Chapter 118 - 118: Peers
As Rory suddenly found himself housing another person, some growing pains popped up, to say the least, growing pains that he'd never had to deal with in Ehkorrus.
"You're really going to lock yourself inside all day?"
"Yes, now leave me alone."
"But it's a beautiful day, we could look for unknown areas?"
"First off, it's a smoke and haze-filled day like every other day, and second, all the interesting areas are guarded by high-tier seven monsters, which we are not equipped for."
"But if we work together-"
"We'll be eaten together, yes, sounds like a wonderful plan."
On and on, day after day, there was some variation of the same conversation. The people of Ehkorrus had all looked up to Rory as some pinnacle figure, a peerless leader that was rarely questioned, an icon of enigma.
His fellow founder? Not so much. She viewed him not as some grand figure, but just another guy.
It was nice in some ways; it had been a long time since anyone had been so flippant with him. Even Apostolos still viewed him through the lens of a younger brother admiring their older brother.
In other ways, it was infuriating as she never.
Stopped.
Annoying.
Him.
Or maybe she's just that sort of person?
Either way, Rory's patience was continuously tested.
As for what he was spending his time working on? Ironically, it was gear for his fellow founder, the same fellow founder who was continuously distracting him from working on it. Forging promethium was always a bit of a pain in the ass. Furthermore, if True Folding stabilized steel was tough, then promethium was damn close to impossible.
Close, but not literally impossible.
If he could forge a sword in a day, and when he added True Folding into the mix, it became a week, provided he was being efficient with his time.
And when you had another founder jabbering your ear off? Not quite so efficient.
Even with the woman damn near harassing him with her incessant conversations, eventually Rory completed the task he had set out to do, forging a complete, matching set of +1 promethium armor.
| Fire-Souled Promethium Hauberk +1 Grade: Rare Akashic Record: Flame-Souled A hauberk forged from extra dense +1 promethium. Heavy as it is, only those with high levels of strength or a similar degree of ascension bonuses may wield such armor. Akashic Record effect: Utilizing latent, background energies saturated with fiery concepts enables a slow rate of automatic repair. When fully repaired, excess energy instead builds a small amount of stable energy overcharge.
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