"A Darkness elental? What do you an?" Eisen asked rather confused, before Xenia grabbed the end of the staff and sligthly tilted it so that she could get a better look at everything. "Basically, this just turned into a magnifying glass... kind of? And I know what elental spirits look like because I can see them inside of everyone’s body... So I can see a Darkness elental in the distance right now. Although..." The high-elf muttered to herself, before scratching tilting her head to the side slightly.
"It seems kind of weird, to be honest..." She explained, and the old man looked down at Xenia with a frown.
"What do you an, ’Weird’?" He asked, and Xenia swiftly explained. "Well... We’re still in the dungeon, right?" She asked with a wry smile, but Sigurd quickly appeared out of nowhere directly next to the two.
"My Mistress, that is simply because you can still see the outside world through the walls of the Dungeon. It is as if we’re in a compressed space right inside of Fafnir’s body, so what you’re seeing like that is simply directly outside of him." The Core Guardian explained, seeming rather curious about the item at the top of the Staff as well, before Xenia slowly nodded her head.
"I see... Thanks, Sigurd... But either way, it doesn’t seem to be that far away. Eisen, should we leave the dungeon for a mont and see where the Elental actually is?" Xenia asked with a light smile and dog eyes, knowing that Eisen still had work to do, but even then the old man couldn’t really say ’No’ to her just like that. After all, this would only help Xenia’s skills further so that she would be able to properly use the staff at so point or another, and that’s just exactly what the old man wanted to happen. It wouldn’t be great if it simply stood around in random places, after all.
"Fine, but let’s hurry up then." The old man replied and imdiately stepped toward the exit while Xenia followed him, and the mont they were outside, Xenia continued trying to pinpoint the location of the elental.
"Ah! It’s behind the ship!" She exclaid excitedly before getting closer to the windows and trying to see how far exactly it was away, before noticing sothing rather peculiar which made her feel slightly like an idiot.
"So... It seems like the gem isn’t a magnifying glass..." She explained with a wry smile, but Eisen just looked at her confused, before Xenia told him what she ant. "It seems to focus directly on nearby elentals in a certain direction... Sure, it might magnify it, but that’s not directly how it works... That’s my guess at least, because I can see the elental even without it... Because it’s following about ten ters behind the ship..." Xenia told the old man in front of her, who simply shook his head with a deep sigh.
"Really? Then why didn’t you notice it beforehand?" Eisen asked with a frown as he crossed his arms, before the High-Elf just shrugged. "I don’t know, I don’t use Spirit Sight that often!" She answered imdiately, and Eisen slowly sighed.
"Alright, at the very least we know how this thing works now. If it’s a Darkness Elental, maybe it’s been following us ever since we went to the Mana Source. Do you know how we can get it on board?" Eisen asked curiously, and Xenia just scratched her cheek. "Maybe we can just ask the skeletons to slow down a little bit... now that I can see it properly, it seems like it’s just barely fast enough to to match our speed, so it should be able to get here when we slow down." She explained, so the old man nodded his head and stepped out of the door and went down to the floor below the eting room, the control center, where the ’Captain’ of the Skeletons was sitting most of the ti, and asked it to slow the ship down.
Imdiately, the Skeleton stood up and saluted to the old man, before clattering its jaw while looking outside to the main deck, where the other skeletons seed to react nearly imdiately by pulling up the sails.
"Alright, that was easy enough, I guess." Eisen muttered to himself and swiftly made his way back up to the eting room, although it seed like Xenia was at the very top of the structure so that she could get a clearer look at the Elental from there.
And to her surprise, it seed like the elental was able to get there quite swiftly now and ’Climbed’ up the side of the ship. It didn’t really ’Climb’ anything, it was more like it slid across the surface. Eisen himself couldn’t see any of this, but luckily, Xenia explained to him what was going on.
"The elental is up here now... It’s a Darkness elental in the shape of a... snake? I guess? It’s kind of sea-serpent-ish, but it’s made of black mist..." Xenia explained, and Eisen slowly nodded his head. "Do you want to make a contract with it? That’s how it works, right?" The old man asked, and Xenia nodded her head, seemingly in response to both questions, as she extended her hand forward.
And before he knew it, Xenia opened her mouth and was speaking, although what ca out of her mouth wasn’t english, or any language that he knew of, actually, and soon enough, a three ter long pure black snake appeared out of basically nowhere.
"It worked!" Xenia exclaid as she threw her arms up excitedly, and Eisen imdiately turned to the High-Elf. "What exactly just happened?" He asked with a wry smile, and Xenia just grinned at him. "I was speaking in the spirit language. I can do that by just infusing my throat with my elent, and whatever I’m saying will be directly translated into the Spirit Language. Basically, I asked the Elental if it wants to form a contract with , and it accepted and told its na, so here it is!" She exclaid while the pitch-black snake began to climb up Xenia’s arm and slung itself around her whole body.
"You hate spiders more than anything, but you’re fine with a three ter long snake? And didn’t you say it’s mist-like?" Eisen asked, and Xenia nodded before rubbing her hand over the snakes head.
"Yeah, well, Snakes and Spiders are very different! And yeah, when you make a contract with a Spirit, their form slightly changes, especially so with elentals." She explained, before the snake began to move again, this ti stretching its body directly into the air, before disappearing into nothingness again.
"I see... And what was that?" Eisen inquired, before he and Xenia slowly made their way back to the Dungeon entrance.
"Ah, that’s just Ragnar disappearing back into the ’Spirit Realm’, which is what the version of the world when seen through spirit-sight is called. Until they’re needed, that’s where one’s spirits are. They can’t interact with the regular world like that, but they’re still technically here and can see everything that’s going on." She explained, and Eisen nodded with a smile before asking her about the na ’Ragnar’ that she chose for the Serpent, but Xenia shook her head imdiately.
"Oh, no, a summoner doesn’t give a na to a spirit. The Spirit already had a na, and it was ’Ragnar’. Well, that’s what it is when spoken in english... In the Spirit language it has hundreds of variations, and the right variation is only used when you have the right intent in your mind. Every spirit has a unique na in the spirit language, after all." Xenia told the old man, who just nodded his head curiously.
"And what exactly can you do with ’Ragnar’ now?" Eisen asked her, and Xenia just scratched her cheek.
"Well, let just check..." She answered before seemingly pulling up an information window. "Ah, it seems like Ragnar is specialized in ’Constraint’, so that’s probably all it can do as well. It’s going to hold enemies in place, basically. Pretty fitting for a snake like that, huh?" Xenia told Eisen, and the old man just replied with a laugh.
"I guess so, yeah. Well, either way, here’s your staff. If you want to help you look for more Spirits, let know." Eisen told her with a smile, before he rembered sothing that wasn’t on his mind at all for a while now.
"Or rather... Can you help with sothing if you’re not too busy teaching the Goblins?" Eisen asked Xenia, and she quite furiously nodded her head.
"Of course! After making a staff like this, I owe you one!" She exclaid, and the old man replied with a laugh. "That’s good to know. I need four different magic tals... We should still have just enough of everything for it. If you have the ti, can you infuse so gold with fire elental mana, so silver with earth elental mana, so iron with air elental mana, and so bronze with water elental mana? One pound each." Eisen asked her with a grin on his face, although he felt rather stupid for forgetting about all of this up until now. After all, the box that he found inside of his soul storage was one of the few great mysteries of this world that Eisen had not a single clue about what it had to do with.
For now, the old man figured that he should at least use the leftover elental mana to create the different tals to unlock the box.
"Oh, sure, I can do that... erm, which materials are which exactly?" Xenia asked with a wry smile, before Eisen just chuckled in response.
"There’s a small sign in front of them that tells you which one it is. And besides, you have appraisal, don’t you?" Eisen answered, before the High-Elf slowly nodded her head slightly embarrassedly before stepping out of the dungeon again to make her way to the material storage.
"Alright, now, let’s continue... what else did I need to make?" Eisen muttered to himself as he stepped up to the area where his apprentices, as well as his Grandson and the Woodworker-Kobold, were currently working. They were all seemingly finishing up one item each as the last part of the Woodworking lessons, so the old man figured he had enough ti for one more small item, and he already had a rather good idea what that item should be.
With a smile on his face, Eisen grabbed a piece of wood that he asked Kor to buy for him especially for this project. It was a special type of material called ’Fleeting Wood’, coming from an Ent-type monster similar to that ’Brawling Tree’ that Brody kept mumbling about every once in a while, just one that instead of trying to fight whoever cos into its ’Territory’, it’s a type of Ent that just runs away from anyone.
The material itself isn’t necessarily an especially high-quality one, but it’s sothing rather hard to get due to the Ent’s behaviour, so the material is a little pricy. But even then, Eisen figured it was a good base to use for Evalia’s mask that would help her hide from any players that might recognize her, as the ’Fleeting Wood’ was a type that was often used to create equipnt for assassins, thieves, spies, and so on. Basically, anyone that needed to be as inconspicuous as possible. And that was just perfect for Evalia outside of ’Performances’!
So, Eisen swiftly grabbed the piece of paper with the design for the mask on it, and then hurried up and carved it out of the wood. The mask itself wasn’t really that much of a special shape, just that it was made to perfectly fit Evalia’s face as well as possible. It had a little bit of an outline of her facial features, but for the most part, it was just a blank, flat mask. At least on the outside.
On the inside, Eisen had quite a bit of fun playing around with a few different things. First of all, he placed the smallest Mana Battery that he could manage to create while keeping a rather large level of mana-storage capabilities into the mask, and then continued creating an enchantnt that was covering the whole inside of the mask, basically just doing one thing, placing a ’Hiding’ effect on the person that was wearing it. On top of that, the old man treated the mask with the help of an ’Sneak Potion’, which allowed soone to blend into the environnt more easily.
And after Eisen did that, all was left was to paint this mask in bright, absolutely not inconspicuos colors, just like he and Evalia had planned.
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