Spending my retirement in a game

chapter 79

Eisen set Caria down next to the small wooden flower-pot that he made and placed a bowl filled with mana potions next to her so that she could continue practicing with her mana as much as possible. At first, she was quite confused, but then later figured out what her master wanted her to do.

And Eisen wasn't entirely sure if this would work, but mana was such an amazing thing that it couldn't hurt to try, right?

Anyway, Eisen continued his short break and then decided to continue not too long afterward. Now, he would start preparing the carriage's frame. He had some ideas for it already, so he would immediately start with that.

First, Eisen carved a part of a log into a really thick pole, large and sturdy enough to easy carry the roof as one of the six main base pillars. Once he had that base, he grabbed some of the more art-oriented carving tools and started carving different shapes out of the wood, to make it look slightly like tools and materials, such as hammers or things like rolls of string, were simply stacked on top of each other. He didn't want to make it look too overwhelming, so he carved these things in a way that they wouldn't be too deep in, and you would only really notice it if you actually looked at the pillar. It should look like a regular pillar most of the time, but at second glance you should be able to see that it belonged to the Original of Mechanical Arts. Eisen just felt like it should have such a style.

Anyway, Eisen made sure to carve an edge in a 90 degree angle onto the pillar so that it would be easy to attach different planks to it on the inside. He repeated this four more times, not five, since he only needed to split one of them in half vertically to create the two 'pillars' that would be placed in the center parts of the sides.

Once Eisen carved what he wanted into those pillars of wood, he cleaned and sanded everything before applying the same solution as before onto them, setting them aside to let them dry.

For most of the rest of the carriage, he could simply use the planks that were already provided, so he would be able to take a break from preparing the materials for now. It would just be a waste of time if he instisted on making literally every single part of it himself.

But due to the size of the pillars, it already took him until early evening to finish his preparations, which also meant that the wheels could now be assembled! And then tomorrow, he would make whatever he needed to use as connectors between all parts, as well as the outer metal rings for the wheels, at Denmir's smithy and bring it back there, meaning that he would be able to assemble the carriage!

Then all that was left to do was to make some containers to keep things in for the inside, such as different barrels and crates, as well as create a worktable with enough space to do small crafts on like carving small statues, experimenting with enchantments, or simply to come up with different ideas for future items.

But for now, Eisen grabbed all the pieces that he would need for a wheel and began punching the spokes into the holes that Eisen made for them, by placing a small piece of wood at the end and hitting that with a mallet to make sure they would properly move inside as far as possible.

After that was done, Eisen did basically the same when he added the wooden outer ring, hitting it with a mullet to push it onto the spokes and into the other parts of the ring that were added beforehand. This on its own didn't really take that long, and after making sure that each wheel was properly put together, he decided to simply go to the storage and see to grabbing all of the wood that he would need in the form of different planks, and then quickly paid for it. It was somewhat expensive, but Eisen wasn't surprised considering the quality of the wood.

For the next few hours, Eisen didn't do anything but saw all the different planks into the right lengths and placed them down in a way that would make it relatively easy for him to remember what was supposed to go where, before he, Bree, Caria and the Automata prepared to make their way back to the inn. But first, Eisen looked at the Horse Automaton with a slight frown.