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

She didn’t have time for that.

Sandra had built her new room directly across from the hidden VATS access door in the tunnel after the second room.  All she did was cut out another tunnel going outwards from her normal defensive rooms and then created a large 200X200X30-foot room that contained a small forge – just in case – and a large area where she could start accumulating supplies to place in the wagons once they were done.  The first of which was just beginning to get assembled when the Gnomes had taken a ride up the VATS from down below and walked into Sandra’s new Assembly and Staging room.

She had created it so near the surface for one reason, and one reason alone: she couldn’t fit a wagon through her normal dungeon tunnels.  Winxa mentioned that most of the other Cores, when they got access to Dungeon Monsters such as the Ancient Saurians, they built another, larger tunnel leading from their Core Room to their first room near the surface, and then they just made their entrance tunnel larger.  They would then seal it off with a stone wall when they didn’t need it by using a bit of Mana, so that they wouldn’t leave direct access to their Core.  It apparently worked and didn’t violate any rules, because there was still a route to get to their Core through the regular defensive dungeon rooms.

That wasn’t something that Sandra wanted to even contemplate, however.  If, for some reason, an invader somehow got inside when that large tunnel was open, there would be very little stopping anyone from reaching her Dungeon Core.  And – unless you filled up the entire tunnel with stone – an invader powerful enough could potentially break down the stone wall and gain access that way.  Neither of those seemed like a great idea, so she chose to abandon any hope of moving her Behemoths out from far down below and instead opted to make it easier to reach the surface from the new room.  Instead of going through the main entrance, however, she created an exit that actually emerged inside the Bearlings’ old lair, though it was mostly hidden behind a hard-to-see turn in the stone wall surface.

Even if someone found it, all they would bypass in her dungeon were the first two rooms.  If that happened, though, she would move all of her constructs from those two rooms and fill up the third, making it much harder for anyone to advance down from there.  It wasn’t perfect, but it was the best solution she could think of.

When the Gnomes walked in after doing their best to fill up Sandra’s RRPs with enchantments, they found four Ironclad Apes holding different components together while she applied some of her Core abilities to fuse them together with an application of Mana and Raw Materials.  No hammers, no nails, and no welds were needed; in essence, it was cheating the crafting a little bit, but she was now on a time constraint.

Because she wanted to be done before the other Core finished its upgrade.  It was more than possible that as soon as it finished upgrading its Core Size it would send all of its Dungeon Monsters out again, making travel next to impossible.  It might take all night, but Sandra was hoping to have everything built and ready to go by morning.  The Enchanting might take a little longer, but hopefully not too long.

“What are they doing?  And how are they doing that?” Violet asked, as soon as she saw the pieces joining together without any obvious methods.

* They’re building a very nice, sturdy wagon to transport you and many of the supplies I told you I’d create for you.  You can see what I mean over there in the corner. *

Indeed, the rapid influx of Mana from her AMANS made it possible for Sandra to turn most of the Raw Materials she had absorbed from the creation of the newest room into supplies for the Gnomes to take back with them. There were bars of Copper, Iron, Steel, Silver, and Gold – all useful for different applications – stacked up in neat piles up against the wall, with Steel being the most numerous of the groupings.  Planks of pristine Redwood and Yew wood were stacked up in large piles, a few thin plates of Dragon Glass, and even some Skeins of Cotton Thread that she had just decided to spend some of those incoming resources to unlock were there.  When she looked it up, she found that it didn’t cost that much to unlock them all.

Monster Seed Origination

Name:

Raw Material Cost:

Mana Cost:

Min. Mana:

Max. Mana:

Tiny Cotton Thread Bobbin

15

10

10

20

Locked Seeds:

Unlock Requirements:

Mana Cost to Unlock:

Min. Mana:

Max. Mana:

Small Cotton Thread Spindle

2 Tiny Cotton Thread Bobbins

20

10

40

Average Cotton Thread Spool

4 Small Cotton Thread Spindles

80

10

160

Large Cotton Thread Skein

2 Average Cotton Thread Spools

160

10

320

The Linen Thread she could create was even less expensive in terms of resources, so she unlocked those as well and included those with the growing pile of supplies being held inside the room.  She first tried to use her ability to create the material, but it ended up in a large pile instead of an organized Bobbin, Spindle, Spool, or Skein like the Monster Seeds, so she ended up making the Seeds and using a few nearby constructs to transport them above.  They were relatively inexpensive even for the largest size, so it was no hardship on her resource wallet.

* As for how they’re putting them together, I’m using one of my abilities to sort of weld together the pieces, so that we don’t have to waste time with the construction.  Don’t worry about them, though; I need to know what I have to provide