The Crafter's Dominion: A Dungeon Core Novel (Dungeon Crafting Book 5) by Jonathan Brooks (e ink epub reader .txt) 📕

it; Jespin’s demonstration with the Copper-Mithril alloy demonstrated how little was needed for that metal, and the area that was affected by the energy was quite large.  The Steel-Mithril alloy that the Master Blacksmith was working with was quite different, however; from what she could see, the area that he could “work” with his application of energy was approximately the size of his hand, and it only lasted for a limited time before the energy pumped into the metal ran out.

The amount of energy that each little section required was quite significant, and Sandra could see why it would take the Master Blacksmiths days or weeks to complete a single set of armor and a weapon for Shieldmen.  Jespin, for instance, would’ve been completely out of energy within the first half-hour of his crafting if it hadn’t been for the constant replenishment from the Energy Orb embedded in his palm.

It turned out that the Titanium-Mithril alloy that Sandra chose was even more of an energy suck than Steel.  Not only that, but since the Titanium was even stronger than Steel normally, it was harder to shape even with Earth elemental energy applied to it.  Sandra was forced to have the Shapeshifter in the guise of Jespin wear the new permanent PEE necklace she had recently finished just to be able to have enough strength to hammer the metal into the shape she wanted.  Even with the constant regeneration from a pair of Earth Energy Orbs to replenish the energy used in the process, Sandra could tell the entire project would take days to finish at the rate she was going.

It’s too bad that I can only use one—

She was about to think she could only use one Shifter, but a thought occurred to her.  The Master Blacksmith had mentioned that the alloy “recognized” only a single signature of Earth elemental energy being used to manipulate it, but would that apply to her Shifters?  Theoretically, when they shifted into another form, they took on the same properties as the original sample – so would multiple Shifters be exactly the same, or just similar.  There was only one way to find out.

Creating another Stabilized Shapeshifter, she sent it inside her forge where the other one was currently hammering away at the metal alloy.  With a quick transfer of the “Jespin” sample form, Sandra now had 2 copies of the Master Blacksmith inside of the room.  With more than a little trepidation at what she was trying, she instructed her new Jespin copy to start manipulating the Titanium-Mithril alloy…and it worked!  She immediately started to whip up another permanent enhancement necklace, though this time she unlocked and produced the “Small” size of the Generator she needed, to see if there was a difference.

The Small Elemental Generator was twice the size of the Tiny one, which required a modification of the cage that contained it on the Gold necklace, but that didn’t take that long to achieve with her Goblin Crafter.  Luckily, she didn’t need to change the size of the Tiny Spirit Energy Orb used for the Limiter rune sequence, because it was more than enough to regulate the amount of energy flowing through no matter how large of a Generator was placed beside it.

Once she had it done, the difference was noticeable, but not dramatic.  While it wasn’t “double” the strength as the Tiny size, Sandra estimated that there was at least a 50% increase in speed and strength – which helped significantly in the alloy-shaping process.

Seeing the success of her experiment, and how she could use more than one Shifter as Jespin on her project, the Dungeon Core created another Shifter, and then another, and finally a fifth one to help complete the Deep Diver suit for Gerold.  She also experimented with an Average size of Generator for the next piece of permanent PEE jewelry, which barely fit on the disk of the Gold necklace itself.  She was hoping for an even greater increase in magnitude, but this time the increase she estimated was only 25% better than the Small size – the diminishing returns that she had expected were finally being seen.  Figuring that the increase to a Large Generator would only yield a small increase in magnitude, she didn’t bother to figure out a way to fit it on the necklace.

 With 5 Shapeshifters working on the suit at the same time, she reached the limit of what was viable without them getting in each other’s way.  While the suit was larger than the Jespin copies by a large degree, it wasn’t nearly the size of a War Machine. Added to the fact that everything needed to be shaped “by hand”, she couldn’t even cheat and use her Mana to fix anything or connect anything together – all for one simple reason: Sandra never acquired the alloy for use as an Origination Material.

She figured this was also why she hadn’t ever gotten a notification when she was consuming the Gravitational Devastation Sphere left over from using the construct, which had sucked up Gerold’s armor and weapon.  She thought at first that it was because that particular metal was “unique”, having been attuned to the Dwarf, and wasn’t able to be replicated; however, after absorbing the Copper-Mithril sheet that Jespin had first used to demonstrate the new metal’s capabilities, as well as a few other mixtures she played with before getting started with the Deep Diver suit, nothing with the alloy was available for her use.

Luckily, she was far from disappointed at not being able to “cheat”, because it put her crafting skills to the test.  Controlling 5 Shifters at the same time was a bit of a chore, but it paid off in the end; having manipulated a large block of the Titanium-Mithril alloy into an 8-foot-tall Deep Diver suit, she stepped back after 8 hours of intense crafting, the noise from their hammers almost deafening in their constant