Chapter: 424
It just occurred to Jay that there were impurities in the bones – he simply didn’t see it before since he was either in a dark labyrinth or an overcast sky.
The only solution Jay thought of to bring out more of these impurities was to add more ‘heat’, or in this case, more necrotic mana.
Jay happily indulged the process as he forced more mana into it, separating the particles of bone from one another.
Slowly the blob of viscous, sticky bones became more fluid-like while letting out a stronger glow.
Containing this water-like orb took more concentration from Jay, along with more of his mana.
Initially, Jay was only using about 0.1 mana per second, barely noticeable – now it was all the way up to 0.5 mana per second.
Thankfully, as the fluid bones swirled, less and less impurities were falling out.
After burning through 25 mana, Jay decided it was enough.
He began extracting his necrotic mana out of the bones, which served to slowly turn it solid again.
It was at this point in the process where Jay realised he should stockpile these pure bones before using them for crafting.
He didn’t just want a weird hard ball of bone, so before it solidified too much he formed it into a rectangular bar, similar to a blacksmith’s ingot.
Just like that, he had used half of his mana. It was a taxing process.
“Damn,” He rubbed his temples to soothe his mind while chewing on some bondtussle root.
[Mana Regen buff 1%] – lasts for 1 hour(s).
Slowly, a very light-grey ingot floated down before him.
Unlike other bones, there were no stains of red, yellow or black spots in them. The colour was uniform.
In Jay’s eyes, they were perfect – of course, a notification revealed it not to be.
[Ossein Ingot – 96% purity] x 1
“Damn. These are way too good to craft with…” he thought as he looked at the glossy sheen. They seemed to be quite high quality.
“I think I’ll hold onto these until I learn how to craft better.” he thought before storing it away.
It would be wasteful to give high quality materials to a novice crafter after all.
“Ok, now to craft some armour.” he looked at his skeleton once more before proceeding.
Jay repeated the process, sending his mana into bones to make a viscous blob before forming a hollow cylinder shape.
Next, he removed some mana to harden it slightly while forcing the material to form a thick trim around the edges for durability, as well as making a bar going through the centre.
The difference between this and a normal vambrace was that it had a bar going through the middle, which would slot between the skeletons’ arm bones (radius and ulna), ensuring they wouldn’t come off.