Chapter 326 Keeping It Together (1/2)

For a few moments, Eisen and Jyuuk stared at each other confused, before the Beastperson looked at the old man with a wry smile. ”Who exactly were you talking about just now?” He asked, and just then, his concerned expression nearly immediately changed to a light smile.

”It was probably just you playing around a little with your backstory, right? You do like to do that a lot.” Jyuuk pointed out, and Eisen nodded his head with a chuckle. ”I guess I'm getting carried away a lot lately, this happened more than just once today.” The old man laughed, before Jyuuk nodded his head and looked at the two metal plates that the old man was still holding.

”But either way, I wasn't aware that that was how you use mana string! I'll let Xenia know about it, so she might come by to take a look at it tomorrow.” Jyuuk said with a smile and then slowly turned around, leaving the room as if he was skipping along his path.

And then, Eisen looked at the spinnerets with a smile, before placing them over to the side to just use them for some other stuff later. For now, he had to get started with making the parts for the first Golem's hand.

He ripped at the two pieces of steel just to see how stable it was, and noticed that it was actually rather hard to split them up again.

But then, the old man remembered the Maroon he had in one of the boxes in the corner, which he swiftly grabbed and ran over one of the steel plates, nearly immediately absorbing the mana that made up the mana-string, causing the lower one of the two small pieces of steel to drop down onto the table in front of Eisen, who just nodded his head with a smirk.

”Alright, that's a thing to remember, then.” He said with a light whistle before throwing the two pieces of steel into the forge to turn them into the first parts for the first steel-finger.

When the small chunks of steel started glowing a bright yellow, Eisen grabbed them back out of the fire and grabbed his hammer from next to him. For a moment he wanted to take the one from his earring, but considering that Eisen was working on a pretty small part while in his regular size, that would be a bit overkill and really not a good idea in the slightest.

And soon enough, using his Mythril hammer, Eisen managed to shape the different pieces of steel into the shapes they were meant to be, adding more and more into the forge in order to heat up the materials that he needed.

After a little while, the old man had all the different pieces laying in front of him. There were of course the parts for the fingers together with their respective joints, but there was also the main centerpiece for the palm and back of the hand together with some other parts that were meant to be added in different places around that centerpiece to allow for proper, smooth movement of the hand.

Eisen was actually rather impressed, as this was part of Evalia's designs! Through practicing animation and by watching people she would draw sometimes that often, she was rather familiar with that type of intricate movement, and wanted to make sure that the Golems' hands didn't end up too stiff to do anything.

And Eisen appreciated that a lot! He didn't make this kind of item that often, at least he didn't do so in the past hundred years or so as far as he could remember, and-

”Stop... that...” The old man muttered to himself as he grasped the worktable in front of him dizzily, although that swiftly disappeared again and turned into ecstacy, letting Eisen continue on as normal. Of course, this didn't end up just passing by Eisen's monsters either.

”Eisen... Caria, Melly and Sal are worried about you... Are you okay?” Caria asked with a frown, before Eisen turned down toward the young Myconid and nodded his head. ”Of course I'm okay, don't worry sweetheart. I'm just a bit too old for my own good, so this kind of thing happens sometimes.” Eisen expained and winked at her as he placed his hand onto the tip of her cap, but Caria just slowly nodded and sat back down on the bench, a little bit away from the hot fire of the forge, and kept playing with Melissa and Sal, although she seemed to be less excited compared to before, and kept turning her head to look at Eisen all the time.

And while that was happening behind the old man, Eisen himself just looked back at the parts in front of him, happily grabbing the first steel-marble that would act as a joint between the tip of the index finger and its center-piece, before intricately concentrating on the item in front of him, because that was necessary for this kind of small item, considering that Eisen then started to use transmutation to create a 3D enchantment in the center of the small metal marble, pushing the excess-materials out of it instead of keeping them inside.

It took a lot longer than Eisen would have liked it to, but soon enough he managed to complete the 'Magnetism' enchantment that he wanted to create for the exact parts that the metal-marble would connect to, so that it wouldn't stick to other pieces at all.

And then,with a small enchanting needle, Eisen began to carve onto the outside of the marble to finish it off, before pouring his mana inside of it to initially activate it for this first test. Just a few moments later, two thirds of the index finger of the first golem's right hand were connected to each other, but soon fell apart again as the enchantment wasn't constantly supplied with the mana it needed to function.

Eisen was aware that his Golemancy itself would take care of this issue already, just keeping the body roughly together properly all the time even if the enchantments weren't active, but the old man had another plan for all of this, although he could only really execute it when he finished the whole hand.

And so, Eisen continued with his plan for another little while, until he finished the last joint of the whole hand and received a notification in response.

[Enchanting reached Level 100 in Rank 3, upgrading to Rank 4]