Ambra got a verbal confirmation of Kou's understanding of her statements. She could at the very least, respect that the lad was keeping up with what she was saying and that he understood it as a more than simple bit of information. Still his praise and acknowledging her as a Master of her craft left her feigning ignorance and even shyness as she held a hand up to her mouth and waved him off. "Oh-hohohoho~ I don't don't what would give you that idea. You'll make me blush~" she chimed, still there was the matter of what the boy had to do for himself. He took it upon himself to try it out like she'd said, and though he didn't clasp it between his hands, he managed to pour quite a bit of mana into changing the ore for the better. After he did this, he managed an increase of quality she'd not seen in a beginner in quite a while. She picked up the piece of ore and looked it over with a surprisingly scrutinizing gaze. "Hm... I didn't expect such an increase. It's two tiers of quality... if you concentrated your mana on a smaller area, you'd be able to push it a bit higher with no extra output," she murmured deep in thought as she looked over the piece. "Still, it's really impressive... nice job, kid." she said aloud.
After a moment or two she reached beneath her table once more and removed a small cylinder which didn't seem to be a tool of any sort and put it beside the lad's piece of improved iron ore. "Crafting is a matter of magic and understanding. That's a multi-tool... its a good piece to have, it takes on the properties of your mana and allows you to shape metal. You can have that one... I've never had an apprentice before so I don't mind passing that one along..." she mentioned in a strange show of good faith, but she saw in this lad a great deal of promise and she wished to see what he'd become. "The greats can look at a piece of metal and know exactly what it should be... strike it one time with a multi-tool hammer and make it happen..." she said pulling out another one she stared at her own. "But... that kind of showing off isn't really impressive. Multiple strikes will allow the piece to take the shape it wishes to be, but your mana influences that... the more mana you put into it, the more your conscious thoughts and all that, will influence it, the better the base enchantment of your piece. They tend to do simple things... increase stats by tiers, or even just be straight additions. Gem cuts will do something similar but different, they can vary a lot more too, so keep that in mind..." she mentioned. Her own piece of metal made her hold her hammer out in her hand, a small bit of pink mana filled it turning it into a tiny working hammer. She looked at the small piece of metal and struck it three times creating a chiming sound which resonated multiple times with both mana and audible sound. Once she was done though it created a high tier ring, silver in color with an enchantment that increased the luck of the wearer. It also had two sockets big enough for small gems. "Take a look at that one and tell me what you think," she said to the lad. He needed to understand that when using magic to craft, shapes were determined by mind and heart and it was something one could only really get a feel for in the moment.