The Voice On The Rival's Head

Chapter 8: The Construct

Today is the day that Verite will get which Stone Miss Bloom promised, after three days of work and fighting the flood of buyers he was finally able to get all the materials of the Thaumaturgy construct and take out Mefras from his head.

'I know I'm an uninvited guest but you're really happy with the prospect of kicking me out.' Mefras Chimping.

Verite noticed that Mefras could hear his thoughts more and more than before, even so Verite was not too angry with it because Verite had nothing to hide but he and Mefras had a sense of worry about what would happen to Verite's mind if this continued so they want to quickly create such constructs.

As usual Verite reported to Mr. Jardi and then went with Helian to Bloom and Gloom, doing his job of guarding the cashier and serving the buyer and finally receiving the promised Mana stone, what's a bit different now is that Helian doesn't look like she's just running a marathon after she finishes her job.

After returning home they parted ways and Verite started checking the items she needed, which she needed, after finding out he had everything he needed he moved to Blooming Bud's backyard and began practicing his sculpting and wood-carving skills.

First Verite started sculpting ordinary wood to test his basic woodworking skills, after half an hour of shrinking a log that Verite could only formless wood, the Verite shavings turned a block of wood into an item without appearance.

"Ohhhhh..." Verite let out his frustration.

'Quiet Verite.' Overwrite Mefras. 'You've just learned, there's no way you can instantly sculpt a human-shaped wooden puppet.'

"Yes you are right, but after studying Thaumathurgy smoothly I became impatient...' Verite said he knew that pursuing a skill took a lot of time to gain but this did not take away the feeling of stumbling after the leisurely run he had experienced.

'I know what it's like to stumble, it's uncomfortable.' Say Mefras.

'Oh yes.' Verite recalled the way Mefras died, unlucky not to be able to cause how severe the accident was.

"Why are you Verite?" Asked someone from behind Verite, A curly green haired girl met his face.

Caena, Verite's roommate greeted her, her face looking curious.

"I learned to make wooden dolls, but I don't know how to shape them." Clearly Verite, showed a formless wood in his hand.

Caena nodded. "Oh, I heard Mr. Jardi is good at sculpting, why don't you just ask him?"

"I'll ask him later if I still can't do it." if possible Verite doesn't want to ask Jardi sir because he will definitely ask about the construct that Verite will use.

"Hey, what are you doing?" another voice that Verite recognized joined their conversation, the owner of this voice was Helian.

"Helianis? Tumben you started talking first." Caena.

"Haha Yes." Helian just laughed awkwardly. "So what are you guys doing?" He asked.

"Verite tried to make a wooden doll but she didn't know how." Obviously Caena.

"Ah you want to make Thaumaturgy the Construct that you talked about with Miss Bloom before?" Ask Helian.

"Thaumaturgy Construct?" Ask Caena.

"Yes, thaumaturgy Construct, more or less it is a doll made by magic, I want to make it but I want to learn by making ordinary wooden dolls first." Answer Verite.

"If you want me to be able to help you, I can carve the shape of the base with wood. I can show you how." Bargain Helian.

'How's Mefras?'

'Thank you, there is no harm, the important thing is to ask him to use ordinary wood first, not to be confused with which wood you.' Mefras Sweat.

"Alright, please show me how." Verite asked for help.

"Yes of course." Helian took his knife and began to show Verite how to sculpt.

"That looks interesting, can I join you?" Caena asked, she seemed to want to try making her own carvings.

"Have it done, but you have to use your own materials and tools?" Say Verite.

"Sure, wait, I'll take my stuff." Canea ran to get her stuff.

'I almost forgot, but this place doesn't have a stove huh.' Mefras said, he only realized that after Verite and Caena had taken the firewood, they were still cooking using the furnace and the fire.

'Yes because the Mana Stone used for the stove is more difficult than the one used for the lamp, so only upper middle class people who have a fire stove and who I hear which stove often malfunction and quickly run out Mananya.' Verite.

"Are you ready for Verite? Caena?" Helian asked, he held a small round piece of wood in his hand.

"Yes, show me." Answer Verite.

"Yes I'm ready." Say Caena.

"Well, starting with a smooth shavings, you can't immediately do a large cut because it will make it difficult for you to improve the shape of your carving if your piece is wrong or you want to make changes.

Helian began to carve the wood in her hand, the wood shavings falling onto the ground of her fellow blade movements, not long after the small wooden beam she had in her hand turned into the shape of a star, which was the shape of a star,

"This is how it became." Helian showed the result "If you want to form a more complex carving you have to mark your material before engraving but I suggest you start from the simpler things first and after you get used to you you can move to the harder part like a human-shaped doll."

"Good good, now I want to try!" Caena moved and started her own artwork, she seemed excited to do this.

Compared to Verite who without sound has started making his sculptures.

Not long after they finished their carvings, Caena made wood carvings in the shape of a crescent moon and Verite made them in the shape of the sun.

"You guys have a knack for this, it took me a lot longer to make a basic shape." Say Helian.

"Yes I understand now." Say Verite. "Thank you for your help."

"Yes, thanks for the experience, I might try again.." Overwrite Caena.

"You want to make Verite's doll now?" Ask Helian.

"Yes, I think I'm pretty sure I can do this." Verite replied, he thinks he can jump straight to make the construct, after knowing the basics he realized that this was almost the same as the side job he did and if he failed he could buy the Mana wood again, it was not too expensive compared to other materials.

"Then how do you let me help? a construct is a more complex thing than a basic form. We can split it half." Bargain helian.

"Hmmm...." Verite stopped to think.

'How's Mefras?'

'Why not? Accept it if you want, the sooner the better.'

"Oh oh this is group work? Let me help too!" Caena is in on the conversation.

"All right." Verite agrees, the sooner the better.

"so we're going to divide the part that we're going to chisel, Verite you can describe it for us? And don't forget to write the size." Say Helian.

"All right." Verite started drawing the parts that Helian and Caena would make, which was good for them Verite had good drawing and painting skills, he won't make a mona lisa or anything but he can convey what he wants through his image.

Verite gave the scheme he made to Helin and Caena, they saw what was listed in the scheme.

"I made his left and right hands huh, interesting design." Say Helian.

"It's an interesting foot shape." Say Caena. "I'm curious about the look of this doll."

"You can see it when it's over." Verite smiled, he couldn't wait to see the results of their work.

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