98: Chapter 98 The Infinite Possibilities of God-Level Forging

It was noon.

On the third floor, inside the luxurious master bedroom exclusive to the captain, Li Taiping felt refreshed and invigorated.

Lin Shishi, who had been worn out by him all morning, looked aggrieved, like someone whose body had been hollowed out after being forced to work overtime continuously.

Taking advantage of Li Taiping being focused on researching something, she scrambled off the bed and sneaked away from the scene of the crime.

She was truly afraid, terrified that this man, whose stamina was unlike any human, would get a sudden urge and drag her into another three hundred rounds of battle.

Slacking off is the true meaning of life!

Isn't it better to just be a loafer?

Meanwhile, Li Taiping was standing in the center of the room's main hall, in front of a metallic-textured forging workbench, his expression focused, completely unaware that the little enchantress beside him had already snuck away.

He glanced at his own Talent.

[Talent: God-tier Forging (Excellent Grade · upgradable)]

[Effect 3: You possess an extremely high creative ability in equipment forging, and a unique creative Talent unparalleled in the world.]

Li Taiping's gaze locked firmly onto the third effect.

"Extremely high creative ability... unique creative Talent unparalleled in the world..."

He muttered to himself, his heart uncontrollably accelerating.

What did this mean?

It meant that even without blueprints, he could forge all kinds of equipment out of thin air!

At most, the equipment forged initially wouldn't have the special affix attributes provided by blueprints, but the basic physical properties of the equipment itself, such as hardness and sharpness, would absolutely perfectly reflect the grade of the materials used.

Furthermore, as long as he had enough trial and error and accumulated enough experience, it was entirely possible to "create" various rare divine weapons with powerful affixes even without blueprints!

If this Talent were given to anyone else, they might not be able to achieve such heaven-defying results.

But for Li Taiping, who possessed a set of monstrous Talents, the chemical reaction produced by combining them was simply at a nuclear level!

For example, [treasure basin].

This heaven-defying Talent could continuously provide him with infinite supplies.

This allowed him to not worry about wasting materials at all, enabling infinite trials and errors to forge, create, and perfect any idea in his mind.

Whether it was good grade ice crystal ore, copper ore, iron ore, or those rare and dazzling magical ores, they were piled up like mountains in his warehouse.

He even had a huge pile of Excellent Grade ice crystal ore!

Thinking of this, Li Taiping couldn't help but sigh; the Survivor in his region were truly capable, a bunch of diligent little bees.

Most of them were probably still on that huge Ice Island, working hard to "work" for him, mining the minerals and other various supplies there.

As for him, he only needed to lie on the ship, move his fingers, and use the food, fresh water, and warm clothing he had in endless supply to trade with them.

They gained the hope to survive and the opportunity to become stronger.

And he gained the various high-level rare resources he urgently needed, while also incidentally harvesting a huge wave of reputation and popular support.

This was simply a triple win!

He alone won twice; it was a huge profit!

As for the trivial matters like trading and mass-producing new resources, he had long ago handed full responsibility over to Su Mei. Being a hands-off manager, his life was simply too comfortable.

He trusted Su Mei one hundred and twenty percent to get things done.

Withdrawing his thoughts, Li Taiping's eyes became fiery again.

Practice is the only criterion for testing truth!

With a thought, he took out a piece of good grade iron ore the size of a human head from his personal warehouse.

"Let's test the feel first!"

He threw the ore into the forging workbench's furnace, and powerful magic energy instantly melted it into a pool of fiery red molten iron.

Then, he closed his eyes and began to conceptualize in his mind.

The appearance of a full-body armor gradually became clear in his mind.

Breastplate, arm guards, leg guards, helmet... the details of every component were incomparably clear.

"Form!"

Following his low shout, the molten iron on the forging workbench began to flow and shape rapidly, eventually cooling and hardening into a suit of black armor that looked imposing.

[Rough good grade armor (White)]

[Durability: 800 / 800]

[Defense: good]

[Evaluation: An unremarkable piece of armor; apart from being hard, it is useless.]

"As expected, no affixes."

Li Taiping looked at this piece, not surprised.

"Again!"

He put the armor back into the furnace. This time, while conceptualizing, he tried to integrate his understanding of the concept of "sturdiness" into his mental power to guide the shaping of the molten iron.

The second forming.

[Sturdy good grade armor (White)]

[Durability: 1000 / 1000]

[Defense: good+]

[Evaluation: A little bit stronger than the last one, but still trash.]

"Progress!"

Li Taiping's eyes lit up; he seemed to have grasped a feeling.

Thus, he began to enter a state bordering on madness.

Constantly forging, constantly remelting, constantly testing and failing.

He fused various different ores in different proportions, attempting to create new alloys.

He guided the cold energy of the ice crystal ore into the weapon forging process, attempting to craft weapons with frost damage.

He even whimsically wanted to craft an Excellent Grade helmet capable of underwater breathing...

Throughout the afternoon, the third-floor master bedroom echoed with the clanging sounds of hammering and the humming of metal.

Countless precious materials of good grade, or even Excellent Grade—enough to make the Survivor outside fight to the death—were turned into failed product after failed product in his hands, then thrown back into the furnace without a second thought.

But as the number of failures accumulated, his skills were also rapidly improving at a speed visible to the naked eye.

From only being able to forge white-tier equipment at the beginning, he later could occasionally pop out one or two trash affixes.

And later on, he was already able to stably add one or two practical attributes to the equipment he forged.

[Self-created · Frost Armor (excellent)]

[Self-created · Burst Heavy Hammer (excellent)]

[Self-created · Deep Sea Breathing Mask (excellent)]

...

When night fell, looking at the row of equipment shining with Excellent Grade light on the forging workbench, a satisfied smile appeared on Li Taiping's face.

Although the affix attributes of these pieces of equipment couldn't yet compare to those top-tier items crafted using blueprints, this was enough to prove that the third effect of [God-tier Forging] had infinite potential!

As long as he was given enough time, he was confident that he could personally craft a set of divine artifacts that surpassed the level limits of this world!

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