"Phantom Rebirth: The Last White Raven’s Path to the Ultimate Assassin"

The Birth of a New Creation

The air within the ancient mountain castle’s library was heavy with the scent of old parchment, burning incense, and the faint trace of mana lingering in the air. Books lined every wall, their pages filled with arcane knowledge, secrets of the past, and spells lost to time.

Tonight, Seraphis was not merely reading.

Tonight, she would create.

“A perfect defense requires more than just barriers. It requires guardians.”

She had studied barrier magic, divine wards, infernal seals, and self-regenerating defenses, but even the strongest defenses could be overwhelmed.

The answer? Living constructs—artificial beings infused with defense magic, unyielding protectors molded by her own hands.

She would sculpt them from clay and magic, carving life from lifelessness.

Gathering the Clay and Materials

Seraphis walked through the stone corridors of her castle, her boots clicking against the polished floors. She made her way to the storage vaults, where she kept raw materials for crafting and enchanting.

✔ Fine Arcane Clay – Mined from deep within the veins of the mountain, known for its ability to absorb mana and magical energy.
✔ Obsidian Powder – To reinforce the clay and increase its durability.
✔ Crushed Moonstone – To enhance mana conductivity, allowing the body to function as a magical conduit.
✔ Phoenix Ash – A rare material known for its self-repairing properties.
✔ Demonsteel Dust – Infused with latent infernal magic, ensuring the golem bodies could absorb and reflect magical energy.

Each of these materials was crucial—together, they would form the foundation of her ultimate creation.

She carried the components back to the great hall adjacent to the library. A large workbench stood at the center, surrounded by arcane tools, enchanted chisels, and carving knives infused with magic.

This was where she would sculpt her first artificial elf.

Shaping the First Female Elf from Clay

Seraphis rolled up her sleeves and began shaping the clay, her hands moving with deliberate precision.

✔ First, she sculpted the frame

Her mana pulsed through her fingertips, merging with the clay as she infused the body with magic, causing the surface to harden slightly with each touch.

The sculpting took hours, each movement precise. She did not rush—this was an art as much as it was magic.

Infusing the Defense Magic – The Forbidden Ritual

Once the body was complete, Seraphis prepared to embed it with the strongest defensive enchantments.

She retrieved the forbidden tome on War Wards, flipping to the section on permanent magical barriers.

✔ "Blood-Ward Anchoring" – A defensive spell that linked the golem’s existence to her own life force, ensuring it would never fall unless she willed it.
✔ "Adamantine Weave" – A technique that layered defensive enchantments, making the body practically unbreakable.
✔ "Mana Repulsion Seal" – This would ensure the body absorbed and redirected magic attacks, making it a living fortress.
✔ "Infernal Absorption" – The body would feed on incoming damage, converting it into stored magical energy to make itself stronger.

She drew a circle around the clay figure, inscribing the runes of permanence and reinforcement.

The air crackled as she began chanting, her voice weaving the arcane forces together.

"From earth and stone, I shape the unyielding. From magic and fire, I forge the indestructible. Rise, guardian of my will, bound by defense, strengthened by war!"

A pulse of blue energy shot through the sculpture as runes burned into the clay, glowing like molten gold. The defensive enchantments sank into the body, merging with it on a fundamental level.

The first elf-shaped guardian was nearly complete.

The Final Step: Hardening the Body with New Magic

The final challenge was to harden the body permanently, ensuring it would never crumble, crack, or break.

Seraphis experimented with a new combination of elements:

✔ Fire Magic – Used at a low, controlled temperature to gradually solidify the clay rather than destroy it.
✔ Mana Compression – Condensing raw mana into a liquid form, coating the body in a crystalline layer that made it as hard as dragon scales.
✔ Earth Infusion – Using deep-earth magic, which allowed the body to shift and repair itself like a living entity.

She slowly heated the figure, allowing the mana to meld with the clay, watching as the surface took on a metallic sheen.

“Perfect.”

Creating Four More Guardians

Now that she had perfected the process, she repeated it four more times, sculpting additional elf-like guardians, each one unique in appearance but identical in strength.

✔ Second Guardian – She reinforced this one with shock absorption, ensuring it could take direct blows without flinching.
✔ Third Guardian – She infused this one with mirror magic, giving it the ability to reflect energy-based attacks.
✔ Fourth Guardian – She inscribed soul-linking runes, allowing it to share damage between all guardians, making them practically unkillable.
✔ Fifth Guardian – She added a self-repairing core, ensuring any damage would heal automatically over time.

Hours passed, the castle silent except for the sound of her carving tools and the crackle of mana surging through the air.

Finally, she stepped back.

Five flawless artificial elves stood before her, their bodies reinforced with magic, their cores pulsing with latent energy.

They were not alive, but they were far more than mere statues.

"Guardians of stone, imbued with magic... unbreakable, unyielding."

She had just created the ultimate defense.

And this was only the beginning.