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

had let it fill up while she was looking into the Elven issue.  Since Winxa was fairly confident that Sandra had at least two weeks before she was threatened with destruction by a party of Elven Elites, she decided to finish some projects for a day or two before she went under again.  The delay shouldn’t matter that much in the long run, and it also allowed her mind to process the upcoming shut-in experience enough that she thought she could handle it.

While she was observing the Elven village and the meeting, her Oak tree had grown tremendously.  Looking at its root system, it had spread them out all along the dirt it had access to, without caring about the stone walls separating the different plots.  Her plan – that was interrupted by the appearance of that Elven woman, Echo – to remove the stone so that the roots could expand was unnecessary, as it had done just fine.  As for the tree itself, it was now over 20 feet tall and still growing; Sandra thought it was reaching the stage where it could be harvested for wood – because she could see some acorns growing along its branches.  While it could keep growing for quite a while before it got too big for the space, she didn’t think there was any need.

Without waiting too much longer, she sent a few of her Small Animated Shears from her Home up to the growing room, where they immediately cut the acorns off the Oak tree and dropped them down to the floor.  Sandra’s Golems quickly picked them up and put them into a small pile; it was still a relatively young tree in comparison to the large ones in the forest outside, which meant that it only had a small number of acorns growing on the tree at that time.  As she watched, she could see a few budding up and starting to grow, but she thought she had more than enough for now.

Sandra “ate” one of the acorns and she got a satisfying Dungeon Core system message in response.

New Origination Material found!

Oak Tree Seed

While the Oak Tree Seed cannot be used directly as a Monster Seed, it can be used in specific applications to create a whole new Monster Seed.

That was the same sort of response she had gotten when she had obtained the Flax Seed by consuming some linen cloth; she assumed at the time that – because the cloth was a finished product – she had only gotten the base component and nothing else.  Now, however, she was beginning to think there was some other sort of material and Monster Seed she could obtain from the Flax plant.  Her suspicions were confirmed when she took a chunk out of the growing Oak tree.

New Monster Seed and Origination Material found!

Oak Wood

While Oak Wood can be directly used as a Monster Seed, it can also be used as a material for use in the dungeon or other purposes.

You now have access to:

Tiny Oak Wood Chip

Origination Raw Material Cost: 50

Origination Mana Cost: 10

Monster Min. Mana: 10

Monster Max. Mana: 50

I did it!  I finally have access to wood!  While Oak wasn’t necessarily the best material for certain crafts, the fact that she finally had some sort of wood that she could use was spectacular.

And it opened up a whole new level of crafting that she had been waiting for.

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Having access to wood of any type opened up a world of possibilities, though there were some crafts that required a certain type of wood to be more effective.  For instance, Oak didn’t work too well as components for melee weapons – because they tended to be heavier than others – but they worked…fine for bows; they made a heavier bow which wasn’t always great trying to steady if you didn’t have the strength for it, and the draw was usually more – which could be a good or bad thing.  For other woods such as Pine, they were almost useless because they weren’t quite strong enough and you had to make them much thicker if you didn’t want them to snap in your hands.

For making the shafts for the arrows, however, Oak was far from ideal.  They were rarely straight-grained and were hard to straighten without some sort of elemental energy assistance – which wasn’t always available when crafting.  Cedar or Ironwood were the ideal candidates for arrow shafts, and even Pine was acceptable if you could find it in enough straight quantities to be effective, because it was also difficult to straighten.

Fortunately, Sandra didn’t really have to worry about that; after easily unlocking the larger sizes of Monster Seeds, she found that she could create the wood in any basic shape that she needed.

Monster Seed Origination

Name:

Raw Material Cost:

Mana Cost:

Min. Mana:

Max. Mana:

Tiny Oak Wood Chip

50

10

10

50

Small Oak Wood Block

100

20

10

100

Average Oak Wood Stick

400

80

10

400

Large Oak Wood Plank

800

160

10

800

Locked Seeds:

Unlock Requirements:

Mana Cost to Unlock:

Min. Mana:

Max. Mana:

Small Dragon Glass Sliver

2 Tiny Dragon Glass Flakes

14000

5000

20000

Average Dragon Glass Shard

4 Small Dragon Glass Slivers

56000

5000

80000

Large Dragon Glass Chunk

2 Average Dragon Glass Shards

112000

5000

160000

And by “basic”, that was essentially what it was.  While she could use the materials in which she had access to create normal objects through her use of her Mundane Object Creation skill – like some tools, tableware, and even furniture – when it came to using it to craft, it only came in pre-arranged shapes.  The same thing essentially happened during blacksmithing; she could create different-sized ingots of metal and even longer bars – in addition to the orb-like shapes that her Monster Seeds looked like – but anything