Chapter 38. Enchanting room

It was a beautiful day outside, the sun spread its worm light over the desert, the people were calmly doing their jobs and I was also doing my job.

I was digging a tunnel to an unknown destination, and the heat of the torches didn't make this job any easier.

"Why is this place so huge!"

I yelled in frustration.

I took a clock from my inventory to see what time it was, since I felt like I should return to my room before my lunch would come and find it empty.

"Well, at least they didn't suspect me when the clock mysteriously dissapeard."

I smile mischievously at my comment, but only for a short moment before I realized that I may be late for my meal.

I quickly put everything back in my inventory and run back toward my room.

Unlike the game I couldn't sprint jump through a two-black tunnel without hurting my head, I had to be satisfied with casual running while being careful not to accidentally extinguish the torches on the wall.

In a few minutes, I was back in the storage room while carefully claiming into my room.

*KNOCK KNOCK

"I'm up, in up! you don't have to knock so hard."

I quickly covered the hole in the floor and went to open the door.

A female villager was waiting for me on the other side.

"Your lunch is here sir. Cooked chicken with some milk."

She held a wooden plate with a cooked chicken and a bowl of milk.

"Thank you, after my long nap I feel pretty hungry."

She just nodded her head and went back to her job.

I closed the door behind her and look at the pressure plate with the food.

"Still shocked as the first time I saw them use a pressure plate as a small portable table. I think I'll use this idea as well when I get home."

I put the food in my inventory since I already ate while mining. After all, I had to go through the food storage room to get to my tunnel.

"I guess I'll have to go to the library soon as well."

I stretched my arms, my legs and waited a few minutes before getting out of my room.

Right behind me was a guard that always follows me when I was out of my room.

Ever since the day where I wandered aimlessly through the palace in search of Froggy, I always have a guard with me.

The only place I had some privacy was in my room, where I only stayed at night and at noon. The time I'm supposed to sleep.

Finally, I arrived at the library where the guard stood at the entrance with the other guards, while I got inside the huge room.

I walked for a bit more before the second supervisor came to greet me.

The librarian.

"Hello, there Trader, excited for another day to study?"

"I just can't get enough of it, Clay. This place is too beautiful and rich in knowledge to not use it."

I responded with a smile.

Clay was happy to hear that and went back to his desk, it was a normal day for him after all and since I didn't do too much in the library besides reading he didn't need to be preoccupied with spying on me.

After all, he was a person that liked to read books above doing anything else.

I started to browse through the shelves full of books.

'History of the Sandstone Kingdom'

'The great wall of the Undead'

'Thousands upon thousands'

Those wore some interesting titles some of which I read while others I just browsed through.

I finally stopped at one of the books with an interesting tile.

'Level 1 enchanting'

"Ohh, I didn't expect to see this book opened to the public."

I took it off the shelf and went with my fingers through it.

Inside were different pages with the unknown language but at the top of the page was the name of the enchantment which greatly helped.

It was an interesting book, and it even had some observations besides each of the enchantments. How long the text should be, how tall the letters or short must be.

I took the book to the nearest table and with paper and a pen I started to write down some of the enchantments diagrams.

After a few hours of trial and error, I had three enchantments in my hand.

Efficiency

Unbreaking

Fortune

Of course, each and every one of them was at level one but it would greatly improve my mining speed even if I felt that it would be wasted on a stone pickaxe.

"If only I could find the ore storage area, then I could make another iron pickaxe and I wouldn't feel so stingy with the current one. It's almost broken as well."

I talked with myself in frustration.

But with a quick shake of my head, I threw those thoughts to the side and went to the librarian who was deep into his book.

*Aham

"I'm sorry to bother you mister Clay, but is there an enchantment room that I could use?"

Clay looked up from his book with dissatisfaction.

"An enchantment room, why would you need such a thing?"

"I have the enchantment skill, and I think it would help me greatly if I could increase it."

The villager raised an eyebrow in surprise.

"We do have such a room, but I don't think you'll be allowed in it since it's only for the royal family or special guests to use."

"Aren't I also a special guest?"

The librarian's eyes narrowed at my statement.

"You are a special guest for the palace, but I don't think you'll be allowed to use it right now. Maybe if you get permission from one of the Royal members this would change."

"And how can I have a meeting with one of them?"

"That's for you to figure out."

He said that and then went back to his book while trying to ignore any more attempts to question him more.

With a sigh, I decided to end my visiting time at the library for today.

I took the papers for each enchantment with me and went outside the library.

As I was preparing to get to my room a voice that I didn't recognize called me.

"Trader! One of the great heroes that came up with the idea of curing the infected. How do you like your sitting? I hope nobody was rude to you in here."

The person that called for me was a young man with a white robe that had some golden patterns on it.

"I didn't have any problems in here o great prince. Every servant was very polite with me all the time."

The boy smiles with satisfaction at my statement.

"I don't think we've met, how did you know that I was the prince?"

"I do recognize that we've never met, but the respect the servants show towards you shows your high status."

The prince looked around the hallway more carefully to see that the servants and the guards were bowing or half-bowing toward him.

"That is true what you say, I didn't think about that. Trader, I've come with an offer for you."

The young man suddenly changed the subject.

"My father seemed to take great interest in your friend Froggy while choosing to ignore you. Can you guess why?"

The young man looked curious about my reaction.

"I'm afraid I don't know what the great ruler thinks, so I can't make a judgment."

Of course, I knew why he would choose Froggy instead of me. Froggy was already a high-level witch while I was an unknown bump. I bet he wants to waste as few resources on me as possible.

My response didn't seem to please the prince.

"What a shame, I thought you were smarter than this. I'm in a good mood today so tell me, is there anything you desire to make your stay more comfortable?"

I looked for an opportunity to enchant some stuff, but I didn't think I would get it so soon.

"If I don't have to hold back, can I get access to the Enchantment room?"

This took the prince by surprise.

"I didn't expect you to have the Enchantment skill."

"Of course I do, I can even show you my work."

I took a page from my inventory and showed it to him.

He carefully took the page and started to look at it.

"I think you've recently got this skill if I'm not mistaken."

"Yes, how could you tell?"

"I can see the ambition through those writings, but there are some small mistakes here and there. The enchantment table won't even take this page."

That surprised me since I thought I copied it pretty correctly after all.

"You don't have to be ashamed about your work. The important thing is that you want to improve yourself. But for your request, I can make an exception and let you use it."

"Thank you for your generosity, your Highness!"

"For a price of course."

I looked suspicious at him once he said that.

"What price?"

"Ohh, nothing much you don't have to worry about it. I only need you to do a few enchantments for me."

That made me a bit confused. I knew that you needed to have a high level of enchanting before you were even considered a candidate for the throne, so why would he need me to enchant something that he could easily do himself?

"You don't have to worry so much about that. I only need you to get to level five and then you can help me."

At level Five I could make unique enchantments like Mending, Flame, and others like that.

I still didn't know what he would need me to do, but this would probably be my only chance where I can have access to the enchanting room without having to break in.

"I'll accept your deal prince."

He made a small smile when I accepted his deal and gave me the page back with another book.

"This book was signed by me, you should be able to get where you want without any problem."

I took the book that he gave to me and looked if it had any traps if it was even possible, but the only thing that I saw was an empty book sign by Amun.

"Thank you for your generosity, sir Amun."

He smiled at that and then guided me to the enchanting room.

And it wasn't even that far from the library, I could write the enchantment while I was studying in the huge library, then I would walk for a few minutes until I could enchant them.

The guard at the entrance looked at us before he gently opened the door.

"Wellcome back your Highness."

"It's good to be back indeed, but this time I won't be the one to use the enchanting room, my friend here would like to raise his skill level. Please treat him with respect, I even gave him a token of my appreciation."

The guard looked at me before nodding his head in understanding.

We then entered the long-awaited room, where I was greeted by a surprisingly small room.

The walls were filled with bookshelves, chests, and even some maps, but what really took me by surprise was the obsidian ceiling.

"Is this whole room surrounded by obsidian?"

I asked in surprise.

"Looks like you did learn some stuff from that old and dusty library. Yes, it is. Since only important people use this room it's only natural to be one of the safest rooms. Of course, because we're the biggest producer of obsidian in this world, why shouldn't we use it as well."

The prince said with pride in his vice.

"Do you have an enchantment that you want to try?"

He looked at me curiously.

With a bit of hesitation, I took the last two papers that I had in my inventory and gave them to him.

He quickly took them and studied it carefully.

"Interesting choice, Fortune and Unbreking. Those are pretty good as well, you can take an empty book from that chest and use it. You do have enough levels right?"

I nodded my head and went to get a book from the chest he showed me. I then proceeded to put the two pages in the book and went to use the enchanting table that was surrounded by some bookshelves.

"You can take the lapis from the barrel in the ground."

Right beside the enchanting table was a barrel that was full of lapis ore.

I took two of them and put them in the inventory of the enchanting table.

I then let the book float above the magical table and let it do its job.

Fortunately, I didn't have to wait for too long before I could feel the experience leave me and the book getting enchanted.

Once everything was over I quickly took the book to see if it worked.

And the inventory showed me exactly what I wanted to see, a book with the unbreaking and fortune enchantment.

A slow clap was heard from behind me, which made me turn around.

"Looks like the process was a success. It would be a pleasure to do business with you."

I don't know what I got into, but now I have a business deal with the Royalty.