Chapter 178: Training at Hideout part 5 (1/2)

He had to work on this project with Little Phoenix, but first, she had to decide on the Runes to use. Belly had drawn the possible Runes and explained them, so he just had to find the right combination. He had studied them already, but most were difficult to reproduce without help.

He studied them with his RUNE APPRAISAL Skill and added some personal notes as he started carving them on two test battleaxes he had bought beforehand. He had many weapons stored for testing and in case they needed to fight while keeping their proper equipment a secret. They didn't have the best pieces of equipment, but they were way above average, and many would try to get them from them if they saw them.

Dark Guild knew they were there, but they didn't have enough time to see their equipment's full power to know how rare they were.

But if they got their class to evolve, their power would increase enough not to be scared from most of them, at least not the normal members. Still, there would be some special cases, and they would need to level up quite a bit not to have any worries, but Shingi was confident they could do it.

He worked on the right Runes and had made some prototypes without the help of Little Phoenix, but he couldn't finish the last step. Other than carving them, he had to pull a part of his selected Element or Elements on the Rune, but it didn't work for whatever reason he did it himself.

He spoke with Little Phoenix and Syra, and it seemed like when they used the mana, it took the form of a string instead of the usual shapeless form. Shingi couldn't give his mana that form for whatever reason, but he got close sometimes to succeed. If he continued, maybe he could actually get the necessary Skill to make Runes by himself.

Other than upgrading his students' equipment, he would create a special trinket for himself. This was the special project Soren had mentioned. That was also the reason he got all these special parts of the Bosses.

Except for the 6 items gathered, he would use the second ring of his, which had some of his Spells stored. It wouldn't be another staff, or a blade, or any type of weapon, but a trinket used as a focus for his spell casting. It was a useful one as it saved him from using his Mana Seeds unless he wanted to have them strengthened, as the speed was similar.

He would make another ring that wouldn't be able to store Spells in it, but the materials used on the ring would be helpful to the mix of the special materials at his disposal. It would help keep the Element of each item perfectly balanced and increase his proficiency in using MANA MANIPULATION Skills on the different Elements. He would choose what Elements the ring would affect, but the more Elements, the weaker the effect.

Shingi pulled out the pearl, the Sphinx's stride of hair, the heart of the Mother Earthworm, the Harp, Kelvin's dark crystal, and Lava Dragon's core. He tied the Dragon Core and the pearl together using the hair stride and the harp strings. He trimmed the dark crystal and the hearth of the Mother Earthworm, which was pretty much a rock itself that a piece of flesh.

He mixed those two and spread them around the connected core and pearl. Then he had his forge to be at full power and even more since he used Light, Fire, and Air Element to strengthen them and purify them simultaneously.

When the flames reached their limit, he pulled in the weird result of combining all the items, and after a bit, he put the ring too but was holding it with a pair of tongs. He wouldn't melt the ring, at least not completely. He had to move the ring with the tongs to spread the mix all over the ring, as long as it was still liquified.

He used some of his Air Element remaining in the fire to hold the materials in place, and when he had all of it used, he started pulling the ring away from the forge slowly. He unleashed more of his Air Mana to cool it off.

He let the ring become less warm as he pulled it in a special box, made of enchanted silver, embedded with Ice Mana, so it had a cooling effect.

He needed to let it in there, but not to cool off but to embed the element on itself; the water and air element of the box. He would then have to put it in a similar box with Fire Mana, Earth the Light, and finally Dark. He had prepared the boxes before they got into the Tower but embedding them with the right Element during their breaks with the help of his students.