From Player To Npc

Chapter 101: New staves

The day passed with him testing every idea of his and even used his one hour of boosted INT with his Blessing since he had used it before midnight last time.

He had three staves where he was trying three different designs.

The first one was having just the Light design as they would create more of those and sell them in the future.

The other two had both Light and Earth Mana Gems, but one had them both next to each other at the top, while the second one was having one at the top side and one at the bottom.

The staff with both next to each other was made that way to quickly change between the different Elements but was decreasing the amount of mana he could manipulate. The reason was that the design had to be split to keep track of both of them at the same time.

The other staff would allow him to use only the Element of the Mana Gem at the top, depending on how he held it. The staff's appearance changed a bit to be the same no matter how he held it.

He wondered if he had to design one with a Fire Mana Gem too, but he already had a problem making one supporting two.

They hadn't worked on updating the Fire Mana Gem since he didn't actually have this Element in his Mana Pool yet.

He didn't use his Spirit Hammer on the first tries but let it later as he wasn't able it without limit. 

When Garry first let it to him, he could use it for at most one hour, but last time he could use it for three. He wasn't sure why the Spirit seemed to like him that much other than the crazy things he had done with it, as in the stories he knew about the Spirit Hammers, they never seemed to like one other than the Masters.

But he also hadn't heard of one to give special permission to one to use it each day for a limited time, but not a lot of was known about them as their owners kept everything a secret.

He wondered where Garry had gone as there was no news from him, and Aneta didn't seem to know either.

Shingi remembered that strange messenger he had detected on the first day working at the shop. He had been keeping his senses for that person, but he couldn't find him until now.

One would typically not be able to tell how much time had passed as they were underground, but Shingi knew that it should be early in the morning of the next day as he finished his staves.

He used the Spirit Hammer this time, and the final products were better than he expected once more.

The designs even changed the appearance of the staves as it happened with Mizuneko's.

The one with just the Light Mana Gem was just a little lighter color than the standard brown color of the wood that it got made of, but the design lines were lighting up golden when enabled.

The Earth-Light one with each at different sides was split, with the one side with the Ligh Mana Gem being golden yellow and the other with the Earth Mana Gem being green.

The last one had the same golden yellow and green colors as the second, but instead of splitting the staff, it seemed like tapes going from top to bottom diagonally and making turns, making this strange look to the staff, and showing the weird balance of it.

When he used the first one, the designs were lighting up yellow or green if he used the Light Element one or the Earth one, respectively.

The design was emitting the opposite color from the one he was using for the third one. The design was having a more challenging time keeping in track the mana not used in this case than the one used.

He even made a handle of them made of Glass where he would hold the staff and make it to give him a better grip of it.

He had reinforced the tips, primarily where his Mana Gems were residing, and he tried to keep it balanced to also work as a Quarterstaff. If he combined it with his MARTIAL ART Skill, he could do some severe physical damage too.

All three had their advantage, and Shingi was happy for the two with both his Elements.

He mostly would use the one with the Mana Gems not next to each other, as was the one strengthening the Spells the most while the other was for speed and Spells that may need parts of both his Elements cast different Element based Spells simultaneously.

He cast some of his Spells to test them out and then stored them at his Spatial Ring.

Zhen had started producing the mana gems and had finished the first batch, which Shingi would personally deliver them back at the shop.

Night Wind had brought last night some items, primarily tools, for Zhen's Lab and had delivered them at the Lab as he was aware of the Boss's whereabouts as one of the New Gods.

Of course, he knew it because Zhen was one of the low levels Boss ones and of a permanent Dungeon. The ones of the permanent ones' identities or information were unknown even to him as the game's primary AI was creating them.

The next batch of tools he had ordered was for Volig and some materials to make some more improvements at the shop.

The shop had improved tremendously after the Enchantments made by Karemon and Shingi upgrading them, but there were a few things that even Enchantments, Programming or not, couldn't do. Or at least Base Grade ones.

Creating Master Grade ones would take him some time to research as Karemon or even Volig have no idea how to make one.

Even Zhen, being a RUNEMASTER, hadn't been able to make a Master Grade One yet.

His designs on the staves were still considered Base Grade, but most were at the top but not passing it to be Master Grade ones.

He left the designs on Zhen to work on them for the Wands as it wouldn't be hard for him to do so.

Shingi left the Dungeon's room and headed to Aneta's office.

After trouncing with the Whip Masters Guild, they've completely left town. Since they are no longer blocking Players from getting Quests, our business has picked up considerably.

He waited, and a few seemed to think that he was a Player and asked him if he wanted to join their party.

His current clothing was closer to a robe, making him look more like an adventurer than a town resident.

He, of course, didn't accept telling that he was mostly playing solo.

The perceptive ones who noticed his attire not be normal and his Spatial Ring that he was wearing at his finger and wasn't trying to hide it anymore asked if he could add them as his friends, but he refused.

Some females said they wanted to 'play' with him even if he was looking so young. But Shingi could see the faces of hyenas who wanted to eat him, so he passed those offers too.

"Oh, you are here? Didn't expect to see you waiting here."[Marcy]

Shingi smiled towards the familiar face, which seemed to be disliked by a few of the people who tried to speak with him and failed, especially the female ones.

"What are you doing here? Don't you have work at your shop?"[Marcy]

"Volig takes care of the orders, and Greg should have everything else under control. Here to see the mayor for some personal business."[Shingi]

The ones around were surprised by what they heard, and a few keywords drew some. Shop, Volig, and Greg.

Greg was in the front of the shop, so its identity wasn't a secret, and Volig had to give some Quests which had his name on them.

They had heard that there was an unknown owner of the shop other than Volig, but most were saying he was an NPC, but the actions of Shingi and the way he interacted made it clear that he wasn't one.

The interest of everyone to make a relationship with Shingi got raised, but he showed no interest in talking with them.

"Oh, it seems it is my turn. Talk to you later, Marcy."[Shing]

The moment he got in the office, the crowd surrounded Marcy trying to persuade her to be friends so that they become friends with Shingi.

Marcy didn't expect this as it was the first time females tried to get close to her, but she had experience dealing with males.

Shingi expected that situation, and he threw those keywords on purpose.

If Marcy became famous and more people wanted to socialize with her, they would have more people to use in future assignments that his small group of students couldn't complete by himself.

Of course, he hadn't discussed this with Marcy beforehand, but she told him she wanted to help the other day after seeing the success in dealing with the Whip Master Guild, so he gave her a task.

"Oh, Shingi, you are here. I wasn't expecting you today. Had something happened?"[Aneta]

"Well, I came to inform you that I am going to leave in a few days for some time."[Shingi]

Aneta's and Karemon's eyes got wide with confusion.

"Leave? Why? Is that Guild going to retaliate, and you have to hide?"[Karemon]

Shingi shook his hand to deny his assumption.

"I just need to train myself, and the resources I need are impossible to get here. Also, have to meet some friends of my Master's that will help with that task. I will have to ask you to keep your eyes over at the shop, but I am sure Volig and Greg will have everything under control. Volig, even if he wouldn't accept it, also would need a helper as the orders will start being more than what even he can handle at this rate. I am sure you, with the help of Greg, can find a suitable one. I would suggest, though not a Dwarf one as in the past he didn't have the best cooperation with them *chuckle*."[Shingi]

Because Varic had been exiled from his clan when he was young, he still didn't like working with Dwarves and avoided it if he had the chance.

"I will see what I can do. But how soon are you going to leave?"[Karemon]

Shingi gave it some thought as he was making some calculations.

"I should be ready to leave in two days."[Shingi]

He wanted to at least finish with his Fire Element at his Mana Pool as he wasn't going to focus much on it on his trip.

He also asked Aneta if she had any books on Arcane Words, and she had a few that she was using for her research. They were beginner ones and more introductory to them, but it was a start even if Shingi probably already knew most in there. He could use them to refresh his memory if he forgot any critical details.

Aneta didn't need them, so he let them have them for as long as he wanted.

He told his goodbyes and left but this time using his INVISIBILITY as he could detect the crowd of Players still being outside.

Marcy seemed to have them under control a bit, so he didn't want to disturb the progress with his appearance.

He made it back to the shop, where he informed Greg and Volig of his departure in a few days.

After that, he used the Dragon Scale's Fire Mana, and the forge's to complete his fire 'structure.'

He didn't use a lot of the forge's not to affect the work of Volig.