Chapter 220 – 219: The Way of a Forged Sword Master’s Life and Wealth

Chapter 220: 219: The Forge Master’s Way of Making Money
The newly-opened plot force “Blood Rat Gang” now only had four people including Dorothy, and as soon as they set up their stall outside the entrance to Sewer No. 7, they were greeted by a dozen or so players who had been waiting for a long time to gather around them.

These are all the guys who are going to take the route of Thief and Stalker, they have been longing for similar transfers before, but it is really disappointing that this damn game didn’t introduce the Stalking Stream gameplay until now!

Ugh!
The gameplay experience is extremely poor!

However, the small players came with gusto, but returned one by one disappointed and defeated, because this ghost game’s sneak assassin seemed to be a billion points different from the image they had imagined of killing a man at ten steps and not touching a single leaf.

“What? What did you say? Stalking? Yes, I can sneak, but the kind of visual masking effect you mentioned is not something you can learn as a common professional! If you want to summon the Shadow Overlay so skillfully, you have to be at least of the Black Iron rank.”

“Pickpocket skills I will also teach, but is this something you can’t practice? Poor technique when stealing someone’s wallet on the street can get you killed!

Nah, there’s a pot over there, see?
After the sand is fried and hot, use two fingers to clip it out, one success counts as your introduction, after that, you will practice using your fingers to clip the soap in a pot of hot water.”

“Who throws glitter? How is this thrown like a smoke bomb, the technique is too bad!”

The four members of the Blood Rat Gang were tired of the endless questions from the players, and it wasn’t until this moment that Ms. Dorothy realized what kind of hot potato she had picked up.

Her brain ached from the players’ strange and bizarre requests, and remembering the skills she had learned in the “Basic Civil Service Class”, she simply shouted out to quiet down the people around her, and then slightly clumsily used the arithmetic pearl in her hand to give them the daily quest of exterminating the ghouls.

Want to learn skills?
No problem!
Bring me ten pairs of ghoul teeth and claws first.

By relying on this move, it finally gave the four people of the Blood Rat Gang a moment of peace.

After the rowdy little players left, Dorothy sat on the wooden barrel tiredly and said to the three subordinates beside her who were looking at her in a bad mood:
“What are you looking at? Hurry up and get to work! Let’s hold up our camp first. Daisy, when they come back later, you will teach them how to do shadow walking, Freeman, you teach these guys how to steal bags and paddle their pockets, and old Pete will teach them searching and camouflage.

After they’ve all learned, I’ll teach them how to establish contact with the shadows.

These rookies don’t know where they heard that they can instantly dive into the shadows to achieve sudden disappearance, shit, I’ve only heard of that kind of advanced skill that Shadow Elves seem to know, but it took me years to learn it too, okay?”

Dorothy spat viciously, but the job still had to be done.

While she was instructing her three subordinates to do their work, she coldly saw a guy who had wrapped himself tightly with a black cloth slinking over the wall towards her side.

This dress directly to the razor lady look happy.

“Hey, that one over there, are you afraid that people won’t notice you in the crowd when you’re dressed like this? Have you read too many third-rate knight novels?
Hurry up and get rid of this unlucky outfit of yours.”

She sat on the barrel and said in an old-fashioned manner to this small player who froze in place:
“The first thing you need to do if you want to be a thief is to learn to disguise yourself, but definitely not the kind of disguise you’re wearing, I suggest you go out on the street and see what kind of person is the most common, and you learn to disguise yourself as him.

At the time when other people will never notice you, you’ll be in the business of thievery is considered to be a beginner.

In our line of work, the lower the presence, the better.”

“Ow.”

That little player was still obedient.

After Dorothy had finished speaking, he nimbly took off his “nightclothes”, revealing the leather armor he was wearing as a novice squire.

This guy’s face was quite young and tender, but he seemed to be very resistant to contact with others, his eyes were always wandering and he didn’t dare to look at Dorothy.

“That’s not good.”

The big sister of the Blood Rat Gang said with a burst of head shaking:

“This posture of yours is very suitable to be a thief, but our way of thievery is not like this, come on, chest out and head up, tell me what’s your name?”

“Claws of Frost Teeth.”

The little player answered back honestly, but he was clearly deep in the game.

From the mind microphone plug-in inserted in the arithmetic pearl, it was clear that this guy should also be a “small family” guy, and there were still a few small players who could spend 20 gold coins to buy plug-ins when they first entered the game.

“You want to be a thief?”

Dorothy asked again, and the latter nodded vigorously.

“Go ahead and take care of the ghouls’ teeth and claws and bring them back to me to prove your determination and potential, and of course, as a thief you can’t just think about fighting, so you can also try stealing the wooden chests that we, the Rat Gang, have left there amongst the ghouls on the third floor of the sewers.”

Ms. Razor waved her hand and said:

“I left in a hurry before and left a lot of stuff there, so if you can bring it back, it shows you’re very talented in this line of work. But I’ll tell you this, stealing from where ghouls roam is much more dangerous than fighting head on, those guys are sensitive to smell and life.

Weigh yourself.”

“Just take one?”

Frostbite’s Claw asked in a small voice, and Dorothy nodded.

After a moment’s thought, she removed another small, very special wooden tag from her belt, an identification mark carved to look like a mouse.

She said:

“Some of the guys in the ghouls on the third floor of the sewers carry these on them, which proves that they were all once members of the Rat Pack, and it’s going to be hard for me to collect their bodies. But if you can bring back an ID tag, I can count you as having completed your mission to join the gang.

If you steal it back, then I’ll personally teach you how to be a thief, but I’ll be ugly.

This is basically tantamount to letting you go to your death”

“Alright, I’ll give it a try.”

Seeing that he had triggered a hidden quest, the little player’s spirit was lifted, and without waiting for Dorothy to say anything, he turned around and ran out, watching Ms. Razor shake her head for a while.

She had seen many reckless Transylvanians before, but it was the first time she had seen such a reckless one like the one in front of her, but the language of these guys was so strange, it wasn’t the language of the mountain people at all!
Dorothy slandered in her heart:
“I’ve traveled around the continent, and I’ve hid in the forests of the mountain people, if these guys are really mountain people, I’ll cut off their heads and give them to that cunning vampire lord. Where on earth did he find these imposters?”
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“Ugh, man! That’s a bit of an interesting knife you’ve got on you, where’d you get it?”

The tightly wrapped Happy Stick was riding his high horse down the street, ready to go to the library of the Blood Wyvern Cloisters to look for information about the “Secret Treasures of Transylvania”, when he suddenly saw a bald new player carrying a very exaggerated looking knife and moving wood at the Grey Man’s construction site.

It’s a bit of a tragedy, to say the least.

But the new players into the game in the bag, running to the construction site to move bricks to earn a little extra money in the meantime brush the character level is also a very good choice.

However, the weapon behind this guy made Happy Stick come to be interested.

As an old player who first entered the game, he had never seen this kind of obviously “impractical” weapon near the Scarlet Fortress, and Stick vaguely remembered that he seemed to have seen a similar thing in a corner of the network.

I think it was a weapon from a comic book with a strange drawing style.
“Ha, you’ve seen my drawn weapon too, haven’t you? Stick.”

Seeing that Happy Stick was attracted to his weapon, the new player with the ID “Kind Eyebrows Giant Shark Bo” smiled proudly as he proudly introduced himself:
“Is my Giant Shark Blade strong and powerful enough? I spent a gold coin to have it customized! It’s a perfect match for my appearance, isn’t it?”

“Wait, I remember where I’ve seen it before… you’re a bigot!”

Happy Stick took a somewhat hesitant step back as he stared at the slightly crazy bald player in front of him and said:

“Where did you order that weapon? This thing is solid, right? Are you sure you can lift it as a newcomer to the game? It’s as tall as your person oi!”

“It’s a bit heavy, but that’s okay, if I can’t wield it now it’s just a workout, as long as I pass the Black Iron Trial I’ll definitely be able to pick it up and slay it!”

The bald player skimmed his mouth and said a bit unwillingly, and the result directly gave the Happy Stick a whole lot of joy. This brother is spending money to get himself a completely useless “fashion” ah?

“You still haven’t told me where you ordered the weapon?”

Happy Stick asked, and Giant Shark Bo, who was busy moving wood, pointed to the campground and said:

“There are two brothers opened a blacksmith store, yesterday they opened for business, cheaper than the NPCs can also customize the shape, not just me, many brothers have ordered from them.”

“Oh? Finally a life profession brother got the hang of it?”

Happy Stick immediately came to be interested, bid farewell to Giant Shark Bo who was moving bricks, mounted his horse and rushed to the forward camp outside the city, only to see a few people surrounded outside a tent from a long distance away, and there were also people who were trading:

“Man, you can customize weapons here right? Give me a Frostbite!” “Stop it, that’s a two-handed sword, you can’t even lift a solid thing, change it.”

“Alright then, is it alright to have a Hades Sword?”

“Well, that’s no problem, pay the deposit next to it! Come pick it up in four days, do you want it with decoration and sheath? Add an extra gold coin if you want.”

“I want a ‘Chopping Moon’!”

“Get in line behind you, why are you learning to cut in line.”

A group of new players were noisy, let Happy Stick lamented that this people with craftsmanship can make a whole job anywhere, he got off his horse and walked to the side of the tent, casually took a handful of ‘Curry Stick’ that two blacksmith players had just made in his hand and looked at it.

As soon as the item appraisal was activated, it made Stick fly and lose interest.

A standard recruit level contraption, there was nothing out of the ordinary in terms of workmanship or quality, the only advantage was the unique shape and the beautiful damascus pattern.

However, it was indeed a bit better than the Squadron Swords that new players were using nowadays, as this thing had two more phrases, [Sturdy and Durable] and [Easy to Maintain], than the white plate equipment.

“Man, isn’t this pricing a bit low for you guys?”

After those customized weapons players left, Stick walked into the tent and said to the two Life Profession players inside who were busy around the anvil:

“I think that for these two extra phrases, you guys should have people buy them even if you set it at 3 gold coins.”

“Go go go! Where’s the traitor from?”

The “Hundred Forged Horse”, who had gotten himself all black and gray from iron working, waved his hand impatiently and said:

“Buddies are busy rushing forging proficiency, selling things is incidentally to give brothers some benefits, and these skills with the iron ingots are camp public, we would like to sell a little more expensive, NPCs do not allow ah.

If you do not determine the weapon on the side to go, buddy this also with apprenticeship, do not have time to chat with you.”

“I’ll order it, who said no?”

Happy Stick’s eyes rolled, took out a small bag of gold coins from his psychic bag and threw it on the table next to him, and said to the two manufacturing players in front of him who were addicted to forging swords, and had a few NPC apprentices with them:
“I’m going to form a guild, and I just happened to take the opportunity to make a whole batch of standardized weapons for my brothers.”

“Yo, rich man.”

The “Broken Blade Master” next to him picked up the pouch and glanced at it, saying:
“What style are you going to order? And our two orders here are pressed more, you will have to wait for half a month before you can get the goods.”

“I’m not in a hurry.”

Stick said with a grin:
“And I don’t want these blank goods for newbies, can you guys make Seiko weapons with special words?”

When these words were said, the two guys who were good at forging swords in reality and came to the game to be even more like a fish out of water suddenly looked at each other.

An expression of “finally meeting a worthy man” appeared on their faces.

Master Broken Knife rubbed his hands together and enthusiastically invited Brother Stick to the tent next to him as he said:
“To tell you the truth, brother, my old brother and I have also been studying the manufacturing system in this game, and we have found out that in order to forge this special word equipment, we have to add some special materials to it.

This way!

You bring us the materials we need, and we’ll only charge for crafting.”

After saying that, a quest box suddenly popped up in front of him as Happy Stick stared dumbfounded.

[Order Quest-‘Seiko’s Quest’ has been triggered!

Quest content: Scarlet Fort’s official blacksmith, “Master Broken Blade”, has asked you to help him gather a series of rare materials to forge a customized weapon for you, the list of requirements is as follows.
Time limit: 48 hours.

Reward: Customized Fine Weapon X10, wait for the forging to be completed before receiving it.

“!!!”

Stick’s eyes rounded as he looked at the grinning Broken Blade Master in front of him, and he screamed:
“You can send quests to other players? This is so far off the mark ow!”

“Hey, what’s so unusual about that? This is an ‘exclusive benefit’ for our manufacturing players.”

Master Broken Sword waved his hand and said:

“My buddy stays here in the blacksmith store all day long, and has no interest in fighting and killing, so how can he find the time to go out and practice leveling to find materials? This is exactly what we need you combat professions to help us with.

Let’s put it this way, you bring back the materials, we will help you make fine weapons, and by the way, we can also charge the proficiency.

Hey, two birds with one stone.”

“Wait!”

This was the first time Happy Stick knew about the special mechanism for manufacturing players, and he quickly asked in confusion:
“But what about the Black Iron Trial if you guys don’t fight monsters and just punch skills?”

“Oh, that’s a trial only for you combat professions, we smiths don’t pursue that, our trials are called ‘Crafting Trials’.”

Master Broken Blade explained:
“It can be triggered when the blacksmith profession reaches level 10, and the requirement is to independently and consecutively craft three Seiko – Veteran Weapons with three special words or more to complete it.

Moreover, manufacturing and combat professions don’t conflict with each other, everyone has three profession columns, so it’s not impossible to go out and fight monsters when you’re tired of building things.

Anyway, I recognize the freedom of this game.

Anyway, are you going to take this quest or not? Also, what kind of weapons are you going to order for your guild members? Do you want the fantasy ones, or the more practical classic ones? Do you want me to give you a recommendation?”

“That’s not necessary, the Cabal will do.”

Happy Stick took the order task then spoke up, resulting in a lightening up of Master Broken Blade’s eyes, instantly knowing that this one came from an unusual source.

He whispered:

“Do you want the classic or commemorative model? I’ll say it in advance, the iron ingots provided by the camp are of average quality, so don’t expect them to be as durable as the original even if they’re finely crafted.

Also, the souvenir model will have to cost extra!
And the wait time is going to be longer, after all, the special anti-rust treatment and the hilt are a bit of a pain to make, and my oldest brother and I will have to get some special tools in-game before we can start making them.”

“You can make a souvenir model that’s certainly better! Money isn’t a problem, you can’t even buy it in reality anyway, it’s fine to play around with it in the game.”

Stick’s eyes lit up.

Then his eyes looked oddly at Master Broken Knife, and with a wave of awe, he whispered:
“Dude what do you do in reality? Listening to you, do you have a souvenir model in stock? Make a bid?”

“Oh, I’m not talented, there is a small knife company, to make a living.”

Broken knife master grin, waved his hand and said:
“The spot is there, but I’m afraid you can’t afford that price. Not specializing in this collector does not need to play in reality when the wrongdoer, anyway, this game is so real, here to play also on the line.

My brother and I are going to start reproducing classic knives in a while, should we order one in advance?
Seeing that you’re a fellow collector, let’s talk about the price.”

“OK!”

Happy Stick thought about it and said:

“Let’s start with a Nao Huang Command Sword.”

“Piece of cake, Chenghui deposit 30, full payment 100, pick up in two months, guaranteed quality above Seiko Veteran”

“Shit! Why don’t you guys go robbing money ah? This money making speed, I want to turn a blacksmith for fun.”

“It’s okay, my brother and I will also take apprentices, pay 10 gold coins as tuition, let’s start now? Don’t mind if it’s too expensive, do you know that Mrs. Water? She’s a famous clothing designer, born with the specialty of ‘Master Tailor’, the three tailor NPCs in the camp are now all apprenticed to her, and she even receives a special allowance from the administration.

Alas, it’s true, knowledge is power!”

(End of chapter)