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

Shapeshifter Dungeon Monster that I just acquired.  I’m hoping that it will allow me to craft, enchant, and hopefully even talk to the Elves so that I can convince them not to attack.  I probably should’ve warned you, but I was too excited to test it out to think how strange it must be to see something that looks like you appear before your eyes.  I apologize…but isn’t it neat? *

Neat is not the word I would use…creepy, maybe?  Disturbing… distressing… alarming… upsetting… frightening… those are much better words.  She didn’t say anything to that effect, though, as all she could do was stare in shocked surprise as the other Violet opened her mouth to talk – and a noise that sounded like some horrific combination of every beast she had ever heard before talking at the same time came out, startling both of them.  She took a step back as the mouth opened and closed multiple times and the same horrifying noise came out, making her even more frightened.

* Dang it!  Of course it couldn’t be that easy!  I guess that verbal communication is out of the question for now.  I wonder if it would be any different as an Elf—oh!  I’m sorry if I frightened you!  I had no idea it would sound like that; here, let me have the Shapeshifter change back to its normal shape because I can see that it’s making you uncomfortable. *

The other her suddenly lost its normal color and practically disappeared before her eyes as the form rapidly expanded, tearing the hole in the sheet even wider as it extended upward and outward.  In less than two seconds, it was looking as it had before it had touched her, and she had to admit that as strange as it was, she did prefer it to be in that form as opposed to her naked twin.

“Uh…please don’t do that again.  That was just too strange,” she said to the floating crystal sphere above her.  She heard another apology from Sandra and then a promise that she wouldn’t do it again.  “Thank you…but if the monster there can’t talk, what good will it do?”

* Oh, there is plenty that it can do; unfortunately, like you said, I can’t use it to talk to the elves, but there are other useful things I can think of it being able to do – crafting and enchanting, for instance. *

“How will that help?”

* Oh, it probably won’t, but we’ll see.  Meanwhile, I’ll keep looking for a solution to the communication problem. *

Violet sincerely hoped that she found another solution, because what she had just presented was liable to make the Elves want to destroy Sandra’s Core even more.

Chapter 39

Although she was severely disappointed that the Unstable Shapeshifter was unable to talk – at least as a Gnome – Sandra was still looking forward to seeing if she would have any more luck with enchanting than she did with the Goblin Worker from before.  Given that the new Dungeon Monster she had purchased for 5 AP cost a whopping 16,000 Mana to create (and had to use her last Large Steel Orb as its Monster Seed), she had been hoping that it had much more elemental energy to work with.  Fortunately, she was right.

Unstable Shapeshifter

 

Current Form: Base

 

Current Elemental Energy:

Air – 2000 energy

Earth – 2000 energy

Fire – 2000 energy

Water – 2000 energy

Nether – 2000 energy

Holy – 2000 energy

Natural – 2000 energy

Spirit – 2000 energy

 

Natural Ability:

Shapeshift: 0 energy

 

Special Ability:

None – adopts the special ability of whatever form it Shapeshifts into (if applicable)

Not only did the Shapeshifter have energy from every element, but when it changed into a copy of Violet, Sandra was able to look at it intently again and found that the elemental energy actually changed from what it was before.

Unstable Shapeshifter

 

Current Form: Gnome Female

 

Current Elemental Energy:

Natural – 8000 energy

Spirit – 8000 energy

 

Natural Ability:

Shapeshift: 0 energy

 

Special Ability:

None – adopts the special ability of whatever form it Shapeshifts into (if applicable)

Sandra had a feeling that the base form of the Shapeshifter had all the elements equally divided up based on its total, and then when it shifted into something else it would convert all that energy into whatever was able to be used by the form.  She also figured if she were to use some of that energy while in a certain form, the remainder would be equally divided up again.  The only question now was whether she needed to shift in the first place in order to enchant something.

Instead of going and getting another knife to enchant like she did with the Goblin Worker, she instead just created a flat piece of Steel that would work well enough for a basic enchantment and had it lie on the floor.  Thinking of the simplest enchantment rune she could remember, Sandra concentrated on bringing forth a little Earth-based elemental energy and…found that she didn’t really have any appendages to direct the energy.  Taking full control of the Unstable Shapeshifter to better direct the flow, the creation of an arm, and at least a single finger revealed – at least in part – why it was called “unstable”.

First, directly controlling the new Dungeon Monster felt like she was dizzily spinning around and around until she started to feel like she was getting a headache (or mindache).  Second, whenever she deliberately tried to create some sort of appendage – when she could focus enough to do so – the arm (or whatever you wanted to call it) would stay solid for about five seconds before it dissolved back into the mass of multi-colored solid goo that comprised the Shapeshifter.  Third, when she quickly tried to call forth Earth elemental energy before her arm went away,