The Crafter's Dungeon: A Dungeon Core Novel (Dungeon Crafting Book 1) Jonathan Brooks (sites to read books for free .TXT) 📖

Small little Elemental Orbs, on the other hand, were completely out of her experience.  The only knowledge she really had of the elements dealt with Enchanting, though that was more about applying elemental energies to positively (or negatively) affect objects using the Enchanter’s innate resources.  But this…this was like handling the raw energy itself, which seemed almost impossible to Sandra, even though she had been using the equally powerful Mana substance for almost two months.

Regardless of her hesitation, she was excited to try.  Taking Winxa’s instructions to heart, she imagined the same reddish Fire Elemental Mana she used to make her forge trap forming in front of her Core, on top of the – now that she really looked at it – massive mound of Copper, Bronze, and Steel orbs piling on the ground like some sort of treasure hoard.  The production of so many rooms had a lot of excess Raw Materials, and it was much easier to make another Seed Orb than to try to figure out how to use it inside the dungeon itself.

She was receiving quite a bit of Mana per minute from all of her constructs throughout the dungeon, which was nearly reaching the limit of what she thought she might earn from her dungeon.  The amounts had been going up very slightly with each additional room, but not significantly enough to be noticeable; nevertheless, by the time she wanted to test out her new skill, she had just over 50 Mana at her disposal – which she pumped straight into the Fire Elemental Orb she was trying to create.

The raw Fire Elemental Mana was a swirling mass about the size of one of her Large Bronze Orbs, but it just sat there while she looked at it, doing nothing.  She remembered from the description of the Orbs that they needed to be condensed down, so she imagined the Fire elemental mass condensing smaller and smaller, before the Fire Mana started to struggle in her mental grasp.  With a final push, she shoved it together even further, until it was smaller than even a Tiny Copper Orb.  Suddenly, all resistance against her control evaporated and Sandra mentally stumbled at the abrupt cessation.

New Monster Seed created using your Elemental Monster Seed Origination

skill!

You now have access to:

Tiny Fire Elemental Orb

Origination Raw Material Cost: 0

Origination Mana Cost: 50

Monster Min. Mana: 5

Monster Max. Mana: 25

Currently locked:

Small Fire Elemental Orb

Average Fire Elemental Orb

Large Fire Elemental Orb

She had no idea what the Fire Elemental Orbs could be used for, but that didn’t matter to her – she wanted to create them all.  However, before she went crazy and spent the next day or so creating Elemental Orbs from every element that she had access to, she remembered that she had also unlocked a new Dungeon Monster after upgrading to Core Size 10.

Another…interesting construct, but still not one that was going to help her craft anything.  For 2,000 Mana, she could create a Basher Totem, a four-foot-tall, upright hulk that was essentially four massive arms with closed fists on a large pole.  The arms could swing up and down and twist left and right, but its closed fists couldn’t hold anything – making it useless as a crafter.  It didn’t even have legs; it glided along the ground with no discernable form of momentum.

What it did do, however, was a lot of damage.  She brought it to her most recent room and let it beat on the stone wall there; after only two hits, the Basher had cracked the normally sturdy stone.  After a dozen, the wall started to crumble around her construct, and it was only her innate Dungeon Core properties that kept the room from collapsing completely.  The Totem took a bit of damage itself in the form of bent and scratched fists, but on the whole, it was still largely intact.  In light of its crazy power, Sandra placed it – and her Singing Blademaster – in the eleventh room as a deterrent against anything trying to get into her dungeon.

The only thing left she had to check before she got back to creating more Elemental Orbs and discovering possible applications for them was to explore her new Area of Influence.  Over the last few upgrades to her Core Size, nothing really interesting appeared to her senses other than more dirt and stone.  Since she couldn’t see anything aboveground, the nearly 1,000 feet she could now see wasn’t that exciting; but that all changed when she saw more than a dozen creatures at the farthest reaches of her senses.

They were four-legged beasts that appeared similar to a large forest bear, except for the fact that their faces had tusks like a boar.  She also noticed that they had claws that were extremely sharp, long, and looked to be straight out of a nightmare.    She estimated their forms to be about seven feet long from snub nose to stub tail, and from what she could tell, weighed about eight or nine hundred pounds.  Their coarse black and brown fur sat flat against their bodies like a layer of armor, and their jaws were so large that she thought she could’ve shoved the upper half of her old body inside them without much trouble.

Because they were technically underground, if only in a cave near the surface, she could see all those details; however, as soon as one got up and left, she lost all sense of it as soon as it passed through some invisible threshold that she presumed led to the surface.  Luckily, they didn’t seem to be aware of her presence, or it could be that they didn’t care about her like the Territory Ants did.  Either way, it didn’t appear as if they were wanting to surge toward her dungeon, though she was sure those claws could