'Til Kingdom Comes - The Banished Prince Vol 3: The Prophecy

Gemstones

"So dear, tell me more about the machines on your realm. I'm fascinated with it since its able to produce so much of those pieces of armours within a short span of the hour. Could this technology of yours be brought back to the real world?"

Heather inquired with much interest and had not left me with a chance but to relate to her everything that I knew about the machines and its uses.

Much to her dismay, she discovered that the machines could not be brought back since it would disintegrate once it left the realm. And besides, how the heck would I be transporting those machines back here then?

Hug it tight as I left my meditative state of mind?

I then told her that paper and ink could be brought back as well since I could draw up something that I had seen in the realm so that she could have a clearer picture. I also told her about the encyclopedia books that I had visualised and this brought her interests to a higher peak.

"You said paper and ink could be brought back, do you think you could bring back some encyclopedia with you? Those reference books really Spark my interest especially baking and cooking recipes. Hehehe."

Heather was literally bounding in her seat as she heard about the ability to bring back paper and ink and therefore I would be able to bring back the current encyclopedia instead.

"You can try, Audemars. I'm sure since the encyclopedia was made of paper and ink, there would be a way to bring it back to the real world and share with your lovely wife." Ceres replied and I answered telepathically that I would try to bring back the B and C reference encyclopedia for Heather to flip through.

It seemed that Heather would be able to find the most time to read and read the books compare to me who is now trying to improve on my own strength, endurance and agility. I also had not brought back the pieces of gemstones for the appraisal and told her to wait a while.

I sat at the dining table of the conference hall and right there and then, I entered my meditative state and went to fetch a few pieces of poor quality gemstones and then returned back to the real world, clutching those gemstones in my hands.

When I opened up my eyes, I unclutched my hands and produced the poor quality gemstones to Heather.

"Waaaahh... Gems...! Are all these you brought back from the realm in a short while ago? Wow... You are really like a wizard now and people would think you are some sort of magician that could fetch things from thin air....!"

Heather screamed in delight as she took the pieces of poor quality gems from my hands and began to look closely at them.

She had no knowledge on how to all wise these gemstones and to her it looked all the same to her.

In fact, when I explained to her they these are poor quality ones, she was surprised since she thought that these gemstones looked perfectly alright to her...!

"Let me tell you a secret that I had known from the realm, my dear. This would be Informational from you since previously old Jack had retrieved these from the set of damaged weapons and armours from Darlington."

"I am not sure if the scrap weapons and armours were from our soldiers or from the enemies or even being brought there by our enemies even, but somehow these gemstones signify something mythical about them."

Heather scooted close to me as I picked the gemstones from her and set it in front of me in a line. I explained to Heather as she seemed like a simple person from the outside but in fact, she was very smart indeed among her peers.

If she was of a hereditary peerage I don't think would meet her running along with the pioneers during the early stages.

I explained to her that ruby which is the colour of red which represents fire. If added to weapon, shield or armours, it would add fire damage, fire resistance and increase one's life to +8,+16% and +17 respectively.

Next, I have explained to her about the emerald which is the colour of green which represents poison. If added to weapons, shields and armours, it would add poison damage, poison resistance and also increase one's dexterity to +20, +16% and +4 respectively.

Following that, I explained about the sapphires which are blue in colour they represent cold. If added to weapon, shields and armour, it would give an added cold damage, cold resistance and mana of +5, +16% and +17 mana each.

Last but not least, the diamonds which are girls best friends. They are clear types, not crystal and adds total resistance to all elements plus other attributes. If added to weapons, shields and armours, it would give +34% damage, +8 to all resistance and +40 attack rating.

Heather was simply awed by the information that was prompted off-hand by Ceres and narrated by me like a parrot. Who would remember such details since it involved with colours, attributes distribution, damage rating and so on and so forth?

There's so much information for each gem and luckily there are only 4 gemstones so far to be related to.

"These statistics are for the poor quality ones and there are fair ones, good ones, excellent and perfect ones. Each differential stages of quality add 5 to 10% rating to its attributes."

"I am not sure for the rest of those people who had socketed these gemstones in their weapons, shields or armours but I'm pretty sure it enhances their prowess as a soldier or fighter on the battlefront."

"Not that I have seen them in action but somehow I think Priest Michael would be able to tell us more in detail about these gemstones and what they could do for oneself."

Heather listened to me narrate the details of the gemstones and the uses as she made mental notes and insisted that she brought back the baking and cooking books to her soonest possible.

As we had just completed a heavy lunch, and our twins were literally dozing on their high seats, the domain helpers helped the children to bed. As for both of us, a stroll to the Priest and Priestess would do us some good.

After we kissed our twins and told them to sleep when they had been brought up to their bedroom, the twins waved their dainty hands and held the domain helpers as they were carried off upstairs.

We then walked out of the conference hall and patted our bellies and walked to the Priest and Priestess guild while we greeted the town folks who were milling about the town square after their meals.

"Good morrow everyone. Have you taken your meals yet? Sorry to barge in like this but I would like to announce that there's a new Priest that would be arriving soon." I announced in a jokingly manner the moment I stepped inside the guild for the Priest and Priestess.

Previously, they were situated at the back of Old Jack's blacksmith and after much persuasion by us, they reluctantly move towards a guild of their own. At least what they would be doing or discussing would not be a disruption to others and likewise to them too.

Hearing that another Priest would be joining them soon, they were delighted and began to encircle me and to inquire who would that next Priest would be.

"It would be me, my good friends... Hahaha. Do you believe that I would also be categorised as a wizard one day?" I claimed aloud and some of the Priest and Priestess guffawed when they heard about me being awakened as a wizard.

Priestess Penelope looked at me and somehow she was a bit mum because she saw something out of the ordinary.

Unlike good Witches, she could see multiple auras like a rainbow but when she trained her eyes at me, she discovered that I too emitted the same type of aura.

Somehow she remained silent and does her usual work on her corner of the room instead.

"What makes you a wizard, Your Majesty?" asked Priestess Farah as she inched closer and placed her face on her palms as she leaned across the table to look closely at me.

Looking at her playfulness, Heather simply smiled and laughed along.

"Well, for a start, I believe I am from the future and had travelled back and forth on the past and future and then back again until I lost track."

"Right now, I am able to bring back certain things from the realm which is considered as the future back here to this present time."

"Michael, could you kindly take a look at these pieces of gemstones and tell me what you can find out from this?"

I placed the 4 pieces of gems on the table and Priest Michael looked at it closely as he picked one and looked at it through some light. He then placed one gem and picked the other as he repeated the whole process.

" It seemed that the gemstone was of poor quality as mentioned by you, Your Majesty, but I don't think I could find anything wrong with it."

"Maybe the shimmer of the gems were not that sparkling and that was it. Would you like me to bring up 4 pieces of gemstones so that you would be able to evaluate?"

Priest Michael suggested to me and I find it as a reasonable idea since the only person that could evaluate every single piece would be Ceres, the system guidance herself.

"That is absolutely true, Audemars. Through you then would I be able to appraise their quality. Bring it up, Michael."

Ceres answered me even if I never question her since I just thought aloud in my head and I nodded my head for Priest Michael to bring those pieces up from his pan.

A short while later, one after another emerges from the pan as he set it aside against the one that I had brought back from the realm.

When Priest Michael had completed his task I saw from the shimmer alone that the gemstones that had been conjured up were far better quality than the ones I brought back.

As I picked one Ruby into my hand, Ceres sounded in my head as she stated, "Evaluating Ruby piece. 1%...2%...5%..." and it took slightly more than a minute to reach 100%. I was surprised when Ceres informed me that the piece conjured up by Priest Michael was of 'Good' quality gemstone...!

"Michael... The Ruby piece that you had conjured up was of good quality which was 2 times better than mine...! Let me check the rest and give me about 5 minutes to do so." I was delighted at the discovery and I held the blue sapphire instead and Ceres slowly begins her evaluation.

After close to 5 minutes, Ceres had finally completed her appraisal and informed me that all the gemstones that had been conjured up were of good quality.

To be able to get 5 pieces of good gemstones alone, I need to fuse 125 of poor quality ones...!

"I have finished evaluating these gemstones, Michael and they are all good quality ones. They are much better than the ones I have but if you could locate where these minerals are, then there would be a possibility of meeting these mythical creatures that guard them, don't you think?"

I mentioned it as a matter of fact and the rest was a bit surprised when I mentioned about me meeting the mythical creatures. "How are you going to communicate with them, Your Majesty? They are simply invisible to our naked eyes and we need a special Priest or Priestess that could communicate and interact with them normally."

One of them queried me since I brought up quite a taboo subject. Suddenly, Priestess Penelope came to me with a cup filled with clear water that she had taken from a dispenser and she placed it before me.

"Conjure up your healing and rejuvenation powers here into the cup, Your Majesty. I overheard last night that you were able to conjure up some small orbs and drop them into the water. Then the water became part of healing and rejuvenation powers when one drank or shower from it."

Priestess Penelope said as she sat back at the corner of the room and observed me through her crystal glass eyes.

"Just concentrate and use your internal energies. You had unlocked them but had not used them."

"However, once you use them at this stage you would deplete your mana pool completely or even half of it."

"Go ahead and concentrate and rub your hands together to generate some heat. Remember what the bald-headed man had told you."

Ceres spoke to me in my mind and I replied to her that I would give it a shot. I felt a bit shameful to show what I had learnt and practised in front of those professionals who had their own set of special abilities before me.

Soon, I flowed my eyes and concentrated 5he internal energies that flowed from the centre of my abdomen and it slowly made a figure 8 to the top of the crown and down to my nether region.

As I concentrated on my internal energies as it flowed around all my 7 points, I heard a series of popping sounds.