บท 48: The Call of Warlords (I)
<Zero>
As the day went by, Zero diligently worked under the tutelage of Ren out in a shack behind the Royal Library. It was a very humble shack, not big enough to be noticed or easily destroyed. It was hidden behind tall trees and plants and was barely recognizable. One would bypass it without a single look. Zero and Ren worked in the small clearing while Agnis and Zeraph stood by watching and chatting with one another.
In the open clearing, Zero and Ren diligently worked together to get the O.M.s ready. There were shards of broken crystal clear balls laid out haphazardly in rows on top of a stump. Ren stood next to Zero as he directed him through the whole process. Zero was sitting down in his Origin form grinding the ingredients in a marble mortar, trying to make them into fine powder.
"Be careful not to burn down my secret area. I love this place," stated Ren with worry.
"I'll try not to." Zero held out his hands to push back Ren from coming too close. He carefully placed the materials for the O.M. on the floor.
Zero had to personally go out and hunt for different monsters' eyes and materials to create the O.M.s (Oculus-Morpheus). It was a constant vigorous grind of hunting monsters and creating the product.
"Remember, each eye that you gathered from different monsters has a specific temperament of handling and roasting temperature. Make sure to perfectly dry them out and mix them with other materials. Not only that, different qualities of eyes and levels of monsters bring forth different effects and ranges of the O.M.s. The higher the level of the monsters' eyes, the better the quality of the end product. It will last longer, record longer, and store a larger amount of data," lectured Ren. He leaned over to see how Zero was doing.
A couple of times Zero had to experiment on the ratio of using his fire breath that he had honed and almost perfected since the day he breathed his first fire. It was a process of trial and error until finally it came naturally to him. A couple of times he had almost burned off Agnis's and Ren's hair.
Inhaling in a sharp breath, Zero spewed out a burst of flames. Its blazing fire caught onto Zeraph's clothes as he was passing by. He was bringing Zero another stash of monster eyes that he and Agnis had personally gone out to get.
"Zeraph, your clothes are on fire!" exclaimed Agnis as she gasped and watched dumbfounded. "Hold still; let me call upon the rain." She jumped in, ready to help.
"No!" both Zeraph and Zero simultaneously shouted back. They did not want a repeat of a thunderstorm or worse, possibly calling a tsunami.
"Hurry, get some water!" Ren shouted at the top of his lungs as he rushed over to Zeraph. Agnis hurriedly ran over to go find something to put out the fire with, while Zeraph collapsed onto the ground and rolled around in the dirt, trying to put out the fire.
It was a sight to behold: a mop-looking rabbit trying to put out the fire with his foot and Zeraph rolling around on the ground. Zeraph had to skillfully dodge and roll out of the reach of Ren's stomping foot.
"Hold still," Ren grumbled loudly.
"Damn rabbit, you watch where you're trying to place that foot! Are you trying to break me?" Zeraph dodged Ren's heavy stomping.
"If you hold still we would get this over with!" Ren yelled back in frustration. Deep imprints were formed in the ground.
"Hell no!"
Throughout the whole time, Zero was in his Origin form sitting down comfortably and holding onto the marble mortar. A burp escaped his throat as a puff of fire left his nostrils.
Luckily Zero's time limit in his Origin form had increased by an hour, giving him a total of two hours. He still did not understand why he had such a harsh limiter in his Origin form, but he did not complain. He had a limited amount of time, so he worked quickly and diligently while Agnis and Zeraph went out to collect the materials. He had to mix the ground-up monster eyes with other materials and use his fire breath to melt it at a specific temperature to meld them together. Then he would gather the hot melted materials, pour them into an empty circular cavity, and leave it to cool down. Then he had to personally peel the hardened shell off the glass orb.
"Hey Zero, what do each one of those even do?" Agnis asked curiously. She peered over his shoulder to look at his handiwork. In total Zero had made four decently shaped O.M.s.
"These red ones can record for about ten minute each." Zero showed two small pebble-sized crystal balls. "This one records about thirty minutes." A purple colored marble was shown next. Agnis stared upon it with curiosity.
"Now this one is special. It's made from a rare monster that Ren has given me to use. It has a three hour limit of recording, and it states on the menu that it has some kind of special added features to it. I'm not sure what it is though." Zero scratched his chin with his paws. "There was nothing more to the description."
The final O.M. crystal glowed brilliantly sea blue as it magically shifted and morphed fluidly like water. He did not know what exactly it would allow him to do or what it would ask him to do.
"What's the purpose of even doing all this? Don't we have a recording function on this game?" asked Zeraph, brushing ash off his clothes.
"No. I looked for it, but there is none. I had to download a separate application to connect it with the gear and tried it out. I still wasn't able to use those recordings for the book. It doesn't even take any of it in," sighed Zero.
"What are you now, a movie maker?" Zeraph raised his eyebrow and his eyes seemed to laugh at his predicament.
"Truthfully, it feels like it." Zero nodded. He was not sure what the purpose for all this was. "At least I have learned a couple of new skills."
"Like what, manual labor?" Zeraph snickered.
"No." Zero rolled his eyes as his paws started to grind into the ground with irritation. The skills he had learned were not many. They were Recording, Creation of Oculus-Morpheus, Destruction of Oculus-Morpheus, Restoring of Oculus-Morpheus, and Fire Breath. He read through the statuses one more time.
Recording
Allow the use of the beholder to record a certain amount of data for the duration of the Oculus-Morpheus time limit.
Creation of Oculus-Morpheus
Using higher class monster ingredients will increase the time of the Oculus-Morpheus. Also special properties will be added depending on the rarity of monster and quality of the crystal.
Destruction of Oculus-Morpheus
Crushing or destroying an Oculus-Morpheus will play the recording inside it one time.
Restoring of Oculus-Morpheus
Restore a destroyed Oculus-Morpheus to its original form, but be aware that there are only a certain number of times one could restore it to its original form without completely breaking it.
Fire Breath
From continuously eating flint, the body is now able to naturally create fire. To keep the body constantly producing fire one must eat flint often.
Zero was surprised it took till now for him to learn the fire breath. He thought the moment he had accidentally used it would have allowed him to learn the skill like every other one, but it did not happen till he constantly used it for work. He wondered if there were a couple of skills that required a constant training to gain while the others were done instinctively.
"Well. Look how well these have come out," stated Ren as he admiringly stared at the O.M.s. All four of the O.M.s sparkled brightly under the sunlight. "At the level you are now, you have learned how to create your own. You do not need me anymore. I recommend you go out into the world and learn from other masters."
"Wait, you're not the only one?" Zero asked with a bit of disappointment in his voice. He thought it was all over.
"Yes. This world is not just me, you know. I personally learned from nine other grand masters to create this skill. I have traveled far and wide to learn their skills. Go and search them out. They will help you become better at what you do. Luckily you have the ability to breathe fire without having to create fire from scratch." Ren looked upon him with envy. Zero slightly blushed with embarrassment. "You should put that to good use."
Quest: History of Drezo Regalia apprenticeship has been completed.
Quest History of Drezo Regalia has been updated.As the guardian of the Historia, you have been given the task to find who and what you truly are before you can become the True Guardian of Historia. You must find the lost history of your race and record it into the book of Historia.
Learn the nine arts of the Record Keeper. (1/9 completed.)
Difficulty Level: D
"Well, if you have nothing more to do with me, I need to get back to my work. Now shoo." Ren motioned them off.
"Thanks, Ren." Zero bowed. He smiled with glee. He was now one step closer to his goal in completing his quest.
Ren smiled back with a grunt and continued on his work.
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