92 Magic Forging (2/2)
Yale didn't dare to distract himself because he didn't plan to waste such opportunity of observing an experienced smith.
”Now you should have a correct basic understanding. Go and try to forge that dagger's blade again, but use magic forging like before.”
The old man's objective was to see the development Yale had with his magic forging after obtaining the basic knowledge about forging, so if Yale merely used standard tools to craft the dagger's blade, it wouldn't have any meaning to the elder.
Yale didn't dare to disobey the elder's words because the other party had the kindness of teaching him. Thus, Yale tried again to create the dagger with magic forging.
Forging was a difficult art from the start, but magical forging also required to control all the spells at the same time, which increased the difficulty a lot. That was the main reason people didn't expect kids to use it.
On the other hand, if someone controlled the magic forging without mistakes, the results would be better as the control over heat, cold and the tools would be far higher due to being connected with the smith. However, that required a high degree of ability in both forging and magic.
”The user upgraded the Magic Skill [Fire Ball] to Level 4.”
”The user upgraded the Magic Skill [Water Ball] to Level 4.”
”The user upgraded the Magic Skill [Stone Golem] to Level 4.”
While Yale was was in the midst of forging the dagger's blade the three skills leveled up at the same time, the high degree of control they required was something that would increase Yale's mastery in them if he did it continuously.
Yale finished his craft after spending even more effort than before and executed appraisal on the new dagger's blade.
”Dagger's blade forged by the user. It could produce a bit damage if hit on a weak spot.”
Yale didn't know how to react to such appraisal, it was indeed better than before, but if it could only inflict a bit of damage after hitting the weak spot, it was almost as useless as before.
”The user completed a craft successfully for the first time. Craft Menu added to the system.”
Yale quickly went to the new menu to hear the explanation about it.
”Craft menu would register the successful manufacturing processes and let the user reproduce them perfectly without any effort in exchange of Origin Points. The user's skills and proficiency in crafting won't increase.”
There was only one item listed on the Craft Menu.
”Dagger's blade: 40 Origin Points per item.”
Yale sighed, at that moment, he could create almost useless daggers without difficulty, but if that didn't improve his forging ability nor his spells it didn't have any usefulness for him. At least he hoped that the Craft Menu would be useful after improving his proficiency in forging and create better items.
While Yale was looking at his new menu, the elder was looking at the dagger's blade.
”You improved a lot after my explanation. If you point that daggers blade to someone's eye, it can be effective. Compared to that scrap of metal from before this at least this can be called a successful work for a beginner like you.”
Yale bowed to the elder after hearing his praising words.
”Thank you very much for teaching me. I will continue practicing to improve my forging abilities.”
The old man nodded, and Yale left the house. The old man was satisfied with Yale's progress, that was something worth of observing, but he wasn't bored enough to spend more time teaching a kid, and Yale wasn't expecting that the old man taught him more either.
On his way to find an inn to pass the night inside Trade City, Yale bought a lot of bad quality metals, he wanted to have enough to practice at any time he wanted, and since he knew that the crafts would be of bad quality disregarding how good the metal was, he had enough buying the cheapest metal available.