While Elder Flora was busy arguing with the others who to send as a representative, I was busy copying the last enchantment of the lapiz block.
It was more nerve-reracking than other times since I had to be extra careful of the guards because I was in plain sight.
The only upside to this would be that my neck didn't hurt since I had to look down.
After a few days of hard work, I finally managed to copy everything down.
In total I had 16 pages filled with enchantments, they were all separated of course, since they were different enchantments that combined made the magical effect.
I can't wait to get my hands on an enchanting table so I can see what they do.
I'll even grind my Enchanting skill once again if I need to do it.
But on those days, the Elders also decided on who to send towards the palace.
Since the community was pretty small, with only over 100 people in it, everyone found out about it.
Some of them wanted to volunteer, others were angry at the prospect of even helping the people who despise them so much.
It got so heated with the arguments that the Elders had to come back to their communities and shut them up.
They were the Elders, they were chosen by the others to represent them.
So if they trusted them with that power, they should also trust their decision.
It didn't satisfy everyone, but it was enough to calm most of them down.
This was a big opportunity for the Witches, and they wouldn't lose it because of some petty arguments.
In the end, they choose their witches.
Catharine chosen by Flora and Anastasia
Armin chosen by Brutus and his group
David was reluctantly chosen by the rest of the Elders.
All three of them were at the gates of the compound ready to represent their people and help to make history.
Besides them was Froggy, who would be their guide and help them get the audience with the Royal Family.
I can say with confidence that Flora suspected wrong on who had the connection with the nobles.
Froggy's words had more influence than mine.
Sure I know a few important people there, but the fact that I'm trying to stay under the radar didn't help me in any way to get more power.
But the deal was made, Froggy doesn't mind helping his people, and everyone is happy in the end.
Besides us, a few Elders also joined at the gate mostly to pass some items to give them as presents to whoever they judged important.
I saw some books, clothing, and even a diamond passed, which impressed me, to say the least.
Not a lot of people are willing to mine that deep after all.
To Froggy, I gave him some messages to send to Bobby and reminded him not to use my name if possible.
I'm still dead after all.
With a final goodbye, they got on their horses and left for their new life.
Before I went on my way back, Flora gave me the books, which I greatly appreciated, since I was curious to see what the great enchanter had to say about this magical skill.
Back to my cozy home, I sat down in bed, with many snacks in my inventory and ready to read.
It wasn't too long, but it explained some things that I didn't even bother to question.
Theoretically, you can put as many enchantments on an item as you want to, but everything has a price.
You can only put up to three enchantments on any wooden tools, if you want to put more, you have to modify the tools, like putting an iron core, or lapiz as a battery.
A stone tool can hold four.
Iron tool seven.
Gold tools seem to be heavily appreciated by the system so they can hold fifteen.
And finally, the diamond weapons can hold ten enchantments.
But that is with enchantments made by the system, the ones created by man don't have the same measuring system.
It's very hard to put more than one custom enchantment on any kind of tool, only the diamond ones can hold two at most.
The other ones seem to break if you try to put more than one.
Even the golden ones surprisingly.
The only solution they found to this problem was to customize the tools.
And the best material for that was found out to be the lapiz.
It doesn't say how it got implemented into the tools, but it says that for every piece of lapiz, you can put one more enchantment.
That's why the enchanted wall was all made with lapiz blocks. It wasn't because they had too much of it, and they decided to be fancy.
It was because that was the only block capable of holding six custom enchants.
Which is a scary thing, but it also shows the power of the enchanted wall.
It's also talked about how can we judge the power of a custom enchant by the number of pages it has.
Most man-made enchantments start at three pages minimum, and you need to be at least Enchanting level 4.
If it has four pages that means it's either a stronger enchant, or a level 2 weaker enchant, you can only guess by the writing if you know the specific language which I don't.
A book can only hold up to five pages when you enchant it, if you wanted something more complicated you had to make your custom book, which no one knows what to make it from, not even the author.
That is the basic information for man-made enchantments.
It even had an alphabet at the end with the lower tier language where I could learn how to make my own, but that would be a huge project to go through.
There were also a few empty pages by the end of the book, which I can only guess was erased by the system since it contains dangerous information.
I'm kind of surprised that this book exists at all since the system doesn't like for people to get out of line.
Maybe it was too widespread so it only limited the higher level language?
After all, even the prince of the Sandstone Kindome managed to make his custom enchantment.
It didn't matter in the end, this is a great book filled with information that I could use.
If I can make custom enchantments, and even place them on a block, can I perhaps make a portal to my home world?
That brings me fear and excitement at the potential that I have in my hands.
No wonder the ancient civilization got mad with power, it's such a fascinating subject to study.
Of course, I'll have to be careful not to follow in their footsteps all the way.
I don't want to be killed by the System.
I was too excited with this new information that I got, that I didn't get to read the other books, I quickly started to learn the new language and hoped to find more of its secrets.
With the book opened and one of the lowest enchantments in my book I started to translate what it read.
'Oh System hear my voice, bless me with your unending power, and give this item the edge to cut my enemies, the SHARPNESS that no one has ever seen and the lasting of the immortal gold.'
The rest of the page was all calculations about the power output, the energy storage, the experience required, and the measurement of the item that I wrote on.
This was a Sharpness 1, an enchantment that requires only one page to write and your blade will be sharper than before.
I did not expect to see this when I started to decode.
This process seems to call upon the System itself to help with the enchanting, and since most enchantments are written on paper, their standard sizes can be easily copied with other enchantments as well.
I'm guessing that the System is also filling the blank answers in case it's missing any information.
But if what it says here is true, then the process of enchanting an item directly, the problem won't be the uneven surface but the fact that you have to make some changes to the enchantment itself, it's not the same size as a paper after all.
This meant that what the Prince showed me his enchantment on that diamond sword, was more impressive than I thought.
But this is something made by the System, what would a man-made enchantment even look like?
Fortunately, the book had a low-level custom enchantment, which of course meant that I had to translate three whole pages.
It took me an hour to piece together one page, and that was enough for me to understand the vast difference and the fact that whoever started making those were madlads.
"I call upon the power, medium light when darkness shows starts when the light level is under two... "
This was an enchantment that would make any item light itself up in the dark. It's a substitute for a flashlight.
It's a stupid one since you can get a better result just by crafting a torch, but this shows what enchanting was capable of.
The rest of the pages were more instructions on what to do in any scenario, how much power it should use when the process of enchanting starts, what letters it should take from the shelves beside the enchanting table, and mathematical equations about the speed of something that I didn't understand.
And the rest of the pages were getting more and more complicated with calculations that I didn't even know what they were for.
This is a vast difference between the two enchantments, the one made by the system seems to be child play in comparison to the one man-made.
It feels more like you ask for help from God to calculate the hard part, while you only need to know how to write correctly and offer some lapiz.
Meanwhile, the ones made without the System help, require a lot more precision and a lot more to calculate, and for some unknown reason, it always has to be done with red ink.
The book didn't go into too many details about why the process was like this, but this was enough for me to keep me busy for weeks.
At least now I can start understanding what I'm writing when I'm doing an enchantment. And who knows, maybe when I know enough I can make my portal.
But this would take me a lot of time, and it will be a lot of trial and error.
Maybe that's why the System didn't bother to erase the lower-level language, it's too complicated to use, and from what I understand you can't do truly broken things with this.
To make something on the level of Mending, I need a higher level language.
But how would I even get that information?
I started to think about where I could get more information, and a few ideas popped into my mind.
The Sandstone Kindome Library on the highest floor.
Searching through abandoned ruins like the one beside Froggy's old place
And getting the information from the archives of the Piligers.
The first option was not that good. The last floor is very guarded since it has one of the very things that makes Sandstone Kindome different then the others.
And I haven't heard anything about them making something similar to superweapons, so I could only guess that they have limited information, and keep knowledge in general.
In the second option, there's a chance that I'll find some interesting data, but I don't think I'll find too much since the System would've already deleted anything too dangerous.
This leaves the third option, which is to somehow get access to the Piligers library.
Even though their not what they were once, they still are the ones who gathered any last research that survived, and from what the Witches told me, they still try to experiment to bring themselves back to their former glory.
So if anyone has any classified information about the system, it would be those guys.
But I could only massage my head as a headache was starting to grow.
"Nothing is too easy in this world. I do have to do some stupid stuff to get what I want."
I closed everything around me and gave a deep sigh, it was already late, I was very tired so I went to bed.
I'll come up with a plan tomorrow, today I've done enough.