Chapter 336: Something else
Achievement: [Core Skills] has been earned.
[Core Skills] – Awarded for forging 2 cores in one day. Quite the go-getter, aren’t you? Effects: One skill in your next Skill Selection has been upgraded. This achievement will be consumed upon choosing your next skill.
Arwin stared at the golden words humming in the air before him. He wasn’t so sure his eyes were processing the information before them. It took everything he had just to keep his eyes open.
For the last few hours, he’d thrown every scrap of strength and determination he had left into completing the armor for Olive and the members of Phoenix Circle. There hadn’t been time for him to dally longer, and he’d known exactly what he wanted to make.
Making three sets of armor in the time he had should have been impossible to do in a single day. It was a monumental task. One that he never even would have considered a few weeks ago, much less when he’d just started scripting.
But things had changed since then — and he’d taken a few slight creative liberties in the project. The faintest of grins pulled at his lips. That alone should have been an impressive feat. Smiling took a surprising amount of energy when there was nothing left to spare.
He suspected that Olive, Reya, Elias, and Maeve would be able to vouch for that come morning. The four of them all laid on the ground of the smithy around him, fast asleep.
Reya was spread out like a starfish and Olive’s head rested against her shoulder. Her wooden arm occasionally twitched and her lips fluttered as she muttered something in her sleep, but the other girl was passed out cold and didn’t notice.
Elias and Maeve’s backs were braced against other for support in a position that was somewhere between lying down and slumped over each other. Everyone was completely spent. Arwin had dragged every scrap of energy that he could wrest free of them.