Chapter 73 - First Original Equipment (2/2)
This option of creating forging designs made forgers, extremely famous and rich. The process of fabricating a forging design was very simple and a player could easily make tens to hundreds of them any time they wanted. Otherwise, how much money could they make, even if they exhausted themselves by forging equipment every single day?
He already had over 200 forging proficiency points and he required 500 forging proficiency points to get to intermediate forging apprentice. He had begun to plan on what new forging designs to become advanced forging apprentice as soon as possible. Else, even if he created equipment, he wouldn't be able to gain any more proficiency after 1000 proficiency points without becoming an advanced forging apprentice.
The hard part with the halberd was sculpting the stag horns. If he used an antelope horn instead of a stag horn, he could get a decent spear with quite ease. He immediately took an antelope horn and began to work on it
This time along with smoothing the ridges at the pointed end, he smoother off the ridge on the base. He further grinded the base to make it smaller and easier to fix into an iron pole. The remaining part he made it similar to the dagger.
He soon made the iron pole similar to the one used for the halberd. Once, he coated the blade with metal and fixed it into the iron pole, a notification sounded indicating that he had successfully completed a new weapon.
[____________] (BlackIron Two-handed spear)
Level 10;
Requirement: Strength 30; Endurance: 20;
Attack Power +40; Strength +5;
Special Effect: Impale: Pierce the opponent to cause a bleed effect of 30HP per second for 5 seconds. Cooledown: 5 minutes.
Durability: 30/30;
”+ 200 experience points; +4 Forging proficiency;”
System: Congratulations on creating an entirely new piece of equipment in vita-nova. Obtained an additional 2000 experience points. Rewarding a Runic hammer (Bronze rank) that increases the forging success rate by 10%.
System: Please provide a name for the new equipment you have created. You are also eligible to leave a personal mark on your creations. Kindly think about a personal mark to imprint it on the equipment.
He simply chose it as Antelope horn spear and confirmed the name. He had chosen the same personal mark he chose when he created new equipment in his past life. It was blade with blood dripping from it.
As soon as he selected, the equipment information changed. His personal mark also appeared on the shaft of the spear. It looked like the blood was dripping off the blade with the red color glistening.
[Antelope horn spear] (BlackIron Two-handed spear)
Level 10;
Requirement: Strength 30; Endurance: 20;
Attack Power +40; Strength +5;
Special Effect: Impale: Pierce the opponent to cause a bleed effect of 30HP per second for 5 seconds. Cooledown: 5 minutes.
Durability: 30/30;
System: Naming successful. Forging Design for the Antelope Horn Spear has been automatically generated. Player can now voluntarily make forging designs for the Antelope Horn Spear, allowing others to learn the Forging Design and produce it.
System: ”Crimson Blade” stamp has been successfully registered and bound to your account. Nobody else can use it.
With the successful creation of the new armament, an additional window appeared in the Forging panel. It was named Personal Forging designs. It allowed players to create Forging Designs. Balthazar was very happy when he saw the new panel.
As long as he had a pen and drawing paper, he could gather from any shop, he could fabricate as many copies of the Forging Design for his creations as he wanted. This was an option which was only available for original creations.
Forging Designs are much more valuable than the equipment or resources. At this stage of the game, hardly any of the forging designs were available at the auction house. At this stage forging designs would go for a very high value. And new forging designs such as the Antelope Horn Spear would be much more valuable as they wouldn't be available by default in the game.
Guilds would fight with each other crazily for something like this. Even equipment like the ones he forged from the designs he got from Kade would be fought for. But he wouldn't want to let anyone know about the it right now.
With the designs he had, it would be an easy job to earn even gold coins when the players realized the difficulty of reaching the city. Considering the fact, that there were a lot of players coming to the Blackrock town now and no shortage of guilds among them, they would earn a great price.
But he couldn't sell them right now. He wanted to avoid providing his competition any weapons that would help them. The same was the reason, he had for selling designs.
Moreover, the design of the new equipment that he had, was for a level 10 equipment which wouldn't be of much interest to most players as no one was at that level yet. He couldn't see any player in the leader board at level 10. If there was any, he obviously selected for his ID to be not displayed in the leader board.
There was another benefit for an original creation of equipment. When forging your own creation, the success rate for creating them would be increased by 10% and there is a chance for it to also come with an additional ability. So, he continued to create the spears till he finished the ingredients that he had. In the next two hours, he managed to make 20 or so spears.