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

Audemars

The machinery that was operated by the young boy would not be able to duplicate minerals but would be able to duplicate other materials.

Hmm... If I could use this machine to duplicate some of my twins' clothes, then the twins would not have to worry about getting to wait for their clothes to dry everyone and we could make 7 pairs of clothes for each design. Hahaha.

How cool is that idea?

Or maybe, we could put a toasted bread inside and then duplicate it to have more bread to share with our community. Hahaha. It would prevent food shortages during wartime...!

I saw the dial that had three rolling digits and that could mean only thing — the number of duplicates... Hahaha.

Imagine a toasted bread been duplicated 999 times...! We could even begin selling them to the town folks to increase our coins in the treasury. Hahaha.

What a great money-making scheme and what a way to make full use of these technologies. Hahaha.

I guessed this cheat would be available to me only and be considered as a kind of special ability. So, not only am I a ruler of a town, but I was also being considered as a witch with an ability to duplicate. Hahaha.

Audemars the Duplicator.

Sounds so OP, bad naming and stupid at the same time. Hahahaha. What the hell... Hahaha.

I was laughing to myself and chuckling away at my ridiculous wild thoughts and ideas when the flurry images before me started to flash by again.

We just leave those wild thoughts aside, shall we? Hahaha.

The flurry images finally slowed and stopped in another set of scenario. I heard my name being called and I twirled around, expecting to be in a first person's perspective but in the end, fortunately, I was still in the third person's perspective.

I saw a fairly young man, tall handsome, sturdy but with blond hair which indicates that I was still not seeing my present body yet but he was definitely called by the same name as I am.

Weird... How could I have the same name as the one in front of me and he was definitely clad in a more glamorous armour and holding a greater sword than my own short sword that was salvaged from the room of my Manor back in Darlington.

This dude in front of me was definitely a much older version of me from the way he held his demeanour high before me.

"Audemars... Are you heading down to the production area? There are some new plants here that need to be cultivated and waiting for you."

I heard a woman's voice calling my name and I followed the Audemars who was before me as he walked out of the bedroom after he had donned his armour. I wondered where he would be heading to and crept up behind him, just in case he would sense or spot me.

Then I learnt of my stupidity that this was part of my recollections and no way he would be able to sense or spot me at all...! Hahaha.

The other Audemars walked out of the main hall and I saw that the whole set up of the place was made of some kind of masonry. Was it some kind of castle that I used to live in before?

Was this also some kind of future that the image was playing before me? I can't really tell but it seemed that it was called a parallel universe that Ceres had mentioned through Selena before.

I followed the other Audemars as he walked out to the sides of the house after kissing a woman that looked once again like Heather.

Why do the female characters in this meditative subconscious state of mind all looked like Heather? Would it be nice to have someone else and start a harem? Hahaha.

"Good morning, my dear Trish. How are you today and what are you making for breakfast?" the other Audemars were quite romantic in my point of view and hey... Maybe I could learn a few things or two from this other Audemars.

I saw the other Audemars was grabbing the round butt of Trish/Heather as the other Audemars gave a big kiss and held the waist close to him as Trish/Heather laughed gaily at their early morning tease.

I cleared my throat as if to signal that there was me watching them and should act more decently, as if. Hahaha...!

"Oh, I was looking at the menu that you had packed over here by the kitchen sink and I was thinking of coming up with my own based on the ingredients that you had set aside here in the list as well."

"Hmm... Crispy flatbread with curried sardines and yard long beans, carrots and shallots and garlic. I think I would need to get to the market to get the curry and sardines as we do have some flour to make this Crispy flatbread."

"It seemed that this Crispy flatbread would really need a lot of animal fat, doesn't it dear?"

I listened in to the conversation and discovered that the other Audemars was also married to the same Trish/Heather as well. Well... I guessed this other Audemars was as faithful as me. Besides, both Heather in front of me right now was also adept in culinary skills too. Hahaha.

I watched Trish /Heather leave the castle and head down to the marketplace while I followed the other Audemars as he went to the side of the castle and knelt down before a bucket of water.

He rubbed his hands together lightly and I could see the glow of energy that emitted from his hands. Is this the healing and rejuvenation energy that the bald-headed guy was mentioning about?

Being able to heal and rejuvenate just by running the two hands together and then letting the light work on itself.

But why was the other Audemars was doing over a bucket of water?

I saw some small globules of a bluish-white light drop from the palms of his hands and into the bucket of water. After the other Audemars had done so, he transferred the bucket of water into a large keg of water that was standing at the side of a tap and poured the whole contents into it.

After the other Audemars had finished mixing the 'rejuvenated' water from the bucket into the large keg, he took a bucket full of water along with him went to plants that were considered as a bit shrivelled as their leaves seemed to be moulting and fell to the ground.

The next thing that the other Audemars was doing really astounded me. Is the other Audemars was trying to tell me that he was not only do healing but also was like Priestess Penelope that would be able to command these plants to grow and bear fruits faster?

The water that was inside the bucket was slowly sprinkled on the plants and also the ground and the next moment, the trees began to spring into life...!

The water was healing and rejuvenating the withered plants and gave life to it as the branches were no more drooping as if it was suddenly awakened.

There were new sprouts growing out from the branches and new leaves began to emerge as well. It was as if the plant had finally awakened from its sleep and after the other Audemars had finished watering the plants, he poured the remaining water onto the ground.

I could see as if the plants were shivering as it was given renewed energy and even appeared to grow a few inches higher after it had stopped rejuvenating...!

Wow... Duplicator, transmigrator, smelter, healer, rejuvenator, ass grabber. Hahaha. The last part is censored and would only be available in the confines of the bedroom. Hahaha.

What do you know, at least there's something I could learn from this subconscious state of mind.

A set of flurry images soon flew past me once again as I waited for the next image to appear and brought me to a new scene instead.

And then, one of the images stopped as it showed me the realm of plane once again and the other Audemars was hard at work again. He was standing in front of the machines and was holding on to a piece of weapon, it looked awfully familiar since I had seen it once in my life before.

It was had a red coloured blade and a black coloured rope was bounded around the handle. The blade itself was rather unique. It was single-sided, had a pointed tip like a normal dagger would look like and a serrated edge somewhere near the tip right down the middle and teeth from the centre right down to the hilt.

It was a blade breaker and somehow I saw a crate at the sides that were labelled as Dragon's Fang. The name was OP and it would be fitting for such a dagger of at least 1 foot long...! I guessed the moment the dagger was unsheathed, there would be a lot of dagger welders whom would run away from its fearsome sight.

No one would have another hole in their body by the menacing look of this blade breaker. Although it's primary use would be to block, parry and counter with another sword wielder, but having a sharp tip and serrated edge could even do some serious damage over light to medium armour...!

The other Audemars placed the blade breaker in the centre round plate and he had several pieces of iron plates with him at the side and he placed it inside on one of the smaller plates. He closed the sliding door and chose Create > Weapon and then pulled at the lever beside the machine.

I peered over and saw that there was a small imprint on the iron piece and it read as "SS-4" and I looked at the machine as it had some lights on the front panel and it was going around clockwise and I got giddy after watching the spinning lights.

It finally stopped spinning after some time as a similar bell sounded rang from it.

*Ding* Congratulations. Creation Complete. Level 4 Steel Blade Breaker Attained. Damage +14. Block +10. Armour Break +8. Free Socket 3.

The other Audemars smiled to himself as he did not remove the newly upgraded blade breaker but instead, he placed a red ruby, a green emerald and a blue sapphire on the smaller plates inside the machine and around the recently upgraded weapon.

It seemed that he had currently upgraded the blade breaker from iron to steel. Right now the other Audemars was trying to enhance the weapon by inserting three gemstones inside the empty sockets.

I wanted to find out what are the uses for the gemstones if they were socketed inside a weapon, shield or pieces of armour. I wonder what kind of effect it would enhance those socketed items.

However, my questions remained unanswered and I hope some of the Priest or Priestess would be able to shed some light on this matter as this would be considered as an uncharted piece of knowledge that no one would readily share.

I watched what the other Audemars was doing and I saw another dial which I had missed and it was to createeforge and other whatnot and I saw the other Audemars turned the dial to fusion > enhance > weapon and cranked the lever towards him once more.

I walked about the realm since there's no point to wait around for the machine to finished performing its task and I saw 20 small crates on the floor that had been clearly labelled as poor, fair, good, excellent and perfect.

In each of the small crates, I saw sparkling gemstones that I had guessed would weigh several pounds each and there were rubies, sapphires, emeralds and diamonds.

The crates marked as poor was close to the brim while the next ascending ones were lesser than the other until it reached the perfect ones which were only left a few paltry pieces.

I tried to pick one up and found to my dismay that the piece that I tried to pick up failed once again as my hands passed through it like I was invisible or something.

I looked around the realm that was created by me in my subconscious mind and I saw a piece of paper stuck on one of the machines and saw that there was some indication of how many gems required to make into fair to perfect gemstones and its a multiplier of 5 each time.

Just to make a single piece of fair gem, it needs 5 poor quality ones. So to make a single good piece it would need 5 fair gems and 25 poor quality gems.

As I was calculating the number of pieces of gems to make each stage, a familiar bell sounded from the machine and I went over to look together with the other Audemars.

I was excited as the other Audemars as the announcement rang in our heads.

*Ding* Congratulations. Fusion and enhancement complete. Weapon attribute as follows: Fire Damage +8, Poison Damage +20, Cold Damage +5.

Too bad the weapon doesn't have 4 sockets or the other Audemars would have inserted a piece of diamond and we would have known the effects of the enhancement.

Suddenly, I heard a distant soft ringing of bells and I thought that the machines were giving out notifications all at the same time. Before I knew it the soft ringing became louder and more intense and I felt myself disintegrating.

I looked at my hands and it was slowly dissipating in colour, texture even and I was finding myself getting into the kind of vortex that I had entered through in the earlier part of the subconscious mind.

"Yo, the other Audemars...! See you soon brother... I think I've been summoned now and hope we can get together sometime...!" I hollered out and somehow I saw the other Audemars peering behind his shoulder as he happened to look at me and I felt as though he finally realised my existence...!

Suddenly all went dark and I could no longer feel the weightlessness but rather I felt like a ton of bricks was laid on my body as I heard the ringing of the bells close to my ears as I reached out to touch the bells to stop them from ringing...!