A New World, An Immersive Game Experience

"Because..." Eldrian paused, understanding that he needed a good reason if he wanted her support. He would prefer to ask her for the Mov Crystals that he was going to need. The duke was sure to question just why he would need something so rare and expensive and would most likely not part with it easily.

"After making them I am going to attempt to make a barrier artifact with minimalistic materials. It is why I have continued to practice with celestial ores."

"Your family?" Ashliel finally understood, she had noticed Eldrian's material choice long ago. He was proficient enough to use rank 2 materials with waste, he could even mix in some rank 3 and attempt to make Tier 6 or 7 items already. Normally the results should be poor, but Eldrian seemed to have this ability to somehow ignore his shortcomings to finish projects.

Yet, even so, he had continued to use celestial ore, the most common rank 1 material a person could use. Using it wasn't much different from using normal ores, and this was of course important for Eldrian's tests.

"Why not take them and hide somewhere?" Asked Ashliel, she could understand Eldrian's wish to protect them. But other than hiding them there wasn't more he could do.

"I'm going to, but I need to also have something to protect them while I am gone. I already have a safe hidden location, my next steps are the barrier artifacts and figuring out teleportation."

"So that's why you ask Myropsis for those books..." Ashliel paused and sighed, "You're insane. Do you know how long it takes people to master teleportation?"

"I don't really have much of a choice. I am focusing on fixed point teleportation with a guiding item, I should be able to finish this in time."

Ashliel nodded, "That's smart, have you already made the array?"

"More or less, I'm struggling with the mana sources. My self-made mana crystals are extremely lacking."

"Seems that you do have a plan. However, Magic Crystals are truly rare. I can't give you one unless you present me with a plan that makes sense and is likely to work. And don't think you can pull the rug from under me!"

"Naturally," Eldrian nodded and quickly got to outlining the new memorial flower's design.

As he worked he realized he had no idea how to link it to a higher realm and he didn't want to postpone the memorial flower's finish. The people of Vlisia were sure to be living through their darkest days right now. He wanted to offer them some help while it mattered most.

While this would not help them to get past their grief, for grief was not such an easy thing to conquer, it would help them to mourn and hopefully bring the city closer together as a whole.

While he truly wanted to experiment with making a higher realm, Eldrian understood where he should place his focus.

This was also an important part of figuring out how to remove the threat to the AI, and was not something he could accomplish right now. Hopefully, though he would have time for that. He could postpone his intervention, but Eldrian felt that if he acted too late then it would be a much harder battle.

'Let us hope public outcry can contain Miracle. I hope they don't use the AI as bargaining chips.'

Eldrian quickly put Myropsis to work with him, he even called the blacksmith whose forge this was. The centaur wasn't too happy taking orders from Eldrian, but he soon quieted down upon seeing the strange constructions Eldrian had made that were strewn about his once organized forge.

None of them followed standard knowledge, the final nail driving it home for the blacksmith was seeing Myropsis making a memory bead so quickly. Normally they required so many intricate runes but here they made it with one simple semi-rune.

With their help, Eldrian could focus on the core of the artifact, delegating all the repeated parts to the two. Even though they worked extremely fast, it still took slightly over a day for them to finish.

Of course, Eldrian had known this day would come and had made preparations ahead of time. As a result, they already had the needed materials and some of the parts had been finished when he was experimenting on some new functionalities. Thus once they got to work, there were no unnecessary delays.

To Eldrian it still took too long, but to those around him, it was something that broke common sense. Artifacts were a step above magic items, though their complexity wasn't always such. They required a unique secret art that almost no one knew, and somehow Eldrian had stumbled upon it.

It wouldn't be strange for it to take months to make one. Requiring a team of extremely talented craftsmen. Yet, here they had made it in just a little over a single day.

This memorial flower was twice as complex as the previous one since they had decided to make it with a much more intricate design. Using two flowers; one the flower given to couples after their marriage or when a babe was born, the other the flower placed upon a grave.

The former represented the hope that one should have for the future. That new bonds could still be formed, and that life continued. The latter represented the cycle of life ending in death.

Eldrian had wanted the artifact to tell a story, while it was basic it had also allowed him to experiment with connecting the two realms that the two Mov crystals used as the pistils of the two flowers created. Which gave him invaluable insight into how Mov Crystals could be used.

Of course, Eldrian had not done just this, he had added even more functions through those previously completed experiments.

By connecting the runes to the space inside the artifact and connecting his vision of the end result, he could almost guarantee it doing what he wanted. In a way, he had slowly come to master 'talking' with mana.

He no longer had to hope for it to work, he was starting to understand how it was the use of lifeforce without a filter. By forming his vision solidly in his mind, it made it so mana seemed capable of listening. In a way, this was why mana reacted as if alive.

This strange connection between the mind and a substance that was similar to the fabric of space, but of an ethereal realm, certainly resulted in many magical things.

"Are you sure you don't want to come with me?" Eldrian asked after he finished the final part. The memorial flower was now only as large as his hand. The shrinking function, or more correctly the growing function replaced the previous [take root] function and made it easier to carry and plant.

"Unlike you, we can't use teleportation without cost." Myropsis replied, though honestly, she did not want to visit the site of a battle between thousands so soon after it had been completed.

"Don't take too long, we still have much we need to prepare for," Vivian added, her mission to go and release her dad had never left her heart. She was constantly working hard to make sure she can accomplish this, even if they failed in the larger goal, she still wanted to let her father's soul rest.

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