From Player To Npc

Chapter 86: Golems Training

Heading inside the office, he found Aneta and Pan having some tea. Pan was drinking hers slower than usual. 

She seemed to enjoy it more than her usual one.

"Excuse me, Mayor Aneta. Your nephew came looking for you. Also, I wanted to take some of the remaining Quests."[Marcy]

Aneta seemed confused about how Marcy referred to Shingi but didn't say anything.

She checked with Marcy the Quests Marcy wanted, and Marcy left to work on them.

Shingi stand next to Pan.

"Hey, Pan. I am Shingi Maki. Was sent here by Master to ask some help on one of my Spells."[Shingi]

He had explained Pan his situation, so she knew that he actually was, but he had to keep the story straight for Aneta and Karemon.

"Huh? Oh, you are the small self of him."[Pan]

Aneta and Karemon were staring at Pan and then at Shingi after hearing that.

Shingi put his palm over his face.

He knew Pan was forgetful most times, but he didn't expect her to reveal this that soon.

"What is she talking about? Small self of who?"[Karemon]

Shingi thought about what to say when a notification appeared in front of him.

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Conditions for the WIPE(S) are met. Will you use them?

YES / NO

*Costs 1 CHA per WIPE

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This was the first time he got this notification but not the first time he had seen this.

Back when Aneta seemed to have cast something on him, she triggered a WIPE on her and seemed to make her stop being suspicious of him.

Shingi still didn't know what else he could use CHA for or if it affected him in any way other than the random effects he got till now.

But he would have to use 2 CHA which would bring his CHA to 3.

He wouldn't care about it if he didn't have the Minor Mana Regeneration Passive Skill. He didn't know if it got weaker when his CHA went to 4, and it wouldn't be beneficial for him to make it weaker, especially since he still didn't have a sure way to increase it.

He decided not to use the WIPE on them.

"*sigh* It is a big story, but I can't share it with you, at least not yet. People of great power are after Pan and the other of the Blessed Ones, and I have to help them is all I can share with you for now."[Shingi]

He saw some reluctance on them, but then he had this strange feeling of some peculiar energy being released from him, and they seemed to stop overthinking it.

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Because of overuse, CHA has been set to 0 temporary for 36 hours.

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That was the second time his CHA was set to 0, which was for longer this time.

'Could it be when I persuade others to do something, it is because of CHA? If so, overusing it could have this kind of effect.'[Shingi]

He had considered that sometimes people seemed to follow things he said way more effortless than usual but didn't mind it much.

When he talked with Sinhunter, he felt some strange sensation when speaking with him but thought it was because of their telepathic bond, but it could be his CHA overworking on persuading the sword's consciousness.

He could tell that they didn't just forget everything but seemed to believe in him to say to them everything later.

"So, Pan, can you help me? I heard you could make some Golems help you, and I tried to do something like that with my Earth Element Mana. But it doesn't seem to work as easy as I thought."[Shingi]

Pan looked at him and then back to her cup of tea and went back and forward between them a few times.

"*sigh* You can finish your tea first."[Shingi]

She seemed happy and went back on slowly, drinking her tea.

"You try on making Golems now? Is that even possible without a class?"[Karemon]

That was a peculiar Spell that not many could use, but his chance should be pretty high since he could create MANA DOUBLES.

Creating Golems worked differently than MANA DOUBLES as Golems acted on their own by him giving them orders.

Pan created some of her Golems for him to examine while she was finishing her tea. They weren't expecting the ground to break the wooden floor, but Pan fixed it right away with a Spell of hers.

Shingi had his MANA SENSE active through the Spell cast and the creation of the Golems and continued examining them with it.

He hadn't noticed anything new as the casting didn't last long to see anything working differently to take control of the piece of earth used to make the Golems.

He noticed that the mana used by Pan after a while disappeared, but the Golem was still working.

He noticed that the Earth's mana had changed shape to look like the skeleton of this small Golem.

After some time, the Golem turned back to a small pile of earth, as Pan had released the Spell on it. Pan wanted him to try to make a Golem out of this.

He tried to repeat what he saw Pan do with her mana, but he still seemed to miss something.

He tried to shape a skeleton like the one the other Golems had, but there was still resistance even when he finished and when he let it go, it was going back to its standard shape.

He made some more tests, but not much progress was made until Pan finished her tea and joined him.

"Hmmm... you don't feel the Earth, so you can't control it. You need to feel the Earth so that you can use its power."[Pan]

Shingi didn't understand exactly what she meant with feeling the Earth, and Pan seemed to have read his mind on it. She moved with unnatural speed and his head with her staff.

Shingi lost any power he had on his body and fell to the ground.

His senses seemed to have extended, and he heard a strange sound similar but at the same not similar of breathing.

It seemed to come from the Golems of Pan.

He focused more on it, and this strange sound seemed to become clearer as time passed.

He focused on the rest of the environment around him and could barely hear the same sound with some difference from everything.

The piece of ground he was trying to use to make a Golem seemed to have similar 'breathing' as the Golems but was way weaker.

That is when he understood what he had to do.

He wasn't supposed to control the earth but boost it to give it life.

He felt the 'breathing' of Pan's seemed to be similar to the empowered one of the Golems mixed with the 'breathing' of the ground.

Pan created another Golem, and Shingi was able to notice more details while in this state.

He felt Pan's mana have a 'breathing' of its own and changing a bit while interacting with the piece of Earth it was using for the Golem's creation.

This extraordinary state of his lasted for less than a minute but seemed to be enough for him.

He stood and closed his eyes and focused on some leftover piece of Earth left from Pan.

He tried to remember the feeling he had while in the state Pan put him in. It took him a while, but he started 'hearing' this special breathing from the piece of Earth he was focusing on.

He started using some of his Earth mana and focusing on 'hearing' its 'breathing' which was easier than the Earth's.

He felt that he could speed the way mana moved, which would change the 'breathing' too.

He tried to find the sync the two 'breathing' up at the best of his ability, and this strained his brain as it was taking a lot on keeping this unique sense active.

He had to take a few breaks as he couldn't keep it active for more than five seconds in the beginning.

The time increased with each time he used it until it reached ten seconds, and the progress slowed a lot.

But that was enough time for now, and he focused on what 'adjustments' he needed to sync these two breathings.

He could come close enough and tested what would be affected if his syncing wasn't perfect.

It seemed like he didn't have to make it perfect to start making the Golem, but the more perfect it was, the faster the skeleton formed.

His first finished Golem had a massive torso that was throwing its balance off, and it wasn't able to stand.

Every Golem of his had problems with the shape of its arms, legs, torso, or head. These seemed to be enough for the System to consider the Spell as being learned.

He had to take quite a few breaks to relax his mind or recharge his mana as he had to use a lot as he had to speed up his mana to change the breathing as needed.

He was lowering the amount of mana he was using as time passed, but he still had a long way to go.

He had moved his training to the room he was using to 'sleep' while making the town trip as Ameanum.

A few Players were coming to take Quests, and it would be weird for him to train his Spell casting in the room.

Pan remained and was eating some biscuits that Karemon had made for them.

He had spent four hours on this training as he finally created a Golem in a balanced shape to be able to move. But still, the Spell wasn't considered as learned.

His Golem was standing there still and wasn't moving no matter what he did or said.

He tried to make a similar connection with them as he felt that it was made when he spoke with Sinhunter, but it didn't seem to work.

It seemed he had to find a way to communicate with them as he never heard Pan giving them orders and seemed to do things on their own.

But he knew they were acting under her orders but were mostly deciding themselves how to fulfill this order.

He took a break and decided to nap and use his TRANCE ROOM to train his new Spells. 

When he finished creating his TRANCE ROOM,  he focused right away on his Golem Creation.

He couldn't 'hear' the same 'breathing' sound of the ground as it wasn't real, but he felt something similar.

He made the Golems almost half the time he did when awake and could last in this particular sense state almost twice as much time.

After a few dozen times of creating Golems and trying to order them, one slightly moved one of its legs.

He continues testing, and he finally understood what he was missing.

He thought Pan's Mana was leaving the Golem's body when it finished shaping the skeleton, but this wasn't the case. It was moving to create a final thing; the brain of the Golem.

He hadn't noticed it as the skeleton covered it, but he found it logical for a brain to be needed and be created by his mana to keep a way of communication.

This worked, but he had just to find the specific shape fitting the final Golem.

In his testing, he found out that he could create different 'brains' for different types of Golems. 

One focused on battle, one focused on defense, and one mainly acting on fulfilling tasks.

All could follow orders of his but only ones according to the brain they had.

If he gave to a Battle one to attack someone, it would do and adapt on its own, but if it ordered it to do some chores, he had to explain what to do step by step.

He messed with the rest of his new Spells too, but he wanted to make as much progress as he could as his Golem-Creation Spell.

When his TRANCE ROOM ended, and he woke up, he noticed a System notification.

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SPELL LEARNED

The spell GOLEMANCY(Unfinished Base Grade) has been learned.

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