Chapter 479: Coming together

Chapter 479: Coming together

Nick assumed that this was how all growth enchanted items of his would roughly work but it was entirely possible that the realm ring was special in this regard. He simply couldn't know until another one reached mythical or Legendary grade though. Even his earliest growth enchanted item hadn't grown to that point yet due to the standard way that the enchantment grew. The realm ring grew by him feeding it literal space and matter which were in abundance thus making it's growth not very unusual at all. Other growth enchanted things however grew with the person that wore them.-

Harrys protective ring was first created at the low end of the rare grade but had since then reached the peak of it and was but a step away from mythical grade. The fact remained however that it was not yet at mythical grade so Nick wasn't sure quite what that would change in the ring. From what he could tell by the system the transition from rare to mythical was the defining point for craftsmen to be considered genuinely skilled and by extension the point between an alright item and a good one.-

Dumbledore told Nick that he could stop making so many rings of protection but that more would always be appreciated. In an interesting addition Dumbledore also asked for a rather large amount of space metal as the preliminary preparations for the attempt at trapping the abomination had been completed at the coast. The trap was basically a very large formation that looped space at it's center that was inactive magically so the abomination didn't notice it until it was already within it by which point it would be too late. According to Dumbledore the formation even had the useful property of allowing things to enter it without allowing them to leave afterwards so the muggle gun he acquired would still be useful.-

The gun was a bit questionable as it was an old M1903 Springfield bolt action rifle that Dumbledore had somehow managed to acquire. The old goat swore that he got it through standard methods but Nick had a hard time believing that. He couldn't be blamed since the rifle was practically an antique despite the condition it was in that made it seem like it had just came off the factory line. Still Nick took the gun anyways to take it apart to enchant for his purpose.-

As it was the gun was nearly inoperable from the magic in the air causing the gun powder in the bullets to not ignite. As a result Nick entirely removed the bullets from the gun and got to work replicating the effect of them without the black powder. It wasn't particularly hard as he merely needed to engrave a few burst runes on the inside of the shell along with a trigger rune to set them off. Thankfully the firing mechanism of the gun was merely a matter of springs and levers so the gun itself had no trouble at all receiving the auto aim and reloading enchantment Nick designed for it.