Saine's enhancement of the Staff of Ashes lasted more than five hundred years in total.
In truth, the main alchemy experiment had concluded in the 231st year, but intermittent supplementary enhancement experiments continued for another three hundred years or so.
With the essence infusion from the Dimension Furnace, a fragment of a Civilization Supreme Treasure, along with an ample supply of top-grade alchemy materials—
Saine's Staff of Ashes enhancement experiment proceeded very successfully.
After the Magic Cube and the Faceless Mask, the Staff of Ashes also became the third High-Level Secret Treasure in Saine's possession.
In fact, the Sky Net born from the fusion of Goddess of Magic Mystra's Magic Net and Saine's Magic Cube could also be considered a rule-based High-Level World-Class Secret Treasure.
However, Sky Net's primary function was to link the mechanical legions under Saine's command.
Its enhancement of Saine himself was far less direct than that of the Magic Cube, Faceless Mask, or Staff of Ashes.
The newly completed Staff of Ashes appeared to have a layer of translucent crystal encasing its head.
The Staff of Ashes still possessed the power to enhance Saine's six elemental systems, but beyond that, the greatest boost Saine received was that the Staff of Ashes could now also amplify his fundamental Mechanical Arcana.
Light blue electromagnetic sparks danced across the surface of Saine's Staff of Ashes.
When Saine held the Staff of Ashes once more, he discovered that the mana consumption for casting the Mechanical Cataclysm Forbidden Spell had decreased by thirty percent, while its casting speed had nearly doubled!
"Compared to being an elementalist, am I better suited to be a mechanic?" Saine could not help muttering to himself in puzzled admiration after one experiment ended.
The success of the alchemy experiment was a great joy. Yet what left