Spending My Retirement In A Game

Chapter 140 Flame Of The Earth Staff

[Low-Grade Mythril]

[Quality - Highest][Rank - 2]

[Infused Element - Flame of the Earth]

[Description] Silver that has been transformed through addition of large amounts of elemental mana. Through the particular element that has been infused, this metal absorbs large amounts of received shock, partially returning it back to its source.

"Huh? Isn’t that actually amazing?" Eisen muttered out in surprise after he read the description of this particular version of mythril.

"Mhm... that’s actually very amazing! So many people will want to buy anything made with this! For sure!" Bree exclaimed with a furious nod, and Eisen grabbed one of the small ingots that he placed into the tube. "Well, good thing I made a lot of these. If I’m not wrong, these would be amazing for tools and defensive items, as well as blunt weapons, right?" The old man muttered out slowly, before Komer looked at the metal with a frown.

"Really? How so?" He asked, and Eisen began to explain what he thought this meant.

"Hmm, let’s think about using this for tools first. Let’s say I make a hammer out of this, right? If I use this to hit metal I’m working with, not only will it absorb a large part of the counter-shock, which will definitely decrease the strain on your body and the control you have over your hammer, but it will also send back some force that may be, I don’t know, 20% of the initial hit, maybe. So in the end, I’m going to be able to use the hammer at 120% force compared to usual, while also being able to speed the process up a whole bunch."

"Ah, I get it! So then if you were to use it for a shield, it would bounce back some of the attacks hitting it?" Komer concluded after Eisen’s quick explanation, leaving him to nod in response.

"Yes, according to the material description, that should be it. But I wasn’t aware that Mythril was something that was infused with an element. I thought you said that mana-sources give out pure mana, right, Bree?" The old man asked, and the Fey-Kin girl scratched the back of her head.

"I mean... yeah, that’s how it is. Technically, they give out pure mana, but that pure mana is keen to absorbing elemental mana that’s around it. Usually that isn’t absorbed by materials, but Silver is a bit different in that, after all. It already has some magical qualities, which is why it’s so effective against undead monsters. But the mana that those sources give out is still technically pure, and it affects the surrounding like it is pure for the most part, but sometimes depending on the surrounding type of mana, stuff changes..." Bree explained with an expression that showed that she herself didn’t really understand how exactly that worked, so Eisen simply let it be.

"Alright, got it. It doesn’t matter in the end. I just need to figure out a way to properly use this while I’m making my staff now." Eisen told the group as he grabbed a few different materials that seemed interesting to him, such as a large piece of Elemental Wizard’s oak, multiple geodes formed out of Earth or Fire gems, as well as geodes formed out of mana-crystals. On top of that, Eisen also grabbed some of this new type of mythril, since the other metals were all of lowest-grade so far, and Eisen wanted to use the best materials available to him at the moment.

So, Eisen first began to work on the base of the staff, using the elemental wizard’s oak. Considering that it was literally completely petrified, he wasn’t able to just carve it like he would regular wood, but instead needed to use a chisel and hammer to basically sculpt it into the shape he wanted.

What Eisen went for was an aesthetically relatively simple shape, which was overall simply a straight staff with a spiraling body, as if someone took a pole and twisted each end into opposing directions.

Next, Eisen stepped outside of the carriage and created his Flame of the Earth forge in order to work with the mythril. It required around the same temperature to work with it as regular silver did, which was actually a tiny bit above the temperature that Eisen could currently achieve, but that simply meant that he had to use a bit more force and that it was a little bit harder to work with than it should be in perfect conditions.

The only thing that was needed to be done in order to forge this magical metal was that it needed to be forged in mana. Meaning that the metal constantly needed to be surrounded by a layer of thick, potent mana, which was happily provided by Bree with her giant mana-pool.

It was still harder to do than Eisen expected, and actually did a few points of damage to him each time due to the effect of ’returning the shock’ given to the metal, but in the end, that was a small issue for him that was quickly overcome with his techniques. Eisen formed this mythril into something like a bowl that could be properly attached to the top of the staff and reach down to about its halfway point by metal parts of it then being attached to the ridgets created through the ’twisting’ of the staff.

The bowl itself was there so that it could hold what Eisen was now about to create out of the gems and crystals.

What Eisen did first for that was to experiment a bit. The two types of gems that Eisen had picked out for the staff were the fire and earth variants, which had each turned into a particular form. It seemed as if the fire gem was in a gem state about halfway between the regular version of the flame of the earth and its full fire-version, while the earth gem was opposite of that gradient, being halfway between the regular version of the element and the full earth-version.

And when Eisen combined these two gem structures from inside the geodes, they turned into a gem that was about equivalent to the base version of Eisen’s element.

Now, Eisen combined these three different types of gems with the Flame of the Earth infused mana-crystals, so that he had three different types of crystals structures to work with. And what Eisen had planned for this was supposed to be visually relatively impressive, while at the same time being overall inconspicuous.

For that reason, Eisen made a few different small tools out of the regular Wizard’s Oak that he created the many staffs he made with. These tools were all the kind that you would use to sculpt clay, and the reason for that was quite simple. Eisen would use his transmutation through these small wooden tools by simply coating the tip of each tool with a thin layer of mana and then using them like he regularly would.

He had an idea like this before already, so that he could actually properly form mana crystals in a detailed manner and didn’t have to just ’imagine’ the shape that he wanted and control it with his mind somehow. "Doing something with my own two hands feels right in the end, huh?" He chuckled lowly as he looked at the different crystals-gem combinations he just made, fire, earth, and the base version, before building a small block out of the fire crystals to use as a starting-point.

Slowly, Eisen connected the different structures with each other, building the raw shape of a flame in the middle of burning its fuel, before adding a layer of the earth crystals on the outside, leaving ’cracks’ of sort inbetween the different chunks to create the general way that the flame of the earth element looked, like a flame made of earth with fire seeping through the broken areas in its surface.

After this small sculpture’s shape was finished, Eisen only needed to add one more thing to it, and that was an enchantment. He grabbed the enchanting marbles and quickly enchanted the crystal-flame with his Flame Of The Earth Skill, hoping that enchanting this part would be enough to properly make everything work.

Even though this main-part was now done didn’t mean that the whole thing was. A fire was not always a singular small entity, but rather the combination of the kindling flames that were spread around each other, whether they were on the ground or even floating in the air.

These small parts were then made out of the crystals created through the combination of both gems in a way that Eisen had also tried to figure out together with his son and grandson while he was offline, with one more array of enchantments, that actually wasn’t as complex as Eisen had thought.

Eisen sat down and quietly began working on the inside of the shallow mythril bowl that he would place the crystal flame into later. Carefully, he began carving away at this extraordinary material to create the enchantment circles that he would need.

The central enchantment circle was made so that it would keep everything floating directly above the bowl and so that it wouldn’t leave the immediate vicinity of it in the slightest. The concept of this wasn’t complicated, there was just a lot of mana needed in order to activate an enchantment with ’gravity’ as its core effect. But considering that Eisen would only need this to cast a few small spells here and there, it shouldn’t be too big an issue.

Then, there were two other enchantments, each one placed down twice around the core enchantment in a circle. One of them were supposed to take the material apart, while the other one was supposed to but it together again. And the material that would be taken apart and put together over and over again were the small crystal-gem combinations of the base flame of the earth element, which Eisen specified in the enchantments themselves.

This would create the illusion of the particles of flames that were floating around during an actual fire, or at least that’s what Eisen was currently hoping.

The last thing that Eisen needed to do now was to put everything together in a way that it could be properly activated, which was done simply by placing the small carved crystal-flame on the center of the mythril bowl and scattering the other crystal-gems around its base. With a little bit of transmutation, Eisen connected the crystal structures to each other so that they wouldn’t simply be lying loosely around the bowl, but this issue should be resolved from the moment that the enchantments are activated, as the smaller, outer-circle enchantments would only activate for one time of crystal-gem.

With a smile, Eisen looked at the creation with the crystal flames reaching to the top of his head, and nodded with a satisfied smile. "Alright, done." Immediately after Eisen acknowledged this item as such, multiple notifications popped up in front of his eyes.

[Flame of the Earth Staff]

[Quality - Perfect][Rank - 3]

[Description] An incredible staff that has been made by the Omni Craftsmaster Eisen. Its materials have been infused with immense amounts of Flame Of The Earth Elemental Mana and have been transformed into new materials bearing its traits. Any Magic of this element cast with this staff will be immensely strengthened, while magic of any other element will be repelled. Not even pure mana will be accepted into this staff.

[Effect] Immense Strengthening to Flame Of The Earth magic (+50% efficiency)

[Requirements] 100 INT; 100 WIS; Flame Of The Earth Skill Rank 3

[For creating an overwhelming quality item with the help of blacksmithing, you gain +1 STR]

[As Woodworking is outside of the five initially broken-through skills, you will not gain any bonus stats through it]

[Item’s requirements are above wielder’s abilities]

[As the wielder is the crafter of this item, requirements can be ignored]

[Due to being able to manipulate souls, it is possible to soulbind this item to you. One soulbound slot is available. Do you wish to proceed?]