Cherreads

Chapter 17 - Improvement: Part Two

[Report. Command accepted. Now opening Item Space...]

Item Space B-Rank contents:

• Hammer of Unknown Origin: A fiery and sturdy hammer that the Subject can use to craft equipment and the like... its origin is unknown, it possesses a small yet strong ego and emits an otherworldly energy signature. It's Grade cannot be measured yet due to how little information is known about it. It has completely acknowledged the user as its master.

• Great Pickaxe: A strong and sturdy pickaxe with magical properties. Its Grade is unknown due to its bizarre and foreign properties.

• Great Shovel: A strong and sturdy shovel with magical properties. Its Grade is unknown due to its bizarre and foreign properties.

• Dragon Furnace: A furnace that can produce flames powerful enough to melt down almost any metal.

• 595 kilograms of iron, approximately. Fifty nine bars of iron in total, each weighing 10 kilograms plus one chunk about the size of half a bar weighing about 5 kilograms.

• Everchanging Anvil: A special anvil that can change into any desired shape to be able to produce any weapon.

• Various planks of wood.

• Various fabrics: Leather, cotton, silk etc...

• Twelve Whistling Daggers: Twelve strong sharp daggers made of Poison Steel, each in the Last Stage Intermediate-Grade. While they cannot be used by the Subject in battle, they can however be used as material to craft a new weapon/s.

• Trispirit Staff: A great and powerful magic staff that enhances one's Mana output, the three gemstones on it enhance the, Fire Elemental Magic, Wind Elemental Magic and Water Elemental Magic of those who wield it respectively. The wood the staff is made from is called, Viss Wood found in one of the countless various Great Spirit Trees of the Spirit World. The staff is in the Middle Stage Intermediate-Grade. While it cannot be used by the Subject in battle, it can however be used as material to craft a new weapon/s.

• Drakeduke Armour and Drakeduke Longsword: Incredibly sturdy knight wear and longsword set made from the scales of a B-Rank Wyvern monster. They're in the Last Stage High-Grade. While they cannot be used by the Subject in battle, they can however be used as material to craft a new weapon/s.

• 11300+ kilograms of pure Cold Iron. Chunks varying in weight and size.

• 1 D-Rank Mana Crystal. Can be sold for currency or used to increase Subject's Mana Capacity with the Cultivator Skill.

• Great Werehyena's claws, canine and spine: Ten times stronger than Cold Iron. Can be used for blacksmithing.

• First Dawn: Subject's first creation. Incredibly sharp, shiny and sturdy blade made of iron with very high Mana conductivity. Cannot be stained and cannot be used by anyone except the Subject unless the Subject allows it. The blade is in the First Stage Super-Grade.

"Right, I still have First Dawn, my trusty blade."

I took it out and held it.

"Weapons can't increase in Grade but they can increase in Stage through the process of refining either in a Weapon's Forge or in battle. Increasing a weapon's Stage through battle is the more efficient method between the two though. But I'm The Blacksmith."

A steamy room with constant sparks of flames. The sound of metal clashing against metal.

"Now that's what my Class is all about!... Right, I've decided. I'll increase the Stage of First Dawn....but, how exactly am I supposed to do that. Do I have a Skill for refining weapons? Lemme check, open Warrior info..."

[Report. Command accepted. Now opening overall Warrior info...]

....

I briefly went through my Warrior info.

"Hmm...is it the Repair Skill?" I wondered as I read the Repair Skill's contents.

• Repair C-Rank: Can fix expert level broken equipment, weapons and amour Grades Elementary to Hyper as long as the necessary products to do so are present.

"But First Dawn isn't broken though. Well, it's not like it says it can't fix un-broken weapons. I'll try it out."

So I activated the Repair Skill. Knowledge I didn't possess before suddenly started flooding into my mind. I instinctively knew what I had to do next. Moving the bed to the side again, I conjured out the Hammer of Unknown Origin, along with the Dragon Furnace and the Everchanging Anvil.

"I understand everything now. Refining is a process of breaking something down to then rebuild it back up anew. To make it stronger, better, tougher. First Dawn in the first place is made of normal iron but if I rebuild it out of Cold Iron which is exponents stronger, or even some of the materials in the weapons I stol-I mean uh...borrowed from the Zeke Party bless their souls may they rest in peace, then, it might even reach the Last Stage. Heck I could even add some of the Werehyena's parts I got from clearing the Dungeon."

First I took First Dawn, destroyed its hilt leaving only the blade and placed it in the Dragon Furnace to make it more malleable.

I then decided to melt down a mixture of around a quarter kilogram of Cold Iron along with a piece with around the same weight that I had cut off with First Dawn from the Drakeduke Longsword, was about a third of it or so and a single small tooth from the Werehyena's canine. The molten mixture shone an annoyingly bright whitish silver. I decided not to use the Poison Steel of the Twelve Whistling Daggers since I didn't think 'poison' really matched First Dawn's nature. I then made the Everchanging Anvil form a hole in it in the shape of First Dawn. After that I took First Dawn out of the furnace then used the anvil to scrape some pieces off of it to make it thinner. I then placed it in its it-shaped hole in the anvil, made sure to balance it well, then poured the molten mixture from before in the hole along the spaces in the sides. After that, I activated my Cultivator Skill.

"Now then. My Intelligence Stat has entered the C-Rank Minimum. It'll be higher if I activate Bladework so let's get to it."

I activated Bladework to increase the Intelligence Stat placing it over 8000. Using Cultivator, I then generated Mana and transfered it to the blade and molten mixture. First Dawn was to absorb the molten along with the Mana .

"Alright, the absorption will be done in thirty minutes. I should get dressed in the meantime."

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