Epic Of The Demonic Sage

"The first matter that I wish to discuss with you is that Rune Crystals are difficult to break apart, isn't that right, Bishop Reynalds? Are there tools that can do that for us?"

"Break apart?" Bishop Reynald suddenly became shocked. "You mean like the dust from before when an appraisal crystal is incapable of reading or that of the Illumination?"

"The idea of creating tiny vessels shaped like stars, moons and other celestial bodies mean the necessity for multiple of them to have crystals in place, but perhaps it is not all too necessary to do that. Though I wish to achieve it. It is possible, isn't it, Bishop Reynald?" Lucius said. 

'It will be quite an intellectual challenge to break down the rune crystal to multiple pieces and have all of them work to power each individual light piece.' 

Most of the commercial artifacts were easy to make and produce, not necessarily something comparable to those done of research.

Lucius wanted to do both, but at the moment, his prioritization was that of commercial.

'If I figure out a way to make use of one rune crystal and have it create more of the delicate night lights, then it will be far more reduction of a cost. It's not really just an intellectual stimulation but something that can and will widen the profit margin of these new sets or artifacts.'

"We can reduce the sizes of rune crystals, Apostle Asher. We have already done it before with tiaras and other weapons, but I think you wish to create each one? The inscription will be hard to do. The handiwork and everything else will require a precision that is unlike anything done before. It will be difficult to accomplish, Apostle Asher unless we were simply to scale it in size."

'And unfortunately, it is far harder to do since most of the Artificers already have their own projects. It will take a certain chunk of income to hire Artificers… newer ones. Ah.'

"Bishop Reynald, there are many individuals who wish to seek your tutelage, do they not?"

"Yes, I have declined them because I do not have the time to teach them, Apostle Asher. I would rather make use of my time in my personal research or expand the knowledge that Goddess Etara has given me."

"Since we are having trouble with the necessity of people being capable of doing the fine work needed to create these, then perhaps it would actually be best to make use of beginners who wish to learn. They can perhaps learn under you while at the same time, lending us a hand in the production."

"That is…" Bishop Reynald blinked and considered it.

"There will be some necessities in keeping the specific steps separate from each other. They will only do the handiwork, but not know what rune crystal will be used, for example." Lucius explained.

Similar to how the different step by step process of creating the Humble Blaze was not necessarily taught openly to the employees and each one was only segregated to having a certain role to mitigate the spread of information, that would be done here in this situation as well.

'Compared to hiring Artificers who are already aware of the handiwork, these beginners and novices will not necessarily be able to copy it right away, and while the success rate of them creating the rune work is more or less, not at a hundred percent, they will learn how to do it better over time.' Lucius thought. 'Of course, it is also possible to establish a copyright, that is something available here. However, I am still not officially recognized as an Artificer as I'm still under the tutelage of Bishop Reynald." 

The creation of artifacts was something that Lucius ready to do by himself as his knowledge in the past world of magical tools were similar to that of artifacts here, but with the assistance of Bishop Reynald and the man's knowledge about the materials available to create the artifact that Lucius had in mind was easy.

Not to mention the manpower required was something that Lucius couldn't actually do just by himself.

Hence why it was necessary to approach Bishop Reynald and offer him a solution as to how Lucius would be able to get what he wanted and yet also 'assist' Bishop Reynald at the same time.

'Most desire to learn from him, and while he is rejecting it, there is actually still some good to found from teaching… albeit, more for my benefit than it is of his.' Lucius thought.

"What do you think, Bishop Reynald? I presume that many of the people who seek your knowledge only wish to learn from one of the best and though you have grown weary and wish to seek the Goddess Etara through books… there is much to be learned from approaching the world once more." Lucius said. "One can still learn from individuals even though it is not always what it appears to be at the surface. It takes an open mind to always be curious about the world, Bishop Reynald."

Bishop Reynald looked at Apostle Asher in awe. 

'It seems like this is the message that Goddess Etara has in store for me. Not to isolate myself into research, but to explore the world once more. I feel weary and old, but whenever I am with Apostle Asher, he has made me feel young again, as if I'm truly entering a new stage once again.'

"I believe that it is a marvelous idea, Apostle Asher! I… I will have to recheck the people who have sent me countless letters because I am afraid that I have mostly kept them unoragnized and untaken care of, but I will do it." Bishop Reynald said.

"Hmmm… there is someone I have with me who will actually be of a good assistant to you, Bishop Reynald. He is skilled with administrative work and can definitely assist us in this endeavour of ours." Lucius explained. "He is the son of Baron Hugh. I believe he will solve your problems for you in that regard."