A little while before Eisen returned to the ship…
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The old man swiftly dropped into the water and could immediately hear hissing sounds as the water hit his hot skin, although that disappeared just as quickly as it came, because Eisen was soon completely submerged in the ocean. The mouth-piece that he enchanted with the air element especially to create Oxygen so that he would be able to properly breath underwater as long as he kept supplying it with his mana worked like a treat, and he soon found that his wings were also able to move quite well underwater, just as he hoped.
With a few flaps, Eisen was capale of swiftly propelling himself forward, and with his Truth-Seeing eyes, he was able to perfectly search for the area where the elemental mana was acting different to everywhere else, which soon brought him to the Monster that swallowed CF-1. And it was truly gigantic.
It even took a while to properly find the spot where Eisen was able to actually appraise the monster, but when he did, he simply kept staring forward.
[Abyss Whale][Rank – 4][Level – 28]
'Alright, then for now I need to bait it…' Eisen thought to himself, glad that the whale was so huge, before the old man decreased his size to the smallest that he could, which was to the size of about 80 centimeters. And using that size, Eisen was able to actually get quite nimble, although that still wasn't enough. While having his demonic form active, which was an ability on its own, Eisen infused his whole body with flames, even his wings and horns, and soon he began burning in hot golden flames.
And without a moment of hesitation, he was attacked by the 'Abyss Whale', which had started to attack Eisen after getting damaged by the light given off by his body. Luckily, the Whale didn't necessarily seem to be the smartest creature in the area, and opened its mouth a slight bit, giving Eisen the chance to slip through and look for CF-1.
Even more to Eisen's luck, the small Maroon-plated bot was stuck between the Whale's tongue and its teeth, directly weakening it due to the direct contact and the fact that the 'Abyss Whale' was a creature heavily influenced by magic.
And after grabbing the string, and trying to make sure that Eisen wasn't touching the Maroon directly, the old man pumped the heat on his body up as much as he could. It wasn't incredibly effective in combat, but even then, such heat would at the very least damage anything, especially considering that he was doing 'proxy' damage, but technically just heating up the water, which then in turn boiled and damaged the whale.
Not only that, but Eisen was also trying to damage the Whale in any way possible, while also trying to grab onto its flesh as it was moving around its tongue, attempting to get rid of the intruder. Taking the little time that he had, Eisen then simply attached the end of the string back to the two mana batteries.
It took a little while, but soon enough, the whale opened its mouth again and pushed out as much water as it could out of its mouth, and Eisen simply let his body go when this happened. The moment that he was outside, Eisen let go of CF-1 and had it swim further toward the mana source, while the old man himself kept trying to distract the Abyss Whale to let the Fish-Bot continue its business. And a few more minutes later, Eisen made it return to his hand and then held it by the string, before continuing to attack the whale.
Due to the hot boiling water, its skin was already getting burnt and was bubbling up, and it didn't take long until Eisen finished the creature off either.
[You are now Level 107]
[Swimming Skill Learned]
[Naval Hunter Title Unlocked]
And so, noticing that the Whale's body was slowly rising to the surface of the water, Eisen swiftly swam on top of it and then let it push him up. Soon, he was back at the surface and looked around, and when Eisen saw the ship, he jumped into its direction with all his force and then dove back under the water, using his wings to propel his body upward, which let him actually reach the railing of the ship just barely.
With his strength, it was then easy enough to pull himself up while deactivating his demonic transformations, before the old man stood in front of everyone with a smile as his body already began to dry off.
"Alright, now we just need to worry about the Light Elemental Mana." Eisen pointed out as he stretched and placed everything down onto the ground, turning back toward the pitch-black body of the Abyss Whale.
"We should also haul that huge body on here somehow, there's surely a good bit of meet or oils to get from it…" He explained, only now actually noticing that something was going on with everyone, before Brody began to laugh.
"Holy shit, you're as ridiculous as ever, you geezer!" Brody exclaimed, before looking over toward the giant corpse as well.
"Jyuuk, you have anything we can use?" The Demon-Orc asked with his constant grin on his face, before the Beastperson scratched the back of his neck. "Sure, I can try something out…" Jyuuk replied with a wry smile, before grabbing something out of his bag and pouring it out on his palm, revealing it to be a bunch of seeds. Nearly at the same time, Jyuuk summoned Aotori and gave her some of those seeds.
Slowly they began to grow a little and slung themselves around Jyuuk's arms, while Aotori began to fly in the direction of the Whale while Jyuuk continued making the long vines grow longer and longer, until Aotori managed to reach the corpse of the whale. And through the long vines, Jyuuk then let his mana flow to the very end, where he made the seeds that Aotori carried over burrow their roots into the dead body of the whale.
"Now I just need you guys to help me pull." Jyuuk explained with a wry smile on his face, his body already behind weighted down immensely by the already quite thick vines. But the others swiftly did as asked and helped the Monkey pull the Whale's body closer until it hit the side of the ship.
"And who's going to take the thing apart now? We can't just haul the whole thing up here, can we?" Brody asked as he crossed his arms, but Eisen swiftly began to smirk before releasing a loud whistling noise to make a bunch of certain golems come over. The tiny Golems that had been continuosly working on reparing the small damages to the ship over the past while. Eisen had created all 90 crafter golems already, as he had planned, but now, he swiftly had Aulu also come over with a bag of enchantment marbles in its mouth. He bought a huge, giant supply of them a while ago, so he had enough to 'waste' them like this.
One after another, Eisen removed the 'Woodworking' ability enchantment and replaced it with the 'Dismembering' ability, before swiftly sending the golems down to the whale, instructing them in what ways to bring up which parts.
"At this point, we just need people to properly package everything. The fridge we made for the ship should be big enough to hold a large amount of everything." Eisen pointed out, before swiftly commanding the small Four-Armed Cyclops golems to listen to commands from the others that were currently around.
"For now… I think I should help with the whole Light-Elemental mana gathering item…" The old man explained as he moved his fingers through his beard, but Xenia, Stahl and Komer stopped the old man.
"That's fine, we'll work on it ourselves… You probably want to get to work with the items for everyone, right?" They told him, and Eisen slowly nodded his head with a deep sigh.
"Yeah, actually. We're getting really close to the islands, and I would like to start everything there as soon as possible." He explained, "So thanks, I appreciate it. If you need any help, don't hesitate to tell me, though." Eisen told them with a smile, before turning around, wanting to make his way down to the Workshop although he was stopped by Evalia, who seemed to have two small items ready for him.
"Heeere you go! My part in these is done!" The young woman exclaimed with a smile, before Eisen nodded at her and took a look at the two small tunnels for his ears as well.
"These are really amazing! Thank you! And take your time with the others!" Eisen told her, and then really made his way back to his workshop with his monsters in tow and CF-1 in his hand.
Back in the actual Workspace, Eisen then swiftly created a bench with his element and sat down on it in front of a table, which was also created with his element.
"What is Eisen doing with the rings?" Caria asked as she tilted her head to the side curiously, before Eisen simply smiled at her. "I'm just finishing them up, and then I'm putting them into my ear in place of the mana crystal ones." The old man explained, before grabbing the gems that he had prepared for this, which were the Flame of the Earth-infused gems.
"Alright… My crafting-space skill lets me store one tool from each crafting skill inside an accessory… And these are Blacksmithing and Tailoring… So the best would be the combined flame of the earth gem for Blacksmithing, and the flame attuned flame of the earth gem for Tailoring…" The old man muttered to himself, before enchanting those gems like he had just said and then slowly grabbed his Exacto knife with one of the blades he enchanted with transmutation, and then swiftly cut the gems up into the right shape and size for the different sockets.
"And now, I just need to set them inside of there…" Eisen said to himself, before just so slightly transmuting the metal around the gem to keep those tiny jewels properly in place. The tunnel for Blacksmithing was designed to, in a way, look like a forge with the steel being the brick and the gems the burning coal placed around the inside of the tunnel.
The one for Tailoring rather looked weirdly a lot like cloth texture-wise, and the gems that Eisen was setting into place were acting as the 'String' keeping different pieces together in an intricate way.
And when he was done, the old man smiled at both of the tunnels with a smile.
"Done."
[Blacksmith's Earring]
[Quality – Perfect][Rank – 3]
[Description] A Ring-Shaped Earring created by the Omni-Craftsmaster Eisen and the Heavenly Artist Evalia. In itself, the earring is supposed to represent the Forge a Blacksmith works with, and a peculiar gem has been added to heighten the representation further.
[Effect] +5% Benefit to Blacksmithing; +15 STR; +20 END; +15 AGI
[Requirements] Blacksmithing Rank 2; 70 STR; 80 END; 70 AGI
[Artistic Value] 389
[Stored Tool] None
[Tailor's Earring]
[Quality – Perfect][Rank – 3]
[Description] A Ring-Shaped Earring created by the Omni-Craftsmaster Eisen and the Heavenly Artist Evalia. In itself, the earring is supposed to represent the Cloth a Tailor works with, and a peculiar gem has been added to heighten the representation further.
[Base Effect] +5% Benefit to Tailoring; +25 AGI; +25 END;
[Requirements] Tailoring Rank 2; 90 AGI; 90 END
[Artistic Value] 390
[Stored Tool] None
With a grin on his face, Eisen nodded his head and then grabbed the two tools that he wanted to store inside of the earrings. One, his Large Hammer, because it was much more of a hassle to carry around. And then, a simple needle, because it was good to just have one around in emergencies to fix clothes up if necessary.
Swiftly, Eisen then took the mythril earrings out of his ears and placed the Blacksmith's Earring into his right ear and the Tailor's Earring into his left ear, before finally picking up Sal again, because there was one reason why he wanted to make these Tunnels first.
Slowly, Eisen brought him up to the tunnels and then smirked. Because of his truly tiny size, this was actually possible now! "Come on little buddy, take a seat." The old man told the tiny albino spider which then carefully climbed onto the gems on the inside of the Blacksmith's Earring, happily just sitting there.