Return of the Fallen Volume 13 Chapter 26
Kazuki held the finished product in his hand. On the surface, it seemed to be a simple triangle shape made up of bone shavings.
Kazuki took the triangle and laid it on the ground, He then grabbed some dirt and began to press it into the triangle. With a bit of force, he compacted this dirt a few times before he tapped the sides of the triangle and lifted it away from the pressed dirt. Removing the triangle form from the ground, what was left was a triangle made entirely of compacted dirt.
Monsuta looked at this dirt-shaped triangle and it was obvious disappointment was present.
“Uhhhhm…Kazuki. Is…Is this it?”
Kazuki laughed and nodded.
“Yes, but it seems you have no enthusiasm. You’re missing the bigger picture. For me, I can easily make a shape like this with my eyes closed but who is it that can not do the same?”
Monsuta’s eyes suddenly lit up as he understood. Before Kauzki could say anything else, Monsuta used his aura to pull over several large boulders made of Monsuta stone. Monsuta lifted one of the boulders before he set it directly on top of the triangle form made from bone.
“So I just have to press like this?”
Kazuki nodded and Monsuta gently pushed the Monsuta stone down on the triangle. He was nervous at first and thought he would crush the bone right away but to is surprise the bone held up quite nicely. This gave him more confidence in it and he used more and more strength.
His special rock slowly but surely began to fit the shape of the triangle.
“That’s good but don’t rely entirely on the shape, use your aura to help your rock fit the mold.”
Monsuta paused and looked between Kazuki and his stone before he added his aura. Just like Kazuki said, with Monsuta’s aura added on, the Monsuta rock took shape ever quicker and soon nearly the entire rock was pushed into the mold.
“Good, now remove the excess on the surface.”
Monsuta moved his tail instinctively and swept the top of the mold cutting the rock off and removing anything that spilled over the edges. With this, the surface had a clean smooth top. Mimicking Kauzki, Monsuta tapped the mold a few times with his tail. In doing so the Monsuta stone inside the mold came loose and fell to the ground with a low thud.
Silence filled the entire cave as Monsuta just stared at the complete triangle. It was now in the shape of a perfect triangle with not a single blemish or mark.
Kazuki picked up the flat stone slate with his aura and tossed it at Monsuta without a second thought.
Monsuta was taken aback and quickly caught it with his own aura. He couldn’t help but roar at Kazuki.
“Kazuki what are you doing!?”
Kazuki shrugged.
“Have you already forgotten just how tough your Monsuta rocks are. You act as if that is a precious fragile gem. Don’t get me wrong, to me that is indeed a treasure of sorts but now that I have created this mold, along with you, it will lose its unique rarity here shortly.”
Monsuta had a mix of emotions. His anger quickly subsided but his stunned look persisted. To Kauzki this was just another tool to be used at his whim. For Monsuta though, this was something truly special.
“Never in my life have I ever made a shape like this. More than that, this triangle is perfect. With my claws, I could never have done this, not in a million years. My aura as well is rough and overbearingly forceful. For me, this is something that I once thought was impossible but in only a few days my whole worldview has been shifted. With my friend’s help, with your help Kazuki, I made something so…so perfect.”
Monsuta continued to look on with pure amazement at what he had just crafted. At first, Kazuki felt this was way past overexaggerating but after pondering for a moment he understood.
(Monsuta was lonely for countless years and out of that loneliness he made friends from the boulders and other rocks he shaped. I never thought about a creature like Monsuta becoming an artist but in truth that is something he naturally became. Monsuta is an artist at heart through and through. For an artist who can’t use their appendages properly or their aura, it must have felt gut-wrenching in a way. To have a certain image in one’s mind yet never be able to bring forth that image into reality. Not from lack of trying or form lack of will but because of literal physical limitations. After all of those years, even if I helped in some capacity, Monsuta pressed the stone himself and made a shape he’s never made in his entire life. It must be both tragic and blissful all at once.)
Kazuki took the triangle mold and set it on the ground at Monsuta’s feet.
“Monsuta, there’s more work to be done. From now on, you will experience far more than this.”
Monsuta felt his heart thump with both adventure and thrill. His tail began to wag and kick up dirt. Like this, Monsuta got to work. One by one he began to press in more boulders with his aura. Very quickly he made the exact quantity Kazuki wished. Actually, in his excitement, he went overboard and made hundreds more than necessary.
“Kazuki I saw you use little bits of bone and some of the black sticky stuff but I don’t see any of the black stuff anywhere. What did you do exactly?”
After Monsuta pressed another mold, Kazuki picked up the bone triangle and showed it to Monsuta.
“Take a look at this. If you looked closely, you can see the black tar stuff almost bleeding through the many layers.”
Monsuta looked but he could not see anything at all. Shaking his big head he was a little upset.
“I can’t see anything. Where are the layers you speak of?”
Kazuki was slightly confused. He could easily see things on a microscopic level if he so wished, no even further than that. He could see atoms if he focused. Monsuta who was like a God among gods should have easily been able to spot the blotches of black that glued the bone shavings together but apparently, he could not.
Kazuki found this odd.
(Is there something wrong with his eyes or is this a trait of his species? If he never saw anything wrong with his current sight then maybe he never thought to adjust his sight with his power. I could teach him but that would take quite a while.)
Kazuki’s hands began to blur as he used the ancient hand symbols. Very quickly he turned the plain stone beneath his feet into a mixture of sand and a few minerals. Afterward, he heated it and turned it into glass. More specifically he made a lens out of it. Adding a few simple inscriptions to it, he made it so that the lens was adjustable with a single thought. Now it could magnify something by a few thousand times.
Kazuki took Monsuta’s eyes into consideration and went ahead and adjusted it to his specifications.
“Just look through this and you’ll see.”
Monsuta naturally closed one eye and looked through the lens and instantly his closed eye snapped open and he almost fell on his big ass.
“That, what is all of that crazy stuff going around?”
Kazuki already knew what Monsuta was referring to and gave a brief explanation of bacteria. Monsuta was shocked to learn that there were tiny organisms just floating around all over. It took Kazuki a bit to convince Monsuta he was safe. After all, Monsuta was at a god-like level. As soon as he explained it though, Kazuki secretly wondered.
(If he did not fix his eyesight even though he’s capable, could his body be in a state that would allow things like bacteria or viruses to invade and harm him? Is that even a thing in a world such as this? Wait, the fact that there are bacteria in this world that can survive and thrive where the temperature reaches several times hotter than the surface of a star is already beyond reason. I would easily notice if something invaded my body but to Monsuta who was completely unaware of such things moments ago…the possibility is not zero.)
After all of the science was out of the way, Monsuta finally calmed down and looked at the many layers of bone shavings and saw the black sticky stuff in between. He was blown away at Kazuki’s ingenuity and found himself getting blown away time and time again.
He felt giddy and wondered.
“What’s next?”
Kazuki lifted up a few of the stone triangle slates. Each one was made in such a way that so long as they were stacked in a certain arrangement the weight of them would cause them to lock into place. Kazuki put three of them together with a confident look.
“Now I build my chamber.”
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