The bracelet in my hands is a medium-grey in color with only a slight metallic look to it. It's relatively flat in form, though its edges are rounded slightly.

Ash smelted the two variants together perfectly, creating a flawless spatial-temporal mithril to reshape into the bracelet. The metal's high natural durability means he probably had to use quite the magic forge to craft it and work carefully to shape it. Despite that, my visual and magical assessments are telling me that he crafted it to the exact specifications that I asked for.

Despite doing the work in only three hours.

This sort of talent is what I'd expect in a royal forge, not from someone not-yet nineteen years of age. Either he has an excellent bloodline and a lot of experience, or it was his father who ended up making the bracelet. Either way, the bracelet came out perfect.

[Spatial-Temporal Bracelet] A fashionable bracelet made of spatial-temporal mithril, it is excellent for channeling spatial and temporal magics and enchantments.

"This exceeds expectations," I admit, feeling Ash's anticipation shift to pride as I look at him. "I wasn't expecting it to match the specifications I gave, not from a smith in a town in the sticks, even if there is a mana and magic crystal mine that feeds it."

"My father is the fifth son of a long line of blacksmiths from the capital," Ash tells me with pride in his voice. "They'd run the forge for centuries and dealt with many materials. His parents were trying for a girl but it seemed the gods only wanted to give them boys. Five in a row. As good as their forge was, there wasn't much room for inheritance for the fifth son, so he moved out here. It's just him, me, and my older brother running this one."

So it's a good bloodline, then.

"Even with that," I say. "You're very skilled at this, able to work a material you don't get to touch often and shape it to the exact specifications given while making sure the variants harmonize properly."

I flick my left hand toward him and he catches the coin. A coin valued at 100,000,000 ciivrios, or 1 platinum.

"I'll make sure to return when I need mithril worked again," I tell him as confusion mixed with hope enters his mind. "Since you were able to make it exactly how I wanted, I can set a stronger enchantment into it. Consider that a bonus for the excellent craftsmanship."

The pride in his mind swells at the praise.

"If you don't mind," I say. "I'll be taking my leave. May the spirits and gods guide your paths."

"May the spirits and gods guide your paths."

I exit the shop, then find a good place to [Teleport] from and do so, appearing back at my home to find rain falling.

[Spatial Magic] is now Level 8! +100 MP +1 Magic

I dismiss the notification, use a potion to restore most of my mana, return to wearing just my pants, then get to work gathering a few materials. My crafting station has a rain ward so I'll remain dry there, though I do get wet moving between it and where some of my supplies are stored.

A small piece of spatial magic crystal, of temporal magic crystal, of plain magic crystal, and of mana crystal are broken off of their respective chunks. Those are individually ground into a fine powder, which I then dissolve into boiling water.

Mixing everything in the right ratios creates a medium-grey magic ink. As it cools, I gesture with my right hand and a glob of glass forms above it. While I needed to commission glass when I first arrived, I'm now strong enough it's not an issue for me.

Shifting my fingers a little, I reshape the glob into an inkwell with a glass stopper, then allow it to plop into my hand. I fill it with the ink, then work making a new enchanting pen. This one is made with ground magic crystal and mana crystal from the mines and a little bit of water. Once they've dissolved together, I add in ground spatial and temporal crystal and let it dissolve, then pour it into a mold and carefully push a specially-crafted rod into it along the length. This rod has a conical end on one end, which is the end that's pushed down, the opposite end blunt.

The rod dissolves as the crystal solution cools, this one turning completely solid in the process. With an effort of magic, I carefully cut part of the back end of the pen off, sending the magical blade into the sides after it nearly reaches the hole from the rod. This allows me to create a thread and a screw cap for the pen.

I dip the other end of the pen into a new solution I brew up in a very small amount, holding it in the boiling liquid for a few seconds. After pulling it out, I send a small pulse of a spell into it, then examine it.

Good. I know there's little chance of me messing this up, but I still needed to verify. This will work, so I fill it with some of the ink I prepared. While the pen is the same medium-grey as the ink, its walls are thin enough I can see how full it is from the darker space within.

I screw the cap back on, then begin enchanting the bracelet. When I press the tip of the pen against the bracelet and channel some mana into it, ink begins to flow despite there being no actual hole in the tip.

A proper inscribing pen works like this, the ink moving through the crystal to release. That last solution I made altered the property of the tip enough to allow this for when mana is channeled into it.

The runes and markings I make upon the bracelet glow with a faint, silvery-grey light. Nearly the entire top surface of the bracelet is covered with runes before I'm done, then I quickly set the pen down and levitate the bracelet over the palm of my left hand.

With my right hand as a focus, I channel the [Stasis Pocket] spell through it. This spell would normally create a stasis pocket of my own, which would tie up some of my maximum MP based on the size of the pocket created in order to sustain the spell. For this cast, I adapt the spell to be placed onto an enchantment, and also leave the size factor in the formula blank.

That bit's defined by the enchantment formula.

That's not the only spell I cast, adding in a strengthening enchantment as well. Mithril is far too durable for me to damage and it's doubtful I'll come across anything which can for awhile, but it never hurts to be safe. One never knows which might happen.

The enchantment formula on the bracelet glows brighter, then vanishes from the naked eye.

[Crafting] is now Level 4! +1 Strength +1 Dexterity

[Casting] is now Level 5! +100 MP +1 Magic +1 Mind

[Spatial Magic] is now Level 9! +100 MP +1 Magic

[Time Magic] is now Level 8! +100 MP +1 Magic

All of those going up in Level doesn't surprise me in the slightest. Ash probably even gained a Level into [Crafting] from getting to work mithril and managing to fully incorporate both variants into each other. For me, I just performed a high-level crafting technique and cast a spell that's far more complex than just warping space – I created an entire dimension, and it's one that's suspended in time as well.

Now that the glow is gone, the bracelet looks just as it did when I received it, but I can tell it holds a stasis pocket now even before reading the description.

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[Stasis Pocket Bracelet] A fashionable bracelet made of spatial-temporal mithril, it contains a stasis pocket 11' x 11' x 11' in size, allowing for storing a large amount of items. Nothing stored within this will ever go bad and an inventory management system has been added, allowing for easier use.

The inventory system is part of the enchantment I placed, and it allows me to move the items around without removing them from it. One of the features of it also makes it easier to sense what's actually inside of it, so that I don't need to develop a special sense just to do that.

Not that I don't know how to use that sense, but the inventory system is easier.

I slip it onto my right wrist, then put my supplies and tools away. While it's raining right now, I still want something hot and fresh for dinner rather than a plain meal. All of my work stations have rain wards as does the fire ring so I can cook without issue.

After gathering some ingredients, I prepare myself seasoned fowl meat and a side of pasta with a light salad. I finish eating and clean up my dishes, then try to decide what to do for the rest of the day.

This rain kind of ruins my ability to do other things. Then again, it's already evening and I should probably be preparing for bed.

At the same time, however, I want to expand the inside of my cabin now rather than waiting a couple of days for my next day without someone to teach for part of it. I finally have spatial magic materials again and there's no way I want to leave it as just the bracelet.

This rain, though…

I look up at the sky, then flick a hand upward. A small bolt of water and lightning shoots straight up and pierces the clouds. Once it's traveled a decent way up, the bolt bursts, sending a wave out in all directions, the clouds vanishing where it passes through, both above and below the actual wave.

Based on my estimates, that should give me around three or four hours before the clouds still to the west reach here.

Some careful use of magic dries off the front porch of my cabin, then I move its contents outside using a mixture of my body and [Telekinesis]. With all of it outside, I realize that I skipped a step and return to my alchemy station.

A new inscribing pen is made, this one with spatial magic rather than both spatial and temporal magic. I prepare a batch of ink and fill the pen with it, then a jar I create with conjured glass. This project will require a lot of it so an inkwell to keep it in won't be enough to contain the batch I mixed up.

Both of those are taken into the empty cabin, where I begin drawing on the logs at the floor level. The runic formula I drew stretches across the entirety of each lower log, as well as each one at the upper level before the ceiling. More are drawn along the beams and posts supporting the roof and when I finish, the entire cabin glows with a faint, silvery-grey light emitted by the dark grey runes.

I used extra mana crystal in the ink this time, and am glad I did as this is a lengthy process and I needed the runes to continue glowing before they set.

Standing in the doorway, I gesture with my hands and quickly cast a spell. This one is inferior to the [Stasis Pocket] spell or even the simpler [Spatial Pocket], but it's still more complicated than a basic spatial magic. The moment it completes, the runes glow brighter, then vanish.

[Crafting] is now Level 5! +1 Strength +1 Dexterity

[Spatial Magic] is now Level 10! +100 MP +1 Magic

[Spatial Magic] has reached a Mastery Threshold! +[Spatial Magic Mastery 1] Title

That title is another benefit the gods have granted us through the System. Every 10 Levels in a Skill, we receive a Mastery Title for it and the stat gains we receive from it increase by the original base. Starting at Level 11, [Spatial Magic] will award me 200 MP and 2 Magic instead of 100 and 1.

When one doesn't have blessings like I do or a special bloodline like some others might, this is a threshold normally reached after thirty to fifty years of practice. Each new Level takes longer than the last by a decent amount as well and even with the increased ability, it doesn't make reaching Level 12 faster than reaching Level 11.

Sometimes, I suspect some of the more powerful spirits have given me additional blessings which make it easier for me to learn and wield higher-type magics. They can do that, and the type-specific blessings don't award Titles despite boosting Skill Experience gains.

I dismiss the notifications and examine the inside of the cabin to make sure I enchanted and cast correctly. The space has been expanded from ten feet on each side to about fifty. The ceiling itself appears to have "stretched" to fit the new space, while the walls and floor have gaps in them.

For the walls, they were split by the sides. The logs for the front wall now sit in the front-left corner, while those for the left wall are in the back-left. The back wall's logs extend out from the back-right corner, and the ones for the right-hand wall connect to the front-right corner. All of the logs are whole and not stretched, leaving an empty space where they don't reach. This creates a small gap between the ends of every-other log, since they no longer join with others in a corner.

For the floor, the planks were separated. Along their lengths, they were moved at a join between the boards, so none were actually split. That let the space separate them between the front and back half of the room. Across the lengths, the boards were separated at where their ends met, creating an alternating pattern like they were in before. Each quarter is set into a corner, creating a + of empty space in the center of the room.

The spirits are having fun. It's a technical void beyond the walls and floor, but the boundaries of the expanded space are designed to bounce back anything that goes into them. Some of them are hanging off of boards and logs, pretending to fall into the voids, while others are testing to see how far they can go before reaching the dimensional boundary, then pretending as if they're falling in slow motion. Others still are pretending to be attempting to save their fellow spirits.

"Dorks," I mutter in the language of the spirits, which causes Aluci to snort.

He's sitting beside me, watching the mid-level spirits play around.

Fixing this up would normally take a day or more, and I already spent a lot of time placing the enchantment. Fortunately, [Telekinesis] makes things easier.

I first add in new support beams for the floor near the door. The dimensional boundaries are a little bit lower than the floor, and I'm able to get a few boards in underneath to help prop up the floor. New planks are installed and nailed down, and new logs are placed to fill in the walls. Most of these logs come from trees at the outer edges of Amberwood Forest, where they're thinner. Gathering them and bringing them here was another of my projects this past week.

All in all, putting in floors to the expanded space and new walls takes me about an hour. As I do this, I also add in some room separations with more logs to make up their walls, rather than beams and boards. That's mostly an aesthetic choice, as I like the look of the logs over planks and panels.

In the back-right corner – or left when facing in from the door – I create a room that's twenty feet on each side. Connecting to that from the side on the back wall is a room half that on each side, a five-foot-wide opening in the middle of the shared wall providing access between the two.

That will be a bedroom with a bathing room attached. In the outside corner formed by that, I add in a room that's five feet on each side, a door in the wall between it and the bedroom providing access to it. That will be the toilet room for my master bedroom.

Beside my bedroom I add in another room, this one fifteen feet on each side rather than twenty. A smaller guest room, since I do have a two-year-old taking naps here. An additional guest room is added beside that, taking up the last of the space on the left-hand wall. Doors are added in for those, as well as for the closets I added in when I built the rooms.

The ones for the guest rooms are five feet on each side and are on the shared wall between the two. For my room, it's on the same wall as the door but at the other corner, and stretches out five feet from the wall and ten feet along it.

Where the two guest bedrooms meet, I add in two rooms stretching out from their front walls. One is in front of the room on the right, the other is in front of the room on their left, and they share a wall with each other just as the guest rooms do. Each one is five feet on each side; the one on the left will be a bathroom while the one on the right will be a closet.

And thinking of closets, I extend the wall from the side of my bedroom out to the same point my bathing room stretches, then bring it in and connect the two. That creates a sort of L-shaped room around my bathroom, with an entrance that faces toward the right-hand wall of the cabin itself rather than into my bedroom.

That creates the "impression" of a room that's twenty feet on each side in the back-left corner, the front-right when facing in from the entrance to the cabin. With the other walls of the rooms, it creates the impression of a larger room that's thirty-five feet along the length and thirty in the width. The smaller additional rooms on the wall with the guest rooms creates a sort of "cubbied" appearance to where their entrances are, one which will become enhanced when I add in tables in each of the four corners there.

"What do you think?" I ask Aluci, who's resting beside my things, which I brought back inside once there was enough secure floor space. "It's not the best job I can do, but that has to wait until I can get better crystals."

The dream beast lifts his wolf head and looks at me, then looks outside. The sky is dark and filled with clouds again. When he looks at me, I realize what he's saying.

I spent a lot longer rebuilding the inside after expanding it than I intended and it's past midnight. Thankfully, my estimates on the rain was off and the clouds moved slower than I anticipated.

"Hush, you."

All in all, this was definitely a good project. It's been a little bit since I got to do so much work on an expanded space and I'm pretty satisfied. All that's left for me right now is to scrub off the sweat from the labor, then get some sleep.