Chapter 3067. Strange Crafting

Chapter 3067: 3067. Strange Crafting

"These had to have been paintings at one point..." The mumbles from Walker as he examined the walls only brought the silence he had around him to be more deafening.

He had still remained within the first few feet of the entrance. The larger hall and damaged floors and staircase stood the same. However, he was trying to look at the frames and walls themselves.

They had been paintings without any color or structure since this entire place was degrading, but he’d thought he might be able to learn something from them.

Unfortunately, the results of any all around appraisals were just leaving him at a loss.

Moving forward toward the staircase, Walker caught himself looking at what was behind the stairs.

There was a hallway leading ahead that most mansions he’d been in would replicate in architecture.

Normally the main staircase could hide the hallway used by staff for the noble mansions. It would lead right in to the servant rooms, kitchen, delivery entrance, and various storages that could be used to keep whatever the mansions didn’t need for the season.

Knowing this was part of the interest that stopped him from climbing to the second floor where there would surely be sitting rooms, the owner’s rooms, and maybe an entrance to a library or something else.

As much as he wanted to immediately start with entering and exploring for there to be knowledge he wanted to take, the easy grabs from a storage area might have something better.

Not just knowledge that could be stored heirlooms or books, but ledgers that explained the sort of culture and goods that might have entered the mansion in the faraway place that this fragment came from.

It also reminded him that the ways dungeons came to be were varied in form and needed to be respected.

There was no telling how somewhere like this could suddenly be cut apart and drift in to an endless unknown to a fading dungeon.

Stepping under the staircase, Walker leaped back.

’Enraged mechanical rat

This is a rat that has been enhanced with golem body parts and highly influenced with rune formations. This unique form of crafting is only used on servant monsters tamed by a class called a mechanical golem artificer. However, there are other variations of the class with lighter and darker connotations.

This rat was a tamed monster experimented on to move around this mansion and consume the wasted products that often fell on the ground. It would normally be unseen and hide away waiting for there to be something to eat to clean the mansion.

Now, it is forced in to a rage as the rune formations carved in to tis bones and flesh have degraded. Its mechanical aspect body also has significant damage causing it madness endusing...’

Walker thrust out with a sind blade, severing the strange head from the body. He saw the attacking rat falling and noticed that its eyes looked like strange golem cores rather than what a rat’s eyes should actually be.

He also noticed that patches of its fur had turned a dead gray proving that the rune formations there had also begun to break down.

Without hesitation, he stored the body so that he might be able to learn something from it with a careful examination from certain experts. However, he also didn’t feel he wished to bring this form of taming and golem crafting back to Genesis.

There was the real chance that this could be part of the evil that grew if left without moral control.

He also realized that it could be knowledge that assisted in the development of golem limbs used for those who were born without them or lost them.

There was only so far that some healing magic could go after all.

He also focused on the artificer class. Something that was a mix of magic and golem crafting he had heard about recently.

But he had no idea that it was just a general term in the grander idea of everything. Especially when he considered an entire race that lived somewhere in the vastness of existence being explorers who focused on it.

The halfling race he was beginning to learn about might have skills and developed abilities well beyond what he expected them to have. Especially if he focused on the fact that they had created living and controlled creatures bonded to them to live within their mansion and simply to clean it.

The dim light in the hallways flickered as Walker noticed some rune formations bleeding through the damaged walls. The wood and the paper used to decorate them peeled off in sight. This active degradation was proof that the thirty days might be something more like a guideline of what little could actually be left by then and not the entire collapse of the space.

More of a warning that at that time the entire space would cease to be.

He did push forward, he kept his eternal codex as an armor form and realized that he could see some blood on the ground from the adventurers. The rat before had not cleaned it, the rage and madness it had was too great to maintain the function.

But the wood that had splintered around came from the floor breaking and the walls being unable to hold their weight. Perfect to shatter and leave them cut up without their own intention.

Finding the first room to be a black abyss, Walker saw mana dissipating from the walls and doorway itself. It hurt his mind to witness it and quickly before he took any damage he looked away.

This was not the case with what he believed to be a kitchen though.

The massive oven had several rotating shelves which were much more advanced than anything he had witnessed the golem crafters or any artisan create. He also noticed the higher density of metals used to create alloys that would not stick to food or would not at all cause any damage to the food itself.

The entire crafting of it was extremely beautiful and efficient.

’High alloy rotating oven

One of the best appliances made to be sold within the halfling nobility, this oven boasted the perfection of any master chef’s needs. Yet, it has sat without use for several years and needs to be maintained better.

It utilizes wood, coal, mana, and steam to ensure a balance for whatever processes that are needed to create the food being cooked within. A chef can even bond with it by burning the rune formations on the side to their wrist and connect their mana directly.

This is a unique tool that was created so that...’

Walker didn’t hesitate to use earth magic to break the stones around the oven and to then pull an ax from his storage and cut away extra wood.

He worked methodically and made sure he could save this appliance with his mother’s love of cooking in mind.

He also knew that this was easily a relic that could be used to study utility cooking and advanced bonds in items created. Many would learn from it and be able to study the advanced rune formations allowing it to use such complex fuel and complex abilities to cook.

Besides this, he also knew that it was pure luck this oven had not degraded and broken down. Then again, it was the highest quality item within the room.

The knives were cracked, the tables had fallen in ot piles on the floor, and a larger stone basin that might have been a sink was cracked in half.

Unfortunately, he did notice several skeletal figures. All seeming to have been some sort of cattle that had been ingredients or maybe even a few bones from a chef or servant that had once lived here.

He did his best not to appraise them as he realized that the floor was also breaking away even more after he stored the massive oven.

The mana had changed when he removed it, letting him understand that the dense mana and materials of the oven had actually been an anchor of some form for the room. The space mana might have been better held calm because of the dense manas within the oven.

It was another thing he would be able to consider later when he had the time.

Rushing through the hallway again, he halted when he heard the skittering of more rats. He had to decide if he would fight them and get rid of them or if he wanted to explore the upper floor.

The decision was made for him, though as he had made more than enough sound to attract attention.

The many glowing mana filled red eyes of rage began to appear from a stairwell leading to what might have been a basement storage.

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