Leaving my pupils to continue both their work and complaining, I teleported myself from the library and into one of the workshops on the second floor.
I found myself at the new forge Sigyn finished recently.
All the tools and equipment here were on par to the Zeref House own forge.
Inside the facility, Gerrits and Djhotti were inspecting the arrays of rare materials laid out on the large table before them.
Gerrits's trip to the Exploration Dungeon proved most fruitful.
He managed to obtain almost twice the amount of everything we needed.
Though I supposed it was Jeanine we should be thanking the most here.
Anyway, now that Gerrits had procured all the materials, we could start crafting the enchanted weapons we had been planning to make.
"Is the crafting preparation going well?"
I asked the Chief Crafter.
He nodded and gestured to the dwarf.
"We are in the middle of discussing which materials we should process first, Your Excellency."
We could not just smelt all these materials with the subquest ore directly to make the weapons we wanted.
The supporting materials had to be prepared first before we could forge them together.
According to Gerrits and Djhotti, those preparation processes were quite complex and would take some time.
And it would even get more complex once magic and enchantment were involved.
We would not be getting the weapons before the nineteenth floor, that was for certain.
"I have to say, Great Mage. This is truly the most magnificent element I had ever seen."
Djhotti said as he pointed to the subquest crystal we had processed with the grimoire formula.
Gerrits would still need mages casting the grimoire formula whenever he wanted to smelt and forge the crystal.
But we had left the material here in case he was finally ready for that stage of the crafting.
"A crystal that could not be affected by fire. To us, Keepers, this material would be regarded as a holy relic."
The dwarf said.
He continued.
"In fact, I believe we had a legend about a crystal like this. Your kind, actually, supposed to know it as well."
"What legend would that be, Keeper?"
I asked.
The dwarf turned back to the glimmering deformed crystal.
"The Eternal Throne is supposedly made entirely of this material."
I frowned at his words.
"No, it's not. The Eternal Throne is made of entirely different minerals. I've seen it when I visited the imperial palace once."
Djhotti immediately shook his head at my counter.
"Oh I'm not talking about the replica, Great Mage. I meant the original."
My eyes widened after hearing the dwarf.
"The original Eternal Throne? You meant the actual seat where the Ancient Gods coronated the Great Pioneer?"
Tsatu legends told that the Great Pioneer was coronated as the monarch of Dunia by the Ancient Gods.
Despite it being very crucial to the founding of the empire, the coronation ritual was vaguely described in the legends.
It was because the Great Pioneer's coronation took place in the Lost Paradise often mentioned in the Tchakran culture.
Because of the nature of the site, there was barely any people present during the coronation and witnessed the ritual.
The reason why the people of the empire knew it happened because at the time, supposedly, the Ancient Gods' voices echoed throughout Dunia.
They proclaimed to the whole world that the Great Pioneer shall rule everything once the Great Pioneer returned from the Lost Paradise.
But nobody was actually there to see it.
Perhaps there were humans that saw the ritual, the Servants of the Ancient Gods from whom the Tchakrans descended.
But their stories never reached us.
The Descendants of Manusha told the people of the empire that the Great Pioneer was coronated on a majestic throne.
And that the first Watchers of the Realm had built a replica of that throne in the imperial palace according to what the Great Pioneer described to them.
Apparently I now would be gaining more insight regarding the mysterious symbol of Tsatu.
"'And the Eternal Serpent granted their tears to the Primordial Flame, from which the Eternal Throne was forged.'"
Djhotti recited with melodious tone.
He continued with his normal heavy voice.
"That was one of the few archaic dwarven passages that is related to human culture. We had an entire book talking about this particular passage."
From the tenth floor subquest, we received three rewards.
The crystal, the grimoire, and the whispering feather.
The stage clearance window referred the objects as the Book of Malaikat, the Tear of Malaikat, and the Fragment of Malaikat.
I knew the Book of Malaikat was the grimoire.
But I was not entirely sure of the other two. Between the crystal and the feather.
Now that I heard the dwarven legend, that meant the crystal was the Tear of Malaikat.
The Fragment then had to be the whispering feather.
Though I was not that certain anymore.
"What about that orb? Does the Keepers have any legend about it?"
I asked as I pointed to a fist-sized glass ball beside the processed crystal.
We found it lodged in the middle of the crystal after my pupils and I were deforming the entire material using the grimoire formula.
No matter what we did to it, even using the grimoire formula, the orb could not be tempered whatsoever.
It was as useful as a throwing rock at this point.
"Forgive me, Great Mage. We might have some legend about this orb at one point. But a good number of our knowledge was lost during the Flame's Campaign, as many knowledgeable Keepers died back then, as well as a good number of our precious records."
Djhotti replied apologetically.
The orb had to be of some use.
The crystal was also useless when we first obtained it.
But it eventually became something more than a paper-weight once we discovered the grimoire formula that could process it.
Perhaps the same applied with the orb.
Maybe we needed the Malaikat Factor.
There had to be a reason why the Malaikat Factor was used in most of the grimoire formulas.
We needed to figure out what the Malaikat Factor was before the twentieth floor climb.
And, though we already had been benefitting from it, we still had not figured out what the whispering feather was actually supposed to do.
There were plenty mysteries we needed to solve and I could not find any shred of clue to actually begin my investigation.
We should just focus on what we could do for now.
"Gerrits, the crafting of the enchanted weapons will be the equipment workshops' highest priority. We will need them for the twentieth floor climb."
I told the Chief Crafter.
I went on as I looked through the improved forge.
"Use every manpower and resources necessary for the project. Master and I will provide more of both should you need them."
I then turned to the dwarf.
"Keeper, I would also need you to aid the crafting process as well. We would need your expertise in dwarven crafting to make these weapons."
Gerrits and Djhotti nodded upon my orders.
"As you wish, Your Excellency."