195 Enchanting

Enchanting was pretty much a simple job as you long as you had the correct talents and most importantly the correct materials needed to craft your desired item.

The basic material needed was elemental crystal ore, mostly used elemental crystals or empty crystal defects that are found while mining for perfect crystals.

Being the original holder of elements, it was a material that couldn't be discarded in the enchanting business where elements were the major point of the whole craft.

The rest of the materials needed for each item would depend on its own purpose, for example, crafting a fire enchanted sword would needed fire elemental crystal ore combined with a metal ore that could handle fire elements' output as well as some conducting material to make the overall function of the sword more coordinated.

The talent needed was obviously elemental control, which usually relied on the quality of the 'Elemental Art' and the control power of the user's elemental energy.

Regarding the material, I planned to make my 'Firework' as a whole from elemental crystal ore as it needed that to make sure its basic function would work, which already satisfied and even surpassed the basic requirements to craft a perfectly functional enchanted item.

Thankfully, I had a lot of Grade-0 crystals that were already empty of lightning and thunder elements so I wouldn't need to worry about running out of materials to craft.

As for the talents, even disregarding 'Lightning Cell' that had an unknown grade yet seemed of high quality, my own mental energy was already as precise as it could be with an almost perfect accurate control.

Finally, the principle of enchanting itself could range from easy and simple to hard and almost impossible, depending on what kind of function your enchanted time was supposed to have.

A simple automatic trigger could be considered easy, while an auto defense artifact could be considered as somewhat hard.

Of course, all of that could be just simple child play in the hands of a veteran skillful enchanter, but to me who couldn't even be considered a beginner in the field, I still had to watch for my footsteps in the dark…

However, the general principle was still as simple as it could be, imbue the core elemental crystal with your own elements, then engrave it on the crystal along with the wanted effects, which one would transmit to his own elements.

Use of mental energy could make it more accurate, as well make the function more detailed but that would need advanced enchanting skills which I have yet to master, so I was pretty much going to stop at the very rudimentary step.

'Elemental Engraving'!

I started experimenting in my mind for the most perfect and the simplest blueprint my 'Firework' would have, all while continuing my automatic absorption of elements to make use of the benefits of this unsacred room.

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Less than an hour later, back to the room in the overseer's mini-castle…

"Alright Long, you will have to act as a scout in the field for the first time since you were awarded to me, so don't be lazy…"

[so it's actual field labour now?! You really have no shame…]

"Since I mentioned it to you before in a simpler way, I will just brief you about it."

[Whatever…]

"So, you will make use of your 'Illusion' to scout the location of the other 'Sacred rooms' through tracking the veins coming out of the cave we were at, and if possible, find out where the corruption core is as well."

While the effect of 'Illusion' wasn't as powerful as to make Long invisible even while moving, only working on still objects or entities, which couldn't be helped as they were just 'Support' abilities, it could still be quite effective considering the limited scenery of the base.

Using 'Illusion' to camouflage himself with the rocky color of the walls, Long would be able to imitate one of his cousins' abilities, the chameleon! In fact he would be even more convincing considering the way 'Illusion' works, outclassing the chameleon's camouflage ability.

[If you hadn't just give me some points recently… alright! You just want me to showcase my abilities since you are so useless, right? Fine then, I will do it…]

"Thank you!"

[humph!]

Leaving the room while activating his 'Chameleon' mode, Long conveyed his displeasement as he left with a scornful look.

'Am I wrong, or does his latest persona look like the tsun tsun character from some of the anime that I watched due to boredom back then or am I being too mindful? Whatever…'

Finding the glaring similarity to be a bit funny, I put that aside for now, although Long sounded like a lazy tsun in his current persona, I was still confident that he would do a pretty good job so I could leave all the scouting work for him without much worries.

Back to the enchanting blueprint I had in mind, I planned to engrave the crystals with the function of automatically making an elemental severing barrier after it interacted with the corrupted elements for 5 seconds.

Using this method, meant that the 'Firework' could be considered a time ticking bomb with the timer being 5~10 seconds depending on how fast the reaction built up, and that the 'Fireworks' made for the rest of the rooms needed to be faster by the second fragments that it would take me to reach the next room.

Not knowing how much rooms existed to begin with, I couldn't divide my reserve of crystals according to the number of rooms to give the most extreme destruction, so I could only start engraving a hundred with the timer of 5 seconds, which was the minimum number of crystals I had in mind to at least reach and effect the corrupted crystals covering the walls.

Begin enchanting!

Being as discreet as I could be, I took out one crystal in my hand and started pouring the elements in...