Chapter 325 Mana-String (1/2)

Later that day, Eisen chose to make a slight change to his plans. Instead of starting to work on the Golems, he would start working on his enchanting skill in a certain way. The lessons for the day were over, so now Eisen was at the end of the first floor, where the stairs to the second floor would later be together with the 'Safe Area'.

And Eisen was now standing inside of that 'Safe Area' with Sigurd and the five Kobolds that Eisen taught, although Eisen really just cared for one of them at the moment. The Masonry Kobold.

Yesterday during the lessons, it had changed considerably as well, and had become a similar height to the Blacksmith Kobold. It's fur was a slight red-brown, similar to regular bricks, and its whole body had bulked up although its arms and legs were still able to move quite swiftly with smooth motions.

”So, Sigurd.” Eisen then said after he properly took a look at that Kobold again, and the Core Guardian nodded its head with a smile. ”Yes?” It asked, and Eisen looked at the screen floating in front of him. ”In the options, it says we can now spawn 'Masonry Kobold's. But you said we can only have five Kobolds at once without them regularly spawning in this area. If possible, it would be great if we could have about five Masonry Kobolds here at once, is there any way?” Eisen inquired, and Sigurd nodded its head immediately before waving its hand, making a small door appear. It was similar to the door that appeared usually leading to the Core Room, just slightly smaller, and the feeling it gave off was pretty different as well.

And after the door opened, Sigurd looked at the Kobolds with a smile. ”The four of you without the Masonry skill, get inside there until we call you out again.” It told them, and slowly the Kobolds did as said and stepped through the gate, before the door closed shut and the whole thing disappeared again.

”That's basically a 'Storage Room' for our monsters. When they're inside of there, they're in a whole different space, so we can spawn four more Masonry Kobolds. They won't be just as proficient as the one we have here, because this one actually learned to reach Rank 1 and they were created with it. That also means that they won't ever reach its natural proficiency, though.” Sigurd pointed out, and Eisen nodded his head with a grin.

”That's fine, they just need to lay the bricks I gave them.” Eisen answered, and Sigurd nodded its head before four more red-brown Kobolds appeared, although they looked slightly different to the one that Eisen had 'created'. The color of their fur wasn't as prominent, maybe slightly 'washed out' compared to the original Masonry Kobold, and they were slightly shorter as well.

”Hmm, that makes it easy. You four, this guy here's your 'Leader'. So listen to him.” Eisen exclaimed as he pat the back of the original Masonry Kobold, before explaining what exactly they had to do.

”Big guy, you're coordinating everything, while these four will each take a wall to work on. When I hand you a brick, you give that to the right Kobold, and hand me a new one, got it? Take this as a bit of practice as well.” Eisen explained with a wink before sitting down in the center of the square room and a small pile of stone bricks behind him before taking out his carving needle.

”You all ready?” Eisen asked with a smile, and the 'Leader' Masonry Kobold nodded excitedly before handing the old man the first brick, which he swiftly began to carve into.

And what he was carving into this was quite simple as well. Five of the brick's sides were covered in enchantments that would cause all kinds of positive effects like accelerating HP, MP and Stamina regeneration. And then the empty side of the brick was the one that would be on the 'inside' of the room, so that nobody would be able to tell this place apart from other rooms at least visually.

Considering that the bricks were of magical nature due to being created by the Dungeon-System, that made them a great base for such enchantments, and because Sigurd could perfectly controll this space, and because it had an immense amount of mana in its arsenal, the enchantments could be active constantly while someone was inside of the room.

And most importantly, due to the sheer amount of bricks that would be needed to create the walls, the floor, and the ceiling for a five by five by three meter room, this was the perfect way to gain proficiency in enchanting.

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Another few hours later, Eisen's part of the task was done. He finished enchanting all of the bricks that could ever be needed within this room, as well as an excess of about 5% just in case something went wrong, and now just needed the Kobolds to finish everything up.

”I have to say, this was the perfect way to practice. The skill is at level 98 now! I'll surely be able to Rank it up quite soon then.” The old man said with a light whistle before checking the time floating in the corner of his sight. ”Hmm, I guess I can get started on their bodies already...” He muttered quietly and chose to exit the dungeon and make his way over toward his workshop.

Eisen could have just stayed in the dungeon and worked there, but like this, Fafnir could wake up as nobody was inside of the dungeon, besides those entities belonging directly to it, and on top of that he had all of the materials he might need near his workshop, so he could just go and grab whatever he needed whenever he needed it.