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

Monster Seed Origination

Name:

Raw Material Cost:

Mana Cost:

Min. Mana:

Max. Mana:

Tiny Fire Elemental Cube

0

1600

300

800

Locked Seeds:

Unlock Requirements:

Mana Cost to Unlock:

Min. Mana:

Max. Mana:

Small Fire Elemental Cube

2 Tiny Fire Elemental Cubes

3200

300

1600

Average Fire Elemental Cube

4 Small Fire Elemental Cubes

12800

300

6400

Large Fire Elemental Cube

2 Average Fire Elemental Cubes

25600

300

12800

She couldn’t quite unlock the largest of the Fire Elemental Cubes, but the others were more than easy enough to do.  However, before she did that, she needed to get back to Violet with the solution to their longevity problem. By her simple calculations, if a Large Orb was going to last for a year, then with twice as much Mana inside a Tiny Cube it should last for 2 years.  Following that same logic, a Small Cube would last for 4 years, and an Average Cube would last for 16 years!  The Large Cube – which she of course couldn’t produce quite yet – would be even better at 32 years, but the 25,600 Mana it would take to unlock and create more of them was too expensive—

Or…was it?

She did have some AP to spend, and she had been going back-and-forth on what to spend it on. Some quick glances at the multitude of Dungeon Monsters she could purchase for her use hadn’t shown anything that stood out quite yet, though she had only been half-heartedly perusing the lists; Sandra would still have some left over even if she spent the Points on something else, so she could still find a few new Monsters later.  The only thing that she had to reconcile in her mind was whether it was worth it to unlock the Advancements she was considering; after some consideration, she decided that it was worthwhile in the long run, not just for the project with the RRPs, but for the future as well.

As a result, Sandra spent 45 of her AP to purchase the two Advancements that reduced the Mana Cost of her Monster Seeds by a total of 30%.  After another strange alteration in her Core that felt like a small tickle that time, she pulled up the cost of her new Cubes – and mentally smiled when she saw that the Large Fire Elemental Cube now cost only 17,920 Mana – down from the previously unobtainable 25,600.  Better yet, she still had 33 AP left to spend from the 78 she just had, so there was more than enough to still get 6 Dungeon Monsters if she chose to do that.

Without hesitation, Sandra brought forth 1,600 Spirit Mana and worked to condense it into a small cube, which she found was much easier and faster than her original Fire Cube – probably because of experience and knowing what to expect.  She had to wait a little to acquire enough Mana to unlock the larger sizes, which was easy enough with what she currently had and another hour of accumulation.  In just under two hours since she started with her experimentation, she now had what she wanted – a way to ensure the Rune Repository Pillars and their Preservation Barriers/Stasis Fields would last for decades.

To say that Violet was surprised was an understatement, as one of her constructs delivered a Large Spirit Elemental Cube that was half of her size – and about a third of her weight.  “What?  How?  Where?” she asked, too shocked to form coherent questions.

* I was able to create these Large Spirit Elemental Cubes to help provide the longevity needed to keep the Fields intact for approximately 32 years, if your guesstimates are correct. It’ll take a little bit for me to make more, but by the end of the day I’m hoping to have this entire room filled with more RRPs – and their Stasis Fields, of course.  Let’s see if your theory works! *

Sandra was excited to finally see everything they had been working on come to fruition.  As much as she enjoyed crafting with materials – mundane or otherwise – she was most passionate about Enchanting, and with these final components in place her Enchantment Repository would be set up and complete!  When it was, she was hoping that with enough practice, she would be able to finally transfer all of the knowledge she had in her mind to the pillars, creating a place where anyone could learn how to enchant everything she had knowledge of – as well as add new ones that were discovered.

The process of enchanting the new Cube took a little bit for Violet to figure out because of its sheer size, but a half hour later saw it finished – with a Limiter rune inserted into the enchantment sequence. As a test, Violet created a small Stasis Field and had Felbar help her move it into position; with the amount of Mana/elemental energy that the Cube possessed inside of it, an accidental overload of one of the larger Fields would be…catastrophic might be putting it a little lightly.

Holding their breath, they pushed it up against the small Field – and nothing bad happened: no explosions, overloads, or indications that it wasn’t operating perfectly.  Through her experimentations over the last few days, Violet had “attuned” herself to the flow of energy pouring out from the Energy Orbs and into the enchantments; as such, she was able to sense the tiniest trickle of energy coming from the Cube, keeping the enchantment intact – and stable, which was more important.

Without further ado, they cautiously moved the new Cube with its accompanying Large Spirit Energy Orb (for operating the Limiter rune) next to the nearest RR and connected it to the Stasis Field there.  They immediately stepped back out of the way and Sandra had one of her Steelclad Ape Warriors step up next to it; her