As the first nuit leaned forward and spoke, Clyde met his eyes, listening to his words for meaning. He did not doubt that a subtle game was being played, and he had no desire to be left behind in it.
“Well Clyde Sullins? I was told you were a magecrafter what exactly have you crafted?”
Before he could respond another mage spoke, requesting a similar demand.
“Let’s see what you’ve got child.”
Clyde did not flinch at the fact of being called a child. Even for a human mage, he was young. But then, he'd started much earlier than many mages. Along with that, he'd developed as a battle mage, forged in the heat of battle. Those mages by necessity grew in ability faster than those less pressed, or else they did not live to continue onward.
He had passed were others had failed and died, and so was a better mage in a shorter span of time because of it.
As he collected his thoughts, Ice leaned over, giving him a few words of advice before he responded.
“Perhaps the lamp first and work your way up?”
Clyde nodded, clutching Cha a bit tighter, and then stood tall before them, prepared to speak.
He quickly ran through what he had done in Magecrafting while on Sahova... But he quickly narrowed that down to what was here. For instance while he had done an interesting bit of evaluation in figuring out that enchanted net, he had not actually made such a enchantment. And while he had done work with Anna, such as his glowstone, and other side ventures he had done on his own, he did not have them in person with him.
That limited him down to four items, one of which had already been inspected, Cha.
Clyde took a deep breath, steadied himself, and began to speak.
“I am indeed a Magecrafter, and have crafted quite a number of items here on Sahova, of which I have been the lead on. However I will be focusing on several specific items that I have personally enchanted, which are still in my labs personal possession. I have worked on others, but I no longer retain them. Such is common amongst Magecrafters, due to the financial restrictions common in it. So I will only mention the ones that are here for you to see.”
Pausing for a moment, Clyde brought force the first item, the lamp, which still burned as if fed from oil inside. In actuality it was a magical flame, with no mundane source of fuel, but shaped so as to appear more or less as a normal lamp.
“This is the first item I personally crafted within Mrs.Jenkins lab. I appraised another such item, deciphered the enchantment laid upon it, and then duplicated and improved upon its form and Magecrafting. It is a ever burning magical lamp, fed by a magical fire. It utilizes d-wire, a work of Glyphing, to feed the flame up into the lamp apparatus, so that it appears to burn like a normal lamp would.”
“The lamp itself is simply a shell, and non-magical, since I deemed it not cost effective to enchant such a non-durable object, particularly the glass. Also so that if desired, it could be placed within a different object to produce flame, either for aesthetic reasons, or for re-purposing. Instead, there is a much stronger metal sphere base within the lamp apparatus, which itself has been enchanted, and has a metal protrusion from which the flame exits. Due too the d-wire, this is then fed upward as if from a burning wick. Upon the base sphere I laid a step in magic, that of Reimancy, so that it can produce fire. I also laid upon it a behavioral step, to hard-wire into it the specific lamp flame spell. Thus before you is the Ever Burning Lamp.”
Clyde quickly pressed onward, next moving to the following difficulty enchantment, the Anti-nuit dagger.
“Next, was a item that was commissioned, and which my Colleague here assisted with, an Anti-nuit dagger. For obvious reasons it is a intriguing area to work in, for both the direct knowledge gained from the enchantment, and from the knowledge derived from its inverse. Such is the workings of Magecrafting, that for every step, the opposite is possible. The base item was a cold iron dagger of fine make. I then used the ichor of several nuits, to imbue and imbibe the dagger with the essence of the nuit. This then made the dagger stronger against those of this essence. I then enhanced this behavior, so as to make it even more Anti against the essence it was imbibed with.”
“I would further theorize that if said anti-behavior is possible, along with enhancing said anti behavior, then so is the inverse, and that with further research a item could then be made that perhaps has no offensive capability against nuits, or at least diminished capability against them, while it would harm others normally. However without further research, such a concept remains only a concept, albeit a highly plausible and logical one.”
Clyde paused for a moment to let his words sink in, as he passed on to his final object, the medallion.
“The last object I am presenting is this medallion, also of fine make. It is able to produce, control, and create flames, for uses in various tasks both menial and tactical.”
“This specific medallion was bound using nuit ichor, so that only said specific nuit can harness or use this particular Magecrafted item. I also enhanced it with a single step in magic, that of Reimancy, to allow it to create fire. Along with that, four steps in intelligence were placed upon it, making it semi-sentient and self capable, and able to connect and communicate directly and mentally with its user. I also instilled within its mentality a series of basic fire spells of various types and use, to act as a base of knowledge, and common spells to utilize, since the user himself is not a Reimancer, and would not have the knowledge to utilize it fully without said base information. Fully enchanted, the item is a work at the level of MC 5.”
Clyde paused, done presenting his various works since taking on his apprenticeship, and made a small nod/bow to the mages before him, signifying that he was done, and ready for the next step. Clyde assumed this would be follow up questions, but admittedly did not know for sure what structure such a process involved.
He eased off on his hold of Cha, another of his works. However since he had already presented it, he did not mention it just yet. Especially due to the conversation he'd had before this all began. Instead, he let it sit silently in his hand, a length of blue wood, clearly magical to even the weakest of auristical inspections.
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