Chapter 59: Panic

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Upon thinking back, N number of people would surround him every single time Fatty forged equipment. Fatty expressed that he was under great pressure.

Luo Moling and the rest had logged off at around 10 p.m. the previous night, while Fatty had farmed Poison Dart Frogs for more than one hour by himself. Then, he had returned and attempted to craft 20 Slowdown Poisons. In the real world, it was around 11.40 p.m.

On the other hand, the system's time would experience a day-night transition every 6 hours, which meant that the day-night transitions in real-time occurred at 6 a.m, 12 p.m, 6, p.m, and 12 a.m. Since a day-night transition was about to occur, Fatty accepted Create a Future's forging request.

Fatty was still not 100% certain that he could produce high-quality items during day-night transitions. However, he knew that his forging proficiency was not really high so he had to make use of this.

In the future, when his proficiency increased, Fatty would be confident enough to accept forging requests even if a day-night transition was not about to occur. After all, there was no way the items produced with a high forging proficiency would be bad.

With more than 10 minutes left until the day-night transition, Fatty had to slowly forge the five blueprints. Otherwise, he would not be able to wait for the moment of the transition.

Many eyes watched on as Fatty controlled his character, shaking his limbs and performing preparatory actions. This way, he would stall for time a little.

"Brother Chicken, what are you doing?" Create a Future was curious about Fatty's actions.

"Don't ask so many questions. This is the unique forging method I researched! I need to warm up first!" Fatty lied through his teeth, distracting Create a Future.

"Really?" Create a Future fell for the lie but asked dubiously, "But when you helped me forge that dagger last time, why did you not do this?"

"What could you possibly understand?" Fatty continued lying. "Last time, you seemed very anxious so I skipped this step. Since I helped you forge a Superior Rank dagger then, get ready to receive a higher-quality one now that I warmed up."

"I see!" Create a Future was enlightened. "I heard that you forged another Superior Rank weapon later on as well. Did you forge it after the warm-up?"

Fatty was very amused that Create a Future was helping him perfect the lie. Hence, he showed the Stats of the Superior Rank Profound Staff of the World Tree to Create a Future. "See? This is the second Superior Rank weapon I forged. Its Stats are better than your weapon's. You wanna know why? Due to the difference the warm-up made!"

Upon hearing Fatty's explanation, Create a Future became serious and rubbed his hands together. "I see… If only I wasn't so anxious then! Brother Chicken, you are indeed very impressive and possess an extraordinary method. Is this the legendary secret forging method?"

Create a Future was trying to suck up to Fatty. Unexpectedly, the surrounding spectators were influenced by his words as well!

The players who had learned to forge stared at what Fatty was doing without blinking. Then, they started to subconsciously mimic his actions, wanting to learn his warm-up with the intention of trying it later. They wanted to see if this "secret technique" was indeed useful.

Led astray by Fatty's and Create a Future's words, they intended to steal some techniques…

Hence, an extremely odd scene took place. Fatty stood alone in front of the anvil while the crowd below was mimicking his actions. When Fatty extended his hand, the crowd extended their hands as well. The same happened when Fatty threw his head back, and even when he shook his butt…

While standing in front of the controller, Fatty was about to burst into laughter. After all, he suddenly realized that he had unintentionally pulled a prank. This time, he had successfully pranked a group of people…

If there was any music one could play in the game, Fatty might have led this group of people to a dance round of cha cha…

Fatty, who got excited, started to feel high and controlled his character to complete various actions. Meanwhile, he shouted, "Come on! Together! Circle anti-clockwise three times, clockwise three times, twist your neck, and shake your butt! Jump! Jump once more! Cross your legs once! Twice!"

The players who were dancing felt nothing, but this strange song and actions, combined with the fact that a whole group of people were participating, stunned Create a Future and the other spectators. Many people must have already vomited blood…

When Fatty suddenly discovered that there was not much time left, he came to a stop out of the blue. This happened too suddenly, causing the bunch of players mimicking his actions to fail to react in time. They all fell to the ground and landed on each other.

After standing back up, some players turned to the people beside them and commented, "The warm-up of that secret forging method is very difficult!"

These people replied, "Yes, it's so strange. I discovered that there are some radio exercises included as well…"

"Actually, do you remember those actions?"

"Are you kidding? How could I possibly remember them?"

The discussion was very lively below the platform, and Fatty was laughing so hard that he clutched his stomach in pain. Create a Future, who was standing aside, was in a state of disbelief the whole time. Upon seeing Fatty stop acting, he seemed to want him to continue. Create a Future hastily said, "Brother Chicken! You're my Big Brother! Let us stop dancing and start forging, okay?"

Indeed, not everyone could accept Fatty's odd dance…

Fatty knew that he should stop, so he coughed twice and said solemnly, "Alright, the warm-up is over! Let's start forging!"

Upon seeing that Fatty had finally lifted the hammer, the spectating players held their breath and stared at him without blinking.

As the progress bar slowly started filling, the loud sound of forging could be heard. Soon, the first dagger was forged.

After receiving the dagger, Create a Future took out the prepared Appraisal Scroll and appraised it immediately!

"Refined Rank!" Create a Future shouted excitedly after seeing the Stats. "The first dagger belongs to the Refined Rank!"

The spectating players went into an uproar. Even the players who were disgusted by the dance started to believe in the so-called secret forging technique a little…

Even Fatty was a little surprised. Did his warm-up really work? Since the first weapon forged was Refined Rank, the spectating players most likely would fall for the lie even deeper…

Fatty asked Create a Future to show him the Stats. It was indeed a Refined Rank weapon!

[Dim Black Metal Dagger]

Level: 20

Rank: Refined

Attack Power: 20 - 27

+2 Strength

+2 Agility

Equipment Requirement: 1 Strength, 22 Agility

Durability: 35/35

Forger: Chicken Sugar

The Stats of the dagger were quite average. It was a Level 20 weapon, but its attack power was only slightly higher than Create a Future's Level 10 Superior Rank dagger by two points.

However, because the first weapon was already Refined Rank, Create a Future seemed to get extremely excited. His confidence in Fatty grew tremendously and he urged him. "Continue, Brother Chicken! Continue forging!"

Fatty nodded, slowly picked up the hammer, and started to forge the second dagger.

However, this dagger was Normal Rank!

Upon seeing Create a Future's disappointed expression, Fatty comforted him by saying, "Don't be too bothered by that. This is a normal occurrence. After all, there is a higher chance of forging Normal Rank weapons. You have five blueprints. They will be sufficient so long as one high-quality dagger is made!"

Create a Future pondered this for a while and felt that there was truth in Fatty's words. Hence, he told him, "Don't worry, Brother Chicken. Let's continue!"

Nonetheless, the third dagger forged was still Normal Rank. This caused Fatty to feel anxious. He had just comforted Create a Future, although the words had been targeted at himself as well.

Hence, Fatty decided to take a gamble during the forging process of the fourth dagger. He dragged the time again and started to forge only when he saw that the system's time was about to approach the day-night transition once more!

Just as the progress bar was filled, the day turned into night.

"Quickly! Appraise it!" Fatty rushed Create a Future, wanting to see what the weapon created would be like.

In the end, his heart skipped a beat upon hearing Create a Future's reply!

"Still Refined Rank!"

Create a Future revealed the dagger's Stats. Fatty discovered that the attack of this weapon was slightly higher than the previous Refined Rank dagger's attack. Its damage was at 23 to 32, and the other Stats included +3 Strength and +1 Constitution!

Fatty panicked. What was going on? The weapons produced at the point of day-night transition were average in quality. Did this mean that his forging method was wrong?

Or had the game company finally discovered this bug and removed it?

Fatty was instantly confused, as he had not achieved the desired result by depending on the day-night transition as a forging method. He lost his confidence as a result. After seeing Create a Future's doubtful expression, Fatty knew that he was in trouble.

Many players were watching. If he managed to produce high-quality weapons, his reputation would increase. However, if he only produced trashy equipment, he was bound to fall from heaven to hell. The players would not consider the forging percentages set by the game company. Instead, they would think that Fatty was nothing more than a liar!

They would also think that Fatty's reputation was fake. It was only because of luck that he had managed to forge the two Superior Rank weapons before…

Even worse, his five attempts to forge this time would spread like wildfire and no one would dare to seek Fatty out to forge. After all, Fatty's price was very high…

As Fatty was thinking about this worst-case scenario, Create a Future said, "There is still one more left to forge. Are you going to continue, Brother Chicken?"

Fatty lifted his head and stared at Create a Future's expression, which seemed to be lacking confidence as well. Five Level 20 dagger blueprints and materials were not a small amount, and the total cost amounted to one Gold Coin. Perhaps even Create a Future wanted to leave after seeing the previous four undesirable outcomes…

Fatty could understand his feelings but was unwilling to give up like this. If he chose to forge, there was still hope. However, if he did not, his reputation would be completely lost…

Therefore, Fatty gritted his teeth and replied, "Of course! Why not?"

Create a Future hesitated for a while before nodding in agreement. He seemed to think that he should give Fatty one more chance.

This was the last forging attempt. Fatty anxiously stared at the progress bar. Strangely, there were no useless thoughts in his mind. His brain was empty and he calmed down…

The 15 seconds of loading time passed quickly. By the time Fatty came back to his senses, Create a Future had already taken the dagger, preparing to appraise it by using the Appraisal Scroll…