Summer, 20, 310 av
Vick let his eyes take note of the eyeball, snakes body and the tongue inside the box as he thought of what to do with them. His skills with malediction were getting better with each passing day and he wanted to work more on them. The items in question he was going to try to sell but he would use all three then sell them in bulk after testing them. He was no longer going to hold back as he stood beside the table, his craving and even painting tools at hand as he let his mind warp around the ideas of the tools and what they could be used for.
He wanted to be a wizard but he knew he had to prove his use and skill before that would take place. He felt like he was not taking enough risk to do that as magic dealt with risk. He knew this from the cats paw along his finger that acted like a ring. The more risk he was willing to take the larger the reward would be in the end of things. That was more or less how any type of magic worked in life be it world or personnel.
The snakes body he had a idea of what to do with. It would be used to warp around the users arm and grant them more strength. At least that was the goal as he took the brush once more this time and not the craving tools. He wanted to get more understanding of the paint and not the bone dust along the table.
If one asked him why he was working so hard he would tell them it was his job. Or point to Boss for Boss was a large influence upon the young child even larger then Vick really knew as he took the brush out as the child pushed his skills once more. Always working and never resting but he knew he would need to rest sooner or later before his mind broke under the stress of the life around him. The island was not prefect but it did work in the end.
The circles were done with ease almost. He was losing count of how many malediction circles he had made since he came to the island. It was not that his memory was bad it was just he made so many they were becoming second nature to him. He placed the circles along each of the bones joints along the body starting at the top of the head as he told yet another story.
The first part of the story showed how a person touched the symbol along the head to let the snakes body warp around the arm. The details were in the fact that the snake was not a normal snake but the of the same skeletons body as the head of it would rest near back of the hand.Gyphing circles were added along inside the first malediction circle in between the second one for the first time in his malediction work to make it more stable in his eyes.
Vick was no longer playing things by the book and he was making his own mark and own risks in the name of magical research as he moved on with the work of art. The story kept going in the next circle showing how the snakes body kept on the arm as it moved with the user. More glyping circles were added that held the meaning of stable to try to focus the djed in the world magic as if to focus it in a new way for him to give him better results even if his glyping was not meant for it but it was meant to enhance his own magic so the idea was the same in his head and he had hoped it would off paper.
Boss was not around him for once as he told he trusted Vick enough not to blow up the public lab area and that he would show up later once he had done something. Vick was really unsure what his Master up to but kept going with the snakes story in different shades of paint.
It kept going with how the wearer of the talisman would have a larger amount of strength then normal as it showed the human throwing a punch breaking down what looked like a door of sorts. All his drawings and paintings were crude but it gave the point of he told the story in his head as he kept pushing a steady flow of his djed into the paintbrush as he worked for his end goal of to harness the djed of the snake to bend and mold into his goals. Would it work? He was not sure. It was a question he asked himself a lot but faith had a large amount in the work.
The story of the snake kept going as it told how the the user could tap the head of the snake three times and speak a word of “Release” with a little speech bubble in small print common which made the snake in the story would let go of the arm. Vick never did this before, he did malediction however never in this detail with the story nor the length of the story or circles but it was his passion and his own resolve that made him push himself so much to earn the name wizard and make Boss proud of him.
The snake was done. The paint had dried and he just looked at it. His own djed flared to life as the world once again shifted from the dull normal shades to brighter shades of color that were different then what the naked eye saw. He was enjoying the world of auras as he just let his mind focus on nothing at all yet take in the bits slowly as he moved his focus from the tools on the desk, the desk itself to the walls and nuits around the room before focusing back on the snake and his new malediction product. He did not have it up and running as he saw what it looked like first. It was something very different then what he was use to as the colors were of a darker shade almost a crimson shade on the body. The circles were a mix of silver and white but he was still unsure of anything if it would work or not. He had to understand more of his magic before he got more details from it as he let the djed flee from his body back into his soul.
A thick white ichor pooled to the surface as he cut his finger slowly. His body never even flinching as he pressed his finger on each circle pushing more of his djed into the white blood like substance as each circle was awaken before he took a simple needle and thread along his finger. His body was filled with burn scars and thread as he patched his body up on his own and it showed just how crude he was at it.
The first malediction product was done. Would it work? He was not sure. Would it stand the test of time? He doubted it as he would just sell it. He had no plans on saving his items just yet but maybe one day he would keep a room filled of them once he had his own private lab. Yet for now he was just earning the funds for it. Would the item in question help show his skill? He was again not sure but he took the stiff body letting it stand near his left arm as he touched the top of the head.
As if it was alive, the body moved around his arm warping like a normal snake did but he did not feel any stronger once it was firmly around. Anger flashed along his body as he thought of his malediction item as a failure as his hands formed into small fist slamming down along the work table. Once, twice and a third time as his anger just kept building out of no where as if the snake was always in a rage over the smallest thing. He never felt such a deep seed rage as small cracks formed along the table and once his eyes saw that he stopped in midair. It worked? A small thought of hope came to life as he tapped the head of the skull more then once before giving the command word.
It did not work. Not at first. Chimes passed and soon bells passed as he kept at it trying to get it to let go before out of nowhere the snake fell off his arm. Was it due to he was the creater or was it not working like it should have? So many questions came to mind as he kept his eyes on the snakes body. Maybe he would not know if it did work or not or if it did what it did due to it was his djed. However he did not let the questions linger along his mind as he moved it to part of the table. It was still going to sell if he had his way. As long as he had profit from it he was fine in the end. For some reason he was not worried about it not working right for people but maybe that was just that his mind was looking forward to the next projects or maybe the snake talisman had a deeper effect then what he knew.