When Gale returned to Andu Talla, Rielly was eagerly watching him at the town entrance.
"Uh…",
Gale gave a wry smile. "Rielly, you know I've been a bit busy lately."
Rielly rolled his eyes. "Big Brother, you've been busy for almost a hundred years."
"I didn't expect it either!" Gale was speechless. This should be blamed on the author, right? He just wrote decades away. Would it kill him to change years to days? That way, my genius side could be shown.
Rielly opened his mouth. Gale had indeed been quite busy these past decades. Not to mention him, even Maiev had to go to Shalani'er to see him.
He had also wanted to go to Shalani'er, but the magical barrier there prevented the Kaldorei who wanted to explore it. Metri had even tried, but returned in failure. He was not just a little worse than Metri, so how could he break through that barrier?
"Forget it, I've already made a staff myself anyway."
Gale glanced at the staff in Rielly's hand and said dismissively, "The craftsmanship is too poor."
Rielly was choked with anger. "Who knows how long I'd have to wait for you?"
Gale, knowing he was in the wrong, quickly said, "Don't worry, I will definitely make you a powerful staff."
"Heh heh—"
"Really, you have to believe me!"
Rielly turned and left. He had believed Gale many times already, but hadn't even seen a single hair.
Gale didn't know what to say either. This cousin of his had quite a stubborn temper. However, he wondered what expression he would have when he saw the staff.
To restore his image in Rielly's heart, Gale didn't even go to see Antalia and headed straight for the Forging Factory. He selected a fine oak branch there, carved runes onto it, and used it as the main body of the staff.
Then, Gale used orichalcum to create a bracket and fitted it onto the oak.
Finally, Gale carefully took out a nash's eye.
He only had four nash's eyes. One was used to make Ice Breath, and if this one was used, only two would be left.
Although he was a bit reluctant, he still decided to use it to rebuild his image in Rielly's heart.
He originally wanted to use Arcane Energy to change the volume of nash's eye, but then he felt that doing so would be no different from Ice Breath. So Gale took out the Hammer of Kaz'goroth, activated it with Arcane Energy, and smashed it onto nash's eye with one blow.
"Clang—"
After a soft clang, nash's eye turned into a blue crystal.
"Huh—?"
The surrounding artisans looked at the crystal in surprise. They had clearly seen an eyeball, hadn't they?
Gale ignored the artisans' curiosity, picked up the crystal and looked at it, nodding in satisfaction. Although it had turned into a crystal, the structure of nash's eye had not been changed, unlike when he made Ice Breath, where he almost scrapped the core of nash's eye.
The Hammer of Kaz'goroth truly lived up to its name as a Titan artifact; it was powerful!
Unfortunately, his research into the Hammer of Kaz'goroth was not deep enough, so he could only achieve this much. If he fully mastered the Hammer of Kaz'goroth, then this staff would undoubtedly be a divine artifact.
But for now, he could only leave it to fate.
Gale didn't insist on a divine artifact. While divine artifacts sounded powerful, if they weren't inherently sturdy, they could easily be destroyed. Why could players only temporarily use Kael'thas's seven divine artifacts? Game restrictions were one aspect, and another was that Kael'thas understood these seven divine artifacts very well and could easily destroy their structures.
After all, divine artifacts were forged to deal with enemies. If a divine artifact fell into enemy hands and was used against oneself, wouldn't that be disastrous?
In "Avengers 4," Thanos almost turned the tables on the Big Three by using their own weapons.
Such situations also occurred in the magical world. Deathwing forged the Dragon Soul, but also died because of the Dragon Soul.
When Gale forged weapons, he would also take precautions.
However, he wouldn't make his divine artifacts fragile; instead, he would embed spells within them. Once an enemy used a divine artifact to attack him, the divine artifact would self-seal. Or, with a single thought, Gale could seal the divine artifact.
After installing the crystal in the orichalcum setting, the staff was complete.
Gale raised the staff, felt it, and was a little disappointed.
"I still didn't forge a divine artifact, what a pity!"
After a moment of regret, Gale put away the staff. Just as he was about to look for Rielly, he remembered that he didn't know where Rielly lived.
He looked at the artisans. "Do you know where I can find Rielly?"
"Rielly the Mage?" The artisans thought for a moment. "You can go to the Mage District, perhaps he's there."
Mage District?
Gale scratched his head. When did Andu Talla get such a district?
The artisans saw Gale's confusion and then remembered that he hadn't returned to Andu Talla for a long time. An artisan volunteered, "Sir, why don't I take you there?"
"Much obliged!"
The artisan led the way, saying as he walked, "Sir, during your absence from Andu Talla, Andu Talla has changed a lot. Because of the alliance with Cenarius, many Kaldorei learned Nature magic. However, this also caused an unpleasant situation, which is that Mages and Druids had many conflicts due to significant differences in their magical philosophies. Lady Twilight, to avoid excessive disputes, separated the Mages and Druids. The Mage District was set up in the east of the city, and the Druid District in the west. Since then, Mages and Druids have met much less often, and conflicts have decreased."
Gale's eyes flickered. Such a thing actually happened?
It seemed he needed to have a good talk with Nalarex later. How was he managing the Druids?
Soon, the Mage District was reached. Mage Towers appeared before their eyes, and among the Mage Towers, there were many trees adorning the area. However, the entire Mage District still had the Arcane purple as its main color, looking noble and mysterious.
Rielly also had a Mage Tower of his own, but their Mage Towers were not as tall as the Sin'dorei Mage Towers, let alone Gale's Tower and Morning Light Tower.
Andu Talla was just an ordinary town, not a demon king node. The Arcane Energy here was scarce, and because it was in the forest, it was filled with a large amount of natural energy. If the Mages weren't forced to live here, they would have left long ago.
These short Mage Towers were temporarily sufficient for the Mages to use; they all knew that Gale would not be trapped in this town forever.
Upon seeing Rielly, Gale handed him the staff. "Take a look!"
Rielly took the staff, overjoyed. But on the surface, he still maintained a cold expression. "It's not much stronger than the one I made."
Gale said angrily, "Don't give it back to me."
Rielly quickly dodged. "Do you take back things you've given away?"
Gale couldn't help but laugh. "Don't pretend to be modest after getting a good deal. Although this staff is epic-grade, its power is not inferior to that of an ordinary divine artifact."
"I'll only know after using it."
Rielly was still being stubborn, but his hands were cherishing it immensely.
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