Spending my retirement in a game

chapter 77

Eisen began to chuckle lowly before shrugging. "Basically, yes. I mean, how would you react if someone told you who you are supposed to be? And we don't have any definite proof for this anyway, so it would be silly if I got excited."

"That's true, haha." Denmir laughed and nodded while his heart was beating like he never felt before.

Eisen may be saying that there is no 'definite proof', but to Denmir, there was no other possibility. In his mind, it was absolute definite that Eisen was one of the five.

And such a thought, that the person that Denmir has looked up to for his whole life, the one that founded this town he grew up in and basically led the dwarven race toward what it is today, was now directly in front of him and even learned the blacksmithing skill from him, made Denmir feel no doubt about it.

But no matter how much he wanted to, Denmir couldn't just freak out about it now like Bree. After all, he was a grown man. And he didn't want to embarrass himself in front of his hero, obviously.

But now it was quite late, and everyone was starting to feel tired, even Bree who didn't usually need much sleep was rubbing her eyes and yawning loudly.

And as such, everyone decided to make their way back to their respective sleeping places now. They could continue this talk some other time if they wanted to, although there wasn't too much more to talk about with the extent of the knowledge that they had.

So, Eisen led his two automata back to the Inn with Caria on his shoulder and Bree following closely behind. The horse automaton's body was actually so large that it was hard for it to fit through the doors of the inn, but in the end it managed to do so without breaking anything.

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"Ah, good morning, Eisen!" Jyuuk exclaimed with a smile on his face, seeing that he could now talk to the old man for the first time in a few days now. It seemed like the Monkey Beastperson didn't have work that day, so he could be online as much as he wanted to.

He especially wanted to talk about that new creature, or rather structure, inside of their room! That huge golden horse standing in the corner! Since it seemed to act in a similar fashion to the wolf automaton that Eisen made, Jyuuk figured that this was also an automaton.

Eisen stood up from his bed and looked around the room, noticing that he and Jyuuk were alone, with Bree apparently having left already. "Good morning Jyuuk. This is actually a good chance. I need to tell you something."

With that, Eisen began to tell Jyuuk about all of the things that Denmir mentioned to him, about the sudden appearance of people all over the world, as well as the legends of the 'five that peaked'. Of course he was also interested in the backstory to describe the appearance of players in the world, but Jyuuk was thinking more about the part about him saying 'he could raise armies from the dead'. There was only one thing that he could think of with that.

"Erm, Eisen, do you maybe have any bones I could have?" He asked, and Eisen nodded with a frown.

"Hm? Yeah, I do. I still have the bones I used as a reference when building Aulu. Why do you ask?"

"I wanted to try something with them. Do you know about necromancy?" Jyuuk asked while Eisen was grabbing the wolf-bones out of the backpack that Bree left in their room. The old man stopped for a second to think, but then shook his head.

"I'm not sure I do. But necro means 'dead', right? So I'm guessing it's death-magic?"

"Exactly! It's what you just mentioned, the one that could control life and death so greatly has to be me, right? Then necromancy should definitely be a thing here as well!" Jyuuk said excitedly while placing the bones into a small pile on the ground, trying to think about what to do next.

Interested in what would happen now, Eisen squatted down next to him and watched as Jyuuk seemed to pour his mana out of his hands and into the bones.

For a while, nothing happened, but then the bones started shaking a little bit and shifted around. Jyuuk seemed to be concentrating strongly on what he was doing, so Eisen made an effort not to do anything that could disturb him, simply looking at the scene quietly.

After a few minutes, a completed wolf skeleton was standing in front of Eisen and Jyuuk, although Jyuuk currently seemed to have to constantly supply it with some mana to have it keep up its shape. But soon enough, Jyuuk's concentration slipped and the bones fell back onto the ground nearly immediately.

And the reason why his concentration slipped was quite simple, he got the notification that he learned the necromancy skill and was quite excited about it.

But Eisen couldn't help but ask. "And what can you do with that now? It won't be too useful in combat if you have to constantly supply it with mana, right? I could make something like a mana crystal harness that can supply it with some if you want."

Jyuuk looked at the bones for a few seconds, before shaking his head lightly. "No, thank you. I know that I won't be able to do anything with it now, but most skills are basically useless at rank 0, right? If I rank them up enough, I should be able to use them quite well. Besides that, these animated skeletons seem to be like... erm... what's the word... I just had it, err... Bunraku, you know?" Jyuuk asked somewhat embarrassed, scratching the back of his head lightly. He was quite impressive, though! Eisen only noticed that Jyuuk somewhat messed up in english two times! First, when he had trouble pronouncing 'Monkey' correctly during his self-introduction, and just now. Although forgetting a word in a foreign language can hardly be seen as 'messing up'.

Eisen chuckled and nodded. "I think I know what you mean. Puppets, right?"

Jyuuk's eyes lit up and he smiled, nodding happily. "Yes, that's the word! Puppets! Right! I should have known that though... Anyway, erm, they are like puppets. If you made something that supplied them with mana, I would have the body, but would still miss the strings to control it."

"Ah, I see. That makes sense, yeah. Well, tell me if you want me to make something for you, anyway. I'll be spending a while making a carriage now, so look for me at the woodworker's if you need me. That reminds me, what have you been doing the past few days?" Eisen asked Jyuuk, who happily placed his arms onto his hips. At moments like these, you could notice that the monkey beastperson has lost some of his initial awkwardness around Eisen, which honestly made him qutie happy to see.

Jyuuk smiled and told Eisen, "There's a dungeon around here! I spent the past few days trying to clear that! The first few levels aren't hard, but soon enough the monsters caught up with my level, and I managed to come close to level 100! I think I'll be there soon enough!"

"Wow, quite impressive! I wonder if there will be something interesting once you reach that level. Make sure to tell me if there is!" Eisen laughed and lightly pat Jyuuks back before telling his Automata to stand up, as well as waking Caria up who was sleeping on the large back of the Horse Automaton.

It was now time to start building that carriage.