Living Life As A Game: Through And Through 69 Storage Enchantmen

With a calm and collected aura surrounding her, it was unsettling for those that had witnessed her leave as a demon struggling to restrain its unfathomable hate just a few minutes prior. Elizabeth walked back over to Luca and said, "Well… where would you like me to inscribe a better "Storage Enchantment" for you?"

Naturally, Luca was the creator of the enchantments used to hold his magazines. It only made sense for him to master such enchantments as a prolific gun user, as the savings he would gain in the long run from crafting enchantments himself was leagues greater than through trading others. As the creator of the enchantments, he had some spare pebbles that were free of inscriptions too. Thus, after picking out an inscription-free pebble from his reserves, he gave one to Elizabeth and waited with hopeful eyes as he felt his blood boil at the thought of the possibility of improving his already "good" technique.

Elizabeth took the pebble and instantly got to work. With her new and vast reserves of Inner Strength, she felt no pressure to move quickly as she knew for a fact that the basic inscriptions she would be inscribing would not drain on her unless she purposefully dragged herself back. Though even if she didn't rush herself, the natural way she inscribed was rather fast as she had already gone through the motions several times in the past. The inscription that made up her Quartzite, Marble, and even Dirt bullets, were all dozens of times harder to construct that these neutral inscriptions.

Still, even if they were harder to complete when compared to an Enchantment, a Forging inscription of the same level would never be more complex, as even for the basic job she was conducting, Elizabeth needed to layer inscription atop inscription several times over.

For a solid five minutes, Elizabeth worked on her "enchantment;" she still had no clue what it was called. Never, in that time did she pause as her product was so basic that she a.s.sured herself that nothing would go wrong and in the end, she was most definitely correct in that prediction. She looked at her work, conducting an inspection before initiating the final step of enchantment, networking the Energy Integration, and found no mistakes worthy of course correction. Then with a hum of her Inner Strength paving the path for that final step, the Enchantment was complete, leaving Elizabeth a bit disgruntled by the message she received from her function notification.

[Hidden Quest: Enchanter Milestone #1 (Complete)

Degree of Completion: Par

Difficulty: F

Objective: Inscribe any Enchantment of Low-tier Mortal Grade✔

Description: Would be Sub Par for the rarity of the final enchantment, but, because you went off the cuff and created the Enchantment without the guide of your Creeds — just your thoughts on an already completed Enchantment — the Degree of Completion was brought right back up to Par~

Reward: Inscriptionist Beginner Kit

Bonus: Creed of Neutral Enchantments

Status

Name: Standard Physical Storage Enchantment

Grade: Low-tier Mortal Grade Enchantment

Description: Crafted by the user, this is a neutral enchantment made up of Inner Strength and various Sub-Basic level principles of the path of enchanting. This Enchantment's sole function is to store things. The line quality while decent for Low-tier Mortal Grade could definitely be improved upon and but the rest of the enchantment makes it a staple for what would be expected in Mortal grade Enchantment shops of the Shadow Realm dimension.

Effects: With a maximum capacity of one item, this enchantment can hold anything possessing less than half a meter's worth of cubic s.p.a.ce and weighing less than 10kg. Living things not included as the enchantment's "s.p.a.ce" lacks any s.p.a.cetime to sustain a hospitable atmosphere. s.p.a.cetime corruption from each use limits this Enchantment to only 5 uses..]

Elizabeth tossed the enchanted black pebble back at Luca and said, "Here you go~ This bad boy works just like your enchantments, only instead of being a one-time use item, you can use it around five times before it's durability expires."

"Mhmm? Five times?" Luca said, as he cautiously compared the inscriptions on Elizabeth's Enchantment with one of his own. He was already dubious of Elizabeth's ability considering the way she just casually drew up the inscriptions. Moreover, a Storage Enchantment made in what, five minutes? Even he would slowly work in the inscription over the course of twenty minutes, and that was at his peak level of performance.

However, the moment he started to read through the inscriptions it immediately became evident how terrible his inscriptions were compared to Elizabeth's. It was obvious how big of a difference there was between his and Elizabeth's skill just by virtue of him being able to read the inscriptions so easily. Never had he seen such clear and concise diagrams, with each part acting so harmoniously with the others. Usually, his work would be jumbled up and now apparently needlessly convoluted, as he could tell that Elizabeth only rearranged the structure of his Enchantments with a better technique; she neither added nor detracted from the inscriptions present in the pebble he had used up to demonstrate the enchantment's ability.

"Amazing! Your technique is so good! I concede, I concede..." Luca wholeheartedly expressed his defeat, as if he and Elizabeth were competing in the first place. Now he felt even more indebted to her after receiving that G.o.dsend of an Enchantment. As an Enchanter, he knew first and foremost how big of a gesture it was for Elizabeth to not conceal her work and directly show herself in the process of Enchanting. Anyone watching with similar skills could directly copy her, and knowing that Luca, a fellow enchanter, watched the whole event through to the end, it was well within expectation for her to believe that Luca would take her method for himself. Moreover… even after Enchanting, she didn't use any redirection methods to conceal the legibility of her inscriptions after giving Luca the pebble; he not only saw her work in real time but right afterward, he could easily and clearly see the work in greater detail!

Usually, Enchanters would apply methods of redirection and misdirection to prevent their Enchantments from being reverse engineered. Alas, Luca had not expected Elizabeth to be an enchanter when he let her observe his pebbles, as usually his pebbles only appear for the briefest of moments as he reloaded on the battlefield or fully protected with myriad methods applied if he was to trade them off with others. In Elizabeth's case, she primarily felt no need to conceal her enchantments when Luca was technically giving her the formula used, and on a deeper subconscious level, even if someone else copied her method, she didn't feel it with was valuable enough to warrant concealment. Compared to her s.p.a.ce, Time, and especially those s.p.a.cetime formulas she had at the recess of her memory, a trifling Storage Enchantment was comparable to cabbages at a supermarket; utter cheap...

Hearing Luca's words, Elizabeth turned to Sophie and with the biggest s.h.i.+t-eating grin imaginable, she said, "What was that bulls.h.i.+t a certain someone was spewing earlier?"

"Tsk! Don't push your luck, kid!" Upon being humiliated and shamed, Sophie retaliated by flaring her Inner Strength and activating an invisible type of Qi which Elizabeth judged to be similar to Luca's Qi during his fight with Atid. She tried to pressure Elizabeth with the Qi to get her to submit, but Elizabeth's perfect Magic Connection worked in conjunction with the aberrant domain present in her Soul Land to ward off any possible discomfort that might have bred from the hostile Qi.

"Che! Keep acting a fool for now…" Elizabeth stopped concerning herself with Sophie as she recalled something, and called for Sun, saying, "Ay, I need to go back to my house, can you drive me?"

"Sure?" Not at all expecting Elizabeth to suddenly target him, Sun came off a bit silly. Though he certainly didn't at all mind getting to drive his most precious sports car…

"Cool~" Elizabeth smiled at Sun, still proud of her small victory in the form of making Sophie eat her words. She then excused herself and Sun to search for remnants of her previous form's DNA. The people left back in the Dojo began to clean up after the aftermath of Atid and Luca's fight, as Atid and Luca were left to converse in private.

Luca said, "Mhmm… It seems your little disciple is more mysterious than just her looks suggest. Things'll probably get very interesting around here, so is it fine if I stay and "help out" in the scheduled training week?"

One of Atid's eyebrows raised as he thought through the hidden meaning within Luca's words. He said, "You have time to hang around with me for a whole week?"

"You know me, right? As long as it's interesting to me, I can spend any length of time doing what I want. You should understand how important the art of inscriptions is to me. To put it lightly, I can spend more than just a week if it means getting more information about that profound method of Enchanting..."

"Mhmm… As long as you don't do anything, unorthodox" Atid said, with hostility and a clear threat coating his every word, continuing, "We won't have any problems. Don't forget the very high to almost definite probability that she's got a powerful background behind her. You've seen her methods yourself..."

"..." Luca became quiet for a short while before he and Atid began making other forms of small talk. They didn't bring up Elizabeth or her mysterious background and instead focused on other things like Sophie or what kinds of regiments the unfortunate souls volunteering to partake in the training week would be subject to...