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?]

over the rights to expanses and other regions that produce this kind of thing fiercely. They are rare and incredibly useful! Not to

I'm losing

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 through the staff would

[Ooo, that is handy.]

shields, swords, armour, or artefacts that would add

pointed out, [water as well as earth. Is

Double the offensive boost, double the defensive! This kind of material is

But what exactly can we do with it? I doubt there are any master enchanters hanging around the village currently, and the colony certainly doesn't have

Yet.

a few years? In my mind scenes of the great ant forges begin to appear, the cavernous halls under the earth where thousands of

Gweheheheh.

glorious within my

cool. The inevitable

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

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

for someone to train up those skills? Just how much

She shook her head.

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

this is why you want me to bring more up. The question I have for you is, what's in it for the

was also able to extract a promise from a curious Enid to engage in a knowledge sharing arrangement, where

more painfully shifting my legs one by one as shooting beams of agony rippled through my body with each