The Crafter's Dilemma: A Dungeon Core Novel (Dungeon Crafting Book 3) Jonathan Brooks (me reader TXT) 📖

Cost listed on the notification didn’t account for her Advancements.  Still, almost 13,000 Mana for a Celestial Authority was quite a bit to spend on a Dungeon Monster that she wasn’t sure would work or not, but there wasn’t anything for that but to try them out.

Over the course of the night, she stopped the production of her Rolling Forces and the build-up of her AMANS (which was able to reach nearly its previous total); instead, she used the Mana she was accumulating on Steelclad Ape Warriors, Unstable Shapeshifters, and her new acquisitions.  By morning, she had managed to build her small army of constructs and Shifters back up to the point where they could go out and defend her entrance again if necessary, but not quite to the point where they could go out and start destroying the more-powerful Undead roaming around.  With the addition of her new Dungeon Monsters, however, that could change fairly quickly.

The Radiant Pegasus was a resplendently white horse that was 8 feet tall when it held its head straight up, with a 12-foot wingspan when it fully opened the feathered wings that could lie flush against its sides.  It was also capable of emitting a steady glow that seemed to infuse the air around it, extending up to approximately 15 feet on all sides; after looking at it closely like she could the Goblin Worker and Unstable Shapeshifter she had obtained earlier, she knew this was its special ability.

Radiant Pegasus

 

Current Elemental Energy:

Holy – 10000 energy

 

Special Ability:

Nether-negating Protection Aura: 2 Holy energy per second

It was an expensive ability at 2 Holy energy per second, but it could also last over an hour if it was kept on continuously; that could potentially extend if, say, she hung a Holy Energy Orb around its neck.  Sandra didn’t really have a way to test it without going into battle against something that would use such devastating effects against her Monsters, but if it worked the way it was supposed to then it could be a huge benefit.

The Pegasus wasn’t just a winged horse that had an aura, however, because it had some potential for offense as well.  She inadvertently found out – after she had it gracefully fly around her Home room a little – that it had trouble landing and stopping right away; this was in part because its hooves seemed to act essentially like small warhammers as they hit the stone of her floor, cracking the hard material as the Pegasus attempted to come to a complete stop just after landing.  Apparently, the winged horse needed some sort of runway to slow down after touching down after a flight to avoid breaking the ground; nevertheless, the lesson she learned was that it could certainly defend itself if it were attacked up close.

The Celestial Authority was unlike anything she had seen or heard of before.  Once she created it, she found that she couldn’t stare at it for more than a minute or so; it was a being of pure light approximately 5 feet tall that appeared very vaguely like a person – as in it had a head, two arms, and walked on two legs.  It held what appeared to be a longsword made of the same light in its hand, which seemed to be its main method of attacking.  Looking closer, she could see that it had other abilities that could be useful – expensive, but useful.

Celestial Authority

 

Current Elemental Energy:

Holy – 9000 energy

Spirit – 9000 energy

 

Special Abilities:

Divine Light Explosion: All remaining Holy energy

Arrows of Spiritual Ascension: 1000 Holy and 1000 Spirit

Of course, she had to test them – outside of her dungeon, obviously, with a name that contained the word “Explosion”.  She first tried the Arrows of Spiritual Ascension, which were interesting and powerful.  After telling the Authority to activate it, the being would reach inside of itself and pull out an orb of light in its hand; as soon as it had it in hand, the Angel would toss the orb ahead, which would immediately fracture into 5 equal parts and shoot forward up to 50 feet…sort of like arrows shot from a bow, though they spread out in a narrow arc.

The Divine Light Explosion – the Celestial Authority’s other Special Ability – used all the remaining Holy Energy it had left to…well, explode.  An extremely bright light – even brighter than the Angel itself – built up in the Authority’s form over the course of five seconds, before it shot out in all directions at once.  She didn’t really have anything near it to test how destructive it was, but furrows left in the barren dirt of the wasteland where she was testing it gave enough evidence that it was fairly powerful – and final.  After consuming all of its Holy energy in the explosion, the Angel was also consumed, leaving behind its Monster Seed in the process.

The last Dungeon Monster she acquired access to – the Rising Phoenix – was one that she thought would currently benefit her the most.  Unfortunately, it was also the one that caused the most problems for her.  The firebird was a lot larger than she had expected; at 12 feet long from wicked-looking beak to the end of its tail feathers and featuring a 25-foot-wide wingspan when fully extended, it was an impressive creature.  It was also burning so hot that it melted some of the smaller original constructs she still had wandering around in her Home.

That wasn’t too bad, however, compared to the nightmare of trying to get it up and out of her dungeon.  When the Phoenix didn’t have its wings extended, its body was relatively sleek, so it could fit down the tunnels – if just barely; the problem was getting it through the doorway to the VATS, which she had to redesign the tunnels outside the