"Ruby, I think I'm going to need your help now."
Ruby appears beside me in the inner world, she is in her human form and looks well rested. She looks at the tangle of threads and then turns to me.
Ruby says "You've made a lot of progress, how can I help you?"
"I want you to try to keep the rest of it stable while I release the thread. It keeps getting tighter and it's getting harder and harder to untangle it."
Ruby says, "Okay, I'll do my best!"
I slowly pull the thread inch by inch again. Ruby has some trouble at first, but after a few tries she figures out how to keep the rest in place. Because Ruby keeps it from tightening, I'm able to make much more progress.
I stop twice to channel my mana into the Armatite bar, but other than that, I keep undoing the blind spell. With Ruby's help, I can reduce it to about a quarter in a couple of hours.
That's when things start to go wrong, the thread I'm unraveling starts to fray. It frays faster than I can free it, soon the whole tangle is frayed and torn.
I manage to free a few more sections before it all gets out of control despite Ruby and I trying to hold it together and it explodes. The explosion takes me out of my inner world and knocks me unconscious.
When I come to, I still see nothing but darkness. I'm lying on my back and my head is resting on something soft. I groan in pain as I feel how much my head and face hurt.
Ruby says, "Stay still, don't try to get up."
"Ugh, what happened, why am I still blind?"
Ruby says, "Well, the last bit of the spell went haywire and exploded."
"Yeah, I remember that part."
Ruby says, "Well, the explosion burned your face...and destroyed your eyes."
I can hear the sadness and worry in her voice. Can my healing make my eyes grow back? Or am I going to be blind forever?
"Are you okay?"
Ruby says, "Yeah, I didn't hurt myself. I'm sorry, I couldn't keep it steady."
"Don't blame yourself, we were doing something risky from the start. I don't even know if that's how you remove a spell, it was just a guess."
After waking up and eating my leftover soup for breakfast, I do some stretching and make sure everything is working and moving correctly. I decide to try one or two experiments before heading to the cave. So I grab one of the enchanted pikes and move to sit in my practice area.
I enter the inner world and take a look at the pike, I can see the mana woven into it, but it's nowhere near as complex as the blindness spell was.
I leave the inner world and reach for the Armatite rod, which is already about half gilded, and then return to the inner world. I carefully untangle the mana thread inside the pike, trying to channel the mana into the Armatite at the same time so as not to overload myself. Doing both at the same time makes the process much slower, but I think I'll get better with practice.
I am able to completely remove and absorb the mana thread from the pike without any explosion.
⟨⟨-DING-⟩⟩.
- Congratulations, the Disenchant skill has advanced to level 3!
√ Disenchanting.
√ Level 3.
- Intelligence +6 Physical +6 Mana +6 +30
- You can remove an enchantment and recover 15% of your mana.
When I open my eyes I see that the wooden handle of the pike is intact, but the metal head is gone. I also notice that the gold on the Armatite bar has grown noticeably. This will work, I have tons of stuff I can disenchant to get mana. However, it takes quite some time, so I should move all the enchanted stuff to the forge room and disenchant it there later.
As I get up to do just that, I see a pile of grayish dust. When I look closer, I realize that the steel pike didn't disappear, it just broke. I pick up the dust to take it with me and start moving everything to the forge room. It takes me quite a few trips to move all the weapons and armor and stack them neatly.
I'll wait until later to start disenchanting them. First I want to finish exploring the cave under the lake. So I head back to camp and, as I enter the cavern, I hear a loud roar echoing in the direction of the camp.
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Author's note.
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