A novice forging master

After the incident in Sakura Country, the entire world fell into a state of silence.

However, everyone's enthusiasm for leveling up grew even stronger.

Even if they didn't know how the people of Star Palace managed to bring out their strength!

No one dared to ask... But at least, it was definitely not wrong to have a higher level and stronger abilities.

Everyone was forced to play dumb.

Thus, a world where only The Ibe Family was injured was achieved!

Meanwhile, Yang Jian began to formally practice forging.

After Yang Jian consulted with the old Luke, a dwarf who had somehow made his way to Zhenhai City, he finally understood that the forging skill was not that simple.

In fact, whether it's a combat profession or a professional sub-profession, all skills have two ways of being used.

System-assisted use and self-taught use!

There is still a big difference here.

For example, Yang Jian's most familiar Skinning skill!

After killing a beast, a small Skinning knife can be used.

But, after a few seconds of pretending, a hide is peeled off?

Yang Jian had always used the system-assisted Skinning skill.

This method of Skinning was convenient and fast.

But the quantity was very small... All beasts, regardless of size, almost only gave one unit of leather!

But it was obvious to anyone.

How could the amount of leather peeled from a bison and a hyena be the same?

The rest was the system's hard-earned fee... Yang Jian didn't know what the system would use that bit of leather for.

And in the future, without the support of the system.

Still want to skin?

Sorry, all the previous proficiency is useless, you have to practice separating skin from flesh little by little... You have to start all over again!

Mining and forging are actually the same principle... Skinning and digging can be faked.

But forging really can't be faked... Because according to old Luke.

If it's not a skill you've built up step by step, starting from forging copper and iron ingots!

Purple equipment can still be cobbled together with system assistance.

But orange equipment won't do, let alone gold and red equipment!

Old Luke had never even heard of such equipment... Every player and native with forging talent.

The first lesson a forging master teaches is always not to be lazy, not to take shortcuts!

If you want to learn forging, you have to hammer it out one by one, otherwise, it's better to learn dual gathering.

Unfortunately, few people are willing to listen.

Forging their own equipment?

How much time would that delay leveling up?

Including tailoring, alchemy, and the like, the principle is the same.

Orange equipment is already so difficult to obtain, and gold equipment will be even rarer in the future.

Yang Jian used to think that the level of his talent didn't matter, as long as it was strong!

But after going out for a trip, he no longer thought that way!

What if the level of this Spirit Devouring isn't high enough, and after slaughtering a god in the future, he can't devour it whole, skin and bones?

Watching a large wave of Abyssal Essence being attracted by the Soul Furnace, returning to the Abyss to continue nurturing new Abyssal Lords?

Just kidding... What if a gold or red Spirit Devouring could devour gods to grow?

Dreams must be had, what if they come true?

Unfortunately, the current Yang Jian can't even gather the materials for a single 【Falling Star Arrow (Orange)】... That being said, the forging skill still needs to be practiced first.

The guild stronghold doesn't have the capacity to set up such a blacksmith shop!

They can only rent a forging room from old Luke.

Yang Jian thought he would start leveling up his skill with inferior whetstones!

He later realized he was completely overthinking it.

Forging, what kind of forging is a whetstone?

He had to start with recruit longswords and recruit daggers... Because the blueprints were all readily available.

The materials were also prepared according to the blueprint requirements.

So for Yang Jian, it was directly from cutting and heating to melting.

Old Luke received benefits from Yang Jian and assisted him with guidance... Such walk-in business was the lifeblood of a blacksmith shop.

It was just a pity that Yang Jian didn't learn the skill from him, so he couldn't earn that tuition fee!

When the dwarf saw that Yang Jian, for efficiency, chose the heaviest forging hammer, old Luke's head was full of black lines.

Which master taught this? What an embarrassment!

This hammer was clearly not a case of heavier being better.

If he couldn't control the force properly, one hammer blow would send this newly demolded dagger embryo to meet its great-grandmother.

Alas, Boss Yang wouldn't listen to his advice!

He continuously forged six pieces of gray trash.

Old Luke, standing nearby, kept shaking his head... "Boss! Although you learning roughly means I can earn more, you're really ruining the reputation of my shop like this, causing immense damage to my dwarven heart!"

"I admit your strength is indeed great, but you have to progress gradually! Do you have to get fat in one bite?"

"Heh, I'll get used to it. My thousand-plus points of strength can't be for nothing! It's fine, I don't mind practicing with these materials for forging white novice weapons..."

Old Luke was speechless.

You really don't mind.

Such a large guild, with over ten thousand people!

How could they mind such a small amount of things?

"Then the reputation of this shop..."

Yang Jian scrutinized the other party up and down.

"You mean?"

"Gotta pay more!"

Yang Jian almost thought this dwarf was a goblin in disguise!

...During the halftime break, the two chatted.

"Hey, Teacher Luke, is there any difference in the blueprints for various buildings?"

He had been practicing forging for three hours, and Yang Jian hadn't gained any proficiency yet.

He wasn't in a hurry though.

Everything is difficult at the beginning.

Once he successfully forged his first piece of equipment and found a knack for it, he believed his forging speed and proficiency would increase faster and faster.

"Building blueprints? What kind of building blueprints?"

Although old Luke was a forging master, he was also a level forty-five great warrior.

But his level was raised through his own cultivation.

In his old home, Middle-earth, levels were not divided this way.

It was only after arriving in the New World that the system assigned him a level 45 realm based on his own strength... But he had dedicated his life to forging and never fought monsters.

So he didn't know what Yang Jian meant by building blueprints... Yang Jian asked Mo Song to go back to the guild warehouse and retrieve the blacksmith shop's building blueprint!

【Building Blueprint: Blacksmith Shop】

Old Luke took a look.

If it was this, he certainly recognized it.

Many materials in this world were truly as outrageous as could be.

And a blacksmith shop built using a building blueprint came with a trace of the power of rules.

It could process most of the forging materials in this world... "Most?"

Old Luke rolled his eyes at Yang Jian.

"If you bring a hero-tier corpse over, the furnace fire of this blacksmith shop won't be able to melt it!"

Yang Jian frowned.

"That exaggerated?"

"There are things even more exaggerated than that..."

"Are there levels for these building blueprints?"

No one understood forging better than old Luke.

"There aren't, but..."

The most feared thing is 'but', and this old dwarf was still playing coy... "But as I said, this blacksmith shop can't process many high-level materials, or rather, the heat isn't sufficient..."

"Then how do we solve that?"

"You need to seek out naturally occurring spirit fires and use them to replace the mundane fire in the furnace!"

Sigh... just knew this broken game was full of pitfalls!

Old Luke saw Yang Jian looking troubled.

He laughed heartily.

"You, a person who can't even forge a novice dagger clearly, are worrying about such idle matters? If you keep wasting time and dawdling like this, you'll probably need another three days to forge a dagger!"

Yang Jian was so amused he almost laughed.

Do you think you're funny?

A sparrow cannot comprehend the ambition of a swan... Although... but!

Yang Jian still got up and continued his path of blacksmithing!

Different statuses, different realms.

As the saying goes, a summer insect cannot speak of ice, and Yang Jian had no mind to tell such a master blacksmith about the troubles of possessing divine forging authority... Alas, such a great trouble, he could only digest it silently alone!

Another three hours later, Yang Jian finally forged his first weapon.

【Novice Dagger (White)】

【Equipment Level: 1】

【Weapon, One-Handed】

【Attack +3】

【Durability: 25/25】

【Note: Forged by Tianmu Zhenjun!】

Looking at his forging skill again, it finally increased by one point!

Congratulations, congratulations!

It was just tough for Yang Jian, who didn't know what to do with the dagger in his hand.

If this were taken out, everyone would know that the famous Tianmu Zhenjun only forged such a thing!

Wouldn't they laugh their teeth off?

While Yang Jian was still pondering how to deal with the trash in his hand, he didn't notice old Luke beside him looking at the novice dagger in Yang Jian's hand with a face full of suspicion.

No matter how slow he was, after being stared at for a long time, Yang Jian also sensed that something was amiss.

"What kind of look is that?"

"Boss... your weapon, the stats are wrong!"

Yang Jian looked at the dagger in his hand, then at the dwarf Luke, and was so amused he almost laughed.

"This is the first weapon I successfully forged in my life, are you sure you want to criticize me?"

Old Luke looked disapproving.

"You're my patron, my lifeblood, how could I criticize you?"

After defending himself, old Luke quickly explained.

"I'm not saying your dagger's stats are bad, on the contrary, the stats are a bit over the top..."

Yang Jian carefully examined the weapon in his hand again.

"Is it high?"

"High?"

"How high?"

"As high as three or four stories..."

Yang Jian tried to recall the past.

Only to realize that he seemed to have never encountered two white-grade weapons.

Just kidding, with Zhou Yue, such a human-shaped cheat, in hand, how could he suffer such indignity?

So looking at the level one novice dagger in his hand, Yang Jian only saw its inherent attributes, and subconsciously thought it was too poor... Since it's still decent... then he'll keep it as a memento!

The dwarf watched Yang Jian put away the dagger, scrutinizing him suspiciously.

"You're really not a forging talent? To be able to add extra attributes, you'd at least need a purple forging talent, right?"

Yang Jian was so amused he almost laughed.

"Me, the first person in the New World, dominating the current era, and you say I have forging talent?"

"You're also over three hundred years old, have you ever seen such an amazing forging talent?"

Dwarf Luke thought about it, and it was true!

Although he was still a bit suspicious, since Yang Jian denied it outright, there was nothing he could do.

He decided to observe Yang Jian's finished products more closely!

Although he had dispelled Luke's suspicion with a series of evasive maneuvers, Yang Jian was still aware.

It was probably the authority of the heart of khaz'goroth at play.

The hidden attributes that came with this authority were worth at least an orange forging talent... or even higher!

He glanced at the dwarf, feeling a little regretful.

It seemed he wouldn't be staying here for long.

By that evening, Yang Jian's success rate was no longer so low.

Basically, he could succeed with one out of every two novice weapons.

His forging skill successfully rose to 5/1000.

At five o'clock, Yang Jian decided to switch equipment... 【Forging Blueprint: Copper Chainmail Belt (Green)】

【Required Materials: Copper Ingot × 5】

As the name suggested, this was a green belt.

The difficulty of forging would naturally be greater, but for Yang Jian, it was the most cost-effective!

He only tried to make two.

He gave up... Yang Jian went back to forging weapons!

And he made up his mind that he would never make clothes, belts, leg armor, or anything like that in the future.

He would only make weapons to level up his forging skill!

The name is forging, does making clothes make sense?

What?

Iron clothes?

Are iron clothes not clothes?

If it's clothes, it should be managed by tailors... Yang Jian originally wanted to make a silver scale breastplate and then sell it in Zhenhai City!

'Silver Scale Breastplate, Blue Quality, five gold a piece...'

But when he actually started making it, he realized the difficulty.

Forget the breastplate, just a belt alone required three times the effort!

Of course, if he used the system function to forge, it would be simple.

Standing by the anvil, with a hammer in his bag, then rubbing his hands, and it would appear.

But the proficiency gained that way was meaningless to Yang Jian.

After all, he wasn't really here to level up skill points.

Was he short on equipment or short on money?

Boss Yang lacked neither.

What he lacked were treasures that could enhance his talent.

For example, the 【Falling Star Arrow (Orange)】 that could be used at level forty.

At that time, as long as this thing could devour and increase his talent level, Yang Jian felt he would completely take off.

Although he had decided to go explore other worlds!

Sharpening the knife doesn't delay chopping wood!

The world was there, and Yang Jian could go anytime.

It was better to arm himself to the teeth!