The Crafter's Darkness: A Dungeon Core Novel (Dungeon Crafting Book 4) by Jonathan Brooks (ebook reader with android os TXT) 📗

Dungeon Core Destruction

Receive AP for eliminating another Dungeon Core

30 AP per Core

60 AP (1X Reptile-Classification Core, 1X Undead-Classification Core)

30/60 AP

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Total Advancement Points Earned and Spent

286 AP

190 AP

Total Advancement Points Available

96 AP

Sandra had plenty of Advancement Points to spend after the events over the last few days, where she received 72 Points – mainly from the destruction of the other Core, and the deaths of so many Shieldmen.  She was only partially surprised that she didn’t get any Points from the deaths of the 5 Shieldmen that had perished inside of the Undead dungeon, but then again it was completely cut off from her AOI, so that made sense; not that she wanted more AP from the deaths of those brave Dwarves, because it already felt a little wrong to have them in the first place, but she wasn’t going to turn them away.  However, there was something else that was odd…

Winxa, how come I didn’t receive any AP from the destruction of the Unicorn and Avian Cores? 

“Well, because you didn’t actually directly have a hand in destroying them,” the Dungeon Fairy said matter-of-factly.  “Through actions that you may have done in the past – like saving Kelerim from death – it may have resulted in their destruction, but you didn’t actually participate.  I think…well, I think that if Kelerim or one of your Bonded friends here had been in those dungeons when they were destroyed, even if they didn’t actually ‘participate’, then you’d probably get credit for their destruction.”

I guess that makes sense, then; thank you.

Not that she was planning on destroying any more Cores, of course, because she needed to prevent that at all costs; nevertheless, she thought she could’ve easily used those potential 60 AP from their destruction.  It was something she couldn’t do anything about, though, so she moved on to what she could do something about: spending Advancement Points.

Advancement Options

Current Advancement Points

96

Advancement:

Cost:

Choose 1 Dungeon Monster from another available Classification (Repeatable)

5

Give your Dungeon Monsters the option of having a chosen accessible elemental attribute in addition to their base element – Cost increases with each purchase (only works on Monsters capable of using/applying their element) (Repeatable)

10

Reduce the Mana cost of Monster Seeds by 15% – Cost increases with each purchase (Advancement 2/4)

60

Reduce the Mana cost of Dungeon Monsters by 15% – Cost increases with each purchase (Advancement 2/4)

60

Reduce the Raw Material cost of Monster Seeds by 15% – Cost increases with each purchase (Advancement 0/4)

15

Reduce the Mana cost of Dungeon Traps by 15% – Cost increases with each purchase (Advancement 0/4)

15

Extend your Area of Influence by 10% – Cost increases with each purchase (Advancement 0/10)

50

Advance a current Classification 1 level to acquire access to stronger and larger Dungeon Monsters – this also includes any “Advancement Unlocked” Monsters – Cost increases with each purchase (Advancement 1/3)

150

Select a second available Classification to hybridize your Core (This option is only available once)

150

Obviously, Advancing her Classification was out of the question based on how expensive it was, nor was she quite ready for that; selecting a second Classification wasn’t going to happen for the same reasons.  Adding additional elements to her Dungeon Monsters, as well as reducing the Mana Cost of traps, still weren’t things that could help her – so they were out as well.  Depending on how many points she needed to find a proper Monster that would fulfill her requirements, she could see spending the rest on a few different things (like reducing the Mana Cost of her Monsters and Seeds), but she was looking at Extending her Area of Influence.

The additional 10% didn’t sound like a lot, but as she was going to have to try to combat Cores that were dozens or even a hundred miles or more away, she was going to need all of the extra reach she could get.  Naturally, upgrading her Core Size would help with that, but she wasn’t sure how far it would reach; right now, she estimated that her Area of Influence extended nearly 11 miles in every direction from her Core, and even an extra mile at that point could make a difference.

Regardless if she chose to do that, she needed to concentrate on the immediate problem: finding a Monster that could be used as a transport and hauler of sorts.  While she automatically produced more Shears and Tarantulas to increase her ambient Mana absorption – which was fortunately fueled with Raw Materials taken from the condensed material created from her use of her Gravitational Devastation Sphere against the Undead horde outside her dungeon – Sandra perused the lists of available Dungeon Monsters she thought might help her achieve her goals.  She automatically disregarded anything that was Dragon-like or Dragon-adjacent, as well as any options that required her to have a 2nd or 3rd-level Classification Advancement.

When it really came down to it, there were only a handful that she thought might work; the problem she was having was that none of what she was looking at had a description, so she needed to consult Winxa on her knowledge of the many Monsters out there in the world.

Dungeon Monster Selection (Base)

Avians (Air)

Swooping Crane

Giant Eagle*

Aerie Roc*

Air Elementals (Air)

Sliding Sylph

Zipping Zephyr

Raging Storm*

Transitional Golems (Air/Earth)

Grinning Gargoyle

Dust Golem

Animated Slab*

Divine Beasts (Holy/Air)

Climbing Cockatrice

Gliding Griffin*

Tenacious Thunderbird*

Archaic Beasts (Air/Fire/Earth/Water/Natural)

Ancient Flying Pterodactylus

Ancient Flying Pteranodon

Ancient Flying Coloborhynchus*

*Requires Advanced Classification Level 1 (Complete)

** Requires larger Core Size and Advanced Classification Level 2

*** Requires larger Core Size and Advanced Classification Level 3

The biggest surprise of all of her searching