Chapter 608: Growing Family
—Cinema Dinsion—
The place had grown quiet with the announcent of the World Quest. Most figures that had co to watch the adventures of the joint champion had left. Many were too busy looking for a chosen of their own, to leave a clone in the pay-per-view dinsion.
In the first row, Apollo, Persephone, and Hers still sat with Hades, Seth and Hephaestus. Aside from them, there was also the Dungeon God in the row behind them and so other hidden figures further behind.
“Aren’t you going to look for a champion?” the dungeon god asked the Olympians from the row behind them.
“Who says I’m not looking right now?” Apollo asked, his eyes fixed on an invisible list.
The god of sunlight was currently skimming over the rankings. The lists accessible to the gods were a lot more in-depth than the simple ranking the player could see. It was a whole database that could be searched based on tags like player classes, titles, and personality traits.
“There currently isn’t anyone that picks my fancy. There is that one guy in Y-City I found, but he is too ambitious for my taste. He lacks respect for the craft, despite his talent,” Hephaestus lanted.
“I have one or two candidates, but I’m just observing for now;” Hades said vaguely.
Persephone only smiled, while Hers seed to be in thought. Seth was the only one with a dark face. The question reminded him of the fact, that he had lost his special right to choose a second champion besides Seth.
He beca a little grumpy hearing the others talk since he didn’t even get the chance to look at the ranking and observe other players, as they did. This was because he counted as a god who had chosen their champion. He could only observe his chosen and nobody else.
As much as he appreciated the blacksmith when he went all out, he only got so much enjoynt from watching him craft so day in and day out. He would have wanted to choose a dedicated warrior as his second champion, but couldn’t because of his little misstep when he pushed the blacksmith toward the bard class as his second class.
“No need to be so down, Seth. We are in the sa boat.” the dungeon god smiled.
Since he was the god of dungeons, he was sothing like a competitor and business partner of the system god. Their interest overlapped in so areas, which was why they had a specific agreent. This also pertained that the dungeon god couldn’t choose a player as his champion.
Although he liked his beasts and monsters, they were seldom as interesting to watch as players. Even the very intelligent ones.
“Oh, shut up. You are still better off than ,” Seth barked.
The dungeon god could still see anything that happened in the dungeons, and let other gods see this, too. He could still observe the players through the eyes of the beasts. It was much different from Seth, whose only personal interface to Urth was now Seth. He would have to pay for anything else.
“No need to be so grumpy, Seth. Didn’t we agree that you can watch our champions too, once we chose them,” Hephaestus tried to calm the moody god of chaos.
Seth’s face beca even darker, but he didn’t say anything. What was he supposed to expect? Hephaestus was a crafting nut, so his champion would be even worse to watch than little Seth and Hades…
The god of chaos had seen enough of the Underworld, all of them were more or less the sa. He didn’t have huge expectations for the Chosen of Hades. It would probably be so dreary necromancer that played with the souls of the dead. Again, not too different from little Seth.
While the others were bickering, Hers suddenly had a mischievous smile on his face.
“I think I found soone who can do great things with my blessing, and we all will have sothing from it,” he suddenly exclaid.
“Oh, did you find so mighty thief already?” Seth scoffed.
“No need to be so snarky, to my little brother, Seth. Who is it?” Apollo turned to Hers.
“No need to hurry. You will soon find out.” Hers said mysteriously.
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Over the next week, Seth made himself busy working on Faer. Although nothing happened right away in the world, it was like the calm before the storm. A lot of things had suddenly changed and been introduced. People needed ti to adjust, but everyone thought it was just a matter of ti for sothing to happen.
In the anti, the recruitnt of people went smoothly from what Seth heard. Their demonstration of power during the live event was quite effective. Although Seth had only thought of it mostly to make their trade route profitable again.
With all the changes happening lately, the Tree Route was going to offer many ways of inco in the future. Since Minas Mar was providing housing now, Mary obviously implented a rent system. A whole city paying rent to them, on top of their tax revenue from their right on the Trade Route. Even if they made the rent cheap, they would earn big.
Having the governnt make a move concerning the leaderboards had also worked, sowhat. Just a few days after the introduction of the rankings, there was an official announcent that explained everything about the leaderboards and their rules. They would have liked to keep so things hidden, but anyone could have gone to ask the church and find out the details.
Instead, random duels and challenges were prohibited for the ti being. Players from fighting classes that wished to announce challenges had to do so openly in the arena and they could only challenge a person once a day. It didn’t matter whether their guess was right or not in the end.
This bought so ti for the people that didn’t reveal their nas and the blacksmith could concentrate on his own project. Although he was creating life, he left most of the heavy lifting to the golem forge.
For the bigger souls, he had gotten from Tano’Mol, Seth chose a different route, apart from the core technology. He had not wanted to water down the smaller souls, in case it would beco harder to find themselves with the introduction of foreign mories through fusion.
This was not necessary for the bigger dium and above-sized souls. He chose the sa thod he had used for Ceres for them. He would infuse their souls into the base material, before letting the golem forge turn it into the tal fra for their resurrection.
By infusing the soul directly into the material, the fra could be made much simpler since it would not need all kinds of complicated connection formations that allowed the soul to control the fra. Not only did it make it simpler, it also offered the option to make it more complicated as there was more place for other enchantnts.
Since the fra didn’t need enchantnts for control, why not use this space for enchantnts to improve the base attributes of the Faer-to-be. In theory, Seth could have even forgone the movent enchantnts at the joints to make even more space for enchantnt, but he decided against it. Leaving out the movent enchantnts would have created a weakness.
Currently, the fleshly body was a mostly costic add-on. The Faer could gain additional power through the system for their movent and have a better life with it, but they were not dependent on the flesh like humans were.
Were he to leave out the movent enchantnts, the Faer would beco susceptible to all kinds of effects like poisons that could stun them, by harming or paralyzing the body. His technological advancent, his decisions, and the improvent of his skills only allowed these new Faer to start off even more powerful than the original Faer.
This was in part only possible because Seth ca to trust the magical precision of the golem forge. Even though his skills had grown magnificently, even a master was prone to mistakes. But once the soul was infused into the material, there was no easy way of going back. If he ssed up and lost so of it, it would hurt the soul itself. (it would also take much longer to do everything himself)
The only drawback of this thod was that the only crafting skills that gained proficiency from doing this were and to a smaller extent . Just working the material and leaving the enchantnts to the forge was not enough to really gain experience with or . Even the rank one bonus could not make any kind of change to the proficiency bar visible.
He would have liked to use the bonus of being ranked one to quickly improve his crafting skills, but he judged this was more important for now. The only consolation was that it went a lot quicker than he expected.
This was thanks to his optimized workflow. Instead of finishing the Faer one by one, he spent the first four days only concentrating on infusing the souls into the materials and leaving the building of the fras to the golem forge.
It was like assembly-line work and much less of a headache than the legendary armor. It was almost like a break for the blacksmith as he enjoyed working at leisure like this.
The only differentiation he had to worry about was between the fras made for magic-related classes and those made for physical classes. This was only a rough differentiation. One was made of with enchantnts that would improve Intelligence, Willpower, and Mana Regeneration.
The other was made of with enchantnts that improved the different physical attributes like Endurance, Strength, Agility, Dexterity, and /or Health Regeneration. However, there were always so variations based on the talents of the soul.
With 4-5 kilograms of tal per fra, he burned through more than a full tric ton of epic material in four days to make the fras. The next three days, he spent serenading the tal skeletons, suspended in his magic formation, one by one.
At least this allowed him to gain so proficiency to a visible extent in and . While the forr had quickly beco lv.5 of the Journeyman rank, the latter was Adept lv.9, but slowly creeping up to the Journeyman rank.
On the sixth day, when he was on the last stretch, an unexpected skill also finally had a level up. beca level 7 and not much later his beca Journeyman lv.1.
Although he had done this literally several hundred tis now, even when the lest Faer stepped out from the waters of Styx on the 7th day, and opened his eyes, he still felt wonder. Maybe because of the contract, or them being his creation, he felt a connection to each of them.
It was different from the golems, and more similar to how his connection with Tatzel and Puffles felt, albeit weaker. Was it because they had egos? Would he feel this kind of connection with all his creations if they beca sentient enough?
Others may have been frightened or felt manipulated, however, Seth enjoyed this. It really felt like the family of Minas Mar was growing.
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