297 7.25 A Novice Gem Crafter

"What am I supposed to do with these stone flooring slabs currently? How numerous stones did you expend to create this? And how do you develop this without even budging from the spot where you were sitting? Come one... Let me in on these... I swear I won't tell anyone..."

Once again, I managed to avert her questions and redirected it to some explanations. This is not the time to explain spiritual matters.

"I would require you to mark a place so we could establish a hearth for ourselves. Grab the twine and bang a piece of wood into the earth and then mark a straight line where you need to align it."

"It could be the posterior or the front of the house, and if it's the front, just leave a clearance of 4 feet of its front for a pathway, a porch or a terrace. It's it is for the rear, don't have to leave a clearance much, as long as it is not too near the banks of the stream."

"Ok, its a reasonable task for me. How about yourself?" she asked as she searches two pieces of wood to peg into the ground and twine to align the perimeter of the floorings.

"I'm going to fuse the shards together and make lots of Poor quality gems. There are 49 gems in each pouch and it would be enough to make 9 poor quality gems at this moment and you can safeguard them. No worries for me."

"Ok...sounds fair to me. Help me to set up a shelter after this, ok? I will ready the items once I've marked out the hearth. Won't it be too small for an 8x5 floor space? I was thinking of a 24x24 kind of floor space."

"Then 24x24 floor space it is. We require more stones in that case and we could focus on the iron mines tomorrow morning after the dwarfs had their breakfast."

I received the 4 pouches from Matilda and straight went into meditation and appeared before the fusion chamber. I slid the primary slider to FUSE and placed the Ruby shards into the 5 slots, closed the door and pulled the side lever.

*Ding* Fusion Success! 1 piece of poor quality Ruby gem attained.

I kept at it until I got 9 pieces of poor ruby gems and I moved on to emerald next. When it comes to sapphires, the success rate seemed to be lower than those two.

*Ding* Fusion Fail. Sapphire shards diffused.

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I opened the sliding door and found that the sapphire shards were not in their slots anymore and had disintegrated. "Opppsss...! I think my skill is not up to that level yet. Better hang on to these before it totalled failed me. This is sapphires, I haven't even try diamonds that would be the hardest gem to fuse...! I think I better stop now."

I said aloud to myself as I logged off my meditative state and returned to the real world. When Matilda saw my forlorn look on my face, she was anxious and asked me what happened.

"I've obliterated 5 pieces of sapphire on my first experiment. I had successfully fused poor quality rubies and emeralds but when I tried on sapphire, it turned to dust...! Here, safeguard these."

"I would make some more when I got the rubies and emeralds. I guess I would be able to try on the sapphires after a month of continuous fusings of rubies and emeralds. Its a waste to test on them in the earlier part of this fusion technique."

"Come, let's assemble the shelter together. I would like to fish after this and discover what kind of fishes thrive in this stream." I said as I handed her the 4 pouches and she took out a gem and saw its dull radiance when held against a light source.

"What's the attributes like for this type of gems?" Matilda asked while we both laid the tarpaulin on the ground and then used the twines and pegs to secure part of it to the ground. The 2 poles were attached together to make a single long pole about 4 feet in height and we supported it through the eyelet before we pulled the other part to act as a cover overhead.

"Gems add attributes like attack, defence, hit points, damage et cetera in multipliers of 2. A poor gem can add 10 points, a fair gem up to 20 points, a good gem up to 40 points and perfect gem up to 80 points. If we have a normal weapon with 3 sockets, and we used 3 perfect gems, it would give an added 240 points over attack."

"So far rubies would be used for defence, emeralds are for attack. Diamonds would be used to enhance hit points while sapphires would be for damage."

"If sapphires were used on a weapon, it would increase the damage inflicted and if used in armour, it would be for damage absorbed. So far I had successfully fused the 1st stage which is shards to poor. I haven't tried the poor to fair yet."

"To minimise the harm, its best for me to fuse all into poor ones and once I'm confident on making fair ones right till good ones, until then would I act on the sapphires and then diamond."

"There are so many levels to clear and I almost forget about it. However, if I failed to fuse, let's say a good gem... Then it would be obliterated and turned into nothing. That's the risk of a gem crafter."

"It's best to keep all the shards first and concentrate on fusing other materials like stone flooring slabs, for instance. If you really wanted to make 24x24 floor space, then I would need 576 pieces of stone flooring slabs which also means a total number of 2880 pieces of stones."

"Based on your storage bag, you need to collect 2 trips of those 99 items every 15 slots. We could grind mining those stone mines first and once we had achieved that, you could slowly grind the iron ones and leave the stones for me to fuse."

"Haiyooo... Why so cheem? Is there a faster way to do all this or not?" she exasperatedly cried out when she learned that we need to collect 2880 stones just to make a sizeable floor space. She dived under the shelter when she heard that a joint effort would need to collect all those stones.

"Ngeeeekkkk... This is 1160 Medieval Higher Middle Ages in England... This is not 1860 Japan where things would be much easier for us. Look around you... Do you see any people except the offscreen crews?"

"Phew... If we have other adventurers around, we could rope them in and get them to assist in gathering resources. Or we could buy off their loads of stones and wood."

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Meanwhile... A male adventurer aged about 12-13 had just reached Ackworth and was watching around to acquire some equipment when he observed that those merchants were simply cutthroats, and all he had in his holding was just a few coppers or pennies.

He wandered off to the marketplace and disbursed all his money on tomatoes instead. "At least it is better to fill my stomach rather than to give my hard-earned money to these land pirates...!