Chapter 79 - Three Stars Blacksmith. (1/2)

Yusa was explaining to Ao the offer she received from Halie, hearing that made him start to ponder.

”Well, there is no doubt that this is a good chance, but you saw just now as well, that was the leader of the Carnage Team, the one ranked first in the Sky Rank System, even so, I couldn't help but think how weak he was, of course, Yule Continent is seen as the weakest continent, so the competitors in the Mercenary Selection and the Martial Gathering after it are bound to be much stronger, but even so, for you who have a strength similar to mine, I still think you should aim for the Divine Path Sect first.”

Yusa nodded, that's what she was thinking too, Ao then commented.

”Besides, if that Six Stars Runestones Formations Master really wants you as a disciple, I doubt he will change his mind in just the three months that both competitions take place.”

”You think so?”

Ao nodded.

”I refuse to believe he will find someone as good as you anytime soon, who out there can match the power of the Spiritual Energy Meridians? They are the main reason why he got so impressed.”

Yusa took a deep breath and nodded.

Later that night, she gathered with Shinja and Krune too and told them her plans, Krune heard that and simply said.

”Isn't that good? To have a backup plan when things don't go the way you planned to, that's the right way to go.”

Shinja also nodded.

”I concur, you don't know if you have enough strength to enter the top 10 of the Mercenary Gathering, same goes for Ao and even Krune, and let's say that only me and Krune go to the Divine Path Sect entrance exam, and then we both fail, we would come back anyway after that anyway.”

She said that but she doesn't believe that the Divine Path Sect would give up on Krune once they find that he has an Elemental Core, even if he fails the exam, they would still take him in, but she didn't say those words to not make things difficult for Yusa.

”Then I will do that, besides, who knows, I might really enter the sect.”

She then just laughed.

Everyone went back to their own things after that.

There was only one day remaining before they depart for the Mercenary Selection, this day, Krune went back to the Blacksmith Hall to take the exam, he wanted to know if he could become at least a One Star Blacksmith, already.

Marcus was the examiner this time around, he was the one who had told Krune that he could do the Blacksmith Exam in the Hall, so he wanted to see how much he improved in just six days.

”Very well, your job is to forger a simple Divine Imprint, the materials are all on the table, although it will take some time until you can forge a Divine Imprint good enough to resist the forging process without changing, a simple one should be easy to accomplish.”

Krune nodded, if it was just a basic Divine Imprint, he was confident that he could forger one.

Divine Imprints could be forged through the use of blood and Divine Sense, as for the materials, in fact, as long as it was good enough to resist the battle of the cultivator specific level, that was good enough, so Krune used one of the common materials available, Spiritual Iron, a type of metal that could be found almost in any Blacksmith store.

'To forge the Divine Imprint I will have to fuse some of my own blood inside of the ore without losing the blood or the metal characteristics, my blood will be the container which will keep my Divine Sense inside while the Iron will be the protection of the container.'

Krune started straight away, with the help of the equipment in the exam room, he could check the temperature of the iron during all times, using his own spiritual energy to manipulate the fire element, the iron temperature slowly increased, the trick was to protect the blood with their spiritual energy so that the hot iron wouldn't destroy it, for Krune who has the All-Encompassing Soul Technique and the Spiritual Energy Meridians, it was way too easy.

After the right temperature was achieved, he started hammering it while applying a few drops of blood his blood, Divine Imprints aren't anything big, in fact, they are very small, even the hammer used to mold it was a lot smaller than normal hammers, all to precisely control the Divine Imprint creation.

Marcus was looking at the process and was really impressed, Krune's control over the fire element far exceeded his expectations, he was even using wind element at the same time to increase the effectiveness of the fire element without damaging the blood properties.

'This is far above what a One Star Blacksmith can do, if he finishes this Divine Imprint like this, it won't be a problem to give him a Two Stars Blacksmith Badge straight away.'

Time passed and slowly the spiritual iron took the form of a circle, it's color also changed, one could see that it was somewhat blood red now, but Krune noticed one thing when he used his Divine Sense to check the fusion of the blood and the iron, he could see that although they are fused together now, their properties aren't exactly the same, if he wanted, he could use his powerful Divine Sense and Spiritual Energy Meridians element control to forcefully match each other.

'I see, it is because blood also has iron in its composition, no wonder they use blood to keep the owners' Divine Sense, let's give it a try.'

Krune stopped hammering at this point, the Divine Imprint had already taken the desired form, so he started the process of infusing his Divine Sense into his blood, and at the same time, match the two metal properties together, fortunately, both metals are iron, so it was a lot easier than he thought.

As soon as Krune started to match the properties of the blood iron and the spiritual iron, Marcus's jaw almost dropped on the floor.

'I see, I spent all night forging and haven't take a break yet, so I'm hallucinating now, yes, that must be it'

He then took a deep breath, used his spiritual energy to clear his mind and only then took a look inside the Divine Imprint with his Divine Sense again, but nothing changed, Krune was still matching the two irons properties, and it won't be long before he finishes.

'Impossible! This isn't something you can do with elements alone, he would need to have a Divine Sense that matches an early stage Core Formation Realm, but he is obviously in the 7th stage of the Foundation Establishment!'