Chapter 75 - Pinhurst Cold-Steel Final Part (1/2)
Brance watched in confusion as Cynrik hugged their mother, showing a rare amount of emotion for the first time in years.
{Are..are you crying?} Gasping and covering his mouth with his hand, Brance asked quietly.
{NO,(sniff) I'm not crying. It's just the rain; can't you see it's pouring right now?} Wiping his eyes and releasing his embrace on Cinyah, Cynrik stepped back over to the counter so he could admire his new hidden blades.
”Um…Cynrik's crying.” Not letting this opportunity to tease Cynrik go, Brance brought everyone's attention to his older brother, causing Cynrik to shiver and bury his head in the box he was sifting through.
”SHUT UP, NO, I'm not (sniff).” Everyone except Rikard, who was still trying to hide, laughed loudly at Cynrik's expense.
”Right, you're not crying. You're a big boy; you've just got something in your eye, I see.” Propping herself up on her elbows on the counter, Maeve leaned forward towards Cynrik, exposing the deep trench caused by her breasts, which were slightly exposed due to the cut of her shirt. The flirtatious tone she was using would have worked on just about anyone…anyone except Cynrik.
”Tsk, Auntie, at your age, you should cover yourself more.”
'Especially since you are at least two full sizes smaller than Mom.' Even the dense Cynrik knew better than to say the last part out loud. Counter-attacking Maeve's taunts, Cynrik crossed his arms over his chest, making an X, as if he was being sexually harassed.
Once again, the shop became noisy as Cynrik desperately tried to dodge the She-Wolfs, attacks. After several more forehead flicks were administered, Maeve finally calmed down, and Cynrik was banished to a small room, which doubled as a workshop so that he could make the necessary adjustments to his Assassins Tools.
Carrying the metal box with his parts, Cynrik took a seat on a stool and placed it down on the large workbench.
The two battle-damaged, worn-out Assassins tools appeared on the workbench with a wave of his hand, alongside his Engineer kit, which held the tools he used when taking apart things.
'Alright, first things first, let's get the old leather bracer dismantled.' Cynrik's hands moved with experience as he swiftly broke down the tool, and within a couple of minutes, all that remained was the skeleton of the device and the primary mechanism. Layed out neatly on the table were all the individual parts that made the Assassins tool. Cynrik had done this repeatedly over the years to clean the device properly.
His eyes drifted over the original blades; they had several cracks and chips from years of training and the events of Haylon's Shadow. But the most damage was caused by overloading them with his Darkness Mana in the final battle with Myer. Even now, five years later, they still were heavily contaminated and leaked minute amounts of Mana Particles from the vein-like cracks that covered the blade's entire surface.
When he initially saw the damage, Cynrik was shocked that they hadn't wholly shattered as his SunFlare had. Instead, he had concluded that due to the intense heat he was generating during that fight, he must have somehow reforged them, using the Dark Mana particles as some kind of catalyst. Directing his attention away from them, Cynrik made a mental note to ask Maeve about it when he was done with his assembly.
Gingerly, Cynrik reached into the box, pulled out a device that resembled the primary mechanism, and started forming a mental blueprint of how he wanted his upgraded hidden blade to look and function.
For the next hour, Cynrik set about using the new parts he received as a birthday present to completely rebuild his Assassins tool. After several attempts, he finally completed the first one, and using the knowledge he gained from it, was quickly able to complete the second, just as he heard Cinyah telling him it was time to go take the exams.
Wiping the sweat from his brow and storing everything on the workbench, Cynrik gave one final look over his new hidden blades and used Inspect.
-Custom Assassins Tool (Creed MK1)-
-Tier-1: Special Grade(Upgradeable)-
- Classification: Bracer with revolver Hidden Blade mechanism -
- A highly customized Assassins tool that has been redesigned from the ground up by Cynrik Jetlensr. The outer shell is formed with a layer of Runic Inscribed ShadeDrake hide, while the internal skeleton has been reinforced with ShadeDrake Bone. The inner portion of the device has been completely redesigned and now has two extra compartments on either side of the primary drawer mechanism, which can house two additional blades for a total of three. The extension mechanism has been modified to quickly and automatically swap blades in a revolver style. The newest addition is the ejection mechanism; by infusing Mana Particles into this device, a hidden blade can be fired from the central housing drawer, giving the device projectile attack capabilities.-
- Slot 1: Tier-1 SG Cold-Steel Hidden Blade-