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

the Citrine she had seen enchanted, and that was by one of the best Enchanters alive – among Humans, at least.

The issue with short durations for all PEEs wasn’t the material, but how much elemental energy could be pumped into the initial enchantment.  There were limits to how much energy a person could hold, and she had to admit that Humans paled in comparison to what an Elf could contain within their bodies – though, to be fair, they lived much longer than Humans naturally, so they had more chance to develop themselves.  Based on the Elites that had invaded her dungeon, she extrapolated that some of the oldest and most powerful Elves could probably pump 30 minutes’ worth of that Minor Deflection Shield PEE she had seen being created.  Quite a bit of a difference, to be sure, but the fact of the matter was that they were still limited to minutes.

With a couple of energy orbs, however, Sandra thought she could extend that to hours or even days.  On a larger enchantment, utilizing Energy Cubes, she thought that she could perhaps make something that lasted for weeks or months.

The potential was practically endless – so she might as well start experimenting now.

Sandra started in her endeavors by creating a large, thin, square sheet of Silver, approximately 2-feet square; it was a lot larger than she needed, as the enchantment rune sequences were designed to fit on small objects, but she wanted to make sure she perfected the practice before she went small-scale. Also, since this was something that she hadn’t attempted before, the Dungeon Core thought it was prudent to do it far enough away from her Home that she didn’t have to worry about destroying anything important, and her upper workshop worked perfectly for that.

 To do the enchantment sequence, she was going to need one of her Unstable Shapeshifters, which had primarily been stationed down in her lower Forge area near her Home room, where they could safely enchant Elemental Orbs to turn them into Energy Orbs. It was the best place she had found for them to work, since it was near her Home and treasury (where she was storing the complete Energy Orbs for now), and it wasn’t in the same room as her Core – so if something went wrong, she would likely be safe.  Not that she expected anything to go wrong, as she had enchanted so many Energy Orbs by that time that she could truthfully call herself a Master at that particular enchantment, but it was better to be safe than sorry.

Before she sent one of them up, however, she thought about the changes to her Advancement Creation Options.  She had already seen some of the changes her monsters had undergone from the increase in her Advancement Level, but there was one that might come in handy right about now – if she understood what it meant.  The Unstable Shapeshifter had changed into a Stabilized Shapeshifter, and it was time to see what that meant.

It didn’t take long to create one of them in her Home room, and at first she was slightly disappointed.  All of her other constructs and Advancement-gained dungeon monsters had obvious changes, either growing smaller and sleeker, or larger and deadlier—but not the Stabilized Shapeshifter.  If it was any larger or smaller than its predecessor, Sandra couldn’t tell, but its multicolored amorphous mass looked exactly the same as it had before.  It was only when she concentrated on it and pulled up some information about it that she saw the difference.

Stabilized Shapeshifter

 

Current Form: Base

 

Current Elemental Energy:

Air – 4000 energy

Earth – 4000 energy

Fire – 4000 energy

Water – 4000 energy

Nether – 4000 energy

Holy – 4000 energy

Natural – 4000 energy

Spirit – 4000 energy

 

Natural Ability:

Stable Shapeshift: 0 energy

 

Special Ability:

None – adopts the special ability of whatever form it Shapeshifts into (if applicable)

Other than the monster having twice the amount of energy for each element that it used to, the only other difference was in its Natural Ability: Stable Shapeshift.  After ordering it to move into the Forge where the other Shapeshifters were still enchanting Energy Orbs, she had it acquire the necessary patterns from her original Shapeshifter, who she made sure was kept safe at all times.  After collecting a little crop of blood from all of the Dwarves living in her dungeon, as well as all of the Orc mercenaries, she had acquired their patterns; her Shapeshifter was now carrying over 100 different Elvish, Dwarven, and Orcish patterns – which was basically everyone she had bonded with.  The only ones that hadn’t been acquired were all of the Elven Rangers and Elder Herrlot, as she hadn’t had the time to acquire them while they had briefly stopped by her dungeon to Bond.

Thankfully, even though they were two different monsters, they were alike enough that the patterns could be communicated.  That was more than good news, because without the ability to create the Unstable kind anymore, to have to start over would’ve been very disappointing.

As soon as she shifted into Violet, her favorite form for when she was Enchanting using Spirit-based enchantments, she could immediately sense a difference.  Whereas before she felt that the forms were only temporary – and they were, lasting only an hour before they reverted to their base form – she sensed that the shift in form was much more…permanent.  Instantly worried, she had the Shapeshifter shift back into its base form and sighed in relief.  I wouldn’t want it to become limited to just one form, after all.  It took about 5 seconds after reverting to its non-shifted form to shift into another one – Echo this time – but that wasn’t that big of a deal; overall, Sandra thought that the “Stable” part of its ability just meant that it wouldn’t revert to its base form