Spending my retirement in a game

chapter 53

Since Eisen chose not to log off for this in-game night so that he could properly wake up when needed, it felt nearly instantaneously to him until he woke up when Bree called out to him a few times.

"Good morning. Anything happen while I was asleep?" Eisen asked and rubbed the sleep out of his eyes.

"Nope, nothing really. It was completely quiet outside! But more importantly, I saw you change!" Bree said with an excited grin. "When you fell asleep, you completely turned into metal! You had quite a little bit of rust growing on your body, though..."

Eisen listened to further explanations from Bree on what his body looked like, and then began to laugh loudly. "A rusty old body, huh? Of course that's it." He smiled and sat down on one of the wooden stumps that acted as chairs, leaned back against the table while looking at Bree.

"You can go to sleep if you want. I know you say you don't need much sleep, but I'm sure that you still need a little bit. And you've been working hard for the past few days as well, so just relax for a bit.

"Thanks~... I'll take a nap, then. Just wake me up when something's going on..." Bree said and stretched slightly, opening her mouth widely in a yawn.

"Goodnight!" Eisen chuckled and turned around to look at the table in front of him. Maybe he would be able to train something that he hasn't in a while! His Magic Manipulation!

Just trying to form things with Mana was incredibly fun to Eisen, even if what he made didn't seem to have any real use other than being aesthetically pleasing and fun to play around with. And if he would manage to Rank his Mana Manipulation skill up again, he would finally be able to continue with that lesson in the book that Morrom gave him!

Eisen looked around to try and figure out what to do with his mana, until he laid eyes on Aotori. He could just copy her using his mana copy skill, but Eisen would probably gain more proficiency if he actually did everything manually while using her as a simple reference.

So, Eisen pushed out some of his mana out of his palm and formed it into a sphere. Then, he slowly turned the round sphere into a more lenghty shape that was supposed to be the bird's body. Out of that body, Eisen pulled two wings, and re-supplied the structure with more mana due to the amount that was necessary.

And at last, Eisen added two legs, finishing up the base structure for the bird.

But now it was time for details. Part for part all over the Bird's body, Eisen turned parts of it into feathers of different sizes depending on where they were placed, and then added facial details. That meant that Eisen formed eyes and a proper beak on the bird made of mana.

"Done!" Eisen muttered to himself with a grin on his face and started to try and control the Mana Bird's movement. Since it was made of mana, it wouldn't have any problem floating around. So, slowly but surely the bird began to move its wings up and down in a natural way, and took off from the table according to Eisen's mental commands. Well, you could say it was technically flying, but it really didn't look like it was actually. It was just... unnatural. Like a badly animated scene in a movie or something.

"At least my Mana Manipulation went up. If I ever want to really try, I might have to see if I can get some kind of skill through using mana copy on Aotori or something like that. Anyway, shall I go for Yamikuma next?" Eisen asked himself quietly and pushed out a large amount of his mana out of his palms, preparing some of the mana pills in case he needed them, and began to work on the next mana creature.

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[Mana Manipulation reached Level 100 in Rank 1, upgrading to Rank 2]

[It is now possible to infuse elements into mana]