Chapter 80 - Weapon Creation (2/2)

”Let's just grab a Great Mind Condensation Leaf when the time comes.”

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With the Spirit Star Steel on hand, Dane now headed towards the next place in his mind, a place where the weapon the Ninth Prince could be actualized.

A smithy.

Knowing Dane though, he was not going to a normal smithy that only crafted Magic grade weapons at most. He was instead going to the most renowned smithy inside Seraph Kingdom.

Cling! Cling!

The bells affixed to the smithy's door rang out, alerting the blacksmith in charge of the smithy of the customer's presence.

”Yes, how may I hel—” At the instant the bells rang out, the blacksmith revealed herself to the customer with beads of sweat covering her well-toned body. Indeed, the blacksmith was a woman.

The blacksmith gazed at the customer for a while before letting out a happy scream as she ran towards the customer to hug him. ”Kyaaaah! It's Dane!”

”Haha.” Dane could only let out a soft laugh as he was being hugged tightly by the blacksmith. ”How's it been Kelsey? No wait, please let go first, it's becoming hard to breathe.”

”So far, the smithy is still the most renowned out there,” Kelsey replied to Dane's question as she let go of Dane, letting Dane breathe in some fresh air. Of course, she knew that Dane was here for some reason, hence she got straight to the point. ”So…what brings you here to the smithy?”

Dane took in a few more breaths of air before responding to Kelsey's question. ”I need you to help me craft a weapon. Knowing you well, I'm sure you can craft a Grand grade weapon.”

Within the Seraph Kingdom, Normal grade equipment were the weakest and most common, followed by Magic grade equipment, then Grand grade equipment. Although Magic and Normal grade equipments were only apart by one grade, Magic grade equipment were already 10 to 100 times fewer in quantity, with Grand grade equipment being even fewer than Magic grade equipment. One could only hope to see the prowess of Grand grade equipment with their own two eyes.

”Oh?” Kelsey's eyebrow raised as she heard Dane's reply. ”How can you be so sure that I can guarantee that I'll craft a Grand grade weapon?”

Dane let out a small chuckle as he pointed towards the air surrounding Kelsey. ”You know me Kelsey, I have the [Greater Appraisal] spell so I can know every person's power. But I don't even need to activate that to see that your aura has become more condensed. Let me guess, have you broken through [Intermediate Swordsmithing] or [Intermediate Armor Crafting]?”

”The former,” Kelsey smiled as she did not restrict her aura anymore. ”By luck, I was evolve [Intermediate Swordsmithing] to [Expert Swordsmithing], giving me more assurance of crafting a Grand grade weapon.” Surprisingly, she went closer to Dane and whispered in his ear, ”Not only that, I even have a small chance of crafting a Supreme grade weapon.”

When Dane heard Kelsey's final statement, he felt like thunder coursed through his mind at the level of disbelief he felt. He could only conceal this feeling before grabbing the cloth covered piece of wood inside his robe and showed it to Kelsey as he slowly unfurled the cloth covering it.

”I need you to craft a sword for me,” Dane replied as the piece of wood was fully revealed to Kelsey. ”This piece of wood will be used as the hilt, I assume you know this, right?”

”Gale Dragon Wood, a good piece of wood for crafting weapons for classes inclined to the Wind element. How could I not know this?” Kelsey let out a smile as she said the wood's name in one go. ”As for the blade, what am I going to use? Mithril? Mana conducting alloy? Or do you have something even better than that?”

Fwoosh!

As if it was rehearsed, a rift opened up after Kelsey was finished asking, a chunk of pure silver metal landing on Dane's arm that was extended at the instant the rift opened. Shock took over Kelsey's face as she pointed towards the chunk of metal. ”I-I-Is that…what I think it is?”

”I-Is that…Spirit Star Steel?”

Dane could only nod to Kelsey's words before saying, ”Let's stop wasting time. We need to make a Magic-infused Blade. You're in charge of the weapon, I'll be in charge of the spell.”

”I trust you that you can do just that, right?”