Chapter 52 : The ghosts he summoned
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Yet, that wasn't all. Oh no, it couldn't be that easy for her. No, whoever was making the dungeons was also giving out enchanted items! That's what Rias was willing to trade the information for.
Serafall didn't blame her, but a little enchanted trinket to regenerate Demonic Power faster wasn't a fair price for knowledge of implanting a LONGINUS Sacred Gear.
That wasn't the big issue though. No, that fell to the enchanting itself. Enchanters were exceptionally rare and good ones were at the tip top of that very small number.
The greatest enchanter ever had been the Lady of the Lake, the Fae that had been responsible for making weapons for King Arthur and his knights back during the Great War.
She was a nightmare to the devils and fallen angels and was the reason the Fae had retreated into the Never Never. Their hunting of Fae to get to her and stop her led to them all leaving.
Of course, she couldn't forget that a portion of the blame for the Fae's retreat fell on the church. In their zeal to repair the broken Excalibur they had kidnapped several Fae blacksmiths and forced them to try and repair the blade.
Naturally, they failed to repair the masterwork of the Lady of the Lake. They only managed to make the pieces into the current set of Excaliburs. In their anger, the church executed the Fae. That was the final straw and the Fae fled to the Never Never and haven't been seen since.
Now there was someone, presumably a human, who had started enchanting trinkets. While the items were currently not very impressive, that didn't mean the maker couldn't learn and grow.
Until the creator reached their peak, there was no telling where that peak would be. Were these trinkets the best they could do? Or would they be the next Lady of the Lake and be making items that would go down in history?
There was no telling how far this person could go and that left her with only a single choice. If they were going to negotiate with an unknown party with something as powerful as a Longinus, she would have to do the negotiating in person.
Ryuji hummed to himself as he headed to school on foot. The weekend had been amazing. He'd run Rias and company through a couple more small-scale engagements with various weak monsters. Each time they'd found the same statue with the same engravings.
He'd been building up a story about Grizus, the Demon Lord, building up a following of monsters that worshiped Hionos, the God of cruelty and torture, and sending them toward the city to scout.
The next step would see one of Grizus's Generals, the weakest one, arriving near the city. They wouldn't confront him, but rather the General's Lieutenant, their first mini-boss fight. He'd been working his ass off designing the boss encounter and the mechanics of the fight.
He couldn't help himself. He wanted it to be an epic multistage fight that took some actual effort on the part of the devils to beat. He also had some nice rewards for them after they won.
The less-than-fun part of his weekend had been his study of necromancy. That book contained some of the sickest and most disgusting things he'd ever seen in either of his lives.
Even the most depraved horror movies and serial killers never even came close to the things in that book. He was honestly going to burn it when he finished with it. A book like that shouldn't exist.
The only good thing to come from it was that he did find what he was looking for, the spells and rituals necessary to summon and bind the spirits of the dead. If he wanted to be able to advance his games, it seemed like a necessary step.
At the moment, he was just one person and he simply didn't have enough time to do everything he wanted to do.
Not to mention he lacked personal skills. He didn't know much more than the very basics of blacksmithing, let alone have the skill necessary to make something functional. At best, he could probably make a knife that actually cut things.
It wouldn't be elegant and would probably look like a sharpened piece of scrap metal. With that being the case, it was extremely obvious that he couldn't make proper weapons and armor out of metal.
Now, he could make NPC's outside of his scenarios, in very limited numbers, and program those NPC's with skills. However, there was a catch.
Their skill at anything was limited by the amount of magic he could spend enhancing that skill. Sure, he could spend the majority of his magical power on making an exceptionally knowledgeable blacksmith, but then their body would suffer and they would lack the strength to actually forge anything.
Splitting his magic into a fifty-fifty spread between body and knowledge left him with an NPC that only knew slightly more than he did himself.
If he wanted to make a truly skilled NPC he would need a lot more magical power than he currently had. The same thing applied to tailoring. He knew the basics of how to sew, but that was about it.
The same went for the jewel crafting if he wanted to make anything beyond the basics. He'd just gotten lucky that the purchase included basic molds for simply rings and amulets.
He needed truly skilled workers to get the most out of those three expansions and he simply didn't have the time, or willpower, to learn how to do them himself. After all, true professionals dedicated their lives to such pursuits.
His solution? Make blank NPC's, summon the ghosts of experts, convince them to willingly work for him, and then bind them to the blank bodies.
The ghosts he summoned would get to live again and he would gain dedicated workers able to bring his desires to reality.
It was a nice solution to the problem he had at hand and would work until he was so strong that he could make NPC's with otherworldly skill in the various fields he needed them for.
He needed at least three helpers. Enchanting, Alchemy, and making Artifacts could be left to him.
None of those fields really took any expert knowledge. Enchanted was just a couple of runes, magic, and willpower. Alchemy was just throwing together ingredients, distilling their essence, and adding magic.
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