Supreme Magus novel Chapter 634

"What the heck are you rambling about? Do you think that if something like that had happened to them, I would be wasting my time on social calls? I would be hunting Manohar’s ass down while one of my men seeks your help.

"I’m calling you because of an outrageous rumor I heard a few hours before. Some of my Forgemaster colleagues in the expedition say that you claim to have crafted an Orichalcum Skinwalker armor.

"At first, I paid it no heed, but when I called my Little Flower to hear about her mission, she confirmed it. Is it really true? I need to hear it from your voice." Orion said.

Lith furrowed his brows while looking at Phloria, who just shrugged.

"The cat was already out of the bag. There was no point in denying it." She said, hurting Orion’s feelings. The idea that one of his daughters could keep secrets from him was terrible.

Yet Phloria had never shared with anyone Lith’s secrets just as Friya never talked about Protector’s ability to shapeshift into a human.

"Yes, it’s true." Lith injected a bit of his mana into the Skinwalker, making it turn into a quicksilver-like liquid that covered him from head to toes and made him resemble a humanoid metal golem.

"Amazing! That’s supposed to be impossible. The Thunderbird’s feather and the Orichalcum release wild energy whenever they interact, making the spell unstable. I tried countless times with as many variations but I never succeeded.

"How the heck did you do it?" Orion asked.

"There’s no such thing as a wild energy release." Lith wasn’t going to give away his secret, but if he wanted to obtain something decent to replace his lost weapon, he had to drive a hard bargain.

The first step was baiting the prey with an honest, but useless information.

"It’s just that the Orichalcum amplifies the feather’s energy field, so if you had planned to handle a spell with 100 units of power, you actually get one with 130, which is more than your spell is devised can harness."

"It makes sense." Orion pondered. "Orichalcum has the property to amplify energy based enchantments. It’s the reason Orichalcum is considered so precious since its hardness is just above Damascus steel levels.

"Still, I handled tons of Orichalcum, yet only a few crafting techniques always fail, like it happens for the Skinwalker. How do you explain that?"

"Because the interaction between ingredients is very strong and it significantly varies with the amount of adamant in the Orichalcum." Lith replied.

Only a true mage like him could comfortably wait for the pseudo core to stabilize before fusing it with an enchanted item. Fake mages used spells that would barely last twenty seconds and they had no way to assess how great the amplifying effect was.

They could adjust the energy output with a tier five spell, but without Life Vision or Invigoration, it would still be like a blind man trying to kill a bird with a single arrow.

"Would you like to share your method? I’ve struck a bottleneck in crafting armors because to upgrade my products I would need to use Orichalcum or Adamant, but the little bastards always mess with my spells." Orion’s request was the closest thing to a taboo between mages.

Sharing spells was something that could be done only on a voluntary basis, and usually no one would reveal one of their trump cards.