From Player To Npc

Shingi reached the shop and entered the room for leatherworking instead of the forge room.

He wanted to make his eyepatch, but it wouldn't be a normal eyepatch. So instead, he would make it so that it would make a simple illusion, which would make it look like he had his other eye. This would be a simple illusion, which pretty much would be a copy of his other eye.

He had studied arcane words for his MAJOR ILLUSION, which helped make enchantments related to what the spell could do. However, since he needed it to be that small, it actually wasn't a very complicated Enchantment.

With his current Skills, he finished this small project in less than half an hour since he could see once again.

Still, he needed to feed it to work, but the mana it used was so little that his Minor Mana Regeneration could easily take care of the cost without him losing mana over time.

He made sure that it looked alright, and even he could hardly tell it was an illusion unless he focused on it a lot.

It didn't help him see things better, but at least he didn't have to wear a mask anymore unless he actually wanted to hide his face.

So he went to the forge room to see if Volig needed any help to finish any last-minute orders.

Getting in, he noticed that instead of working on the forge or hammering something, Volig and Ketnas seemed to make a blueprint of a sort.

"I see you guys had ended earlier than planned." [Shingi]

As both of them turned to look at Shingi, they had wide smiles appearing on their faces, especially Volig's.

"Your eyes. You did it; you got them back." [Volig]

"Only one of them." [Shingi]

At that moment, Shingi stopped feeding mana to the eyepatch, letting the illusion disappear.

"Just made this to make things easier for others. Still, I am as good or maybe better than before. Losing sight for those past days had helped me a lot." [Shingi]

Many people had tried not to use one sense to train the others, but it wasn't the same as if you had actually lost that one sense. Shingi was truly confident that his PERCEPTION was more powerful than before, as his other than sight senses had increased to boost the skill's effects.

"So you are working on our new project?" [Shingi]

They nodded as he got closer to see what they had made. They were making the design of the actual sword and where the design would be, but Shingi hadn't shown how the one he had made for his staff worked yet. Still, he explained it a bit to Volig, which was more than enough for a Grandmaster CRAFTSMAN like him.

Normally, a CRAFTSMAN couldn't do Enchantments as good as an ENCHANTER or even try to make any RUNES, but Volig's profession had actually recently evolved to ARCANE CRAFTSMAN. This seemed to allow him to not only have the ability to learn all the Skills of an ENCHANTER but also use Low-Grade Runes.

When he was Varic, he used special tools to make functional Runes like that, but now he wasn't restricted unless he tried something too complex.

Shingi cast MAJOR ILLUSION and cast a replica of the sword according to the design. Then, he made 6 more illusions of the designs for each element, not including Spirit, of course, since he didn't have one still.

Each design's illusion was a bit bigger than the illusion of the blade, but he did it to see all their details easily. He then summoned his staff, which currently had the Light Element design on it.

He let Volig check it out as it was his first time seeing something like that and then gave it back to Shingi so that he could demonstrate how it worked.

He changed it to the Air Design, then to Fire, followed to Earth, and finally back to Light. His time to make each design had decreased as his understanding and proficiency with each element had increased. The change was minor, but even something small like that could make the difference between life and death in combat.

As he finished demonstrating the designs of the Elements he had on his Mana Pool, he did the Water Element and the Dark Element, which both he had still to get.

Then he started making a combination of two and three elements until he had shown all possible combinations.

He wasn't changing the mana gems as he wasn't planning to use the design, as he just wanted to showcase how to change between them worked.

It took him a couple of minutes to go through every combination, as he had to let them take a look at them and notice the difference or similarities in the case of multiple element designs.

"As you see, what I currently have made needs from me to make the change, but I know we can automate it. That is where I need your help, Volig." [Shingi]

They already had the designs, which wouldn't be the ones Shingi used at the staff, but the ones at Hineko's daggers. There were some improvements made, but overall they were the same designs.

"Hm… this is going to be a challenging thing to do. Not even sure if it is possible or where to begin." [Volig]

Shingi smiled at him as he summoned something for his Spatial Ring.

A seashell.

But that wasn't a normal seashell, but the one, the Spirit Child, resided at. Shingi had tried to communicate with it, by himself or through Sinhunter, and had actually started earning some of its trust, it seemed. He could speak with it most of the time, unless it was sleeping, which it seemed like it was doing a lot.

"This should help us. It contains something called a Spirit Child. I think we can transfer it to the weapon and let it take care of the changes between designs."

Shingi noticed that the Spirit Child seemed to be always tired, even if Shingi never used its energy. The reason was that the seashell was an imperfect boy, and its energy was leaking.

So he thought that this new weapon could be a nice new body for it. It may even make it be a growth type, as Sinhunter, but Shingi wasn't certain about it since, in his knowledge about growth type equipment, it didn't contain how they were made.

He still wasn't certain how Varic had made Sinhunter in the first place. He had asked him about that in the past, and he just told him he had no memory from that day. Of course, if the System didn't tell that Varic had made it, they would think it was someone else's creation, but that wasn't the case.

"Interesting. Is this from the Tower? Can we communicate with this Spirit Child? How about…" [Volig]

A long talk between Shingi and Volig began as Shing explained to him everything he knew. He also started mentioning what he knew about growth type weapons, at least some of them, as it would take days to cover everything. Also, most of the things were about developing it, which they didn't need to discuss currently.

They started messing with the Illusion of the sword, as Shingi could freely control it and adjust it as he wanted, and they came to a final design that seemed to fit their needs. They would make a long handle, while inside in it, there would reside 6 mana gems, one of each Element. The enabled design would draw for the manna gem according, with the help of the Spirit Child.

But first, Shingi had to see if it would do so.

'"You awake. We need to discuss something important."' [Shingi]

There was silence.

Then a mental yawn appeared at the mind of Shingi, followed by the voice of the Spirit Child. It was a quiet child-like voice that sounded full of life even if it didn't speak a lot. It also didn't appear to be either male or female, but pretty balanced in between.

"I awake. What friend want to talk?" [Spirit Child]

Its way of talking was a bit better than Sinhunter's when it started talking, but still far from perfect.

Shingi explained to it how he wanted to make a new body for it and that it would help him gather more energy and be less tired all the time.

There was some more silence as the Spirit Child seemed to be thinking its answer, and after a couple of minutes, it gave its answer.

'"Me trust friend. Me agree"' [Spirit Child]

'"Thank you. I am certain you will enjoy your new body."' [Shingi]

'"Sound fun. Me go sleep now."' [Spirit Child]

Shingi turned towards Volig and gave him an affirmative nod.

They could finally start making that sword. They informed Shingi that all the materials from the other Guilds would be here in four days, which he hoped would be enough time to have progressed the project enough for him not to be needed, if not finished.

He would prefer for them to have finished it or at least make a prototype for him to take or let Cheap Devil to test.

Once more, the clock was ticking.