A Serpent's Tale

Chapter 112: The Gifts Preperations

Chapter 112: The Gifts PreperationsThe next morning, after a night of fun, I checked out how long left I have of being mute. And what I saw shocked me.

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I rubbed my eyes to make sure that I wasn’t imagining or dreaming things, and sure enough.

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It was real, it was counting down, and I’d managed to knock off well over a thousand hours somehow! Well, I knew some of it came from last night, but where did-

’Of course! That wolf man I ate yesterday! I completely forgot I did that.’ The reason so much of my timer had gone down was because of all of that life force I ’extracted’ out of him.

’Maybe I should do that more often?’

If I do that ’performance’ at least once a month, then maybe, I can get my voice back!

No! I need to control myself, I can’t let my desire take hold of me, otherwise I might start craving people faster.

Maybe every three months? That sound reasonable.’ And as I was thinking about the future, I felt something shuffling up against me.

I looked to my side and saw my beautiful stag lover cuddling up with me. I stroked her silky blond hair, waking her up slightly as she pulled herself up to my face and kissed me with her soft pink lips.

"Morning love." She mumbled.

I kissed her back and ruffled her hair as my own way of saying good morning.

"Mnn, any plans for today?" She asked.

"Mhm."

"Well then tell me."

I shook my head. "Mm mm."

"Oh, a secret, huh? Well, I shan’t force you to tell me, I have no reason to pry." She said, lying back on the bed and going back to sleep.

As for me, I got out and over to my own wardrobe that I was gifted a while ago to put my clothes in whenever I get any.

Once I got dressed, I went back to the library to read some more about smithing, and possible methods to help me create the gift I was planning to gift Cythistia at the Winter Advent.

I wanted to use the Dungeon Core, but had no idea how or even if I could do this myself. I may have to ask for some help from my seniors for this one.

Either way, I’d inquire about it when I went back tomorrow as I had the day off, which was good because that would give me more time to do some re

"Mnm." I greeted them back.

"So, have ye brought the last of it?" Harmur asked, referring to the books and the core.

I nodded and took out the last couple of books out of my bag, which was more of a satchel, and the bright, glowing Dungeon Core.

They all looked at the green orb with an awestruck wonder in their gazes.

"This me first time seein one, but damn... It’s beautiful." One of the dwarves said after looking at it for a couple of minutes.

"Indeed, and we get the honour of craftin it inta a masterpiece." Harmur agreed, everyone else sharing a similar sentiment.

*Cough*

I Coughed to shake them all out of their trance.

"Right. This is yer thing that yer lettin us help ye make, but uhh... what are we even makin anyway?"

’A ring.’ I stated.

"..." A silence fell upon the group, the only sound that could be heard was the clashing of metals from those who weren’t involved with this project.

"Ye want us," Harmur gestured to the people surrounding the workbench we were at, "To help ye turn that," he pointed at me, then the Core, "Inta a ring?"

I confirmed with a simple, "Mhm."

They all groaned simultaneously, with Harmur giving his decree.

"Fine, we’ll help ye make this ring. Why’d ya wan it made anyhow?"

’It’s a gift for my, I guess my fiancé. I plane to give it to her on the day of the Winter Advent."

"The Winter Adv- Tha’s in like three weeks!" He screamed, stopping himself partway through. he then gave an exasperated sigh. "Whatever... I can’t promise anythin, but we’ll do our best ta help ye."

I smiled and bowed to show my gratitude.

"Ah, don’t sweat it lass, we’d work on this regardless of what ye wanted te get out o’ this. We mainly just wanna have the chance te work on a Dungeon Core, as is not often we get opportunities like this."

I got up and smiled some more, tears welling up in my eyes at the compassion they showed me.

"Ahh, dun cry, we’ve got work te do!" Harmur said.

I wiped the tears from my eyes. he was right after all, we had work to do, and the sooner we completed it, the better.