Lorcan understood. While it did sort of hurt his pride a little bit since he basically raised the elite kids, he still nodded. He knew that these mages could honestly become much stronger than his own assassins if they trained well simply because they had mana veins.
He gave one final nod and turned to look at the mages.
"Follow me."
Then he paused and turned back to look at Adrian.
"I will need a massive amount of potions and medicines for their recovery. Specifically for physical recovery. Since they are mages, I will not be focusing on their mana or their mana veins much. And I am also not that knowledgeable when it comes to that specific subject anyway."
He pointed a thumb at the crowd.
"I will focus purely on their physical technique. Their mastery over their own bodily movements and their baseline physical capabilities. I will take care of all that. But once the time comes and they hit a wall, I will hand them over to you for the magic side."
Adrian nodded in agreement.
"Okay then. Also make sure to do some research and teach them about different combat styles. Teach them how to integrate different magic into those styles. I don’t want mere knights who just happen to have a lot of mana sitting uselessly within them. I will take care of magical theory but do give them a few spells to work with."
He tapped his temple.
"I want knights who can actively use magic while they fight in close quarters. Each one of their fighting methods can be completely unique if they want it to, but it must be efficient and it must be effective. No wasted movements."
Lorcan nodded.
"Okay. I will keep that in mind."
And then the assassin just started walking away.
The massive group of mages just stood there for a second. Half of them looked like they already deeply regretted their decision to sign the soul contract. They looked like they wanted to cry. But now they couldn’t really do anything anymore because their souls were literally bound to Oresfall.
So they just slumped their shoulders and ended up following Lorcan like a line of depressed ducks. Though, there were a lot of them who still looked pretty enthusiastic and optimistic.
Adrian turned away from them and looked at the thousands of normal soldiers that he had. He saw that they were still training and running drills. None of his whole speech or his massive recruitment of the mages had distracted them at all. They were completely focused on their own grind.
He smiled a little and walked away.
He headed back into his mansion and went straight to his own bedroom. He locked the doors behind him and immediately got to work.
He sat down on the edge of his bed and looked up.
"System. Tell me which is the best way to make a great staff."
[Please specify parameters for the weapon.]
"I want to go with a staff that works well with my current physical strength and telekinesis. For my current level it shouldn’t be too heavy because I still need to swing it around but it should also not be too light. The momentum really matters if I’m trying to crush someone’s skull."
He tapped his chin and remembered the reward he got recently..
He recalled how he won a few hundred grams of pure Orichalcum through his previous quests.
"System. Do include Orichalcum into this build. And it doesn’t matter how much I would need to use since I can just replicate it endlessly through the dungeon now."
[Affirmative. Generating optimal staff blueprints based on user parameters and available high-tier materials.]
Almost just a few seconds later the blue screen expanded and gave him two different rotating 3D holographic images.
The first one was basically a plain looking stick at first glance.
The middle part of the staff was basically just pure refined Mithril. It had a thick center that could perfectly sit in his hand and was basically the perfect circumference for a solid grip. But the staff had a much thinner extension that went outwards into the outer ends.
The diameter of the outer part of the Mithril rod was basically just one single centimeter. It was completely solid and forged as one single piece.
But at the outer ends there were multiple sharp extensions that went outward from the center piece. It made the ends look almost like it had multiple metal thorns. These thorns were completely perpendicular to the middle rod. At each part there were four thorns at every level forming a cross shape. And at each end there were around five layers of these extensions stacked on top of each other.
And then the heavy Orichalcum basically covered this entire outer spiked section like an unbreakable shell.
It gave the whole staff some massive weight directly on the ends to act like a sledgehammer while the middle part where his hands went stayed extremely light thanks to the Mithril. Since Adrian was only going to be hitting people for the most part with the very ends of the staff he didn’t really mind having the middle part being light.
It also actively helped with spinning the staff much easier. Or at least in his mind that was the case since he had no actual martial arts experience with staffs.
Even though it looked like it had terrifying thorn-like things under the shell, with the Orichalcum completely covering the whole outer section it just looked more like a perfectly straight sleek stick from the outside.
He swiped his hand to look at the second design.
This one was much more accurate to the classic Monkey King staff that Adrian was used to seeing on Earth.
The middle part was slightly thin and it was the exact same size as the first design that he saw. But the ends were just massively thick cylinders of solid metal. It didn’t have the internal thorn structure to balance it. It was just pure dense weight.