Chapter 6: Life amongs Dragons 3

Elise POV

He's done it. He really made them.

"So... what do you think?" he asked.

He has that expectant smile on his face. I couldn't help but laugh inward at that. He does look really cute.

"I admit, they do look nice." I said with a straigt face. And so he pouts. I couldn't help but laugh at that.

I gave him a peck in lips and said. "They are beautiful. Thank you." making him blush.

I am never gonna get tired making him blush.

Seeing this swords are something else entirely. His pet project, caliburn and excalibur morgan from fate series. Well, in looks anyway. The swords are made of the finest ingredients that went through a set of rituals. The gems used for their creation are enchanted with simple enchantments. But expanded in aspect.

The first is magical absorbtion. It takes foreign, natural or any at all forms of magic. It also has another function. Any excess magical energy that was wasted when casting spell is also absorbed. Allowing us to save up to 1% to 2% more mana. This allows us to condense the magic spell into a more refined form of use. Our spells are now less smokey and more detailed. Ronan has begun playing with it again, so much so that he has been adding snow flakes across his spell bows and spell swords. And since we used an entire basketball sized jewel on each sword, their over all capacity for storage is far larger than a single ring.

The 2nd is purification. The stored magic is purified for our use. The fifth day of the week. We were visited by shadow demons. They were weak. But very tenacious. Lucky us that our spell blades can be used to defend against them. But killing them was a challenge. Ronan's innate gift kicked in after trying to punch one.

Holy magic is effective, but how can one use Holy magic and not Light? Simple, purify. We had gotten so used to using Carian Greatsword then allowing Ice magic to flow through it to emmulate Adula's Greatsword. But what if we just used ice. And so we tried but doing so in combat was a problem in on itself. Channeling elemental magic is difficult. Fire can be passion or rage or any strong emotion that can spur a man into action. Ice requires indifference, a calculative mind, the state of being removed from your own emotions. Holy is obvious but in the end I suceeded first. Channeling as much love as I can into the sword he gave me, I created a sword of light. I was able to bring killing blows to them. Fueled by my desire to give him the child that should have always been ours. A conversation we had afterwards.

And so purification became a must. Allowing us to channel the purer elements easier. The swords are second only to valyrian steel. This is indeed a treasure, but it has a glaring weakness. This is a magic sword, and that's exactly what it requires. In the hands of others this would be a quality swords but not for long. It requires magic to be channeled through it once a month, it doesn't require much but that's for us. For anyone else, we ain't sure.

The third and final enchantment, magic binding. This swords can not be weilded by anyone but us or our decendants. And the best part is that they are also bound to our magic. So we can actually call for them to our hands. Not in a 'motes of light and appear in our hand' kind of way. But more of a Mjolnir kind of way.

Absorbtion, purification and binding. Simple enough, but incredible none the less. Seeing this swords and recalling their enchantments made me remember. Seeing the Sea for the first time. Only for me to take my first dive, and see a glimps of the world underneath.

"We are prepared to travel east with this. Hopefully we find something worthwhile. If not, we are gonna have to settle with what we have and prepare for the tower."

I held the Excalibur Morgan in my hand and channeled my magic through it. I then felt a click in me, like something snapped into place. I saw the markings in between the edges of the sword glow red.

I threw the sword and as soon as it planted on the wall, I called for it in my mind. I watched it flew then to me, with the handle landed straight to my palms as I closed my fingers around it.

""Nice"" We said at the same time.

I asked about sonething that has been bothering for sometime now. The magic storage he continues to apply. He answered.

"That dragon said, that this doom that surrounds this lands are created by the gods to stop the forsaken ones from leaving. That means we are currently in a land filled with magic. And the magic in our surroundings is why we can recover our magic quickly. But what of outside this cage?"

He continues. "Westeros is our challenge, and magic in those lands is so little. It wouldn't surprise me if it took a week to recover our magic. Or at worst, not at all."

He was right. The restoration of magic is our mission after all. No wonder he had been relentless in expanding our magical core for days now. But for restoring magic, there are ways to achieve that. A weirwood trees is one thing. A dragon is another. So I approached the dragon that same day. And he was right. The Dragon who's name is Tanwen confimed his fears and told us of her two eggs. But She refused to let them be born. Her words were.

"I will not give rise to a child only for it to be imprisoned."

I don't blame her. I wouldn't want such fate against my own aswell. So she made an offer. Lift the curse, free them from this prison. And we shall have what we asked. I initially said no. Not wanting to seperate any child from their mother. Only for her to tell me she was already dead. Only by feeding upon the magic of this prison did she survive this long. Once lifted, she dies with it. So we had more responsibilities upon our shoulders now.

Alex though took it in stride, I can't really say anything against it. I had just told him recently about my aggreement with the Mother. And he grew more determined since. Though luckily for me he doesn't over do it. A quick reminder of how he nearly burned himself out in our previous life had him pasing himself. We can't forget to live this life. Though he seemed to be having trouble lately.

Trying to stop himself from ripping my clothes off. He channeled that desire in our nightly coupling though. I admit it feels nice seeing him like this. It was like our first year dating all over again. But then again I am to be blamed wearing the skintight suit all over the place as I exercise.

Through out the week I had written down plans for several things like. The flying shuttle, the spinning jenny, paper making, salt making, sugar making, fertilizer, leathering techniques, forging techniques, windmils, even what can be connected to both windmils and water wheels like a trip hammer. And above all a blast furnace. And I actually begun to incorporate runes into them fuethering their functions and durability.

If I am going to raise a family here it will be in a hygenic one. Not on some back clog place.

"Elesis? Are you alright?"

I looked to him and said "I am. Just glad we're a step closer to our dream." He smiled at that.

This is something we had began to get used to. Our names, we had decided to change it. It's not original but we are happy about it. Elesis and Ronan. Though we haven't decided if our last name should be Erudon or Sieghart. Still I wanted to go by Azula but then again, I didn't really stand by it when he said no.

"Let's rest for the day, we leave at first light."

"Ryōkai desu!" I replied with a mock salute. and immediately went to the kitchen to prepare dinner. I only heard his laughter when I was already out his workshop.

'I could get used to this.'

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RONAN POV

As I approached Tanwen, I couldn't help but marvel at her. A real breathing dragon right before me. Beautiful...

"Thank you."

"I... uhhh..."

She laughed softly. "Your thoughts are easy to read. The fact that you are prepairing means you have completed them."

"Yes, I did. I had told Elesis about it. She was admittedly frightened at such threat before us but glad none the less."

". . .humm..."

The threat is mind magic. The dragon at the top is capable of using it. Our necklaces though cancels that out. It had been tested by a dragon aswell. So we are confident in that part.

"Eastward lies the homes of the dragonlords. But that doesn't mean there is still treasure there. Are you sure you wish to proceed?"

"I do. My swords are great, I admit. But they aren't perfect. I prefer to have something that can cut through dragon scale like hotknife through butter."

"Very well then. Before you go. In the lord's bedroom, behind the their house banner on top of the bed. Look into it. I do not know if he has taken it with him but I hope he didn't. I make no promises on what you may find." And with that she went back to sleep.

My heart was beating loudly. I gave her a short bow and rushed to the Lord's bedroom.

As soon as I saw the banner I ripped it off and threw it away, making a loud noise. I saw a small vault. Running my hand through it. I casted an unlocking spell.

I heared Elesis rush inside as the vault began clicking and clacking. Half a minute later it unlocked. I toof a deep breath and shooed Elesis to take a step back. I was dazzed by the amount of books and scrolls inside. But what had my attention the most was a deep black leather utility belt. I could feel magic from it. As soon as I touched it, I drew a Blank. It's like seeing the paper, and knowing there are written words in it but blanked out by black ink.

It wasn't inconspicuous, but it was high quality for sure. I know most people only tie a pouch around their belt after all. After testing it for some time I couldn't help but yell.

"YEEEEESS!!!" drawing an 'eep' from Elesis who was checking at the books and scrolls.

"What!? What is it?"

"It's like a personal Inventory!!! A magically expanded bag!" I then held it upside down and watched as a flow of gold coins comes flowing out.

Her eyes widen at that. She begun to rummage through the vault again. I soon followed. We found three valyrian steel daggers in a hidden compartment at the back. A basketball sized jewel at the secret top. And most of all, a luggage trunk with the same enchantment at a secret bottom.

Once we opened it, it showed a ladder. It was empty but still. It was a large warehouse, 100 ft long to 100 ft wide and 50 ft high. It was perfect. We begun to unload everthing in the belt into it. And found another valyrian steel dagger. A dragon eye gem dropped aswell, the rest were all gold.

We ended up having dinner inside the Trunk. And experimented on it's limits and functions while Elesis took stock of everything inside.

One it cannot be closed when someone is inside. Two the inside takes damage when meddling with enchantment occurs. Three it can be repaired with magic. Four is that it has a built in function to shrink itself to the size of a big wallet. Three if we put our finger on the crest at the lock, information of what is inside flows through us. Four it can be locked by flowing magic at the front of the luggage. Five the magic cancels out any form of dimensional magic it makes in contact with. For example, The belt has five pockets. Two to the side, and one that is twice the size at the back. I had tried putting the wallet sized trunk at the back but once inside. it didn't vanish into the space. It just sat there, but it didn't unshrunk.

The belt is the same. Can't store the living, tried a fire lizard roaming around. But I can store parts, Dragon Leather, Dragon Scale, Dragon Teeth or anything really. Each pocket has a five meter by five meter storage capacity. The one in the back has twice that. The pockets can expand in size when storing something big but limited. One and a half feet wide. And also cannot be stored inside the trunk. Same mechanisms on the info, located on the front of the pockets. And the lock is at the front of the belt itself.

We spoke to the dragon, asking about how it was made or it's origins. She simply said that it wasn't made. It was found. And it's origins are unknown.

The books and scrolls are near useless, family secrets. But the big find in them are the hidden vaults and their codes. Many are beneath the lava and lost but. There are still a couple more. One was in the East side of the ruins and the last one was in The North.

A map points to it.

Soon we were in bed. And resting, come sunrise goes our next venture. The next step towards lifting the Doom of Valyria.