Chapter 8: My Targets. (Rewrite?)
stats: I 0-100, H 100-199, G 200-299, F 300-399, E 400-499, D 500-599, C 600-699, B 700-799, A 800-899, S 900-999, SS 1000~1099? SSS ~1101+
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(Cling Cling Clang Clang sheeeeeesh)
I spent a day convincing Dora Teal, a familiar, level one adventurer, female human blacksmith who wears a monocle, to work for me at my Babel shop.
This using my new human form, that Hephaestus registered as Martel'o Hammers a [high blacksmith] who trained outside the Hephaestus family.
in exchange for her being able to use the shop and earn tips and systematic knowledge that I "learned" since I got good deals selling my new level three marketed works, many being semi-magical with simple effects like paralysis, creating a blade of air, and vacuum around the sword, or simply glowing and cleaning itself of monster blood by reducing weapon wear, ideas that would entice adventurers to pay a little more for luxury even if they only cost me a little mana and time.
I also crafted several disposable fire attribute magic swords, but they were just too problematic as I couldn't put much power into them using just one [blacksmith] skill making them just a little above the more common ones made by [high blacksmiths] on the market.
So I simply decided to create enchanted 3rd class weapons that are worth more and bring more reputation, also taking orders for them.
Well, I could totally make a second-class weapon using advanced materials, but I realized, who would buy a second-class weapon that costs millions of varis? much less make in bulk without order, I can barely afford the material price of some decent swords, such money could very well be invested in the base level of 3rd class adventurers who spend much more time fighting, and even if a talent that reaches level 4 appears, he will have to buy a new second or first-class weapon, and who he will go to make/buy one? Yes me.
With the quality and price in my shop, I could very well get a contract and continue to harvest these adventurers.
Also, I continued to visit the Gnomes's library and train at the dungeon, now having the ability to update my Falna every night, it took me only half a month killing a few dozen berserk cursed goblins and kobolds a day, in a section of training that consisted of cursing my riveted minotaur leather armor stuffed with Almirage fur, into a damage sponge that diminished my dexterity and agility increasing the effects of the armor's resistance and durability, doing my best to deflect few attacks, in addition, to cost hundreds of potions to get to F-rank overall in twenty days with agility and magic coming close to E-rank.
Unfortunately, the progress speed would slow down because of the resistance training, since the next monster with bludgeoning damage (so it wouldn't penetrate my armor) would be on the tenth floor, and I wouldn't be able to use this strategy there for the sheer number of ambushes and other monsters, so I just planned to get to the stats on B, before I get my contract target for [spirit thread] from my level 1.
That I decided to be a war shadow. Why? Because when I reached the sixth floor and saw that the War-Shadows were quite interesting, as well as being quite strong and smart for a sixth-floor monster, managing to injure me with a surprise attack when I cursed him to unleash his potential by consuming his magic stone, like as the first berserk goblin did.
Which surprisingly made him take advantage of the moment when other monsters appeared to run away and get the magic stones that I hadn't caught, eating several at once, even from other alive War-Shadows making him "Evolve" forcing me to use [Ifrit] to defeat it.
Since it became fast and able to stretch its arms and body, even dodging a point-blank blow to the torso and managing to break through the armor made of second-tier materials on my arm with its claws.
That's when I managed to grab him off guard with a flaming swipe of my now flaming curved sword, killing him and bringing down a black claw with reddish glowing veins going all the way to the edge.
After I healed, I came up with a plan to create a variant that reached the limit of talent, before subduing it as my first spirit without letting it get to level 2 strength.
Since I planned to try to evolve him in a more magical route, simply because they are stronger and more useful like that, War Shadow being the first Elemental type monster in the Dungeon, even if they don't use magic.
(at least from my knowledge of the manga, but in the anime, it's possible seeing a shadow try to grab Bell when he suffered [Mind Down], and still manage to go unnoticed by two first-class adventurers one being a level six).
After recovering from the wound on the fifth floor I went to Babel to check out the shop where I received some orders for tier 3 weapons that I marked for adventurers who asked to meet me in my workshop at the Hephaestus Workshop area.
After that, I went back to Orario to change my armor and update my stats as well to place a request for magic stones and claws from War-Shadows under the guise of crafting enchanted weapons just in case anyone thinks I'm trying to create monster variants, an act forbidden by the guild.
After spending half a million on a big sack of magic stones and a few claws in the guild I found on my way home a short person wearing a familiar cape coming out of an alley, using [psionic] I could see his aura confused between sadness, happiness, and anger towards herself and others.
I got an idea of who it was when I walked into the alley she came out from and saw a decrepit but clean antique shop selling "second-hand" items, entering it I was more certain to see an old spirit who looked like the definition of a beer-bellied uncle wearing a gnome hat and apron.
"Do you have second-hand, level four targeted equipment?" I asked.
He just looked at me and said to look around.
After checking and analyzing the items with the most aura I learned some information, but nothing that would be useful to me now.
I leave the store thinking about capturing the heart of one of my favorite characters. No, now a real waifu.
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