Chapter 44 ‘Borrowing runes. (1/2)

Days went by and Roland continued to practice his craft He created regular toolsmaterials They were far too crude to sell and any responsible blacksmith made his or her own tools

With the help of his teo to restaurants every day She would cook and clean and he would help her out by crafting arrow shafts With this, his s at a steady pace This only left his level that was increasing at a snail's pace

‘Even runecrafting doesn’t give h while ha a door handle for his neorkshop as the old one had fallen off He could have just repaired it but he would be given fewer points

He was just adding the finishi+ng touches by bending each side of the handle on the horn of his anvil After it was finished he just needed to attach the new iron handle via nails to the wooden door The door didn’t have a lock, just a simple latch that he could use to close it fro Mastery were at level 4 They were leveling up fast if you compared it to his blacksmiths level that was only 3 after all this ti a third tier 1 class would be a headache If he continued like this he wouldskills before he even reached level 10 with his runic blacks that he expected would happen sooner or later It felt like a big waste of tiraded even if he continued working hard It ht have been even better to level up other skills that he ignored after that happened, like his stealth, running or weapon proficiencies With the added Blacksth and endurance he would be able to handle soh there was one thing he wanted to do That was to draw as ht all of the runic scrolls that were in the city already There weren’t that in with as most runesmiths would rather hammer red hot iron than hold a quill in a dark room

This left him with not much to ith Only some basic elemental spells like the arrow series There were also some situational ones like the lesser shadow veil and the life detection spell

He needed to get more armor and weapon-related spells like the impact rune or detonation rune he received The problem was that even the cheapest piece of arh gold to go around and buy enchanted armor to level up

One option was to buy an enchanted sith a popular rune Learn how to craft it hi skill Then order some swords and add the rune to it This would probably be one of the better options and he could ask the gno that it was hi still sucked him dry of mana, he probably wouldn’t be able tohis scrolls due to not having anyhe could do before that, soet rune schee The probleot caught he ht was improbable,

‘I should give it a try… I need to test it out in the field…’

Roland rubbed his chin before ha the door handle into place The one he made even looked better than the old one which showed hi his craft His assistant was out on adventures for a few days so he had some free time to do some tests

The next day came around and Roland left his workshop He couldn’t test his new idea in one of Exeor shops as the stores weren’t in the business of selling ic swords They mostly sold materials, scrolls, and alchemy products

He needed to find himself a shop that had a relation with an actual runesmith These eapon shops and armor shops and they looked very sia, he was now in front of one It was one of the bigger shops in the city and there were already so over the items The person that owned this was a runes a runesmith class was quite hard and he already knew this Most of them would specialize in only one of the fields, either armors or weapons The effort they would need to put to level up both would be astronomical Still, sorandmasters of the craft

The shop was named ‘Balmyr’s Weapons’ and it had a sword and ax sy his usual robe and covered most of his face as he didn’t want to be spotted

The part of the store the regular customers were allowed to walk on was on the first floor On this floor, you had various weapons of the regular variety They were mostly made of steel or iron and you could even pick them up and examine them

The second floor wasn’t accessible for just everyone You had to be a silver grade adventurer or have some connections On that floor, the rade and above were placed Due to how much they cost they ell protected and you had to juh some hoops to even exah, no He walked over to where some of the rune enchanted items were, the ones with lesser runes There were a lot of thelass cases, a person just needed to call over one of the clerks to examine it or to purchase it He on the other hand just wanted to exalass

He moved closer to one of those display cases He saw so better than what he was able to produce

‘Steel Axe of lesser sharpness…’

‘Steel Dagger of lesser sharpness…’

He started looking through them, most of them had the sharpness enchantment on it as it was one of the more popular ones He needed to find an item with a rune that he didn’t yet know and it didn’t take hisword of lesser scorchingthere we go’

Roland murmured to himself That was one rune that he wasn’t fae, he knew that this enchantment would imbue the weapon with flaical fire would add a bit reat as soht think

He moved in closer as noas the tilass case and was lucky enough that no one was close by He carried out his plan by sticking his face as close to the glass as possible and then staring at the sword

Yes, he just ca skill was activated and he could see the runic spell structure of the lesser scorching rune

He wouldn’t be sketching a diagra one of his traits, e Retention one that he was blessed with His ive this a try

He already knew the runic structures after scribing so many schematics and spell scrolls He didn’t even need to re where the separate components He already knew the ones that were used for fire and fla rune had si

He re at the sword Solances as they didn’t knohat this person was doing He had his head squished into the glass and was intently looking at one of the swords

Roland finally pulled his face away and quickly ran out of the store This left the clerks eveninvolved The youth ran back to his workshop with haste and grabbed his paper and pencil He quickly started drawing everything down Within fifteen minutes he had all of the components on the paper and only the traces re skill, he didn’t even need a ruler to draw a straight line so he finished up everything within half an hour

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You have created the schematic for the Lesser Scorch Rune [ Low ]

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He gained sohest rating as he hadlesser scorching rune With his debugging skill, he could easily increase it to the highest grade

Roland sat dohile looking at the paper he just drew the scheed to ‘borrow’ a yet unknown rune diagraold coins thanks to this and it didn’t seem that anyone noticed

He wanted to run back to that store and do it again He knew that if he went through with that soet some free rune schematics but he couldn’t overdo it He was scared that so an unknown skill and if he went to jail they would have ways to identify it