Chrysalis

[We need more of this. As soon as you can get it.]

…

[Uh, okay? Maybe take it out of my face a little so I can see it?]

An unusually forceful and intent Enid is waving something in my face with shaking hands. As soon as I waddled my way into the village someone had gone to fetch her and the normally dignified older lady had arrived at a dead run, her skirts hiked up with one hand and the other clutching this, object.

As she withdraws the object slightly I can see that it is, as suspected, the mana infused wood that I delivered to Beyn a day or so ago.

[Ah. Finally got your hands on that did you? So what is it?] I enquire.

[It's mana infused wood.]

[I can see that plain as day! What is it good for?!]

Enid huffed with her hands on her hips.

[Well that's a different question, isn't it?] she held the branch tenderly in her hands, like a newborn babe, [this wood has absorbed the plentiful mana of the Dungeon and taken on the attributes that surrounded it.]

[Yeah?]

over the rights to expanses and other regions that produce this kind of thing fiercely. They are rare and incredibly useful! Not to mention valuable. In the past I dealt with some things like this that my husband managed to bring

I'm losing my

types of mana, materials like this will amplify the effect. For example, if a staff where made for a water wizard with materials that were imbued with water mana, any spell

[Ooo, that is handy.]

shields, swords, armour, or artefacts that would add that element

this wood has double elements in it] I pointed out,

Double affinity! Double the offensive boost, double the defensive! This kind of material is extremely rare! In Liria, anything

it? I doubt there are any master enchanters hanging around

Yet.

smarts, who knows what they'll capable of in a few years? In my mind scenes of the great ant

Gweheheheh.

glorious within my

Play it cool. The inevitable

strangely. Dammit Anthony, don't let the ambition be

tradespeople, apprentices and, more importantly, we have Beyn to help guide us to unlocking

how much time do you think we have to

She shook her head.

take as long as you think. By accelerating level growth in the Dungeon and with expert knowledge to crack the unlock

want me to bring more up. The question I have for you is, what's in it for the colony? The expanse is ours

course. I was also able to extract

shooting beams of agony rippled through my body with each step, I made my way