Aetherios System: Whirlwind

Chapter 58: The Talk

It took longer than Alex would like to bring his body to a condition where he could begin cultivating and training again. At least, without adding the potential of breaking his body even further. The level of strain and internal damage that stacking his many skills and spells brought upon him was worrisome, even with his meridian imprints.

He was rather impressed that he hadn’t just torn his organs to shreds and gotten himself killed far before this point, given he seemed to have the capability of doing just that. Though ruminating on the dangers and worrying about such possibilities wasn’t going to get him actively prepared for diving back into the dungeon.

So he decided to start focusing on things he could do instead, the first of which was his basic cultivation with the six-fold condensing spiral technique, using both his bodygates. As he did this, Alex took the time to work with Obby on finally finishing his siphon plate, having gotten the last ingredients and materials he needed to polish its construction.

The main thing was the [Vital Spirit] ink he needed to finalize the glyph patterns for the plate. It was a concoction he had to create himself, along with some help from Allie and Henry, of course. [Alchemy] was his lesser skill, but with his friends, and an evil river rock at his disposal, the process took only a day to prepare the ingredients and craft the mixture.

Then there was the [Etherium] to complete its physical construction, which he had already gotten from the Dungeon Shop. It only took a small portion of the full ingot to complete his project, yet he ended up trading half the ingot’s volume to Doran just to secure his expertise. He might have also gotten the dwarf to agree to teaching Garret and Lance how to work the High Adept Tier metal, but he doubted the dwarf would decline as he seemed more than pleased to have the metal itself.

“Ai, I’ll teach da lads, an’ have this done for ye,” he had said, before rushing off to his little forge. Alex had the plate back in his hands the next day as promised, along with a third of the remaining ingot. It was a fair trade. But before Alex accepted the rest of the ingot from him, he pushed it back into the dwarf’s hand.

“Actually, there’s something else I want you to make with the rest of this," he said.

The dwarf simply gave him a crooked toothed grin…

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Now with so much time at his disposal and the siphon complete, it was time for him to start being crazy one again. He looked down at the completed item in his hands. Obby even helpfully pulled up a screen analyzing its system data for him.