Chapter 615 - Success and Failure (Part 2) (1/2)

”Since you have no troubles with other women sleeping with your spouse, can I borrow him from time to time? He's beyond delicious and Mom has taught me how I can feed on a man while we both experience the same amount of pleasure.” Nyka asked.

Blood was the most abundant source of life force, but it was not the only one a vampire could draw sustenance from.

”He is not my spouse and like heck I'm fine with it!” Solus blurted out.

”I'm jealous, okay? I admit it! Are you happy now?”

”Actually, yes.” Nyka said while giving the flabbergasted Solus a big hug.

”I would never touch your man, I just wanted you to express your feelings out loud.”

Nyka was usually tactless and so direct when she wanted something that she bordered on being rude. Solus had completely fallen for her act and so did Tista, who had become beet red at the image the Nyka's words had painted in her head.

”What about your memory?” Tista asked, eager to change the topic.

”I did everything I could like it happens in my visions, but nothing. The cloaking ring is a masterpiece, but the attempt to retrieve my memories was a failure. It seems I can afford to keep my secret for a bit longer before…”

Solus choked on her words as she noticed that Tista was deadly pale.

The prolonged effort had triggered the body refinement process. Tista was soon in spasms as her body expelled the acc.u.mulated impurities by turning her inside out like a sock. Tista's bones cracked and reformed, causing her such an intense pain that Solus had to use her Immortal Body array to ensure her survival.

”Worst girl's night ever.” Tista said once the process was over, right before losing consciousness.

***

In the days before the procedure, Kamila used all of her free time to stay with her sister while Lith alternated between experimenting on Forgemastering and on Origin Flames. Even his second attempt at crafting a Bloom Skinwalker Armor ended in a failure.

Its pseudo core was too complex and the amount of mana it required was too big for Lith's current abilities, even with Solus's help. In the meantime, Zekell had finished smelting the first two batches of Orichalc.u.m into metal ingots.

He was working on a way to make chausses, hauberks, and coifs with a decent shape since Lith had yet to send him the blueprint for the hammers. After thinking about it for a while, Lith gave him two different images for two different hammers.

One was shaped like a proper blacksmith tool, consisting of a shaft and a head with two hammers. The second was more similar to an ice ax, featuring on its head a hammer and a small pick.

”Why two hammers? No matter the Forgemastering technique we use, they'll have the exact same properties. It's a waste of Orichalc.u.m and mana crystals!” Solus couldn't understand Lith's decision.

For someone as stingy as he was, such a thing was like throwing money in the gutter.

”I have my reasons.' Was the only reply he would give her.

Lith and Solus Forgemastered both hammers and then practiced with the amount of extra mana the Forgemastering tools could hold before attempting to craft a Skinwalker Armor again. Also, they learned a few new things about Origin Flames.

Even though there was a huge difference between how they interacted with physical materials and magical energy, they could burn them both. Things like stone or metal would seemingly be destroyed and reformed several times.

It would cause them to change their shape and physical properties. Both the quality and the quantity of Origin Flames employed influenced the outcome. A little amount would act almost as if it was a common flame, too much would destroy anything.