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?]

They are rare and

losing

of mana, materials like this will amplify the effect. For example, if a staff where made

[Ooo, that is handy.]

make shields, swords,

has double elements in it] I pointed out, [water as well as

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

any master enchanters hanging

Yet.

knows what they'll capable of in a few years? In my mind scenes of the great ant forges begin to appear, the cavernous halls

Gweheheheh.

within my

Play it cool. The inevitable ant future will arrive

strangely. Dammit Anthony, don't let the

more importantly, we have Beyn to help guide us to unlocking the skills and classes related to shaping mana infused

how much time do you

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 conditions,

The question I have for you is, what's in it for

materials, the lions share going to 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

return to the nest and check 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