Chapter 366: Forging Learned (2/2)

Sure enough, in about two hours, Gravis finished the entire book. This was nothing in comparison to all the properties of all the materials found in the middle worlds. As he finished reading, Gravis realized that the Formation Arrays were really simple. Inscribing them was also straightforward and logical.

When Gravis had gotten his new weapons on his journey, he had always marveled at how great and mysterious they were. Such weapons could store Energy or lightning? This had been wondrous.

Yet, after knowing all the background information, Gravis realized that inscribing the Formation Arrays was probably even easier than creating the edge of a Spirit Weapon. No wonder Old Man Lightning had been able to create a fitting weapon for Gravis' peculiar technique in nearly no time.

Right now, Gravis could take the Core Ore, or Low Ore, to create a Peak Spirit Weapon. This meant that he was already at the same level as the forgers of the Heaven Sect.

Yet, Gravis had also trained with many different Unity Rank materials. Together with his knowledge, his forging was already superior to everyone inside a lower world.

When Gravis realized that, he sighed. 'I shouldn't forget that I didn't fully achieve that by myself. Without all these calculations, information about the materials, and endless supply of ore, I wouldn't have been able to become that good so fast.'

'On top of that, my inherent control over lightning makes it many times easier to control it finely. Others probably need years and years of practice to reach such fine control.'

Yet, Gravis wasn't deterred. 'Luckily for my ego, these are only the advanced basics of forging. Similar to my combat training before going to the lower world, this is just a starting boost. Every future progression will depend on me.'

After that, Gravis started practicing the whole process of creating a weapon. In the beginning, Gravis often wasn't detailed enough in inscribing the Formation Arrays. It required a lot of control and feeling. If the Formation Arrays weren't perfect, the weapon would become weaker.

Like this, Gravis practiced with a lot of different weapons and Formation Arrays for another two months.

After these two months, Gravis was able to make the edges for new materials after only around four failures. Yet, he felt like his feeling for the materials had increased by a lot. He started being able to feel some of the peculiarities of materials without trying to remember what the booklet had said.

Gravis realized that he had gotten closer to understanding the concept behind them. Yet, he had no idea how much more he had to learn to understand the concept. He remembered that he had thought that he been at the cusp of understanding the concept behind the materials after just reading the booklet.

Yet, after so much practice, he felt his knowledge increase crazily, but that one small step looked even harder to take now.

'Heh, I've been naïve,' Gravis thought. 'I thought I was close to understanding a Law, but, obviously, I'm not.'

After such a long time, Gravis had a completion rate for weapons of about 98%. Sadly, since he could only use the grinding method for the edge, all the weapons he finished were one grade lower than their Rank.

Yet, he had also managed to forge many weapons with Early Unity Rank materials, which would create an Initial Unity Weapons. Such a weapon would be even useful to Gravis now.

But didn't Gravis have the Void-Stone Saber?

Yes, he did, but Gravis now finally knew about Void-Stone. It was a material of the Early Nascent Nourishing Rank. It might still be useful until that Realm, but then it would become useless. Even more, Gravis couldn't really save a Lightning Crescent in it. He could only infuse it with one, but a lot of the lightning would get wasted inside the saber.

The Void-Stone Saber didn't have the required Formation Arrays, and the Lightning Crescent was also more powerful than Gravis' Realm. On top of that, since the Lightning Crescent was infused into the Void-Stone Saber, it had an even more destructive effect on it. Gravis was sure that the Void-Stone Saber would start breaking down at the Middle Unity Realm. On top of that, it didn't even have as much utility as a proper Unity Weapon.

After thinking about all this, Gravis decided to stop practicing. 'I've been learning how to forge for a little less than a year now. Soon, I'll be 23.'

Then, Gravis remembered something. 'Speaking of, nearly a hundred years should have passed for my friends. I wonder how they are,' Gravis thought in nervousness. A hundred years was a long time. It could very well be that all of his friends had already died, and his father just kept quiet to not distract him from forging.

”Father,” Gravis said. ”How are my friends?” he asked.

His father looked at Gravis with his usual, even look.