Three days pass in a blur as I prepare for school and for the event that I could feel closing in on me. That event is of course when my soul is fully recovered enough to once again, enchant a ring. After the fight against the flock of harpies, I had done a lot of thinking about what I should do this time as I need to give myself an edge in a fight against monsters. What I decided to make was something that I had gotten an idea for two months ago and now I finally had three good reasons to use the idea, to solve the armour problem, the ranged weapon problem and to test a very important theory.
On the fourth day of preparations, while in the middle of coming back from an open house at Yancy, I wasn't surprised when I felt the rush of energy of my soul being fully recovered. “Finally!” I whispered grinning to myself in the back seat of the van and already going over the enchantment in my head.
As soon as we had parked in front of the orphanage, I slid the door open as quickly as I could and practically sprinted to the door, opening it and making my way up the stairs, not hearing Director Kasandra who said, quite amused, “I am not that bad am I?” as she saw me rushing inside to get to my room.
I opened the door to my room and scanned the room quickly before walking to my desk and retrieving my enchantment description paper from the top drawer, bundling up my blankets in my arms and summoning the gateway to the Soul Forge. As soon as the door had appeared in front of me, I reached out my hand and twisted open the door handle and stepped into my own personal lobby room and continued through the Soul Forge until I had reached the spot where I had decided to enchant my ring. It was the living room. My living room was no longer bare and empty as I had bought some furniture for it, namely a small table, two couches and an old coal fireplace/stove.
I still wasn't sure what had caused me to buy that stove, but I think that it could be useful in the future, especially with practically infinite fuel because of the ring of creation. I also couldn't exactly have an electric stove unless I got a beefy generator, which I don't have nearly enough cash for.
As I looked through the living room visualizing where I needed to enchant the ring. I stepped over to the table that was in the center of the room and I started moving the chairs and finally the old wood table to the side of the room. Then with a flourish I layed out the blankets in the center of the room and sat down, reading over the paper once again. Just as I felt confident in having known the enchantment by heart and placed the paper to the side I realized that I had forgotten something very important. I dont have the ring I am going to enchant.
Cursing, I stood up from my lotus position in the nest of blankets and started walking to the storage room. I had made the ring I was going to be using just yesterday afternoon during blacksmithing practice and I was quite proud of it, especially after engraving it. It was Low High grade, made of Mythril and had the elven words “As the flames that forged me, I will shape the formless and give it purpose.” Which the system gave the fitting name ‘The Constructor’ which as soon as I had read the name, I knew that this is the ring I was going to use.
I reached the storage room and walked quickly to the nearest table and examined the contents of the table, the results of my practice in the forge. I had a dozen of High Uncommon and the same number of Medium Uncommon, but I only made one Low High grade ring that was set apart from the others. I picked up that ring, The Constructor, and started sprinting away to enchant my new tool.
I entered the living room once again and I immediately started reading over the page once again, meditating on it, understanding and truly learning it. I spent ten minutes before I felt ready to start and I began, causing my energy to flow through me. It felt easier to control than last time and I wasn't exactly sure why, but I couldn't dwell on random thoughts. I need to focus.
Then I started.
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The enchanting went like it usually did, glowing runes of power flowing out of me with my words, sending the mythril ring flying in random directions with every impact and the constant pressure of the Spirit Energy on my soul, mind and body. With the master level knowledge on exactly how to enchant with the Ring Maker method, most things weren't hard to do in theory, but with my weak soul and body, I was severely limited in what I could actually do.
So the end result was really close to what I wanted, but not as good as it could have been. I just don't have the physical or spiritual capability for most of my ideas sadly.
When I had finished and was about to collapse, I scanned my new addition to my collection and smiled.
Name: The Constructor
Grade: Medium High
Abilities:
Allows the user to control the positioning and shape of Spirit Energy that has passed through the ring, within a sphere with a eight foot radius relative to the ring. Upon the verbal command ‘Solidify’ all Spirit Energy being controlled by The Constructor will harden and will gain mass, weight, size and a physical presence for an amount of time dependent on the willpower and mental control of the wearer, forming a construct.
With the more size, weight and mass the construct has for the amount of Spirit Energy used increases the mental strain to keep the construct formed.
The mental strain increases over time until the user can no longer sustain the construct when it will dissipate into the environment in an amount of time relative to the amount of Spirit Energy used, size and mass, unable to be controlled by the first effect.
When the user loses focus the summoned construct will dissipate into the environment in an amount of time relative to the amount of Spirit Energy used, size and mass, unable to be controlled by the first effect.
When the construct leaves the bounds of the first effect it dissipates into the environment in an amount of time relative to the amount of Spirit Energy used, size and mass, unable to be controlled by the first effect.
Allows the user to control the positioning of constructs made with the second ability. Force, speed and control based on willpower. Constructs can not be controlled outside of an eight foot radius relative to the ring.
The description was extremely lengthy, but I couldn't make it any other way yet. Anything more simple and with less drawbacks would cause the energy needed to be used and time for enchanting dramatically increase.
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So my only option was to add six drawbacks that would severely affect the usage of my new creation.
The first drawback is that it can only be created in a set distance, like the Ring of Creation, though I increased the radius by two feet because I felt that a bigger usage size would be pretty necessary.
The second drawback is that the size, mass and weight are determined by mental control and will power. The reason I added this drawback was not what you would think however, as I could have made the mass weight and size dependent on the amount of Spirit Energy used, but I was thinking long term. You see, in the short term my mental control and willpower will be pretty low, but it will increase over time, with the effect of my constructs being weak at first, but with training as a Ring Maker, my soul, mental strength and physical strength will increase over time. Along with natural development. So eventually I will be able to make a brick wall with the mass two times that of titanium with two times the weight of an elephant and the size of a house that could take days to dissipate.
The third drawback is that constructs have to be consciously maintained to keep their form. This effect is probably the worst drawback yet, but it is necessary for more than one reason. The first reason that it is necessary is because the difficulty to enchant the ring dramatically increases, but the second is that it gives me a way to make it disappear when it is not needed, which would be a hassle to try and hide or get rid of after I form something.
The fourth drawback was the mental strain of maintaining a construct increases over time, causing constructs being very hard to keep formed for long periods of time.
The fifth drawback was when the construct leaves the eight foot radius around the ring, it will dissipate depending on willpower, size, mass and Spirit Energy used to form it. This was something else that was me looking to the future and deciding on, because early on, it will dissipate in seconds, but eventually if I concentrate on forming it, it could be able to survive for hours, if not days. Causing this to be a good way to improve potential power while also decreasing enchanting time and energy needed to make it.
Finally the last ‘drawback’ is actually not much of a draw back. It gives me the ability to move constructs with my mind. Of course it has two drawbacks on its own, being dependent on willpower and not being able to leave the eight foot radius around the ring without my control failing immediately. Again, this is a possible power thing. Eventually I could lift a building with a platform construct beneath it, but right now I doubt I could even make one float in the air against gravity and its own weight.
But I was still happy to succeed in creating my new weapon/tool, despite the immediate problems I will face when I am using it, I know that The Constructor will serve me well for a long time.
I come out of my thoughts of grandeur and look around the living room, coated in sweat and hurting all over, yet satisfied. I needed to get to my room before I passed out. I stood up, expecting to stumble from the vertigo that I experienced previously when I had practiced the excruciating enchanting method, but I stood up straight, if shakily from my sore muscles. Needless to say, I was confused. Very confused. Realistically, I shouldn't be able to stand up after an enchanting session for at least a few hours at this point in my development and it shouldn't be possible to stand this steadily immediately after for at least a year of development if I am truly pushing my body to its limits.
In other words, according to my memories given to me by the system, this shouldn't be possible.
Then I see a blue screen expand into reality with words scrawled across its surface saying “Passive ability: ‘Ring Maker’ has leveled up to Lv 8” and then the screen shifted as soon as I had read the notification saying new words now “Congratulations your passive ability has gained another sub ability, check your status screen for details.”
‘Sub ability? What is that?’ was my first thought upon seeing the message and then I realized why I was able to stand, despite the fact that I should not even be able to physically sit up straight. “Ring Maker has improved my recovery time?!” I whispered in shock “It can do that?! Status!” I gave the command, causing the screen to blink into the status menu.
Statistics
Passive Abilities
Skills
Active Quests
Name: Ardika Ekia
Physical age: 12 years old
Birthdate: August 12
Gender: Male
Race: Human/God hybrid
Adaptation
Adaptive system
Perfect Recollection
Ring Maker Lv8: Increases mental and physical abilities in the process of enchanting with the Ring Maker system and improves physical recovery time from enchanting with this method.
Speed reading Lv3
Builder Lv2
Architect Lv1
Blacksmithing Lv1
Dagger skills Lv7
Deflection Lv2
Evasion Lv1
Appraisal
Soul Forge Lv1
(No active quests)
It took me a few seconds to realize what had changed, but when I was about to give up, I got a prompting from Perfect Reflection, causing me to see what had changed. “The description is different! It used to say ‘Increases mental and physical abilities in the process of enchanting with the Ring Maker system.’ but now it has ‘improves physical recovery time from enchanting with this method.’ added to the end! This is incredible! What passive abilities can do can change when it levels up!” This is a huge discovery for me, as any passive ability has the possibility to ‘evolve’ or increase its capabilities. I don't know for sure yet, but it looks like it could be possible for say, Deflection to just straight up block incoming attacks automatically, or Evasion to automatically dodge attacks that I couldn't sense in time.
The possibilities are endless! Unless I was reading too much into this and this was just a one time or rare event. Who knows?
Anyway, despite the new ‘sub ability’ of Ring Maker, I still felt like I just fell onto cement in every part of my body, so I need to rest, even if I don't faint. I started striding stiffly to the entrance hall and opened the exit into my room before walking past my night stand and sitting on my bed before rolling back to lie down with a sigh of relief. I will need to do some testing tomorrow before school in three days and it is going to suck.