Brand New Life Online: Rise Of The Goddess Of Harvest

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The Great Spirit appeared out of nowhere, scaring everyone.

"Why did you show up out of the blue?!" I asked. "You almost gave me a heart attack!"

"Yeah…" Mark sighed.

"She's the Great Spirit woman, that one spirit that's always with you, right?" Ambil asked. "What did you mean with what you just said? Were you the one that allowed them to obtain Magic Circles? Usually the technique itself is kept a secret by most aristocratic families, and is never divulged…"

"Well DUH, I am a Great Spirit, man! Of course I know that stuff! It comes ingrained in my head." Said the Great Spirit. "You've got the talent and mana quantity for it, so let me help you get a Magic Circle. You've helped my girl here and his lad for a while now, so that's a good reward, right?"

"Your girl?"

"Her lad…?"

"Hahaha! I'm just saying~ Maybe my way of speaking is changing now…" The Great Spirit wondered.

"You shouldn't have let her use your phone all the time." Mark sighed.

"Yeah, now that I realize, she downloaded TikTok and since she started using it that she has begun talking a lot like a youngster… Not even my daughter talks like her though." I laughed a bit.

"Oi! There's nothing wrong to how I talk!" The Great Spirit said angrily. "Ugh, so, gramps, you want it or not?"

"…What's Tiktok?" Ambil wondered. "Ah, well… Sure, I guess! It's not like I'll ever get this chance ever again, okay, whatever."

"Nice, sit down and relax. We gotta get some compatible materials though. Planta, you got something for metal and fire?" She asked.

"Are dragon materials good enough?" I wondered.

"They sure are! Handle them to me."

Swiftly, she made a magic circle using Fire Spirit Stone dust and put Ambil in the middle. With the materials given, the ritual was a success, swift and precise, Ambil groaned in a bit of pain as a magic circle was embedded into his heart.

"Ouch! This hurt more than I thought!" He complained. "Are you sure I am not going to get heart problems in the future?"

"Nah…" The Great Spirit shrugged. "With this, you should've obtained a Tier 1 Magic Circle, of Metal and Fire Runes mostly. Try casting magic now."

"Hmm…" Ambil looked at his own hands, sparks of flames surged without any magic circle, forming three fireballs. "Ooh? No magic circle either! What about metal magic?"

He quickly concentrated, focusing into his Mana, and then, a blade materialized. Wait, is this how metal magic works? That seems a bit overpowered. I thought it was about controlling metals, but just creating them out of thin air?!

"Good, this works well enough." He nodded, the metal piece then turned into sand and disappeared. "Metal Magic is hard to grasp at this level, but with all my experience handling metals, it comes out surprisingly easily."

"Good for you!" I smiled. "Are you ready for tomorrow?"

"Yes, I've been preparing for tomorrow, it's the big competition and all… Going to be harsh for sure." He sighed. "I'm honestly nervous, I won't be just fighting against those lame brothers, there's some Master Craftsmen coming from neighboring Kingdoms, the prize is big after all."

"But the magic you got right now will help you tremendously. Now you can manipulate fire, something you couldn't do before!" I cheered him up. "And I bet there's only going to be lame guys coming anyways. You're a Legendary Blacksmith now, Ambil! Also I'll be your assistant."

"You're going to be my assistant? Hmm, now I am not sure if I'll ever win…" He sighed.

"Eh?! You have no faith in me?!" I cried.

"Hahaha! I was joking, despite your many Skills, you're still vastly unexperienced, Planta. I recognize your amazing talent and skills, but you need years of experience to compare with the true experts and masters out there. I am just being brutally honest with you." Ambil said. "However, as an assistant, you will be pretty useful, I have to admit it."

"I'll do my best to not disappoint you, Ambil!" I said, feeling pumped up. "Oh right, today we're going to the Magician's Tower."

"Yeah, I know." He nodded. "Here, I already prepared these for you."

Suddenly, he gave us six rings he had prepared in advance.

"These are the things you commissioned me, I'll do it for free after you've helped me so much, so call it in the house." He smiled. "These are Magic Rings of the highest quality. They got "slots" for two more effects. You said you were going to make some sort of item to camouflage you, right? This'll be perfect as long as you can find the magician to imbue them with the spell."

"Amazing!" I said. "Thank you so much, Ambil!"

"Yeah, thanks a lot." Mark nodded. "I thought you were good enough to add that effect though."

"Haha! I would need something like the soul or magic core of a mimic for that, but I don't have any of such materials. You got a mimic pet but to get the proper material you would have to ask the girl to kill herself, I doubt you'll do that." He said.

"C-Certainly not… So it seems that equipment can only obtain abilities or effects based on the materials used, I get it." I nodded. "My Cultivation Bracelet is kind of an exception, right?"

"Not that much you still used a lot of very amazing items, connecting them into an ability for Ki Manipulation is amazing, but that only shows how well you can weave magical effects together." He explained. "Now, take these, who exactly is going to enchant them though?"

"Ah, well, I guess we can tell you, yeah." I nodded.

"Can we?" Mark asked.

"Yeah, I trust him." I said, smiling. "It's the Queen."

"The Queen… Huh?! What?!" Ambil asked. "What do you mean the Queen has magic for camouflage?!"

"She does! She's actually really amazing and stronger than most people think… She's also a Player we all know." I smiled. "She is capable of transforming her appearance and shape, and even edit her own system status to appear different than what it actually is."

"T-That's… Quite the revelation." Muttered Ambil.

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