NOVGO.NET Chapter 1739 The Ring Details
— Kat —
“Sooo… what sort of sizes should me dear friends be looking for?” said Sue doing her best attempt at seduction as they were walking to the next destination. Nel was leading the way and… well Sue was trying. It was sort of hard though because Nel was huge. Sue wasn’t even half his height and so she looked more like a small child clinging onto Nel’s legs. It was actually a bit funny to watch. It was flustering Nel at least.
“Oh… um… well… so there are a few different ‘tiers’ of sizes when it comes to storage space. The lowest, or Tier 0 is for storing exactly one thing. Which is funny actually, because they’re almost always designed for holding a specific object. This means that if the object is large enough the Tier 0 size can actually be upwards of a planet sized storage space. Though… um… that doesn’t mean it’s easy. Not at all so it’s mostly a technicality thing…
“After that is Tier 1 or um… purse size. When you’re first starting out these are actually kinda hard to make. I mean, for artisanal version. You can pump them out with factory enchantments fairly quickly and once you get the hang of things a master can crank out a bunch in an afternoon… but the detailed work for them is just a pain. Oh, also despite being called ‘Purse Size’ they can go up to about backpack size before stepping into the next rank.
“Which is Tier 2 or wardrobe size. Oh, um… so one more thing about the sizes is that technically they’re judged by if you can hold the object in question or not. So a purse sized storage ring can hold a purse, and a wardrobe sized one can hold a wardrobe. One of those small moveable ones you can put wherever not a walk in closet or something like that.
“After that you have room sized, Tier 3 which can extend up to three rooms. Though even if it’s all still a ‘Tier 3’ ring people tend to be specific about exactly how many rooms you can fit. If they don’t brag about it? Probably just the one room. Which um… so I don’t really know WHO we’re going to see, just that I know where the guy is… so um… maybe keep that in mind? I really don’t know,”
Nell shook his head as Sue leaned further into his leg getting awfully close to certain bits of anatomy that may or may not have been comfortable in tight pants. Nel continued as he fixed his stride to be a bit wider to keep Sue away, as she was stuck on the outside of his legs. “Above that is Tier 4 and they come in house size or warehouse size. They’re both considered tier 4 but the differences at this point can be huge. There are some warehouse sized ones that you can fit streets into.
“Tier 5 is called the portable town. Which… might be overly generous? Tier 5 covers a disgustingly large range from ‘barely enough to fit a full street’ which some Tier 4 rings can do, all the way up to ‘you could fit the whole town inside’ type of sizes. It’s also the point at which the Tier system sort of breaks down.
“Cause Tier 6? That’s PLANET sized and you don’t really get people who sell those often if ever. Nobody really makes them because it just costs so much time and effort. Like… I don’t know if you can appreciate what I’m saying but a Tier 6 ring is something that needs DECADES of investment by a single craftsmen to achieve.
“You can’t take too many days off or it destabilizes. Can’t get help because guess what? Destabilises. The ring itself for one of these? It has to be built in a secondary pocket dimension because you can’t fit enough tiny engraved runes onto the surface of a ring even if you hollow out the centre and if that breaks down before you finish? Destabilizes.
“If you get sick and you sneeze at the wrong time? Destabilizes. You need to be in almost perfect health, constantly work on it and just… the effort required is astronomical. The only way Tier 6 rings get built is if someone has a special ability to help with the process and even then you just don’t sell them because it’s still decades of work. You want to keep that sort of things most of the time,”
Nel blushed as he realised he’d sort of been ranting a bit. “Sorry it’s just… I love this sort of thing. It’s why I want to get into proper crafting and not just charging the runes for some of the smaller bags. So… I’m a bit passionate about it. That’s not even getting into additional features those are just the different sizes and well… most people don’t even know Tier 6 exists. It’s not like anyone can list the prices for it,”
“Question,” proposed Lily. Nel nodded and Lily took that as a sign to continue, “You mentioned that machines can be used to help with small rings… why not have them help with the bigger rings?”
“Because they just can’t,” said Nel. “Or well, maybe if you had someone at like Rank 9 help build the machines you might be able to figure something out but that’s not really relevant. The big issue is that the rune work needs to be charged in a certain way. For the smaller bags you can just pump demonic energy and coat all the runes at once. Like… like just slapping a bit of tape on a leaky pipe instead of replacing the pipe.
“For small enough bags you can just slap a bunch of energy on there and the runes will take care of things. You’re essentially providing enough energy for the pocket dimension to grow to the correct size. For the bigger sizes though? They take way more demonic energy then anyone has in a given moment. You’ve got to slowly feed the energy in…
“And you need to be drawing the runes at the same time. I’m not sure why myself, it hasn’t come up in my studies but for a proper craftsman? You add runes and energy at the same time then sort of… tie it off? Keep it stable? The pocket space will shrink while left unattended if you leave it but for most sizes that’s fine. It’s only the big ones where you’re taking so many breaks and still potentially losing ground. If you take too long drawing the rune you might lose progress, but if you go too fast you run out of energy and need to take a break… losing progress.
“You can sort of build in ‘stopping points’ in your rune work to help stabilise things but that’s a bit more advanced and not everyone knows how to do it. I mean, I know how in theory but in practice it’s a bit beyond me at the moment,” explained Nel.
Lily nodded along but Sue was soon ready with a follow up question and well… she seemed to be enjoying herself so neither Kat nor Lily wanted to but in too much when it was getting them good information. “So what about features? What fancy features would you recommend?”
“Um… so there are a few different things that you want but some of them you only need one of. So… first is the ‘list’ enchantment where you add a sort of… mental tag to something when you put in into storage? Then you just think of that tag and pull the item out. The issue is that you tend to have a limited number of tags and you won’t know which version you’re getting.
“So like… if you put in say… three sandwiches all tagged sandwich but one is beef, one is chicken and one is salad. It doesn’t matter if you want a beef sandwich you’ll just get any sandwich. Unless you have the better version of the enchantment. It’s called the ‘true desire’ enchantment but it’s just a fancy name for working out what you’re thinking and picking the right item.
“Problem is… that’s a lot harder to make and the poor quality ones are super slow to work out. It’s much easier to make a quick, snappy list enchantment then a true desire one. If you need a weapon right now… and it takes three or four seconds you’re not going to be happy and some people have it as long as TEN. Which… well to my master that’s unacceptable.
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“Obviously you only one want or the other. Um… you do usually want a ‘time stop’ enchantment because things experience time weirdly in storage rings and it’s safer just to stop or mostly stop time moving. ‘Time stop’ technically counts anything below one second passing for every day of real time. Which for a lot of people is good enough. So if that’s not good enough you might want to ask specifically about it.
“Other than that you can also…”