The Crafter's Dominion: A Dungeon Core Novel (Dungeon Crafting Book 5) Jonathan Brooks (books that read to you txt) 📖

Goblin Crafters to making additional armbands and necklaces, without the Orbs attached to them.  Sandra would embellish them later; as long as their main forms were completed, she could worry about that at a different time.  She was pleased to find that all it took was a simple order and imparted vision of what she wanted them to do – and the Goblins did it without needing Sandra’s partial concentration.

Alright, Winxa – what do you think about this?  The Dungeon Core explained her problem with so many different Energy Orbs weighing down the necklace, or armband, if she chose to put multiple enchantments on there.

Winxa was silent for a moment as she tapped her fingers against her lips, deep in thought.  “Hmm,” she finally said, talking out loud to herself.  “I know that the easy answer would be to have an Elemental Orb that has more than two elements associated with it, but that is obviously impossible….”

Sandra stopped listening to what the Fairy said next, because she was fixated on the first part.  Stop.  What?  Why is that impossible?  Sandra hadn’t even considered it before, because the thought of two different elements combined into one was strange to her.  Though, the more she considered it, it wasn’t so strange…was it?  There were many, many people who could manipulate two or more elements, after all, and she’d heard of Cores having access to more than one, even if there weren’t any around the wasteland right now.  There were spells that combined two or more elements, enchantments that did the same—so why not her Elemental Orbs.

She pulled up her Core-specific Skill again, remembering that it had evolved from its original purpose when she had discovered she could make an Elemental Cube.

Advanced Elemental Monster Seed Origination

(Core-specific Skill)

The Advanced Elemental Monster Seed Origination skill allows the Dungeon Core to condense Elemental Mana into condensed objects.  These Elemental objects can be used as Monster Seeds or in other unique applications.  Requirements: Mana.  (Skills are permanent and remain even after a Classification change)

Thinking back on the original Skill description, Sandra remembered that it had said something along the lines of “…condensing Elemental Mana into small orbs of a single element…”  When compared to the evolved Skill, however, she noticed that the stipulation of it being a “single element” was gone; she had been so excited to have created a larger Cube object that she had completely missed the change.

“Well, I suppose it is impossible if you haven’t done it already, right?” Winxa asked, confused.

It’s only impossible if I’ve tried it and couldn’t get it to work, Sandra replied, mentally smacking herself in the forehead.  Now that I know to try it, however, I think I might be able to—

Unexpectedly, her focus was ripped out of her control as the Core shard came back to the forefront of her mind with a vengeance.  What’s going on?!

While her control was gone, she was fortunately still aware of everything around her; she hadn’t been shoved back into her mind’s deep corner as she had been before.  As a result, she knew exactly what had happened: One of the nearby Dungeon Cores had finished its upgrade and the expansion of its AOI triggered the shard to take control.

With an enormous force of will, the “conscience” part of Sandra struggled to take control for a few moments, sending out messages to the Shieldmen and Rangers that the Cores were coming back up and to be ready.  Fortunately, she was fairly confident she was able to deliver those communications before she was forced to take a backseat to her actions.

Chapter 32

The Golem-Classification Dungeon Core was the first to awaken from the upgrade, and Sandra was immediately on guard.  Luckily, there were a lot of defenses that were set up to prevent a full-scale attack right away, though Sandra would’ve preferred to pre-emptively attack to head off any assault.  Looking aboveground by using these tiny wooden and leaf spiders that seemed to have infested the entire forest, she saw that the Dwarves she had Bonded to were preparing for any type of attack, and the Elven Rangers were on guard.

Good – she didn’t want to have to worry about them.

At first, the anxiousness she was feeling towards an attack overshadowed the rage she held towards the Cores; as soon as the attack came, all anxious feelings were entirely wiped out as her anger shot to the surface again.  For some reason, though, it didn’t feel as all-consuming as it had before, and the reddish glow tinting her vision was barely even visible.  Regardless, her dedication and zeal towards making the other dungeons pay for what they had done was still as strong as ever, and she was focused on every little move they made so that she could counter it and find a weakness she could exploit.

The Golem Core attacked in the connecting tunnel with only a few Dungeon Monsters at first, a trio of the weaker Mud Golems.  They squelched as they walked, dripping mud from their bodies as they moved, though it quickly disappeared and reformed back on their forms.  It didn’t take long for it to reach the first one of the defensive rooms that had been constructed at some point, and Sandra eagerly waited to see what would happen.

Nothing.  Well, nothing until the first one passed the trap trigger in the room, where an intense gush of flames shot down from the ceiling, roasting the 3 muddy Monsters with super-heated fire for all of 3 seconds.  As the flames disappeared, the Mud Golems were left standing in place, the mud that comprised their bodies almost completely dry.  Before they could start to recover and regenerate from that, moistening up the dry dirt so that they could move again, 5 Weighted Rolling Forces rolled into the room from the tunnel and slammed full-speed into the 3 dried-out Golems.

They shattered into