The Crafter's Defense: A Dungeon Core Novel (Dungeon Crafting Book 2) Jonathan Brooks (large ebook reader TXT) 📖

they would be able to start moving and pick up some momentum with their massive heavy bodies, until they got up to “ramming speed” – which was essentially the speed of a quick walk.  Instead of trying to hit the enemy invader with a flail-tail, these three Behemoths would just run them over and smash them flat.

In the final space she made, five Behemoths were stationed in a large circular arena, where they were free to move about and attack whatever made it that far together.  It was simple yet she was hoping effective, as they were her strongest Dungeon Monsters; if someone was able to get through them, then there wasn’t much more she could do to prevent her demise.  Even her super-hot flame wall trap blocking the inside entrance to her Home probably wouldn’t stop someone so determined to reach her Core.

All in all, she was pretty happy with what she had created for her defense.  There were 17 fully trapped and defended rooms, each one deadlier than the last.  She was pretty sure that it could stop anyone or anything – but she was also hoping that she didn’t have to test that.  It was one thing killing the reptiles that had tried to invade her dungeon; it was quite another to kill any sentients like the Orcs that had invaded, or the Elves that were planning on attacking her as well.

There was nothing she could do about that quite yet, though, other than prepare for the worst.  Which, looking at her entire dungeon, she was pretty sure she had done.  She would still strive to prevent that “worst” from ever happening in the first place, but she was prepared if it should come knocking on her door.

Chapter 26

Compared to the growth of the Orange or any of the other trees Sandra had grown in her growing room, Cotton and Jute were relatively quick to grow.  She worked on harvesting them when she was in between finishing the traps in the rest of the rooms, and she was as done with them by the time she was finished with the defenses as she could be.

The Jute was the easiest of the two to handle, as it was a very similar process to the Flax plant when Sandra had been making Linen.  After the large stalks were grown enough that they began to flower, she had her Golems rip them out of the ground and use their clamp-hands to cut off the roots.  Then bundles of the Jute Stalks were brought into the boiling vat room to soak inside the constantly churning warm water there to start the retting process.  Easy as that – the rest would come later.

Cotton, on the other hand, was something she could see through to the end right away – though it took a bit of work.  Normally she would just have her Golems pick the cotton buds that bloomed on the plant, but they were a little more difficult to get to with her construct.  Fortunately, she didn’t need to keep the plants around afterward; instead, the Golems just ripped the plants all out and picked the buds off when they were more accessible.

From there, Sandra used them – as well as some Segmented Centipedes she had used previously on the Flax plants – to pick out the seeds and any other foreign elements.  Then – making sure she had plenty of Mana to throw it up again if she needed to – she took down her Home Fire wall trap and created 200 Clockwork Spiders, who went to help with the rest of the process.  When they arrived, they used their legs to start breaking up the cotton bolls, pulling them apart and making the densely packed buds light and fluffy.

From there, it was a simple process of combining the fibers into a single strand that used the same process as the Linen thread, where they would start as large strands and be trimmed down using a spinning wheel and into a fine thread.  When that was done, she finally had access to Cotton Thread to make into clothing at a later date.

New Monster Seed and Origination Material found!

Cotton Thread

While Cotton Thread 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:

Tiny Cotton Thread Bobbin

Origination Raw Material Cost: 15

Origination Mana Cost: 10

Monster Min. Mana: 10

Monster Max. Mana: 20

The Jute would be done at a later time, when the retting process was complete, but she had made good progress with her crafting and advancing what she had for material.  Cloth (soon to be made with the thread), leather, wood, and metal – four very important components to many of the crafting recipes she could make now.  There were other materials which would help, of course, but having those four staples meant that she could make quite a bit now.

Before she used her Mana to start anything else or unlock some of the larger sizes of her new Monster Seeds (Sapphire, Orangewood, and Cotton Thread), she checked out what other new options she had in her Transmutation Menu.

Organic/Inorganic Material Elemental Transmutation Menu

Transmutation Options

Elemental Orb Required (Size/Qty)

Mana Required

Additional Seed Material (Size/Qty)

Unlocked (Y/N)

Precious Gemstones

Citrine

Air (Large/6)

0/80000

Gold (Large/5)

N

Hematite

Spirit (Large/6)

0/100000

Silver (Large/5)

N

Onyx

Nether (Large/6)

0/200000

Iron (Large/5)

N

Sapphire

N/A

N/A

N/A

Y

Topaz

Earth (Large/6)

0/400000

Tin (Large/5)

N

Ruby

Fire (Large/6)

0/500000

Copper (Large/5)

N

Emerald

Natural (Large/6)

0/1000000

Bronze (Large/5)

N

Diamond

Holy (Large/6)

0/10000000

Steel (Large/5)

N

Moonstone

?????

0/20000000

?????

N

Dragon’s Eye

?????

0/50000000

?????

N

Magistone

?????

0/100000000

?????

N

Fruit-producing Tree Seeds

Apple

Fire (Average/3)

0/10000

Oak (Large/4)

N

Pear

Natural (Large/2)

0/15000

Maple (Large/4)

N

Peach

Fire (Average/3), Holy (Small/2)

0/20000

Cedar (Large/4)