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?]

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

losing

designed to channel certain 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 cast

[Ooo, that is handy.]

only that. You could make shields, swords, armour,

pointed out, [water as well as earth. Is that

important thing! Double affinity! Double the offensive boost, double the defensive!

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

Yet.

few years? In my mind scenes of the great ant forges begin to appear, the

Gweheheheh.

within my

Anthony. Play it cool. The inevitable ant future will

at me strangely. Dammit Anthony, don't let the ambition

importantly, we have Beyn to help guide us to unlocking the

take ages for someone to train up those skills? Just how much time do you think

She shook her head.

and with expert knowledge

for you is, what's in it for the

lions share going to the colony of course. I was also able to extract a promise from a

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. The journey only took four times as long as normal. I feel as if