The Crafter's Darkness: A Dungeon Core Novel (Dungeon Crafting Book 4) by Jonathan Brooks (e book reading free txt) 📕

her that the Warbands sometimes treated everything they saw as their possessions, and weren’t afraid to take what they wanted.  While her constructs weren’t all-powerful, they were a good deterrent from a group of orcs trying to take what wasn’t theirs.  That, and she had already stationed over 1,000 of her Reinforced Animated Shears a mile above the village; if the worst happened and a Warband started to threaten the villagers there, she could bring the flying constructs down with incredible speed – and anything they hit would suffer some serious, if not fatal, damage.

The second thing non-supply-related she was sending along was one of her Unstable Shapeshifters.  She created one specifically for the purpose of being sent out, and if it were destroyed (which hopefully wouldn’t happen) it wouldn’t affect the number of them she still had in her dungeon.  When it approached the village, she would have it shift into the shape of Echo; along with a set of clothes identical to what the young Ranger wore, the Shifter would be the “Elven” representative there to drop off the supplies.  Since there was no verbal communication possible between them, she would have to get creative in how she relayed the messages she would need to get across.

In order to get the entire Slab out of her dungeon without having to carry everything up to the top, Sandra simply unblocked a portion of the 30-foot-thick stone wall covering the entrance to her Roc tunnel.  From there, it was easy enough for her stone Slab to journey slowly through the miles-long tunnel to emerge in the wastelands, where it then floated steadily yet leisurely towards Grongbak with its passengers and supplies on board.

While she waited for that to happen, which she estimated would take about an hour, Sandra busied herself with finishing up the plundering of the two collapsed dungeons in Orcish territory.  After her Hyper Automatons brought everything useful back to the large tunnel and therefore part of her dungeon, she was able to see what kind of haul they had unearthed.

She was happy to see fragments of the two Cores that were destroyed, which appeared to be similar in size to the Reptile-Classification Core she had already salvaged.  The Undead Core was the odd one out with the size of its shards and pieces, but that made sense; it had upgraded its Core Size quite a few more times than the others, therefore it was larger.  In addition, the number of Monster Seeds that were recovered was only in total as much as she had plundered from the collapsed Undead dungeon – but that was fine, because once she absorbed all of the smaller Seeds, she estimated that it was worth about 400,000 Mana.

There were some surprises, however; instead of there being any gemstones like Sapphires or Onyx, neither the Avian nor the Unicorn-Classification dungeons had anything like that.  Instead, they had something else that they were using for their high Mana-cost Dungeon Monsters; she wasn’t sure where the two Cores had gotten them, but Sandra didn’t hesitate to absorb them to add to her available Monster Seeds – and materials.

New Monster Seed and Origination Material found!

Sulfur

While Sulfur can be directly used as a Monster Seed, it can also be used as a material for use in the dungeon or other purposes.

You now have access to:

Tiny Sulfur Cube

Origination Raw Material Cost: 1000

Origination Mana Cost: 400

Monster Min. Mana: 400

Monster Max. Mana: 800

New Monster Seed and Origination Material found!

Magnetite

While Magnetite can be directly used as a Monster Seed, it can also be used as a material for use in the dungeon or other purposes.

You now have access to:

Tiny Magnetite Cube

Origination Raw Material Cost: 1200

Origination Mana Cost: 600

Monster Min. Mana: 600

Monster Max. Mana: 1000

She was glad that she only absorbed the smallest version of the two new Monster Seeds, because she also ended up unlocking the Small and Average sizes since she had those inside the pile of Seeds plundered from the other dungeons; no Large yet, but what she had acquired was more than she had before – so she was happy.  Sandra wasn’t exactly sure what she wanted to do with Sulfur and Magnetite quite yet, but she had some ideas for the future.

After unlocking those Seeds, she realized that she had been neglecting finishing off the rest of what she could unlock through her Transmutation Menu.  Things had been so hectic with dealing with the Undead-Classification Dungeon Core and the aftermath that she had barely given it any thought; after looking at it, she wished she hadn’t ignored it for the last week or so.  Not only that, but she also saw that the two Seeds she had just acquired brought up a brand-new category: Assorted Minerals.

Organic/Inorganic Material Elemental Transmutation Menu

Transmutation Options

Elemental Source Required (Size/Qty)

Mana Required

Additional Seed Material (Size/Qty)

Unlocked (Y/N)

Metals

Platinum

Spirit Cube (Average/3)

0/5000000

Fire Clay (Large/6)

N

Orichalcum

Nether Cube (Large/7),

Water Cube (Large/7),

Earth Cube (Large/7),

Fire Cube (Large/7)

0/20000000

Ball Clay (Large/5),

Fire Clay (Large/5),

Kaolin Clay (Large/5)

N

Mithril

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0/50000000

?????

N

Fibrous Plant Seeds

Bamboo Seed

Natural Cube (Small/3)

0/75000

Yew (Average/2)

N

Ramie Seed

Natural Cube (Average/3)

0/100000

Ironwood (Large/3)

N

Clays

Ball Clay

Earth Cube (Tiny/3)

0/25000

Steel (Small/3)

N

Fire Clay

Earth Cube (Small/3)

0/40000

Steel (Average/3)

N

Kaolin Clay

Earth Cube (Average/3)

0/50000

Steel (Large/4)

N

Non-Fruit-Producing Tree Seeds

Elderoak Seed

Natural Cube (Large/4),

Holy Cube (Large/4),

Spirit Cube (Large/4),

Air Cube (Large/4)

0/1500000

Steel (Large/10),

Gold (Large/10),

Titanium (Large/10),

Platinum (Large/10)

N

Magewood Seed

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0/5000000

?????

N

Ancient Silverpine Seed

?????

0/10000000

?????

N

Precious Gemstones

Ruby

Fire Orb (Large/6)

268000/500000

Copper (Large/5)

N

Emerald

Natural Orb (Large/6)

0/1000000

Bronze (Large/5)

N

Diamond

Holy Orb (Large/6)

0/10000000

Steel (Large/5)

N

Moonstone

Spirit Cube (Large/5),

Air Cube (Large/3),

Holy Cube (Large/3)

0/20000000

Titanium (Large/15)