Argul picked up the 20cm long lamp pole with the glee of a mad scientist. In theory it should be perfect to create a spell formation with liquid mana for a working enchantment. Mana would run through it and create the desired effect without using up any intent in the process, because the intent is bound to the liquid mana.
She would worry about things like intent filters once she had managed to create a working enchantment. Argul had no idea how the liquid would impact the material inside of the pole so it would be best to do things step by step.
She focused on the spots inside the pole where some of the liquid mana was already located and carefully began to weave her spellformation into the metal, making sure that left holes in the intent structure where the drops were located.
Argul added a mana input in the middle of the pole and changed the coordinates for the light so that it would be created 10 cm above the head of the lamp.
When she was done she let the formation collapse like she had done in the air and about half of it liquidized. That of course wasn’t enough and she repeated the process a few more times. The reduction of the volume during the fusion process of mana and intent also played a big role in the amount of times she had to recreate the spell formation.
About half an hour later, Argul was finally done and had filled out most of the formation. There were a few tiny holes in it here and there and overall the edges were very rough and poorly connected to each other, but it should still work. She would just have to improve her skills, especially in the creation of liquid mana so she could work more in detail and for her enchantments to have the same efficiency in terms of mana usage as her spells.
Argul grabbed the pole at the mana input and began to feed mana as well as the spell intent into the enchantment. Quite a lot of mana was lost in the process and escaped the enchantment through the various holes and badly done sections of it.
She bit her lip and watched in anticipation as her mana moved through the enchantment.
Argul held her breath. This was a very important moment for her. Heck, it might be very important for the whole population of sapient beings out there.
She had already put 50 mana into the spell and balled her fist. C’mon liquid mana, you can do it!
Argul put more mana into the enchantment, ignoring how painingly inefficient this was. She normally used about 1 mana for 2 minutes of decently bright light and when she had created the spell it had been a mana per minute.
The enchantment she had created would only create a light for about 15 minutes and the bad quality might reduce that even further.
After 90 mana the enchantment finally activated and Argul jumped up in triumph. “Yes!”
The liquid also didn’t seem to impact the metal any further. She had to investigate how it looked like inside and if the mana liquid created any pressure for the material, once she had the right equipment.
She let go of the metal pole and picked up Aina, not caring about the loud clanging the thing created on impact with the ground. Then she hugged the slime tightly. “I did it!”
Argul jumped a second time in joy and held Aina up into the air. “We did it!”
She hugged Aina again and kissed her several times, not caring about the possible sapience of her. They had created a method to enchant things together and Argul had seldom feld joy like this in her life. The last time had been with her daughter on the first floor.
Argul loosened her embrace a little and picked up the lamp pole of light. She grinned happily. Goodness that was a stupid name, but she loved it.
Argul rushed around the inn and basically broke through the door into the main room. She opened her mouth to announce her success, but realized that the room was empty and closed her mouth again in disappointment.
Her mood was about to do the biggest drop it had ever done when the tinkle of tableware colliding with each other came out of the kitchen. Somebody was there!
Argul’s excitement went back up to 100% instantly and she ran towards and into the kitchen. There she hugged a flabbergasted Luna, sandwiching Aina between the two of them in the process. “I did it Luna!”
Argul laughed happily and Luna joined her after a few seconds.
It took a while for Argul to calm down again and Luna sat wheezing on the ground when she did. “So-”
She took a short breath. “What exactly did you do?”
Argul, now down from her emotional high, realized what she had done and blushed deeply in embarrassment. Her original plan had been to run to her daughter and let out the emotions there, but she had needed a person to talk to right now and Luna had been the only one there.
She looked down on the ground and avoided eye contact with Luna. “I’m sorry about that.”
Luna just waved her away. “I don’t mind. I was happy that you were happy and sometimes you just have to let things out somewhere.”
Argul nodded meekly and Luna looked at her in anticipation. “So, what was it?”
Right, she still had to show Luna her success. Argul’s happiness overwhelmed her embarrassment and she offered the pole of light to the sheep-kin. “Try to push about 90 mana into the middle of this pole and you will see.”
Luna took the pole, looked at Argul once and began to channel her mana into the enchantment. After a minute a slightly deformed sphere of light formed above the pole and illuminated the kitchen a bit more than the windows were able to.
Luna stared at the light for a moment and turned to Argul with an unbelieving expression. “Did I just do that?”
Argul nodded happily. “Yep, I enchanted the metal to create a light that will hold for about 15 minutes.” Hopefully it did, the form wasn’t very promising.
Luna looked at the simple metal pole with awe. “Wow, you are a genius Argul!”
Argul shrugged uncomfortably and blushed a bit at the compliment. “It isn’t that difficult and the enchantment is really crude for such a simple spell.”
Luna turned to her again and raised an eyebrow. “You want to say that discovering something exceptional like this while simultaneously creating spells randomly after only knowing mana for a few months is not the work of a genius?”
Argul looked away pointedly and didn’t answer. She still didn’t think of herself as a genius, but you were really only humble for so long before it became denial instead.
Luna looked at the pole once more. “Can I keep this thing?”
Argul nodded. She had no further use for it and would create similar items like this in the next weeks to train her enchanting further. “I named it lamp pole of light, keep it if you want to. The enchantment will break after a while though, because of your personal mana signature.”
Luna smiled and pushed out her chest proudly. “Thanks Argul, I don’t mind that it will break. Now I not only know the person who did the first enchantment, but also the owner of the item.”
Argul smiled, as long as Luna was happy it was okay.
Luna held the pole like a wizard staff and pointed it at the light. “Lightus begonus!”
Argul took control of the light spell and dispersed it so Luna could have her fun.
The girl turned around once more and held the pole into the air. “I am a mighty wizard, kneel before me or else!”
Argul rolled her eyes. “Or else what?”
Luna tapped herself with the pole on the chin thoughtfully. “Or else I will have to feed you to death with delicious food?”
Argul acted shocked. “Oh no, how cruel of you.”
She smiled and petted Aina a bit again. “Fun aside, please don’t tell anyone I was the one who did the enchantment. I don’t want to have the attention.”
Luna nodded in agreement. “I promise I won't.”
Then she looked at the pole a bit disappointed. “We might as well keep this a secret. I don’t need the attention of unsavory people or the city administration either.”
Can some History student tell me if a famous historical figure has ever been harassed immediately following the publication of their discovery? Since a lotta stories always say these thing, and it's true, but I want to know if history agrees as well.
I have no clue actually and I don't think something like that would normally happen. If you invention is crazy good than the some big investors or what not might come looking. My main reason for Argul to hide enchanting here is that humanity just lost most of their technology and people are desperate to get back their comfort, hence her enchanting likely attracting trouble.
Galileo for one. Published what he discovered and the inquisitors immediately called it bullsh*t then when he backed it up the church and the inquisitors called him a heretic and he spent the rest of his life locked up. Leucippus and Democritus' theory of Atomos (that Atom's existed as the smallest unit of matter and all things are made up of them) was also fought against fairly vehemently by its decriers though that's basically how the philosophers did everything back then so if it was specifically harassment or not would be up for debate. Those are the ones that come to mind immediately but I know many inventors have had innumerable problems over the years with both the people funding them, the government, and the church. Tesla is another well known example of a man getting doggedly harassed through his entire life until the man died alone talking to pigeons after his last great idea was canned because it was supposed to make free energy the could simply be used by anyone in its area of effect, not being able to sell it caused the people funding it to immediately cut funds.....no need to mention Edison who seemed to have made it his life's mission to f*ck Tesla over as hard and often as possible up to and including inventing the electric chair PURELY to make Tesla look bad.
I really think a bit of romance and s*x would be really good for the novel and thank you for your hard work
They are actually planned and I thought I would have chapters for them before ch. 70, but I kinda jammed that away with setting the evolution level of slimes to 25. There are quite few other POV's I could use for that I know and I am sure I will utilize them once I really sit down to edit the whole thing more. Kind of want to create POV for the things Alyra Arthur and Mia do too. (This sounds wrong, they don't do sexual stuff and I don't plan to couple Alyra and Arthur for now even though it would be funny.) Argul isn't going to have any shallow relationships with say Luna either. Her personallity is something that originally comes from my depressed self and I am sadly not the kind of person to do such a thing.
Thanks for your feedback though^^.
@Otjag you are really tilnted writer and I love the novel a lot I also hope to see a sexual relationship between the Mc and her daughter you know it's kinda exciting and anyway the Mc created her and didn't gave birth to her so why not and she the only one that understands Mc probably right? I mean she has all of the Mc past and future memories right? And I also like see a close relationship with the universe I mean she didn't look like a bad person and didn't take advantage of the Mc especially since the Mc is kinda stupid with anything other than magic and lastly I really hope Mc becomes the nine or ten tiled fox instead of just seven and I like the Mc in her Beasts form until now we only saw her onse in it
And I think she must give birth more than like 10 children will first because the novel will be existing like this second the Mc is immortal so it's really boring if she can't have children and third it's not good to have the Mc always opposed to magic it's good to have mother/father and children together like a big family especially if you plan to make the Mc have harem
Anyway if you don't like what I said it's okay too the novel is still fun but I really hope you can think About it and thanks for your fast reply
@Otjag while I fully expect Alyra and Arthur to get together eventually I'm also expecting some mild teasing of Alyra by Argul about her feelings and possible grand babies beforehand (which is what gets Alyra to recognise that she has such feelings and the almost young lovers relationship they already have).
@Shade_argost honestly I don't like the drugs dealer he is normal human and alyra is the system operator and you can she is also immortal and the Mc is her mother you can say the Mc is also a God no matter what I don't find to realistic for them to be together and u hoped for Arthur to be a minor character that we will forget later he us really just ordinary person I don't know why the Mc told that she is the cause of so many people dying by her mana if he told others they will definitely try to kill her for a lot of reasons the Mc is really stupid some secret should really be untold
@Momosh It's good to hear that you like the story and thanks for the compliment. I do plan for Argul to create a family and have kids, but she won't have a harem. That's just not her style.
@Shade_argost Totally planned for that to happen in the beginning too, but Arthur's personallity didn't turn out exactly as I wanted to be so I changed my mind unfortunately. Arthur is not going to disappear however since I still want him to be the ultimate sidecharacter: boring, but for some reason allways there, in all my stories.
@Momosh Argul isn't the brightest in everything, which is fully inteded. Arthur is indeed a completely ordinary person and does not like to stay in the spotlight so her secrets are rather safe with him as he can't tell them without getting attention himself. Argul would have to really piss Arthur off for that to happen.
Also about the universe, she is definitely coming back, but for now there has been quite literally no reason for there to be an interaction except for the contract. Since Fia/universe hasn't talked to anyone in forever either she won't be desperate for a conversation too and it would take for her and Argul to have a goal together to interact again. (They do have a goal together, only that Argul isn't ready for that yet)
@Otjag your right it's too much of loner like her
@Otjag then in the end will the Mc have normal relationships with her daughter or will you put a lover for her doughter like Arthur or someone else I really hope her daughter to her lover because she really understands her and I doubt anyone can haver her memories liker her own daughter and thank for your hard work I hope you be faster in uploading chabter also I will try to read all your future writing from now on not just this novel
@Momosh Alyra is going to have a lover too, though it needs a special person to accept that no matter how they try they won't be able to keep a secret from their partner. I imagine that to be difficult over time.
It's good to hear that you like my story, thanks for reading! I am trying to create a backlog of 30 or so chapters before I start uploading quicker. I am currently at 10 so that might take a while.
@Otjag, yeah, I'm also kinda expecting for Alyra and Arthur's prospective relationship to be rather short, maybe like a decade (which is a short time for immortals or near immortals) at most only for them to find over time that they really aren't compatible romantically and breaking it off while remaining the sort of friends that are almost family.