“Huh… Where did he wander off to? Did he find a wife bird outside?” Angor complained aloud.
He came here to get the Echo Flower he needed. The two flowers he received from Toby were used up in his preliminary experiments, which did not go in vain—he successfully learned how to solve the problem about how the flower could only replay something once.
He needed new flower as the main material to craft the music box. Not one, but two, since he also needed to give a gift to Lady Mirror. And Toby only had two flowers left.
He heard something flying past the air when taking the Echo Flowers.
A colorful shadow dashed past the window and landed in front of Angor. Toby was dressed as… a fairy in children’s tales. There was even a tiny garland on Toby’s head made from a number of beautiful flowers.
Toby pointed a wing to the flowers in Angor’s hand. “Tweet! Ack! Squark!”
“I need them for the music box. The ones you gave me are spent in a test,” Angor replied to Toby’s bird language like it was as easy as talking to people.
Toby gave Angor a doubtful look. He was quite impressed when listening to the City of Sky, and hoped that the young master could create the promised music box as soon as possible. However, it had been some time now. Toby was struggling to decide whether he should wait for the music box or keep the valuable flowers.
“Don’t worry. I’ll make it within today. I give you my word,” said Angor as he thumped his chest.
He did not consider that this was his first time trying to make something other than weapons, which meant he might fail.
Toby chose to believe Angor’s words and finally nodded.
“Alright. Just do something else while waiting. I have everything prepared. I’ll give you the box tonight if nothing goes wrong,” Angor spoke. He suddenly noticed a faint smell of mountain flowers coming off Toby’s feathers. “By the way, who gave you the flower dress? It’s new, right? Look, there are still dew drops on it.”
Toby waved his wings here and there while chirping quickly as an answer.
“You made a new friend? Nice. Just be careful not to get tricked by bad guys, okay?”
Angor was not worried about this in the least since Toby was probably many times more deadly than himself. Rather, Toby was the one who would get concerned of Angor’s safety, so the bird often followed Angor from afar to protect his young master.
However, Angor did not really believe that someone who weaved such an exquisite flower dress was a “bad guy”.
Angor took the two flowers back into his lab and immediately began working.
Various materials melted into strange-colored substances in his spell and became different components under the manipulation of Hand of Spell.
His crafting process was smooth. However, something went unbalanced when he was trying to apply runes onto the finished model and caused a giant explosion.
Thankfully, he noticed the energy disruption in advance and moved away in time.
When thinking about his mistake, he realized that he had placed the runes inside the area of the illusion.
He had to keep a stable mana flow while drawing the rune. Since the rune was located too close to the illusion nodes, the mana accidentally triggered the nodes and ruined the whole process.
It was nothing unsolvable though. He simply needed to finish and stabilize the rune first before applying the illusion.
He looked at the broken Echo Flower and silently apologized to Toby.
The second attempt went well. Angor carefully drew the Tranquility Rune onto the object before laying down the illusion nodes.
He had already learned the experience when creating the demon falcon statue in Sunders’ study, which helped him finished the micro illusion in a short time.
The next important step was to record the music into the music box and create a trigger for the Acoustic Illusion.
He had done many perfect simulations before, but he would act as cautious as possible when doing the real deal.
As the music started, Angor immediately determined it as a way to trigger the illusion.
To make the illusion appear more “comforting” to people, he made the illusion gradually materialize in the air like ripples on water surface caused by a cobblestone. This way, he could tell people that the illusion was harmless as well as allowing them to enjoy the smooth transition as if traveling through time and space.