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Chapter 24 - Artificing

Cades only awakened from his unconscious slumber after a whole week.

He awoke completely naked even though he could've sworn that something was covering him before he awakened.

Not caring about being in his birth suit he began looking around, assessing the situation.

After making sure that he wasn't in any immediate danger he began artificing as almost everything he had worn was destroyed.

First, he utilized the few intact parts of the monsters feather dress and made himself a cloak to hide that which should never see the sun.

He enchanted the cloak with as many spells as he could think of, utilizing his new capabilities as a lord, he enchanted it with the absorption enchantment and the resistance enchantment that had already been engraved into his first cloak that he had made back when he was on trumal.

Other than that he added a few new enchantments, such as a multitude of layers that would weaken the effect that magic would have on him, such as mental magic, illusions, or even weakening the power of a superpowered fire.

Then he added a few durability enchantments and a cord to close the cloak around his waist.

Once he was finally covered, in a long, ashen black, feathered coat, covering his entire back and even his folded wings, it even had a hood capable of covering his face and hiding his face.

Then he began carving deeper into the flesh of the now dead goliath.

When he finally reached the huge mana organ he moved carefully, taking it out while trying not to harm it in any way.

After that Cades slowly crawled into the organ through the opening to the "sack" and picked up the bright violet mana stone he had found inside, it was as big as the one he had gained from the eximimus queen, just in a much higher concentration of power.

He put it down outside the organ and started cleaning off the stinking mucus inside the sack.

After he was done he crawled outside once more and began the spells he had seen illustrated inside the books he had read, first he carved a dimensional displacement spell, at least that was what Cades thought it to be, next he utilized a absorption spell and a few runic sequences that should allow him to change its size.

It was a torturous, bloody and very fleshy process, but when he was finally done he flooded the sack with as much mana as he could bear.

The mana organ started shrinking down to the size of his hand and after adding a tendon to it that now worked as a cord Cades brightly smiled.

He had succeeded in creating a "bag of holding".

It looked like a normal dark red sack with a fleshy outer wall with visible blood vessels that would soon start going brown.

Cades picked up the bag and noticed two interesting things.

First, the bag was incredibly heavy, even more heavy than the mana organ had been previously, it was the weight of the dimensional stasis inside the bag, at least that was what Cades thought.

Second of all, the bag was very elastic, it could be stretched as much as he wanted, the limit he had reached was the size of both his arms stretched out completely but Cades couldn't really stretch it further because that was his whole reach.

Cades put his new bag aside and continued working on the next artifact he wanted to make.

He picked up the violet mana stone and began working on a new magic "wand".

His ring had fallen off his hand after the spells he had cast in the battle, so he needed to make a better version or at least a new one.

Cades carefully began carving various different rings with different spells engraved into them, and some other parts, all of which were incredibly complex.

After this he began putting it together, and slowly the glow of the stones turned completely black, and a beautiful gauntlet was created out of the ancient mana stone.

The gauntlet looked as if made out of beautifully complex onyx, with sharp claws and various dozens of runic spells engraved into it, all acting as a beautiful pattern that could easily captivate ones attention.

After he was done a lot of mana stone shards remained, as well as some smaller ones that had also been inside the birds mana organ, so he put all those into his new bag of holding which became slightly heavier with the weight of the stones now added to the weight of whatever the previous weight truly came from.

The sun had already made a full cycle, but Cades still wasn't done with the artificing process, he needed a new sword and, most importantly, new clothes.

For the sword he ripped out one of the few remaining long teeth that still remained in the molten beak of the beast, if it had been any other species of monster he would've used the bones, but, alas, as birds bones are hollow he couldn't make a sword out of them.

He carved the the tooth into the right shape, long, sharp on both sides, with a handle and began the enchanting process.

Cades lost himself in the process, he hardened it, he made a regeneration engraving, he made a strengthening enchantment, he made many more, but almost all of them just for utility and the strengthening of the blade.

It looked like a long, white blade with a intricate pattern on its round cross guard.

Finally, Cades put as many of the remaining teeth, tendons and smaller bones that the bird had into his new bag of holding and flew away covering himself in the feathered cloak, hoping to find something that he could utilize to make new, usable clothes.

After looking around for quite a while Cades found something, the corpse of a seemingly poisoned avian, still fully clad in a dark armor and light brown clothes around his upper body part.

Cades was reluctant, but he knew what he had to do, he took the clothes of the dead avian and put them on.

Luckily the light brown clothes already had a hole in the back for the avians wings that Cades would now utilize for his own wings.

Slowly, Cades turned around and flew back to the cavern.

Inside the cavern he took the journal that was at the exact place he had left it at, put it into his bag and decided to fly to the next monster on the list.

The "Demon of the forsaken", which seemed to be a gigantic sand golem.

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