He hung up the phone.
Nameless lay on the Healing White Tiger's back, looking a little troubled.
He wanted to persuade Lin Renmei to give up on the Sword Cane. The problem was that, to her, no weapon was any different from another. She would have to learn from scratch either way.
That made the Sword Cane, with its sentimental value, the natural choice. It held her memories of her father and the feelings that went with them.
To Lin Renmei, those were the most precious things of all.
"All right. A Sword Cane it is. I can figure something out," Nameless said, consoling himself at last.
He used Information Control to design a beautiful Sword Cane. In an instant, it generated hundreds of thousands of designs.
There were dragon-headed canes like the one he had just imagined, along with round-headed canes, eagle-headed canes, cobra-headed canes...
He eliminated every dragon-headed design. After a moment's thought, he discarded the eagle-headed and cobra-headed ones too. None of them suited Lin Renmei's bearing.
The round-headed canes, though, looked promising.
He could give one the shape of a magic wand. In Lin Renmei's hand, it might even mislead an enemy into mistaking her for a frail mage-type ability user.
Nameless set aside dozens of round-headed designs, then settled on the three essential qualities of Lin Renmei's weapon: hardness, Self-Repair, and weight!
With those goals in mind, he selected suitable materials and began forging.
The Dough-Kneading Forging Technique was long since a thing of the past.
After choosing his materials, he created a great cauldron right there in the room and placed them inside. Three flames used specifically for forging sprang to life within it.
The materials rapidly liquefied, while the flames burned away every impurity.
At his command, the liquid took the shape of