NOVPUBChapter 103: Chapter 105: Ancient Dragon Tooth Mace! _1
Chapter 103 -105: Ancient Dragon Tooth Mace! _1
[‘Scroll of Forging Skill Enhancement’ (Skill type item), a skill enhancement scroll dropped by an unknown blacksmith. Using this item can increase the quality of Smithing skill the Shell has, up to the epic level.]
[Spiritual Value: 1000]
Lin Xun’s eyes brightened, from utilizing this item for the blacksmith, wouldn’t that save a manifold of 20,000 manufacturing costs!
Suspicion arose immediately.
Why was this item sold so cheaply? Even the Underworld game estimated its price at 1000.
In the entire trading panel, this is the only one of a similar kind.
“I can’t worry about much now; buy first and talk later!”
Lin Xun thought there must be a bug in the Underworld game, marking the recommended price of the item incorrectly, and the seller just followed the suggestion to sell it.
Being decisive, he quickly purchased this item.
[You have spent 1000 spiritual points to successfully purchase the ‘Scroll of Forging Skill Enhancement’!]
Click to use the item.
[You have used the ‘Scroll of Forging Skill Enhancement’…]
[Your ‘Master-level Blacksmithing Skill’ has been elevated to ‘Grandmaster-level Blacksmithing Skill’!]
Upon opening the panel to check, the blacksmith’s forging skill had indeed changed.
[Shell Skill: Grandmaster-level Blacksmithing skill(Epic). The blacksmithing talent passed down by the blacksmith family. A skill cultivated out of millions of hammer forging, it has been further improved by some incredible advancement. This skill can be used for blacksmithing shell equipment of epic grade and below.]
“There’s no problem with this item. Could it be that the Underworld game really got the price wrong?”
He then opened the Apostle forum to try to find the price of similar items.
After a long search, he realized that the price hadn’t been marked incorrectly, but rather the item was only worth this price.
Because in the game, blacksmiths and craftsmen NPCs are a very special type of NPC.
They carry blacksmithing skills, can make equipment, repair, strengthen, and are indispensable logistics skills.
If Apostles can easily defeat them and possess them, it would severely disturb the game balance.
Therefore, blacksmith-like NPCs in the game are either high-level human NPCs that Apostles can’t defeat at all.
Or they are non-human NPCs.
In most game worlds, blacksmith-like characters are set to be non-human NPCs, preventing Apostles from possessing them.
Even if the Apostles kill the NPCs out of anger, the probability of dropping items is very low.
It’s for this reason that Apostles can’t do without the ‘Book of Craftsmen’ in the library.
This skill item, known as the ‘Scroll of Forging Skill Enhancement’, was most probably dropped by some lucky guy who killed the blacksmith.
But no Apostle in the game could possess a blacksmith, hence none would have the blacksmithing skill.
Therefore, this ‘precious’ item had no market and could only be sold cheaply for 1000 spirit points. It couldn’t even be sold for 1000 spirit points at all.
However, for players like Lin Xun, who are as talented as a bug, the blacksmith skill enhancement item is a treasure from trash.
Unfortunately, there was only one such item on the trading panel.
Perhaps because all Apostles knew that killing a blacksmith yielded virtually no profit, very few of them would kill a blacksmith.
Lin Xun grinned and spent 12,000 to buy the ‘Advanced Tuning Magic Array Chart’ from the Book of Trade.
Click on the blacksmith’s forging skill, choose to make equipment, select all the materials mentioned in the ‘Book of Craftsmen’…
[Equipment is being made…]
The game text paused here, and Lin Xun patiently waited without being surprised.
It was not until midnight that the game text changed.
[Equipment made successfully!]
[You have obtained the ‘Ancient Dragon Tooth Mace’ (Epic weapon)!]
[‘Ancient Dragon Tooth Mace’ (Epic weapon): Made primarily from a ‘giant native branch of the Primitive Ancient Tree’, and ‘subspecies dragon tooth’ embedded at the top of the mace.]
[The body of the mace is crisscrossed with teeth, having the sharp ‘fangs of the wolf’ and the numerous ‘fangs of black giant worms’.]
[The entire mace weighs tons, it is huge, ferocious, and far beyond the reach of ordinary people. Under the operation of the ‘Advanced tuning magic array chart’, the mace can change its size, be retractable and flexible. It’s very suitable for shells that can change their form.]
Lin Xun looked at this weapon with glowing eyes.
He tried to list the weapon in the Book of Trade to see the suggested retail price of the weapon.
The price of this weapon turned out to be 140,000, 30,000 less than the ‘Thunder Dragon Staff Spear’.
Looking at a long list of zero digits, he suddenly thought of dedicating himself to blacksmithing, selling weapons and equipment, to get rich.
Carefully browsing the materials in the Book of Trade and comparing them with the Book of Craftsmen.
He studied for a long time and found that the price of manufacturing weapons are generally lower than those of native weapons.
Furthermore, the value of the materials used to make weapons subtly exceeded the price of the weapons themselves.
If a handmade weapon were to be sold for a hundred thousand, then the forging materials alone would exceed that number, not including the labor cost.
“No matter how you calculate it, it’s a loss.”
It’s understandable, because manufacturing equipment is customized for one’s own shell.
While the customized equipment may be strong for the individual, it may not be as applicable to other Apostles as native weapons.
For example, Lin Xun’s ‘Ancient Dragon Tooth Mace’, he possesses the Shell of the Earth Giant, the mace can freely expand or shrink with the giant’s changes, thus, bringing out the full power of the mace.
But if another Apostle were to use this weapon, its power would dwindle.
“Dream came crashing down… No, maybe I can help others by crafting for them, charging only half of the Underworld game’s craftsmanship fee. However, there’s a lot wrong with this idea and requires a long deliberation… ”
Opening the items bar, there were five more materials left. Two of them were powerful materials that would definitely generate special effects: ‘Profane Seedling of the Tree of Life’ and ‘Colorful Poison Powder Gland’.
The manufacturing blueprint generated by the Book of Craftsman did not mention these two materials; perhaps they were incongruous with the weapons.
After studying for a while, Lin Xun realized that the manufacturing of epic-level equipment required five high-level materials, but materials that definitely creating special effects could only be put in one.
That is to say, to manufacture another epic-level piece of equipment, another piece of material is needed.
Looking at the 13,000 spirit points in his pocket, Lin Xun was considering whether or not to sell some extra equipment.
He attempted to list the ‘Giant Beast Chieftain’s Scepter’ on the Book of Trade.
This rare-level weapon, the Book of Trade suggested a price of 8000.
Looking at the price of the rare-level weapons, they generally range from seven to eight thousand to just over ten thousand.
This weapon was too gigantic, probably hard to sell, it might not even sell for 8,000.
Lin Xun directly followed the price of the Underworld game and listed it.
In the inventory, there were four more ordinary + level equipment left, three weapons, and one damaged armor.
These were the ‘Two-handed Knight Greatsword’, ‘Super High-pressure Energy Accumulation Electrolaser Gun’, ‘Short Stick Made from Mountain Monster’s Leg Bone’, and ‘Heavy Metal Plate Armor’.
Looking at the prices, they all range from three hundred to five hundred.
“Even a mosquito is meat…”
He listed all these trash pieces of equipment, waiting for a newbie Apostle to purchase.
Lin Xun had mostly figured out the functions of the Book of Trade and the Book of Craftsman.
He then went to the librarian.
[The librarian looked at you with loving eyes and whispered that he had some special items that you might like.]
The game text popped up with a few items, and leading the pack was the ‘Invasion Bookmark’!
Lin Xun, seeing the four words “Invasion Bookmark”, couldn’t help but think of the exclusive equipment he had, which needed the PK to unlock…
