Chapter 2119: A Brief Message

In the workshops of the Drodh Branch of the Darklight Host, Ashbringer stared at the work order and the pile of Immortal Rank materials in front of him.

[ Hey, we got a big order, and they like fancy stuff.

Have the Dwarves do some carving to make it pretty, the plans are included.

Karl ]

A thousand sets of armour was more than just a "Big Order", especially when it was all being made out of Immortal Rank stone. They didn’t have to do the runecrafting, thankfully, but just making the items with Earth Magic and Holy Magic to shape the materials was going to be more than they could handle.

He was going to have to talk to Karl, a bunch of Overlord and Totem Ranked craftsmen couldn’t handle this order.

He had recently reached Mythic Rank, thanks to much time spent working on his skills while pulling mana from the Tiny World. But the only other Myth in the branch was Sapphire, and she was the Branch Leader now, as well as a Runecrafter.

Her magic wasn’t well suited to the task.

Perhaps they could have the sculptors actually make the piece with whatever magic they had, and then send it back to have Karl and his people imbue the necessary holy magic into it?

Wendy walked in, drawn by the magic of the stone that had been sent over.

"What’s up, little one? Finished your delivery to Zilaz?"

Wendy nodded. "Yep. All done for the day. Things are going pretty smoothly there, now that we’ve got two full Totem Ranked teams for the Guild Shop and dungeons. I do wish that Karl would have left us a few more powerful fighters, though.

Every time we need a Myth, there are fewer of them available."

Ashbringer laughed. The problem wasn’t that they had too few powerful fighters, but that the fighters they had were too powerful. You couldn’t send a bunch of Immortals back to help with a dungeon, and the Tiny World had mostly advanced.

"Why don’t you take a little trip with me? We should go talk to Karl about this request, and see if he objects to having more of the crafting moved to the Tiny World, so that our teams will advance fast enough to do what he needs."

"What did he want?"

"A thousand holy armour sets, made of Immortal Rank stone of some sort, with holy power imbued into it."

Wendy stared at the stone in wonder.

She loved magic, all sorts of magic. Getting to know more about how this magical stone worked, and its powers was simply mandatory in her mind. Then, she could tell Sapphire, who would record it for the Library’s archives.

"Alright, let’s go. No time like the present, hop hop."

Ashbringer laughed as the little Oni Demon practically vibrated with excitement, though he did wonder if she realized just how mundane the magic needed to do the job was. Powerful, yes. But not anything new and exciting.

However, she was incredibly persuasive when she wanted to be, and that would be an excellent counterpoint to his complaints that the job might not actually be possible for their current team.

With Wendy around, he should be able to convince Karl to let them move the top tier workers from the Drodh Workshop to the Tiny World. Naturally, Karl had no idea there was even an issue, he had simply sent them the work, knowing that they had sculptors.

Naturally, Karl was not the first person they found when they moved to the other side of the portal into the Tiny World.

Instead, they were found by Lotus, who immediately looked upset.

"You got taller," she announced, glaring at Wendy.

"One whole centimetre. Don’t worry, there’s still a full decade before I’ll be taller than you. Oni demons grow slowly."

Lotus sighed dramatically as she pulled the dainty young mage into a hug. "What brings you all the way here. I mean, I know it’s just a step through the gate, but the Drodh branch doesn’t come visit me nearly enough."

Wendy giggled, "We were hoping that we could have some of our people work in here to help with their strength, and Ashbringer wants to find out how to do the thing with the stone that Karl sent."

Lotus nodded, unaware of what stone had been sent.

"There’s lots of room to work, and Karl doesn’t mind. It’s just that this place is very heavy with Immortal energy now, and the mortal mana is fading, so it’s not as good as it once was, unless you’re Mythic, or you get someone to make a mana gathering array for your workstation.

You’ll have to ask the Runecrafters, I’m a cook.

Ooh, there’s one! Lala! Miss Wendy wants to know if they can get mortal mana gathering arrays for the workstations."

The bunny flashed over to them with one strong thrust of her legs, and immediately hugged the little demon.

"Welcome back, Miss Wendy! Yes, we have lots of those, since we don’t use them after Immortal, the array is different. They’re just sitting in storage. Here, take ten and let me know if you need more made, they only take a few seconds."

They were all carved into small sticks and natural stones, used for practice when the Runecrafters were still new. These weren’t just outdated because they had become Immortals, they were replaced with ones that matched the decor ages ago.

But to Ashbringer and Wendy, they were still Mythic Ranked Rare Grade items.

The wrath demon sighed. "You know, there is a disconnect in here somewhere, I can sense it. I feel like everything that we came to ask and plead for is just going to be dismissed with a ’but you could always do that’."

Lotus giggled as she saw the energy rise, as the thought of the answer made his anger rise.

That was exactly the answer they were going to get from Karl.

The door was left open for a reason, and not just to let a bit of extra mana leak into the Guild House. They had members move back and forth all the time at the start, now they only came once a week to find Myths to help with Zilaz region dungeons.

Like they felt that the gap was too large, and they couldn’t ask the other branch for daily help anymore.