A few days had passed since Eisen had once more begun a period of active instruction for Parc and Rouge, instead of the passive kind that he generally defaulted to a lot of the ti.
To Eisen, there was nothing better than actually practically learning and experiencing a craft, guided by soone else who not only had much greater knowledge of what it is they were striving toward, but actually knew how to directly adjust their mistakes and explain what the issues were and why exactly their habits had to change.
Eisen was that kind of person, and he had seen a lot of success in Parc and Rouge with this thod.
But of course, there was still a limit to that kind of learning. There were types of knowledge and habits that had been built over generations that couldn't be learned directly in that sort of way, or theoretical knowledge that was needed to be able to truly understand what was happening. And that was the sort of lessons that Eisen was teaching right now.
Over the course of his own new craftsmanship experiences, he had uncovered so mories that revealed a few secrets here and there, that he himself had making use of subconsciously or through muscle-mory he had no knowledge of ever obtaining, but even to himself, realizing why this was the case was extrely useful.
And that sort of knowledge was quickly passed on to Parc and Rouge, not all at once, but at the points where Eisen felt they could really understand it.
These were mostly things related to magic, and the ways that the system, that force called 'experience', as well as whatever other mystical forces were flowing throughout the cornerstones of this world, affected the craftsman, the tool, and the material.
For these lessons, he mostly focused on the ways the materials were affected, trying to keep everything to a the to help his apprentices digest it all a bit better. But even then, at the end of each day, those two were extrely exhausted, both physically and ntally.
They weren't only made to listen to Eisen's lesson, but he also expected them to continue so of their active practice simultaneously, though it was really just a way to push them into developing so more muscle-mory on their own.
And at the sa ti, Ambriel was always intently listening in, though they weren't really able to follow along quite as well. Clearly, they were interested in this to an extent, but Eisen didn't feel that it was the craftsmanship aspect that truly made them so curious.
Rather, they always seed to perk up once the topic shifted more toward the actual forces, those mystical powers and how they interacted with craftsmanship, instead of the craft itself. Which of course, Eisen didn't particularly mind all too much. He appreciated that they were so curious in the first place, and even if the focus wasn't on Eisen's expertise, there was certainly still so in there.
However, as Ambriel entered the workshop this morning, Eisen stopped them.
With a worried expression, they looked up at the old man, "Did I... do sothing wrong?" they asked, taking a step back as their face paled. But Eisen just shook his head.
"No, no, of course not. It isn't anything like that. I was just thinking that maybe you would enjoy having a talk with Xenia instead. I spoke to her about it, and she said she wouldn't mind answering so of your questions about magic, and sorcery, or mystics, or basically anything it is you're curious about," the old man suggested, and Ambriel seed a bit taken aback.
After a mont of thought, the angel nodded their head.
"I see... I would quite appreciate that, yes," they replied, seeming quite relieved that Eisen wasn't throwing them out, or even worse, realized that letting them out was a mistake in the first place before forcing them back into one of those dark jail cells.
That being the case, there still seed to be so apprehension on Ambriel's face. At least they had already interacted a decent amount with Eisen before all of this happened, but that certainly wasn't the case with any of the others amongst the ones that peaked. And Ambriel had seen how Eisen could act when he was mad, and he still seed the most...
stable to so degree, which certainly didn't bode well for the others. But at the end of the day, Ambriel had never heard anything bad about Xenia. Brody was known to get into brawls for the fun of it, and Jyuuk's experints with the dead didn't make the angel feel great either, but Xenia was known to really only exist for the pursuit of knowledge.
To further her expertise in the forces of magic, even if she showed this with so rather eccentric behaviours sotis.
"Don't worry," Eisen told Ambriel, seeing the expression on their face, "If you ask Xenia questions earnestly, she will do her best to reply to you with as much detail as she can. Though, maybe sotis a bit too much detail, but that's sothing you learn to deal with pretty soon. If you want to sate your curiosity, she's definitely the one to go to."
"...I will keep that in mind," Ambriel replied, slowly approaching the door again, "So where should I go, exactly?"
Eisen followed along to step in front of the workshop's door, and pointed at the castle's highest tower, which had been expanded upon over the past few months. It was a little jarring when Xenia just started shoving extra rooms onto the side of it at first, but Evalia made sure that it at least wasn't aesthetically displeasing.
And at the sa ti, Serio and Girland were responsible enough to make sure that every part of the tower was structurally sound even without the explicit use of magic, just in case sothing went wrong. Nobody wanted to see that tower crumble down onto the rest of the castle, or even worse, the busy streets that really weren't all too far away.
"Basically, Xenia is usually at the top of that tower recently," Eisen pointed out, "You should see a couple of mannequin-golems running around the castle, Xenia has them run errands for her so she can concentrate on other things. You can try following one of them, or alternatively, you can try to fly in through one of the windows, but...
dependong on what Xenia is working on at that mont it could be a bit risky," the old man pointed out, his eyes flashing golden for a second or two, before he turned back to the angel, "Though it doesn't seem like they're working on anything major at the mont, so that should be fine?"
Ambriel didn't seem any more confident after hearing Eisen's words, and slowly spread out their wings. As they flapped their wings, their neatly kept feathers ca into a bit of disarray, but that was quickly corrected once Ambriel actually took flight. Just in case, Eisen watched as Ambriel approached the tower's windows, seeing them carefully climb inside.
Seeing that nothing was happening, and especially that neither Serio or Girland showed up by his side, it seed like Ambriel arrived safely by Xenia's side.
That being the case, Eisen quickly turned back around, walking back into his workshop. Parc and Rouge should also arrive soon, but today was set up for so more practical lessons where the two of them could make use of the theoretically knowledge that Eisen had taught to them over the past few days.
It was the perfect opportunity for Eisen to start testing out the process of creating the materials needed for the rooms that could block Samuel. Part of the ingredients had finally arrived, though not enough to create a space at the scale they needed for the peace-treaty eting. But it was certainly enough for Eisen to get used to the process and relearn it.
If he was lucky, he could make use of this opportunity to recover so mories about the secrets behind this material, and maybe he could learn so other uses for it, or figure out what specifically about these materials made them useful for the process, since Eisen didn't seem to fully understand the seemingly random assortnt of materials, not to ntion, the complete disarray in their ranks.
Usually, you would try to use as high-rank materials as you could for the greatest effect, but it seed like there was so specific synergy effect that ca with the particular assortnt of rank 1 and 2 materials as they combined with these specific rank 7 and 8 materials.
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