Spending My Retirement In A Game

Chapter 874: Watchmaking (2)

Eisen grabbed the small crucible, pouring the liquid hot steel into the moulds. It didn't take them all too long to cool down either, as the moulds had been specifically enchanted to speed up the process. That meant that Eisen could grab the small parts very quickly, starting to detach the gears, plates, and springs from it.

He sorted all the pieces into a smaller, segmented box depending on the specific size and shape of piece, like how many teeth the gears had or how strong the springs were.

Once he did, he glanced over at the couple dozen wooden casings that he made for the watches that he was about to put together, grabbing the first to get to work. He grabbed all the pieces that he needed, using tweezers to put them into the correct positions.

This was a very finicky job, so he had to go relatively slowly, but at the same time, it was relaxing enough, letting the old man dive into the work headfirst without having to think too much about what he was doing.

Eisen took a few deep breaths as he finished placing the last part of the first watch into the wooden casing. He repeated this for all of the other watches, mindlessly working away at this while thinking about plenty of matters that were bothering him. Mostly, it was concern about what would happen if Samuel managed to somehow interfere with the meeting after all.

The meeting room had finished construction, but that didn't mean that it was totally invulnerable to outside interference. It was always possible that Samuel took over a powerful individual and then commanded others to cause a mess while the actual meeting was going on. Or, he could always be trying to attack the meeting place with some powerful monster that Eisen and the others didn't know about.

Of course, that wasn't the kind of thing that the originals really had to worry about, considering that all five of them were going to be gathered there, but that didn't change the fact that you could never be too careful in regard to politics.

All of the envoys were currently on their way to the harbor islands, and from what Komer had told Eisen in some messages, the people from the holy empire that were coming had already been causing some issues before departure, as was to be expected.

They were continuously complaining about the fact that they had to 'entertain monsters trying to play as being people', something that seemed to be a fairly well-supported sentiment amongst people on the anti-monster side of things. Eisen was positive that they would make a mess of the meeting, whether it was deliberate or not.

The indented numerals were filled in with the ruby through this specific application of transmutation, and once the first face was done, Eisen moved on to the next. He finished them all, handing the rest of the ruby back to Constant who quickly brought it back into storage to the others.

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As he held one of the watch faces up, Eisen was quite happy with the result. It certainly looked quite high-class, especially knowing the numbers weren't just paint, but actual rubies. The old man carefully fitted the faces into the wooden casings, clicking them into place perfectly into the small groove.

He used transmutation to slightly widen each of the faces to make them fit tightly without falling out.

And then, it was time for the small, black watch hands. He really just had to click them into place into the right parts of the mechanism sticking out through the hole in the middle of the watch face. With that, it was time to place the other round panes of glass onto the watches, fitting them into their position by clicking a small wooden ring over them into place, locking everything down tightly.

Just like that, the main watches were done. Eisen turned one of the watches around, pouring some mana into the small enchantment on the underside. Different to the crystal prototype, these watches held some compressed mana batteries that would just need to be filled up every few weeks.

All those noble envoys would have plenty of people to supply the mana for them, if they were even going to use those watches regularly in the first place.

With some quiet tics, the watch started up, and everything seemed to be working perfectly fine. Eisen turned the small wooden cog on the side of casing and set it to the currently correct time, quite happy with the small item. He was going to pre-set each of the watches to the local time of the home of the envoy who would receive it before gifting it to them.

After a slight stretch, Eisen walked over to the nearby workbench and grabbed the roll of leather. Now he just had to make the leather bands for each of the watches. That was going to be an easy job as well, he just had to cut out all the pieces, round out the edges, punch the holes, add the buckles, and then attach the bands to the actual watch.