The Crafter's Dilemma: A Dungeon Core Novel (Dungeon Crafting Book 3) by Jonathan Brooks (english readers txt) 📗

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Total Advancement Points Earned and Spent

208 AP

130 AP

Total Advancement Points Available

78 AP

Advancement Options

Current Advancement Points

78

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 0/4)

15

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

Sandra had received quite a few AP for eliminating all of the creatures inside the wastelands; when she added it to the 20 additional rooms she had created at the end of her dungeon, she had a total of 78 AP to spend.  There were a few that she could rule out as unneeded or too expensive at that time, such as adding additional usable elements to her Dungeon Monsters (which wouldn’t really work for her constructs), reducing the Mana cost of traps in her dungeon (most of them were easily replaceable and she saw no need to spend more on them at the moment), extending her Area of Influence (it was quite extensive already and covered everywhere important), advancing her Classification (it was too expensive and she was still trying to afford all of her constructs from the last advancement), and choosing another Classification (it was plainly just too expensive, nor was it really needed yet).

The remaining options, though, were all things that could be beneficial in different ways.  Purchasing the third reduction of Mana cost for her Dungeon Monsters would allow her access to the Titanium Anaconda, as well as making the rest less expensive – but Mana right now wasn’t that much of a problem, especially with her AMANS at full strength.  The same went with the reduction of Mana cost and Raw Materials needed for Monster Seeds; in the long run it would save a lot of each resource as she created them, but she was currently sitting fairly pretty with both of those things. Still, they were definitely a possibility.

She decided to hold off on that for now, and instead looked at what Dungeon Monsters were available from the other Classifications.  The benefits of having access to other Monsters from different Classifications was already being shown with her Unstable Shapeshifter – if not the Goblin Worker she had first purchased.  It was entirely possible that having other choices of things to create might work in her favor, though she didn’t really have a goal in mind.

When she was searching through the hundreds (or possibly thousands) of choices before, she had been looking for something that could be used by Violet to help enchant; now, though, she was covered fairly well in that department.  Nevertheless, she started to peruse the possible choices while her six Unstable Shapeshifters – she had expanded her crafting crew as well – were busy alternatingly creating Energy Orbs.  As a side note, she had found out that she was correct about the sample transference; it would only work with the original one that had obtained them in the first place.  Therefore, the subsequent Shifters she created had to obtain the forms for the Elite Elves from that specific one, though she made sure to grab samples from Violet, Felbar, and Echo directly.

By the time Echo came back to the dungeon a little later in the morning, there were over 200 of the Orbs there for her to bring back to the village and her people.  It would’ve been even more, but 400 Energy Orbs (50 of each element) had been added to the Gnomes’ wagon to bring back to their own people, along with all of the other materials.

The Elf appeared to have fully recovered from her forced coma, though she didn’t look as happy as Sandra thought she would’ve been being outside of her dungeon.  It was probably because her people still hadn’t shown the same “warmth” towards her as they had before, though at least none of them had been outright rude like Wyrlin; however, the village Elder was becoming more and more insistent that Echo get more of the Energy Orbs from Sandra – or “your dungeon”, as she liked to say to the young Elf.  It was getting to the point where it was bordering on unfair harassment, but fortunately the Elder hadn’t risen to drastic lengths quite yet – and was likely to be mollified with the latest shipment.

“Thanks, Sandra – this will get Elder Herrlot off my back for a while…at least, I hope so.  As much as I appreciate these for my people, sometimes I wish you had never created them,” Echo said as she picked up the two large – and slightly heavy – bags full of Orbs and slung them over her shoulder.

* Why is that?  Don’t these help your people? *

Echo sighed heavily as she settled the two cloth bags so that they sat along her back more comfortably.  “Oh, absolutely – there’s no denying