Harvest Dungeon - 36 Chapter 36

I glanced back at the house only to notice that some things had been moved around. The house was taking up six tiles now two wide and three deep, while everything else had been shifted around to make room for it. It looked like a log cabin with dark brown tiles for a roof. I didn’t see any windows, but then again they weren’t really necessary.

After checking out the house I regarded Zephirah skeptically for a few moments, did she really believe that? I cared more about the house then the bed and shower. “What about my recliner, liquor cabinet, pool table, grill, ….?” I began then stopped as Zephriah gave me an icy cold look.

“Any idea what it is?” Selia asked Vanessa eagerly.

Vanessa shook her head as she walked over to Zephirah and I with the living water heart in her arms. It seemed to be nothing more than a ball of dense water the size of a volleyball.

“Then how should we get it identified? The kind of water it is can have a drastic effect on the plants we water it with.” Selia asked making a good point.

“Can’t you use your spells?” Elisia asked me.

I frowned then considered it for a moment. “I can try.” I agreed. The spell was a bit complicated as it asked the mana itself to identify the item. As far as I was aware the mana wasn’t conscious, but since everything gave off ambient mana to some degree, and that mana combined with the rest of the ambient mana that acted like a big blanket that covered all the worlds, we could gain information left in the mana from a similar source of ambient mana. It was a rough idea of how it worked, and I was skeptical of it, personally I thought there was a whole lot more to it, but none of that was covered in the knowledge I had. Despite that there was no reason not to try.

Summoning my mana I began to draw the runes out in front of me. As I completed each rune I commanded it to shift into place forming a circle on the ground in front of us. Then another circle inside the first, then a third, and finally the core formation made up the very center of the circle. It was complex and time consuming. When I was finished I was tired and a bit wobbly on my feet. The power needed for the spell was from the dungeon’s pool, but it still took a lot of effort to draw out each of the runes then place it exactly where it needed to be.

“Alright!” Zephirah cheered then a circular stone slab appeared beneath the rune circle I had just formed. Before I could say anything Zephirah took control of the spell while I was still trying to figure out what she was doing then overpowered the runes before lowering the whole circle onto the stone slab like we had with the capture stone before.

Then the runes disappeared leaving the stone slab with the rune circle imprinted on the surface. A moment later the stone slab was reabsorbed by the dungeon than a new slab appeared.

“Want to check it?” Zephirah asked.

I shook my head. “Grab one of those ore hearts we can afford to damage that.” I explained.

“No!” Selia retorted angrily then glaring at me then slithered onto the runic circle. “We can use this instead. No loss if it is destroyed or altered.” Selia said placing a small glass vial filled with a dark red liquid on the center of the stone. I had no idea where it came from. She had to have some kind of storage device on her somewhere.

“Do you all really not trust my work?” Zephirah asked sulkily.

“I don’t trust mine.” I stated honestly. “It’s the first time I have created such a complex spell.”

Zephirah frowned.

“It seemed fine.” Lilian supplied. “Surprisingly given how tired you were getting towards the end.” she added giving me a hard stare. “Very surprising.”

I frowned at her but was too tired to care what she meant. Slowly I was regaining some of my energy, but bedtime sounded better with every moment.

“Fine.” Zephirah said then charged the rune circle

As the mana poured into the runes on the stone slab Selia looked up at me. “Wasn’t that more complex than we really needed?” she asked.

I shrugged. “Probably, but all my training was in Runic Shift. I never needed identification spells in the game, so I never learned how to break the spell down. The game only provided a basic and complex version of the spell. I doubted the basic spell would have had any effect on a living water heart so I had to use the complex one. Give me some time and I can probably make less complex versions.” I told her.

“If I provided some mana charged ink and parchment, could you make them active spells?” Selia asked me her eyes glowing.

“Active spells?” I asked.

Selia groaned. “We can talk about it later.” Selia told me as the rune circle finished filling with mana. A moment later and the whole circle flashed a brilliant white before the stone crumbled into dust.

“Said it was a minor health potion that would slowly restore injuries by doubling the healing rate for a minute, or it could be overcharged and double that healing rate for an extra ten mana per second for up to one minute.” Zephirah told us.

“What?!” Selia screamed.

“Was it wrong?” Zephirah asked.

“No, except for that last part. No healing potion can do that!” Selia exclaimed.

I frowned then walked over and picked up the health potion then without much thought I pushed six hundred points of mana into the potion, after a moment it began to glow a bright red color.

“That is impossible!” Selia yelled as she peered up at the potion in my hand. I lowered it down for her to get a better look.

“Open it!” Selia commanded intensely.

I complied out of curiosity. Once it was open Selia struck like lightning swallowing the vial. She didn’t hurt me but I still jumped like a clown had appeared from the ground at my feet.

A couple of the girls laughed as I fell on my back, while the others watched Selia closely.

The amethyst cobra closed her eyes in contemplation. After several long moments she opened them again. “Elisia we should send word to our fathers. This is probably how the greater clans have been able to recover so quickly after a large battle.” she told the wolf seriously.

Selia and Elisia looked to Zephirah who looked to me.

I rolled my eyes but nodded. Doing them a favor wouldn’t hurt. If it was considered valuable enough we might even be rewarded.

Zephirah nodded then two white orbs appeared and floated to Selia and Elisia respectively. Each grabbed the orb in their mouths then took off away from the rest of us.

“What are the odds they are going to repeat the information about creating a living water heart as well?” Vanessa asked.

“High.” I replied. “How their families react will determine how we will interact with them in the future.” I replied.

“Testing them?” Rena asked as she moved to perch on Vanessa’s shoulder.

I nodded but didn’t elaborate. “Let’s set up another one for the living water heart.” I told Zephirah.

She nodded then created another one of the rune circle platforms. We placed the living water heart in the center of the circle then Zephirah started to pour mana into it. A few moments later and the spell activated.

“It is Invigorating Water. Charged with opposing elements it works to increase growth rate of plants and animals while increasing their reception to mana. Short term effects of drinking a cup of water is an hour long buff to strength, vitality, and wisdom. Long term is dependant on amount and frequency consumed, but includes permanent increases in strength, vitality, and wisdom.” Zephirah told the rest of us.

I could feel the excitement inside Zephirah, she seemed very happy about the living water heart.

“Seems like we can use it for almost all our plants, and the animals too.” Vanessa commented happily.

“Was that a fear?” I asked.

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“Yes, Seth had seemed to be taking a flame based route, if the living water had too much fire mana inside of it, something he would want for the blazing bulls, and silverfire chickens. We wouldn’t have been able to use it on our frost crops. This water is good for nearly everything, might even give them a boost and make then enchanted crops!” Zephirah explained to me happily.

I nodded. “That would be helpful.” I agreed. “So what do we do with it now?” I asked.

“Well, we can create another level, form a lake and drop it in that.” Zephirha told me.

“That doesn’t sound bad, but what are we actually going to do?” I asked sensing her reluctance to do that.

“Weeeellllll.” Zephirah stretched out the word hesitating. “I can reform the well and put it down there. Then maybe add some spells that will let us draw from the well wherever we need it. Maybe place some in small pools on the floors as a drop.” she suggested.

I groaned. “I thought we weren’t going to go that route.” I reminded.

“We don’t want to focus on it, but we might run into invaders that can make it through all of our defenses. Placing Invigorating Water into the well will make it very hard for them to get to, especially compared to a lake. Any powerful invaders that finds a lake of living water will search for the source. If they found Invigorating Water’s heart they would take it with them.” Zephirah replied.

I frowned but nodded. I didn’t understand the true value of Invigorating Water’s heart, but I could guess that it was a lot. It would hurt us considerably to loss it. “Fine, but I will add a few extra spells to the well before we place Invigorating Water into it.” I told her.

“What do you want to do?” Vanessa asked curiously.

“Make two wells. One on top of the other. The top pocket will have normal water, or if we can recreate or buy another water heart we set it up like it was. Then add another pocket under that one with Invigorating Water inside it. Short range teleportation to access the water when we need it. We can’t use it as a drop though. If we did, someone will look for the source.” I told them.

Zephirah was silent for a few moments. “I can recreate the water heart, it costs a lot though.” she told me.

“How much is a lot?” I asked curiously.

“Ten gold.” Zephirah replied.

I looked over to the other girls. Vanessa looked shocked. “How?” She asked.

“Should be Jason.” Selia said as she rejoined us.

“What?” I asked. “Can’t she recreate anything once she has the energy print for it?” I asked.

“Yes, but the more complex and powerful an item, or being, the higher the dungeon’s level needs to be to accomplish it.” Selia replied. “To make up for the low level she is leaning heavily on your knowledge of runes. Just as you can use the dungeon’s mana pool, the dungeon gets a boost from your powers and abilities. With your rune knowledge the dungeon can create items above it’s level for a greater cost of mana. Truthfully if we made a couple Nurture Water elemental hearts we could sell them for a couple of platinum each. The demand is always bigger than the supply for that kind of item.” Selia informed us.

“Why? If dungeons can reproduce them, why are they so rare?” I asked.

“Because normal dungeons do not operate like a farm or factory. While they might make them, they are used as prizes to entice adventurers and fools into the dungeon.” Selia replied.

I winced at the obviousness of it.

“First is money and small items, then greater amounts of money and nicer items, then when that isn’t enough, the dungeons use items you can’t buy with money.” Selia continued her lecture. “Like the dungeon lords we will have to be careful in how many we sell, if we sell too many we destroy the value of the item.”

I nodded, “I understand supply and demand.” I told her.

“Good.” Selia said.

“Make two.” I told Zephirah. “One for our well, the other can be used when we talk with the company.”

Everyone nodded.

Elisia returned a few moments later her tail wagging happily. “Father was very happy to hear about the potions. Said he would send something along to us later for the information.”

Selia seemed to wince. “My father is still weighing the value of the information.” she admitted unhappily.

I nodded but didn’t reply. “Let’s go in and see what Zephirah did to the house.”