章節 10: Chp 10
#TIMESKIP 1 MONTH LATER#
#TOMMY POV#
"I don't understand why you wanted the Hommuncili," Says Zelretch as he gives me a bag filled with materials to make several Hommuculi or rather complete them
All I have to do is activate them once and boom, they will be ready to go
"Did you even read the orders?" I ask him questioningly and he brings out the form that I filled out for my Homunculi
"Oh, useful," he says while I raise an eyebrow in disbelief
"Do you really expect me to believe that you never thought of using them that way?" I ask him
"I never really needed all that I ever needed I traded with other versions of myself in the Trading Realm," He says and I blink
"Trading Realm?"
"Oh, a place where different versions of myself go over to trade. Jewels, artifacts, books on magic, notes on Magecraft too, coordinates to other worldlines," He says simply and I stare at him
"AAAAAAANNNNNNNDDDDDDD you didn't tell me because..."
"You wouldn't be able to trade anything in return, also you are not me so they wouldn't exactly welcome you with open arms," He says shrugging and I let it go since that thing about equivalent exchange has been engraved in me
One of the things that I am wondering about is when Zelretch is going to make me pay him back for all the help he has given me...
"I feel like you want to get rid of me," I tell him causing him to let out a tired sigh
"The situation is too volatile right now..."
"Yeah, you mentioned that," I whisper to myself but I know that he heard me
"I would like to keep training you personally but, you are still too young and you can't truly use the Kaledeiscope to its full extent,"
"I know that," I say a bit dejected at that
Knowing that I might either be the only version that has magic circuits or an equivalent to them, or much more worrying that I might be the only version of me out there, means I can't draw magical energy from other versions of myself, is a huge letdown
One of the most powerful abilities of the Kaledeiscope itself is the ability to gather near-infinite magical energy from other worldlines
I don't have access to more magical energy than I have naturally at any given time, then again, I can use Jewels to help me out by making them store my magical energy, which I can then draw from
But, it's too expensive, not to mention that Jewels that can take in magical energy and store it for long periods of time are rare and the Jewel becomes useless after using it, losing all magical capabilities and becoming a 'normal' is the best outcome but its rare, the most common thing to happen is that it turns to dust
"The Ancestors have begun moving, I need to go back to the Clocktower and I can't bring you with me, as you are still not ready," He says while I nod at that
"Are you prepared?" He asks me and I take a moment to reflect on some things before nodding my head
"Here take this," He says giving me a small box with what looks like a speaker in one side while the other has a microphone with 4 jewels on the outside corners
"What is..."
"Communt," I hear from the box while turning to Zelretch
"When I need to speak to you urgently the jewel will glow red, when I have something to tell you but its not urgent it will glow blue, green means that I left you a message, and yellow..."
"What does yellow mean?" I ask him
"It means I am dead, now off you go," He says a multitude of colors surround me just in time as I hear some doors being blasted open and my bag along with an extra one being slammed into me as I fall on my back on something cold
"Zelretch, Zelretch, ZELRETCH, DAMN YOU," I scream out the last part while I attempt to use the communication box and even use Structural Analysis on it to see if I can do anything to get me in contact with him to avail
"Damn it," I say putting it away while taking a deep breath and focus on regulating my body temperature as I turn around to see a huge metal door behind me
"What the...seriously," I say as I find myself on a mountaintop
Huh, I don't know actually know what to call it
Looking around, I see that there is no snowstorm at all
Thankfully
Activating my magic circuits, I use a nifty little spell to help my eyesight and I can just barely see a small village next to a river
Turning around again, looking at the 'temple', I decided to leave for now and head towards the village and find out where I am and see about getting to the magic school
I begin to jump my way down while reinforcing myself and taking deep satisfying breaths here
The air is so rich, so natural, yet due to my training with Zelretch, I am certain that this is a magic-enriched environment, not at all concentrated like the Reverse Side Of The World is supposed to be
Although, I do have to admit, not having Gaia pressing down on you due to using Magecraft is an incredible feeling
Ever since Zelretch took me in, I have felt a sort...pressure, on my body, nothing really too noticeable but, thanks to my Observation Haki, I am more aware of the pressure released by Gaia's Reality Marble
Jumping from rock to rock, I notice some animals and I am rather surprised that they don't exactly seem to care that I am coming towards me and just walk away slowly after seeing me coming their way
As I get closer to them, they finally run but something about it made me curious
I quickly check my supplies and I resist the urge to frown as I look at them and let out a sigh
I am going to owe Zelretch so much
He gave me a bag filled with some gold, silver, and quite a few jewels and some of his notes and some books on Magecraft, specifically Jewelcraft, Formal craft, and some books on Elemental Craft regarding the element of fire
Plus my own stuff that I packed beforehand, and the materials needed to make 5 Homunculi to suit my needs
"Thank you," I say while shaking my head due to how much I am going to owe Zelretch in return
Making my way toward the village, I spot a blond woman carrying a child while talking to a blond man at the lumber mill
"Gerdur is something wrong?" Says the man
"No, but Alvor wanted me to tell you that your new tools are ready," She says while the man says his thanks and goes over to the smith
I blink a few times while deactivating my circuits as I walk through the gates
Looking around in amazement, I make my way over to what looks like a general goods store and enter it as I need to orient myself
I would have tried something like an Inn or something but, there didn't seem to be one anywhere
"Hello, welcome to the Riverwood Trader, if you need anything for the road, here is the place, the name is Lucan Valerius,"
"Hi, I am Tommy, I was wondering what you were selling and if you would be willing to buy some valuables from me," I say walking towards the counter
"Well, I am selling weapons, armor, clothes, food for the road, potions, and some spell books that have been gathering dust for a while now,"
I blink at him as I hear that he is selling potions and spellbooks
"What kind of potions do you have on hand?" I ask him while trying to hide my excitement
"I have some healing, stamina, and magic-restoring potions, of varying levels along with some the restoration variants, and some more exotic potions,"
"Exotic like what?" I ask curbing my excitement
"Well, I have some resistance potions and some for fertility, and I have one of cure disease that I would be willing to sell,"
"I would like to see the healing, stamina, magic, and the cure disease potion," I say while he brings up the potions
I see the different levels while I look them over and I smile a bit
I learned that potions like this are incredibly rare, so much so that even a somewhat decent healing potion would be worth millions of pounds
"You mentioned something about the restoration ones?" I ask him to confirm and he brings up three similar like bottles to the one that I just examined
"The healing one is good for dealing with stuff like blood loss, the green one is good for really long journeys, and the dark blue one is to increase the natural regeneration of one's magic..." Before he even finishes talking I bring out a silver bar and put it in the counter
"I will take your entire stock,"
"That won't..."
I bring out 2 of the smallest gold bars causing him to go quiet for a bit before he turns around and brings 4 boxes each filled with potions
I take a moment to alter our deal a bit as I don't want the low level stuff
In total, I have 6 of the medium healing potions, along with 3 regeneration ones, although they don't regrow limbs
5 for the magic potions, and the regeneration 2
With stamina, I get 8 of the restoration ones, while for the regeneration ones, I get 5
I haggle a bit more for some of the other potions that interest me such as the cold and fire resistance potions plus the Potion Of Cure Disease which I bring out an entire gold bar for
After that, we move on to the spell books after he checks the bars with a magic spell
"Here they are, sorry about the dust,"
"It's fine," I say while looking at the symbol for the destruction book
I quickly skim it and find that it is in English and don't question it as I can tell that the magic in the book is translating itself for me
Frostbite
Damn it, even if I want it, it will be all but useless in my hands
Shaking my head I put it back on the counter and find 2 that interest me
One is the familiar spell from what is called the Conjuration school and the other is just called the Art Of Healing
Lucan lets me skim through the book and I see that while it is called that, it contains a low-level healing spell that seems a bit better than what I expected
Paying for it, I get some money by trading in a silver bar which gets me 1,103 Septims which is what the currency is called here
"I also wanted to know some information," I say putting my purchase in my bag
"What sort of information?" He asks mostly eager to get some money from me
"A magic school..."
"You mean the College of Winterhold, oh, I don't suggest you go there now, the situation is very volatile right now," He warns me
"Why?"
"Have you been living under a rock or something, most of the Nords here, blame the mages for a lot of their troubles, including the strenuous rule of High King Torygg,"
"Most people are waiting for something to light the fuse to start a civil war," He says warningly and we continue to talk for a bit as he tells me much about the situation right now
Zelretch did say that I would have sometime before shit hits the fan
Saying my goodbyes to him, I quickly leave town and go outside and make camp near it
No one said anything although they did look a bit annoyed but not at me at least not completely, though, they did keep looking at a building next to the Riverwood Trader
Sitting down after lighting a fire, I quickly begin to read through the Conjure Familiar spell
"Huh, it's both a ritual and a spell," I whisper as I read through it while chewing on some pork
I very quickly finish it as I get instructions on how to make the ritual circle and the spell to summon my familiar
The ritual circle is meant to bring out my guardian animal, spirit beast, or inner beast, aside from the magic cost of the ritual circle, my familiar will be rather low maintenance as it will reside in my soul and grow as I do, and I alongside it
It is a mutually beneficial Symbiotic relationship and as I go through it some more, I theorize that it can affect the potency of my Magic
From my lessons, I know that the quantity of Magical Energy that is produced can never be increased through stuff like physical training
Potency is a bit of a grey area as it would be dealing with the soul itself and by extension my Magic Circuits
Doing anything with my magic circuits is a huge risk
I will need to thoroughly examine this ritual and very possibly inform Zelretch to make sure it won't negatively impact my Circuits
Closing the purple book, I open the yellow one and begin to read through it carefully while bringing out a notebook and forming my own notes on it
After an hour, I put the book down as I finished going through it and rub my chin in thought
This form of healing is certainly different than what is used by Magus
To be able to cast a healing spell, one has to know the human body very well, but there is a huge chance that someone may miss something while they are casting the spell
But the worst part of it is Gaia's reality marble
This makes the healing even less effective and unreliable as even though a mystic code may be prepared beforehand, it will lose its effectiveness over time
Stuff like my sword will take a lot longer to lose its effectiveness, even longer since I am not in a place where Gaia can use her Reality Marble on it
I'd say around 30 to 40 years outside of her influence while it would last only 9 to 12 years while inside it
Such is the downfall of the Thaumaturgical System as Zelretch himself has said
Quite frankly, it pisses me off that Magecraft is not truly considered Magic
I shake my head as I activate my Circuits and I attempt the Healing spell to no avail
Frowning I go over it one more time before attempting to cast it again
Fail
"Come on, please," I say attempting it again only to fail again
But this time a small golden energy very briefly surrounds me and I feel slightly better physically
Only slightly
"What was..."
I attempt to cast it again as I am more calm now only that this time it doesn't work
"Don't tell me," I whisper as I cast it again but this time, I but some emotions into it to cast it and the golden energy appears around me, this time for a bit longer than before
Does this spell require some form of emotional resonance for it to work
No...it can't be
When I failed the first few times, magical energy was clearly being used as it left my Circuits
I try again and succeed again
I let out a breath as I have used nearly all my magical energy and nearly started to use my stamina in exchange
I bring out a weak magic restoring potion and take a small sip and I am surprised as a soothing cold feeling comes over me and I feel my Magic being restored by a rather significant amount
I have small reserves
I am going to have to find a way to change that
Zelretch did say that he is one of the people capable of making new Magic Crests but the process would be incredibly painful with a rather significant chance of failure
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