Chapter 94: Preparations (1/2)
He gave the staff some tries to see how well he could enable the design to draw mana and disable progress.
With the help of the Spirit Hammer's adjustments, he also changes the design to let out the boosted mana in a spherical shape at the top of the staff.
He gathered enough mana and cast his DOME OF SILENCE.
Shadows started being created by the tip of the staff and surrounding Shingi and started forming the Spell's usual spherical form.
The Spell finished forming in 10 seconds, which was better than the usual time that it was taking Shingi.
This was because he had to manipulate Dark Mana of the shadows surrounding him, which gave some resistance, so it was increasing the time to finish the Spell. But now, using the mana of the Mana Gem didn't have this kind of resistance and was almost like he used his mana if he could produce that Element with his Mana Pool.
He used his MANA SENSE to check the Mana Gem, and it seemed like this Spell alone had used almost half of the mana it had.
It would need more than one or two hours to replace that much mana, meaning he wouldn't be able to spam the Spell in a battle.
But the design worked better than he thought for the first try.
The boost mechanic was using a lot of mana, and that's why it consumed so much mana. He had to make some adjustments to it, but it wouldn't decrease the consumption by a crazy amount.
He could erase parts of the design by using his Earth Element mana to close the carving. This was only possible with this special mana-infused wood and needed to happen not a long time after the carving happened as the more time passed, the harder it would be to close the carve.
This was also possible since he had the PROGRAMMING ENCHANTMENT Skill, which enabled him to erase Enchantments as he did on Karemon's at the shop.
He erased as much as he could and started reworking on it with the Spirit Hammer once again.
He redid this a couple of times but didn't use the Mana Gem as it could completely get empty and break.
He tried to get some of the Mana Gem's Dark Mana and hold it in the place where the Mana Gem would typically be.
It wasn't enough mana to cast a Spell but enough for his test.
In the end, he seemed to have decreased significantly to almost a quarter of what the Mana Gem could have.
It was a sufficient number as the Mana Gem he was using wasn't one of the final designs, so the staff wasn't in full power yet.
He then made a wand version of it with space for the gem at the bottom on it instead.
He may not have as much space as with the staff, but his design wasn't that big, and with the help of the Spirit Hammer, he made it work.
He also noticed that more than an hour was spent using the Spirit Hammer and wasn't feeling any resistance as usual at that point, but some started slowly being build up after a while.
It seemed like he could use it for more time now, which would help to craft special equipment faster in the future.
He made the same tests in the wand, and since he already made it work on the staff, he didn't have to spend as much time but had to make some adjustments to make it more fit on a wand and do not be in touch with the hand of the users as it could cause some disturbance to it.
He Should work on their appearance as they were pretty plain and should make some protection around where the mana gems were residing but make it possible to change with a new Mana Gem is needed.
He also had to make designs for the rest of the Mana Gems, but he needed them to do that and work with Zhen on it.
He may have to bring him here someday or make similar Enchantments in the room at Zhen's lab to make the wands or staves they needed for personal use while working at this room for the shop's customers.
He took his wand and staff to show it at Volig, who was at a break as he had finished most of the orders.
Volig seemed impressed by them, and even he seemed to be able to use it.
When he was a Dwarf, he couldn't use any Mana, so he had to use other tools if needed to test equipment that needed mana.
But now that he had Earth Mana as part of his new race, he had learned the mana skills as they were beneficial for his crafting but no Spells.
He could strengthen the metals he was using by infusing them with some of his Earth Mana and making them stronger than expected.
”We should work on more wands and staves as Zhen shouldn't take too long to start producing some of them. I will go check him and Phoenix. Continue working on the orders, but when you have some time, try to make some for personal use for our people, and I will take care of the Enchantment.”[Shingi]
Volig agreed and started his was at the other crafting room to work on those as he didn't have many things to work on in the forge that he needed to hurry with.
Shingi found Anna in an alley they had discussed to meet if needed.
She had given him a special bell that she was the only one to hear it, and he should ring it if they needed to meet.
He let her know about Wild Tycoon and how Zhen's and the new creations of his were going.
”Sounds good. But we should hurry. As you noticed, they started gathering, and our new friends informed me that more of them would be here in three days and plan something big. But they don't know what this may be. We should be ready for a fight by then.”[Anna]
Shingi didn't like this at all as they seemed to move quicker than he thought.