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

end, she estimated that she had received somewhere around 60,000 Mana from the deaths of the six invading beasts, which equated to about 10,000 Mana per Bearling.

I could see it a little before when I was defending against those Ants, but the amount of Mana I receive from killing other creatures is just…ridiculous.

“Yes, and now do you see why other Dungeon Cores are so obsessed with killing everything in their path?  The speed at which they could raise their Core Sizes is scary, especially if they find a lot of beasts to kill.  And you haven’t even seen what you get from the deaths of a sentient race – it’s actually quite a bit more.”

Sandra never wanted to find out, because killing people was the last thing she wanted to do.  She couldn’t even imagine getting even more Mana, because what she had received from just the six Bearlings was enough to completely push her up to the next Core Size if she had spent most of it on upgrading.  To get to Size 16, it required over 50,000 Mana all told, which probably would’ve taken weeks or months to accumulate if she kept on with her crafting and dungeon expansion regimen; instead, she had received more than enough to finish the entire upgrade in less than an hour.

A quick check on the mysterious man showed that he was still unconscious, so Sandra left him there while she looked at the notifications that she had received during the battle that she had ignored.

New Monster Seed found!

Raw Bearling Meat

You now have access to:

Slice of Raw Bearling Meat

Origination Raw Material Cost: 200

Origination Mana Cost: 20

Monster Min. Mana: 30

Monster Max. Mana: 180

New Monster Seed and Origination Material found!

Raw Bearling Hide

While Raw Bearling Hide can be directly used as a Monster Seed, it can also be combined with specific other materials to create a whole new Monster Seed.

You now have access to:

Scrap of Raw Bearling Hide

Origination Raw Material Cost: 150

Origination Mana Cost: 15

Monster Min. Mana: 20

Monster Max. Mana: 120

Woohoo!  Finally, some hide that I can turn into Leather!  Leather was an important crafting material, but it was also a “finished product”, which meant that she couldn’t just create it through her Mundane Object Creation skill.  There were different techniques in the curing and tanning process to produce different kinds of Leather, which were used in a variety of applications.  Not only could she produce full-on Leather armor, but she also needed it to finish off many of the metal-based armors; straps, padding, and other accents were needed to properly complete them.  It was one of the reasons she hadn’t yet started to make them, as she knew she couldn’t finish them completely.

Leather would also add some finishing touches to the weapons she had been making, as there were a variety of ways to apply it to handle grips, not to mention scabbards and belts for holding them.  It was an all-purpose material, and she was glad that she finally had some access to it; unfortunately, she was still missing some components for certain variations of the tanning process to craft certain kinds of Leather, but she had enough to craft some basic things for use in other applications.

As far as the Raw Bearling Meat, she hadn’t thought about cooking – which was a craft in and of itself.  With many of the other products she could create, she could physically see the effectiveness of her work in the sharpness of a knife, or even the durability of an armor chestpiece, but with cooking, more than half of the process was tasting the end product.  Since she herself couldn’t eat (and therefore taste) – nor could her constructs – she hadn’t even considered it; now, however, she had the materials to at least cook something, even if she didn’t have anything to season it with.  And given that there was a man inside her dungeon that had obviously been hungry before he even arrived, she was starting to think she needed some way to cook.

Unfortunately, she still couldn’t do anything to change much inside her dungeon to build any type of kitchen.  Sandra briefly thought about trying to cook some meat on the forge far down below, but it wasn’t really wasn’t designed for cooking.  She supposed she could alter it a little, but again, she couldn’t really do that while the man was still unconscious up above.

Now that she had taken care of her other pressing matters, she figured she might as well decide what to do about him.  Winxa…what do you think I should do about him?

“Well, I can’t give you any advice – as you know – but I shouldn’t have to tell you that having a member of the sentient race nearby can be extremely dangerous.  In fact, he could be more dangerous than those Bearlings, as the races – even this…hmm…he appears to be some sort of mixture of maybe an Orc and a Dwarf – tend to be much more powerful than most wild beasts.  Like you, I don’t know why he was out here in wasteland you described above, but he probably didn’t come by to say ‘Hello’.  Given all that, it’s your choice: kill him right now, see if he dies on his own, help him recover somehow, or just drag his body back outside.  There are probably more options, but those are the most prominent ones I can think of,” the Dungeon Fairy told her.  Winxa had created another one of her small portals; instead of it leading back to her little Fairy World, or whatever, it went to the room where the man was lying down, so she could see him with her own two eyes.

A half-Orc, half-Dwarf?  That sounds like an interesting story.  Sandra knew she didn’t want to kill him nor let him die, given