Raziel and I finally saw Professor Frey leaving the classroom, as he was about to start making his way to the office, we intercepted him.
"Good ardor teacher, I wanted to ask you a little favor, would you have time to help me?"
"Hi, it depends Ulric, if it's something quick yes, but if it's something long, unfortunately I'll have to say no, my schedule is tight today."
"It's a quick subject Professor Frey, while exploring the dungeon today the guardian we defeated dropped an orb that contains the shadow element, I was wondering what this orb is, how much is it worth?"
The teacher's face showed amazement, which is something unusual for him who is usually very serious and direct, even when he is happy and praising the students, he shows emotions on his face.
"This orb can be many different things, the shadow element that is strong and shaped for a purpose can solidify into the shape of an orb, it's not something rare and the other elements can also form orbs. But in your case the shadow element that this orb contains must have the same characteristics and abilities as the guardian that is the origin of this orb, what kind of guardian was it?"
"It was a golem made of earth and shadows, it was quite resistant, but luckily it didn't even have a weapon, its shadow element created a covering that strengthened its body and kept it together even after we broke one of its joints. The more shadow element his cover had, the more solid and strong he was."
I can see emotions on the teacher's face again. Looks like this orb must be worth a lot, and that's good news and bad news for Raziel.
"You are very lucky to find this type of guardian even though he has stronger versions in the deepest floors of the dungeon and it is difficult to find the weaker version of him at the beginning of the dungeon. Unfortunately for you, the shadow element in this orb probably doesn't have all the characteristics of the golem, but it does have the most important ones and if used intelligently it can be the base and main material for a level three maturation."
"Usually, this type of golem carries weapons, and it's a nightmare to kill, but every time it's killed it spawns an orb that contains a shadow element that has the main characteristic of solidification. Its shadow element can be molded in a solid and adaptable way to the user's body.
"Accompany me to my office, there I have tools to analyze the orb and confirm its characteristics and quality."
We followed Professor Frey to his lab, when I looked at Raziel who was trying not to scream with joy, he is very happy that the orb is a rare tier 3 material. It must be worth at least ten thousand gold coins, if it is a high-quality orb its value may even go up to twenty thousand gold coins.
I think Raziel didn't realize that and that's why he's still so happy, when he realizes he's going to be in debt for the next few months he won't be that happy anymore.
The teacher took out a stone plate full of runes etched on it and it has a metal support on top of it locked to the plate, this and a runes analysis platform on it help the evaluator to study the mana and elemental energy of the objects that are placed on top her.
"Place the orb in the metal bracket."
I did as the teacher instructs him and by placing the orb on the analysis platform, the mana from the platform started to interact with the orb. The elemental energy of the orb began to move within him in the form of a whirlpool, Professor Frey stared and began to mutter under his breath his thoughts about the orb.
I couldn't hear him right, but the professor's state of concentration didn't last long he didn't spend much time analyzing the orb, a few more minutes of analysis then he turned off the platform and so the orb went back to sleep.
"Well, congratulations on getting a good quality item, you must have destroyed the entire body of the golem and not just aimed at the core, if you had killed it quickly the shadow element of the orb would not have been as pure and strong as it is."
"It should be worth around fourteen thousand gold coins, but I advise you not to sell it if you invest a good amount of material together with the orb, you can forge a maturation with great defensive skills."
"How would this mature teacher be?"
"Obviously there are several ways to design them, but I believe the young man over there must be the one who would use it, right?"
"Yes, it would be for me to use Professor Frey, but would we have to know how expensive it would be to make it?"
"As I said, it depends, for you to make one you must spend about seven thousand in materials to make it and that would be a light ripe for a light medium ripeness, this value would rise to about eleven thousand gold coins. A heavy plate ripening would cost another eighteen thousand coins, but seeing from your current equipment, that kind of ripening doesn't suit you."
"That's expensive, but what kind of skills would she have a teacher?"
"Firstly, you can have an outer layer of ripening made with the shadow element and secondly, this ripening can be applied to your weapon to increase the strength of the shadow element on it, but that's all any other skill you want has to come of the other materials, the orb only has these two characteristics, and neither one of them is very strong, so don't order it from any blacksmith."
"But the biggest advantage of forging such a mature one is that it can strengthen your combat ability in a dark place. Just as you are affected by the shadow element rule, the maturation will also be affected, if you use it in the dark burrow dungeon it will have a defense increase and will give you a body strength, equipment like this and very useful for an element warrior shadow even if you only have one piece of ripeness."
"Just one more ripening piece, does it already have enough power to make a shadow ripening?"
"Yes, because it consumes the elemental energy of the warrior and the environment, but generally the other pieces of the maturation serve to amplify the breastplate which is the main piece of the set, the more pieces to amplify the effect the stronger and the defense of the maturation and more energy it can absorb from the environment."
"And a really powerful mature one, for a warrior with the shadow element who wants to specialize in exploring dungeons like the dark lair and moonlight forest, what do you think Raziel."
At my mate's lack of response, I look over at him, Raziel is almost drooling as his eyes are fixed on the orb, he must be imagining his maturation more and too bad his fantasies will break when he finds out how much he's going to have to spend, to have such a special mature set.
"But level three is the limit of this maturity teacher?"
"Yes and no, for this shadow element the defense limit is level three, but if you get one more portion of this kind of shadow element you can use it to strengthen your maturation. Since her physical body warms up, she can rise to a level six maturity, but that is almost impossible because as far as the dungeon has been explored, you don't hear a golem of that type of level seven."
"Actually, level six only appeared twice in the dungeon he probably appeared more times but he must have killed the entire team that was unlucky enough to find him."
"The only material that can be used is orbs that fall from other golems?"
""Yes, as far as I know no other materials that are as compatible with the shadow element of the golem as the orb of another golem, you can use some pure materials of the shadow element to feed the ripening, but the effectiveness is very small so and basically a waste of money."
"Thanks for the help and the class Professor Frey, sorry if we messed up your afternoon."
I started to drag Raziel, after picking up the shadowy orb. I felt like I was holding more than a dozen gold cards, and really nice to hold that much money.
I leave Raziel behind on one of the benches in the hallway, when he's done dreaming, he can come after me to ask me to help convince the rest of the team to make time for him. Putting together so much money to cover six parts of the orb that he has no right is difficult.
After that I go to my room to clean up and do maintenance on my weapons and maturation, even though I can't fix them all I still have to clean them up and fix what I can. I'll have me take my equipment to Lofar to get them completely fixed.