Silber looked at Eisen and Kirisho with a raised brow, "Lover? Well, ain't that a thing. Nice to meet you, Kirisho," he replied with a broad smile on his face, "How'd you two meet?"
"I used to be under the protection of an Ancient Gold Dragon. I was part of the test that he had gone through in order to become that Dragon's champion, and afterward, I chose to accompany him on his journey. And throughout that time, we simply grew closer," Kirisho explained, looking at the man next to her with a soft, loving gaze.
Eisen placed his hand onto her back as he returned her look, and then turned back toward Silber, who seemed quite surprised.
"You're someone's champion? And a dragon's, at that?" Silber asked with a wry smile, as if he was trying to hold back a laugh, "I mean, if you met someone like her through that, I guess that's worth it..."
Eisen scoffed, "What's so surprising about that? It's an Ancient Dragon. They're amongst the most powerful beings in this world," the old man pointed out, "And the dragons gave me some pretty useful abilities in return. Well, technically, they were sort of mine to begin with...
I don't fully remember, but apparently Trygan and I moved some things around so that I could use the Ancient Dragons to get some of my abilities back, like these eyes."
His eyes flashed a golden colour, but Silber wasn't focused on that at all, "What do you mean, 'the most powerful beings in this world'? Dragons are just some lizards... That doesn't mean they can't do anything, or that they're all super weak, but... that's an exaggeration, right?" Silber pointed out. Kirisho and Eisen looked at each other a bit confused.
"Lizards? I guess so, but... Silber, Dragons really 'are' the some of the most powerful here. They're powerful magical beings, and even newborns are at least at second or third rank the moment they hatch," Eisen pointed out. Silber frowned, "What? No, they...
oh man, did that much change? Really? Now that whole 'dragon war' thing seems a lot more serious..."
"It's extremely serious... I thought I explained what's at stake there."
"Well, you do have a flair for the dramatic, so don't blame me," Silber replied immediately, tapping his foot on the ground, "You're not messing with me, right?"
The old man raised his brow, "No, I didn't. According to the item description, it was made a few thousand years ago by a Necromancer, and there's no falsehood there either... why? Do you remember something like this?"
"I mean..." the half-giant was deep in thought, "It looks vaguely familiar, at least. I remember you working on some jewelry like that before, but I guess that wasn't anything to trap a soul, but more like... a mental protection thing? You were going to the Feywild on one of the other continents and made some of those because a lot of Fey have the ability to manipulate the mind."
Eisen thought deeply, "...Is that so?" the old man muttered. He knew for sure that he didn't make that amulet; he had already checked on the creator, and if there were any clues toward Kirisho's past there, but there were no leads.
Things like this weren't particularly uncommon; they were amulets meant to bind powerful specters to another object and trap them in there, in case there were no other ways to get rid of them. The one that Kirisho was connected to was of particularly high quality and rank, but it still wasn't much different. But of course...
"I did heavily influence the craftsmanship in this world, so I guess this shouldn't be a surprise either. And necromancers tend to be tied very heavily to the past, so maybe they found some of the things that I made and used that as a base. Or frankly... maybe I came up with the base for this sort of item and spread it around myself."
Kirisho nodded slowly, "Right... it seems like that could have been the beginning of your process of creating life? Finding a way to contain and house souls could be a logical starting point," she suggested, and Eisen slowly nodded his head, "That could definitely be it..." the old man thought for a while, but soon saw the colour that the sky was taking on.
It was very early in the morning right now, and Eisen already wanted to have started working again by this time.
"We can talk about this later, alright?" Eisen suggested, starting to make his way back toward the stone 'quarry', or rather, the massive stone plains that now existed where the peak of a mountain used to sit, "I really need to keep at it. I'm trying to build a new statue for the town," the old man explained to Kirisho, who quickly followed after him.
Silber also trodded along for now, hoping to help out a bit more on the old man's side as well. Even if he couldn't cut the stone to the point where it would become a high-quality material like what Eisen could do, he could still take over the job of actually placing the golem cores and let Eisen just fully concentrate on cutting the massive stone cubes out of the mountain.
It might not save a huge amount of time, but anything helped at this point.
Silber and Kirisho kept speaking for a while as Eisen began to concentrate on his work together with the duplicates. Of course, those two didn't slack off either; they were helping out however they could, even if it was just small things that would take a load off Eisen's shoulders, so that he could work a little bit more effectively.