Lord Of Puppets

Chapter 274: Chapter 274 – Teacher Thauma.

<<Learning magic.>>

<<Expanding military force.>>

<<Researching guns.>>

<<Cutting down the forest.>>

<<Taking control of the newfound territory.>>

<<Conducing several lesser researches in between.>>

<<And conducing the golem advancement research.>>

<<Pretty much, that how all the days has went by after Porai had came.>>

<<Research, learning, research, learning.>>

<<We had been reappearing the same thing nonstop.>>

<<Sometimes Porai left to do some of her own work related to the empire.>>

<<She could be gone for days or even a week, but she always returned.>>

<<Porai is.... A great teacher.>>

<<With her help, I’ve had developed a lot.>>

<<With her teachings, I was not able to understand better form of crafting, but I was also able to create somewhat better golems, all by myself.>>

<<I’ve never seen such smooth and easy movements before.>>

<<And on top of that, they had WEIGHT! Behind them! Power!>>

<<They are still not perfect and they do still have a lot of problems, but still! The results of Powin teachings were overwhelming powerful!>>

<<And it wasn’t just golemancy that she helped me out in.>>

<<The guns that I’ve had created were noticeable more powerful.>>

<<And I was able to create these.>>

<<The magic rounds.>>

<<These rounds uses the unstable artificial mana crystals as igniters to unleash a devasting shot.>>

<<Again, not perfect, but it is a step towards the future that will have a powerful effect.>>

<<There is also metal magic.>>

<<Honestly, attempting to even obtain the affinity for this element wasn’t easy at all.>>

<<Heck, I know how to bend metal with alchemy, but this? This was.... Alien.>>

<<It was as if I was using alchemy and earth magic at the same time, while also not either as well.>>

"Told you it wouldn’t be easy." – said Porai as she was currently teaching Thauma metal magic with the usage of the mercury bottles.

"..."

{"By the way. Did you have a natural compatibility with the metal magic? Or did you had talent for it?"} – asked Thauma by writing.

"Hm.... I think both, if I’m honest."

"Truth to be told, I was once wondering to myself, what is the best magic I’m fit for?"

"I was just doing a experiment on myself, wondering what exactly my strong point it."

"At the time, I knew 3 elements."

"Earth."

"Water."

"And blood."

"The reason why I learned water was simple, a liquid."

"The most basic form of the blood magic is liquid." – said Porai as she cut her palm and let some of her blood out, which she gathered and formed a sphere of blood above it.

"So, I wondered about water magic?"

"Water is present in all living beings, this also includes blood."

"However, the blood can also harden." – said Porai as she changed the form of the ball sphere, hardening it.

"Earth."

"This reminded me of the earth, which is why I studied it."

"However, both of this attributes were fitting... Yet at the same time, don’t.... So, I’ve wondered, what else?"

"Blood magic is one of the more unique magic, since you can do a lot of stuff, and I mean it, A LOT!"

"Different forms, effects, abilities and what not."

"A transformation of form.... Ice magic."

"The water and icy."

"Remitment of blood."

"The icy magic was good approach, if anything, it allowed me to advance my research further and I was able to use my knowledge that I’ve had obtained to it to only improve the blood magic, but also the water and earth magic."

"But it was still not it." – said Porai as she took back her blood into her own bloody, before then quickly regenerating the wound.

"I’ve wondered what I was looking for."

"Something soft, that can be hard."

"Something like liquid, which was also solid."

"Blood magic would be a perfect fit... But at the same time, it wasn’t it."

"Combination element magic?"

"I tested it and I’ve seen interesting results... But it wasn’t it either."

"..."

"And then I found something interesting." – said Porai as she grabbed one of the glass containers that had a liquid mercury inside of it.

"Metal."

"Metal is usually a solid, but you can turn it into the liquid."

"At first, this was nothing more than fleeting thought.... But still, it got me curios."

"However, as I’ve researched it more and more.... I’ve learned it."

"I understood that I had a high affinity for it.... But at the same time, I understood its nature."

"And that made something in my head click."

"Blood magic."

"Earth magic."

"Water magic."

"And ice magic."

"All of them combined perfectly for me!"

"But I also knew that there was something in the exact middle of it that I was missing."

"And I’ve found it."

"The metal magic."

"This was the magic that I was missing."

"And once I’ve had obtained it, I could feel it! The power! The potential!"

"And with it, I combined them!"

"Every single elemental affinity that I’ve had, I’ve combined the research from each of them in order to advance and evolve every single one of my elements!"

<<Honestly speaking? It was interesting to hear the story about why Porai learned metal magic.>>

<<A combination of affinities that can help each different affinity grow, even though their elements may not be related to one another one bit.... Interesting....>>

<<Ariava once taught me about something like that before, about how different elemental knowledge can be used for the research and training of other elements.>>

<<And Porai was a prime example of that.>>

<<...>>

<<And she wasn’t the only one using this method.>>

<<Or more exactly, I used IT for the completely different thing.>>

<<My Forged Skills.>>

<<These skills are way different in nature compare to both Item Skills and the Learned Skills, but at the same time, they are very similar.>>

<<I’ve used the knowledge from both Item Skills and Learned Skills for my Forged Skills research, which ended up providing nice results.>>

<<Porai herself, was more than excited enough when I shown her my data.>>

<<And when I was teaching her about the Forged Skills.>>

<<Porai wasn’t the only one teaching me.>>

<<I was at the same time, teaching her about the Forget Skills.>>

<<And it was... Interesting, to teach somebody else about it.>>

"Hm.... Fuck me... This isn’t easy." – said Porai while this time, the one who was in charge of teaching was Thauma.

"It is really like I’m making and not making Item Skills at the same time."

{"Do you want to go over the basics again?"}

"Nah.... It wouldn’t work.... I think."

"If anything, these Forget Skills.... They are.... Well.... How should I say it?"

"Weird to learn?"

"Like, you are trying to push forward a straight stick, while at the same time bending it without at the same time bending it."

"You are forcing the nature of the straight stick change, making it no longer some kind of bend stick, but instead a stick that has a bend shape from the very beginning."

"That explanation.... Well, it doesn’t really make sense, but at the same time, it does."

"From what I understand after learning about these skills, the knowledge about the Item Skills is beyond essential."

{"That is correct."}

{"When it comes to the item skills, the nature of forging the skill changes extremely, depending on what sort of item skill you are trying to make."}

{"The Forget Skills are the same, but at the same time, they are different."}

{"You let them flow like a waves, like a wind."}

{"You don’t let them stick to something, while at the same time stick to something."}

{"You let them be free, while at the same time you are enslaving them."}

{"Solid and not solid."}

{"Without targe and directly targeted."}

"A annoying way to explain it, but at the same time, completely correct if I’m honest." – said Porai.

{{Info: This current situation had happened about 10 days later after Porai came to the dungeon.}}

"I mean, I said it, I feel like I’m not making item skills while at the same time, I’m making one."

(Honestly, his explanation doesn’t really make sense, if an outside would look at it.) – thought Porai.

(But after experiencing it myself.... I can tell.)

(His explanation maybe bizarre like hell, but they are the same time perfectly accurate.)

(Still, this lack of "solidness" that the target should have is.... Unknown.)

(I mean, it is like I’m hitting a smoke with a hammer!)

(And he was able to discover, learn and understand it all on his own?)

(Damn!)

(This guy is really a monster!)

"..."

"And honestly speaking, this thing is most terrifying." – said Porai as she patted a weird pedestal like device, which was equipped with magical equipment and checkered pattern device on top it."

"At first I thought this was one of the special item forging skills tools.... But it wasn’t."

"Instead, you fucking shown me this? A device that you had made that focuses on helping in forging the Forget Skills?"

"How in the bloody hell did you made something like that in the first place?!" – said Porai as Thauma reached with one of his hands to the gem like device that was sitting on top of it, before then activating the pedestal device, which in turn caused the light sparks to begin emanating from the targeted orb like device.

And moments later, these sparks formed something.... Stars... A nightly sky filled with stars.

Or something that looked somewhat like it, a false night sky filled with stars that had appeared from the pedestal like device.

{"Trial and errors."}

{"I’ve used my knowledge about Item Skills and how they are made, to somewhat modify, change and evolve in specific way the devices."}

{"Combine. Destroy. Reconstruct. Destroy again. Use as model, but not completely. Evolve."}

{"Mutate."}

{"And adapt."}

{"Resulting in this device."}

{"The Forget Skill Anivl."}

"Well, the scary fucking part about is that it is working.... And even I understand it.... And can even use it." – said Porai as she exerted her hand, grabbing one of the stars that were created by the sparks.

"Honestly, I thought that learning the Forget Skills will take shit tons of time.... But with this anvil of yours?"

"It honestly got way shorter."

(I’m pretty much nowhere near making anything like Forget Skills just yet... However, I will be able to learn it in the less than a year... Maybe even less than half of a year... Heck, it may even just take few months for me to able to use the Forget Skills myself.) – thought Porai.

(He is not only a fucking good teacher when it comes to.... No. He is excellent fucking teacher when it comes to teaching about the Forget Skills... And he even made a perfect equipment that can not only help in creating Forged Skills, but also fucking help out in learning how to make them in the first place???)

(For fuck’s sake Thauma.)

(Your value is keep increasing nonstop.)

*Sigh*

(Yeb... Now we have even more reasons to keep it a secret all cost.)

(....)

(Still...)

(This is going nice....)

(THIS IS GOING EXTREMLY NICE!)

(SOON! THE FORGET SKILLS WILL BE MINE!)

(AND I WANDER! WHAT I WILL BE ABLE TO CREATE!?)

(I’m starting to like this deal more and more, with each passing second!)

(Ah....)

(It was fucking worth it, making the deal.)