Chapter 408 Preparations Before Departing

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“Today is the day guys, I already told the dwarves and they should be ready by now, we are leaving just as we finish our meal.” I said, quickly looking at everybody, they were excited about going on a trip to a country ruled by dwarves, although Emeraldine seemed slightly nervous.

Is the cliched Elves and Dwarves hate relationship a thing in this world?

“I am thinking that we should purchase as many ores as we can, there’s a wide variety there. We’ll need a lot of materials if we want to construct more Greenhouses, and also if we want to improve the castle. Of course, also to reinforce our strength.” Said Lucifer.

“Yeah, we only got enough weapons from the dungeon, we’ll still need more if we want to arm our people with enough strength in case something happens. I also need these materials more than anybody, I suppose.” I sighed.

“Huh? What for?” Wondered Emeraldine.

“Well, my Undead Creation Abilities need materials, you know? If I want to create Living Armors, I need ores as materials. Armor we have found in the dungeons is better used in our people than wasting them all into my own Undead, and they’re not really that many, the competent armor sets we got that could be used as materials for the armor I want to create are less than five. I need higher high-quality materials that are not processed yet.” I sighed.

My Undead Creation Ability within the Soul Grimoire was more like a crafting game in several cases. Every time I checked a new Undead available, it always asked for a list of materials necessary for their creation. Of course, I can also create Undead “improvised” such as when I make the normal Undead out of corpses, but those created from materials directly are often very strong and are easier to produce in big quantities.

For example, this was Darkbound’s Creation Summary:

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[Creation Summary]

[Darkbound, Undeath General] [Rank: B+]

[Required List of Materials to Create]:

[System Points] x10000

[Mana] x20000

[Bones Filled with Negative Emotions] x400

[The Wailing Souls of the Fallen] x100

[Accursed Black Rusted Armor Pieces] x40

[Crystalized Phantasmal Essence] x20

[Magic Crystals (Any Rank)] x100

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For more specific Undead, sometimes they ask for more specific materials. However, I’ve already learned I can replace some materials for ores of high quality, especially those like the [Accursed Black Rusted Armor Pieces].

Of course, I don’t think I can mass produce someone like Darkbound yet, as he’s very strong and unique as he needs a hundred souls combined together, something that I cannot easily get done. Finding souls around is not hard, but I would feel rather bad if I force these wandering souls to become my Undead, especially a hundred of them out of the blue, I usually use the souls of monsters or defeated enemies, though souls most of the time willingly come to me to serve me thanks to my Titles.

Maybe I just lack the courage, and I might do it in the future for all I know… But for now, my other target for creation was actually the Living Armors I had created to protect Emeraldine and Partner from the Miasma in our battle against Agatha.

Living Armor are ideal guards for my Village and also amazing armor by itself, so I want to actually make a hundred of them. For that, I’ll need tons of ores, like several kilograms. I had begun to consider grabbing a pickaxe and go mine them out myself as well, but that depends if it is even allowed for anybody to mine ores.

If not, I’ll have to buy them, and that’s a lot of money. I am sure they’ll be cheap if I buy the ores directly from their source though, and if I use my connection with the three dwarves right, I might get discounts, so it is not so bad either.

“Wait a second… Master, is your truest intention to get a bunch of high quality ores?” Asked Partner.

“Yeah… I really want to cash up in those ores and get a bunch, thinking about the powerful Undead I could make by using these magical ores as materials literally make me drool. I’ve heard there are Ores imbued with Fire Element or Water Element! Maybe I could make golems with them, or something crazy like that!” I said with a sigh.

Imagining all the awesome Undead that could be made through acquiring new materials truly made me happy, to the point I was already expectant of getting into the dwarf’s country market.

“Remember that we are also going there because we want to find out information about the Ice Giants.” Said Emeraldine.

“Ah, yeah, I know…” I sighed.

“What about the ghost you found that knew about the Ice Giants?” Wondered Lucifer.

“Oh! He’s pretty shy, but he had begun wandering around at night now that he’s slowly losing his timidness…” I said. “Veredorr, come out!”

Francesco and Silvio, the two Fire Ghosts, had recently adopted a role similar to Butlers in the castle, often enjoying to clean things inside, to warm us up with their fire, and to serve us food and prepare things for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and were even learning Cooking, as both acquired the [Cooking] Skill recently.

So as they were present here, the moment I called the Ice Ghost Veredorr, both felt his chilly presence quickly make the temperature in the room go down, making their flames flicker and weaken, their very bodies grew slightly smaller.

“Did you called me, Lady Maria?” The timid white-haired ghost wearing a blue tunic made of his own phantasmal essence emerged, he looked around with a gloomy expression.

“Why don’t you come and eat with us?” I asked. “You don’t have to get inside my shadow all the time…”

“I-I apologize… It is just that… It is hard to get used to so many people.” Veredorr said.

“He used to live alone all by himself, and when he suddenly got killed by his friends, he really felt rather bad, I suppose he’s still slowly getting over such a trauma.” I sighed, explaining everybody his state of mind.

“Hm, makes sense.” Lucifer said.

“Master, can you please bring him back to your shadows?” Francesco asked rather rudely.

“H-His presence is so cold I feel like I am slowly disappearing!” Silvio exclaimed.

Veredorr was not a simple Ice Ghost after all, due to his cause of death, the trauma of dying frozen made it so he ended transforming all of this grudge into an enormous quantity of power. As it is, he ended evolving into a Frost Tundra Ghost, his mere presence activated a passive skill named “Tundra Domain”, hence the coldness that suddenly appeared.

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