Ethan pulled out his limited Enchantment book and looked over what enchantments he had that would be suitable. “Increasing the sharpness will add armor penetration and increase damage at the same time. The base Durability isn’t all that great, but that’s probably because of the wood. So enhance that… now for fire. That’s easiest. Since I already know Fire magic, I won’t even need any elemental crystals. So, add fire damage to the spear, or do I give them a ranged fire attack? Why not both? I can make the equivalent of my Fire Arrow spell; I can also add an activated Fire enchantment to the blade itself. Should save mana that way, and it’s probably safer to not have it burning all the time, anyway. Now in order to make that… where’s my book on scripting… ahh, there it is. Now it will be easy for anyone with Mana to activate either fire ability, but for those who aren’t… I’ll need to either have an activation glyph or a command phrase. Which to do? I imagine it would be bad if it was activated by accident, sliding your hand along the shaft may trigger it on or off when they don’t intend, but if I make it a command trigger, it will have to be something they normally wouldn’t say…”

Fortunately for everyone involved, only the person holding the spear could activate the command phrase with how the script was laid out. He thought back to the old super hero movies and remembered one in particular that would be quite fitting. Ethan pulled out his sketchbook and began to plan out the placement of the glyphs and the accompanying scripts to control them. He still had one slot left. He wished he knew any attribute boosting enchantments, but those only started at apprentice tier, so he was shit out of luck. The best he could do would to try to double up on the sharpness or durability. It was unfortunate. Using scripting took up one of the enchantment slots, otherwise, he could double up on both of them. Technically, since only the fire enchantments needed scripting, they would only take up half of an enchantment slot, but using part of one took up the whole one, so that was that.

By the time he was finished, he had to swipe away another skill up, this time Scribing increased to rank four. With that experience bump, he was a whole ten points away from hitting level eleven. He’d settled on increasing durability again. he was giving them a ton of damage output, and only twenty-six durability. It was mid, no cap.

Ethan calculated all the Mana he would have to invest in this one spear, with all of its effects. It was his most ambitious enchantment project to date, aside from maybe the Arcane flying enchantment anyway, and was going to cost him between of 1,412 and 1,650 Mana total. He was really hoping it would be closer to the lower end instead of the higher. He wouldn’t have even tried something so massive and Mana intensive if it wasn’t for the capacity of the weapon itself.

The sharpness and durability glyphs had their own self-contained Mana reservoirs to keep them running, so only needed the seventy-five mana each, after his class discount. But he had to create reservoirs for the two spell effects. Each would contain a number of charges, each being a packet of Mana that contained enough energy to trigger the effect once. The Burning spear head effect would only last the standard five minutes, so he included ten charge slots. By his calculations, it would cost between fifty and seventy Mana per charge. He would have to add the Mana to each of them himself, and that wasn’t going to be cheap. Then there was the ranged fire effect. He was basing it off of his own wand, and like that enchanted item, he included ten charges for it. That one, at least, he knew the exact cost, fifty Mana per shot. The only difference between this effect and his Wand, was that this would just be a lance of fire, a simple bar of condensed Fire with none of the cosmetic flourishes to make it look like an arrow.

Over the next three hours, Ethan engraved the glyphs and scripts he would need. With everything carved out, he was ready to begin. Taking into account the Conductivity penalty, and the absorption rate, and his own regeneration, it would take him around twelve minutes to contribute all the mana required of intense concentration. Twelve minutes of intense concentration and mental effort.

Before beginning, Ethan got up and moved around. He did a series of Yoga stretches. He’d never admit it to Connor- He shook his head. Connor had left them all. Left them behind to chase some tail. Pushing his friend out of his mind, he focused on his task. After one more vigorous shake, and drinking a bottle of water, he finally felt ready. “Let’s make some magic.” He said out loud.

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The last thing he had to do; he re-configured the central circle. This one was far simpler than the previous diagram. All it had to do was funnel the Mana from him and the workshop into the spear at a steady and controlled rate. It even had Mana capacitors built in with regulators that he could set to specific mana per second. The two capacitors and regulators each held up to one hundred mana, and he set them each to only allow one mana per second output. At that rate, with his Mana Regen, his mana pool, the workshops Mana and his Meditation bonus, he could maintain the flow without ever bottoming out his own pool.

Sitting cross-legged, with the spear in position, Ethan placed his hands on the outer circle and sank into his meditation. Once he was in the light trance, he let his Mana flow out. At first, he let it flow freely, not trying to control it, but once the reservoirs were nearly full, he reined it in and only allowed one hundred twenty per minute, or close to it, into the circle. Second by second, then minute by minute, the spear soaked in the energy. The scripts all lit up, and each glyph shone with the azure light. Last, and the biggest drain, the Charges for the spell effects. the whole thing was fairly easy, for the first six minutes. Each minute after, it grew more difficult. Even the flying board didn’t require half of the Mana the spear did, and in the back of his mind, he knew he would have to repeat this feat nine more times, and unless he waited ten hours between each spear, he would have to rely on his own Mana to get them done.

At long last, feeling the mental fatigue weighting on him, the last drop of Mana went into the Spear and it was complete. Wanting to see everything, Ethan pulled up the detailed report of his Enchanting success.

You have Enchanted Long Spear

Item Quality Check:

· Intelligence bonus: +14% (1/2 Attribute Score)

· Skill Check: +60%

· Skill Bonus: +12% (Enchanting)

· Misc Modifier: +25% Enhanced Portable Workshop, +40% Masterwork Tools

· Material Difficulty: -0 Ash, -5% Steel

· Enchantment Difficulty: -64%, 5 Glyphs & Scripting

· Material Quality: +30% Excellent

Total Quality Check: +112%

Final Enchantment Quality: Masterwork +40% Enchantment Potency

Enchantments

Potency Modifiers: +98% (+24% Skill, +14% Intelligence, +20% Class, +40% Masterwork)

· Sharpness: +40% Damage, +20% Armor Penetration. (Base +20% Damage, +10% Armor penetration)

· Durability: +59% (x2 Durability increases base 20% by 50%)

· Fire Damage: +40 Damage (Base 20 Damage), Duration 5 minutes. 10 charges (60 Mana Per charge). Command word: Flame on.

· Fire Lance: 99 Damage (Base 50) Range 100 feet, Cast time: 2 seconds, 10 charges (50 Mana per charge) Command word: Flame Lance.

For Completing a Masterwork Enchanted Item at Novice Tier you receive:

+72 Xp. (Base 36 +20% per Glyph beyond the first(80%), +10% per Script(+20%))

“Oh my god, oh my god, this is so Gucci. I can’t believe it; I made my first Masterwork Enchantment!” Ethan danced around his workshop, even picking up the finished spear and twirled around with it, and dipping it like he was in some courtly ballroom scene in a movie. Once he managed to calm down some, he noticed that despite getting a masterwork quality enchantment, with not just one, but five Glyphs and two scripts, he only got seventy-six experience points for it. That brought him down for a minute, but then he realized he’d gotten his next level, and he created a Masterwork Enchantment!

Eventually, Ethan calmed down enough to look at the Finalized stats of his greatest work ever.

Long Spear

Quality: Excellent

Rarity: Epic

Durability: 41/41

Damage: 36

Weight: 3.5 lbs.

Length: 8’

Traits :+12 Armor Piercing.

Base Materials: Steel, Ash

Enchantments

Sharpness: +40% Damage, +20% Armor Penetration. (Base +20% Damage, +10% Armor penetration)

Durability: +59% (x2 Durability increases base 20% by 50%)

Fire Damage: +40 Damage (Base 20 Damage), Duration 5 minutes. 10 charges (60 Mana Per charge). Command word: Flame on.

Fire Lance: 99 Damage (Base 50) Range 100 feet, Cast time: 2 seconds, 10 charges (50 Mana per charge) Command word: Flame Lance.

After seeing the end results, Ethan remembered that the percentage bonuses were just that, percentages. The sharpness had only increased the spear’s damage by ten points, the armor piercing had only gone up by two, and once the charges were used up, the fire effects wouldn’t do a damn thing until they were refilled, and that would take someone eleven hundred Mana to completely fill them from empty. While his work was amazing, it could only do so much to improve the base materials.