Chapter 49 - Forging 2 (1/2)
System: You have successfully forged a light bow.
”+100 experience points, +4 Forging Proficiency”
As expected, he got four forging proficiency points from making one piece of equipment. If this continued, he would become an intermediate apprentice in no time. The successful creation of equipment also gave him 100 experience points.
This is equal to the amount of experience provided by a single quest. He knew that he only managed to make an equipment at his first try due to his previous life experiences. It wasn't an easy thing to create equipment in vita-nova especially structures like bows. One had to have at least a little talent of forging in real-life to emulate it in the game.
He also realized that forging and other trade professions could always improve his level above others whenever he required as he had a good understanding of most of them and this would provide him a lot of advantage in the game. He then remembered to check the bow he had crafted.
Light Bow (Black Iron Bow)
Level 3:
Effects: Agility +2, Perception +6;
Causes 25% more damage against members of the worgen and warg families.
It was a satisfactory result. In fact, it was more than what was expected. The damage value against the warg and worgen families increased by 5% over the specification in the design. It might be due to the use of Blue Glitter Fire.
All that was left to do with the bow was tie as string and use it. He immediately took a picture of the bow and its attributes and sent it to Blue Dart. ”How much do you think this is worth?” he asked Blue Dart.
”What is with you and good equipment? Do they just fall into your lap? You are gaining a reputation as bad as Merlin,” replied Blue Dart surprised at the new message he received. ”Though it provides a bit less attributes than the Vultarc's bow, but for you, I will offer the same amount,” he continued in good faith. He wanted to establish a good relationship with Shadow and decided to not hassle with him.
”Don't talk like it is a bad investment. It has the special property against Worgen and Warg families. That includes wolves too. It will be great in exploring the blackrock hills. The chance of the wolf packs ambushing you reduces by a lot. It will be much more useful at the special dungeon 'Cave of Wargs'.”
”You have access to that dungeon?”
”No but I know that the public will get access once my quest is completed. In fact, my quest it to create a teleportation portal at the cave.”
”Why are you wasting your time forging instead of getting on with it?”
”I don't have the proper level to be able to successfully complete the quest. And before you suggest it, numbers wouldn't make a difference. It is best, I do it alone. So, what do you offer for the bow?”
”I told you. The same as before.”
”How about you provide me with some coins instead of credits? Or at least cover a bit of it with coins. Else I will not be able to forge more equipment.”
”Wait! Are you saying that you are the one that forged the bow?”
”Yes, I can produce more than one too. Think of its value to the guild.”
”You are the guy that used the intermediate forging room, aren't you? How did you hide your data from the other players?”
”Oh, yeah. That was a skill that allows me to disguise myself. Though it is a rare skill, similar ones probably could be seen in future.”
”It is truly rare. I heard of disguise skill that can fool NPCs, but a disguise that can change the ID of a player and fool other players to such an extent is truly rare.”
”Enough with the flattering. How many coins do you think that you can provide?”
”I don't have enough coins, but I could provide you materials and credits upon the materials for your services like I suggested for your shield. Remember you also asked coins for purchase of equipment too. By the way, how is it going on that end?” asked Blue Dart.
He was extremely anxious to know if there was a way to get armor with vita-nova coins. Though he didn't mind co-operating with Shadow, this case was depending on him for equipment and it wasn't very acceptable for a person in charge of a guild in an area to be dependent on an independent player for such resources.
”I got the items. You just need to collect enough coins to purchase them. So, about the bow. Do you intend to get it along with the rest? Let us conclude this, every minute I talk with you is costing me. I am in the intermediate forging room you know.”
”I am willing the to buy it for one silver. Let us meet after the hour. We can also exchange for the bows for raw materials of the same. Though the credit to coin conversion ration might not be that high. I can't help you any more than that. We will need to hold on to the coins as they are not easy to farm.”
”OK,” said Shadow as he also understood the situation. It was indeed very hard to farm coins in vita-nova compared to other games. Shadow already thought Blue Dart was being generous to him already.
He immediately started on the next bow. It already took him about 15 minutes to craft one bow. A quarter of his time was over. He realized that making structures such as bows in a forge took a lot more time than plate armors and bladed weapons.
He quickly began to make another bow. Before his rental time at the forge was done, he managed to craft three more bows with each taking shorted time than the one before as he got used to it. He had 5 more minutes left, but he decided it was time to take sell the bows and other equipment.
He directly went to Lydia's shop after going into stealth and checked that no one was following him. He checked the display provided by Lydia and sent the images of various equipment to Blue Dart. ”These are the ones that are available right now. Tell me which ones you would like, and I will purchase them. I can only get 10 more from the NPC. Choose well.”
He left the remaining 6 slots to by equipment for himself and his team. He wouldn't sell everything that was provided by Lydia to Sirius Imperials as that would be an instance of biting his own hand.
”Give me a minute. I need to cross check with the others.”
”Of course, I will be at the forging association along with four light bows. You can meet me there,” said Shadow. He obviously understood the need to cross check. If Blue Dart ended up buying an equipment when someone already had a similar one or if it covers the same part of the body, then the newly bought equipment wouldn't be of much use.
He quickly made his way back to the forging association and waited there for over ten minutes. Just when he was getting tired and felt like calling Blue Dart. He saw Blue Dart come to the forging association with Raging Blade and few others. On the other end, Raging Blade and Blue Dart were having a fierce discussion.
”He is Merlin's contact who is selling the equipment for coins?” asked Raging Blade to Blue Dart pointing his sword at Shadow.
”Yes, he has access to some good equipment. You just had a look at the info he sent. Tell me do you really want to go against both him and Merlin. I just brought you down here because you tend to be closer to the village or cities at all times. I want you to handle further transactions with him.”
”That's ridiculous. Why do you want me to do the exchange? Can't you handle it yourself?”