Spending my retirement in a game

chapter 65

Eisen activated his Leatherworking Crafting Space and tightly held the piece of leather meant for the Automaton's torso together around the belly, before slowly stabbing through one of the sides with his needle to pull the waxed threads through the soon-to-be skin, simply but tightly sewing the leather together on the underside along its whole torso.

After finishing attaching the large piece of leather on the Wolf automaton's body, Eisen moved on to attaching one of the smaller pieces to the tail, and then did the legs next.

Up until now, it was all relatively easy to do, simply sewing the piece itself together, and then sewing it to the pieces of leather immediately adjacent to it. This didn't require a lot of fine work, but simply patience, which Eisen had more than enough of.

The parts that did in fact need a little bit more skill to do properly were the paws and the head, since they were smaller and slightly more complex than the other body parts. After Eisen sewed on the paws, he even added small ovals of thicker and stronger leather on the bottom to protect the skin while the Automaton would be walking or running around.

The last part that Eisen would now need to put leather onto was the head. He first added leather around the main part of the skull, leaving the snout and ears exposed, and connected it to the leather that was already around the neck. After that, Eisen added leather around the top and bottom of the snout, and all around the ears.

There were now some loose areas, where Eisen wasn't able to fully attach the leather. These were around the mouth and eyes. What Eisen did to make sure they were properly attached, was to basically tack the edges to the outside of the Automaton's body through adding some small brass pins and using transmutation to make sure everything fit properly. This would later be covered by fur anyway, so it didn't matter if the pins were still slightly visible.

Now, the Automaton was covered in a layer of strong leather, slightly darker than a wolf's regular exposed skin, but still making it look like someone simply shaved a wolf that went through a lot of operations in its life.

But now, it was really time for the fur, and Eisen already had a great idea on what to do. He walked over to the wolf's hide, and pushed out his mana, completely enveloping the whole surface area of what used to be an animal's skin, including the fur, which was what Eisen wanted just there.

Eisen tried to concentrate only on the fur, to basically only copy it instead of the whole hide. It took a while of going through every part of it and making sure that it was truly only the hairs that Eisen copied, but in the end, Eisen achieved his goal.

He then immediately pushed out some of his mana and formed the multple mana copies of the fur, piecing them together to create the proper shape before overlaying it with the Wolf Automaton, all the way down to creating the roots that would properly keep the hairs in the leather.

After that, Eisen grabbed the leftover brass ingots, and held one of them onto the Automaton's skin, activating his transmutation to make the hairs of mana pull in some of the brass ingot in his hand to create brass fur.

The old man did this for every part of the Automaton's body, until a wolf shining in a beautiful golden color stood in front of him. That was also a reason why he chose to create this Automaton out of Brass, beside it being a good material for it. Since Brass could be mistaken for gold on first sight, Eisen thought it fit well with this being a test given to him by an Ancient Gold Dragon.

He would have made it out of gold, if it wasn't such a bad material to work with. It was great in small amounts for decoration, but it was far to heavy and soft to use properly for real equipment. So, Brass was the best choice.

But at that moment, Eisen didn't think about any of this anymore. He simply wanted to push his mana into the Beast Golem Core to make it pair with the Automaton Body, and see if it properly worked. Before then, he slowly poured the lubricant that he brought with him down the throat of the wolf's body to fill the tank up and then closed the hatch to make sure it couldn't flow back out.