96 Breakthroughs
What can gemstones receive?
Charles had pondered for a long time, from the pseudoscience of atoms and molecules in his first memories to the power of magic and enchantment...... However, everything that is obscure is not as intuitive as the phenomenon that is happening in front of you.
It's light.
It's the light!
Charles knocked on the door of his head, a little helpless that his mind hadn't turned around.
Then he began to deal with it.
It is troubling to have an inanimate hard, dead object actively engage with an element, but the second stage problem that follows from this is not a problem.
For Charles, who has the spell of light taught by Galadriel and the trick that makes the impossible possible, it is easy to achieve something that seems unthinkable, such as turning the will into light, or channeling the light with the will......
He kept chanting the incantation in his heart, and at the same time, he used his innate ability to change the incantation slightly......
A young elf dressed in a white robe sat at a stone table in the courtyard, holding a transparent diamond in both hands, his eyes closed, motionless.
It was quiet at first, but after a while, a special light flashed on his body from time to time, inconspicuous in the sunlight, but continuous.
The light lights up and goes out, and when it goes out, it ignites again, and so on.
Patches of clouds slowly passed overhead, obscuring and exposing the sun again and again.
Gradually, the cold wind that quietly blew accelerated the flow of the clouds, and also moved some of the darker ones.
The snow-white and sparkling flowers fell as a result.
At first, it was just one or two pieces, and the color was pure and flawless. Like a swan soaring through the sky, it has dropped its scattered feathers.
Gradually, however, the feathers became more and more numerous and denser. Drifting and descending, covering Charles's shoulders more and more tightly.
So in this case, the diamond in his palm, which was slightly dim under the dark clouds, suddenly bloomed with a brilliant light!
This light is refracted by the texture of the diamond's surface, dazzling and brilliant!
The light went out suddenly after lasting more than ten seconds.
But Charles, who had been closing his eyes tightly, opened his eyes at this moment, and then he looked with anticipation, and saw that inside the originally crystal clear diamond, a strange rune with complex patterns was quietly spinning at this time!
This rune was like an illusory projection, swirling and flickering like water, slowly releasing a trace of silky mist towards the surroundings, the color was light and thin, but it continued to emanate from the rune's body.
It emitted slowly, not in a hurry, even slower than a snail crawling, but it didn't affect the diamond's altered appearance.
As the fog spreads, the inside of the originally transparent and crystalline diamond is more and more hazy, as if it is surrounded by a cloud of smoke.
The smoke is thick and thick, but it fades away, like many holes in a diamond.
At the same time, the half-void, half-solid rune in the center became more and more dim as it was rotated and released.
Eventually, when the sky was dark and the drifting light snow slowly stopped, the diamond, which had been rendered like a cloud structure, had now returned to its original appearance.
"My lord, it's dinner time, and Her Royal Highness the princess is calling you." Charles' musings were interrupted by a voice beside him, and he looked up to see that it was his cousin Ixir, a maid named Mereth.
Although the royal family of Gondolin is scarce, some of the guards and attendants are still very sufficient, so the residence here and the large space of the king's palace do not seem deserted.
It was getting late, so Charles nodded before she put away the normal-looking diamond and followed.
Dinner was still the same, and nothing special was discussed.
After hastily eating, he ran to his room again to continue the experiment, without participating in the discussion and discussion of the first snow of the winter among the elves close to him.
Although it was a little more difficult for him to cast the spell of light because of the darkness, it didn't hinder it too much.
Repeat the previous process, and the results will be the same.
Looking at the slowly passing wisps of mist, Charles was thoughtful.
So he tossed the delicate diamond aside and found an unpolished semi-finished product to continue his experiment.
Brewing, the light blooming and extinguishing, the core of the diamond flickered like an illusory rune, swirling and emitting clouds outward......
Charles began to pick up various tools and began to polish.
As time passed, the clouds and mist gradually reached the edge of the diamond's interior, but with the friction of the outside world, there seemed to be a kind of resistance coming from the outside, so that the unhurried mist rippled and shifted its direction and surged back inward.
At first, this was only one side, but when Charles observed how they worked, he changed some of his old habits and began to shift the grinding surface according to the arrival of the mist.
As a result, the fog that dissipated became less and less, and the reverberation continued endlessly, and finally the whole diamond was dyed into a milky white gem!
After the runes at the core dissipated, the unique gem was finally polished under Charles' deliberately controlled rhythm.
Happily, after he stopped working, the very abundant cloud showed no signs of dissipating, but remained inside the diamond, gradually solidifying.
Just observing the solidification process, Charles's brows continued to wrinkle, and finally sighed helplessly.
Will, Light, Secret Text...... The unique elements formed by the mixture of various forces were finally attached to the interior, but judging from the gray appearance of the cloud and mist, it was clear that the "enchantment" had failed.
But then, Charles cheered himself up.
"Maybe it's the same as a broken sword at forging? The secret text I planted in it doesn't match the diamond? ”
He felt that this guess was highly likely, so he moved to continue. However, the dull pain in his head at this time made him have to give up.
Casting the elven spell was already quite a drain on him, and the fact that no one else was using mind tricks out of thin air on the side exacerbated this consumption.
The addition of the two, coupled with the fact that this method has been initially studied and is not yet familiar, is due to some excessive force......
Charles found himself seemingly "running out of energy".
Looking sideways at the sky, the snow was falling again, the sky was overcast, and it was dark outside the window.
The hourglass in the corner of the workbench told him that it was ten midnight.
Polishing gemstones is a time-consuming task, and Charles is not surprised to see this.
After thinking about it, he thought that since such an important breakthrough had been made, there was no need to rush it.
So he got up and got ready to go to bed.
However, before Charles could take a few steps, a crisp eagle chirp suddenly sounded from outside.
The sound made Charles stunned for a moment, and then he hurried out the door, where he saw a large black eagle covered in snow shaking off the snow in the corridor at the edge of the courtyard.
And inside its long, sharp and narrow mouth, there is a sword in its mouth!
"What is this?" Charles frowned, feeling that the sword was a little familiar.