From Player To Npc

Soryn jumped out of his hole and then used another technique he learned that belonged to the Earth Spire to repair the ground.

"How did you know he was there? I kept hearing signs of him all over the place. But none was leading him being underground or that near where he started."[Hineko]

Shingi crated a rock with his Earth Mana and then destroyed it with his bare hand as he didn't make it too strong.

"Did you hear this sound of the stone getting crashed?"[Shingi]

Hineko nodded as he was pretty close and heard it pretty clear.

"What about this one?"[Shingi]

Hineko waited for Shingi to do something, but he remained still.

"Focus on your senses. Control them, not just use them. They are part of you, and they are part of them."[Shingi]

Hineko closed his eyes to focus his hearing on his surrounding.

After some time, he started hearing a sound similar to the crashing he had heard from the stone, but it was coming from underground.

"But how? I didn't see you cast any Spells."[Hineko]

Shingi raised his arm, and from inside the Earth came a Light MANA HAND of his.

He could silence-cast them at this point, even while talking or working on other tasks unless it needed his complete focus.

"I used the hand to make way for me to get in. Soryn, of course, didn't use this method as his is a lot faster as even if I dug the way down, I wouldn't able to cover it as quick or as good as his. But even if he used a different method, the result is the same, and he also left clues behind."[Shingi]

Shingi pulled his hand behind his back as he started walking around where the hole used to be.

"As you can hear, my steps are making a particular sound cause of the surface they are hitting, which in this case is the ground. But Soryn's last steps seemed to have hit a less solid ground than the earth as his technique had softened the ground and was able to push it aside to get in while closing the part that was covering the hole. Then he had to make more space for him to be comfortable and dig the soft he created, which had lowered the volume of his digging but not making it anything. If you focused your senses everywhere and not just in the forest, you would have noticed."[Shingi]

Hineko seemed sad, but then his eyes went wide as he appeared to be reading notification and then starred at Shingi with eyes of gratitude.

His PERCEPTION skill leveled up twice, bringing it to 41, making it count as an early Master Rank skill of NPC.

The lecture of Shingi and Soryn seemed to have given him a big boost and understanding in the Skill and allowed it to pass its Base Limit.

But he still had many ways to be as perceptive as Shingi and most likely wouldn't ever reach that as NPCs Skills were most times more potent than players in higher than Base Ranks.

Soryn seemed surprised how the young boy explained what he did in that much detail as he started doubting this was a young boy but an older man in disguise.

Since it wasn't Hineko who found Soryn, he had to hide but had used a different method of hiding this time.

Hineko focused on his freshly upgraded Skill like Shingi suggested to him and could find Soryn after close half an hour.

After Shingi saw that Hineko seemed to progress, he turned his attention towards Pan, who had decided to take another nap after examining the tree.

He created two Golems with the task handle brain and gave them a tea pan that he had in his Spatial Ring to make some tea of his own.

Pan seemed to notice as a Golem of his appeared with some of her tea helped while she still seemed like she was sleeping.

Shingi used them as he prepared the tea while his Golems made the campfire utilized to heat his tea pan.

He hadn't made much tea in the past, but he was aware of some things that one should be careful of.

When he finished the tea and drank some, it seemed to lack taste compared to Pan's, or even Aneta's tea tasted but was drinkable.

Pan's Golem took a cup for her and brought it to her, and she started drinking it without opening her eyes.

She didn't drink it too fast, which probably meant she didn't like it but wasn't too bad either.

He gave some more tasks on the Golems to do, like gathering nearby stones or branches or leaves as he tested them and tried to develop them as he did with the other two types.

He had made some improvements on his time back at the house, but he was 'looking' them from a distance with just his MANA SENSE as they were in a different room, but now he was using some of his PERCEPTION too.

He used his PERCEPTION skill to see their way of thinking of completing tasks by what movements and actions they decided to do.

These were easier to develop, as in the case of the combat ones, he had to consider many different factors that could happen in one battle.

He took the time to strengthen his Mana Tree and a bit and his Mana Pool as he noticed the Earth mana of the ground around the roots of the Hollow Tree had high compatibility reaching over 80%.

It should be a side-effect of the sealed unique mana when released, even if it were for a few seconds.

He used that mana to strengthen the roots of his Mana Tree, which seemed to reinforce its Mana Pool even if it didn't increase the amount of mana it could store.

He kept changing his Mana Pool to make the two Elements of his Mana as close as o the one he needed to this Golems, which also seemed to strengthen the rest of his Spells if he used the mana in that state.

After two more hours of training like that, he had to take a break as he felt he had reached the limit of his MANA MANIPULATION being overused, which would affect him if he overdid it.

He kept his Golems which had increased in size as they were close to a half-meter tall, while they were less than 20 centimeters before.

The bigger their size, the more complicated their 'brain' design had to be, as he had to make sub designs and connect them all to strengthen each other to keep in control of every piece of mana and earth it was composed of.

He felt that he had almost reached a bottleneck in GOLEMANCY as he had felt in some of the others early created Spells.

It may have been the higher Grade Spell, but with his detect Skills and knowledge of the Game, he could notice the possible improvements he could make to it, but he didn't seem that he would be able to finish the Spell just like that.

He wanted to ask Pan, but she was still asleep and didn't want to disturb her.

He said his goodbyes for now at Soryn and shouted one at Hineko, whose was the turn to hide at that moment.

He went back to the shop. 

On the way there, he noticed that some people were watching him entering, but they seemed to be better at hiding than the previous ones.

'I guess the higher level Players got here.'[Shingi]

He expected that the Whip Masters would send some higher-level Players after his last attack, but their number wasn't over half a dozen currently.

They probably waited for more as they haven't go back on stopping other Players from visiting his shop yet.

Things were calm like before a big storm, and Shingi was confident that one was coming.

Hopefully, his plans would progress as fast as he hoped.

As he entered the shop, he noticed that Greg was in the middle of writing down an order of a Player, who decided to use his slot for one particular piece of equipment to be made.

Shingi went to the forge room to find Volig, who was in the middle of making some of the orders.

"How is it going, Volig? How are the orders going?"[Shingi]

Volig seemed glad to see him as he pulled a blade he was working on the anvil in the barrel of water to cool it down.

"Greg gave me some of the special ones but still waiting for some of the materials to work on them. I have given some Quests for them and should have them soon enough before the deadline. There wasn't any problem these days from the annoying people, but I am confident they are probably just waiting for the right moment."[Volig]

Shingi nodded as things seemed to go well in the shop.

"Also have Ranked up my SMITHING to Master Rank but have some more improvements on it. Karemon's Enchantments also have helped a lot to it but have to speak with him or hist little student to make some improvements I had in mind."[Volig]

"We don't need to speak with them anymore. I can take care of it."[Shingi]

Volig seemed confused, and Shingi explained what happened and how he counted as an ENCHANTER by the System and could upgrade the Programming Enchantments.

Shingi had studied their logic even if he didn't have the ENCHANTER profession in the past either.

He wanted to create some ideas of his, but the rules of the Game couldn't break just like that.

Volig also had studied Enchantments and have worked with some to make on his shop as they had here. He was also as curious as Shingi at that kind of thing.

Volig had taken some notes of what he wanted Karemon to worked on, and Shingi studied them.

He worked on some of them on some pieces of papers and not the surface it was needed to be

After a few tries, a System notification appeared.

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SKILL LEARNED

The skill PROGRAMMING ENCHANTMENT has been unlocked at Low Rank.

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He didn't need to increase it at Base Rank to make the Enchantments he needed as Base Rank would just lesser the time he needed to make them.

With his INT, his Skills effect would be enough for what they needed, and creating them would also help raise his Skill's Rank quickly.

He had to delete the current Enchantment and create it from the beginning as he needed to have Master Rank at this Skill to change Programming Enchantments he didn't make.

He first copied in a paper the current design to be sure to redesign it if something went wrong.

It started on some of the simple ones and least used ones since Volig still had to craft some orders. That gave him an excellent chance to train and raise his new Skill.

He quickly had raised it to Base Rank and started working on some of the more complicated designs.

He worked on them for the rest of the day, and close to dinner time, he had finished upgrading all of them at the smith room, which had the most Programming Enchantments in the shop as it was the one primarily used.

He was also able to create some of his own that he had thought of in the past, but he never had the time to ask someone to test them.

The majority of them didn't work as he hoped, and he had to erase them, which was part of the Skill.

Since he appraised all these different Enchantments, his ENCHANTMENT APPRAISAL skill ranked up to Base Rank.

He decided to stop for the day since the Enchantments at the other rooms wouldn't take him that long and weren't used as much.

He went at a corner with two plain beds, one for him and one for Volig, for them to rest without leaving the shop.

He activated his TRANCE ROOM to train his MARTIAL ART, which seemed close enough to Master Rank to use it there.