Chapter 117: Beneath the statue(3)
Cades had been playing with the idea for quite some time as he had traversed the endless chain, especially so after his run-in with that golem that had actually taken a bit out of him despite his clearly much greater power in terms of practically everything, at least if he had been able to use both arms for his sword like normal, then his swings would've surely been able to slice through his opponent as if he had been warm fruit, or something akin to that.
And after a short time where he had been saddened by the loss of his arm, a time that still persisted, just driven into the background by his own self-preservation and his will to survive as he had been using the warp-step constantly, pulling his speed ahead and turning each step into five as far as he was concerned, something that did however take quite a bit of concentration while he was walking, another reason for this side-thought.
The thought of making himself a prosthesis, a new arm, something with which he could regain some of his full power, and he believed that he might be able to do it after he slaid that eximimus queen and used it's carcass and bodily part, especially the mana arteries to make himself a new arm.
He had been thinking about it, be it only in the back of his mind, and indeed he was interested, thinking about some ideas with which he could achieve that effect, but right now ideas were flowing towards his brain, appearing in his mind out of nowhere, flooding him with creativity and ideas as a wide, bright smile began appearing on his face, a smile brighter than most he had ever had since ehetria had fallen, which hadn't really been that many.
A tangible plan to build an arm, a relatively functionable one, was now within his mind, or at least the roughest schematics were already inside while he started to walk a few round around the beautiful statue of the old man, the grass still licking his bare feet and tickling him, something he didn't even notice right now.
The most important part of the arm would probably been the connective issue of the mana arteries, so the first problem he really had to think about was how to solve that glaring issue, the issue of not being able to control the arm even if he were to build it right now, and much better than he had planned until now, so, he first had to figure out how to solve it.
As Cades thought about it he looked at where his left arm should've been and slowly put his finger atop the scarred tissue, which he soon felt to be quite hard and probably durable, but also still as having a flow of mana underneath, something that he was already aware of but still wanted to make sure of as he knew how important this could be.