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

When her Ape activated the trap, the heat from the Fire Mana caused the water/Cedar mixture to boil, creating steam laden with Cedarwood Oil to flow upwards through the Steel tube up above.  The nearly frozen water caused the steam to rapidly condense, falling as a liquid down the other side of the tube into the smaller drum.  The liquid was a mixture of water and Cedarwood Oil, so once enough of it was produced she unsealed the smaller drum, had her Ape take it to the smaller Steam Distillery contraption and pour it into the larger of the two drums there.

This was where she had to alter the traps a bit, because she needed to have the temperature be just high enough to boil the water away, while leaving the Oil behind.  After a few unsuccessful attempts, she finally found the correct heat temperature to get the job done; after all – or at least most – of the water was boiled away, she was left with some Crude Cedarwood Oil.

New Origination Material found!

Crude Cedarwood Oil

While Crude Cedarwood Oil cannot be directly used as a Monster Seed, it can be used as a material for use in the dungeon or other purposes.

It was a lot of work for just Cedarwood Oil – and Crude one at that – but she didn’t think she needed to refine it any more, especially for what she was going to use it for.  Creating some of her new Oil, she had some other constructs near her tanning room use it on the hides stretched across the racks.  The substance had two major benefits: one, it would moisturize the hide during the drying process, preventing cracking – especially with her earlier use of salt during the boiling process; and two, it would make the final Leather she made softer and more pliable.

The Leather she had been using up to that point was relatively stiff and would rot after a while if not taken care of, but with the Oil to seal the moisture inside while protecting it at the same time, she was hoping this Leather would qualify as “finished”.  Fortunately for all her hard work, she was rewarded with long-sought-after success.

New Monster Seed and Origination Material found!

Basic Bearling Leather

While Basic Bearling Leather can be directly used as a Monster Seed, it can also be used as a material for use in the dungeon or other purposes.

You now have access to:

Basic Bearling Leather Scrap

Origination Raw Material Cost: 75

Origination Mana Cost: 25

Monster Min. Mana: 25

Monster Max. Mana: 125

Finally!  The Leather she created was classified as “Basic” and that was fine with her; she knew there were other ways to finish off the material that would make it even softer and supple, or even change it so that it could defend someone wearing it even more – but she was happy with what she made.  All of those things could come later; the important point was that she could now use Leather as a material – which she used to help protect her Steelclad Ape from slowly melting when it got too close to the furnace with the Titanium warming up inside of it.

Using a basic glove pattern she knew from memory, she cut out a pair of gloves from her new available Leather that would fit her construct; however, she also added more Leather to the normal hand opening, creating long sleeves that would go all the way up to her Ape’s shoulders.  When it was finished, she hoped it would protect the hands and arms – the most important parts she needed for crafting – of the construct, but she knew that she was going to need something even more.

To protect it from even more heat, Sandra created a shallow stone bowl that was long enough to contain the entire glove.  In that stone bowl, the Dungeon Core turned to the boiling vats used to boil the hides used in the making of the Leather.  One of the byproducts of that process left behind in the vats was a sticky “glue” that was made from the prolonged boiling of the hides, from the random connective tissue that was removed from the actual skins.  It was a little difficult to remove from the vats – because it was very sticky – but once she collected enough of it, she managed to fill the shallow stone bowl with the substance.  Before it could dry, she had her Ape stick the gloves into it, coating the outside of them well and good.

Then, in another shallow bowl of the same size, she created very tiny granules of Dragon Glass – almost powdered, in fact – and then dipped the glue-covered gloves inside the bowl.  Soon enough, when the pair of gloves were completely covered in the black Dragon Glass, she had them laid aside and allowed to cure.  A few hours later, the glue had bonded to both the Glass and the Leather, creating an outer covering that would hopefully protect anything wearing them from the intense heat created by the forge.

Sandra controlled her Ape and tested out her new creation cautiously; after just under a minute of the glove being near the forge, it showed absolutely no ill effects from the heat.  A less cautious test had her actually placing her Ape’s entire hand inside the blazing hot forge and was rewarded for a similar result – though its body started to soften from being that close.  The only drawback to the gloves that she could see was that they were a little stiff from the added glue and Dragon Glass, but the strength of her construct made that almost a non-issue.

After she was done and happy with her crafting of a brand-new unique pair of gloves, Sandra belatedly realized that she could’ve