Chapter 244 – 243 New Attempts of the Forgemasters and Brother Loyalty’s Specials
Chapter 244 243.Forgers’ New Attempts & Loyal Brother’s Special Supplies
“Hey, why do you have some special scent on you?”
After touching the hidden dropped Frost Tooth Claw and following the three girls back to the Blood Rat Gang’s stronghold, Dorothy “Razor”, who was practicing her handiwork by peeling apples with the Eagle Claw Knife, immediately felt the vibration of the arithmetic pearl hanging on her wrist.
This meant that the first guy who had gotten the “Rat King’s Rattle” special token was approaching her.
Remembering Lord Murphy’s specific instructions, Dorothy grimaced, got up, threw a thin slice of apple into her mouth, and said to Frostbite’s Claw, her warrior and one of her only two current apprentices, with her arms crossed:
“Did you come across something ‘unclean’ while wandering around down there?”
“Huh, triggered special dialog la.”
Little Vikramana, who was bent on seeing what the hidden drop was, immediately rounded her eyes.
She pushed the wood-like Frost Tooth’s Claw behind her back, and the latter helplessly stepped forward and told her about getting the special tokens in very short words.
“Oh, is the Gathering Stone that special psionic item that Mrs. Tris placed on purpose? I did hear that some lucky fellows can be blessed by Lady Luck in their memory flashbacks to find remnants of something different.
It’s said to be a gift from the mysteries of psychic energy, which I don’t understand anyway.
I’m just an uneducated thief.”
Lady Dorothy shrugged and said what Lord Murphy had taught her.
It was very perfunctory.
Because she felt it was almost like she was teasing a child playing house, but the more this gesture of an expressionless NPC, the more the small players around her realized that the AI in front of them seemed to be dumb.
Well, not as smart as other NPCs.
It’s not like the development team was lazy and got an inferior AI for this module, right?
No, the modeling of this NPC Dorothy was obviously quite good looking, especially her well-proportioned body could definitely make many Rhodium Beryllium players give her a high score, and she was still walking in the rare style of a “big sister in society”.
“Come on, give it to me.”
Dorothy raised her arithmetic pearl, and Frost Tooth’s Claw also picked it up.
The moment the two opbeads touched, the special tokens he had been recorded with were transferred to Dorothy’s opbead, and then the big-hearted burglar lady ate an apple while rummaging around in her tent for a while before finally dropping the rolled up drawings.
“This is a reward for you! In the words of Lord Murphy, a reward for the ‘lucky one’.”
“Quick, what is it?”
Little Vikrama and Orchid came over with an expectant face.
Frosttooth’s Claw unfolded the drawing in front of the trio and realized that it depicted a very evil looking bone scythe with a series of manufacturing parameters alongside a specific forging method.
Toothpaw activated item identification, and the thing’s information tag quickly popped up:
Name: Forging Drawing – Soul Snatching Scythe
Function: Used by the forger to master the method of forging the special weapon ‘Soul Snatcher’s Scythe’, the quality of the finished product and the accompanying phrases will vary according to the forging technique and the different materials used, but it will definitely have the [Darkness/Death Spiritual Energy Enhancement] and the [Vitality Extraction] two basic phrases.
Tip!
This weapon is a composite manufacturing product, and requires the cooperation of an alchemist during the forging process.
Number of Learning: [1/1
Item Description:
[The Ritual War Scythe to which the Soul Snatching Scythe belongs is an iconic weapon type of the Plane of Hades realm, and under certain conditions it will trigger a special reaction in spirit beings. Therefore, before using this weapon you should perhaps consider the adverse effects it will bring to you.
I mean, if you are very afraid of ghosts, then I am very! Very! highly discourage you from playing with this thing. -Kind reminder from Tris.]
“Wow, this is probably the first advanced forge map in the game, right?”
Little Vikrama said with glowing eyes:
“And the shape of this thing is so cool, it’s exactly the same as the weapon in the hands of the spirit monster summoned in the second stage of the final boss in the Rat King’s Doomsday copy ugh! Bring it on and then throw a levitation spell on yourself and you can Cos the Grim Reaper.”
“It’s a magic weapon, it can be used as a staff, and it can even be used to slash people when necessary.”
Orchid next to her rubbed her chin and said:
“Its appearance is indeed very ‘hellish’, and is the ‘Underworld’ in the item description an otherworldly realm like the ‘Astral Realm’? That seems to point out some extended background of this game in terms of psychic energy then.”
“Orchid Flower, let’s make one for Mrs. Water!”
Little Vikrama cocked her head and glanced at Lady Water.
She pictured in her mind’s eye this statuesque demon wearing a magistrate’s robe but carrying a hellish scythe, and suddenly felt so handsome and cool!
She suggested to Orchid:
“The veteran weapons that Lady Water can exchange right now are also those secret energy staffs of the vampires, and that thing doesn’t harmonize with her own natural psychic energy, and the Adventurer’s Guild hasn’t opened up the exchange of sets for the witch hunter system yet.
Why don’t we just use this instead of the current white plate Thorn Staff, doesn’t it say that the properties of the finished product can be adjusted with the difference in materials added?
If we add a natural spiritual energy aspect to the forging process, then the finished product will definitely have a natural spiritual energy increase as well.”
“Well, this idea is really good, and the cost-effectiveness is really quite high, we only need to spend some gold coins to avoid the effort we have to spend to find a suitable weapon for Mrs. Water, and the saved group badge can be exchanged for a few life-preserving ornaments.
Just in time for her to pass the trial.”
Orchid nodded and said:
“But surely you guys are more simply interested in seeing how brutal the delicate Lady Water looks when she’s carrying a large scythe than the reasons I’ve given?”
“Ch, don’t you want to see it?”
Little Vikrama retorted:
“If you’re a human being, you want to see it, okay? Mrs. Shui has to be glad that this girl is not a man, otherwise she would have to snatch her home to be the suppressed lady, and let her wear strange clothes every day~”
“But this thing is not ours.”
Orchid glanced at the Claws of Frost Teeth as she reminded:
“There’s only one crafting diagram, and there’s a spirit energy seal on this, the only way to read the whole thing is to remove the seal, and there’s a limit on the number of times you can learn it, so I’m guessing that this thing can only be learned by players who specialize in forging.”
“Hey man, sell this to us, will you?”
Little Reed Name patted Frost Tooth’s Claw’s arm, the Social Terrorism player in the nightclothes hesitated for a moment, associating it with the fact that these three kind-hearted sisters had brought themselves to brush the copy, and without their help he wouldn’t have been able to get this thing if he had been lucky enough to get it, so he didn’t have too much hesitation, and rolled up the drawings and handed them to Little Reed Name.
“Here you go, thanks for taking me to brush my copy.”
He whispered, his voice small, as if the act of initiating a conversation with a stranger had drained most of his energy.
“How’s this? We don’t take your stuff for nothing.”
The little reed name insisted on paying, but Frosttooth Claw didn’t want it.
He said somewhat helplessly:
“I have the Thief’s Profession Quest, I really don’t need it . I can pick up chests in the sewers and practice lock picking, and occasionally rewarded with gold coins, I don’t lack money!”
“Oh well.”
Seeing that people really don’t want it, Little Reed Name’s eyes rolled and said:
“Then we’ll take you to brush copies again, the recruit and veteran tiles are good stuff, you’ll have to equip the basics when you pass the Black Iron Trials, it’s never a loss to change the veteran set ah.
In a few days, our Silver Moon’s Pride group will open a group book to bring newcomers, you must come to ow then.
Come on, let’s add a friend first.”
“Ow, okay.”
Frost Tooth’s Claw nodded, and agreed with the trio of Little Reed Names on a time to brush up on their books tomorrow, and watched them leave joyfully.
Before she left, Mrs. Water also looked up and down at “Razor” Dorothy, and out of the designer’s “professional ethics”, she took the initiative to open her mouth and reminded her:
“You have chosen this outfit very well, it can bring out your outstanding waist and legs that make me jealous, but the color of the cloak is a bit too dull. I would suggest you try blue or red, as that would be more elegant.
Also you can fix your hair a bit.
I think long curly hair suits your face better, you are obviously young and have enough proud capital, why do you have to dress up like a granny?”
“You mind me! What a nuisance.”
Dorothy disliked irritably. Most of this displeasure came from her unique life experience, where she had needed to conceal her true appearance every moment of the previous ten years to keep trouble from finding her.
And the other small part of the displeasure came from Mrs. Water’s body that all women were envious of and jealous of
The professional designer shrugged in the face of Dorothy’s displeasure.
She wasn’t angry, after all, she was just making a suggestion, whether others adopted it or not had nothing to do with her.
After they left, Dorothy huffed and sat down on the table to continue slicing apples to eat, and then saw her only apprentice currently staying next to her seemingly waiting for a task.
She sighed and said:
“You’re really like a log this whole day without talking, obviously your hands are so skillful forget it, let’s proceed with today’s training as usual. I know that near the seventeenth tunnel in the eastern section of the sewer floor there is a small treasure spot from the previous Black Tooth Gang, there seems to be a chest in there that is rumored to be worth a lot of money.
You go and retrieve it.
If it can be unlocked then it’ll be the same rule as before, I’ll take 60% and the rest will be yours, and by the way I’ll teach you another thieving tip.
But there’s a bunch of spiteful spirits entrenched over there, so you’ll have to be careful.”
“Oh.”
Frosttooth Claw took the quest and turned around to leave, but Dorothy called out to him.
The leader of the Blood Rat Gang tossed the last slice of apple, peeled like a thin slice of beef, into her mouth, and let the two clawed knives backfire in a flip of her slender fingers as she spoke to her apprentice:
“It’s not stealing that makes you a thief, it’s being able to rely on yourself to escape a good beating when you’re discovered that makes you a true stalker.
Come on!
Let’s see if you’ve been slacking off in the past few days, my warrior, my lord won’t be merciful this time.”
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“Advanced forging drawings dropped from fighting monsters? Wow, this kind of alien weapon can’t be made in reality, right? Even if it’s barely made, it’s just an artifact. I’m not going to lie, we’ve been wanting to try this kind of magic weapon for a long time.
Brother Meow Meow still has a mission to complete for him.
The main reason is that we haven’t made what he wants before, so we don’t dare to do it casually, so this drawing comes at the right time!
With such a detailed list of forging methods, it can give us two brothers a chance to practice.”
In the blacksmith store of the camp outside the city, the Broken Blade Master and Hundred Forge Dama, who were working on the Cabal Saber for Brother Stick’s team, were immediately interested in the forging diagrams brought by Little Reed Name.
After the two brothers studied it for a while and reached an agreement, Master Broken Knife said to Little Vikramana:
“This way, this drawing belongs to us, you bring your own spiritual energy materials, this time there will be no handling fee, we will help you do it for free! We’ll pay for the part that requires iron ingots out of our own pockets. The finished product is guaranteed to be at the veteran level, how about it?”
“What about Precision Work? Don’t you want the Seiko words?”
Little Vikrama chewed on a fruit candy, hugged her arms and put on a very social look, bargaining to the two old brothers and said:
“You can’t bully us into not knowing anything, this scythe is for Mrs. Water, she is also a master tailor, she told us long ago, even for the same grade of equipment, standard craftsmanship and precision craftsmanship are two completely different things.
This drawing is still we spend money to find the big red hand player to buy it.
It’s the only one in the game right now!
So it has to be Precision Crafted Veteran Quality Oh, of course if it can reach ‘Commander-in-Chief’ quality or comes with a very rare phrase then Standard Crafted will also work.”
Master Broken Blade and Hundred Forged Dama glanced at each other, the two brothers hesitated and after a few seconds of eye contact, Master Broken Blade gritted his teeth and said:
“Step forward! But we have to look at the required materials first.”
“Hey, I knew you guys were good at talking, please.”
Little Vikrama took a step back and made a “please” motion, and the two Forge Master elder brothers stepped forward and tore open the spiritual energy seal on the drawing, browsing through the complete forging diagram.
The two old brothers then realized that the crafting process of this thing was a bit more complicated than they had imagined.
Master Broken Blade frowned and said:
“It will take at least three days to make an embryo according to this method, and it will have to be processed once by the alchemy process before it can be finally quenched, but it is true that it can be made to come with different words depending on the materials added.
It’s just that there’s one material in this thing that we don’t have here.”
He craned his head to the little reed name:
“We need a spine of a creature that comes with death psychic energy infused into it, the more complete the better, no less than seven knuckles in size, and a rib as a decoration for the scythe blade.
The drawing hints that it can be sourced from ghouls, water spirits, or similar undead creatures.
You’ll have to take care of this on your own, after all, my oldest brother and I aren’t good fighters, and with the list piling up right now, we don’t have time to go ‘stocking up’ in the sewers.”
“Success, no problem, we’ll go drill the sewers right now.”
With a grin on her face, Little Vikrama bounced out of the forge with the agreement that the materials would be delivered and finished three days later, but on the way she spotted another wagon with a new stall being set up.
A few apprentice alchemists were setting up some bottles and jars, and there was a homemade signboard with the Chinese characters for “Heavenly Fire” written on it.
This was the work of a player.
The NPCs in Transylvania can’t learn such complicated ideograms as Chinese.
Immediately interested, Little Reed Name ran to the stall and grabbed a bottle in her hand, sizing it up and activating item identification:
Name: Alchemy Flask – Classic Otherworldly Explosives
Quality: Standard – Consumables
Traits: collision explosion – violent combustion – poisonous smoke dispersal
Crafted by: what color is loyalty
Item Description:
[This is an art of war from the Otherworld, replaced and processed by alchemy to make its rustic yet terrifying power decrease rather than increase].
“Blanch! Is this the legendary Molotov cocktail?”
Little Vikrama had a jolt and almost threw the flask in her hand.
But she soon realized that it was obviously good stuff, especially for a long-range shooter like her who lacked melee skills, it was an absolute “standard supply”.
It was much more convenient to just light it and keep it burning than the heavy and expensive Witch Hunter’s Bombs they were using now!
“How much is this?”
The dwarf asked as he pulled an Alchemist Apprentice player who looked at it and said in a long drawn out voice:
“Twenty silver for one!
Don’t think it’s too expensive, Brother Loyalty’s dog has patented the formula for this thing with Mrs. Cuise, and now even if we apprentices do it ourselves, as long as we use the tools and materials provided by Mrs. Cuise, we have to pay Brother Loyalty 5 coins in ‘royalties’ for every one we sell.
It’s a real pain in the ass.
It’s obviously a craft that can be found everywhere, that guy is too sneaky!”
“It’s a bit expensive, it’s a consumable!”
Little Vikrama wanted to cut the price.
The little player rolled his eyes and said:
“Then why don’t you buy it in bulk? Brother Loyalty only said he’d sell out this cart, he didn’t say he couldn’t sell it to one little rich girl at a time, so I’ll make it cheaper for you. There are 50 flasks here, how about I charge you 9 gold coins?”
“8 gold coins! One price, I’ll leave if you don’t sell.”
Little Reed Name grunted and rolled her eyes.
The small player who was selling the items didn’t want to give in, but on second thought, his wholesale price from Brother Loyalty was only 10 silver coins a piece anyway, so even at the price Little Reed Name was offering he would still make a profit, and with the time he saved he could still go and practice leveling, so he simply nodded his head.
Both sides completed the transaction very happily.
Little Rich Girl used a special psychic bag for weapons to box up all fifty incendiary flasks and threw them in, in a good mood, humming, she planned to go back to find Lady Water and Orchid, but as a result, just a few steps out, he heard Loyal Brother’s broken voice shouting there:
“Freshly baked flask ah! It’s a must-have for monsters, a symbol of a powerful party! You can easily pass the Black Iron Trial with ten of them on your body! Hurry up and buy them, today is the first day of the sale, only 15 silver coins for one!
You can’t lose with 15 silver, you can’t be fooled with 15 silver, come on!”
“Huh?”
Little Vikrama exploded with anger when she heard this shout.
The incendiary flasks that people had developed themselves were only sold for 15 silver, and you, a second-hand dealer, dared to add one-third of the price to sell them, so you were really looking for the wrongdoer!
And actually really found by him!
I’m not sure if I’m going to be able to do that!
He is the one who is the wrongdoer!
Although she had a lot of money, she couldn’t afford to spend it like this, she turned back angrily with the intention of looking for that cunning guy to argue, but the latter had long since run away in a puff of smoke.
“What was that guy’s name again? What’s the name of that guy? Little Zhou? Or Little Lee? Hey, I knew that name was no good!”
Reed Name shouted through gritted teeth from his spot:
“Don’t let me catch you ow, scholar swimmer, see if I don’t throw your Molotov cocktail into your mouth and blow it up! You’re a family member, you’re a heartless bastard!”
(End of chapter)