Spending My Retirement In A Game

Eisen stepped up to his workbench and looked at the materials laid out before him. Sitting at the table in the corner of the room was Ambriel, the angel who Eisen had imprisoned. They were initially the guide angel that had led him throughout the heavens during his visit there, but toward the end, he had fought again them. After the defeat, Ambriel was banished from heaven.

Instead of just leaving them to roam around the world without anything restraining them, Eisen decided to take responsibility for them. However, due to their aggressive and uncooperative nature, they had been temporarily imprisoned.

Of course, this was not only for the protection of others from Ambriel, but also a way to protect the angel themself. Due to their former position, they certainly had access to a lot of information that Eisen and the other originals currently didn't. From Samuel's position, leaving someone like that with them would be completely ridiculous.

To ensure that they were going to be safe in the long run, Ambriel was placed into jail. Not only was it within the royal castle, meaning that both Serio and Girland had the ability to sense the happenings within the jail without any sort of restrictions.

And just from it being a space that was meant to be hard to escape from, by nature of being a jail in a world like this, it was just as hard to break in and get to Ambriel.

And now that Eisen was here and could ensure their safety more thoroughly, especially after seeing that they reflected quite a bit already, he decided to let them leave jail and live more freely. However, that didn't mean that it was fine to just let them completely be.

Their whole identity was formerly connected to directly servicing the gods; now that this wasn't possible anymore, feeling a sort of helpless emptiness was quite natural. Eisen felt similarly when he started losing the ability to use his body properly on earth.

And instead of letting Ambriel just sink into that emotion, Eisen was going to try and feed their curiosities. It was part of why they had been placed to love with Satel of all people. Someone like them, who was quite honest about their interests and goals, would be a good influence on Ambriel in this sense.

And when they came here to the workshop, asking if they could stay and watch with some sense of genuine curiosity, Eisen had no reason to deny that.

It was unlikely that they would take an interest in craftsmanship to the extent of wanting to become a craftsman themself, but there was no reason for Eisen to close that door. Ambriel was like a child at this point, hoping to find even the slightest hints at something that they wanted to do.

The old man grabbed the wood that was laying on the table. It was a small, fist-sized block that was leftover from the samples that Eisen had looked over the past couple of days, and he liked this wood quite particularly. It had a feeling of familiarity to it that actually made some memories well up in his head, a memory of his younger days in this world.

The place he grew up was surrounded by this exact type of tree, so most of his earliest wood-related projects were made of this as well. And so, while he waited on all the materials needed for Khan's home to arrive, as they should in just another few days, he was going to try and make a small item for himself and his brother.

It seemed as though Silber was interested in travel, and Eisen certainly wasn't planning on stopping him from doing so. However, considering the situation, Eisen didn't feel safe letting his weakened, younger brother just run around with a target on his back.

Of course, Eisen knew that Silber could handle basically everything that came his way at the end of the day, but it was better to be safe than sorry. Not to mention, the two had basically no way of contacting each other; Silber didn't naturally have access to the message function of the system. So, Eisen was going to build something to allow him to do so anyway.

And making it out of the same wood that they grew up around, and that some of Silber's first items were made of, as Eisen made them all himself, was going to be a fun little addition to that.

Bai quickly turned into a knife in the old man's hand as he pushed it into the tough wood that was being cut through like foam. The pieces of wood fell onto the workbench, more and more taking on the shape that Eisen was intending for it.

Since Silber's ability to affect his size was far superior to that of other giants, Eisen had to either make an item and imbue it with as much size-changing power as he could, or he had to make an item where it didn't matter what size Silber was. Both of those were easier said than done.

Allowing it to change size so rapidly was possible by imbuing it with Silber's own ability, but even then there were limits of what regular items could take. If he wasn't careful, there was a threat of an object becoming so weak at Silber's largest scale that just a slight touch could make it crumble away.

However, an item that was easy to use at a small scale would be impossible to keep track off at Silber's largest size. So, Eisen figured he had to go for a bit of a combination of both.

The communication-item itself was going to act as the items' centerpiece, and then there would be a shell around it that would expand along with Silber. What Eisen was making right now was the centerpiece, as the shell was still being infused with a certain elemental magic.

Due to the small size of this part, it didn't take long until the base shape was done; just a small seed that had just begun to sprout. Silber was a giant close to nature, so it felt like a good choice. Of course, currently the seed was still just a little smaller than a fist.

This part would also slightly change its size to the point where it didn't affect the structural integrity, just to make the shell not have to work quite as hard.

Quickly, Eisen used a needle to start engraving the wooden seed's surface with a complex enchantment. Since what he was accessing with ability-enchanting was a very raw version of an ability, he had to be extremely specific, especially in the case of the messaging-ability that Eisen was infusing into this item.

Luckily he had already planned it all out, getting Tony's help to figure out all the processes and functions that he needed to add to this item for it to function properly long-term. It was a complex pattern that required some programming-like logic in this particular case.

Once Eisen was done with the outside of the seed, he had also started shaping its inside into a three-dimensional enchantment by transmuting the seed's inner form. Before long, this part was done. He put some wood-finish onto this piece and let it dry before moving onto the next part.

But in the meantime, he got the other piece of wood that was just about done being infused with a peculiar magic that was centered around the stretching and shaping of physical things. It would make whatever infused with it extremely malleable, allowing you to change even a gemstone's form just by pushing your finger onto it.

But before long, it would return to its original form like it had never happened. Not to mention, it didn't affect the durability of the material whatsoever! That being the case, it was the best material for what Eisen was planning right now.

He grabbed the rubber-like wood and started cutting it into a large ring that could fit the wooden seed into its center. Just to test it out, Eisen pushed his hand into the ring, and then his second hand. Before long, as though he was playing with some massive rubber band, he was pushing one side of the ring onto the ground, while pressing the other into the air.

And then, Eisen stepped off it, and before long, it returned back into its exact regular ring-form.

With this, it was extremely easy to enchant the ring into something that would return to its original form instantly when prompted, staying stretched out otherwise. And by combining it with a giant's size-change ability, it was going to be the perfect thing to hold the seed in its place, whether the whole thing was enlarged or shrunken down, which was going to be the case later.

He was working with it as this size to increase the upper direction, but it was as small as it could be to allow it to still shrink down to a size usable for Silber. Once shrunken down, the whole thing was going to be a small tunnel-earring placed into Silber's ear, with the wooden seed held up securely in its center.

This way, he would never lose the item, and he could activate it just by touchig his hand to his ear, allowing him and Eisen to communicate with each other no matter where they were. With Tony's help, Eisen not only recreated the regular message-windows that allowed for typing, but Silber and Eisen would actually be able to have voice- and even video-calls.

They couldn't meet in a separate space as in a 'private chat' environment like Eisen did with the other originals a lot, but this was going to be more than enough for the time being.

Of course, at the same time, this item was going to act as a bit of a prototype for a project that Eisen and the others decided to introduce into this world. Now that they were no longer constrained by Samuel's wish to keep this world in a 'medieval' state, they would change quite a lot.

And the first step was to allow for communication at a global scale, not just amongst the players, but amongst all people.

They were going to invent phones.