It didn't take long for Parc and Rouge to arrive at Eisen's location. They already seemed pretty exhausted, but Eisen could really use their help for this. Of course, they wouldn't have to do anything too major, Eisen just needed them to prepare the materials while he created the actual enchantment pattern.
So that he could work properly, Eisen put up his portable workshop, quickly stepping into the building.
"Huh... that's new," Silber said curiously, looking around the house that had been built out of practically nowhere. Eisen nodded slightly, but mostly just waved his comments off. He didn't really have the leisure to talk to his brother that much right now; even if he wanted to.
Eisen looked at the marble worksurface, starting to engrave an enchanting into it. After creating the generic golem base, he continued on to the specific functionality. Basically, they were transport-golems, that would move the stone cubes that Eisen cut out from the mountain over to the blood-ice statue, building itself up bit by bit, replacing parts of the ice when needed.
However, instead of simply having the blocks be carried, it would be much easier and faster to have the block carry themselves. Eisen would place the golem cores onto the surface of each cube, and the cube would be turned into the body. Then, the cube would place itself into its predetermined position, returning back to its cube-shape.
Since the cubes themselves would all be uniformly sized, he could create a simple design for the golems to allow them to move fast through the mountainous terrain, and even climb up on top of the other cubes without needing to waste much time on making things adapt properly.
Now, when the golem reached its position, and if it some ice was in the way, the cube would make use of some of Eisen's magic to heat up the parts touching the ice, melting out the exact portion that was needed, which would allow for the ice-statue to simply be replaced piece by piece. Then, the golem-core would automatically detach itself. However, Eisen still needed to prepare three more things.
One; golems, preferably flying ones, that would bring the golem core back to Eisen to be put back onto a new cube.
Two; a way to get rid of the massive amount of blood that was going to me molten. Since he couldn't just leave it stuck to the statue; that would just cause structural damages and sanitary issues over time if the blood was left.
And three; a 'supervisor' system to automatically tell each golem where it had to go, while also telling the flying golems when a core needed to be retrieved. And of course, it also needed to keep track of the blood and make sure it was gotten rid of.
The first was quite easy. All that Eisen needed was to create another simple golem core base, and then place them into air-magic infused wood. To speed things up, he also created a simple bird base-model, so that the golem cores created their bodies on their own with the gievn material.
The second wasn't all too tough either, in the end. Eisen had gotten his hand on some blood magic a while ago, having placed the ability into some marbles to make use of it later. While this magic was more useful in the realm of necromancy, at its base, it was also the most effective way to physically move large amounts of blood.
Eisen created another set of golem cores, but he had to put some more effort into their bodies. They were going to be mana crystal golems, something that Eisen didn't tend to do since they were fairly limited in most of their uses. However, in this case, it was a little different. By softening parts of the mana crystal, he could create crystal hoses that he could also infuse with the blood magic.
But at the same time, Eisen couldn't help but glance to the side.
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[XXXXXXX Skill leveled up!]
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That window had changed over a dozen times while Eisen was working, each time 'repairing' itself more and more. Though that didn't change the fact that Eisen couldn't close the window. At this point, he figured that it was triggered when he used his skills somehow, but he didn't know what it really was.
Luckily, while he was crafting, he didn't notice any changes, but that might be different when he tried transforming again. The worst part was that, since the text was mostly fixed, he couldn't really tell when the skill leveled up anymore.
"Eisen," Silber called out to the old man, "Are you alright?"
"Hm? Oh, yeah, I'm fine. This is nothing, I've worked for longer sessions," Eisen replied quickly, continuing to figure out the blueprint. But Silber didn't seem convinced, "Yeah, but... back in my time, you'd work with a smile on your face."
Eisen slowed down for a moment. Silber wasn't wrong with that. He wasn't doing this work for the love of it right now. He cut a lot of corners to speed the process up. And he was getting somewhat sloppy, even. To his standards, at least.
"It's alright, Silber. I'm just... stressed. We need to get this done soon if we're planning on replacing you," Eisen pointed out. Frankly... from my perspective, consciously...
until a few months ago, the most pressure I've had when working was when I had to get something done quickly before picking the kids up from school. It was never anything like this. The weight is just... a bit different. So cut me some slack, alright?" Eisen asked with a light smile toward Silber, who quietly looked at his brother, "Those kids of yours... you never really used to talk about them much.
You've told me about them, but... you were always in so much pain when you thought about them. Are they alright?"
Eisen scoffed quietly, "They could be better, I guess. I'm causing them a lot of trouble recently, but they're doing well. I hadn't realized it, but I guess I missed them quite a bit, huh?"