"I see, I see... So it takes in a signal, mana, and changes it to sothing else as described in those symbols in the middle. The conditions for that change to happen and to what extent are described in the outer ring, while the center describes the actual end product. And then there are special cases where the symbols in the middle are used to describe the way that the mana is taken?" Tony tried summing up the general information that Benjamin explained to him and Benji, before the old man slowly nodded.
"That’s about it, yes. At the very least, this is the most common way enchantnts are done, it seems like there are a lot of other forms that such an enchantnt circle can take."
After a little while of thinking about the flying-cara project that Benjamin was working on, Benji spoke up with an idea that had to do with it. "You said there were those complex enchantnt cirlces as well, right? With enchantnt circles inside a larger enchantnt circle? Do those smaller enchantnts need to be actually carved enchantnts, or can they be that ability enchantnt thing?" He suggested, and after thinking for a little bit, Benjamin shook his head.
"I don’t think that would work. Ability enchantnts take up the whole object that they are placed on, so you can’t restrict that to a small spot like that. At least I can’t do it yet, maybe at later skill ranks, but not so far." Benjamin explained to them, and Benji continued thinking for a few seconds before making the next suggestion.
"And what if you put that ability enchantnt on a separate object that you can put into place there?"
Imdiately, Benjamin began to think about whether or not that might work, and ca to a relatively simple conclusion. "That might work, yeah... That might be the easiest way to make a complex enchantnt if it does work... I should be able to make enchantnts so that it’s sowhat possible to choose which one of the sub-enchantnts will be activated, instead of all of them." The old man muttered to himself as he thought about how to properly make that enchantnt work. In the end, that in itself probably wouldn’t be a huge problem, but rather the different things that needed to be added to the complex enchantnt.
The issue with Benjamin’s Truth Seeing Eyes was quite simple in the end, and he could probably add a mana battery or soul generator into another slot in the enchantnt to supply it with all the mana it would need. After all, a golem core would only generate the bare minimum that the golem needed to operate in the intended way.
A mana battery or generator would definitely make sure that everything was properly taken care of.
Next, he would need to add the ’sender’ into another part, that would send the picture observed by the cara to so kind of ’receiver’. If he was able to enchant golem cores with superficial enchantnts like ’controlling your body’ or ’ownership’ through ability enchantnt, maybe that would also work for the chat function. If that was the case, it would definitely be easy to make this system work sohow.
Benjamin could simply use an ability enchantnt on another separate object for another slot that would quite literally ’send’ the visuals that were observed to another place that was set as the correct ’receiver’. It may be a bit tricky to figure out how to properly display that signal, but it shouldn’t be too complicated, right?
Either way, those were four different ’modules’ to add into the enchantnt, so there was definitely space for more. "Hmm, maybe I can add a storage module too?" He muttered, rembering that he did sothing similar for his two Automata as well so that they could actually rember things that happened a while ago.
If he could make storage modules like that again, that would be able to store what was fild, then that would definitely be quite useful. In case they found sothing that’s important, Benjamin would be able to take out the storage module, replace it with a new one, and keep the old storage module in a safe place in a way that they could look at it over and over again if necessary.
"Alright, I’ll do that when I play tonight!" Benjamin exclaid, happy to have figured out the rough way that the different cara-bots would be constructed. He placed the block of paper to the side and took a sip of his drink, before looking over at his grandson.
"So, do you have anything you want to do when you play the ga?" The old man curiously laughed, while the young man simply scratched the back of his head with a wry smile.
"Not really, if I’m gonna be honest. The only things I know about the ga are what you told , since Pri Industries usually keeps pretty quiet about most actual content. But I guess I want to try out so stuff first? Like, I want to see what’s most fun to , fighting or crafting. Usually in gas I’m so Knight-like character, but from what you say, the crafting there is super interesting as well, so I don’t really know." Benji said with a complicated expresssion, leaving Benjamin to think for a bit.
"Well, when you start playing, I’m pretty sure we’ll have contacted all the originals, and maybe even talked about a spot to et up. So I’ll co pick you up wherever you start and then we can et the others, so you’ll probably be able to tag along with each of them for a bit, just to see what direction you want to go." The old man slowly explained, before Benji simply shrugged. "That’s fine. I an it would be pretty cool, but I don’t wanna impose on anyone like that. I’m sure none of them want to drag around a random guy that just started playing."
"Oh, I don’t know, actually. From what I can tell, they’re all great people and just love the thing they were brought in for. I’m sure they wouldn’t mind bringing soone along on whatever they want to do. Especailly Brody, actually, he’s a martial arts teacher. So you don’t have to worry about combat and crafting either way, you should be able to try out both to your heart’s extent."
"Oh, he is? Well, I guess asking won’t hurt, right? And I know that you’ll be more than happy to show the rope when it cos to crafting." Benji laughed lowly as he placed his sunglasses on the bridge of his nose and leaned back in the deckchair.
"Of course I’ll be happy! There aren’t many people that want to learn from these days!" With a laugh from himself, Benjamin followed Benji’s example and leaned back as well, choosing to relax while further thinking about the cara-bots he was planning to make.
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That night, Benjamin more than eagerly entered his capsule again so that he could dive into the world where he was known under another na, Eisen.
When he woke up, Eisen imdiately noticed a change in the air. The air tasted a bit salty, and the sll of the ocean completely engulfed him while he heard heavy waves crash against a sturdy rock-wall.
The carriage itself didn’t seem to be moving, and no mber of his party seed to currently be inside the carriage either, not even Aulu or Kor. "Did we already reach the magic city? I thought it was still a few days away..." Eisen muttered to himself as he stood up and stretched a little bit, before grabbing a piece of jerky from the box on top of the barrels to quiet down his grumbling stomach, and waited for Caria and lissa to wake up as well.
"Good morning, you two!" He said with a smile, and the small myconid and queen bee happily jumped onto him. "Caria and lly are great!" Caria exclaid with a bright smile as Eisen picked her up and carried her out of the carriage on his arm so that he could look for his friends.
And that didn’t take very long either, since it seed like the group simply chose to take a break and enjoy the idillic view of the ocean, and the islands that could be just barely seen in the distance. And the group didn’t reach the magic city yet after all, but they were now apparently travelling along the coast for a while.
"Good morning, everyone." Eisen exclaid as he sat Caria back down on the ground and watched as she ran over to the edge with pure awe in her eyes, trying to see how far this huge puddle would extend.
Quite quickly, everyone in the group turned around and greeted the old man, now that he had woken up after a few days again. "How’d you sleep?" Sky asked, setting his book to the side for a little bit, before Eisen sat down next to the group.
"Great, actually! How far are we along toward our destination?" He then asked curiously, before Sky quickly grabbed his map and took a look at it.
"Another two or three days at this rate, I’m pretty sure."
"Alright, got it! Will we be travelling by the coast all the ti till then?" Eisen asked, but Sky shook his head.
"Not all the ti, but most of it. It’s better to take a shortcut just before we reach the city. It’s like a day quicker or sothing, and it takes about 10 hours, maybe." The Fey-Kin boy explained as he once more grabbed his book and continued reading.
"Alright, got it! Well, I’ll head back to the carriage to see how the transford materials turned out."
"Oh! I checked on them a bit ago, they’re really cool! Like, really really cool! I haven’t seen anything like that before~!" Bree yelled out after him, jumping up so that she could see what Eisen was about to make with these materials, and the others quickly followed behind.
"Is that so? I’m really curious, then!" Eisen laughed out as he stepped back into the carriage and imdiately walked over to the tube in the corner, one after another taking out the transford materials.
All of them now had a Fla of the Earth twist to them, although you could still tell what each used to be.
For example, basically all of the wood that Eisen placed in there was basically completley petrified, but you could see a light glow of flas coming out from inbetween the tiny cracks that ford, especially on the pieces of wood that still had bark on them that Eisen placed inside just to see if it would make any difference.
The crystals and gems that were placed inside had turned into slightly colorful rock structures, sowhat like geodes. When Eisen cracked these geodes open, he managed to find the transford materials that he would be using. Different crystal or gem structures that sohow still had the sa effects as before, just took up different states. So of them were slightly hot to the touch, while others were basically just like pretty, colorful pebbles.
And next, Eisen looked at the different tals, and found quite a surprise when he looked at the small chunks of silver that he placed inside. He had actually created a variation of mythril!
And it was a quite special variation as well. Mythril was silver that was transford through large quantities of earth-elental mana, and since Eisen’s elent was, in part, also of the earth elent, it changed the silver into sothing similar, but at the sa ti very different.
Since it was a magically transford material, it was obviously quite good at conducting mana, and even more so since its base material was a great mana conductor in the first place, which was one of the two reasons why it was so valuable to many people.
The second reason ca from the earth-elental mana. As silver was such a great conductor for mana, it took in more of the pure earth-elent than other tallic materials would, which is why it was a tal that was known for how shock-absorbant it was.
As such, it was a tal that was great for all kinds of things, tools, weapons, and armor alike. Because of that, it beca an incredibly precious material in the overall world-economy, and one that was experinted with immsensely. One certain quality that they especially wanted to give mithril was that which fire gave the tal.
The fire version of mythril seed to strengthen any and all contact made with it. That ant that if you had a wall of this fla-mythril and punched it with all your force, your ’attack’ would be sent out on the other side with about 120% strength to the original. That alone would be great already, if this was actually possible. This was simply a theory that people ca up with, as silver seed to take in a little bit too much of the raw elent.
If you infused it with fire-elent mana, the mythril would turn into a gas-like substance that was too hot to make physical contact with. If you infused it with the water-elent, it would turn into a liquid, while it would simply disappear if you infused it with the air-elent.
So, quite obviously, people began experints to figure out ways to create a good combination between earth-elent mythril and fire-elent mythril. Alloying quite obviously wouldn’t work, so they began at what transford the silver, the mana.
They tried to infuse silver with all kinds of elental mana that they ca across, but it was usually only the Lava-elent or different variations of it. What they needed was an elent that had the qualities of both the pure fire-elent and the pure earth-elent, but that was still a single combined elent.
They knew that there were such elents, but they were quite rare, and as such, these experints needed to be put on halt until the person with the right elent was found, while at the sa ti agreeing to help with the creation of this new theoretical tal.
Well, quite coincidentally, this tal wasn’t just theoretical anymore.
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