It took an hour for Peter to move to the office block Sicily was renting. After signing the contract with Sicily for a year, Peter went to call his landlord and informed him that he was moving out. As if this was expected he just shrugged it off.

"Where is the rest of the team? I saw a few bags on the first floor." "Yeah, Anya came over yesterday. Mary will join us later tonight. It's just the four of us now but we will recruit more as we go on."

'Did her family just make up this stupid workshop to keep her away from the house? This chick has no idea how to manage anything at all.'

"Ok then. I need to go level up my crafting skill. See you in the evening. "

"Crafting? Which job are you doing? I heard it's too difficult to level them as you go up."

"Blacksmith."

"Good luck with that. I heard it's one of the best to make a lot of money."

"Thanks."

Saying so Peter went back to the game.

The more days went by the more people joined the town. Soon the terrible thing happened. Almost all the NPC merchants went out of stock. Even the most common weapons and armours could only be bought at the player auctions.

This helped to increase the number of crafter players.

As Peter had already bought more and more blueprints from the auction house he was able to finally reach level 10. This was a hard block that couldn't be broken past.

Peter approached the blacksmith master.

"Ready for the T2 quest? You just need to make a rare armour set."

Peter already had an armour set blueprint and the only issue is that it's of common grade. Crafting a piece of armour would take him a lot longer than the sword. To get a rare armour piece is going to be even harder.

Peter slowly started working on his piece. The most important thing when dealing with crafting was the quality of time spent in it. The more one spent improving the armour the better it became. It was normal to take up to 12 hours to make a single piece of the armour of uncommon quality.

*****

As Peter was focused more on finishing up his armour, Sicily was trying her best to establish her workshop guild in the port city. To register as a guild the leader must be at least a tier 2 combat class or crafting class. Sicily had picked an archer class and was extremely focused on her levelling.

The DPS of the archer class was very high, second only to magic casters. Since magic casting should only be assessable after becoming a tier 3 combat class holder according to the forums, archers were currently the most powerful DPS in the game. The healing classes were an exception.

Sicily's character Budding Rose had one of the best DPS in the ranking list due to her high-quality equipments. A warrior and a priest follower behind her.

The three kept pushing forward into the monsters. After a few more kills they had all reached level 20 and stopped walking towards the nearby clearing.

"Older sister, why did you recruit that young man. You even gave him such a good offer. Don't tell me you are in love with him."

"Mary, don't tease sister like that. She must have some reasons."

Although they kept their mouth shut the two kept a strong gaze towards the older sister amongst the three.

"Ok, I just felt like he had good abilities. I noticed his reactions once I was in the store. He was faster than me."

"Sister Rose, but you are the one with a record reaction in our guild. Even your older cousin is inferior to you."

"Now you know why I recruited him."

"Don't tell me you want to make your own guild."

Rose just kept moving to a nearby tree and sat down nibbling a stamina regen candy.

After a few minutes of rest, she got back up and turned to the city.

"Alright time to go back to the city and complete the quest. Let's do our guild quest next."

The soon to be tier 2 girls walked back to the city at a slow pace.

*****

Cling

Cling

Cling

Sheeeeeeeeeh

Congratulations. You have made a common helmet (rare).

The hot iron cooled down rapidly due to coming in contact with the water. After that, the metal was left out to cool down. Peter slowly got up from the stool at the work area and stretched his muscles.

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'One done. Four more to go.'

After taking a short break Peter returned to the anvil to forge a chest piece.

*****

Three girls approached the main office in Port Blair City. The manager at the reception showed them inside.

"Hi miss, how can we help you today?" The elder man dressed in a formal suit asked Sicily who was in the middle.

"We would like to form our guild. Could you help us please?"

"Sure. The guild quest is available to any tier two or higher player and their party. Have you registered to complete your first guild quest?"

"We would like to register, please." Sicily and her two aides went back to the shore after receiving their quest.

"Finally we can make our own guild. Say did elder brother make his guild?" Anya asked Sicily.

"Not yet. But he will probably make his guild soon too."

"Can't we just join their guild for now?"

"No. I would rather make mine from the start."

"Shouldn't you tell Peter about the guild? He probably thinks that we are going to join the rising suns."

"I don't think he will care about it. But I will let him know later anyways."

"I'm going offline after this. I still need to pack a few more things." Anya said.

"Ok let's make this quick. It should be easy."

"Can't wait to reach the place. Mary how are you doing. You will get here on time right. I don't want to sleep alone with him around." Sicily turned to ask Mary.

"Alone? Hey you know I will be there in a few hours anyway."

"You? With your character, I'm a bit worried about him."

A quest appeared on their screen.

Guild Quest.

1. Defeat roaming bandit group.

Bandits are roaming the western coastal area. Defeat them and get a territory ownership token. The token is dropped by the bandit leader on the first kill.

2. Reach level 40

The guild level is directly related to the tier of the guild leader. Reach tier two in a combat class to unlock guild bonuses.

"Sis, looks like we need to hurry."

"First kill. Hope it doesn't give out a system announcement."

"Why? You think the boss will be tough?"

"With Sister Rose's abilities, I'm not worried that we can't kill it. I'm more worried about other people trying to kill and rob us."

"We need to be careful. Looks like only one guild can occupy a territory," Sicily said picking up her pace towards the western coast.

*****

Peter kept working through the sweat and after a lot of effort, he was able to make a chest piece. Compared to the weapons the armours were a lot harder to create. Even the system outlines were not enough to cast the right proportions to the armour.

Congratulations you made a common chest plate(rare)

'This is going to take forever.'

Peter continued to make his full armour set. The common sets had 5 pieces of armour. As he worked forward, he found it easier. The more he worked on one thing the better his temper became.

'I wonder how the girls are doing. I need to complete the tier 2 swordsman quest. That should help me to move fast and join them.'

Peter continued to work on finishing the rest of the armour pieces.

*****

Three ladies soon arrived at the bandit camp on the western shore. The place was filled with mobs at level 20.

Sicily jumped straight in and kited a few towards Anya and Mary.

Soon the party achieved momentum. They pushed forward leaving behind a bloody trail.

The bandit leader was seated at the top of the stage. He stood up seeing the approaching humans.

"Wonderful. Who would have thought such pretty ladies would barge into my home to give themselves to me the great bandit king Elor. Come come, I haven't savoured such young flesh in a long..."

Sicily shut its mouth with an arrow.

*****

Congratulations you made a common leg piece(rare)

Peter kept working on his masterpiece.

'Two more to go. I need a break'

Peter exited the game and came out to meet two girls chatting with each other. Sicily and Anya were discussing how they killed the bandit king and received the guild token.

"Hi. I'm Peter."

The two stopped and stared at Peter for a few seconds.

"Why are you so smelly? Go take a bath."

"I think it was due to me staying at the smithy for too long." Peter slowly smells himself. "Wow. It's bad. Be right back."

Peter went upstairs to take a good bath.

"Hey, take the game suit with you. It stinks too."

"Mary is here too she just went out to get some food."

"Great. I don't need to pay for food right?"

"It's ok."

Peter started running up the stairs back to his room.

"He looks cute too. You just like him, don't you?" Anya kept glaring at Sicily.

"Hey, he is a blacksmith. See a valuable asset."

"Was that before or after you met him?"

"Shut up."

Anya kept giggling at Sicily.

Mary bought some fried chicken wings from the shop and soon Peter joined them for dinner.

"So, you are a blacksmith. Make sure you make us a few good weapons and armours when you get back online."

"You will have to pay up. I lack money right now."

"Fine by me. As long as they are rare and above I will pay you good money for it."

"You will have to wait. I still have a few more armour pieces that I need to make to complete my quest. I then have to take the quest for my combat class and then I have another quest waiting to complete."

"Wow, someone is really busy."

Peter and the trio kept chatting for a few more minutes. Finishing the dinner, they moved towards their cabins.

"We will come to your town tonight. We are almost done levelling. In a few more hours we should reach level 30."

"Ok call me when you reach the town."

Peter entered the cabin.

'Ok, three more to go. Let's start working.'

Peter started focusing back at the smith. Due to repeated usage, his hammer was almost worn out.

'I need to repair this hammer now.'

Repairing the hammer was hard especially since he didn't have a hammer blueprint nor a pair hammer to work on.

Peter went to look at the auction house again for a hammer blueprint but there was none available. So he went back to the smithy and proceeded to work on a hammer on his own.

Working the smithy for some time he had enough experience to make something on his own.

To get the right thickness Peter had to use five bars of bronze. Heating the mixture and removing the impurities took a lot longer due to the heavy metal. The molten mass was scorching hot and Peter took it out using pliers. Slowly he started beating on the piece and started working toward the rough shape of the hammer.

With heavy concentration, Peter finally made a rough shape of the hammer. The metal had already started to lose its heat and he had to reheat it again. Instead of making it scorching hot this time he went for medium-rare.

This helped Peter to get the molten piece to a descent outline of the blacksmith's hammer.

After a few minutes, Peter worked on the hammer, clearing out the rough sides. Once he was satisfied with it Peter chose to finish the work and started embroidery works. Soon the system notification went off.

Congratulations you have created a creative hammer( unique).

Congrats on making a unique item.

You have received the title "creative artisan".

You have qualified to inherit a unique blacksmith class. Please present your work to your master blacksmith.

'Wow, I will be damned.'