After testing out my new equipment and seeing the results, I decided to do quest and hunt monster for few days straight. Reason? Money! I was saving lot of my money ever since I got the city and I manage to get a lot gold as well thanks to the hidden dungeons and the quests.
My plan was to buy the smith and all necessary equipment with all the money I gather. Thanks to the hidden quest and dungeon my plan to buy the smith and other stuff got accelerated.
All I had to do now was to just get as much as possible gold I can for a few days and here we are!
"I finally have my own smith!"
(It took some time, but I bloody have it now!)
The smith is located in the western-south part of the city, bit far away from the city center.
The building that I purchased is quite large and wide. Honestly speaking I could afford earlier a cheaper one, but for me, I needed a big building for various reasons. This building besides being my smith is also my laboratory where I can test out stuff in peace. I also bought besides the blacksmith equipment the training facility equipment, that includes the training dummies that can be used to test out the equipment and other stuff I make.
I also made a basement with a storage room. The storage room is securer with the defensive seal, meaning that nobody can just enter it and steal stuff. So, I can just leave for the long time without having to worry about somebody robbing me.
Honestly speaking, the storage room was one of the things I needed the most. There is limit of how much player can carry. I sometimes had to ask other to carry some of my stuff since I run out of the space in my inventory.
Surprisingly, one of the thing that took good amount of space in my inventory were the notebooks. Before I noticed I already written a tons of these notebooks, each containing my research and information regarding item crafting. I kind of made myself bookshelf and put it in the storage room with all the notebooks inside.
So, what I'm doing right now?
Well, crafting item and getting my ass beat up.
[Winner: Avalanche.]
"Ow." – said Forge while lying flat on the ground.
[Dual Mode]
[This mod allows players as well as NPCs to fight among themselves. This mod allows the participant set a non-leather match, where the loser won't die from the fatal wounds or/and a bet match, where player can bet something. There is also option of adding bonus rules.]
"Uff. Well, you almost won." – said Avalanche.
"Almost won my ass. You literally mopped the floor with me, even though I used every bloody thing I had. This is my 8 lost in the row!"
"Hey, calm down. This is only the training."
"Anyway, this bloody thing took me completely by surprise."
As Avalanche said that, he pointed towards the bear trap like device that was covered in ice.
"A freaking bear trap? You made a bear trap?"
"When you throwed it I thought it was some kind of bomb, but then it set itself on? Do bear trap work that way?"
"Oh? That? No, no, no. It's because I modified it."
"One of my new classes, the [Engineer]. This class allows me to make things more, "Mechanical?". can add special mechanical modifications. Some simple, some more complexed. The creation is quite interesting. I use mana or other energies to make things like pseudo cables and other stuff."
"[Engineer Knowledge] is the skill that provides me with the basic of how to do stuff like that and the skill [Engineer Touche] allows me to make some of those special modification."
"This bear trap is one of the creation I made."
[Instant Bear Trap]
[A special made trap that can be prepared beforehand and then instantly be placed.]
[Instructions: [EXPAND].]
[Attack power (When Ready): 350]
"Wow, its thing has lot of attack power." – said Avalanche.
"Yea. But you need to remember that you are not wielding it or anything, so the increased damage thanks to the [Agility] and [Strength] as well as other skills that can increased the attack power won't work at all. I already tested if you are wondering."
"I'm still doing the experiments related to this class, but so far this is the most useful thing I made."
"Hm. Well, it's still pretty interesting thing. It was bloody hard even for me to get rid of this thing, I was forced to use my skill to get rid off it. How does it work? Do you just have to throw it?"
"Well, you need to prepared beforehand, just in case I written the item instruction. After preparing it you just throw it, but you need to make sure the bottom parts hit the ground or it won't set and that is pretty much all. It's quite easy to use."
"Huh. Can I buy few and if so, is it possible to make some of them bit bigger?" – asked Avalanche.
"Hm…. Okay. But why do you want some of them be bigger?"
"Well, simply put we are now encountering some bigger monster and I don't think this trap will do the trick against them."
"Huh, well that will be a problem. For bigger bear trap, it will end up requiring more power and will probably need to add mana stones depending on the energy reequipment. How big are we talking about?"
"About this big."
"Hm… Then I will have to add mana stones. It may also influence the item performance, but I will have to see first. I may or may not contact need to contact you later on regarding it."
"Okay."
"Anyway, thanks for helping me out man with training. I kind of needed that badly."
"No problem. Its nice change for me as well, fighting other people instead of monsters. Anyway, you sometimes got too greedy during combat, because of that you sometimes make an opening for your opponent, but your reaction time during combat is very good."
"Oh."
"One more thing. Knowing how to use many different weapons types is good, but it sometimes better to fight with the weapons you are most familiar with. People usually fights with the same weapon type all the time, like a sword or a bow and really uses any different weapon. Since people most of the time stick with 1 or 2 weapons types, they often learn weapon related class since they fit them very well, because of that weapon class are quite popular and good."
"I know what you mean, but I have to use different weapons for my experiments and fighting against training dummies won't do the trick in some areas, I needed test them out in real combat. For me I need to learn how to handle all different weapons."
"Anyway, care for another round?" – asked Forge.
"Gladly."
In the end, the final results were that I manage to won 1 time out of 15 duels we had. I kind of got destroyed by Avalanche and I won't lie, that single victory I think was because of dumb luck. Well, he did provided me with information about the areas I was lacking and other things. I also did some training with other group members afterwards, to hear their opinions as well and see if they have any advices for me. Unlike me, they fight the entire time so they are more used to fighting then me, so hearing their advices was quiet helpful.
Anyway, let's talk about other things now. Pretty much everybody in the group reached 80 already. After reaching level 80, the group decided to hunt for the hidden quest and dungeons. Me clearing those hidden dungeons as well as quest gave us bit information about them, like with the fake walls or special items that acts like a key to open some things. Pretty much everybody was looking for the info instead of hunting, while I was just making some new stuff and experimenting.
And pretty much the second week passed since the game got released with an update.
[Game update.]
[Max player level increase: 80 -> 100]
[A.I. update.]
"Another update huh? Are they going to make an update every week?"
Forge was checking the game update on his computer.
["Well, technically 3 weeks had passed. The time flow inside of the game is 3 time faster compare to the real world. 6 weeks passed inside of the game since it got released."] – said Hype on the video call.
"True. Anyway, what is the deal with A.I. update? It's only saying that A.I will act more real. Any ideas what this means?"
["Nope."] – said Hype.
["Maybe they will act similar to a real person? We are talking here about high tech and all straight out of fantasies."] – said Kitty.
"Hm. Maybe. But why they still didn't add the bloody auction house! They did said that it will be delayed, but there is still no news. This is annoying."
["Well, nobody can do anything about it. By the way, is the stuff ready?"] – asked Kitty.
"Yea, just yesterday I finished all new equipment. I already informant the other guys. Come to my smith when you log on. Oh, I also prepared something extra that may interested you."
[Player Forge has logged in.]
"Sup. I see all of you are here. I made all of the new weapons and the armor you order."
Forge handed over weapons and armors he made to each member of the group.
"These are the costume made ones that you ordered. Is everything okay?"
"No, they are perfect." – said Avalanche while inspecting his new axe.
"By the way, you wanted to show us something, what is it?" – said May.
"Oh, right. Here."
Forge put several object on the table.
[Ring Of Lesser Strength]
[Ring Of Lesser Agility]
[Ring Of Lesser Intelligent]
[Necklace Of Lesser Health]
[Necklace Of Lesser Mana]
[Necklace Of Lesser Stamina]
"I finally got hang of my class, [Mystic Crafter]. I can now make basic rings and some necklaces. I still require bit of time to learn how to make better ones, so for now I can only make those kind weak ones."
"Huh. Well, even if its weak it's still pretty good. It's hard to get accessory items like those in the first place. Also, those items usually don't provide much in the first place. There are sometimes extremely valuable ones like that increases stats by a lot, like your necklace that increases your stats by 15 and also provides a skill, but usually those items provide small amount of points." – said Kitty.
"Really?" – asked Forge.
"Yea. But even so, even a little stat increase counts, so they are still very important."
"Oh, I see. So do you guy want me to sell you some?"
"If you could then yes." – said Try.
"Okay, but it will take some time. Tell me what kind of types you want and I will call you when they are ready."
After everybody left I just get back to my work. Crafting those rings and neckless for the group.
Qustion to the readers. I'm planning on making Extra in some chapters, explaning some classes and thier skills.
Should I :
A: give simple and short explanation about classes and the skills.
B: Give the information about the entire class and the entire skill.