From Player To Npc

Shingi returned to the shop to sleep after they finished their celebration.

He didn't like being at the house since it was empty, and he could start working on something if he couldn't sleep.

He couldn't create his TRANCE ROOM yet, so he meditated normally and focused on his Skills.

A few of his Crafting Skills, all of his ENCHANTER-based skills, and STEALTH Skill were still in Base Rank.

Now that he wasn't pressured by time, he could focus on them as well his Spells.

He still had to find Arcane Words for all his Spells and finish his METAL HAND and GOLEMANCY Spells.

He firstly focused on his Mana Tree and made space for the Fire Element he wanted to add to it.

He had the Enchanted Forge active, which had a good amount of pure fire mana to help in his training, but he also used his Dragon Scale to use the Fire part of its mana.

His manipulation of every Element had increased after getting his class, but Light and Earth Elements were more manageable than the rest. Fire Element was third but had a long way from reaching the level of his Mana Tree Elements.

He had made enough space for starting creating a part for a third Element to begin residing in his Mana Tree and could slowly increase it.

From what he understood from his talk with Mizuneko and other Mages he had talked with in the past, what he needed to do is bring the mana of the Element on his Mana Tree, 'liquify' it, and store it in there.

For Water, this was easy to do as its base form was liquified, but for every other Element, it wasn't so easy to do.

He needed to make it into magma that was the closest to liquified fire he could think of but wasn't going to reach that high temperature or damage his Mana Tree.

He had created a Sphere with his Earth mana in his Mana Tree where this 'magma' mana would be placed and would start removing the Sphere slowly as the mana seemed to be safe and under control.

It took him a few tries to find the right way of manipulating the mana to turn it as wanted and needed combination of both Forge's and Scale's mana as they had different 'breathings' and had to combine them to make a third one.

After he inserted the mana, he had to keep it moving and starting turning it back to its standard form partially, while some should stay in liquified form and then combine them, giving it a more solid structure.

He had to duplicate o one of his Mana Pool 'structures' inside his Mana Tree, which were responsible for creating each of his Elements mana in his Mana Pool. So he had to create a third one made from the Fire Mana.

It was almost like he was creating a new organ for his Mana Pool.

The hardest part was to control the mana and change it to the different forms needed but with his MANA MANIPULATION being that high, his INT, as well his particular class, he had no problem with it.

To be safe, he enabled the active ability of his Blessing to boost his INT, increasing his success rate over the roof.

It took him a little less than the hour the effect lasted, but he finished creating the new Fire Mana creation structure of his Mana Pool but just its general structure.

He had to develop its prime source and strengthen it so that it began producing mana by itself.

It was something that would take more time but wasn't as difficult as what he just did.

It was similar to feeding his Mana Tree to grow, but he had to feed it only Fire Element mana, and the purest, the better.

His scale and forge didn't have much mana left as he was using it faster than they were replacing it, so he left this task for later as he didn't need to do it right away.

He could store some Fire Mana in the structure to use later, and it would be purifying the mana to make it closer to his the more time it got stored.

He stored a bit from the scale, which was the purest Fire Element mana he had access to, even if it was part of unique merged mana.

To find the suitable Arcane Words for all his Spells, he needed either a tutor or some books.

Fortunately, he had Aneta and Greg, who seemed to have access to sources for possible things like the books, but he knew they would be expensive. But his shop was going well, and it should soon go even more after people learn what happened to the Whip Masters Guild.

As for the Dark Guild attacking them for damaging one of their partners, he doubted it of being the case.

Firstly they seemed to be focusing on the Tower, which was too far from here, so sending someone here would take resources and time.

Secondly, they most likely had more partners like the Whip Masters Guild, so one of them getting damaged wouldn't affect them. If Shingi completely eradicated the Whip Masters Guild, it would maybe give them a reason to go after him.

Lastly, since Master Whip got banned from the game, he would have lost communication with them. He doubted he was letting anyone else from his Guild talking with them, and he wouldn't know how to reach them in real life.

Of course, all those were speculations, but he was pretty confident with some of them after hearing some reports Anna had from Fire Whip and Shadow Whip from their research in their Guild.

He had told them not to actively looking for info, but until now, they didn't get caught, at least. They probably tried to earn some reputation points from him and Anna, but this was pretty much impossible.

His METAL HAND Spell would need to finish his Fire Mana man structure at his mana pool, and for GOLEMANCY would need some tips from Pan.

So his Skills were all he could work on for now.

His ENCHANTER Skills needed him to study and work on Master Grade Enchantments that he didn't have access to, so he left his WOODCARVING, LEATHERWORKING, and STEALTH Skill.

He has his CAMOUFLAGE and INVISIBILITY Spells, so he didn't have to worry much about being stealthy, so he decided to focus on his crafting Skills.

He went to the other room and started working on some bows, wooden parts for crossbows, as well as some arrows.

He followed some designs that he and Volig had worked on creating together and were parts of the weapons they were to be sold.

According to Greg's report, there were a few orders for them, and the stock they made with them was almost empty.

They weren't planning on producing and staves or wands yet until the Mana Gems production was stable and the designs were complete for each of the Basic Elements. They weren't planning to sell ones with Ice Mana Gems or Dark Element as both were relatively rare, even if it would be profitable for them.

For his LEATHERWORKING, he didn't have as many materials as good skins for armors were harder to get for the town's Players.

He couldn't use the Spirit Hammer for any crafts with those Skills, but this didn't make his final products mediocre.

He worked until the morning that Greg came to open the shop, and he had finally made his WOODCARVING Skill reach Master Rank and increased his LEATHERWORKING a bit but didn't pass beyond Base Rank.

He had them all in Master Rank on his Player character, so he knew some secrets about them, which helped their progress.

He couldn't change his Player character as his SPECTATOR MODE wasn't available even if Phoenix was online.

He wasn't sure why but it could be the exact reason why his TRANCE ROOM was in cooldown, so he hoped that at that point, it would also become available again.

Even if he had become stronger himself, he still could use the strength of his Player character and some of his Special Skills.

He informed Greg about the stock he created of primarily bows and arrows, some special ones with Enchantments on them, and wrote them down.

Shingi then left the shop and headed back to Zhen's place to finish the Light Mana Gem and work on the Light Mana staff and possibly at one with both Light and Earth.

They were close to finishing on a design for the Light Mana Gem and shouldn't take them long to make the design for it after that, at least for the single Element.

As for making a single Mana Gem producing both manas, Zhen said he couldn't do it no matter how many times he had tried in the past.

Getting in the lab, Shingi saw that the two Oozes that were generally in the glass spheres were out and in their human forms.

One of them was massaging Zhen's shoulders while the other was feeding him some grapes.

Shingi wasn't sure where the grapes came from. He wasn't surprised by the whole picture.

He had a good understanding of Zhen's personality and had noticed that he had the Oozes on their human forms only when no other girls were around.

"So I see you decided to take a break."[Shingi]

Zhen opened one of his eyes and closed it again when he saw that it was Shingi.

"Well, the Ooozes have started their part of the production, and without my beautiful little helper, there is no point working on anything. Not that we have anything left to research for now."[Zhen]

"*cough**cough* You still haven't finished the Light Mana Gem's design last I remember. Or did something change while I was gone?"[Shingi]

Zhen snapped his fingers, and the one who was feeding him grapes extended her hand, picked a piece of paper from the desk with the designs and brought it to Shingi.

He picked it up and noticed that the Light Mana Gem design they were working on, which was on the paper, was a bit different.

"Did you finish it without my help?"[Shingi]

Zhen chuckled a bit in response before speaking.

"Of course, since I am Master Zhen. With all the info I had from your mana after this many tries, I could simulate it in my mind without the real Element."[Zhen]

"And you have actually tried it?"[Shingi]

Zhen pointed at the table where they were making the prototype Mana Gems and Shingi noticed one that seemed to had been created maybe a couple of hours ago.

It had the same design as the one in the paper that Zhen had created, and as Shingi used the Mana Gem, he found it to work as well as the other Mana Gems.

'It seems like he really doesn't just talk.'[Shingi]

Shingi left Zhen on his break as he could work on the design for the staff by himself.

He looked forward to his new staff, especially since he would try to make one having both Earth and Light Mana gems.

This way, he could use both of them separately, or so he hoped.

He had a few staves left that he could use that Volig had made but wasn't going to waste them all if he could help it.

He had a few ideas, but it would take him the whole day to test them all. He was ready for the challenge.