Spending my retirement in a game

chapter 97

With a smile, Eisen looked at the magical forge in front of his eyes, while both Bree and Komer stared at it in a mixture of curiosity and surprise. "What is that? What did you just do?" The Fey-Kin Bree asked, and Komer nodded, wondering what Eisen did just as much.

Eisen turned over to them with a smirk. "I've just solved my Blacksmithing problem, that's what I did!" He said with excitement burrowed deep inside his voice, and stepped closer toward the structure, holding his hand over the fire to figure out how hot it actually is. "Or rather, it will be a solution to my Blacksmithing problem if I keep ranking my Flame of the Earth magic up. It's not hot enough yet. It can be used like a tempering oven like this, but not as a forge." He sighed loudly, shaking his head in disappointment while cancelling the magic spell.

After tilting her head to the side in thought, Bree's eyes finally began glittering excitedly. "Oh, so that's what you meant! I explained to you what that new skill effect was!"

"H-Huh? Bree, what do you mean?" Komer asked confused. He still didn't know much about magic, so beside the fact that this was a forge that popped up out of thin air, he had no idea what was going on.

"Ah, erm... Eisen's magic element can change states from pure fire, over to pure dirt or rock. So now that he can change what area has what state better, he managed to make the base of the forge out of his element turned over to rock, and the flames inside out of his element turned over to fire!" She explained, and was happy to see that Eisen smiled at her while nodding, telling her that she got everything that he did right.

"So you can even do things like this with magic, huh..? Now I'm really excited to see what my element will be!" Komer exclaimed as Eisen stepped back toward the carriage.

"Sorry to basically drag you out of town for that. We can go back if you wanted to do something else there, but I really wanted to try this out." Eisen explained, but both Komer and Bree shook their heads.

The young man smiled lightly while stepping back toward the carriage. "No, it's fine, I don't really mind. And I've looked at some maps of the continent before, and it seems like it's going to take pretty long to get to Ornier, so it's better to move whenever we can, right Bree?"

"Hmm? Ah, yeah, it should usually take about a week, maybe? So driving as much as we can really is a good idea, and since Cabarum doesn't need to sleep, we can basically keep going as long as any of us are awake." With a smile, Bree followed behind Komer.

"I see, then thanks, you two. Now then, shall we keep going?" Eisen asked with a smile as he jumped back up onto the bench of the carriage, grabbing Cabarum's reigns while Caria climbed up and sat down next to him and Melissa crawled up his arm, Bree and Komer sitting in the back of the carriage.

Happy that Eisen now figured out how to do the one thing he couldn't do while on the move up until now, he commanded Cabarum to start walking forward again, so that they could continue their journey toward the capital of Litgern, Ornier.

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It has been three days since then, and the group was now close to arriving at the town they were travelling toward for a while now.

But they weren't just mindlessly driving the carriage forward, of course, and a few different things happened. First, Eisen finished the tools by simply carving wooden handles and attaching them to the steel heads. But that wasn't the only thing that Eisen did, as he also enchanted them to be more efficient. The Pickaxe gained a 'Crushing' enchantment, so that it would easily break apart any rock that it contacted, while the Axe was enchanted with a 'Cutting' enchantment to cut apart wood easily, and on the shovel, Eisen put a 'Burrow' enchantment for it to smoothly dig into the ground.