Chapter 25：Strengthening Equipment (1)

How would Sean go harass him?

Cecilia had asked a very good question. However, Sean had only casually said it. He was not going to go harass the youngster unless Sean was not planning on obtaining the quest. He knew that the method he was using to receive the quest was strange. He had used those specific words with the youngster to get acquainted with him. What Sean did next would determine whether he would be able to get the quest or not.

But right now, Sean had something more important that he needed to deal with.

He opened his personal tab and selected the skills panel. He skipped across the combat skills that were at the top of the list and focused on the life skills bar.

Sean's original profession in the game had been a blacksmith. Most of the players who were warrior class chose that profession. The repair costs for their equipment after they were used in a fierce battle were pretty high. If Sean was a blacksmith, he only needed to use a few raw materials to repair the equipment. There were also other benefits of being a blacksmith. As long as his proficiency of life skills was increased, he could even forge legendary equipment.

However, the legendary equipment would be, at most, low-level equipment.

Back in the game, equipment that was casting, magical, or legendary levels had a detailed distinction between them. Casting equipment could be divided into common, elite, and top quality. Magical equipment could be divided into bronze, silver, and gold. Legendary equipment could be divided into three levels of legendary, epic, and mythical. However, legendary equipment that was at the epic level or above was not something players could build. Even equipment at the legendary level was not easy to forge.

Under normal circumstances, equipment at the gold level was the highest level that players were able to reach.

When Sean was a commander in the game, he had many priority rights. Therefore, he did not leave behind his life profession as a blacksmith. The purpose of opening the skills tab of his life profession right now was to activate the life skills that were on it.

Although his life profession was not as rich as a combat profession, it had its own set of skills. It was impossible to casually melt the mineral and pour it into the grinding tool, and then casually hammer it. The basic procedure included the five steps of smelting, purifying, hammering, hardening, and cooling. Of course, it was okay to not learn the steps of the basic procedure, but it meant that the players had to use their intuition when they were forging, as they would not be able to receive any hints and assistance from the system. However, if the players learned the five skills, then a spectrum bar would appear when they were forging. The players could refer to the spectrum bar to help them operate so that they could achieve perfect forging.

They were just basic skills. There were still many other related skills.

After he thought about it for a moment, Sean decided to consume five experience points to activate all five skills.

After he had changed his profession to a warrior when he was inside the Starfall Forest, he had raised the level of his profession to rank five by killing the demonic corpses. He also received 10 experience points. Together with the extra three experience points he had not used in the earlier ranks, he had a total of 13 experience points. But now, after consuming five experience points, he was left with eight.

But the steps were only part of the basic procedure. There was a lot more that he wanted to get done.

Sean soon assigned his experience points to his life skills again. He activated four necessary skills for forging a piece of magical equipment. The skills were [Magical Knowledge (Bronze)], [Magical Casting (Bronze)], [Equipment's Magic Infusion (Bronze)], and [Compound Magic Knowledge (Bronze)]. Because of that, all of Sean's experience points had been consumed.

[Magical Knowledge (Bronze): The relevant knowledge that must be mastered when casting magical equipment (bronze). Blacksmith/casting, level 3/5, experience level 0%.]

[Magical Casting (Bronze): It is possible to cast magical equipment (bronze) with a weak effect. Blacksmith/casting, level 2/5, experience level 0%. Limit: To master this skill, level 1 'magical knowledge (bronze)' must be learned first. To increase the level of this skill, level 3 'magical knowledge (bronze)' is required. At the next level, it is possible to cast magical equipment (bronze) with medium effect.]

[Equipment's Magic Infusion (Bronze): It is possible to condense magic into the magical equipment (bronze). At most, the level of the equipment can be increased to magical equipment (bronze) with a weak effect. Blacksmith/casting, level 2/5, experience level 0%. Limit: To master this skill, level 2 'magical knowledge (bronze)' must be learned first. To increase the level of this skill, level 3 'magical casting (bronze)' must be learned.]

[Compound Magic Knowledge (Bronze): This allows two elemental powers to be infused into the magical equipment (bronze). Blacksmith/casting, level 1/5, experience level 0%. Limit: To master this skill, level 3 'magical knowledge (bronze)' must be learned first. To increase the level of this skill, level 2 'equipment's magic infusion (bronze)' is required.]

After activating all the relevant skills, Sean packed away the materials on the table that he was going to use. Then, he told Cecilia not to run around before leaving the inn.

Although the Charles' Sword was a magical weapon, it only had a little magical effect. Therefore, it did not meet Sean's requirements. He had collected a lot of materials in the Starfall Forest. Coupled with the materials he had just bought in Arthur City, he wanted to use them to strengthen the Charles' Sword so that it would have a weak magical effect. If it had not been for the fact that Sean had insufficient experience points, then he would have even increased the points for these life skills even higher so that he could have directly strengthened the weapon to make it have a medium magical effect.

He had already thought about how to strengthen the weapon.

Sean carried a backpack full of materials while walking through the streets of Arthur City. He was not aimlessly wandering around. Instead, he was heading towards a blacksmith shop near the southern side of the city.

The blacksmith shop had a long history and was considered very well-known throughout the Portoroa Kingdom. The main product sold there was elite grade equipment. Occasionally, the shop would also sell top-quality grade equipment. When Sean was in the game, the shop was the most advanced blacksmith shop that players in the Portoroa Kingdom had access to during the early stages of the game.

The top-quality grade equipment Drouin had on him was from that blacksmith shop.

However, Sean went to that blacksmith shop because it was the only blacksmith shop that had facilities such as renting furnaces. Also, the old shopkeeper had the habit of taking apprentices and processing craftworks, so he had a more private room behind the blacksmith shop.

Having been in this world for more than a month, Sean had gradually found out a few things related to the world within the game.

In the game, players knew that forging magical equipment was not a big deal and the NPCs could not do anything to the players. However now, it was the real world, so the situations were different. Sean only had a piece of bronze-level magical equipment with little effect. No one would suspect anything, as people could buy them at the auction house of business guilds if they had enough money. If anyone knew that Sean was able to forge a piece of magical equipment, even just a piece of bronze-level magical equipment with little effect, he would be "invited'' away by people very quickly.

As a result, Sean did not dare to strengthen the equipment so blatantly in front of the public.

He paid a silver coin to the old shopkeeper, which gave him the right to use the old shopkeeper's private room for the next 24 hours. Of course, Sean also received a leather scabbard given to him by the old shopkeeper. The bronze-level magical weapon with little effect did not arouse the interest of the old shopkeeper. It was not that expensive to receive the right to use the private room. The old shopkeeper just thought of Sean as an aristocrat who wanted to try and learn the skills of a blacksmith.

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The room was fully equipped with everything, from furnaces and anvils to grindstones and water troughs. There were even many different types of hammers and grinding tools. It could be seen that this blacksmith shop was indeed an established shop deserving of its reputation.

Without the slightest delay or hesitation, Sean quickly poured out all the materials in his package. Not even the slightest confusion could be seen in his movements. He carefully sorted all the materials with a serious expression. Then, he took out more than a dozen black stones that were the size of an average adult's fist. The stones were very round and smooth. If people were not familiar with the blacksmith profession, then they would not be able to tell that the stones were ores.

Tempered Magic Iron Ore.

It was a very common and cheap special ore. Its melting point was relatively high, so it usually took more than 10 hours to melt. However, once it was cooled down, it would become extremely firm. Most people would add some Tempered Magic Iron Ore to their equipment to strengthen its defense.

However, Sean needed a different feature of the ore.

Magical appropriateness.

Sean threw all the pieces of ore into an iron bucket, and took out a bottle of Burning Elixir and poured it into the bucket on top of the ore. He tossed a small Crushed Fire Stone in as well. Suddenly, flames erupted from within the bucket. Sean used the machine to move the bucket to the top of the furnace and began the smelting process.

The biggest feature as a player was that they liked to curry favor with people in positions of authority for their own gain. Under normal circumstances, if Sean wanted to upgrade the Charles' Sword, it would have taken him at least a few days. However, with his current method, it would only take him one hour to melt the Tempered Magic Iron Ore down.

Sean did not waste the next hour.

He picked up the Scented Wind Flowers on the table and ground them into powder. He had collected them within the Starfall Forest. He took out a green fruit and squeezed the juice out of it. He poured the juice into the powder and stirred until the light green liquid thickened. A fresh coolness was emitted from the sticky liquid. There was also a very light sweetness, which seemed to be the scent of the fruit. If Cecilia had been there, she would have felt a rich wind element from the sticky liquid.

Sean smeared the sticky liquid evenly onto the Charles' Sword. For a moment, the light blue fluorescent light that was emitted from the sword became stronger. A few small dots shone vaguely from within the light.

However, that was not the end. Sean soon took out another bottle that held a light yellow liquid. It was an alchemy elixir extracted by a great alchemist.

Rock Elixir.

Rock Elixir was a special elixir that could harden the skin and improve its physical resistance. The price of the elixir was very high.

In the world of elements, the wind element had always restrained the earth element, however, the restraints were not absolute. Many compound types of magic had the elemental power of absolute mutual restraint. Only magicians who had mastered the compound magic knowledge would be able to display that type of compound magic. What Sean had to do now was to pour the elixir onto the Charles' Sword. That was why Sean had activated the [Compound Magic Knowledge (Bronze)] skill. If the skill had not been activated, then his method would have destroyed the weapon. However, even with the skill activated, it did not mean he would succeed.

It was part of the procedure. It was also one of the two steps that had the biggest risks. He had to go through the step for him to strengthen the magical equipment. It was unavoidable.