Athtar was not bothered by theck of etiquette. He actually found it quite refreshing and he loved the idea. However, he was unsure what Eldrian''s motivations could be. It was indeed a strange idea, at least for those native to the world, especially while the entire kingdom was in a crisis. "A memorial? For what end?"


    "To give people a ce to mourn and share their stories." Eldrian replied, "Too many lives have been lost, yet we couldn''t even give their families and friends proper burials. Instead, we burned their loved ones-"


    "Pyres are quitemon." Athtar mentioned as Eldrian faltered.


    "They might be, but it means they lost a ce to go to mourn," Eldrian replied. Of course, this world''s after-death arrangements were different from Earth and Eldrian wasn''t well informed, however, he felt that having something to hold onto was important.


    This wouldn''t be the same as a grave or an urn, what he was envisioning was a ce for people toe and show their respect while also sharing their stories. A ce where everyone cane to listen to those stories and remember those they had lost. Be it alone or together. He wanted something that could not just help people grieve but also bring them closer.


    His n was actually quite ambitious and he had little to no strategy to see it realized. He had simply jumped the gun to get started.


    "Alright. What do you want my help with?" Athtar asked as Eldrian realized that he didn''t even know what he should ask for help on.


    "I want to make a monument capable of recording and showing recordings." Eldrian wasn''t sure if the recording was something that would be understood, but luckily it seems that Athtar followed.


    "I see, and what are you nning to use to make this?"


    "That..." Eldrian paused as he had nothing on hand. "I''ll have to borrow it, if possible."


    "Oh? Then let us not rush this, why don''t youe up with a design and n first?" Athtar suggested, realizing that Eldrian seemed to not even have a concrete concept in mind.


    Nodding, Eldrian agreed. As he and Myropsis were about to leave, Athtar asked, "Aren''t you going to ask for my help with anything else? You might not get such a chance again."


    Eldrian paused, there was so much he could ask. However, for now, he didn''t want to split his attention and forget what he was busy with. Too often had he done just that and lost his way.


    "Maybe sometimeter," Eldrian replied and left. Leaving a grinning Athtar and a stunned Itirea, along with a yful Mneme who was nudging her to scratch her head.


    ...


    "What was that about?" Myropsis asked after they passed through the gate and entered the city proper.


    "I''m not sure myself. I guess I got ahead of myself again, do you maybe have some spare materials?"


    Myropsis nodded, "What are you looking for?"


    "I think for what I want to do a Mov Crystal would be the best. Do you have one?"


    "No. But Pros might."


    "Then, let us go see him!" Eldrian dered and the two quickly went to his mansion where Pros was swamped in getting on top of everything. While they moved quickly, it still took nearly half an hour to reach the center of the city without sprinting and causing chaos in the streets.


    As soon as Eldrian entered the study, a swamped Pros -still in centaur form clumsily fitting into his room filled with papers- asked if he didn''t want to continue to be mayor.


    "No, I really don''t think that would be for the best." Eldrian replied, "I might have managed, but I''m not a good leader."


    While Pros disagreed, he decided to not argue at this moment. Laughing it off he asked, "Then what did youe to ask?"


    "Resources," Eldrian replied and quickly exined what he wanted to do. Pros quickly agreed to help and led the two to a special room in the mayor''s mansion.


    "So this is your personal stash?" Eldrian asked as Pros showed them the special vault-type room. To enter required aplicated process, or Pros''s blood and magic signal. Thetter made it impossible to use his blood if he was dead or unconscious/unwilling.


    "Why does it sound so crass when you say it like that?" Pros asked while opening the door, "This is technically the city vault, though it hasn''t been used as such since the outer walls were constructed." For the most part, this was due to theck of strategic resources in the area, there weren''t any truly valuable items that needed extra security.


    "And I can take anything I want?" Eldrian asked, just to make sure.


    "Well, no. You can take everything you need."


    Eldrianughed hearing the distinction, it was an important distinction but it basically meant the same thing in this scenario. "Then..." Realizing that he still did not have a n Eldrian asked if Pros would teach him the way to ess the vault.


    Pros was more than happy too, after all, Eldrian had been handed the entire city and had managed so well without ever showing any greed or corruption. Pros had no doubt in Eldrian''s character. While the elf made mistakes, his heart was in the right ce.


    After mastering the process of unlocking the room safely, Eldrian headed to the mage''s association with Myropsis. The two took up her ''room'', the public library, and started their research and nning.


    The first part Eldrian and Myropsis quickly faltered at, as with all the following parts. With ess to a bunch of Mithril, a Mov crystal, and a bunch of mana crystals, the two did not need to hold back and it should be easy. Hold back they nned not, but it turned out it was quite hard to even get a feasible n that could be moved to experimentation.


    A day quickly passed as they worked together on the blueprint and made little progress.


    During this time Eldrian still dared not enter his soul or try to return to Earth. He hoped that Two was managing but could not risk trying to return to Earth. The journey was not as easy thanks to his unique method of entering and as such he did not know what would happen if he did so in his current condition.


    Often he would need to take a break to let his mind rx, if he tried to push too hard then a massive headache would follow. This slowed down their progress significantly, but they still finished the rough basic overall idea by the end of the second day, plus some key functions.


    "So that should do for recording sounds," Myropsis mumbled, unsure. This function she had basically giarised from the existingmunication devices. Only, instead of sending the information somewhere, they nned to store it in the Mov Crystal.


    This giarism saved them so much time as it turned out it was truly hard toe up with such aplex design from scratch. But they still had a long way ahead of them. Unfortunately, it seems that runes dealing withmunication and such were very rare.


    Heck, they had literally copied and deconstructed these off one of themunication devices that the city-owned.


    The runes were naturally not something that wasmon knowledge, kept a tight secret by the family who produced them in the capital. There were even efforts made to hide the runes and how they functioned together, but the two had managed to get past them thanks to Eldrian''s mana sense.


    And of course, these devices had great limitations, elsemunication between cities would not be socking. Arge limitation was naturally distance, the kingdom was simply toorge.


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