Chapter 49 - Forging 2 (2/2)
”I can. But I usually am asked to spearhead exploration of new places. You are not. You are a part of the club and are a part of the team in the competitions. So, you should learn to negotiate with these kinds of players. Just try it. You can always consult me.”
”You always used to do it before right? Why not continue that.”
”Blood is considering exploration of new places a high priority. We want to gather reputation and possibly get decent property in the game. The value of properties in the game would be a lot more than other games.”
”What is so special about the game. It has a kind of realistic feel to it. People would soon get tired of it. Games are meant to be enjoyable.”
”That is what you are mistaken about. The purpose of vita-nova isn't to just be a simple game. As the name suggests, it is meant to be a second reality. Soon, the physics of the game will converge more with reality than diverge. Just do this for me.”
”But you know what happened between me and Shadow. How can I bargain from him when he is a lot more stronger than me?”
”You represent the guild, Raging. You have an easier access to coins and workforce than independent players. That is why he is selling the equipment to us. It will be fine. I will talk to him about it, for now. After that, you will be the liaison with independent forces in the village till we leave to city.”
Shadow who started walking towards them once he saw Blue Dart was already beside them. ”So, you will be my point of contact for Sirius Imperials then. Hope we have many successful trades,” said Shadow who had heard what they were talking.
Shadow Tyrant immediately pulled out the four bows he had crafted and held them to Blue Dart. ”You have the money and materials?” he asked.
Blue Dart immediately opened a trade window to have an exchange with Shadow. He put in the money for the bows, the equipment and the materials. But only received four bows. ”Where are the equipment you showed,” asked Blue Dart.
”Give me a minute, I will get them,” said Shadow as he went into stealth. He quickly purchased them from Lydia and gave the equipment to Blue Dart.
”You still haven't told anything about the materials, you require. I am sure we can provide almost any material found near the Blackrock village,” said Raging Blade taking initiative.
Balthazar felt a bit relaxed when he heard Raging Blade. He was glad that Raging Blade could reign in his anger when necessary. ”I need iron ore and blackrock crystal pieces for the bow. The shield requires refined Iron ore. Can you really provide them?” asked Shadow.
”Iron ore, a few of the members managed to get it,” said Raging Blade but he heard nothing about the other two materials that Shadow told him. He looked at Blue Dart who was just as confused as him. Though Blue Dart initially went towards the blackrock hills, he spent a lot of time at the river, after he heard the announcement of the special quest, he decided that it is better to focus on the Arwild forest and pioneer it. He also had no idea how to get refined ore or blackrock crystals.
”I will call you again if required,” said Shadow as he went into the forging association and booked the intermediate forging room again leaving behind a Blue Dart who was now sure of the fact that there is a way to cross the river after he heard Shadow talk about Blackrock crystals.
Once, in the forging room, Balthazar checked the design of the Goblin Shield. It was a black iron shield and would definitely have more demand. It could also be used by his teammates. The Goblin Shield was relatively easier than the bow. All it needed was to have molten poured around a base made of stones bound by the magic essences.
Magic essence was a liquid that could be used to create magical pathways or carve runes in equipment. The essence required for the goblin shield was the normal/low-grade essence obtained from the minor elementals in Arwild Forest.
Shadow put the stones in a small crucible and poured a magic essence on the stones. He wrote a rune for binding on the stones using the stylus. The stones were held together by the essence as depicted in the design. He then melted a refined iron ore using the Blue Glitter Fire in a cast the shape of a half-sphere and put the bound stones into the molten iron. As the iron ore cooled down, it formed a tough hemispherical centre part of the shield.
The remaining two refined iron-ores were also melted, and Shadow quickly poured it into the hemispherical cast. He cooled it to a semisolid state using the blower and then began to beat the semisolid metal in to a circular sheet with a diameter of about 2 feet.
He put it in a metal pressing machine to even out the thickness of the plate. Now, he had to fix the base into the centre of the plate. He directly melted the centre of the plate with Blue Glitter Fire and welded the central part of the shield into it. He slowly beat the heated-up plate and central part with his hammer till they completely fused, and he got a good-looking shield. Fusing the plate with the centre of the shield was the most time-consuming part of making the entire shield. It took more than a hundred shots to fused them. All that was left to engrave runes for toughness on the shield using a magic essence and carve a groove at the centre of the shield to hold it.
A minute later the runes were done, the shield was ready, and Shadow selected the option for identification. Once, the loading bar was done loading, notification sounded showing that the shield was successfully forged.
System: You have successfully forged a goblin shield.
”+100 experience points. +4 Forging proficiency”
[Goblin Shield] (black iron shield)
Level 3:
Materials Required: Refined Iron Ore x 3; Stones x 5; Magic esscense x 2;
Requirement: Endurance: 8;
Defence +15; Vitality: +10; Endurance +5;
Durability 25/25;
This was a decent shield for level 3. The only lacking quality of it was that it had no extra skills or special effects like most black iron equipment. But it still provided a good increase in attributes. Better than similar black iron shields of level 3.
Shadow sent the image of the shield and its description to Blue Dart and continued with making another shield. Once, he was done with the second shield, he checked his messages and saw that Raging Blade contacted him about the shield. They were willing to buy one of the shields for 2 silvers.
Though, it could be considered a smaller price for a shield. It was still acceptable at the beginning of the game. Shadow responded that he would be willing to sell it only if he got at least another 50 coppers on the 2 silvers.
After a bit of haggling, the settled the price for a shield to be 2 silvers and 20 coppers. Moreover, they were willing to buy as many shields as he could provide. With a buyer available, Shadow decided to continue forging the shields till he finished all the refined iron ore that he had.
With his experience in forging and the equipment he had in the intermediate forging room, he had a high theoretical success rate of at least 70%. It was a considered very advantageous. When he was forging his eighth shield, he received an alert from the system that he had set to wake up. He only had five real-life minutes before he had to wake up.
He had already successfully forged 6 shields. With two for his teammates, he had four more to sell. He continued to forge the eighth shield which due to his hurry failed to be a black-iron shield and instead ended up being a white trash shield.
He quickly contacted Raging Blade and asked him to meet outside the forging association and that he had to leave in 5 minutes. He also asked his team to teleport back to the village in 5 minutes, so that he could buy add on further equipment to them.
In the next few minutes, Shadow quickly sold the four shields and went to Lydia's shop to buy more equipment. By the time, he reached the shop, he saw that someone else was already at the shop, browsing black-iron equipment from Lydia. He was shocked that someone else already completed the quest. The new guy was named, White blaze and was a priest.
With no time to waste, he quickly bought four equipment from Lydia when she told that she had sold all that she could today and that she could only sell equipment tomorrow. It looked like the priest had already bought two equipment from Lydia. Though he lost the chance to get two more equipment from Lydia, it was still a decent harvest.
He quickly went to the teleportation point to meet Merlin and his team and provided the equipment to them before he logged off.