Dungeon Life 3: An Isekai LitRPG by Khenal

Author:Khenal [Khenal]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Podium Publishing
Published: 2024-12-17T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 52

Violet and I spend quite a bit of time just watching the babies hatch while I keep moving most of the mana into the alliance pool. I mentally label it “Violet’s college fund,” and hope I’ll be able to designate it as officially hers later. For now, I should focus on the baby scythemaws.

The basic solution on what to do is fairly simple, at least: keep doing what we’ve been doing. The maws have been going through this for quite some time, and it’s been working, so we should mostly just try to stay out of the way. Still, Violet wants to take a bit more of a direct approach in making sure they get to the water, so I suggest a few expeditions.

She’s a bit nervous about that, too, but if she wants something done, she should do it. She should be capable of handling it. The aquifer lakes themselves are a bit beyond what she can patrol, but the passages between her and there are mostly safe. Her denizens should be able to handle anything they stumble upon.

I feel her trying to organize as I watch her scions work to do what she wants. Onyx is sticking close to the nests, even though the babies aren’t trying to dig their way out just yet. I think she wants to both protect them and get a better look at them once they get moving. The other scions are being a bit more surprising.

I was expecting Cappy to be the one preparing to organize some expeditions, but I think Nose is going to be the one handling that. A little mushroom pops up in the metalworks as Legs and Jello both work to make a pair of little digging gauntlets for the mole, and Nose seems to split his attention between it and the two scions making gear for him.

I can only assume Cappy is giving him whatever intel he has available on those tunnels, and Nose is more able to focus and listen once Legs and Jello are done measuring him. They get to work, shaping and sharpening, and I notice Legs is taking a bit of a back seat to making the gloves. He does some basic work and a few fine adjustments, but most of it is being done by Jello.

I can feel her burbling away happily through the bond as she works, and her technique is a lot different from Legs’s. He mostly uses an anvil and hammer, as well as the small heating forge to shape the metal. Jello seems to act almost like a hydraulic press, simply brute-forcing things into shape inside herself.

I’m glad to see her putting the shaped pieces into the heating forge once she’s done bending them, too. Cold-working metals like that, especially steel, can introduce stresses. While it’ll be harder, it will also tend to be more brittle. But a nice, gentle heating and cooling treatment will let it relax. The sharper pieces will need to be tempered later, but that comes mostly at the end, once you have the shape finalized.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.