Today was Wilma’s birthday. And as has beco a semi-tradition by now, it began with bringing her breakfast to bed.
Wilma has one of the hardier breakfasts amongst us. The ats she enjoyed changed from day to day, but she always had plenty, along with eggs and either rice or mashed potatoes.
Today I made what is basically a full English breakfast. With stuff like bacon, sausages, eggs, fried rice and mushrooms, and handmade bread rolls and flavored butter. And to top it all off, a giant steak of dragon at. With a bordelaise sauce that Tinkhec made.
And no, I didn’t make everything. The bacon was cut and cured by Unika, Alice made the sausages, Lua helped with the bread rolls and the mushrooms are grown in the CropFields.
For drinks, she had coffee and a ‘special draconic drink’ Janina made. I know what it is and it isn’t anything bad, it just sounds questionable when put that way.
Wilma didn’t use to drink coffee, as you can basically only get coffee beans from the Empire, but even before I was introduced to Hiro, Lawrence has been bringing so from the Empire as he carries out business there. And after Hiro, we get the best possible price for the stuff, as long as I only import it for our use.
She doesn’t like her coffee black, by the way. She instead likes it with a bit of berry juice mixed in. The juice is made of berries from Smorog, and they are kind of like cranberries. I think that is the closest. I have no clue how Wilma can drink coffee mixed with cranberry juice, but you ask her.
… okay. I know you want to know what the ‘special draconic drink’ is. It is a mana tonic of sorts made by soaking dragon scales in water. This lets the natural mana from the dragon scales to seep into the water and gives it a strange flavor. Yes, it can be used as a mana potion, and if made with scales from an adult dragon, it can be quite potent.
The one Janina brought to Wilma is made from her own scales. Not from her newest batch, those are still all mine, but the tonic is sothing she made a while ago and has been keeping safe in her cavern.
You can also make dragon vine in a similar fashion, but Janina hasn’t made any of that in a long ti, and she said she is saving what she has for a special occasion.
We had the HoBase part of Wilma’s birthday celebration in the morning, as we were going to head to Smorog in the afternoon.
We had so cake, which wasn’t made by but Alice and I designed it. Then my monsters made it. It was a multi-tiered cake, each tier showing a different part of tals journey to beco a finished tal. The bottom layer had a tal mine, then a refinery, then a foundry and finally a smiths workshop on the top layer. And at the very top, as a sort of centerpiece, a sword made out of sugar candy.
Now that might sound massive, and maybe it is, but HoBase does have quite a few temporary residents, so the cake might not even last till tomorrow, and if it does, it will be finished tomorrow.
Wilma was quite a big fan of the cake, and she spent so ti looking at all the details before cutting into it.
After cake, it was ti for presents. I went first this ti, because while I have my usual gift for her, I had sothing custom for her as well.
That sothing is a smithing apron made of dragon scales. Dragon scales that originate from my own body. It was a bit painful to rip enough of them off for the apron, but unlike true dragons, I don’t molt so I can’t naturally detach my scales.
And no, it didn’t leave with any bald spots or anything thanks to regeneration.
The apron was fireproof enough to take on a blast of my dragon fire for so ti, and it was honestly sothing you could wear into battle, but of course that isn’t what its intended use is. I just want it to protect Wilma from anything bad that could happen in the Workshop.
From Alice, Wilma received a book on new tal Magic spells Alice developed with my monsters, with so help from her unique-racial skill. It has spells that would help in the forming of legendary tals, spells that would allow for instant and perfect heat treatnt, spells to optimize the repair of nicked blades and so on. A lot of spells that could be done, but were difficult with the currently designed spells that were a thing.
Lua gifted her so Blood Crystals. They are a decently new thing Lua figured out how to make. They are essentially hardened and crystalized blood, but they can actually be used for so cool things. Especially when embedded into blood iron or vampiric steel.
For example, they can hold mana. Not quite as well as magic stones, but still well. They can also boost Blood Magic, and so on. And they are extrely good dium for writing Blood Magic related enchantnts to.
Cailie had obtained so Sea Crystals with the help of Varuna. They are ancient magic stones that were used in tis before magic stones. They are more like monster cores, crystallized clusters of water attributed mana and miasma. They can even be turned into magic stones, but the process is different from converting a monster core to a magic stone. They are easier to convert, as they don't need the 'stabilization' or 'compression' part. They just convert automatically after being filled with enough mana of their dedicated attribute.
The Sage’s Tower was quite interested when I told them about it, as they believed these elent crystals were just monster cores, but luckily my resident ancient being knew they weren’t the sa thing.
The reason those crystals are no longer used is because it takes a long ti for even just one to form. And they form in difficult to get places. Water crystals form at the bottom of the ocean. Fire stones form inside the earth itself, within the magma, and are sotis pushed to the surface when a volcano erupts. We did find one in Agunan’s volcano, but just one. Air crystals form in the upper atmosphere, but they burn up or break apart when they fall to the earth, so you have to get them when they are up there. And earth crystals form deep inside the ground. I had actually found a few in the Quarry, but I was like the Sage’s Tower and believed they were just regular monster cores of monsters that died a long ti ago.
We’ve yet to figure out if Dark crystals can naturally form, but it is possible they do and we just don’t know where. And for light, we’ve found one already. The one that was at the peak of Stella’s mountain. It was a massive Light crystal, but it was broken apart during her and Unika’s unification evolution. Sure so of it is still there, but a lot of it is in my Storage.
That crystal was also Unika’s gift to Wilma. It did belong to her, even if I was the one holding onto it. And admittedly Wilma had already experinted with the stone and even made so magic staves out of it.
Because of that, Unika also hunted so rare monsters and brought the materials to Wilma. They were nice, but nothing she wouldn’t get by just asking.
Last of us was Janina. She had brought out sothing else from her hoard. One dragon fang sword to be specific.
It was a very old sword, one Janina herself carried on her hip when she went around the world in a dragon avatar. It was made from the fang and scales of the supre dragon before her, so I was admittedly extrely jealous of Wilma getting that sword. I would have loved to have sothing like that.
After the HoBase celebration, we headed for Smorog. I had contacted Klaus so he knew we were coming. And he has hopefully gotten us permission for sothing really cool.
Wilma eting her teacher was a bit awkward since he does look and sound exactly the sa as Wilma’s System Support, but that is a small problem as we don’t interact with Klaus all that often. And Wilma didn’t want to change it early on, despite the recomndations.
Our party here began with so dwarven vine, which was more like hard spirit. It was quite strong but still tasted great.
Oh, it might be worth ntioning that I’ve been a Dwarf the whole day and I spent a bunch of ti in the morning styling my beard to Wilma’s liking. I’m personally not a big fan of a long beard, but Wilma likes seeing with it, so for her, I’ll suffer for a day.
… It isn’t actually that bad. If I was a human, it would itch, I feel like, but as a dwarf, it doesn’t bother . I think dwarves have thicker or less sensitive skin than humans.
Eventually, we got to the special thing I had asked Klaus to prepare for us. We were visiting a certain sword. The indestructible sword of penance, Chandrahas to be specific.
It wasn’t stone during the attack, thank god, as it was held in an eternal crystal. So now we could take a look at it. And yes, I said we as I’ll be analyzing the weapon as well.
Wilma has naturally appraised it before, but back then she didn’t have enough mana to see all the details. Now she does.
But I know what you might ask. How will you get the sword out of the crystal? And if you do get it out, how do you get it back in? You didn’t bring Alice or Lua to help.
Well, I have a little cheat for that. One called Intangibility. Yeah. With the Nuron Code Intangibility, I can just pass through the crystal, take the sword into Storage, and then I can bring it out of Storage outside of the crystal.
That way, we could get more than just the appraisal results for the sword. We could get a good feel for the weight and balance of the sword, and it did feel quite nice.
In terms of quality, it was a really nice sword. Naturally a lot had been focused on the ‘indestructible’ part, but it had a few other tricks.
Like the 2500 strength the sword ca with. Yeah. That is quite the boost, and it applies to anyone. … almost.
See, the sword can’t actually be wielded by anyone who has done bad things, or has evil intentions. And the way the sword was able to identify that was a massive ss of spells that were sohow made easy to write. Whover enchanted the sword was a master at their craft and really went all out on designing the enchants.
It did give so ideas on how certain enchants could be done. For example, I think I could now make a ‘bloodline’ weapon that can only be wielded by soone, and their future generations. Kind of like the Hero’s armor that can be worn by him, but also his children who carry the ‘Descendant of the Hero’ title.
After we were done observing the sword, I returned it to the eternal crystal with the sa trick I got it out, just in reverse.
We decided to stay the night in Smorog, and we were offered the best room in the city's best hotel. It was a large suite clearly ant for Royal or higher ranked noble visitors.
It wasn’t quite the match to HoBase, but it was really nice.
There, I gave Wilma her second, and third, gift from . First was my engagent gift in the dwarven style, which for Wilma was a forging hamr. Dwarves give a tool based on the trade of the person they are courting, so a pickaxe for a miner, forging hamr for a smith, sword for a warrior and so on.
The hamr was like Wilma liked, and I made so parts of it out of adamantite to make it unbreakable. It did also hold a magic stone I converted on the side, as I wanted to add it. The magic stone doesn’t actually do anything, just looks cool.
On top of that, I also made Wilma a piece of jewelry that held my self made magic stone. It was a beard clip/ring that she could use when styling her beard, another quite traditional dwarven gift.
And after those two things, Wilma asked for a different kind of gift to end the day. … yeah. You know what I an. I wasn’t quite sure how soundproof the rooms were, so I set up a Space Magic barrier to make sure no sound escaped the room. We wouldn’t want to bother others, right?
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