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

of her concentration on the man in her care.  As much as she didn’t want to be responsible for his well-being, her instinctual “human” actions – instead of her Dungeon Core ones – had led her down that path.  And now she was attempting to up that responsibility, even if it meant putting herself into danger; the risk of allowing the mysterious half-Orc/half-Dwarf to live and have immunity from her Dungeon Monsters automatically attacking him was huge.

However, Sandra didn’t want to keep existing if she never had the opportunity to interact with anyone other than Winxa ever again.  Don’t get her wrong, she liked the Dungeon Fairy well enough, but there was only so much they could talk about; added to that, Winxa still liked to disappear for hours or days at a time, when the “boring” things were going on in the dungeon.  She could understand it, though; that was one of the reasons she was happy that she had discovered how to split her concentration so she could do exciting stuff like craft, while still doing the boring expansion needed for her dungeon at the same time.

Therefore, the plan she had to put the man on the “friendly list” was a little bit selfish, but she balanced it with the fact that it would hopefully save his life as well.  If something as little as a momentary inattention on her part could cause his death by some nearby constructs, then doing what she was going to do was for his benefit.

Just thinking, “put this man on the friendly list” or any other variation of that wasn’t working; she needed something more…permanent.  Sandra was thinking of putting some sort of mark on him that would identify him as friendly, but she hadn’t exactly figured out what it should be or even how to go about it.  Some surreptitious peering at Winxa to see if she had any identifying marks proved fruitless, so she had to think of something new.

Hmm…what would shout, “I’m friendly” to my constructs here, as well as my own Core – turning him from an invader to just a…visitor.  And it was that thought, more than anything else she had thought of, that led her in the first step towards achieving what she wanted.

Non-threat Visitors List

Name

Race

Elemental Access

Winxa Flamerider

Dungeon Fairy

Spirit

A non-threat visitors list?  Hey, Winxa – is your last name Flamerider?  And do you have access to the Spirit element?

The Dungeon Fairy was looking around in wide-eyed surprise, her mouth wide open in shock.  “H—How did you know that?  N—No one knows my last name, not even my friends.  What’s going on?  What did you find?”

Sandra told her about the list, and Winxa continued to be shocked at the revelation.  “I never knew that existed.  In fact, it probably shouldn’t exist; I think—” before she could finish her thought, the Fairy shut her mouth with a snap as her throat visibly tightened just a little bit.  “Never mind, forget I said anything,” she said when she could talk again.

Regardless of Winxa’s inability to expound of the presence of the list, Sandra knew it was the solution she was looking for.  Now she just needed to figure out how to add the unconscious man to it, without even knowing his name.

It was both harder and easier than she thought it would be.  The simple part to the entire process was that all she had to do was concentrate on both the Non-threat Visitors List and the figure of the man lying in her dungeon at the same time.  She visualized putting him on the list – even though, like she thought about before, she didn’t know his name – and it…kind of worked.

Warning!

Dungeon Visitor Bond unable to complete without the placement of a specific combination of elemental energies.

So I’m creating a bond?  And what does it mean about elemental energy?  She had her Mana, which could apply elemental properties to things like her traps but wasn’t quite the same as what a person could use to, say, Enchant something.  She reasoned that it was this “racial” elemental energy that it was talking about, but she nevertheless tried to visualize placing some of her Mana in the shape of Spiritual elemental energy on his chest, since that was what Winxa had access to.  Other than rippling his apron a little like a strong breeze had passed by, it did nothing.  She tried the other elements, and only ended up damaging the Leather apron with little tears and even a burn mark left from her application of Fire.

This doesn’t look like it’s working.  Sandra noticed that she didn’t even get that warning again, as if what she was doing was so wrong that it didn’t even register as an attempt.  But what other elemental energy do I have—

The Elemental Orbs.

How could I have forgotten those?  Sandra had at least one Large Orb of each element, which were thrown around haphazardly near her Core.  She had her Tiny Automatons search for them while she had her Small Armored Sentinel that usually did her crafting venture inside her Home room and grab them once they were all found.  Then came a lengthy process of the construct needing to travel to the top of the dungeon – I really need to make some sort of shortcut for my dungeon monsters to use – until it finally deposited the Orbs near the body of the man.

She instructed her Sentinel to place a Large Spirit Orb on the man’s chest, before moving away.  When she tried to create the bond again…she got the same warning she had received before – which felt like a success!  She thought she was on the right track, at least.

However, after placing the Orbs on the man one by one, nothing more happened.  She then thought that it might be all of them, since Sandra was