51 Chapter 51. Three days later
Three days have passed since I made that commission. In that time I finally managed to enchant one cursed book, which was a good feeling as was a bad one.
Good because this means that I can actually do it, and I'm not that dumb.
Bad, because it's going to be used on someone, with bad intentions.
But that wasn't the reason that I'm happy today, even though the Prince started to grumble less since I succeeded in the enchantment.
No, the reason I'm so excited is because the order should be ready. So after the Prince left to do his actual job, I went straight to the crafting workshop.
In there Fletcher was quietly sitting at a desk while reading a book.
"I'm guessing you come for your order. It was an interesting challenge to work so many details on a surface so small, but I think the job is well done."
He then lifted a box beside him that I didn't even see, and put it on the the desk.
Inside I could see small wooden tablets with a letter on top of each other, there were a lot of them.
The whole enchanting language had 20 characters, and I requested 30 of each letter so that in the box there were 600 small wooden tablets. That was actually a lot once I put it in perspective.
And he managed to do that in just 3 days? This guy must be a machine with how much he worked.
I took a letter from the pile and looked closely at it.
Once again I was taken by surprise, the details of the lines were closer to what I wrote on the paper than what I made chipped on the wood.
Not only that, but everything was flat which means the letters will have the right thickness without me having to fill anything after the print.
"Thank you, this is beyond what I expected, It's perfect for what I need."
I took another two golden apples from my inventory and placed them on the table.
The Villager was taken by surprise by the sudden tip but took the apples without saying anything.
"I'm glad it's to your liking, I hope it's a fun puzzle."
He said with a smile.
A puzzle? I guess you could see it like that if you don't know the true purpose of it. It's also a good cover story.
"Oh, I almost forgot the wooden plank. Here it is, unfortunately I couldn't do an even surface with only one piece so I had to cut it in half. Hope it won't ruin it too much."
From his inventory, he took out two planks of wood that put together had the space of a page where the letters would be placed.
"It's ok, thank you again. Can I take the box with me?"
Since there were over 600 pieces of wood in the box I couldn't fit them in my inventory, especially since the system won't recognize them as an item made by him, which won't stack.
The villager nodded in affirmation, so I put the two planks on top of the pile and went back to the enchanting room, where the guard by the door looked weird at me but didn't say anything.
Inside the lantern Illuminated room, I put the box on top of the desk where I flipped it, letting everything fall all over it.
"Let's see if this will actually work. And funnily enough, it's actually going to be a puzzle with how I piece the letters."
I flipped all the pieces with the curving up and took out a piece of paper with the enchantment.
Everything was written correctly, but the font was harder to replicate, which is why I hoped this one would work.
After 10 minutes of work, one page was ready.
"Now time to see if it would print."
I put red ink all over the letters, then took out a blank paper and carefully placed it on top of it, trying not to accidentally smudge anything.
I then took out an iron pressure plate from my inventory, placed it over the paper, and pressed hard.
Quickly after that, I took it off and carefully peeled the page.
"It actually works! This might actually help me with enchantments, I only need to make 4 more pages."
The rest of the pages took about an hour to finish.
Between the rearranging and cleaning of the latter, it took more time than I expected. But less time if I've actually written it by myself.
With 5 pages in my hand, I take out an empty book and place them at the beginning, then I feed the enchanting table some lapis and throw the book while holding my breath.
Then slowly, the book started to float, followed by being surrounded by a holographic letter and becoming a cursed book.
"It worked! It actually worked, I'm a genius!"
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SKILLS
_Crafting lvl 4
33.200/100.000
_Enchanting lvl 5
30.130/1.000.000
_Brewing lvl 2
110/1.000
_Trading lvl 4
9.500/100.000
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"And I got the experience as well. Time to use this cheat system until there are no more lapis."
For the rest of the day, I kept enchanting books like there was no tomorrow, I could only do around 20 books an hour before I had to use the Grindstone since there were no more empty books left for me to use.
Six hours later I enchanted 120 cursed books and then erased the progress through the Grindstone. I didn't want the prince to find out about this method of enchanting, no reason to give him more power.
With all that work done, I decided to finish everything for today.
So I went to the kitchen to get some food and search for Froggy to see what's he doing.
To my surprise, he was actually in his room relaxing on the bed.
"Did a teacher get sick, or how are you finished so early for today?"
Froggy didn't seem surprised by my sudden arrival, he only glanced at me with one eye before getting back into his comfortable position.
"Hello to you as well Trader. Finally got a brake from lessons with the Prince?"
"Yep, I managed to do a proper enchantment this time, I think he'll go more easy on me now that we have some success."
"I still can't figure out why he would need your help to do an enchanted book, he's a master at that skill."
"Unfortunately I can't tell you much, but the reason he tells me it's something about the mark left on the book. But with all enchanted items I haven't seen a mark that I can call my own."
And the Prince didn't want to go into too much detail about finding the mark either.
"Anyway, how are you finished so early?"
"Well since the party is getting closer and closer everyone is very busy, and nobody wants to waste time on me that much. And the best part about this is that I don't even do the morning exercises, so that means I can sleep however much I want."
But isn't the head guard a strict person when it comes to consistency?
"Did something happen with the head guard?"
"Not really, I think he's actually the busiest person of them all since he has to break open the people from the factory."
"And he does that out in the open like that?"
"I mean, only we know what he's actually working towards, the others think that he's preparing for the party as well."
That was an interesting perspective to know.
But this could help me with spying perhaps since everyone would be too busy preparing the rooms, they wouldn't notice a few valuable things disappearing.
With a sly smile, I let the day pass while I talked with Froggy.
It was a very productive day.
POV: Enderwoman
Another day has passed without me finding my human.
Since one of the useless ones came into the world, he suddenly disappeared while I was looking away.
That frustrated me more since he was the one most likely to find my human.
While exploring the surrounding area and asking the other Endermens if they had seen a frame made from unmovable blocks, I found nothing.
I gave up and decided to get back into the hot dimensions to look for more clues at the skeleton fortress.
As I teleported back to the portal, I found that one of the residents of the other dimension was looking for a friend of my human.
That's a good lead to where I will go next.
They took the horses to move faster, but it was nothing in comparison to the teleportation of my people.
I can't believe we were once the same as them.
The following days were pretty boring, with the exception of one night when I had to intervene because of a stupid creeper.
Finally, once we arrived at a city full of people, they stopped being in a rush. Fortunately, they didn't go inside, since it would be hard for me to hide with all those people on the streets.
Instead, they went into one of the biggest structures that I've seen built by humans, it was even bigger than the skeleton fortress in the hot dimension.
Even though it was full of people, I could still be stealthy in here by teleporting onto the roof, which was never checked.
I looked through some windows and finally found the friend of my human.
I only needed to follow him, until he found a lead to my human, I feel it in my ender pearl, he's alive and somewhere in this world.
But I don't have a network of information like those humans do, so I'll have to use them to get what I want.
That night I got the answer that I expected. My human was alive but captive in the desert.
How dare they take what's mine!
I should move that desert block by block if they've done something to him.
They don't know what we were once capable of, but no. Father told us to forget the old life and embrace the new one.
I decided to wait.
I didn't know the place where my human was held captive, and the desert was a vast biome with not a lot of my people to ask for directions.
Unfortunately, that would be in a few weeks, but I can be patient, once an enderman finds his block only time can separate them.
A few weeks went by and finally a party with blue armored people guardian it left the big structure.
They had a light glow from time to time over their armor which meant the they're annoying armored just became more hateful.
I never like those people, they tend to exaggerate too much at my pranks.
But I didn't have to fight them, I only needed to follow them from the shadows.
While we were still in the forest I could easily keep up with them, but once we got to the desert, I had to keep my distance from them since my dark skin was easy to spot on the empty dunes of sand.
After a few days in the hot sun, we finally arrived at the biggest city I've seen in this dry desert.
My ender pearl started to beat loudly, I could feel him, I could feel his presence in the biggest building in the center of the city.
I didn't even bother to wait for the group to arrive. I teleported from roof to roof until one wall blocked my way, but it bearly stopped me from getting where I wanted.
A few people saw me and started to shout in panic, but I ignored them.
The building started to get taller and more colorful, but I didn't stay too much to admire them, until again I was blocked by a different wall, I tried to teleport past it like the other one, but for some reason, it didn't work.
This made me suspicious, the only thing that could stop my teleporting was the void or the unmovable block.
And this wall didn't look like either of them.
I wanted to take out some blocks to see what was blocking me but I had to stop.
The sound of the horn was crying loudly in the sky.
Looks like my reckless teleportation got some unwanted attention.
But there's no need to worry, they won't catch me.
And soon, I'll get my human back, and no amount of army could stop me.
