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?]

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

what?!] I'm losing my patience

like this will amplify the effect. For example, if a staff where made for

[Ooo, that is handy.]

make shields, swords, armour, or artefacts that would

in it] I pointed out, [water as

the stick with vigour in my face, [is the most important thing! Double affinity! Double the offensive boost, double

it? I doubt there are any master enchanters hanging around the village currently,

Yet.

they'll capable of in a few years? In my mind scenes of the great ant forges begin to appear, the cavernous halls under the earth where thousands of teeming artisans

Gweheheheh.

within

Play it cool. The inevitable ant future will

was looking at me strangely. Dammit Anthony, don't let the ambition be quite

wrong] the wily woman answered warily, [but we do have a few tradespeople, apprentices and, more importantly, we

up those skills? Just how much time do you

She shook her head.

growth in the Dungeon and with expert knowledge to crack the unlock conditions, the only thing

bring more up. The question I have for you is, what's in it for the colony? The expanse is ours and we are the only ones able to go down there and

haggling and eventually worked out a distribution deal for the crafted materials, the lions share going to the colony of course. I was also able to extract

in on my class of hatchlings. Once more painfully shifting my legs one by one as shooting beams of agony rippled through my body with each step, I made my way back to my chamber.