Chapter 43: Final Preparations

With the experience from making ‘Frostmourne’, crafting Azure Wrath was much smoother for Zheng Yichen afterward.

Even though it still took nearly two days, the number of explosions decreased significantly.

In a sense, to create these Magic Arms relying only on Mana as the cost, Zheng Yichen simply thought that Mana was just too amazing!

The Frost enchantment from Ice Magic and the basic Mana gathering aside, what truly consumed a large amount of Zheng Yichen’s time was the most important spell, Holy Sanctuary.

This spell did not have simplified versions like beginner or intermediate ones; it was directly a complete spell.

Moreover, it was a Magic controlled by The Church, which ordinary people could not master!

This highlighted the importance of this Magical Grimoire, as it recorded some non-circulated spells, and its richness in content was imaginable.

The main effect of this Magic was to disperse and suppress evil creatures within a certain range.

Under the suppression, they would continuously suffer Light Element-restraining damage caused by the Light Element.

Then there was Purification, which was purely a Magic that countered evil forces.

The last one was Weapon Blessing…

This time, Zheng Yichen got smarter.

He worked while moving around from place to place, and casually observed those neighbors who were hiding who-knows-where.

Sure enough, the explosions caused by making Magic Arms successfully caught their attention.

These people, one by one, investigated the places where he was making the Magic Arms.

If their reaction when first seeing them was anticipation, afterward their reactions turned to confusion and rejection.

Tch, these people could be dealt with later.

After all, they could not find the location of the Castle.

There were still things to do for now.

Returning to the Castle, Zheng Yichen prepared to proceed with the follow-up arrangements.

“Are you going to give this kind of Magic Arms to her?” Inside the Castle, Loris looked at the newly-made Magic Arms by Zheng Yichen and asked.

Because this weapon did not have the Soul-binding enhancement like ‘Frostmourne’, its potential in the future would be slightly weaker than that Magic Arms.

But in terms of effects, it was already a very good Magic Arms, which would be welcomed by the knights of the Sanctuary Church.

“Of course not.” Zheng Yichen shook his head and replied.

The unique characteristics of the Magic Arms he made were enough to attract much attention.

Directly giving it to Petty would simply be harming an ignorant girl.

Having a treasure without the power to protect it was a crime—once the special effects of the Magic Arms were exposed, it would be when she got into trouble.

So, to let her use Magic Arms while avoiding others’ envy, he had to think of a better method.

“I plan to combine it with Summoning Magic.”

“……” Loris gave a deep look at Zheng Yichen at his words.

Call it wishful thinking or say he already had it figured out… one had to admit that his current idea did indeed have the suspicion of stirring up trouble.

This method had never appeared in this world before.

After all, weapons were lifeless objects and could not form so-called Contracts with Summoners or be inscribed with Summoning Marks.

Furthermore, there were no permanent Magic Arms like the ones Zheng Yichen created before in this world.

As for truly permanent magic weapons, they were made from physical materials.

“Go on.” She did not question where Zheng Yichen got such confidence from, but asked for the reason.

After all, many things about him could not be viewed normally.

“A Summoning Mark is something attached to one’s mind. Magic Arms also contain my Mental Energy, so I plan to carve the Summoning Mark into it.”

The reason Zheng Yichen said this was because he discovered that the Summoning Mark existing in his Mind Sea almost brought no load to his Mind Sea at all.

It was more like a pattern drawn on paper.

And the Magic Rune Arrays inscribed within were like water droplets on it.

Dropping one could only soak a small area, but drop too much, and the entire paper would become completely wet, unable to hold more droplets.

The function of a Summoning Mark was merely a medium connecting to Summoning Magic.

The actual summoning effect still relied on the Summoning Magic used by the Summoner.

So, having the Summoning Mark imprinted on the Magic Arms was highly likely to be feasible.

Zheng Yichen had already applied several layers of Magic on it, so a considerable amount of Mental Energy was indirectly left on it.

He had checked, and the Mental Energy within the Magic Arms was sealed very well.

As long as the Magical Structure of the Magic Arms did not collapse, this part of Mental Energy, released along with the Magic, would not dissipate.

This provided the basis for being able to imprint Summoning Marks on the Magic Arms!

“Magic Arms will not agree to Contracts.” Even if Magic Arms contained Zheng Yichen’s Mental Energy, they were still lifeless objects.

“But I will agree.” Zheng Yichen shrugged and picked up the most basic Magic Arms nearby.

“We just need to copy the Summoning Mark repeatedly into the Magic Arms, right?”

He dared to say that because in the past few days of making Magic Arms, he discovered that the Summoning Mark in his Mind Sea could be easily moved around by him, even moved out.

As long as it was attached to his Mental Energy, it would be fine.

Without the attachment of Mental Energy, the Summoning Mark was equivalent to air.

With it, it became a ‘solid entity,’ like objects in his own house that he could place or even choose to discard at will!

Even if discarded, it would only mean a small loss of Mental Energy—the kind that would recover after a short rest.

So Zheng Yichen didn’t care about that loss.

Loris’ eyebrow rose slightly. There was such an operation?

“Don’t move.” She reached out and touched Zheng Yichen’s forehead.

Gray spiritual light glowed.

Zheng Yichen suddenly felt his whole body as if scanned by an X-ray, and he squirmed a bit uncomfortably… which earned him a glare from the pseudo-Loli.

After inspecting Zheng Yichen, Loris understood.

The Equal Contract he had made with Petty earlier had already ‘deteriorated’ on him, likely influenced by his own ‘Talent.’

The so-called Contract still fully worked on Petty, but on Zheng Yichen, it became a completely ‘verbal’ agreement.

If he wanted to abide by it, he would; if he wanted to break it, it was just a matter of saying it.

“Otherworldly Soul…”

“Huh? Why bring that up again?” Zheng Yichen heard Loris’ low whisper and couldn’t help but ask.

“Nothing. Your Soul is special and can ignore many things, even Contract restrictions, but be careful not to abuse this convenience.” Loris warned Zheng Yichen.

This was indeed a convenience, but overusing it would definitely cause problems.

Just like being undocumented—if you were undocumented, that was fine, but if you kept loudly proclaiming you were undocumented, wasn’t that just asking for trouble?

“How so?”

Loris explained the matter of the Contract to Zheng Yichen.

Zheng Yichen clicked his tongue upon hearing and scratched his chin with his finger.

So, in the future, he didn’t need to worry about being tricked by Contracts.

Even if tricked, he could just choose not to comply…

“Tsk tsk, being undocumented means not bound by contracts. That’s great! As long as I don’t actively violate the Contract, it doesn’t count as abuse, right?”

Loris nodded.

Zheng Yichen’s mind was already mature; she was only telling him what to pay attention to, and what to do next was still up to him.

“Huh~ Cultivating a protagonist—something grandpas do—I’m starting to do it now.” Zheng Yichen rubbed his hands and immediately began the final preparations.

For example, the conditions for signing Contracts. He couldn’t have the people signing Contracts with Magic Arms go looking for the Magic Arms one by one, right?

He eventually decided to create something like a ‘Summoning Book.’

As for the process of signing Contracts, Zheng Yichen also had it figured out.

He would carve the Magic Rune Array of Projection Spell on the Summoning Book, a stable-form Magic Rune Array, similar to Magic embedded in some Magic Artifacts.

It could be used by injecting Mana or without, repeatedly, specifically for remote operation.

Of course, such Magic Rune Arrays would not enhance the power potential of the Magic they released.

The strength and power could be ignored; the main purpose was to use the Projection Spell to build a communication channel with Summoners.

Therefore, the most basic-level Projection Spell was enough.

Afterward, they could directly use Summoning Magic to summon Projections of the Magic Arms!

Yes, just Projections.

Zheng Yichen currently did not plan to let summoned creatures summon complete Magic Arms, because once destroyed, they were truly gone.

With Projections, even if destroyed, it didn’t matter much, at most the Summoner would just lose their Mana.

This had to be prepared in advance when signing the Contract.