Chapter 88
Apparition
The new thread was completed without any major problems. The only minor problems were that the spider was unexpectedly large, so I had a hard time stirring the mucus that would become the source of the thread, and I had to mix it with my blood, which caused me to become mildly anemic.
As one might expect, processing of this size was too much for me to do alone. If my master had not helped me, the quality of the thread would have been uneven.
But it was worth it because the finished thread was 100 meters long, and even though the previously 1.5-millimeter thread had become as thin as 1 millimeter, it was strong enough that I had trouble cutting it with me black knife even while enchanting it with magic power.
With this, it should be impossible to cut the threads with a blade, unless one was as powerful as Master.
I put the new threads through the four new pendulums to see how easy they were to use, and found that they worked well with the Manipulation skill that had been upgraded to Level 4, allowing me to change direction at will about 60% of the time.
The old threads that remained–
“Give me that thread over here.”
“What are you going to use it for?”
Two days before I was to leave, she asked me to give her about 20 meters of thread, which she mixed with regular thread to make a shawl short enough to wrap around my neck, and handed it to me on the morning I was to leave.
I thought if I wrapped this around my neck, it would protect me from a small throwing knife. I really wonder if one day I would be able to repay the favor she had done for me…
“Go on then, Aria, my unsociable apprentice, I’m not saying don’t be reckless, but don’t push yourself too hard. You just have to live your life as you are.”