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?]

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 up. They sold high, I can tell you.

I'm losing

the effect. For example, if a staff where made for

[Ooo, that is handy.]

at my growing enthusiasm. [Not only that. You could make shields, swords, armour, or artefacts that would add that element to

it] I pointed out, [water as well as earth. Is

in my face, [is the most important thing! Double affinity! Double the offensive boost, double the defensive! This kind of material is extremely rare! In

any master enchanters hanging around the village currently, and the colony certainly doesn't

Yet.

of in a few years? In my mind scenes of

Gweheheheh.

within my

cool. The inevitable ant future will

Anthony,

you aren't wrong] the wily woman answered warily, [but we do have a few tradespeople, apprentices and, more importantly, we have Beyn to help guide us to unlocking the skills and classes related to shaping mana

to train up those skills? Just how much time do

She shook her head.

Dungeon and with expert knowledge to crack the unlock conditions, the only thing missing is materials to use for grinding

what's in it for the colony? The expanse is ours and we are the only ones able to go down there and collect

the colony of course. I was also able to extract a promise from a curious Enid to engage in a knowledge sharing arrangement, where the

one as shooting beams of agony rippled through my