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During the four days, they prepared only the sword's blades, and they made each one with different material or using different techniques. Both Volig and Shingi were in unknown waters, as they had never made one to have a spirit in it, as they never had access to a Spirit Child before.

They had to test to see what would make the perfect 'body' for it so that there would be no leakage as with the seashell it currently was at.

Fortunately, there was a way to test it, and that was for Shingi to use his Spirit Element. Of course, he couldn't make a Spirit Child, but it mostly seemed to be made of Spirit Element. But there was something else that gave it the spark of life. Still, Shingi was certain that just using his Spirit Element would be enough to simulate it.

The first thing they did was test the same blade made of simple steel but embedded with a different Element each. They had found out that the bade embedded with Earth Mana was more suitable, followed by Light Element. Water mana seemed to be third, and everything else was incapable of holding it.

This made things easier since Volig and Shingi could use Earth Mana since Volig was a Half-Stone Giant and had an innate Earth Element Mana Pool.

Since they found the most suited Element to make the blade, they had to find the right material. Unfortunately, normal steel still seemed to lack the ability to hold an extensive amount of Spirit Element. So they had to craft it with something else.

Their store was full of almost every material one could think of, but still, they weren't planning to waste them on testing recklessly. They had decided that the weapon they would make it at would be a great sword for now, as the designs needed space.

They could try on smaller weapons in the future, but with the time they had, they were certain they couldn't make it. Shingi wouldn't be able to use it himself, as it was a weapon that needed high STR, but he could take it with him for Wild Tycoon to use it. She mostly used axes, but she should be able to use it effectively after some practice.

If she didn't want it, An could use it who else had high STR, even if her AGI affected her current weapon more. Shingi had found it weird that she had a weapon of choice like that, as her STR was way higher than her AGI. But she had been using it perfectly.

Cheap Devil also used big bladed weapons like that most of the time, but he seemed to be an expert with all the weapons.

For testing the different materials, since they couldn't test it in their raw forms, they instead made dagger blades to not waste as much from each of them.

It actually took them two of the four days, but they finally found a suitable material. It was actually not something they had in their store, but some of the metal that Shingi had stored in his Spatial Ring from what they had mined from some of the floors of the Tower.

He had sent some to Volig through the box in the past, but the quantity he could send was next to nothing. Fortunately, he had stored some of them in his Ring.

Those materials were impossible to find in the market since nobody could get in the Tower, and the Dark Guild kept everything for itself and its allies.

They seemed to have enough to maybe to make one greatsword but not anything more than that. That meant they had only one try, or then they had to wait for Shingi to get back in the tower and slowly send Volig the materials.

Since they found a suitable material, they started training in making the Adjustable Rune Design, but in the steel blades, they had already made before. It didn't take long for Volig to learn how to make the design, but the hard part was to power it up with all the Elements.

Volig's MANA MANIPULATION was decent but far from able to control multiple ones at the same time. Even with Shingi boosting his INT, he probably couldn't make it in time. Runes were a new thing for him, as ever when he was a dwarf, he never reached the point of making them, even Low Grade ones.

Ketnas was half-human, from her mother's side, and had actually developed a Mana Pool herself. For Dwarves, it was harder to learn Mana Skills or developing a Mana Pool, as they weren't made to be mages, even if those were useful for their crafting later on. She had a dual Element Mana Pool of Water and Earth.

This meant that they missed the Dark Element, but Shingi had just the person in mind to help them; Karemon, the half-demon.

He had the Dark Element as its innate Element, and he was an ENCHANTER, so his control over it should be perfect for using it for runes, even if he couldn't make runes himself. Fortunately, Volig's evolved profession allowed him to make runes, and even if that one was challenging because it was an adjustable one, it was considered of lower grade than normal. It was within the limits that Volig was allowed to make.

Fortunately, Karemon and Aneta had returned as he had told Greg to go check and ask him to come to help them if he could.

Shingi was still curious about why he and Aneta were away, but they didn't have time to waste.

He explained that they tried to make an Adjustable Rune, which seemed to be something Karemon had heard of but never worked on as he couldn't make even the simplest Rune. Karemon was happy to help, as it would be a fresh and fascinating experience for him.

So, in the end, it all came to Shingi to control all the Elements holding them together, while Volig would have to 'push' them into the rune. Even that small action from Volig needed great control from his side, as if he put too much 'force,' he could affect the control Shingi had on them.

They kept testing it for an entire day without a successful try, but they had gotten closer.

Shingi could barely control all the Elements together, and when Volig tried to embed them in the rune, at least one was getting free. Having Karemon and Ketnas holding in place, the mana they provided would make things even more complicated, so they decided not to follow that route.

The four days they had passed, and it was the morning of the next one, meaning Shingi had only a few hours he could spend here.

He decided that they should try at the actual blade and hope for the best.

This time he enabled his Blessing to boost his INT and hold in place the Elements. Volig started slowly pushing them, and with his boosted INT, Shingi could pull back some of the Elements that reacted to that action and almost got free.

They got further than ever, and they were almost done, as half of each of the Elements being in the rune's design, but it seemed to be the limit of Volig. So Shingi put his hand on Volig's shoulder and transferred to him the remaining time of his Blessing.

This boost was enough to make Volig push everything inside, and since they already embedded half of each Element in the Rune, they couldn't break free that easily anymore. Of course, Shingi still had to hold them in place so they couldn't mix, but that was manageable with his normal INT.

So after a couple more minutes, all the Elements got embedded, and the Rune was finally complete.

They examined the blade to see if it got damaged, but it handled the whole progress quite well. Shingi also tested it to see how it handled Spirit Element and if anything had changed, but it was of the same quality as before.

Now they had to handle something they did not know how it would work. To transfer the Spirit Child into the blade.

Shingi brought out the seashell once more to talk with the Spirit Child once more. The talks he and Sinhunter had with it didn't seem to be clueless on how things worked, but it just couldn't describe them in words or had the energy to do so.

'"Hey there. Are you awake? We have made your new place to stay."' [Shingi]

He heard some mental yawns and murmurings, which were common if Shingi got it in a moment it wasn't fully asleep or fully awake.

'"New place. Me wanna see."' [Spirit Child]

'"Well, that was a reason I wanted to speak to you. We aren't certain how to move you to it. Do you have any ideas?"' [Shingi]

There was some silence and then some mental snoring. It wasn't uncommon for it to fall asleep during their conversations.

He fed it some of his Spirit Element, which seemed to be a good way to help it rest faster, but couldn't do it too often, as it could change the core of the child itself. Shingi didn't know what change that would be, as the Spirit Child was the one who told him that this would be the case and said nothing more.

'"Put me on it. Me will see. Me will move."' [Spirit Child]

So Shingi did exactly that, as he put the seashell on top of the sword's blade and waited.

He had his MANA SENSE active all the time, and he could see some movement from the seashell's Spirit Element to the blade. It seemed like the child was moving itself.

It was slow progress, but Shingi couldn't do anything about it. These were unknown waters for everyone in the room.

When all the energy seemed to be gone from the seashell, it started cracking, and in a matter of seconds, it turned into many smaller pieces.

Shingi could see that the progress had ended, and there were no leakages.

The transfer was successful.