The Voice On The Rival's Head

Chapter 14: Upgrading and Cooling

In a room in a child-sheltering facility sat a girl, this red-hot haired girl holding a knife in her small hand, slowly carving a shape into the wood she was holding.

This boy was Verite, he was a young Thaumaturgist who was making a new arm for a construct he had, with his heart he combined the construct's little finger finger into a functioning hand.

After combining the engraved pieces of wood into hands he put them on the arms of his construct, with a click of the hand it was connected to the arms of the construct, making it perfect again.

he wiped his forehead.

"Finally done." He said while breathing out, making a hand construct with a working finger is a complicated thing.

'Let's Try.' Verite said inside his head, relaying his message to Mefras.

'alright.' Mefras replied, Verite began to say the formula, where the fire she was pouring into the construct along with Mefras consciousness, slowly the wooden brown-colored Construct Doll turned red, burning red, color Verite color element.

The eyes of the construct shone, the transfer of consciousness succeeded, he saw his new hand, his finger moved with the click of a clack, he closed and opened it, testing his ability to move.

"How's it?" Verite asked.

Mefras moved his new finger into a thumbs up, the new hand perfectly thought, Verite smiled seeing the results appreciated.

Mefras moves, picks up Verite's pencil located on the table he then tests his new hand's fine control abilities, with which he easily draws a tree, a chair and the face of Abraham Lincoln.

'This is too good!' He thought, he recalled the difficulty of learning to draw in his previous life, this ability made him ask for what all the difficulties he had experienced over the years of learning to draw.

Before he could ram further Caena came to greet them.

"Woah Verite, this picture is really good." Caena said, take the paper that Mefras used to draw. "You drew this using Mefras?" She asked.

"Yes." Yeah." Answer Verite. "I want to test the new hand I made for Mefras."

"You're great yeah, you've been able to create a new tool in a week whereas I've just awakened my Mana Pathway" Caena said, after they had made the body of the mefras as Helian had promised, she lent Caena her book and Caena began to learn the science of Thaumaturgy.

Mefras shook his head at Caena's words, he had a lopsided standard because he used Verite as the standard, compared to other Thaumaturgist users Caena was already talented because she could awaken her Pathway within a week, there were people who waited up to a year before being able to awaken their Pathway.

Verite just smiled, she received Caena's praise.

"So after this you'll make him talk?" Caena asked, pointing at Mefras.

"I plan on doing that later, but since I don't have the tools to do it now so I'll focus my concentration on trying to make the coolers." Verite spoke of his plan.

Mefras already knew Verite was planning to make a refrigerator, he didn't know how Verite did it but he definitely wanted to see it.

"Cooling?" Ask Caena.

"Yes, I want to make a small version of the ice room that the nobles use." The ice room is the closest thing the world has to a refrigerator, of course the ice room is much larger than a regular refrigerator, they were used to guard the food that the nobles used to feed their private armies.

surely the space was using stones where the high quality Verite could not possibly reach with the money he had.

So he had to do it in a more creative way, he had to reverse engineer a refrigerator function with the loose concept that Mefras gave him.

"Are you free today Caena?" Verite asked.

"I'm free today, why?" Caena asked.

"You want to help me do this?" Ask Verite to her roommate.

"Yes why not." Caena raised her shoulders.

Verite got up from her chair. "Then let's go shopping!"

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"Why are you here, I don't need any employees today." Miss Gloom threw out her breath, a thick 'cigarette' smoke spewed out from her mouth.

"It's a Thaumaturgy shop, I don't sell candy, if you want to sell giant lizard meat." Tell Miss Gloom before she realizes what's in Verite's hands.

Verite brought the Mefras construct with her, she carried it like someone was carrying a doll, by carrying it like she would not invite attention.

"It looks like you managed to make that Thaumaturgy doll huh, you've even appealed to her with mana." Miss Gloom's eyes were tied to the red construct that Verite was carrying.

Verite did not expect that she would be able to figure it out with just a single look, she thought Miss Gloom would only recognize the construct doll she had made instead that she had already appealed to her with mana.

"Miss Gloo"

"Whatever you do is none of my business." Tell Miss Gloom to smoke her cigarette. "Please, what do you want to buy?" She asked.

Verite was relieved that Miss Gloom didn't ask anymore, it seemed like she didn't care what Verite would do with the item she bought, either, it was not like he was going to do anything dangerous.

Because Miss Gloom already knew Verite took down Mefras who was walking to pick up the stuff that Verite needed, Verite also began to look for items that would be useful for his research while Caena only saw the goods on display in the store.

"You know Verite, even if I'm used to working here enough, I don't know what's good for this stuff." Say Caena, pointing to the snake skin hanging on the shelf. "Like this, I know this is snake skin, but I don't know what it's for."

"It's Jor's snake skin, the skin it's got a property of storing fire where it's widely used it keeps the clothes warm in winter." Unexpectedly Miss Gloom was the one who answered Caena's question.

"Oh what is this for?" Caena asked again, showing the bone collection that was on the table.

"That is the bone of my workers who ask too many questions." Answer Miss Gloom.

"Oh." Caena hid behind Verite.

Verite looked at the bone, he took out a small bone and put his fire mana into it, he could feel its mana being sucked voraciously by it and he felt the bone soften, he felt it soften, being an elastic item like a rubber, it seemed like contact with mana made this bone softer and after Verite stopped giving it where this bone again became hard.

"I'll buy this." Verite said, put the item in the cashier with the other stuff he bought.

"You don't lie when you say you're shopping huh." Say Miss Gloom, you think they'll just look at it or buy a little something for a childish project like the Thaumaturgy doll she made.

Speaking of the Thaumaturgy doll Miss Gloom realized something was going on with her, while Verite saw the Construct item move and pick up and select the item without any input from its user.

Usually the construct user would not be able to move if they used their construct, it made Miss Gloom a little curious but not curious enough to ask.

"Alright, this is the total amount you have to pay." Miss Gloom gave the total that Verite had to pay.

"Wow, the price is high." Say Caena.

"Thaumaturgy is not an easy field to live in." Answer Miss Gloom.

"Yes, if you want to pursue this field be prepared to burn money like I did." A voice joined their conversation.

A well-groomed person with clothes that showed his nobility walked into the store, his dark red hair striking in a different way to Verite's.

"Duke, Bloome" Miss Gloom called out the person's name, she saw it like she saw an uninvited guest. "What do you need?" She asked.

"Oh as usual, this is a list of items I want you to prepare, as usual I'm waiting for him next week." Said Duke Bloome, presenting him with a pouch containing many gold coins.

"You and your excessive requests." Miss Gloom shook her head.

"So you can't do it?" Duke Bloome Asks.

Miss Gloome gave him a sharp look and took his money. "Next week." Said it.

"Transaction is successful." Duke Bloome smiled, he then looked at Verite and Caena. "Are you two shopping here, too?" Duke Bloome asked. "It looks like you also managed to make the Thaumaturgy Construct huh." He looked at Mefras who was standing still without moving at all.

"So what are you going to do now?" Duke Bloome asked.