In my room I started pacing back and forth, thinking hard. “Ok, the first step of the plan is pretty much complete, what to do now…” I muttered out loud to myself, “First things first, I will need to make some things to help me survive in the short term. Could I make something that would make monsters not able to sense that I am a Demigod?” I review my new memories, I need anti-tracking enchantments…

I recall my new memories slowly, searching for what I need. Wait… “It's an intention based enchantment system!” I say out loud, this is very very good for me. I review all my new information on the enchantment system and am slightly disappointed by what I find but anything is better than nothing.

How it's supposed to work is you need to imbue spirit energy into the object, causing magic pathways to be made, after imbuing the energy with a very specific intention for what it is supposed to do. Of course it's way harder than it sounds but that's the basic overview of it.

One way that it is much harder than it sounds is the imbuing the spirit energy with the intent, an example of how difficult it is would be if you wanted to make a jacket that has a heating enchantment on it you would need to understand and envision of exactly what you wanted it to do, if you forget anything like for instance, exactly how hot it needs to be, you could find yourself the center of a massive explosion. Or, if you forget to make it so the jacket doesn't heat up itself or is heat resistant, you could find yourself on fire.

Another way that it is extremely difficult is that you need to understand exactly what you want to happen, let's go back to the jacket example, if you simply envisioned the feeling of heat coming from the jacket, it could turn it into a jacket that gives the illusion of heat, while leaving your real body freezing.

What you would need to do is envision the atoms moving faster close to the jacket and causing the other nearby atoms to increase their vibrating speed, causing heat. This has to be in incredible detail as well. Needless to say, enchanting with this system is very reliant on knowledge and knowing the forces at play. While enchanting you need to be concentrating on all minute details at once over an unknown period of time that could be anywhere from minutes to hours or even days.

Then there's the objects you want to enchant, the spirit energy that is used in this enchantment method, is very temperamental. Energy supplied to it that is supposed to activate the enchantments, might just over power the enchantment, or the material itself and cause it to explode in the worst case or just destroy the enchantment on it at best. The solution to this problem is really simple yet difficult, it needs something to act as a funnel, or a limiter for the energy, The only problem with this is that it adds another layer of complexity to the intent imbued into the enchantments, and it needs to be in a looped pattern, like a circle, so it connects back up with itself, to make it not cause pressurized backlog and explode.

Materials that are good for enchanting using this method are very rare and normal materials usually won't work right. For instance, if you made the heat jacket out of bear fur, it could cause the enchantment to fail and destroy itself, or be so energy intensive that it isn't practical. This is why only fur from magical beasts or magic non-mortal metals, like mythril, are practical for enchanting because of their ability to channel or conduct spirit energy, much like how copper is used in circuitry.

It's a good thing that I happen to have a bar of mythril, just sitting around on a table in the Soul Forge, and a system store, otherwise I wouldn't be able to do anything at all with this new knowledge.

Ok, an anti-tracking ring might be possible, but I need to plan it out very carefully and if my current knowledge on ‘the scent’ isn't good enough then I might have to put it on hold for some research and make something else to help me survive.

Let's start with a plan… I stop pacing and walk up to my desk, open a drawer and bring out some sheets of paper and a pen. I need to review all that I know about ‘The scent’ for the first step.

Ok lets start with what it is… The scent is something that all monsters give off, along with gods and demigods. I start writing on the paper. ‘Hang on, that's not entirely correct, Grover said that he could sense Gabe because of how he was ‘repulsively mortal’ even across a city and after Percy being away from him for months, so that must mean that mortals give off ‘the scent’ too.’ I start to correct the sentence, but another thought occurs to me, ‘but then if mortals give off ‘the scent’ too, then what's the difference between the demigod scent and the mortal scent? Is it unique to species? Or perhaps unique to everyone, even between species?’

I think about it for a while before I remember that it is said that the children of the big three gods have a stronger ‘scent’ than other demigods. ‘But why is it that stronger, or older, gods produce demigods with a stronger scent? Is ‘the scent’ directly related to power? Or perhaps it has to do with having a stronger soul aura that comes from more developed and powerful spirits or gods like the big three? If it is indeed just having a stronger spirit aura, then I might be in for some trouble if I don't do something to help.’ I think seriously, my theory makes sense but if it is true…

Another important aspect of the enchanting system I learned is that by using spirit energy, your soul becomes stronger and produces more energy faster than before. This is why my new theory is very worrying. If stronger spirit auras, or the energy emitted and produced by souls is ‘the scent’ then eventually, if I practice the enchanting method, I will become like a homing beacon for monsters all over the world. This makes something to hide ‘the scent’ even more important for my survival.

As a side note, an important thing to know is that spirit auras and spirit energy are not the same thing. Spirit auras are a different type of energy constantly emitted from souls that usually is undetectable by most things, in the world that invented the enchantment system at least, except by special devices that were made in the world where the enchantment system was made, and were occasionally one of the abilities of strong magical beasts in that world.

Unlike Spirit energy, which is more potent and powerful while having more of a physical effect on the world and various energies, depending on how it is used, like how it generally affects photons that allow it to be seen in the visible spectrum.

The thing is, the more that I think about it, the more that it makes sense. With age, the soul naturally develops to become stronger, which means that when demigods are babies, monsters won't be able to sense them easily, if at all, which is said to be the case until about age eleven, when monsters can sense them and even track them.

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Even the fact that underground smells like monsters fits in as well. You see according to my new knowledge, as when a soul loses its body, or in other words the host dies, the spirit energy of the soul and its spirit aura dissipates into its surroundings and flows back into the earth, because of the tiny influence gravity and other more physical forces has on spiritual energies, with time, causing spirit energy to flow and move through the earth currents in the ocean, and making things grow and develop in and on it, as a byproduct.

Inadvertently causing spirit energy rich areas that causes monsters or magical beasts to develop along with eventually creating non-mortal or magic materials out of mortal ores and minerals over the course of thousands of years in deep, underground places in the earth.

Perhaps Tartarus is one of those places? Who knows? I guess I might find out later.

Ok, now I have a working theory that makes sense, let’s write it down. I come back from my thoughts to find that I had started pacing around my room without me realizing. I smile, I guess that some things don't change. I walk back to my desk and scratch out the first two tries for a definition and start to write.

‘The scent is another term for the spiritual aura made by souls that some magical creatures and monsters have the ability to sense. The stronger the soul, the stronger the ‘scent’ that is produced and the more monsters or magical beasts can sense it within an area determined the same way. There are multiple kinds or variations of spirit auras made by different beings I.E. Humans have a different kind of ‘scent’ or spirit aura than gods, demigods or monsters.’

Once I wrote it down, I looked it over a few times, just to make sure that I didn't miss anything or overlooked something, using my new knowledge as reference. Before giving a satisfied nod, it is time for step two.

I stand up again and start pacing, how should I make something that will let me go undetected by monsters? ‘It really depends on which way I want to go, should I cover up my aura with another aura, maybe a human one? Or perhaps I should make something that would prevent my spirit aura from exiting my body, to eliminate the source?’ I think hard, comparing the pros and cons of both options.

Ok, if I disguised my ‘scent’ as the scent of a human, then monsters probably won't be attracted to me as much as usual which is good… Ok, that was a bad choice of words… Well, some monsters might still come for me, some monsters do eat humans. I would also have to do a lot of research on the differences of auras as well…

But if I just prevented my ‘scent’ from entering my surroundings, like a small bubble around my body that shielded my scent and kept it inside… Well, first off, that sounds like it might be more energy efficient, especially if I make it circulate the energy through the shield and through itself, as a power source, then I wouldn't have to purposely channel energy through it, and the strength would increase as my soul develops, making upgrades not relevant as well… This is definitely the better method.

Now that I have decided on the technical workings, it's time to get into the specifics… I hate word crafting…

I sit down at my desk and start to write down the method that I want to use, with a high attention to detail I carefully write:

“A ring that when put on, activates a spirit aura energy attraction system that affects an area of one foot cubed around the ring, for while it stays on the wearer, that only pulls the specific aura of the wearer into the ring, for temporary storage that can be drawn on by any other enchantments on the ring.

When the first effect is activated, it activates the second enchantment, which causes a invisible and intangible spirit aura energy barrier (Density depending on energy available) to fill the space between one inch and 2 inches away from the skin of the wearer at all times and moves with the body, that keeps the specific spirit aura of the wearer inside said barrier, not letting any of it go through, while also pulling any spirit aura of the wearer, back into the inside of the barrier, not affecting any other type of energy in any way.

While the barrier is activated, a third enchantment is activated that makes the spirit aura flow around the inside of the barrier in a random pattern.”

I rub my hand and look up from the paper on my desk, it took nearly twenty minutes to write that down and to triple check for any mistakes and oversights, eventually correcting it and adding notes as I went. Ok, let's go over it one more time.

“A ring that when put on,” This makes it so that it has a activation and deactivation command, so it won't keep it constantly activated. “activates a spirit aura energy attraction system that affects an area of one foot cubed around the ring,” This just makes it a set area, so it wont start sucking all the spirit auras in the world, which would be a bad thing.

“for while it stays on the wearer,” This is just another activation and deactivation command, “that only pulls the specific aura of the wearer into the ring,” This is very important, it makes it so that it only affects the wearer, not anyone within the bounds of the ring, I wouldn't want to steal anyone's soul aura by accident…

“for temporary storage that can be drawn on by any other enchantments on the ring.” This is just so that the other enchantments and effects will use this energy source, not directly from my spirit energy reserves.

“When the first effect is activated, it activates the second enchantment,” Another activation/deactivation command. “which causes a invisible and intangible spirit aura energy barrier” This is very important as well, this makes it so that it is invisible, because it won't interact with or affect photons, and won't affect anything other than what it is meant to contain, like physical objects, electricity or spirit energy. It also specifies that it uses spirit aura to function.

“Density depending on energy available” just means that with more energy, the thicker and more powerful the barrier is, this is important as more energy will flow into the energy absorber with time, making the effect stronger the longer it is worn, and for when my soul aura gets more powerful. “to fill the space between one inch and 2 inches away from the skin of the wearer at all times” is just another boundary, just so it won't just be some random blob somewhere, like how “and moves with the body,” makes it stay around my body, not in a static position.

“keeps the specific spirit aura of the wearer inside said barrier, not letting any of it go through,” is the main effect, to keep my spirit aura in, while also specifying the wearers spirit aura so that it won't be stopping other peoples spirit auras from entering the barrier.

“while also pulling any spirit aura of the wearer, back into the inside of the barrier” this is just so that if any spirit aura gets through, and my aura that is in the surroundings, to get pulled inside the barrier. “not affecting any other type of energy in any way.” is pretty much the same effect as the invisible and intangible effects mentioned in another line.

“While the barrier is activated, a third enchantment is activated” another on and off command… “that makes the spirit aura flow around the inside of the barrier in a random pattern.” This is also really important as, if the spirit aura is moving around, it will enter the range of the spirit aura absorber and be used for the barrier effect, causing a steady flow of power.

I don't think of anything that I need to change or add during my read through, and I am getting bored of looking at a paper and thinking, so I decide that it is time for some action. Let's get blacksmithing and make a ring, so I can test this enchantment system!