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

directional flow in the glowing rune pattern, which followed the same path the Gnome had taken to create the enchantment.  Looking at it for a few moments, Sandra was easily able to see where his finger started, where it went next, and all the way up to where it was finished.

“How does it do that?  Better yet, how did you know it would do that?  I’ve never seen anything like it before,” Violet asked in wonder as she too stared at the glowing rune.

* It was kind of a lucky guess, actually.  I hypothesized that the Stasis Field would capture the exact form of the enchantment before it sunk down into the material, activating it at the same time; however, I guess – and hoped – that it would capture the directional energy flow as it was created.  It turns out that I was right, thankfully. *

Sandra knew that it wasn’t just the way an enchantment rune looked like that mattered if it would work or not; it was how it was created that mattered almost as much.  That was the main reason there were very few simple runes that were recorded in books with detailed instructions; anything more complex had to be seen being constructed to know the proper way to craft it.

Temporary enchantments didn’t last very long, sometimes as much as a couple of minutes, so everyone was excited to see that the enchantment Jortor had made was still as strong and intact even ten minutes later.  As soon as they saw that, everyone except Violet crafted their own temporary enchantments on the Steel RRP, only stepping back when they were done.

Colors from every element except for the grey of Spirit encompassed the runes covering about a third of the RRP; black, yellow, green, red, blue, white, and brown represented Nether, Air, Natural, Fire, Water, Holy, and Earth, respectively. All in all, it appeared as though each of the Gnomes had been able to add two temporary enchantments that were best used on Steel; it wasn’t as though they couldn’t use other runes on the material, but they wouldn’t be as effective.  For her repository to make sense, Sandra thought it was best to separate the enchantments based on material, instead of by use or even by element.  She figured if she had the opportunity in the future, she would be able to make some sort of chart to cross-reference them all, but there wasn’t nearly enough in the room to need something like that…yet.

After conferring together, they all decided that Oak wood and – strangely enough – Copper were the two materials they had enchantments best for, so Violet created another two Stasis Fields on those two RRPs.  When she was all done, she sat down on the floor looking exhausted, while the others went to work placing enchantments – some permanent, even – onto the cylinders wherever they could.

During that whole process inside the Enchantment Repository, Sandra had her mind split up and work on another project.  It was simple at first, as she was only clearing away rock and dirt; which, when she really looked at how fast she could clear it away now compared to when she first became a Dungeon Core, she realized that it was nearly 20 times as fast…

“Yes, your Core Size does affect how fast you can clear out and create a new room; I had thought you would’ve realized that by now,” Winxa told her with a smile, taking any sting away from her words as she listened in on Sandra’s internal conversation.

That’s beneficial, at least.  By the time the Gnomes had finished enchanting all that they could – crafting just under 50 enchanting runes that were suspended in stasis, Sandra was done clearing her new room.  She looked over the RRPs and saw that most of the permanent enchantments she already knew; on the flipside, however, almost all of the temporary enchantment runes were new to her.  Overall, it was a great start to her Enchantment Repository.

Now it was time to repay the help they provided with something only Sandra could provide: a way home.

Chapter 29

A trip back to the Gnome homeland wasn’t an easy affair, however.  While Sandra could easily create supplies for them to take back, transportation – as she had told Violet earlier – was an entirely different affair.  Making wagons were easy enough; with her Mundane Object Creation skill, she could easily produce the components necessary to put them together.  The skill didn’t lend itself to just creating an entire wagon out of nothing as it technically had “moving parts”, but the simple components were easy enough to create out of wood using Mana.  All they had to do was put it together.

She created a 4-inch-thick, 5-foot-wide, and 8-foot-long wooden sheet of stout Oak wood to be used as the baseboard for the wagon, and then created 2-foot-wide planks that would attach to the side of it so that it would look like a large open-topped box.  Four inch-thick solid Steel wheels and two Steel axles rounded out the major components, of what was needed; they were a bit on the heavy side, but it was balanced out for the need to have something that could travel over the extremely rough terrain of the wastelands before even getting to the Gnome village and beyond.

There were other, smaller components that were needed, of course; long and short Steel braces for underneath the carriage, Steel pins to keep the wheels on the axles, Steel bolsters and clips, and other minor – yet important – parts.  She had spent an entire day watching a wheelwright and a carpenter making a wagon one day, though she planned on cheating quite a bit in the process compared to what they had to go through.  First off, she didn’t plan on attempting to weld anything, nor was she planning on having her constructs hammering