Spending my retirement in a game

chapter 54

Either way, first, Eisen wanted to try and change the flame back into its base-state, and then into the complete earth version.

Eisen imagined the fire in front of him to turn into that flame made of earth that he just saw a minute ago. And slowly, from the center of the flame at its hottest part, dirt slowly spread outward until the fire completely disappeared and turned into its pure elemental state.

After managing this, Eisen imagined the earthen-flame as pure dirt, and he could slowly see it change to become harder and lose its flow until it began forming a complete sphere of dirt.

Trying to check if it truly turned solid, Eisen poked the sphere and smiled when it didn't give in to his touch.

"Magnificent! This is truly amazing, I have to admit... Now, what's the next task in the book?" Eisen wondered, and flipped to the next page that explained the basics of forming attacks with the use of your element.

The first thing you were supposed to do was form your mana into the shape you wanted your attack to be in, and then infuse it with your element just like before. Then, you would manipulate the mana construct to do what you wanted with it.

"If that's the case, then can I also do something like this...?" Eisen muttered to himself and activated his Mana Double skill, as well as his mana copy skill to make sure it was actually clothed in case someone woke up, and then placed his palm on the Double's back. Eisen slowly pushed out part of his elemental essence again and into the double's form, then watched as it was slowly filled out with that earthen-flame.

"Interesting! So it does just work like that!" Eisen said with a slight grin and nodded in approval.

Next, Eisen tried the same thing as before and slowly changed the Double's body into pure flames, and then into its completely earthen state.

After fully getting a feel for this element, Eisen followed one of the examples in the book: A simple magic arrow as a beginner spell.

Eisen unsummoned his Mana Dobules and expelled some mana out of his hands, out of which he formed a simple stick with a pointed tip. It didn't need to be amazing, just something to test this out with relatively quickly.

He infused that mana arrow with the Flame of the Earth element and watched as it took on its, to Eisen, unnatural state. Slowly, Eisen opened the door slightly and with deep concentration shot the arrow up into the air.

[Magic Spell Learned] Flame of the Earth Arrow

[Add to spell library?]

"Oh? Hmm... Yes, add to spell library please." Eisen said with a smile and watched as the next notification popped up.

[Flame of the Earth Arrow added to spell library]

[Info] Spells can be cast by expelling enough mana out of your body to form a cluster and then saying the name of the spell. The mana base has to be of the spell's element

"I see, I see... So can I just do this?" He muttered to himself and pushed out more mana out of his palms, which he then infused with his element. "Flame of the Earth Arrow." Eisen said next and watched as the flame of the earth infused mana turned into the shape of the arrow he just created before.

It floated over Eisen's palm, and he could control it like he normally could without relying on the spell-shortcut.

And this all seemed great and absolutely amazing to Eisen in any and all ways, but still... Eisen wasn't a fighter at heart, and he never would be, so he really wanted to find uses of this element for so that he could do something with it while crafting, although right now he wasn't sure if there were any uses like that.

But on the other hand, there had to be, right? After all, it seemed like this was a special element that Eisen only got through his occupation as an Omni-craftsmaster.

So maybe the crafting uses for the 'Flame of the Earth' element would show themselves at later ranks? Since right now, Eisen absolutely couldn't see any uses for it in crafting, that had to be it, right?

Thus, Eisen chose to be patient and just try to rank the Flame of the Earth magic skill up until it showed its true worth to him.

For now, though, Eisen decided that it was time to change shifts with Jyuuk, and thus woke him up by calling out to him a few times.

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"Alright everyone, ready to go?" Eisen asked after cleaning up the cooking kit and preparing for the next day of combat.

"Yup~!" Bree said gleefully, while Jyuuk nodded as well.

"But first, Eisen. Can I talk to you in private for a second?" The Monkey-Man said and moved to the other side of the room, waving Eisen over while Bree tilted her head in confusion and then simply shrugged before starting to check she had everything they needed in her backpack again.

"Everything alright?" Eisen asked with a slightly worried frown, but Jyuuk nodded to calm him down.

"Yes, don't worry. Everything is mostly alright. But I just want to let you know that this in-game day is the last day before I need to get up for work. And I'm not sure if we will be able to get you to the level you need to be for that quest by today and get back to that town, Melroe, right?"

"Ah, that's right... I completely forgot about that." Eisen muttered to himself and closed his eyes while slowly scratching his beard in thought. "Thanks for reminding me, Jyuuk."

"No problem, but it's not about that. If I log off, I'll just be lying around here and be a target when I wake back up, not to speak of my beasts, of course, who might just be killed in their sleep. I know I can't be, because of that whole offline and sleep protection, but I'm still worried. If we don't make it back to Melroe before I have to go, could you just take me with you? I will log off on Yamikuma's back and have him carry me there. Otherwise, I would probably be completely lost and wouldn't be able to find my way there." Jyuuk explained, and Eisen nodded as he understood.

"Alright, I will do that, then. Don't worry. But I hope that I will be able to reach my goal by the end of the day as well. It might be tight, but with the strength of these Goblins and how much experience they gave up until now, it should be possible, even if just barely. And if not today, then by tomorrow morning." Eisen explained, and Jyuuk leaned slightly forward in a bow to show his gratitude.

"Thank you, Eisen." He said, and Eisen slapped him on the back with a soft laugh.

"No problem, kid. Now, let's get going, shall we?"