The Crafter's Dominion: A Dungeon Core Novel (Dungeon Crafting Book 5) Jonathan Brooks (books that read to you txt) 📖

after an hour.  Whether that meant that it could stay that way forever was something she’d have to discover over time.

A few minutes later, she was ready to work, as the new Stable Shapeshifter had traveled up to the workshop and was ready to attempt one of the Personal Enhancement Enchantments.  Going through all of them in her head, she knew there were a lot to choose from; Silver-based PEEs were a lot more common than Gold or gemstone-based ones, after all, and additional work had been done with them to develop more variations over time.  In all, there were different options for each element as well as a few multi-element ones, though of course Violet could only create Spirit or Natural enchantments because of what she had access to; the others would have to wait, utilizing a different form for different elements.

Rapid Oxygenation (Air)

Enhance Smell (Air)

Enhance Hearing (Air)

Soothe Burns (Fire)

Lesser Heat Resistance (Fire)

Gradual Hydration (Water)

Lesser Cold Resistance (Water)

Tremorsense (Earth)

Enhance Taste (Earth)

Expel Necrosis (Nether)

Darkvision (Nether)

Rapid Healing (Holy)

Minor Invisibility (Holy)

Enhance Sight (Spirit)

Detect Illusion (Spirit)

Cleanse Toxins (Natural)

Cleanse Poisons (Natural)

Gradual Nutritional Sustenance (Natural, Earth)

Water Breathing (Air, Water)

Muffle Sound (Nether, Air)

Passive Healing (Holy, Spirit)

There were probably hundreds of different things that could be achieved with PEEs, but not all of them had been discovered when Sandra was alive.  It was quite possible that the Gnomes knew more than the Humans did, and she was excited to one day learn about such enchantments from their Master Enchanters – if they ever visited, that was.

Sandra ignored another grumbling, wordless rant from the Core shard in her mind.

With only a few to choose from while in Violet form, she concentrated on one that would be the easiest to test: Enhance Sight.  She could already look out from the eyes of Shapeshifter, so it should be fairly straightforward to confirm if it worked or not.

The basic rune sequence was fairly straightforward, as well.  By combining the Enhance, Transform, Visualize, and Activate runes together, she could make the PEE with relative ease; her experience making so many Energy orbs had improved her ability to string runes in sequence without too much trouble.  What made it a little different and required some planning was the fact that the rune sequence needed to be circular in shape, without any breaks, and flowed perfectly into each other.  The reason behind this was to both ensure that the enchantment continued to work at a steady rate, as well as concentrating and restricting it to the person in contact with the PEE.

It only took her a few moments to play around with her energy to design the appropriately sized rune sequence, and when it was ready she had her Violet copy pump in 1,000 of her 16,000 Spirit energy into the flat sheet of Silver.  She didn’t want to invest too much in it in case something went wrong and it exploded, but it also had enough to last long enough to test.

The energy flowed through the PEE, eventually settling into the Silver sheet as if it had always been there.  Perfect!  Not a single major flaw that I can see.  She critiqued her own work and saw a few spots where she could’ve tightened up the rune formation – especially on the Visualize rune that she hadn’t used much in her enchantments up to that point – but overall, it was a quality piece of work.

Without further ado, she carried the sheet of metal outside of her dungeon, before placing it on a shelf of rock at about chest-height on her Violet clone.  Sandra first looked around, determining how much she could see of the surrounding land, as well as how much detail she could make out on the ground around her.  When she thought she had a fairly good baseline of what she could see, she placed her hand on the Silver and activated the enchantment.

The difference was immediate.  Not only could Sandra make out objects at a farther distance than before, but when she looked at the ground, she could differentiate the smaller grains of dirt at her feet, as well as see differences in the stone that she hadn’t really noticed before aboveground.  It was almost as good as her own “vision” under the ground as a Dungeon Core—

The Enhanced Sight enchantment abruptly shut off as the energy contained within was expended after about 10 seconds.  The difference was even more noticeable when the enhancement wasn’t there, as now everything seemed to look blurrier than it was before; she knew that wasn’t necessarily the case, but it sure seemed that way in comparison.

Proof of concept was a success.  Now it’s time to see what I can do with some Energy Orbs.

Chapter 30

Using the same principles as she and Violet had developed to produce the multitude of spectacular enchantments used in many of the weapons, Enchantment Repository Pillars, and even the War Machine and Deep Divers suits, Sandra reabsorbed the flat Silver sheet and recreated it for the next step.  Using her Shapeshifter, she copied what she had done the first time, though this time she only placed a small fraction of her Spirit energy into it, 10 to be exact, in order to establish the rune sequence.

Before she finalized it, she placed two Tiny Spirit Orbs together with the Limiter rune connecting them on the outside of the circle made by the PEE sequence, and linked up the entire enchantment.  Letting it all go, she held her figurative breath and crossed non-existent fingers that it would work – and not explode immediately.  Fortunately, it didn’t—and now it was time to test it.

Not even bothering to take it outside, since she now had a feel for how it would work, she used the Violet copy to press the activation and held her hand to the