Chapter 92 - The Shields are Ready (1/2)

A week later, the three Divine Soul elders of the Yule Continent Guild came back with Shinja, surprisingly, her cultivation had reached the second stage, it was basically because of her Pure Yin Body compatibility with the Ice Hell Danger Zone spiritual energy, which was a lot easier to convert into Elemental Source Energy, the elders had arrived at her place just a few hours after her breakthrough and were quite surprised with that outcome, it has only been more or less a year since she entered the Core Formation Realm, that speed was simply frightening!

Of course, other than her Pure Yin Body, Shinja had the Spiritual Energy Meridians to thanks for that too, all the spiritual energy that is absorbed is immediately compatible with her core, so she only needs to focus on converting it into the Elemental Source Energy, not to mention that the Ice Hell Danger Zone Spiritual Energy is easier to be converted as already mentioned.

Krune was still in the Forging room, Marcus was working in the last shield at moment and that would take some time to finish, but he wasn't in a hurry anyway, he took his time to separate the Elemental Source Energy from the spiritual energy that he uses for cultivation while reinforcing his foundation, even if just 10% turns into Elemental Source Energy, after a long time of cultivation, Krune already had quite a bit of it, he couldn't help but feel expectant about his Core Formation Realm Breakthrough.

Two hours later, Marcus asked for him to forge the last Divine Imprint, by this time, Krune was already completely used with the forging process, at first he would take over two hours to finish making one, but now he didn't need even thirty minutes, Marcus had to keep adapting to Krune's speed, but that wasn't a big issue, he just had to ask for it later.

After completing the last Divine Imprint, Krune went back to his corner and waited, even after the Divine Imprint was done, the process of forging the shield would still take a few more hours, for a second, Krune thought that since this is the last one, he didn't need to wait, but he ignored that idea, he had waited for so long already, a few more hours will make no difference, so he stayed.

It was already night time when Marcus took a deep breath, the last of the thirty-eight shields was finally completed, one could see the fatigue on his face, but at the same time, he seemed quite pleased with the results, he then passed it to Krune and asked him to give a quick try with all of them together.

Krune was also happy to see that all of them were finally done and immediately took out the other thirty-seven shields, after charging them with enough spiritual energy, Krune then went to an open space of the room, he then released the shields on the air and they started to float around him following different directions, it was quite a magical scene to see Krune in the center of those flying shields, Marcus couldn't help but nod in approval, Krune could really control all of them at the same time.

Krune then performed a few maneuvers but couldn't get them to attach together as he wanted, sometimes they didn't stop one beside the other as he wanted, other times their corners hit the corners of the other shields, leaving the formation of the shield wall incomplete, Marcus saw Krune doing that and started to laugh out loud.

”That is to be expected, precisely controlling thirty-eight shields at once wasn't something that a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator could do to start with, you will need to practice quite a lot, but since you can already control them to a certain extent, it will only be a time issue until you can use them properly.”

Krune then recalled the Shields back into his spatial ring and nodded to Marcus.

”I was already expecting it as well, it's really hard to control them perfectly, but I believe I will be able to do so in no time, I really have to thank you for these marvelous shields, they are simply amazing, I can feel the sturdiness of every single one of them, not to mention how easily the spiritual energy and the elements flow inside of them are, I can definitely call them masterpieces.”

Marcus nodded.

”There is no need for all of that blabbering, I was paid for this job already anyway, so it goes without saying that I would definitely complete them to the best of my abilities, I look forward to seeing how you will use them in the Martial Gathering.”

Krune nodded and exchanged a few more words, just when he was about to leave, Marcus called him from behind.

”Krune, your talent for forging is no less than Alchemy or Formations, in the future, you will come to understand that a weapon, or a shield in your case, can only achieve its best results in the hands of the person who forged it, so, don't give up forging, it will be of immense help for you in the future.”

Krune wasn't surprised with that statement since he already guessed as much, but for him to be able to make shields of this quality, he would need to be at least a Five Stars Blacksmith like Marcus, and he didn't have enough time nor the cultivation to reach that level.

”I know, I will not leave my forging skills behind, there will come a day when I forge the perfect shields.”

Marcus heard that and was surprised.

”So you didn't want to simply make a few Divine Imprints, that is good them, don't forget to pay me a visit after you come back from the Martial Gathering, I want to hear how was the performance of my babies.”

Marcus then passed a spatial ring to Krune.

”Inside you will find the necessary materials to repair your shields, you might not have achieved the level to make them, but it should be no problem for you to keep them in good condition.”

Marcus then laughed and went back to the Blacksmith Hall.

Krune liked Marcus very much, he was really an easy going person and nice to talk with, not to mention that his abilities were the real deal.

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Krune went back to his room and opened his communicator, he then told Yusa and the others that he had finished making his equipment, and then asked if they didn't want to go eat something, everyone had been busy training all this time, so this little time to relax was greatly appreciated.

They gathered in Ao's room, and the one who cooked, of course, was Krune again after the food was ready, they started to eat while Krune explained what happened after creating the ninth meridian, Shinja and the others couldn't help but be amazed by that, of course, Krune left out little light's existence.

”The meridians opened a spatial gate, how is that even possible, it's a totally different matter from simply teleporting, I can't believe that.”

Shinja was a lot more concerned with the changes though.

”To think you can acquire Elemental Source Energy before the Core Formation Realm, if I knew that, I would have waited for when I had nine meridians too, that would give me a nice boost.”