The Crafter's Dilemma: A Dungeon Core Novel (Dungeon Crafting Book 3) Jonathan Brooks (me reader TXT) 📖

I’d like to think that what I’m doing is for the good of their people, but the scenarios I thought of earlier might still come to pass.  If that happens, then I may have just hastened their extinction – rather than prevented it.

Chapter 10

Regardless of the results of what she was doing with the Elves, Sandra wasn’t planning on worrying about them for a while at least.  It was going to take some time for the original shipments of Energy Orbs to even make it to the Elven capital, after all; the possible visits by the “greedier and seedier” people Echo had mentioned probably wouldn’t happen for months, by her guess – which meant that she had some time to work on a solution.

Speaking of solutions, as soon as Sandra started to shuffle through the screens and screens full of possible Dungeon Monsters she could purchase with her Advancement Points, Violet (with very cautious help from Felbar) finally perfected control of the Limiter enchantment rune – and as a bonus had discovered how it could be easily altered in the future when it was part of an enchantment sequence.  That alone was impressive considering it had only been about two days since Felbar’s beneficial accident, but she had also begun to figure out how to use it in practical applications.

“So, I think that I can integrate the new rune into the enchantment sequence surrounding the Energy Orbs – the Spirit and whatever else we need to use for the power source – thereby altering the amount of elemental energy it puts out.  I can then tie it to the Stasis Field enchantment – without disrupting it, don’t worry – and regulate the power output so that it stays consistent to maintain the Field without overloading it.  You see, it has to do with the specific frequency modulation inside the Field that—”

* Whoa, you’re losing me there.  I may know a bit about creating these enchantments, but the highly technical aspects of them are still quite new to me.  Though it pains me to say it, perhaps if you try explaining what you’re saying like you would to a small child? *

Violet smiled at Sandra’s interruption and said, “That was me trying to explain it to a small child.  I’ll try to do a little better, though.

“Anyway, like I was trying to explain, the Limiter rune is much more versatile than any of us had first assumed.  Not only does it dictate the amount of energy passing through it – from very small amounts to extremely large amounts, as seen with Felbar’s accident,” Violet continued, looking apologetically in the older Gnome’s direction.  In his case, he still looked a little haunted from the experience, but he was hiding it well; Sandra thought it could be because his hair was starting to grow back, which was covering up a little of the physical evidence of his accident that was still left.

“What this obviously means – when we look at the Stasis Fields for example – is that we can dictate the precise amount we want the power-providing Spirit Energy Orb to feed into the enchantment.  Not only that, but there is a built-in feature that…hmm…how to explain this…copies the precise amount of energy being drawn out from the Stasis Field – or any enchantment, for that matter – so that it matches what is being fed to it.  Therefore, as an example, if a Field uses up one Spirit Energy unit per day, the Limiter rune will match that with an equal amount supplied; if for some reason that were to change, say to three the next day, it would match that as well.

“Ultimately, it all depends on how you set the original rune sequence up; you can set it up to resonate—match—the power input/output directly, or you can do it manually with a simple application of elemental energy that matches the Limiter rune element.  Just like Felbar used small infusions of Spirit energy to make a War Machine move, this new rune works in a similar fashion; by altering the access lines on the rune itself – which can be done even after it’s created – you can regulate the energy you want to transfer to the enchantment.

“As an example for that, we’ll use the simple enchantment that Felbar used the other day,” Violet said, mouthing “sorry” to the older Gnome – who started to look a little nervous.  “It was intended to warm up the space around him a little bit but was obviously overloaded.  With precise control, however, the new rune can change the temperature even by minute amounts – so that you can alter it to be very hot or even a milder warmth than the original enchantment by suppressing the energy used in its original creation, and of course anywhere in between.”

That was great news, because it meant that some of the plans she had for the War Machine were likely to work out beautifully.  However, something about what Violet said sparked an idea in Sandra’s mind.

* Does that mean the Limiter rune could be used with Energy Orbs that, say, you’re using right now to provide faster energy regeneration? *

Violet didn’t even have to think about that for more than a few moments.  “Yes, I’m sure that it could, though it would take…tying…it to a specific person for it to work.  Everyone has their own specific energy ‘aura’, which can act like an enchantment in some ways; by tying it to the ‘aura’ like I would do for an external enchantment, I think that would work the same way.  Then, by manipulating the access lines, a person could change it so that they receive more from the Orb than they normally would; of course, this would also consume the Energy Orb much faster than normal as well, but it could be done.”