From Player To Npc

Getting back to Zhen's place, only Mizuneko worked on the Mana Gems as he finished working on the Dark Gem's design.

He created a simple gem for Little Phoenix to use. It wasn't ready and could store less mana, and its recharge was very slow and had a chance to be destroyed if overused, but it was still helpful for training.

The Ice Element Mana Gem's design was a little more complicated than Zhen expected as he hadn't ever worked on any of the unique mana that was a combination of other mana.

He had worked with Water and Air, so he had to combine them by creating a new design with parts of both designs.

Little Phoenix, other than working on her Mana Tree, examined the design for the Dark Mana Gems Zhen had drawn on a piece of paper.

Since she learned Zhen's skills, she would have a chance to replicate this design and create one herself.

"Do you need some help on that?"[Shingi]

"Eeeh? I thought you couldn't work on Enhancements that well since you had another profession."[Little Phoenix]

Shingi didn't inform her of the notification, allowing him to count as an ENCHANTER not restricted by the System.

He still didn't have any of these skills, but he had some knowledge, so he could use them and unlock them soon.

Shingi started examining the design.

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SKILL LEARNED

The skill ENCHANTMENT APPRAISAL has been unlocked at Low Rank.

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It didn't take long to get his first ENCHANTER-related Skill which was also easier to get but most challenging to raise.

He had to study and understand ENCHANTMENTS or at least one Grade higher than his Rank to raise it.

Meaning to raise it at Base Rank, he had to study Base Grade ENCHANTMENTS, which wouldn't be that hard. But to reach Master Rank, he had to research Master Grade Enchantments that were hard to understand and find.

The design he was currently looking at was near the top of Base Grade.

If he studied the rest of Zhen's designs and understood them, he should reach Base Rank on this Skill.

But he wasn't going to stay here that long as he had to meet Soryn back at the shop in a few hours, but he was able to grind a bit.

He and Phoenix worked on making a Mana Gem design at the test rocks that Shingi created with his mana.

He could make rocks at this point but wouldn't stay forever but for a minute at most which were more than enough for their test.

After the minute passed, he had to make a new one or use more mana on the existing one. 

They took turns on who made the design, but each time, Shingi was holding the rock and was looking for the signs of success or failure as he had the most extraordinary detection Skills from the two of them.

Not only they had to make the design as perfect as possible, but they also had to make it fast. If it took too long, the test stone would explode no matter how good the design was at that point.

They mainly had failures, but Shingi was fast and perceptive enough to avoid any accidents.

After almost two hours, their success rate was at four out of ten for Shingi and six out of ten for Little Phoenix.

The Skills that she took from Zhen helped her and covered a bit of her lack of knowledge that Shingi had the advantage at. But no matter the ability of one, sometimes pure skill is the final winner.

Zhen, in the meantime, had made some progress with the Ice Mana Gem design and made some designs on paper instead of testing them in rock right away as he was trying to compare them to find a solution visually.

Shingi tried to help, but this design was more complicated for his current skills, and he had never seen one like that before.

Shingi opened his Status, trying to decide on what to work at next.

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STATUS

NAME: Shingi Maki

CLASS: None

PROFESSION: Scholar Master

RACE: Blessed Human

HP: 88/88

SP: 47/47

MP: 46/46

STR: 12

AGI: 14

END: 16

INT: 16

CHA: 5

Mana Pool: Earth and Light Element

Skills: VISUALIZATION (Master Rank), MANA MANIPULATION (Master Rank), MANA SENSE (Master Rank), PERCEPTION (Master Rank), STEALTH (Base Rank), IMPROVISED THROW WEAPON (Master Rank), SMITHING (Master Rank), MARTIAL ART (Base Rank), GLASSBLOWING (Master Rank), WOODCARVING (Base Rank), LEATHERWORKING(Base Rank), ENCHANTMENT APPRAISAL (Low Rank)

Passive Skills: MINOR MANA REGENERATION

Spells: MANA HAND (Low Grade), FILTH EATER (Ungraded), MINOR ILLUSION (Ungraded), LIGHT (Ungraded), ROCK THROW (Low Grade), CAMOUFLAGE (Low Grade), INVISIBILITY(Base Grade), DOME OF SILENCE (Base Grade), MANA DOUBLE - LIGHT ELEMENT (Base Grade), MANA DOUBLE - EARTH ELEMENT (Base Grade), MAJOR ILLUSION (Base Grade), HASTE (Base Grade), STONESKIN (Base Grade), METAL HANDS (Unfinished Low Grade), EARTH SPIKE (Base Grade), ECHOLOCATION (Low Grade), GOLEMANCY (Unfinished Base Grade) 

Blessings: Blessing of Beliss, Blessing of Dlog, Angel's Boon, Blessing of Choma

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He had 3 Ungraded Spells, 5 Low Grade, which one of them was an unfinished one, and 9 Base Grade with one being unfinished.

If he completed the unfinished spells, he would have one more Base Grade and his first Master Grade Spell.

But he wasn't confident of succeeding that any time soon. He was sure that he needed the Fire Mana to finish his METAL HANDS Spell, and the GOLEMANCY would need to develop his Mana Pool and new 'sense' further.

He could also learn more ENCHANTER Skills or increase the non-Master Rank crafting skills of his as he didn't work much in WOODCARVING and LEATHERWORKING, but now that new Mana Gems were almost ready, he could start producing Wands and Staves. Of course, he would need a massive amount of each, but with the materials, he ordered through Ardent Scythe, it was possible, and Zhen told him his Oozes could help him in the massive productions after he had made the final designs.

Still, it would take some days or even a week to get to that point as Zhen still hadn't finished with all the designs. He almost finished the Dark Element one and Earth one changes and was getting close to the Ice. 

He also made some improvements on Air and Water with the help of Mizuneko.

Zhen still had to finish a design for Light Mana Gem, and only Fire would remain to get improved, but they didn't have anyone with that Element yet.

Shingi made a fire with one of the Fire Mana Gems, which wasn't producing any smoke; otherwise, it would fill the room with it as there were no windows.

He tried to control the flames by controlling its mana as this fire was richer in Fire Mana than a normal one because of the way it was created.

He wanted to raise his Proficiency in manipulating Fire Mana as it would be necessary when he would try to mana part of his Mana Pool producing this Element, similar to why Mizuneko was doing similar training with Air Mana.

Although Shingi wasn't planning to Merge his Elements to make a unique Element, Mizuneko did some advantages and disadvantages.

Since he would have three elements, but his Mana Tree could contain just a certain amount of mana depending on the size of his Mana Pool, he had to 'split' his Mana Pool in as many places as his Elements. 

That way, he would have a certain amount of each Element each time and develop his Mana Pool depending on his needs, which took time.

If he merged all in one, he could 'split' his unique Element to the Main Mana, making him have the same amount of all his Elements.

But when one split the Element like that, it wasn't as pure as if it was from a Mana Pool who had it separated, but most times, the benefits of the unique mana and the spells that one could learn with having one were over this limitation.

Shingi decided to keep them separated for now as he needed them as pure as possible, each of them as he was using them for different things.

He wasn't able to see how good his Proficiency was with each Element, so he was trying to improve it as much as possible, even if his MANA MANIPULATION was at Master Rank. 

He tried to make the fire take different shapes, like a sphere, cubes, and pyramids.

He made the sphere one quick enough, but the cube took him more to make the sides flat.

As he was almost there, Anna had arrived at the lab and stopped behind him.

Shingi turned towards her as she seemed that she was in a hurry to get there.

"Did something happen?"[Shingi]

"You need to come to the shop. The two individuals have returned and want to talk with you."[Anna]

Shingi nodded as he said his goodbyes at the rest of the people and followed Anna outside the Dungeon and back to the shop.

It didn't take them too long to get there with their speed, even if Anna wasn't going at full speed for Shingi to keep up with her as he also didn't cast his HASTE.

It was early in the morning, and the shops were about ready to open.

There were Fire Whip and Shadow Whip outside the shop, while in front of its door was Soryn staring at them like he was ready to react if they did any funny business.

Seeing Shingi, they were ready to say something, but Shingi just pointed to them to follow him inside.

They got in and went to the room for LEATHERWORKING and WOODCARVING as the storeroom wasn't empty anymore with the Players' materials. That room was quieter than the rest and had open space for people to sit.

There were a few chairs, so everyone took a seat. 

In the room, there were Shingi, Soryn, Fire Whip, and Shadow Whip. Anna stayed outside, making sure everything was okay and that nobody disturbed them.

The two Players showed some interest in the new individual they hadn't seen before but didn't ask any questions for Soryn.

"So why the visit? I hope you people are not looking for more trouble."[Shingi]

Shingi noticed that their clothing was different than before, which wasn't that rare as adventurer tent to find better equipment now and then, but their current one was worse than before.

"First, I want to see how Chubby is."[Fire Whip]

Shingi pointed at a corner of the room where an asleep female bear was covered with a blanket. There was an empty bowl in front of her.

Shingi had said he would take care of the bear and had told Greg and Volig to make sure it had some food here and there as also had its corner to rest.

Fortunately, it was a Tamed one and not as wild as an average bear but still wasn't like it was following their orders, but at least she wasn't attacking them for no reason.

Fire Whip seemed glad to see her in a good state, while Shadow Whip seemed to get a little annoyed for a moment but also glad.

"Now that you checked her state do what I owe your visit?"[Shingi]

Fire Whip and Shadow Whip looked at each other as they nodded towards each other and turned towards Shingi again.

"We are here to help you take down Whip Masters."[Fire Whip]