Spending my retirement in a game

chapter 64

At least to Eisen, it was the latter. And when it came to enchanting it wasn't necessarily about what was inside the carved image, but about the feelings and thoughts connected to it.

So, when Eisen finished the Mana Crystal Brain, he moved on to the means of sensory perception. Meaning Eyes, Ears, Nose, and Tongue. Touch was apparently already something that Golem's could experience to an extent, so Eisen didn't need to give it to the Automaton anymore.

Since the eyes were the only part that may require a complicated shape, as despite being only a sphere from the outside, it was much more complicated than you may think. So, Eisen also used mana copy to form an eye of mana and shaped a mana crystal to look like it, with every single part being as closely reproduced as possible.

And now, Eisen would use ability enchanting to give it sight. He grabbed one of the marbles and infused it with what it was like to see all kinds of things. Different colors, people, and views that were beyond beautiful. When he was done, not much changed in what the marble looked like, but Eisen knew that it was successful and he was able to put that physical ability onto it, before quickly transfering it to the mana crystal eye.

The small sphere in Eisen's hand turned completely white, similar to what a real eye was like. After repeating this for the other eye, Eisen moved on to the nose.

For this, he simply split off a small part off of a mana crytal and turned it into a rough crescent shape, which he then enchantent with the ability to smell. But, since a wolf was supposed to be able to smell far better than a person, he needed to do something else as well. Eisen took his smallest needle and carved an additional enchantment onto the small crescent that was supposed to amplify what the mana crystal could do. It wouldn't be able to change much about it's strength, but apparently would still make it possible to enhance it about one and a half times with Eisen's current abilities. It wasn't possible to do this kind of thing with most other enchantments, but luckily, this kind of thing was exactly what it was meant for.

Next, Eisen created two small funnels out of parts of a mana crystal, and enchanted both of them with the ability to hear through ability enchantment, after which he also slightly enhanced them with the same enchantment that he used for the nose-piece.

Now Eisen would make the tongue, meaning that he needed to create the muscles to the Automaton. And he already prepared a tool to make what he needed. He looked into the crate and grabbed the spinning wheel that he bought at Morrom's place that would allow him to create magic strings.

What Eisen would need to do for the tongue was relatively simple. In general, all mana crystals would be turned slightly softer so they could somewhat move, but then would be so tightly packed that they could turn basically completely solid in an instant. The normal mana-crystal muscles would be enchanting in a way that would allow them to stretch and retract a little bit, while the tongue would be enchanted in a way that would allow the Automaton to taste things.

So, Eisen grabbed a mana crystal and simply used softening on it a slight bit and then grabbed an enchanting marble, before enchanting the crystal through it. Once that was done, Eisen infused his mana into the crystal and pushed it into the opening of the spinning wheel, leading to it releasing thin thread that was immediately rolled up.

Eisen grabbed the end of the slightly flexible and stretchable string and began to pack it together as tightly together, cutting the string up and attaching the ends at the tip of the soon-to-be tongue.

It took a while, but soon enough, Eisen held a mana-crystal tongue in his hands. To finish it off, Eisen smoothed the outermost layer off, so that nothing could get stuck in the strings somehow. And now, it was time to give the Automaton these mana crystal body-parts.

First, Eisen opened up a hole big enough to fit the brain through into the skull and placed it inside, following which Eisen poured some water, that he just so slightly thickened up with hardening, into it to fill out leftover spaces and to make sure that it wouldn't be able to just move around in there constantly, somewhat holding it in place.

After that, Eisen closed the hole in the top of the skull up again, and put the eyes into the two eye sockets, the nose-crescent into the nose, and the ear-funnels into the ears, before at last placing the tongue into the lower jaw, connecting each of the mana-crystal sensory organs to the brass by using transmutation.

Eisen smiled to himself thinking about the progress he made so far and grabbed the mountain of Mana Crystals out of the crate.

"I guess this will take a while..." The old man chuckled, and got to work turning the mana crystals into strings, so that he could use them as the Automaton's muscles.

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It was early afternoon of the next morning, and Eisen managed fully cover the whole automaton's body in muscles made of translucent mana crystal strings, nearly completing the Automaton's construction.

This took Eisen the rest of the last day, and nearly half of the next day, as Eisen had to connect every single strand on its own individually and make sure they were in the right position and composition to each other. Luckily, all that work counted toward Tailoring, which made some sense considering that Eisen was basically sowing the mana crystal thread onto the Automaton's body.

But now, it was time to cover the muscles up and give the wolf some skin! For this, Eisen wouldn't be using the hide he actually got from the wolf, but instead leather coming from a rank 2 beast. The leather he would be using came from an earth-type monster, which would work great in synergy with the Automaton that was completely made up of metal and crystal structures. The leather was thin, durable and flexible, as well as light in color, directly reminding of simple exposed skin, although with differences you could instantly notice. But since this leather wouldn't be seen in the end anyway, that didn't really matter.

Eisen grabbed the sheets of the leather and brought it over to one of the worktables, also bringing the hide of the wolf there as well, since he could use it as a reference for how much leather he would need for each area of the wolf's body.

Eisen grabbed his exacto knife and assembled it, before cutting the leather into the right sizes and shapes. Just by cutting the leather, Eisen knew that this would be a great material to use, since it was quite hard to cut even though it was exactly of the rank that Eisen was supposed to be able to work with, simply showing its natural strength and resilience.

After Eisen finished cutting the leather up, he laid the part meant for the body over the wolf's back. He then took one of his sewing needles and put the waxed thread meant to sew leather together through the hole at its end.

It was now time to give the Automaton skin.