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?]

from the Dungeon are treasured and worth just as much as cores. Nations fight over the rights to expanses and other regions that produce this kind of thing fiercely. They are rare and incredibly useful! Not

I'm losing my

the effect. For example, if a staff where made for a water wizard with materials that were imbued with water

[Ooo, that is handy.]

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

double elements in it] I pointed out,

important thing! Double affinity! Double the offensive

So it's great stuff. That's nice. But what exactly can we do with 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

Gweheheheh.

glorious within

cool. The inevitable ant future will arrive in

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

[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

someone to train up those skills? Just how much time do

She shook her head.

By accelerating level growth in the Dungeon and with expert knowledge to

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

down to a bit of 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 a promise from a curious

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 chamber. The