CH141

More days passed as Ben continued his work in the shop making a variety of items, some to be sold in there, and others handed off to traveling merchants Falk knew as a way to empty out the storage room without cluttering the sales floor or workshop in the back. All the while he was trying to learn as much about the various skills he had access to enchant with as he could, from reading up as much as he was able in the few books on skills present in the adventurers guild archives to having Myriad gather information for him that he could record later. He had a goal in mind after all, and he needed every bit of information he could get to achieve it.

When he got home for the day it was slightly later than usual, with both Thera and Sonya already there, dinner ready and waiting. They ate their meals as they always did before going to the living room and getting to work.

He had prepared a variety of braces ahead of time and he got Sonya to wear the first one as he carefully applied the resistance enchantment to it to cover up her charm, but at only up to a resistance of twelve so that there would still be plenty leaking off of her when they measured it. That brace would serve as the baseline while he experimented with the others.

To each one after he attached a variety of skills and partial skill effects to try and enhance the charm suppression of the initial magic. He was doing this with Sonya instead of Thera for a few reasons, the biggest being time. While he would still take almost a full night to apply the enchantment Thera needed, with the amount his enchanting had improved, Sonya’s could be completed in around fifteen minutes, meaning he could easily complete them one after the other to measure and compare its effects.

He spent hours making them all, Thera and Sonya playing board games in the background as he worked, but by the end he had a dozen different braces made, each with a different enchantment added to the original one to try and enhance it.

“Alright, time to test it out,” He muttered, getting Thera to throw on her cloak so her magic wouldn’t interfere with the tests and got Sonya to wear them all one at a time, with Ben setting up the passometer to measure any variance in the charm she released again and again, recording the results each time.

Kind of crazy that it took three hours of setup to make all the enchantments, but I finished testing them all in ten minutes.

<Testing’s typically faster than making if you don’t need to travel to do it, and it looks like the results aren’t too bad this time around.>

Myriad wasn’t the only one to notice he’d had some success, the other two could see the smile stretched across his face that hadn’t been there the first few times he’d attempted to improve the resistance enchantment with them.

“Don’t leave us waiting, what are the results?” Thera asked, excited to see some potentially good news considering how any success had the chance to help her live a more normal life.

“Taking the magic resistance effects of armor and shield enhancement brought the enchantments suppression effects up by one, while defense enhancements magic resistance managed it by two, though since that skill was at the first level while the other two were at the zeroth it might just be an effect of the greater skill level. Either way, I’m going to need to grab enchantments of all three at the highest level I can get to see how that affects things. Other than that it looks like tying in a fourth-level purification spell from light magic had no effect on increasing the resistance. As disappointing as it is I guess that was a pretty obvious result, trying to purify mana of the affinity tied to it is probably one of the first things people test when trying to come up with a solution for all of this, but it’s still good to have gotten it out of the way. There’s still plenty of other skills I can try to experiment with after I learn a bit more about their properties, but at least this is some progress.”

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Even this much meant he’d need to go the guild master Ceselee to update the information in his patent so all the other enchanters that worshiped Myriad could get the chance to learn about it and hopefully make stronger resistance braces without having to level up their skills as much, but it still left him a ways off from his goal of completely managing Thera’s charm, even if he was on the correct path. Given the power of her mana, there was a good chance that she wouldn’t get more than a point or two of her charm suppressed, even if all three skills were put onto the enchantment, but that just meant she needed more and at a higher level.