Chapter 6 A Five Year Gap part 2

Instantly the heat activated my sweat glands, Enmare’s forge is no oven. A massive walk in furnace, countless hammers further lined along the front of the furnace, an anvil. Precisely a human sized crimson diamond anvil, “Blood Bringer of Seas” in this world there is only one. Such a rare object yet Enmare uses it as an anvil.

“Haaa hua hahaha, I never thought it would be here, truly a twist for the beginning.” Before Enmare could speak I replied

“I’m fine, just a little excited.” Taking a glance over the various ingots, I decided to go with an alloy and forge a ring. Taking 30 ingots of tungsten and 10 of cobalt I reached the aisles of hammer and picked the darkest one. Pitch night black with translucent flowing liquid lines outlining handle and head. Enmare stayed silent and I began. 

I consolidated a mold out of carbon taking the shape of a box hollow on the inside and big enough to contain a sedan’s tire. This was only the part of the ring. Using energy arts the tungsten melted, after the cobalt became liquid then everything went into the mold. This was the skill portion of the ring, lining atoms of tungsten and cobalt into hexagons that curve justly, creating an impossible frictionless surface. Only this was the beginning, all the while Enmare watched confused and predominantly fury began to build. For not using the hammer was an insult to Enmare’s profession, there was less of a trace of blacksmithing done than stitching without needle and thread. Sizzling, the mold began breaking apart, not because it couldn’t take the heat but it was never meant to be a mold in the first place. The ring’s hot metal diffusing heat started changing to grey. Then black stains grew and reformed into lines circling the ring. More and more the lines disappeared from view and a pure black ring formed the second stage of completion. Third stage was possession. Imbuing properties onto the ring, giving meaning to the circuits and hexagons that would create “Gates Between Earth” a ring unparalleled by others before. While the last two stages took 40 minutes in total, the last stage lasts 3 hours. Compressing the tire sized ring required three things; mana, ability possession and skill. Ability possession just means, to be able to craft items with ‘skills’ called properties the crafter themselves would have to have that skill or be capable of. Skills of the crafter must be able to provide appropriate vessel and power of properties for the items. None of these would matter if there was not enough mana to synchronize vessel and skill. You could say the best crafters are jacks of all skills but there will always be someone better. The best part of life is to see how far you’ve changed to be satisfied Crafters live like this. Emitting a black heat, Sen continues with the last stage; 1 skill..3….up to the last, 7 skills was Sen’s current limit.

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“Use the hammer to break the ring.” exhausted Sen finally said his last word and slumped beside ‘Blood Bringer of Seas’, sleeping the through the day. Break the ring? Is that the only reason why he chose this hammer? This hammer being one of his best creations use to break a ring

“Hahahahhah this challenge…challenge accepted!”