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

it could indeed swing it faster and it didn’t appear too much lighter than the Steel ones it was using earlier.

The Titanium, however, was stronger and would hold up to the abuse it would likely see in battle; a few of the warhammers she had given her previous eradication force – before it was destroyed, of course – had started to show some damage and dents, though none of them had been rendered ineffective.  If Sandra equipped them with the new warhammers, though, they would probably be able to fight longer with the weapons before they failed under the extreme abuse they’d be under.  That was, of course, before she enchanted them.

She wasn’t exactly sure how to go about that yet, but she had plans; Sandra needed Violet’s help initially to get started because of the Dungeon Core’s inexperience, but she was hoping she’d be able to take over the enchanting after that with her Unstable Shapeshifters.  There were a few things she thought she could add to the weapons to make them more powerful – and suited to taking out the Undead Dungeon Monsters – though it was going to have to wait until the War Machine was done.

Speaking of that, since she was on a Titanium kick lately, Sandra started replacing all of the Steel components on the Gnome construct with new Titanium parts.  It was actually fairly easy since the structure was already there, she just absorbed the Steel sections one by one and placed the new metal in its place.  That took another couple of hours of quick work, and by the time it was done the inoperable War Machine was stronger and lighter – all it needed was the enchantments to make it operate.  The main thing that Violet was missing was the linking enchantment, which she was planning on working on the next day with Sandra’s input.

With the itch to craft with Titanium scratched, she turned to creating the Elemental Cubes in elements other than Fire and Spirit, which took another hour of intense concentration and most of her Mana; she didn’t have quite enough to unlock the larger sizes quite yet, but it was enough for her to at least have access to the smallest of them at the moment.

She was knocking things off her list one-by-one and she was feeling extremely productive; she was occasionally glad that she was a Dungeon Core sometimes because she didn’t have to sleep – she got so much more done than she would’ve otherwise.  Of course, that was before the thought that she was only in her current position because she had actually died and didn’t actually have a body to get tired – and that kind of made it a wash.

Next on her list was to complete the Lemon and Lime Fruit-producing Trees on her Transmutation Menu, as well as finally acquiring Redwood and Yew as usable wooden material; the trees required to unlock the two new fruits had fully grown a couple of days ago, but she had neglected to follow up with them.  After acquiring the two woods by absorbing a portion of the trees, she opened up the Menu and started to select the Lemon option…before she paused in shock. Some of the mysterious requirements were now visible and some of the verbiage was slightly changed.

Organic/Inorganic Material Elemental Transmutation Menu

Transmutation Options

Elemental Source Required (Size/Qty)

Mana Required

Additional Seed Material (Size/Qty)

Unlocked (Y/N)

Fruit-producing Tree Seeds

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Lemon

Air Orb (Large/5)

50000/50000

Redwood (Large/4)

N

Lime

Natural Orb (Large/5)

60000/60000

Yew (Large/4)

N

Coconut

Spirit Cube (Small/4)

0/100000

Ironwood (Large/6)

N

Elderfruit

Natural Cube (Large/5),

Holy Cube (Large/5),

Spirit Cube (Large/5),

Air Cube (Large/5)

0/1000000

Elderoak (Large/10)

N

Ambrosia

?????

0/25000000

?????

N

She looked at all of her options under the other categories and found that they were similar – with the new “Elemental Source Required” as one of the new Elemental Cubes she had just discovered.  In addition, the “Additional Seed Material” showed one of the now-accessible materials that had been revealed with the addition of the Cubes, such as Ironwood for a Coconut requirement; Ironwood was now available to unlock because it needed Titanium as an Additional Seed Material.

Organic/Inorganic Material Elemental Transmutation Menu

Transmutation Options

Elemental Source Required (Size/Qty)

Mana Required

Additional Seed Material (Size/Qty)

Unlocked (Y/N)

Metals

Titanium

N/A

N/A

N/A

Y

Platinum

Spirit Cube (Average/3)

0/5000000

Fire Clay (Large/6)

N

Orichalcum

Nether Cube (Large/7),

Water Cube (Large/7),

Earth Cube (Large/7),

Fire Cube (Large/7)

0/20000000

Ball Clay (Large/5),

Fire Clay (Large/5),

Kaolin Clay (Large/5)

N

Mithril

?????

0/50000000

?????

N

Fibrous Plant Seeds

Bamboo Seed

Natural Cube (Small/3)

0/75000

Yew (Average/2)

N

Ramie Seed

Natural Cube (Average/3)

0/100000

Ironwood (Large/3)

N

Clays

Ball Clay

Earth Cube (Tiny/3)

0/25000

Steel (Small/3)

N

Fire Clay

Earth Cube (Small/3)

0/40000

Steel (Average/3)

N

Kaolin Clay

Earth Cube (Average/3)

0/50000

Steel (Large/4)

N

Non-Fruit-Producing Tree Seeds

Ironwood Seed

Natural Cube (Average/3),

Earth Cube (Average/3)

0/500000

Iron (Large/7),

Titanium (Large/7)

N

Elderoak Seed

Natural Cube (Large/4),

Holy Cube (Large/4),

Spirit Cube (Large/4),

Air Cube (Large/4)

0/1500000

Steel (Large/10),

Gold (Large/10),

Titanium (Large/10),

Platinum (Large/10)

N

Magewood Seed

?????

0/5000000

?????

N

Ancient Silverpine Seed

?????

0/10000000

?????

N

Precious Gemstones

Topaz

Earth Orb (Large/6)

0/400000

Tin (Large/5)

N

Ruby

Fire Orb (Large/6)

268000/500000

Copper (Large/5)

N

Emerald

Natural Orb (Large/6)

0/1000000

Bronze (Large/5)

N

Diamond

Holy Orb (Large/6)

0/10000000

Steel (Large/5)

N

Moonstone

Spirit Cube (Large/5),

Air Cube (Large/3),

Holy Cube (Large/3)

0/20000000

Titanium (Large/15)

Platinum (Large/15)

N

Dragon’s Eye

Fire Cube (Large/8),

Earth Cube (Large/6),

Nether Cube (Large/4),

Natural Cube (Large/2)

0/50000000

Dragon Glass (Average/5)

Platinum (Large/20)

Orichalcum (Average/10)

N

Magistone

?????

0/100000000

?????

N

This is…unbelievable!  It appeared as though with enough time – and enough Mana – she could unlock nearly everything on the Transmutation list.  There were a few of the more incredible options that were still a mystery as far as what they required,