297 7.25 A Novice Gem Crafter (2/2)
”I would make some more when I got the rubies and emeralds. I guess I would be able to try on the sapphires after a month of continuous fusings of rubies and emeralds. Its a waste to test on them in the earlier part of this fusion technique.”
”Come, let's assemble the shelter together. I would like to fish after this and discover what kind of fishes thrive in this stream.” I said as I handed her the 4 pouches and she took out a gem and saw its dull radiance when held against a light source.
”What's the attributes like for this type of gems?” Matilda asked while we both laid the tarpaulin on the ground and then used the twines and pegs to secure part of it to the ground. The 2 poles were attached together to make a single long pole about 4 feet in height and we supported it through the eyelet before we pulled the other part to act as a cover overhead.
”Gems add attributes like attack, defence, hit points, damage et cetera in multipliers of 2. A poor gem can add 10 points, a fair gem up to 20 points, a good gem up to 40 points and perfect gem up to 80 points. If we have a normal weapon with 3 sockets, and we used 3 perfect gems, it would give an added 240 points over attack.”
”So far rubies would be used for defence, emeralds are for attack. Diamonds would be used to enhance hit points while sapphires would be for damage.”
”If sapphires were used on a weapon, it would increase the damage inflicted and if used in armour, it would be for damage absorbed. So far I had successfully fused the 1st stage which is shards to poor. I haven't tried the poor to fair yet.”
”To minimise the harm, its best for me to fuse all into poor ones and once I'm confident on making fair ones right till good ones, until then would I act on the sapphires and then diamond.”
”There are so many levels to clear and I almost forget about it. However, if I failed to fuse, let's say a good gem... Then it would be obliterated and turned into nothing. That's the risk of a gem crafter.”
”It's best to keep all the shards first and concentrate on fusing other materials like stone flooring slabs, for instance. If you really wanted to make 24x24 floor space, then I would need 576 pieces of stone flooring slabs which also means a total number of 2880 pieces of stones.”
”Based on your storage bag, you need to collect 2 trips of those 99 items every 15 slots. We could grind mining those stone mines first and once we had achieved that, you could slowly grind the iron ones and leave the stones for me to fuse.”
”Haiyooo... Why so cheem? Is there a faster way to do all this or not?” she exasperatedly cried out when she learned that we need to collect 2880 stones just to make a sizeable floor space. She dived under the shelter when she heard that a joint effort would need to collect all those stones.
”Ngeeeekkkk... This is 1160 Medieval Higher Middle Ages in England... This is not 1860 Japan where things would be much easier for us. Look around you... Do you see any people except the offscreen crews?”
”Phew... If we have other adventurers around, we could rope them in and get them to assist in gathering resources. Or we could buy off their loads of stones and wood.”
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Meanwhile... A male adventurer aged about 12-13 had just reached Ackworth and was watching around to acquire some equipment when he observed that those merchants were simply cutthroats, and all he had in his holding was just a few coppers or pennies.
He wandered off to the marketplace and disbursed all his money on tomatoes instead. ”At least it is better to fill my stomach rather than to give my hard-earned money to these land pirates...!