108 Succession of Breakthroughs (1/2)
Yale knew that advance to the expert stage in Smith Mastery also needed a turning point.
The grandmaster had said to him that the turning point was being able to craft something with a special property, for example, heat resistance or cold resistance.
Any smith at the expert stage was able to infuse some special properties to the weapons or armors, even if they were only making a piece of metal to use later in a more complex crafting.
However, to a smith at the apprentice stage that was far more difficult, so the breakthrough to the expert stage had stopped a lot of people in the past.
It was also possible to infuse elements to create magic weapons, but that was something of a different level of difficulty, only a smith at the peak of the expert stage would be barely able to do it with a lot of difficulties, and that was because it was the turning point to reach the next stage.
As for the Space-time Judgment Sword, Yale didn't even dare to imagine what level one should have to craft such a weapon; Yale didn't expect to reach that level in his life as he wasn't too fond of forging and didn't have an incredible talent in it.
Two weeks passed quickly and the day for Julie's breakthrough arrived; Yale went to see Julie's advance to the Novice Rank as he had never seen someone doing the advancement to Rank 1.
Julie had planned to advance in both paths at once, as in that way she would only need to ask for help one time, the difficulty of doing it increased due to it, but as she was exceptionally well prepared, her breakthrough worked successfully and didn't have any problem.
After breakthrough, Julie announced that she would be training without showing herself until she reached the 1-star Novice Rank.
The starless Novice Rank was unstable like all the starless realms; the best was to advance quickly to the 1-star to consolidate the Rank.
Fortunately, going from the starless Novice Rank to the 1-star Novice Rank was quite easy for those who had their training speeds improved as the difficulty to that advance was still the same than the one at the Mortal Rank.
Julie had only needed two weeks of secluded training to reach the 1-star Novice Rank. Seeing Julie reaching that stage of training,motivated Oscro to train harder, he didn't want to be left behind by the others as he knew that even if his path was easier than the others, his talent was lower than Julie's or Yale's.
Two months later, Yale finally managed to reach the expert stage creating a dagger with a cold resistance effect.
”The user upgraded the Passive Skill [Smith Mastery] to Expert Level 1.”
”Vitality points increased to 90 due to sub-quest reward.”
”Strength points increased to 90 due to sub-quest reward.”
”Agility points increased to 90 due to sub-quest reward.”
”Intelligence points increased to 90 due to sub-quest reward.”
”Wisdom points increased to 90 due to sub-quest reward.”
”Dexterity points increased to 90 due to sub-quest reward.”
”Origin Points increased to 90 due to sub-quest reward.”
That was what Yale was expecting; he directly maxed all his stats and Origin Points thanks to the sub-quest reward; Yale hadn't stopped practicing while training to advance to the expert stage in Smith Mastery, so his distance to the limit of the 9-star Mortal Realm was shorter than three months ago.
The dagger Yale had created while advancing in rank was without doubts his best crafting. Yale had remained forging only daggers as they were easier to craft than swords, he had also learned how to craft them, but his practice advanced more quickly making daggers as they could be done in less time and with fewer materials.
When Yale appraised it, the description was quite normal, but at least it didn't say that it was flawed like his first crafts.