she previously had access to: wood.  Now, however, her Area of Influence had expanded enough to include the nearby forests – prime locations for acquiring samples of trees that she could grow in her dungeon.

Sandra started to use her incoming Mana to finish off some of the 11 stages of her next Core Size Upgrade, even though she wasn’t planning on doing it any time in the next couple of days.  She mainly did it because she didn’t want it to go to waste, and her concentration was going to be elsewhere for a while – miles away, in fact.

As soon as that was taken care of, Sandra took control of one of her slowly moving Small Animated Shears in her AMANS and made it head towards the South and a little east.  “Control” was a strong word for what she did because she couldn’t really understand how it floated through the air, nor how it directed how it moved in different directions, so it was more like she gave it an order and watched through its…eyes?  Again, there wasn’t really a comparison to a person’s body that she could focus on, so she just went with it.

She chose to go a little further out of her way to the land of the Elves and then to the forest border between the Elves and Gnomes for two reasons.  One, she wanted to avoid calling any attention to herself from the Orcs – because it had already been proven that they didn’t take kindly to a dungeon on their doorstep, so to say – and going to the western border forest between the Orcs and Elves was inviting too much trouble her way.  And two, she was curious about how the Elves were doing in their village that she could see as a tiny point in the distance from her AMANS.

The sun was heading towards the horizon when Sandra’s construct neared the Elven village on the edge of the wastelands.  She was astonished at how fast a pair of shears could move through the air when there wasn’t any reason to impede its speed; she kept that in mind for future improvements to her dungeon’s defenses – if any were needed, of course.

Before it arrived within 1,000 feet of the village, she sent it shooting up into the air so that it wouldn’t be observed very easily.  When she estimated that it was about twice the height that it had been earlier,