45 Chapter 45. Enchanting with the Prince
In the morning I was woken up by heavy knocks on my door, with a lazy sigh I got off my comfortable bed and walked towards the door to see who wanted my attention so early in the morning. I opened the door, and it was not the maid that I expected.
"Good morning hero! Are you ready to do some enchantments?"
The one who knocked at my door was the prince. He had a smile that could bring warmth just by looking at it, unfortunately, I couldn't appreciate his smile because I just woke up.
"Good morning prince, I guess it's better to start work early than later, let me eat something before we leave."
"Wise words dear hero, and we could stop at the kitchen before we get to work."
We walked along the busy hallway but every servant stopped for a moment to bow to the prince. Not too long after, we arrived at the kitchen, where the cooks froze at the new sight.
"Dear prince, I thought breakfast was served today already, was there something not to your liking?"
"Oh don't worry, your meals are always the best in the kingdom. But I came here to get some late breakfast for my friend here."
He pointed at me.
Once the chefs realized they were not in trouble, they sighed in relief.
"Of course, what would you like sir...?"
"You can call me Trader, and I think I'll take some pumpkin pie if you have any made."
I didn't get the chance to eat one in this new world, and I'm quite curious how it is.
"Of course we have, I'll be right back with it!"
With that being said, one of the cooks went into a room, where I could hear barrels being opened, then not long after he came back with a steaming pie in his hand.
"Here's a fresh pie sir. Hope it would be to your liking."
"Thank you."
And I took the pie from his hand.
Once the transaction was over, the prince turned around and left, expecting me to follow him. Which of course I did while eating the pie. It wasn't too bad, it was easy to eat and I could feel the pumpkin taste, if it had been a bit sweeter it could've been perfect.
We didn't walk fast so I managed to finish the pie when we arrived at the enchanting room.
"I've been told that you use this room every day, which is good. But I still don't get, why you write the enchantments in the room as well, you keep going back to the library. You know you can borrow the book you want to copy right?"
"I know that I can borrow it, it's just that I like to work with natural light, it helps me calm my mind."
And when I get bored I just read a book, but there's no need for him to know that.
"I guess I can understand that, what level are you on then?"
"I'm Enchanter level 3."
"I see, you didn't use the 3 enchants on a book I'm guessing, since there's still a lot of empty books in the chests. You don't have to worry about running out of books. Here let me show you something."
He walked to the left side of the enchanting setup, where I saw something that made me facepalm.
It was a Grindstone! How could I not see it before? I should pay more attention around me. It keeps getting me in trouble recently.
"This is a Grindstone, it has two purposes, one is to sharpen a blade, and the less known one is to get the enchantments down from items. There's also a bonus fact that you'll gain a small amount of XP, which greatly helps us grow without getting in danger."
I nodded in understanding, in the game you also got some XP back when you used the Grindstone, but since I don't have to use the XP when I enchant, I didn't think too much about it.
"Of course, with this powerful item, we can actually afford to have multiple master's enchanters in the palace. Otherwise, the cost of the lather alone will bankrupt up our nation."
"Couldn't you use other items to enchant? Or it can be done only through pages and books?"
"We can enchant any items we want, it's just you need a certain skill level to actually do it. Not system skill, actual experience. Let me show you."
He then turned around and went to the right side of the enchanting setup and took out a diamond sword from a chest that was hidden.
I was shocked once I saw that, not because he had a diamond sword just lying in the chest, but because the chest he took it out from, was an ender chest.
"That's a weird-looking chest."
"Yes, it's an expensive chest from the Coral Kingdom, so I would prefer it if you don't touch it."
He said with a flat tone. He didn't explain that once an item is put in the chest, you can have access to that item anywhere in the world, as long as you have another Ender chest nearby.
"I see, I won't touch it then."
Of course, I will touch it later.
"Good, so here's the problem with enchanting on items."
He then put the sword on the table and started to write on it, after a few minutes I could understand what was the challenge. When you want to enchant there are three things needed, to know the enchanting alphabet, to write it correctly and consistently the whole time, and the item that you want to enchant on.
Finding the alphabet is not that hard, you don't even need to know what it means, you only need to know how the letter is correctly written.
The second thing is the most challenging part. Paper is the most used item for enchanting because it's clean, flat, and easy to see mistakes.
Other items instead have depth, and with that, it's harder to write everything at the same size or to find enough space to write the enchantments.
The third is self-explanatory, but from what I understand, unlike the game you can put enchantments on any items. And there are a few enchantments that weren't in the game, that sounded useful. Unfortunately, I didn't find the recipe in the library so I couldn't try it.
"Done! It's been a while since I've done this, but I'm glad to see that my skills haven't oxidized yet."
With a smile, he put the sword on the enchanting table, and after it was fed with Lapiz, it lazily floated and got a sudden magical glow. The prince then took back the sword and gave it to me so I could see it.
The writing was on the blade itself, which surprised me, since when a book was used, there was no writing on the item, but at the same time, I could see that what was written wasn't as long as a whole enchanted book, instead it only had half a page. Which was convenient, but I think it wasn't worth it, with how hard the process is to do, and the enemy can read the enchantments if they know the language.
The sword had two enchantments, Sharpness 1 and Unbreaking 1. After a bit more studying I gave back the sword to the prince where he then took it to the Grindstone, and threw the sword above the the Grindstone, but instead of hitting it, it started to float.
The prince then used the handler which made the classic sounds with the exception of cracking glass noises mixed in. I could see with my own eyes the enchantments cracking before shattering like glass which made the item drop.
"That's how we recycle our materials. Now onto the second convenient but frowned upon shortcut. I wouldn't suggest you do this since you wouldn't learn enchanting, you'll just raise your levels but you wouldn't know what you're doing. Unfortunately, we don't have a lot of time so we have to use this dirty method."
He then took out some pages from his inventory and handed it to me.
I looked at them and raised my eyes in surprise. Each page was almost half field with the enchantment, I only needed to write the other half and it would be done. But there was a problem with this method.
"Isn't it common sense that you can't gain experience with someone else's enchantment?"
"Yes that is true, but not fully, the enchanting table only recognizes the one that did the majority of the work, so if someone does half the page minus one letter, and the other person does the rest of it, the enchanting table would recognize the second person as the owner."
"That's a nifty trick. I can see how this would help speed up someone's level."
"Yes, now finish those enchantments and use three pages to get the maximum experience."
With that said, I sat at the table and started to write the rest of the page. From time to time the prince pointed out some mistakes that I did while also giving me pointers. If it wasn't for the fact that he most likely wanted me to get in trouble I would've been grateful for his teachings, and with his help in almost two hours I managed to write nine enchantments, I quickly used the enchanting table, and the whole process was finally done. With this, I had three fully enchanted books at my level and a ton of experience.
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SKILLS
_Crafting lvl 4
31.300/100.000
_Enchanting lvl 3
4.130/10.000
_Brewing lvl 2
110/1.000
_Trading lvl 4
9.500/100.000
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That was 3.000 worth of experience in just two hours. The rich truly know the shortest way to success.
"I'm almost halfway done to the next level."
"That's good to hear, unfortunately, I have to get back to my work, so I'll have to leave you alone for today. Keep up this pace and you'll be able to get to the next level until tomorrow. Then we can start enchantments at level 2. Good luck."
After he said that with hurried steps he left the room.
"I guess I Shouldn't be surprised that someone as important as him would have no free time. Maybe that's why I haven't seen him in the past few days, and had to wake up so early today."
But there's no sympathy for the evil, the fact that he wants me to grow as fast as possible, without telling me what he wants from me, makes me more suspicious of his intentions.
I shake my head to throw that thought. I couldn't do anything for now, so I have to take advantage of everything I can and grow before I leave.
But first I had to break a promise. I walked to the right side of the enchanting setup and touched the forbidden chest.
Suddenly the tab of a small chest appeared in front of me, it was empty as I expected.
"Time to do some cleanup in my inventory, it's starting to get messy already."
First thing first, it's the wither skull, it's more like a trophy than an actual item, but it still takes valuable space, next one is a few golden apples, I already gave a few to Froggy, but I still had enough for me to use.
After thinking some more I decided to put every brewing ingredient in there since I couldn't use it yet. I'll make another ender chest later to get them back.
With this done there weren't too many items that I didn't need at the moment or were valuable enough to be stored in the chest so I moved to the next most important thing.
Reading the message from the prisoner. I almost forgot about it since I've been distracted with enchanting, but one look at the inventory made me remember the blunder from last night.
"I really should be more careful about my surroundings."
I shake my head and open the book, after a few minutes of turning pages, I close it with a frustrated sigh.
"I really can't read the coded message. What a bummer, but an expected one. I now have to find a guy named Omar and give it to him."
Of course, I wouldn't be stupid enough to give it to him myself, I'll most likely find where his room is and leave it on the bed or something similar.
That's the only saving grace that I have, that it can't be tracked back at me.
With a sigh, I put the book back into my inventory and went back to enchanting. I still have to get to the next level, and I like the progress I'm making.
