Chapter 282: Chapter 282 – Steady and good progress.
[2 weeks later – Golem Dungeon]
"Okay. Common... That is it... And here we go." – said Porai as she was teaching Thauma how to use metal magic, helping out Thauma in learning how to manipulate the liquid mercury.
{"It is getting harder and harder."} - written Thauma with its free arms while using its main arms to manipulate the liquid metal in the container, lifting it up and turning into a small tube.
{"The training about making a hollow tube seems most annoying. Keeping it completely smooth somewhat looked extremely easy when you did it."}
"Well, I told you, metal magic is extremely shitty when it comes to early stages of learning."
"And even if you do somewhat learn the basic, the advance stuff is also extremely annoying, so don’t worry. You will suffer a lot in the future while trying to learn this stuff.
"Still, you are showing a proper progress." - said Porai.
"A progress speed we somewhat suspected."
"It does look like you have some affinity to the metal magic, not only that your understanding of it is somewhat high, so yeah... You are not going really slow... Maybe somewhat bit faster than average person that tries learning it."
(Honestly the fact that we are at this stage of training is somewhat interesting.) – thought Porai as she watched Thauma manipulating liquid metal in somewhat smooth way... A slow way, but smooth.
"But then again, I don’t think you can use it in proper combat yet."
{"Not even at this stage?"} – replied Thauma as Porai gave a signal to the golem to stop training.
"Nope. It will be like throwing just a liquid metal at somebody... Still, liquid mercury can be used as a poison, so maybe you can use this stuff in nasty way."
"But beside that, you cannot really use it in any other way."
{"What about that magic alchemy and metal magic combination you once told me about?"}
"You are not at the stage where you can use it yet, so don’t rush it."
"Still, I say that, but you are really good at learning stuff."
"I mean, I get that you can work for 24 hours a day without rest, but still, your learning speed is extremely interesting."
"There is also your earth and arcane magic. You are getting way better at using it."
"Especially you are getting better at using combination of a golemancy and forging alongside earth magic."
"So even if you can’t use metal magic in combat yet, your earth magic and arcane magic had already been sharpened enough to make your growth in power extremely noticeable."
"Still, the only freaking complain that I have is this."
"You are working too much dude."
"I mean, I get that you want to learn, evolve and what not."
"But dude? I mean seriously, dude.... You are exhausting your freaking mind with nonstop working."
{"Sorry."}
"You said that already several fucking times over, and you still end up doing that anyway."
"For fuck’s sake, you even ended up learning few skills because of that non stop addicting will to growth of yours." – said somewhat angry Porai as she remembers scolding Thauma about this problem already several times over.
"When learning magic you need to have a clear freaking mind. A stable one."
"But from what I seen we had already several problems because of this freaking habit of yours."
{"I’m sorry."}
"Again, stop saying freaking sorry and just stop doing that for crying out loud? Do I have to put you in some kind of time out corner in order to have you stop doing that stupid shit?"
(He is smart, but he is somewhat making somewhat stupid and childish problems and mistake like that.... Still, I should be thankful that he isn’t doing anything extremely stupid.... Well, there were those few times where he got "curios" about something and he ended up blowing himself up.... Can’t really say that I didn’t done that myself while doing my own research while I was still living with my parents... They freaking yelled at me for entire day when I made that kind of big mess.) – thought Porai as she started remembering how much of a troublemaker she was for her parents because of her little ’experiments’.
"..."
"Anyway, things are honestly going nice, aren’t they?"
{"Yes. The preparations to start off the city construction are about done. I can start off making deals with empire."}
{"Still, I would like to somewhat produce more construction golems before we even start off construction. So maybe I think I shouldn’t start making the deals, at least until I produce more combat golems and construction golems."}
"Welp, you are in charge really and it isn’t really a bad idea, so just do what you want."
"...Still.... This is weird."
"I mean, the empire."
"Why do they still want to go with this deal?"
"Do they really need that military power that desperately? There is no way the trust is the answer here."
{"Didn’t Ariava told us to not think about it?"}
"I mean... Yeah? But still..."
(Are they just panicking? But didn’t Ariava prevented a war from happening again?) – thought confused Porai.
(Then again... Maybe something else is going on now, which I’m not aware of it...)
"..."
"Ah fuck it. Let’s just do as she says and not talk about this."
"It will be just waste of time and this isn’t our problem right now."
"..."
"Still, it isn’t just you who is growing." – said Porai as she gotten up from her chair.
"I mean, this entire dungeon has became way bigger compare to the first time I ever came here."
"Not only that, but the average strength level of your golems has also skyrocketed."
(I can now tell way better about it.) – thought Porai.
(I mean, his entire dungeon is a perfect factory!)
(He can made single personally made golem, before then having the dungeon produce them!)
(Not some mass produced crab, but a good stuff that is special made by the master.)
(And every single freaking golem here is like that.)
(True, it takes dungeon sometime to obtain access to the new materials, I understand it now perfectly, but still.)
(His dungeon has ability to evolve nonstop, which is straight up terrifying.)
(His dungeon rank.... I wonder what is it now?)
(Maybe B?)
[Dungeon ranking.]
[Dungeon ranking system is somewhat different compare to the other rankings systems.]
[Some dungeons can be extremely large, but contain large number of weak monsters, while some dungeons can be small while containing a group of elite monsters.]
[Strength. Counters. Specialty as well as other factors plays a great role in assigning the difficulty to the dungeon.]
[Dungeons ranking system is often divined into different categories, depending on the layout of the dungeon.]
[For example, a multi floor dungeon can be divided into multiple ranks.]
[Floors: 1 – 3 – Inspected rank: D]
[Floor 4 – 6– Inspected rank: C]
[Floor 7 – 10 – Inspected rank: B]
[Dungeon danger rank: D – B]
[Or a massive dungeon that is just one single massive floor that the invaders need to traverse and conquers.]
[Inspected rank: A (The entire danger of the entire dungeon combined into one.)]
[However, there is also a massive difference.]
[For example, a D rank dungeon can possibly create a large number of monsters which has combined rank of D, or can produce several D rank monsters.]
[Not only that, the D rank dungeons could maybe even create monsters with the danger rank of C, not in large numbers, maybe 1 or 2, but still, C rank monsters are C rank monsters.]
[Not only that, a dungeon can produce large number of monsters nonstop, which also plays an extremely big factor in all of this, which also includes the manifestation that can cause the dungeon break.]
[Because of that, the ranking system of the dungeons are consider far more dangerous, meaning that the D rank dungeon can be consider far more dangerous than C rank monster.]
(From what I’m seeing, he is somewhat producing somewhat strong monsters... So maybe his dungeon is really C rank? Maybe C+)
(Either way, there is no way to hide his "danger" to the world outside.) – thought Porai as she was wondering around the workshop.
"Still.... The scary part is also freaking this." – said Porai as she picked up a rifle like gun from the table.
"Your gunsmithing skills also reached somewhat terrifying level somewhat quickly." – said Porai as she aimed with the riffle at one of the training dummies, before then firing her weapon, unleashing a devasting blast that straight up blew off the head of the training dummy.
{"It is thanks to your teachings and showing me different kind of guns that this world has to offer."}
"Well, one things is teaching and showing, and another is understanding and using that knowledge yourself." – said Porai as she picked up one of the bluish bullets from the table.
"Especially this freaking thing."
"It is still not perfect.... But this mana bullet is deadly." – said Porai as she switched her gun from a rifle to a single shot pistole that was laying on the table, before then loading her new gun with the bullet she grabbed, and then firing it at one of the dummies, which resulted in the struck dummy having part of its body blown off.
(Honestly learning how to make these bullets and guns that can use them may look simple at the first glace, but it is bit harder and more complicated that it seems.)
(Yet this guy can already create a gun with this kind of power?)
"You are really nasty fucker." – said Porai as she handed over the gun to Thauma.
"Honestly, even without city you are already beyond dangerous, and I don’t think anybody is really willing to fuck with you."
{"Still, better safe then sorry. What if the empire falls and I will be all on my own once again? Or what if they betray me?"}
"True..."
(Still, the fact remains that this bastard is growing nonstop.) – thought Porai.
(He isn’t something like a nationwide threat that could exterminate the empire... Nah. If empire were to go all out, they would easily crush Thauma.)
(Still, if his growth continues like this for years, it would straight up made this dungeon really dangerous for the empire as a whole.)
{"By the way, how do you feel about Forged Skills now?"}
"Pfff.... Honestly speaking?"
"It is still way too much." – said Porai as she instantly taken a seat.
"It is like.... I straight up staring at the freaking ocean that I don’t know where is going to end."
"I.... Straight up don’t see any limit yet."
"Now that I can properly make Forget Skills all on my own.... I can definitely say that I won’t be getting bored anytime soon for several years, maybe even decades."
"....And the more I learn about it, the more terrifying it becomes."
"I mean, I do enjoy it, in fact, I straight up love researching this stuff!"
"...."
"But I also understand based on how powerful and how much potential this crap have, that I can say with full confidence... That the chaos will erupt."
"And you will be without a doubt a center of it."
{"So you are thinking about not using it?"}
"Nah. USE IT!" – shouted smiling Porai.
"THIS WILL BE FUCKED UP! BUT I JUST CAN’T NOT JUST DO IT MYSELF!"
"I WANT TO SEE WHAT THIS THING HAS TO OFFER!"
"WHAT SORT OF DOMAIN ARE WE STEPPING IN?!"
"IS IT JUST FORGED SKILLS?! OR MAYBE WE WILL OBTAIN NEW DISCOVERIES, ALL THANKS TO OBTAINING THE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT FORGED SKILLS?!"
"..."
"Still, we do need to be smart about this."
{"Yes. I’m fully understand the consequences of what would happen if it would be revealed now of all the times."}
"Yeah, good thing you do." – said Porai.
(Still, I don’t even think you need them.) – thought Porai.
(Even if you didn’t discovered Forget Skills, your talent and passion alone is straight up making you into a proper monster.)
(When it comes to the magic, you have all the rights to call yourself a "mage".)
(The same goes for fighting, the "warrior", crafting and what not too.)
(Honestly, even if you were born just as a human and not dungeon master, you would still end up becoming a monster no matter what.)
(It isn’t about him being able to work 24 hours a day.)
(Nah.)
(His curiosity allowing him to move forward as extremely fast pace.)
(And even now, he is nowhere near stopping.)
(Not only that, add the dungeon on top of that and its ability to product special made golems perfectly, and you can have something that can create a freaking extermination army.)
(And now add on top of that territory.... And it gets even more interesting.)
(Magic. Weapons. Golems. Skills. Combat abilities. Knowledge. Intelligence.)
(He is developing in all of those areas at the steady, even though he is doing all of them at once.)
(Hell! The metal magic which is hard to learn, he is somewhat making a very good progress in that area, while also learning and improving his own space magic.)
(And he is still searching for more.)
(More theories.)
(More moves.)
(More developments.)
(He is evolving nonstop.) – thought Porai as she looked around the workshop, noticing how big it has become while also being filled with far more golem body parts as well as countless weapons that were personally forged by Thauma.
(Ariava said that there was no hope for the future if Ariava didn’t helped him back then.... But if he had gotten lucky.... If he was born somewhat isolated... Then there is no doubt about it.)
(That guy would become "somebody" no matter if Ariava did anything or not.)
{"Porai. Can we try and focus on metal magic for this entire day? I feel some changes and I would like few advices."}
"Sure buddy." – said Porai as she gotten up.
"If anything, I wanted to do sooner or later an entire day that focuses on the metal magic... So, we may do it today."
(I will not doubt it or even question it.) – thought Porai.
(I was with that bastard for long time already and I can say this will full confided.)
(He will be "somebody" out there in the world and his name will be known.)
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