Weed gently touched the head of the Wyvern. A small crack started forming in the surface.
Pasasak!
Like a chick hatching from an egg, the wyvern broke through the shell of the statue.
By Weed’s hands, a Wyvern was born.
- You have granted life to a sculpture.
The power of the sculpture is based on the level of the art stat.
The art stat is currently 790, so the sculpture’s base level will be 359.
However, due to the monster being a flying-type, a 10% level penalty will be applied.
Additionally, two affinities are bestowed upon the sculpture when life is granted to it.
The affinities vary in power according to the form and quality of the sculpture.
Wind affinity (100%).
Fire affinity (30%).
The creature’s flying speed is greatly increased, and the creature will be partly resistant to fire magic.
5000 mana has been used
Level has dropped by 2
Due to the decrease in level, 10 points have been deduced from your most recently upgraded stat. The stats will be regained once you regain the lost levels.
The Art stat has dropped by 10
The stat can be increased again through any activity related to sculpting or other art forms.
Please be careful with the sculpture’s life.
Upon death, the sculpture must be granted life again to return its soul.
The sculpture cannot be revived if it has been completely destroyed.
A true miracle!
He had made a living wyvern.
“Wow, that went well.”
Weed inspected his creation.
Granting life to sculptures seemed to be a very convenient skill. To make sculptures whose power was based on the art stat!.. Sculptures with mighty strength and high agility, who’d be able to move around and fight monsters… for the artisan classes who weren’t suited for fighting, a skill like this felt like a dream.
The skill was created by the master sculptor Emperor Geihar von Arpen, the first man to unite the whole continent.
Of course, there were lots of other benefits, beside the sculptures’ fighting power.
Similarly to this skill, summoners and elementalists were able to summon beings and lead them to battle.
For those classes, any amount of items or experience gained by the summoned creatures would be transferred to the summoner.
However, when it came to sculptures they kept the experience and level individually.
A sculpture’s initial strength depended on the art stat, but if led well by a sculptor, it would grow stronger and more powerful.
Animated sculptures were typically a little stronger than elementals and other similar summons.
Additionally there was no limit to the number of sculptures that could be active at the same time.
There was however a crucial difference between summons and animated sculptures when they are killed.
When a summoned being is killed, the summoner can just use an ability to resummon it.
It is very common for an elemental to be killed in battle. However, the only thing required to resummon it is a little mana, so it is only a tiny loss.
But it’s different for animated sculptures.
If a living sculpture suffers a fatal blow, the life given will leave it, and if it’s completely destroyed and the parts dispersed, it cannot be repaired.
In some way Weed dreaded the loss of a sculpture brought to life by sacrificing two levels and ten points in the art stat more than dying himself.
“It’s not a skill to be used carelessly. However, if I increase my art stat it might prove very, very beneficial to me”
A sculptor’s highest stat was his art stat. If it was used correctly, it could even make up for the generally bad fighting strength. A Sculptor who cannot fight, can just make a sculpture fight for him.
Before Weed’s eyes, the wyvern spread its wings and turned around. The head alone was the size of a whole person. Its stomach bulged, as it spoke for the first time.
“Master!”
A loyal steed.
Weed was overwhelmingly pleased.
“Yes, I am your master.”
However, the wyvern had a question after having displeased looked over its body
“Why am I so ugly?”
“……”
“Did you sculpt me with your feet?”
“……”
“I’m really disappointed to have come to life this ugly”
Sculptures had great pride indeed!
The Wyvern wasn’t satisfied with its body, and was very displeased.
He hadn’t had enough time to sculpt the large body thoroughly. Due to this, there were places here and there that he hadn’t really worked on.
Parts of the wyvern been very roughly carved, the wyvern was really a crude and incomplete sculpture.
“Anyway, I brought you to life, so I’m your parent. From now on, you will do best to follow me. You should even be willing to sacrifice your body to save me, since I’m your parent”
Weed didn’t intend to let his ‘childbirth’ go to waste though.
He had no intentions of losing the wyvern after granting it life. To get as much use out of it as possible, he intended to thoroughly pamper it.
The wyvern didn’t share Weed’s point of view, and had something to say.
“I would have preferred not being born.”
“……”
The wyvern was very prideful, and wouldn’t listen to him. Soon enough, though, Weed had an idea.
Such a demanding person would probably be a sucker for flattery!
He would just have to thoroughly flatter the wyvern, by playing on its pride.
“Listen to me. Your face might be a bit angular, but it just serves to make you look stronger and more masculine. Don’t you think so?”
“Wahahahaha!”
The simple-minded wyvern was easily won over by the silver-tongued Weed.
“Master is nice. He seems to be a worthy person to serve”
“Yes of course, I created you. Now follow my orders closely.”
“I will. But what is my name?”
Weed had to decide on a name for the wyvern that he had brought to life.
“Master, find a good name… please.”
The Wyvern had high expectations. As a sculpture with a lot of self-respect, it wanted a name full of strength and pride.
Weed pored over it for a while, and in the end he decided on a name
“Let’s call you Wy-1”
“I don’t know what that is, but it sounds good. What does it mean?”
“It means ‘the coolest guy in the sky’.”
As Weed said this, the wyvern flapped his wings. They were mighty wings, that could easily harness the air to its fullest effect.
“I like it very much.”
“Yeah. It’s a name I picked just for you, Wy-1.”
Weed, the silver-tongued negotiator!
“Thank you for naming me master, but there’s something I’ve been wondering about.”
“What?”
“My siblings. If you make other sculptures like me, what will they be called?”
Weed thought about what he’d call the others when the time came. He decided to name them similarly to Wy-1.
“Wy-2”.
“Will that be the name of my next sibling?”
“Yes.”
“And my sibling after that?”
“Wy-3.”
“Those are some very nice names. I like them very much.”
The wyvern continued to flap his wings in joy. At this moment, Weed was confirmed in his decision.
This was the whole point with generations! The other wyverns would surely be satisfied with their names too.
Just like the bird clans in Lavias, the City of Heaven, all winged creatures weren’t very smart.
Furthermore, this guy was carved from a piece of rock. His head was practically made of stone, and thus Weed wasn’t very surprised that his intelligence wasn’t much better than that of a rock.
“Let us depart. Carry me”
“Yes master”
Weed climbed onto the Wyvern’s head.
*Whoosh, whoosh*
The wings beat a few times, and then they were floating through the air towards the light. They were very high in the sky, and he could see the entire canyon below him.
Soaring, Weed recognized small dots below him as the flower garden and the masterpiece he had sculpted. That would be the sculpture that truly represented Seoyoon’s inner being.
“I do not know when we’ll meet again, O most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen”.
Weed shook his head in regret.
She should have realized by now, that all those sculptures were modelled after her.
“I’ll be more careful the next time we meet. And pray that you won’t kill me”
The flying wyvern didn’t meet any trouble from the monsters on the ground. Meanwhile Weed was struck breathless by the view of the landscape below.
He finally left the Yunopu canyon and rode towards his destination, the Yuroki mountain range.