I return to splitting my time between practicing slash form and working on scrimshaw. It takes me a week to finish the shield and then another two weeks to finish the sword. Bones watches me silently the whole time no matter what I am doing.
Finally done with the scrimshaw work, now it is time to see if my idea for using demonic power will work. So I place the shield in my lap and enter meditation, first I take a good look at the shield and its insides to make sure there are no flaws. Then I slowly start feeding demonic power into it.
Everything goes smoothly at first, the bone of the shield absorbs the demonic power. The problem occurs when I try to shape the demonic power into a spell like I did with mana, the demonic power vanishes when I try to shape it. So I need to think of a different way to create the effect I want.
