Chapter 301:

Words : 2049 Updated : Oct 13th, 2025

After the happy “loot distribution meeting” err, no! The reward settlement meeting concluded, the cheerful little players quickly returned to their gaming rhythm. However, the student party members had logged off by this time, ecstatic about the rich brother’s invitation for “barbecue” tonight. Because they heard the chosen venue was very luxurious and the car was already prepared at the school gate, they needed some time to get ready. Though they wouldn’t wear suits to go eat barbecue as a group, they still couldn’t embarrass their own people. Before Sister Pomegranate logged off to do makeup and pick clothes, her named blade “Cold Night” was borrowed by Master Broken Blade and his brother Hundred Forging Great Horse for a “viewing” fee of 10 gold coins. As blacksmiths, they were very interested in the super divine weapons and tools that appeared in the game. Of course, with these two guys’ current level where they couldn’t even identify all the minerals in Transia, no matter how carefully they observed this divine weapon from the distant eastern Ancient Calum Kingdom, they couldn’t discern any core techniques. In simpler terms, their blacksmith skills weren’t up to par yet, and they had no way to analyze this thing’s specific forging method and reverse engineer its crafting diagram. If they really wanted to learn the distant eastern forging techniques, they’d have to start with the two eastern battle blades from “Black-Hearted Witch Hunter” Natalie. But this didn’t prevent these two guys with the grand ambition of becoming “weapon forging grandmasters” from getting some “crafting inspiration” from this blade. “This is incredible, this is what a proper ‘fantasy weapon’ should be, right?” In the camp’s blacksmith shop, the two “otherworld blacksmiths” placed Cold Night on the forge table. Master Broken Blade used tools to measure various parameters, while Hundred Forging Great Horse recorded and sketched. They planned to record all the information they could discover before returning the named blade to Sister Pomegranate. “The material must be some kind of alloy and definitely a spirit-sensitive material, otherwise it can’t explain why this thing brings ink-like shadows when swung, and it’s like a very special ‘container’ storing some special power inside that we can’t understand yet.” Master Broken Blade stroked the blade’s body with his finger. The special coldness transmitted to his fingertips felt like it would freeze his skin, as if he were touching ice. He turned to his brother and said: “We need to find out why this thing can store energy, maybe we can make our first spirit weapon by imitating it.” “I think it must be related to this thing!” Hundred Forging Great Horse pointed at the black stone carved into the shape of a beast’s head embedded in the pommel. It wasn’t pure black, more like a transparent material with “ink” injected inside. The blacksmith brother touched the gem. He felt an even colder aura than the blade body, and said with certainty: “This thing looks very similar to the Ebony Stone that Tomb Guards use to make their profession badges, but the Quality is clearly much higher. Doesn’t Ebony Stone also have the special use of absorbing the essence of the dead? Maybe this special thing relies on the user constantly killing enemies to let it accumulate and absorb power, just like players leveling up by killing monsters, letting this sword also get stronger in battle. Damn, what kind of world is this, even swords can level up by killing monsters?” “That makes sense!” Master Broken Blade nodded. He picked up alchemy-crafted glasses from beside him and put them on his eyes. After activating them, he carefully observed every detail of this sword like using a magnifying glass. ꭆ₳ΝȪbĘ???? Soon, he found a series of seemingly inconspicuous but probably important marks on the hilt. They were arranged into runes that looked like decorations, but it was strange that this overall simple and elegant weapon would specifically set runes on the hilt. The two brothers detected a clue and immediately took out rubbing paper to completely copy these runes. After they completed this process, their Computation Bead’s character interface immediately popped up a note: 【Contacted high-level forging/alchemy/enchanting runes, current effect unknown, please try to confirm the rune’s Special Effect.】 “Hey, this is it!” The two blacksmiths smiled at each other. They felt like they had found a thread of understanding, then carefully removed the decorative leather on the sword guard’s cross-guard and discovered some hidden details. When placing the named blade under sunlight, they could also find several hidden runes through the blade’s inherent “shadow Special Effect”. There were some protrusions on the blade, but these things should belong to “advanced” content, making it difficult for otherworld blacksmiths who didn’t understand much about the spirit mysteries of this continent to research further. The two spent most of the day copying all these discoverable runes, getting all unknown effect runes, 7 in total, but they couldn’t distinguish which one was the true mystic art that could transform weapons. With no choice, they used the “brute force method”.@@@@ “According to the arrangement and position of these things on the named blade, copy them onto the weapons we want to make as much as possible. We know nothing about this world’s forging system now, we can’t be researchers and pioneers, but at least we can be imitators.” Master Broken Blade gritted his teeth and said to his brother: “Go to the administration office and apply for some Ebony Stone from the quartermaster, let’s start trying to craft now.” “But we don’t have spirit weapon diagrams.” Hundred Forging Great Horse worriedly said: “Currently we can only make that soul-reaping scythe, but that crafting diagram already has death runes on it, and that thing is a weapon for spellcasters, we need to pick something for melee combat.” “Who says we don’t have any?” Master Broken Blade smirked, taking out the unfinished weapon design diagram that Meow King had previously deposited here from his spirit bag. He placed it on the table and said: “We didn’t start working on it for Meow King before because neither of us was confident in making a qualified spirit weapon, but now we have the materials and ideas. Anyway, this thing was unfinished to begin with, aren’t we allowed to try? Previously we observed the genuine Necessary Evil from Lord Murphy but couldn’t figure anything out. The runes on that weapon seemed purely decorative, though it could also be that the item’s grade was too high, like having elementary school students read a doctoral thesis. Not only could we not find materials to learn from, we couldn’t even understand what we were looking at. Never mind! A few minutes later, Master Broken Blade’s voice came from inside the blacksmith shop, he called out: “Let’s call it ‘Scorpio’, we won’t see you off, have to continue making things for Brother Stick’s team, just happens we can try these newly learned rune combinations.” “What kind of crappy name is that.” Meow King instantly regretted it, looking at this “Scorpio – Desire Demon Blade Replica” in his hand with displeasure, he should have named it himself. These craftsmen’s thought processes were sometimes really hard to understand, he just couldn’t figure out why a vampire-style one-handed sword would be called “Scorpio”? You think this is about exploding cosmos? Why not just directly call it “Pegasus” or “Meteor Fist”? Despite the complaints, completing the Hidden Quest was still delightful. Meow King immediately mounted his horse again and eagerly rushed back to Blood Vulture Halls to knock on Lord Murphy’s office door. When Murphy saw Meow King proudly walk in holding a sword that looked 60% similar to Necessary Evil with both hands, he was shocked himself. To be honest, when he found that weapon design diagram made by some vampire’s wild imagination in the family guard’s armory and gave it to Meow King as a “hidden item”, his original intention was just to punish this guy who spread yellow rumors everywhere. He never thought this thing could actually be made. Tris had emphasized more than once that Desire Demon Blade belonging to “Miracle Artifact” was a great work from before the era, and the inability to replicate these items named as “miracles” was already a consensus among all craftsmen on the continent. The power they possessed was far beyond the continent’s current manufacturing standards. Avalon Church had gone furthest in this aspect. The Elder Council of Glamo spent hundreds of years making 150 replica sacred blades, but not one could truly possess even a trace of the power essence of the three oak sacred blades. Of course, if you’re just talking about copying the appearance, any blacksmith could do that, but what’s the point of such imitation? “Mission accomplished, Lord Murphy. My blacksmith brothers and I spent unimaginable time and resources to finally present this work to you.” Meow King placed “Scorpio” on Murphy’s desk. The vampire lord reached out to touch the blade, and when he saw its name, Murphy’s eyes lit up. “Scorpio? Good name! Power from beyond the heavens?” “Huh?” Meow King’s eyes widened. So you really understand the craftsmen’s wild thoughts? Ah right right right, so you’re all cultured people, and I’m just an idiot. “Not bad, I have to admit your efforts in this aspect exceeded my imagination.” Murphy immediately saw that this sword’s “turning decay into miracle” lay in the Ebony Stone at the end of the sword hilt. But there was a reason this thing hadn’t been used in weapon forging in the previous hundreds of years, its nature leaning towards spirit mysteries wasn’t suitable for combining with steel. It was hard to imagine how two little blacksmith players managed to make Ebony Stone integrate into this weapon. “I need to give it to Grand Duchess Tris to appreciate, and complete the missing functions for this sword.” Murphy picked up Scorpio and stood up, saying to Meow King: “Go about your business, I’ll notify you when there’s news.” “Ding” The Hidden Quest chain advanced another step. Although up until now, Meow King had paid a lot without concrete rewards, this didn’t prevent him from looking forward to beautiful Quest Rewards. So he left quite obediently, planning to return here after the quest-marked 72-hour waiting time to collect his reward. Murphy didn’t deceive him either, taking the sword to find Tris. The Blood Vulture Grand Duchess, who was already drunk and chatting away with the food-craving party in the forum, immediately snorted when she saw this sword. She pursed her lips and said: “These are Ancient Calum Kingdom swordsmith runes. Though I don’t understand the craft, I’ve seen many special weapons from there. Your blacksmiths probably don’t even understand what these ancient runes mean and just started copying randomly, but I have to say their luck is not bad, they actually managed to test out a combination effect of high-level runes. Not bad. A bit better than standard weapons, and while it’s a bit lacking in Quality and function as a magic sword replica, it’s just right for the current little warriors to use.” “No, it still needs one final step.” Murphy waved his hand to awaken Necessary Evil, letting the magic sword circle around him like a flying fish for two rounds before finally stopping in his palm. He said to Tris: “Since it’s imitating a magic sword, it should imitate the essence. Didn’t you say you have an alchemy formula that can apply ‘animation art’ to weapons? This is something they can’t do now, so you help them complete it.” “I’m busy, no time.” “100 bottles of wine you know, they’re willing to pay a lot for a cool animated weapon. I guarantee that as long as you start this business, your alchemy cottage will immediately find a new profit growth point, and as for you personally, I think you won’t lack fine wine in the future. This thing happens to serve as the identity symbol of the new Blood Vulture Clan, a unique racial gameplay style.” “Emmm, leave it there, come back to get it after a while.”

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