Chapter 333 - Prosthetic (1/2)
The forging started at once, Mercury and Marie worked the forge while Naila assisted, she too was a blacksmith or more precisely an 'active mana armor craftsman' as the thing the Wasim clan hated the most was borrowed power she had designed and made her own active mana armor under the guide of an elder over the course of 2 years, it was the same for her brother
”Mercury, I have a few questions”
”What is it?”
”I… I understand the blueprint, but where did you get this metal from? It's way lighter than anything I've ever seen before… Plus it's durable”
”Oh, the Aluminium?”
”...The what now?”
”Aluminium”
”...What kind of metal is this?”
”Well, it's the metal of the age of flight”
”Flight? Like a bird?”
”Yeah, it's not of this world”
”...I'll accept that explanation for now… Then with all these parts, what's going to bind them all together to my arm?”
Mercury showed a smile and spoke
”That comes later, let's focus on making the last of the parts for now”
”Okay…”
The three of them worked into the night before the components were done, then after they cooled down over the night the three people returned to the workshop and inspected the parts, Mercury gave his sign of approval and nodded before he asked Marie
”What does your [Metal appraisal] say?”
Marie inspected the pieces a bit before she nodded and spoke
”They're all grade 9… They are of excellent quality”
”Good… now for my part, [Essence shop]”
[Essence shop]
Current essence: 321.185
Available skills: none
Available purchases: [Metal gamble, cost: 1.000] [Advanced chunk of Living metal Assimilation, cost: 100.000]
Random status point, cost: 100
Specific status point, cost: 500
Level up, cost: 1.000
Mercury looked at his essence shop and noted that he was down about 200.000 points since before he began to mass-produce the golems, feeling the need to find a source of metal in the near future Mercury sighed before he spoke as he held out his hand
”Purchase [Advanced chunk of Living metal Assimilation]
Under the watchful eyes of the two girls, the chunk of living metal appeared in his hand from a flash of light, the chunk of living metal looked like a pool of mercury that was seemingly self-contained, Mercury then picked up the parts they had made of the prosthetic hand and threw them into the chunk of living metal, then he spoke
”Show me your arm Naila”
”...Yes”
Naila reached out her right arm and then Mercury moved the chunk of living metal up to her arm and spoke
”Initiate fusing”
The living metal obeyed and quickly fused with Naila's arm, then under Mercury's programing the prosthetic arm quickly formed, then he spoke
”FInalize 'prosthetic arm #1'”
Naila looked down at her new prosthetic and muttered
”No way…”
The hand had a silver metallic shine to it and looked just like a normal hand, she turned it around and moved her new fingers for a bit before she looked up at Mercury that wore a smile on his face and spoke
”This was originally going to be payment for a favor I was going to ask of the two of you, but since you pledged yourselves to me I figured it wouldn't hurt to have you combat able sooner”
Naila's eyes teared up slowly, she had been worried ever since she lost her arm that her days as a warrior would be finished, but now Mercury had given her a new arm, she kneeled down at once and spoke
”Thank you, Mercury, I swear I'll become the sword that strikes down your enemies so that I can live up to the gift you have bestowed onto me!”
Mercury looked at Naila, with her tanned skin, lean body, and curly dark brown hair she truly looked like a fierce desert fighter, she had a kind of untamed charm about her, like a majestic desert wolf, Mercury showed a smile and ruffled her hair a bit before he spoke
”I expect a lot from you, Naila”
”Yes!”