A few days had passed since Eisen had once more begun a period of active instruction for Parc and Rouge, instead of the passive kind that he generally defaulted to a lot of the time.
To Eisen, there was nothing better than actually practically learning and experiencing a craft, guided by someone else who not only had much greater knowledge of what it is they were striving toward, but actually knew how to directly adjust their mistakes and explain what the issues were and why exactly their habits had to change.
Eisen was that kind of person, and he had seen a lot of success in Parc and Rouge with this method.
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But of course, there was still a limit to that kind of learning. There were types of knowledge and habits that had been built over generations that couldn't be learned directly in that sort of way, or theoretical knowledge that was needed to be able to truly understand what was happening. And that was the sort of lessons that Eisen was teaching right now.
Over the course of his own new craftsmanship experiences, he had uncovered some memories that revealed a few secrets here and there, that he himself had making use of subconsciously or through muscle-memory he had no knowledge of ever obtaining, but even to himself, realizing why this was the case was extremely useful.
And that sort of knowledge was quickly passed on to Parc and Rouge, not all at once, but at the points where Eisen felt they could really understand it.
These were mostly things related to magic, and the ways that the system, that force called 'experience', as well as whatever other mystical forces were flowing throughout the cornerstones of this world, affected the craftsman, the tool, and the material.
For these lessons, he mostly focused on the ways the materials were affected, trying to keep everything to a theme to help his apprentices digest it all a bit better. But even then, at the end of each day, those two were extremely exhausted, both physically and mentally.
They weren't only made to listen to Eisen's lesson, but he also expected them to continue some of their active practice simultaneously, though it was really just a way to push them into developing some more muscle-memory on their own.
"...I will keep that in mind," Ambriel replied, slowly approaching the door again, "So where should I go, exactly?"
Eisen followed along to step in front of the workshop's door, and pointed at the castle's highest tower, which had been expanded upon over the past few months. It was a little jarring when Xenia just started shoving extra rooms onto the side of it at first, but Evalia made sure that it at least wasn't aesthetically displeasing.
And at the same time, Serio and Girland were responsible enough to make sure that every part of the tower was structurally sound even without the explicit use of magic, just in case something went wrong. Nobody wanted to see that tower crumble down onto the rest of the castle, or even worse, the busy streets that really weren't all too far away.
"Basically, Xenia is usually at the top of that tower recently," Eisen pointed out, "You should see a couple of mannequin-golems running around the castle, Xenia has them run errands for her so she can concentrate on other things. You can try following one of them, or alternatively, you can try to fly in through one of the windows, but...
dependong on what Xenia is working on at that moment it could be a bit risky," the old man pointed out, his eyes flashing golden for a second or two, before he turned back to the angel, "Though it doesn't seem like they're working on anything major at the moment, so that should be fine?"
Ambriel didn't seem any more confident after hearing Eisen's words, and slowly spread out their wings. As they flapped their wings, their neatly kept feathers came into a bit of disarray, but that was quickly corrected once Ambriel actually took flight. Just in case, Eisen watched as Ambriel approached the tower's windows, seeing them carefully climb inside.
Seeing that nothing was happening, and especially that neither Serio or Girland showed up by his side, it seemed like Ambriel arrived safely by Xenia's side.
That being the case, Eisen quickly turned back around, walking back into his workshop. Parc and Rouge should also arrive soon, but today was set up for some more practical lessons where the two of them could make use of the theoretically knowledge that Eisen had taught to them over the past few days.
It was the perfect opportunity for Eisen to start testing out the process of creating the materials needed for the rooms that could block Samuel. Part of the ingredients had finally arrived, though not enough to create a space at the scale they needed for the peace-treaty meeting. But it was certainly enough for Eisen to get used to the process and relearn it.
If he was lucky, he could make use of this opportunity to recover some memories about the secrets behind this material, and maybe he could learn some other uses for it, or figure out what specifically about these materials made them useful for the process, since Eisen didn't seem to fully understand the seemingly random assortment of materials, not to mention, the complete disarray in their ranks.
Usually, you would try to use as high-rank materials as you could for the greatest effect, but it seemed like there was some specific synergy effect that came with the particular assortment of rank 1 and 2 materials as they combined with these specific rank 7 and 8 materials.