Once she had finished greeting her new friend, Dana cast another spell, and the original two Golems returned in all their statuesque glory.
That made four summoned helpers for Dana now, including her Spellblade Demoness type [Epic Guard]. Not many mages at any Rank could claim to have that much additional firepower, and this new Greater Golem looked like it would be a reliable damage dealer in combat.
Moira and Mash were staring at the Greater Golem with increasing suspicion. There was no way that simply gaining an item had given her a new skill. Unless, it was actually part of the runes, and Karl had been holding out on them?
But they had read them as he wrote them, morizing the pattern for their own attempts later. They hadn't seen anything about a [Greater Golem] spell in there.
"It's an opportune timing of another skill's activation, not directly from the bracelet. Though the extra stacks of Luck might have helped. Don't think too much about it, the process will just make your head hurt. It's my skill, and I don't even know how it determines that it's going to upgrade a skill for a group mber." Karl explained.
Moira sighed. "That's just unfair. I know that support classes are a thing, but a support class that lets others upgrade a skill by a Grade? Completely overpowered. Coupled with your Runecrafting, you're basically the best friend that a newbie adventurer could hope to make."
Dana winked at the half Elven woman. "Don't I know it. I've been working with him since we were both in school, and my power has grown incredibly fast."
"Are you from the sa pack, then?" Moira asked, not realizing that Dana and Karl were using a transformation spell.
"No, but we went to the sa school, until we were sent out into the world with this lovely group of ladies. I suppose technically we might still be enrolled, but at this point, I don't think that there is much they're going to be willing and able to teach us there." Dana laughed.
That was a concept that they could understand. They were teachers at a rather prestigious Academy, but there were only so many secrets and powerful skills that they would teach to a random student who didn't have strong ties of loyalty both to the school and the nation.
There was a commotion outside, and Karl moved to the window to see what it could be. Certainly, nobody would be brave enough to attack them again. Not with the Gargoyles in place and an Overlord in charge.
But the answer was much less concerning. Little Butterfly had made five tiny versions of Dana's new Golem, and they were running around the yard, barking balls of fire and playing with Lotus.
"That doesn't look safe." Mash noted, deep concern apparent in his black eyes.
"It's an illusion skill. While it can cause damage, it doesn't seem likely that the caster would want to harm Lotus. But a cleric of the Green Dragon loves all forms of creatures, and these ones are new to her."
While Karl had replied absently, the words coming out of his mouth actually gave him a great idea. Little Butterfly only knew two skills. Invisibility and Illusionary Domain. If she could learn more skills, wouldn't she be able to create even more convincing Illusions, or ones that caused significant damage to enemies?
The illusions were already solid, but any sort of damage would disperse them. Teaching Little Butterfly a barrier skill might make them more durable.
But as soon as Karl thought of the idea, he sensed the negative response from Little Butterfly. It was certain that wouldn't work.
[We will take a trip to the Library then, and I will see what you can learn to enhance your skills. Don't worry, we have lots of money now.]
That sounded wonderful to both the butterfly and to Remi, who had voraciously devoured the knowledge contained in almost all of the technical tos in her swamp, before moving on to the ones in the Library illusion.
"What is the book that you were studying from?" Mash asked, drawing Karl's attention from the chaos in the yard.
"Oh, that's a book of Dwarven Runecrafting. A bit different from the Runesmithing skill, and written in Dwarven. But so of the concepts that they use in their sculpting translate well to other styles, so I was looking for ideas on how to string together the concepts that I wanted to use for the bracelets.
I'm going to make matched ones for the Guild mbers, so I wanted them to be sothing that would be universally useful, no matter what the specialty of the wearer was."
The teacher sighed as she heard that it was a Guild exclusive item that he was making. But she had the pattern, there was nothing stopping her from making one herself. It might not be Overlord Ranked, but if she had one of the Royal Rank wooden pieces carved to shape, it would work just as well as a base at lower quality.
It took so long, though. Just making them for herself and her husband would be a long day's work, and that was assuming that it was successful the first ti.
Just making a copy of the runes would be enough for now, and then they could work on it at their leisure after the school year started. Their ti with Karl was quite limited, as the break was only two months in total, but there was so much to learn with a new trade skill and all the little tricks that ca with it, but which weren't included in the basic linguistic knowledge.
That was most likely because the skill transferred at an introductory apprentice level, and they were expected to study and practice the rest on their own. But with a master present, who wouldn't dream of gaining all that knowledge in one huge transfer?
The fa, the recognition, the departnt funding. Oh, the things they could gain with just a bit more knowledge.
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