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Imbuing Vital Surge required the spell be reconstructed in an external arcane matrix that would then be embedded and anchored within the intended enchantment target.
Translating the spell into the arcane matrix at Master rank was incredibly easy, the knowledge of Kytaligan showed him the simplest transcription process and he felt as though he could jump immediately into without exploring the process but he deliberately slowed himself down. He performed a last minute risk assessment, double checking the matrices forms and functions, everything looked good.
Six held the spear before him and prepared it for the enchantment.
This would only incorporate the Rune of Control. One could always activate it by infusing it with a drop of mana but the rune would be more effortless and intuitive, activating with just a thought, not to mention it wouldn’t require mana to activate. But, each rune in the array would add to the final mana cost.
He carved that rune into the shaft of the spear with the mana from his finger but was careful to not actually infuse the object, only carving away. Once again it was incredibly natural to perform the craft. He knew there were many imperfections but far fewer than he had once been making, improvement would come with practice, not to mention he lacked the proper tools. Still, the rune was acceptable and would function reliably.
It was time so Six withdrew several mundane mana cores. He held up a finger and began to extrude mana, painting the form of the arcane matrix with one continuous stroke of his digit. While being created the matrix had been inert, but when the stroke connected with itself the ritual became alive. Mana moved along the lines of power and it almost breathed in time with Six.
That had cost him 122 mana, leaving him with a headache and ten mana remaining. Six dragged the construct toward the spear, compressing it along the way, and then slowly went to push the matrix inside the weapon. As it began to sink within Six received a prompt.
You are attempting to enchant a Common Mundane Iron Spear with a Vital Surge. This will require 167 mana and two Mundane Common Mana Core to complete. No suitable reagent detected. Would you like to begin this enchantment now? Yes/No?
He could have used a blood branch but he wanted a very clear life effect so he kept it simple.
Now, at nine mana remaining this would have been impossible with the paltry mana pool that Six carried but he could always draw from his health. At skill level 6 Blood Casting was returning 1.24 mana for every 2 health spent so If he spent 500 of his 517 health pool he could gain approximately 310 mana. This basically gave him an effective mana pool of 442, not that he would spend his entire health pool in combat but it definitely opened up options in terms of his crafting. An option he drew upon now, burning his own blood to create the arcane power needed for the next stage.
Six had to have his mana flowing constantly to manipulate the matrix. The imbuement process was painstakingly slow as he had to give the material time to accommodate the new flow and alignments of mana within. Too fast and the item could break. Six carefully sunk it within and then sank the anchor points with mana. Little knots of mana that helped set it within the item and give it stability.
It was almost done. He felt the resonance, as he adjusted the final power level. Increasing the power of the matrix until he felt the spear could take no more. Two of the mana cores he held burned away and he felt triumph.
Enchantment Successful.
You have successfully enchanted a Common Mundane Iron Spear with a Minor Vital Surge, achieving an efficiency rating of 38% creating a,
- Iron Spear of Vital Surge -
Rank: Enhanced
Rarity: Unusual
Weight - 8 KG
Durability 400/400
Traits: Costs five charges to activate. Upon activation this spear infuses a surge of positive energy into the target in contact with this spear. Promoting accelerated healing and restoring vitality. Heals for 45+15 HP over 1 minute. Charges 10/10. Cooldown 8s
The numbers on the effect differed from the spell, Six attributed the increases to his enchantment effectiveness being boosted to 58%. The cooldown was pushed a bit lower from
He half expected a skill increase as this was the most complicated thing he had created thus far but there was nothing. He knew that his new found knowledge went far beyond this transient tool that he had created so he figured his enchantment skill wouldn’t be rising for a while.
This would hopefully counter the spectres and allow him a more reliable means of engagement.
But he wasn’t done.
After a rest he pulled out a few mundane cores and began to fill them with life attuned mana. One by one he slowly changed the makeup of the well of power within the cores, shaping the form and function of the golems according to the knowledge of his skill. Slowly aligning the internal makeup into a thaumaturgical cerebral circuit board.
It was during this stage that he could weave the function for experience gain into the cores but these were temporary constructs that were purpose built for the task at hand. He did not want to share experience with them, so he kept these cores static in their configuration.
- Mundane Configured Life Core -
Rank: Mundane
Rarity: Unusual
Defense - 100
Weight - 0.05 KG
Durability 900/900
Traits: Crystalized Life Mana, Material, Reagent, Catalyst.
He once again recovered and once again began to enchant. He pressed more life mana into the core and was presented with a prompt.
You are attempting to enchant a Mundane Configured Life Core into a Minor Life Golem. This will require 77 mana and one Mundane Common Mana Core to complete and will take materials from the most suitable nearby source. No suitable reagent detected. Would you like to begin this enchantment now? Yes/No?
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His golem enchanter evolution provided a reduction of 23% on all golem related enchantment mana costs leading to the lower than expected cost.
Six selected Yes and immediately funneled his life mana into the configured core. It rose from his palm and levitated in the air as golden mist condensed and was drawn in towards the core. This enchantment was harder to feed, there was no stable strata to interact with, instead the material was being drawn from Six himself, his own life force feeding the hungry little cloud. A small face coalesced inside the golden nimbus and he felt the resonance rise to completion.
Enchantment Successful.
You have successfully enchanted a Mundane Configured Life Core, achieving an efficiency rating of 36% creating a Minor Life Golem.
- Life Golem -
Level: 3
Rank: Mundane
Rarity: Unusual
Weight - 8 KG
Durability 31/31
Traits: Levitation, Healing Aura: Passive effect. Friendly creatures within the 10 meter aura heal
7.5HP over one minute.
This was exactly what he wanted. He looked at the little creature's eyes and felt a mental connection establish itself. He felt the thing in the back of his mind, simple, obedient. There was a feeling underneath that simplicity, something wild and uncontrolled, free and zestful.
A simple mental command was enough to get the golden wisp to float about his cave. He called it to himself and made it orbit him. He told it to fly into a bag he held open and it entered willingly, this was exactly what he wanted.
Now that he was Master rank in enchanting his subordinate slots increased by one and he was capable of confidently controlling four of these life constructs. So he spent the next couple of hours creating three more golden wisps of life.
The four golden nimbuses orbited him, smoothly avoiding each other and bathing him in a cumulative 30 HP per minute. Not much really, but the endlessly consistent nature of it was quite powerful. He hoped it would work against the spectres.
There was a part of himself that wanted to delve into the leyboratory immediately but instead he exited his cave to a noonday sun shining over his garden. He had some time before he was to be at Ravna’s for the sword enchantment. He tended to his garden and experimented with Nimbus Drizzle.
The spell created a small localized rain cloud that released a refreshing drizzle. It granted a small plant growth and relaxation buff. The area was already markedly more lush from his Plant Growth spell and he wondered about how the two could
Then he began checking his traps on his way to the Empress bush. He picked enough of those purple berries to make a pie in his estimation and checked the rest of his traps before heading to the village. On his way he activated Zephyr’s Embrace and felt the air around him come alive, a gust whipping about in a refreshing manner. A slight ease of movement came over him and he began to cover a large amount of ground with a loping skip. His ring of jumping and enhanced strength propelling him and his armor sometimes ten meters in a single bound. His massive stamina regen made this pace just slightly uncomfortable.
Skill increase: Elemental Magic- Initiate - 4
It didn’t take long for Six to reach Mountain’s End and once there he went straight to find Min near his oven. He had taken on two apprentices who were dutifully kneading out some dough nearby.
“Yo Min! I got some berries. You got time to make a rush order pie or two?”
Min looked at Six with a tad of irritation. “No. Dinner is in an hour or so and I still don’t have a proper bakery. Also, what are those golden things orbiting you?”
Six grimaced at that. “True but it's a rare ingredient. Might help you increase your skill level. I will build the bakery next, but I’m in the middle of something right now.” He pointed at a wisp. “Life golem.
Min slowly nodded at his answer. “Well, lemme see what you have, so you don’t poison yourself at least.”
Six pulled out the horde of blueberries and the small pile of empress berries onto a nearby table.
Min examined the purple berries and nodded. “I want 3 gold.”
“Done.” Six held his hand out.
“You're not gonna haggle?”
Six shook his head, no. “It's a rush order. Can you get it done by the end of the night?”
“Of course.”
“And it has to be you, not your apprentice. I want the quality and rarity to remain as high as possible.”
Min nodded and Six paid immediately. They shot the shit with Jebbedo for a bit before Six headed to Ravna’s. It was almost night.
He entered her smithy to find her building a great fire in the forge.
She nodded at him, her half aelf ears twitched as she stared at the orbiting wisps. “Perfect timing. She needs this weapon.”
Six nodded and they got to work. SIx had been thinking about his options and he came to the conclusion that he lacked the mana to make it truly great. Moderate ranked runes would increase the overall cost to at least one thousand mana. Instead he would have to increase its capabilities the best he could. Provide something that could turn the tide, tilt the scale.
Using a Nexus rune and natural enchanting he could create a precise concentrated blast of elemental energy, a control rune would allow for the deliberate activation of the effect.
It was simple and lacked the more game changing aspects of his runes but it would be the best he could do.
From his interrogation much of it had revolved around Amog’s capabilities. Sounded like he was one strong durable dude. Resistant to physical damage and incredibly physically gifted. So, Six decided to integrate fire mana and its innate destructive qualities into the design.
Ravna did one last round of precise hot shaping and while the metal was still glowing, Six inscribed the runes. He did not let it cool, he continued with the enchantment, gathering fire mana and pushing it into the weapon.
You are attempting to enchant a Bloodsteel Greatsword with a Fire Rune Array. This will require 321 mana and four Mundane Common Mana Core to complete. No suitable reagent detected. Would you like to begin this enchantment now? Yes/No?
Six pulled out another blood branch and selected it as a reagent before continuing in the process.
It was simple but effective enchantment, but Six treated it with the utmost focus. This was his craft and he tried to incorporate all of his experience and knowledge into suffusing the sword as completely as he could, his regular mana bottomed out and he switched to provided bloodcasted mana.
The blood branch melted into blood light and flowed into the red metal of the blood steel, infusing it further.
He wove and tied the regenerative mana patterns that Sovereign Restoration required creating an item that would exist for perpetuity. Then the final adjustment of mana, slowly creeping along carefully, adding mana drop by drop.
Enchantment Successful.
You have successfully enchanted a Bloodsteel Greatsword with a Fire Rune Array with an efficiency rating of 42% creating a,
- Bloodsteel Greatsword of Fire Strike -
Rank: Enhanced
Rarity: Unusual
Weight - 8 KG
Durability 750/750
Traits:
Fire Strike: When user lands a blow with this weapon it can be activated to create a blast of fire that does +26 Fire damage upon activation , 20/20 charges, six charges or 20% of users maximum health expended when effect activated. If activated with health damage effect is doubled. 1 charge regained per hour.
Blood Seeking: 21% increase to chance to inflict bleeding or upgrade an existing bleeding condition.
With that done he nodded at Ravna and she heated it up to temp and then quenched it. She sharpened the final product and finished the pommel. She held it up before her and they both marveled at the creation.
She smiled at him. “I got a level in Smithing from that.”
“Nice. That looks like it could do the job.”
They both marveled at the sword before Six held his hand up for a high five which Ravna immediately clapped.
He smiled “Oh you guys have high fives here?”
“No? I just did what came to mind first.”
“The first thing that came to mind was to slap my hand?”
“It's a whole thing for your people apparently so what? Seems kinda obvious, and was it wrong?”
“Well, no. Just surprising at all.”
“Surprising? You live that far away.”
Six nodded. “Lived, I don’t really live there anymore.”
“Yea you’re the weird guy who lives alone in the woods.”
“Yup, that’s me.”
“You could always come live in the village.”
“You could always come live in my cave.”
She made a flat face of unamused displeasure.
“No? Ah, maybe later.” He smiled. “Anyways I gotta go! Busy busy. Many things to do tomorrow.”
“Hmm? Like what?”
Six puffed out his chest and spoke with exaggerated nonchalance. “Just clearing out an ancient and dangerous mountain tunnel complex-like place.”
Alarm crossed her face. “Alone?”
He pointed at the racoon sleeping around his shoulders. “I got Nibbler and besides,” he then pointed at the golden wisps, “I’m prepared.”
There's that unamused face again.
“You take someone who could get help,” Ravna insisted.
Six shook his head. “Way too dangerous.”
She gave him a look.
“You think we're at that stage?” Six asked with a grin.
“We won’t get there if you die like a fool.”
He held up his hands in surrender. “Aight, fair. I’ll talk to someone.”