Chapter 578: The box of wonders
“Alright, I’m going in,” Sofia told Bookie and Pareth, “Make sure that the midenicite slab is slotted correctly and bury it all well.”
“You can trust Engineer skeleton!” Bookie proudly answered, “and we won’t let anyone come close!”
“I’m in safe hands then. See you in a bit,” Sofia finished, jumping into the mithril box at the bottom of the pit.
She pulled on the interior handle to close the mithril box and sat down in the center. She had to change for a cubic box rather than the initial plan for a coffin-like box, not only because it would be more comfortable, but also because the final step of using the ring of Zar for mana reforging was to be replaced by a much more involved process which required some space to move around. Buying enough mithril to make the box to the required specifics was something else, she couldn’t afford it even with her reserves unless she started to sell some precious things she owned, but she had managed, taking a no interest loan from Richard’s Red-Carpet as a VIP client.
Sofia looked through Pareth’s eyes, watching the Engineer slowly lowering a large and thick midenicite slab on top of the mithril box, which was already itself sitting in a larger midenicite box, which was more than halfway buried inside of red sand. The slab finished to seal the midenicite box, and Sofia completely lost the connection, her vision snapping back to the interior of her box.
The soul link is still intact but mithril and midenicite together is too much for the mana to pass through… The red sand might not even be needed at this point even if it’s to prevent outside interference.
The skeletons got to work quickly filling the entire pit with the remaining red sand, and finally, Sofia’s levelling cube was ready.
Sofia took off her clothes and stored everything in her eye. She had left most of her things outside in Pareth’s care, now the only thing she was still wearing was her black glove, and she had the admin dagger along with a small handwritten booklet on her lap. She shivered as her bare skin touched the mithril.
“Why is this stuff so cold?” she complained, changing her sitting position so that less skin touched the metal.