Chapter 209

Chapter 209

Once Inux was unconscious again, he left to find everyone else, specifically Abrus and Pelenia to beg a favour.

They, along with Thera and Falk, were in the living room, talking over drinks, though with a dark atmosphere above them. It was his teacher who first spoke up when he entered, trying to be supportive.

“Come to terms with everything you needed to boy?”

“Sort of. I spoke to him about it, it was what he expected from the start so I don’t think he was bothered, but we want to try one last thing.”

“Boy, there’s nothing you can do,” Falk gently told him. “I know you aren’t one to give up on something so easily, but you’re gonna burn yourself out.”

“I know there’s nothing I can currently do, but I have a single option to buy enough time to figure something out. If it works then it will give me decades to either come up with a solution or pass on the task, and if not... Well, it’s an option with a lot of finality to it, if it doesn’t work he’ll be dead.”

The room's mood only darked more as Falk only nodded. “If he’s agreed and is gonna pass soon anyway then I won’t try to stop you. Could you use a hand?”

“Unfortunately it’s pretty dependent on having at least a bit of knowledge on how to seal a soul so I’ll have to do it myself. I’d like to buy a few materials for it if that’s alright?” He asked Thera’s parents, getting a nod from Abrus as Pelenia spoke up.Ñøv€l-B1n was the first platform to present this chapter.

“What will you need?”

“A fists worth of mythril, half as much white mana crystal, and an orichalcum knife with the sharpest edge you can make me.”

“Alright, we’ll provide you with all of that, but in the future, we’ll ask you to make us something to the best of your abilities, agreed?”

“Sure, sounds like a deal,” He said, breathing a small sigh of relief. Even though Abrus was able to make them with his mana, he knew the cost of materializing something was high, all the more so for magic materials. He’d been expecting to pay a heavy price, a trade like that was nothing. “In that case, I’ll just need a hand bringing him down to the work area.”

“Alright, Abrus dear, give him a hand carrying him down, I’ll get the materials you need from storage.”

With everything decided they parted ways, each off to fulfill their own task.

By the time they’d brought Inux down, Pelenia had already come by with the materials he’d needed, leaving Abrus the last task of changing a lump of orichalcum into a razor-sharp knife with his magic.

The greatest benefit of the metal was that it could only be affected by magic so any cuts made with it wouldn’t dull the blade, but to be sure that no mana had the chance to either he applied all of his resistances with his enchanting, before heating up the forge to begin warming the mythril and cutting the white mana crystal to the shapes and sizes he’d need.

Once the mythril was heated enough he took it out and began hammering, working to get the shape as perfect as he could given what he could already tell of Inux’s core. Without cutting him open to see it, he could only base it off the arrangement of the enchantments coming off of it. He’d likely have to make some modifications when he actually saw it, but by then time would be of the essence, he wanted to at least have a close framework to build upon before anything else, a container that would hold it as well as it possibly could before moving onto the next step.

God, I wish I could grow more hands. Things are about to get hectic.

He took his god’s advice, putting everything down to focus solely on his breathing. He’d only get one shot to do everything right the first time, if he panicked, if his hands weren’t steady, if he made a single mistake it would all be pointless. All he could do was try and relax while devoting his entire focus to his task.

Trap userTree tamerCraftsman- alchemy pathCraftsman- artistic pathCraftsman- blacksmith pathCraftsman- cooking pathCraftsman- stonecrafts pathCraftsman- sewing pathHereticHoly craftsmanKinTankMathematicianFractured mind userAdventurerCursed item makerHigh craftsmanHigh enchanter

Previous Jobs: Apprentice craftsman, Craftsman, Priest, Enchanter, Mind user, Magic item maker, Magic weapon maker

Attributes:

Vitality: 191Vitality recovery rate: 2/hrMana: 130Mana recovery rate: 7/minStrength: 197Agility: 85Stamina: 705Intelligence: 396





Affinities:

Light: 3Life: 2Fire: 4Water: 3Air: 4Earth: 2Death: 3Dark: 1Space: 4Time: 5





Resistances:

Light: 68Life: 72Fire: 75Water: 69Air: 66Earth: 81Death: 78Dark: 85Space: 63Time: 61





Blessed skills:

Crafting lv8Enchanting lv7Focus lv7





Passive skills:

World speak+Tolerance lv2Sacrilege lv3Complex mind lv4BindPartial demonic bodyDefense enhancement lv1Parallel thought lv2AmbidexterityAbsorption resistance lv0Enchanting knowledge lv3

Active skills:

Dismantling lv4Stealth lv1Connect lv7Hidden mind lv5Calculate lv3 Knife wielder lv0Hammer wielder lv0Meditation lv1Cycling lv0Marksmanship lv0

Blessings

Myriads BlessingAnailias Blessing

Trials

Trial of Anailia and Tolona

Okay not that I’m complaining, the fact I just got enchanting knowledge with the job is fantastic, but why was it at the third level already?

It was an incredible boon to him to receive with the job. When almost all of his goals depended on improving his enchanting, a knowledge skill related to it would do nothing but help, he just couldn’t understand getting it at anything other than level zero. At the very least he’d never heard of such a thing. Luckily for him, his god was still around to shed some light on things.

Wait, then don’t I have the complete opposite issue now? I have enchanting at the seventh level, why would my knowledge only be at level three?

He didn’t have any illusions that he didn’t still have plenty to learn, but only being level three felt low considering all he made and knew how to make, with his god seeming to agree.

Awesome, thanks Myriad.

With his job change done he looked down at the container in his hand. He’d done all he could hope to for the time being. It was time to go home.