The Crafter's Dungeon: A Dungeon Core Novel (Dungeon Crafting Book 1) by Jonathan Brooks (literature books to read TXT) 📕

she was surprised by another notification that popped up in her vision.

New Monster Seed and Origination Material found!

Tin Ore

While Tin Ore can be directly used as a Monster Seed, it can also be combined with specific other materials to create a whole new Monster Seed.

Tin Ore?  Tin Ore…Tin Ore…why does that stir one of my memories…

There was something there at the edge of her mind, but the more she worried at it, the harder it was to grasp.  Sandra let it go for a moment, hoping that something later would help jog her memory.  She instead excitedly looked at what kind of Monster Seed she had found…and was disappointed.

It seemed that Tin Ore translated into a Tiny Tin Orb seed that was virtually identical to the Tiny Copper Orb.  The larger sizes were locked, but with a little application of Raw Materials and Mana, she was able to unlock the larger sizes through melding them together.

Monster Seed Origination

Name:

Raw Material Cost:

Mana Cost:

Min. Mana:

Max. Mana:

Tiny Copper Orb

50

5

5

10

Tiny Tin Orb

50

5

5

10

Small Copper Orb

100

10

5

25

Small Tin Orb

100

10

5

25

Average Copper Orb

400

40

5

100

Average Tin Orb

400

40

5

100

Large Copper Orb

800

80

5

200

Large Tin Orb

800

80

5

200

It was when she was watching two Average Tin Orbs combine together to create the Large version of the Monster Seed that the memory that she was trying to track down popped into her head.

When Sandra was 11 years old, she remembered watching a blacksmith in a small village to the far south of Muriel melt some locally mined ores down in a forge.  She was eagerly awaiting the chance to see him make some unusual triple-edged knives called a Cyclon; however, she ended up learning more than that during her visit.

Normally, she had seen blacksmiths plying their crafts with already-prepared resources, but the village she was visiting – she forgot the name, but she vividly remembered the crafting demonstration – didn’t have access to certain materials.  Because he was intending to use something a little harder and durable than the readily available copper and tin ore from nearby, the blacksmith needed to craft a new material.

By combining a small amount of melted Tin to a large quantity of melted Copper, he was able to make a Bronze alloy from the two metals.  If she remembered correctly, it was about 10% Tin to 90% Copper, which made a Bronze metal that was quite a bit stronger than either of the two base metals by themselves.  She was fascinated by the process, as she didn’t realize that creating the materials themselves could be a type of crafting.

Using this knowledge, Sandra created a Tiny Tin Orb and a Large Copper Orb and placed them next to each other separate from her hoard of Copper Orbs.  Concentrating on them intently, she attempted to infuse them with Mana like she did when she turned the walls to stone, imagining the two orbs fusing together.  She could picture it vividly in her mind – both the way they would meld/mix together and the different properties of the resultant Bronze metal; she grew excited when the two different metallic orbs started to glow with the infused Mana.

And, miraculously……….it didn’t work.

What am I doing wrong?  Does it need to be exact proportions?

Sandra used her new Mundane Object Creation skill to produce what appeared (to her mind at least) to be perfectly proportioned blocks of both Tin and Copper.  It was actually easier than she thought it would be; all she had to do was use her imagination to picture exactly what she wanted, and her skill automatically pulled the required Mana and Raw Materials.  What surprised her, however, was that the cost to produce non-Monster-Seed-blocks of the metals that were approximately the same size was significantly less.  It’s probably because I can’t use these skill-made blocks as seeds.  After a quick experimentation where she tried to use the larger Copper block to create a new construct, her theory was proved correct when it didn’t work.

Trying again with a better-proportioned quantity of the two metals, Sandra tried for over an hour and wasted at least 500 total Mana over that time trying to get it to work.  Unfortunately, nothing proved to be successful and she was ready to give up – when she suddenly had a thought.

What if I’m going about this the wrong way?

The blacksmith she had watched as a child hadn’t taken the easy route to create the Bronze he needed.  He didn’t have Mana like she did to help meld the two metals together; instead, he used his forge to melt the Tin and Copper down and mix them together with the tools at his disposal.

If I’m going to craft, I might as well start now.

After all, Sandra didn’t want to be just any old ordinary dungeon.  No, what she wanted to create was a crafter’s paradise.  A place with a vast variety of materials and tools available in order to create anything one could imagine.

A true Crafter’s Dungeon!

Yeah, I think that sounds good.

Chapter 15

Sandra split her attention from the expansion of her new room and her new project.  It was difficult at first, because she could only concentrate on one thing at a time; she was either absorbing new Raw Material and converting the walls of the new room to stone – or she was inside her Home, working on developing a way to start crafting.  After a frustrating hour of going back and forth, with neither of them progressing as fast as she wanted, she was wishing she could just split her mind in two places when something finally *clicked* in her head.

Suddenly, her concentration was split in two; one part was using her