263 Chapter Two Hundred and Sixty-Three - Chalice (1/2)

My Weapons were floating all around as I went through the final quenching on the Blade. Elder Arg had taken less than eight hours of work to complete this, and I had been his assistant the whole time, adding in another eight hours of my own to give it a foundation. He watched carefully as I worked, knowing that my actual Crafting Skill was higher, I just couldn't form the magical foundations that he could... yet.

He hadn't actually Empowered anything, that would have been a waste of all our times. Instead, he had worked on all the Weapons, and we'd leave it up to Naming Karma to do the work.

Soulfire, flame, acid, lightning, even vibrational sonics rippled through the blade. The orichalcum was displaying the effects of qardaq, a weird alchemical alloy with a very specific use... it entered bodyphase with the flesh of the person whose blood it was made with, meaning it passed through them harmlessly.

To grab this Sword right now, I actually had to grip it with my Vajra, which was nothing. But withdraw the effect, and it would slide right through me.

Or, you know, it could actually sit inside me harmlessly.

There was a ripple as the psionic matrices Elder Arg had formed rippled, waiting to be filled, connecting up as he guided me mentally and I did the work in the proper order. The magical side of things I handled without a problem, and as the quenching finished, I lifted up the sword, a darker, copper and black, gold-limned equivalent to Tremble and Quaver's silver/gold and silver/black, respectively.

”Your name will be Chalice,” I said calmly and gave the metal a kiss. Magic swirled lightly, and the Sword was Named, carved into the essence of magic like stone, a smith-forged Truename.

All my Weapons and Shield hummed in greeting. Chalice wasn't Intelligent yet, but her Name was there, and this was the equivalent of watching a baby getting born to my Weapons. Even Sparky was watching in great interest from inside the Tail...

All Weapons were limited to a gain of 1000 Karma a day, barring someone Legendary like Elder Arg, able to Infuse vast amounts. As a Battlesmith, I could pour Naming Karma into two of my own creations per day, generally one Weapon and one Armor or Shield.

However, Intelligent Weapons could generate their own Karma, if they could wield themselves. All of my Weapons had Flying, and so could zip about on their own, and use my base AB to attack with. However, they didn't get any of my Dex, Strength, skill, Class, Mastery, or Feat bonuses. So, Fall, Stand, Quaver, and Tremble attacking stuff was much less effective than them working in concert with me. They were Tools; they were meant to be wielded and used.

They were also still limited to Name Karma per day; it's just they were building their own Name, instead of me doing so.

This was important, because I had a lot of work to get Chalice's foundation built up, which meant I wouldn't be able to wield all of them for the next six months. I could vary the Naming Karma off, and I could sit down and do eight hours of Investing, but there were a lot of Weapons to improve.

Nine days of foundational Karma would make them Manifesting Weapons, able to generate five points of psi a day.

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Thirty-five days of foundational Karma would make them Psychic Weapons, giving them an Enhancement bonus equal to the Psychic Reserve of their wielders. As Forsaken couldn't spend Psi, it basically meant we were always topped off on the Reserve.

But if they wielded themselves, that meant they were still going to be +II... which would stack with Soulbound, or replace it if they were not wielded, leaving them just as strong if I wasn't around to power them all up.

It also meant that they could grow other psionic-based effects, giving them alternate Arsenal effects to work on... and Armory, possibly.

Being made a Psychic Weapon also meant that when they finished, they'd be effective Seventeens in Item form, giving them potential Skill Ranks at that level. They were already talking amongst themselves about who would take what key Skills, so they didn't overlap.

Quaver would be harmonizing with Stand for anything important, and to get her Naming Karma, but I'd be wielding Chalice at other times, and then burning goldweight for Stand and my Tail.

Right now Chalice was just +II, Soulbound Bane/Humans. I had a LOT of work to do with her. It was going to take thirty-five days to get Psychic Weapon active, which gave me plenty of time to get Psion and Psi-Warrior Levels up. With my Stats, taking the Theurgy and getting one of them to Ten would be enough to top off PW to +V, and then I could start on opening Slots and powering them up.

With psionic power, instead of magic. With my Vajra being what it was, it wouldn't be hard.

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Wayfair cut open a gap in space with Tremble, and Elder Arg, shrunken down to the size of a chimp, followed her through, back to Monkey High via a shortcut through the Astral Plane.

Quaver hummed as she synched up with Stand. Stand's whisper rising to a thrum grew more distinct as she did.

I looked at Briggs and AA, who just looked back at me, waiting. His presence was an ominous dissuader to our Jotun thralls, keeping them in line even if Wayfair wasn't here. He had been helping out with the Leatherworking, having taken Ranks to see what all the fuss was about, and ended up being one of the primary Crafters of dragonhide equipment.

Briggs, of course, had helped out with the QL upgrades, tirelessly refining stuff for everyone. Fully set up, he was almost as fast as Elder Arg!

”Ready to go Wake up that Hole?” I asked the two of them.