Chapter 92 - Forging A Ring - Part 1
The process of making the new mages absorb the vital organs went smoothly, and ended up by the six main mages of the hunter guild to have their own turn.
Lendy tried to get much closer to Arthur when she held the organ in hand, and she lost herself in his arms as she hoped, and he carried her and put her slowly on the soft ground.
He had some impression on her, but not that deadly crush yet, so he didn't do anything more than carry her over to a good spot and leave her there. She was older than his current self, but he was much older than her in reality, considering his long cultivation of hundreds of years.
As they were going to sleep for the whole night at least, Arthur returned to the mansion, with his main mages, as he had many arrangements to make.
Once sat on his seat, and others sat on theirs, he said:
"Have they visited the village at the forest border?"
"Yes, and they are quite satisfied by the work done there," Omar said, as he was the one responsible for the upgrading works at the village.
"Good," Arthur nodded in satisfaction, "Randy, are you ready to take the boys out for training?" he turned to ask Randy about this, and Randy's eyes shone brightly as he replied:
"Sure, when do you want us to leave?"
"Now," Arthur said, as he looked over to Amelia and Ron while adding, "you two will take some of our oldest mages, and keep the new seedlings safe."
"Don't worry, nothing will happen to them," Amelia said, with some conflicted emotions, as she was feeling some odd feelings towards the obvious harassment Arthur was experiencing at the hands of Lendy.
She knew Lendy from before, as her reputation was well known to anyone. She knew Arthur wouldn't be safe from her schemes, as she never failed to get a mage she sat her own before.
Arthur felt her disturbed face, and he understood the root of the problem, partly, as he didn't find anything absurd about having a relation with a mature lady who knew what she wanted and desired.
"Take some meat reserves with you, but you will focus mainly on cooking the monsters you hunt. I will forge a special ring for you before you leave, so go and make your preparations, and Ron, find Madly please, I want her help in making this ring."
"I will send her over to you," Ron said, while Amelia's face changed slightly before realizing how oversensitive she was, and her face returned to its calm again.
"Good, go and prepare now," he said, before looking over to Omar as he added, "and you have to hasten all the preparations at the village, as in two days you will be needed here," and then he looked to all of them while adding, "all of you."
They just nodded, understanding his meaning, then they all moved out, heading to do their assigned missions. As for Arthur, he was thinking about the new ring he intended to make for himself. last time he did the ring in the most simple way, but this time he intended to make it the best he could.
So he started to think about the runes he should use to supplement the ring. He intended to use this ring at the academy, and give this obsolete ring to his main mages, for missions like the one they were going to do.
His mind was also thinking about potions. He knew he could make a lot of potions now, improvising some modifications of the process, but in the end he would obtain good results. After thinking for quite some time, Madly had already entered the room, which meant he would start with the ring first.
"Have you sent for me?" she asked once she entered the room.
"Yes, I want your help forging another ring," he said, before pausing as he added, "I too want you to learn my craftsmanship as well."
Her face blushed. As a blacksmith, she knew how important the forging secrets were, and learning new secrets were more exciting than anything else. He just smiled as he pointed to the corner of the room and said:
"We will forge the ring here, c'mon, we need to finish it fast."
He moved to the side of the room, where there was nothing there but some carpets on the ground, which he carried at one side, exposing the rock ground here.
"This will do," he muttered, before he took out his new ore, the one he got from the mountain, the most explosive one. Just as he took it out and left it on the floor, he recalled the devastation caused by a small piece of it, so he changed his mind.
"Let's go outside, here won't do."
Madly just nodded, as she followed him obediently outside the mansion. He didn't stop at the front garden, and went to the back, where there was no one to disturb him.
Then he put the large piece of ore on the floor, then he poured a big amount of explosive oil on it. he intended to make the best ring, and to do that, he planned to make the ore both the furnace and the main material.
"Get back," he warned, as he knew how explosive this piece would get. At once she retreated far back, while he ignited the edge of a long leaf, and returned to the back as well.
"Boom!��
A huge mighty explosion occurred, and a huge cloud of smoke rose up. Arthur didn't have any harm, nor did Madly, but an explosion of such a scale would attract the attention of everyone.
"Go and reassure the others, while I will control the fire," he instructed, as he moved to the front, taking the hammer she handled to him in his hand, and headed towards the raging fire, with the intention of knocking that piece of ore until it took the desired shape.
She went to the rear, as she started meeting everyone's anxious questions with reassuring answers. After a few minutes, everything got much organized, under the control of all his main mages, who came here in a hurry after hearing the explosion, and noticing the huge cloud of smoke.
Arthur wasn't in the mood to mind them, trusting Madly's ability to make things calm, and his hand never ceased hitting this piece strongly, without stop.
He knew the hammer he was using wasn't that good, so he needed much force here. After quite some time, he gave up the hammer, and decided to use something far crazier.
He summoned his rhinoceros, which stood with its huge body and long horn obediently on the side of Arthur, who pointed to the piece of ore, with fire now blazing silently inside it, with some wisps of fire extending from it from time to time.
"Go and hit that piece of iron with your hooves," Arthur said, as Madly was now by his side, looking in daze towards this weird technique of smothering the heated up ore.
"This is much better than your hammer," he said as he watched the rhinoceros moving towards the burning ore with no hesitation, and it hit the ore with its hooves once.
"Do it again and again, repeatedly until I tell you to stop."