15 {[Emerald antler Spear] mid-stage}

After going over the available options of blacksmiths he had to chose, dan ended up with a surprise in his hands, and a chance that he wont let get away.

'This is such a beautiful coincidence'

Setting the coordinates on the GPS, Dan had a grin on his face

What dan has found online , while looking for a blacksmith, witch is already quite difficult in this day and age where such cold weaponry isn't needed, he found Desmond.

The purple eyed craftsman

A few months before the apocalyptic earthquake started , there was a smaller disaster event that startled the public and brought a significant change in society.

The world was imbued with energy that affected everything to its molecular structure.

The changes varied for every life-form and material, it came in all forms, the rare few people experienced a power awakening like controlling the elements, or increasing physical strength, controlling weak monsters minds, bending light, some changes could even appear on the body , in all shapes and forms.

Simple material like metal could end up imbued with sufficient energy if it is in a location with concentrated elements and evolve into magic iron, elemental metals, earth essence Gold ingot, purple shadow Damascus Steel, Lava crystals.

The wildlife are the most effected by this energy and most of them evolve into many different variants that also exhibit change in attitude, from calm to aggressive or vice versa, but mostly turn aggressive., and the stronger they are, the chance is that the beast or monster is also as or more intelligent than a low stage human.

And when these changes started appearing in small accidents in the few months before the earthquake, society responded in defense with their own evolved humans, which resulted in great prosperity and advancement in medicine and weaponry in only the first month of these changes and the future seemed bright, only for the people to be thrown in complete darkness after the apocalyptic earthquake, hit society back with change on the geographical scale and new lifeforms appearing in the new lands in the billions, changing the food chain hierarchy .

Its in these few months that Desmond's name shined as one of the best blacksmiths in the area, only to never be herd of again after the earthquake

so as soon as dan found the workshop desmond works at , a simple plan was easily arranged.

currently from what dan found out online about desmonds workshop , is that he isn't well off, financially, since the crafting requests he received where rare in between .

Simply offering him a ton of money would be easy to win him off, and if that isn't enough, than the promise of providing rare materials and a lot of crafting orders for him to handle should be a heaven sent gift for a blacksmith that doesn't have request for crafting weapons .

'i am looking foreword to acquiring purple eyed craftsman, and make sure and observe to what heights he reaches after he survives the earthquake and other disasters that follow.'

'from what i understand of Desmond's power, it comes from the mutation that his eyes when trough, becoming purple on the outside and giving Desmond a different view and perspective on everything he set his eye's on, which he put to good use when crafting equipment for the evolved hunters and adventurers that where putting their lives on the line every day, turning a running out of business workshop into one of the busiest and popular for a short period of time'

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parking the jeep next to a dilapidated warehouse, dan gets out and proceeds to knock on the door for three consecutive times before someone comes to open the door.

in front of dan stood a blond middle aged man, standing about one and a half meters tall and burly arms with calluses covering his hands.

"hi, i came here to make a crafting request"

followed by a few seconds of awkward silence , desmond replies , with disbelief in his voice

"am, are you sure? I men , look around, doesn't this look rundown to you? why would you think that this is a good place to have a crafting request made?"

questioned desmond

"it's because i believe that i wont have to wait a couple of days until i can collect my request , i think that you will be able to finish it sooner since it seems that you have no customers"

"ouch , that hurts, but yeah you are right, i can instantly start on whatever you need me to craft, but i don't know how fast ill finish before i know what i have to do "

"oh, where are my manners, please come in"

said Desmond before politely indicating with his hand for dan to enter

handing desmond a duffel bag and than picking up the two massive emerald antlers from the back of the jeep, dan proceeds to enter

"i am dan , by the way"

dan introduced himself before entering trough the door that was held open by the future purple eyed craftsman, desmond .

"nice to meet you dan, you can call me desmond"

while walking deeper into the warehouse , desmond couldn't remove his eyes from the strange green object dan was carying.

"So dan, what is this antler looking green thing."

while dan continued to walk deeper in the empty warehouse he explained

"this is what i need your help with, i need the branches that are strait to be severed and used as spear heads for the spears that i need you to craft for me"

'i wanted to know the material of this object, but it's ok, since you wont tell me, after all no one will reveal their trade secrets. '

hearing the request, desmond could tell that it wont take long, after all heating the sides of a metal pole to the point that it can be deformed and have the spearhead attached would be easy and fast.

"sure no problem, like you said earlier, it will be a quick job "

"good to hear"

arriving at the back of the warehouse where the forge was at, desmond first proceeded to severe the straight branches from the green antlers frame, which led to a few blades being ruined

"dont wary about the metal blades, just include them in the total of the price i have to pay you for your work"

Desmond, after hearing that, released a sigh, since he is already down broke and about to loose his forge , felt very thankful for his new customers benevolence, even tough it was the customers material that ruined the metal disk blades, it was the blacksmiths responsibility to use the correct one, but even still , desmond wasn't aware that his cutting tools wont be strong enough and break only on the second branch that he tried to slice trough.

with the weight lifted of his heart , desmond continued with , slicing trough the rest.

" desmond , make me two spears to have both ends with a spearhead and the other four , can be normal "

said dan after reminding himself

the process of attaching the spearheads was the easiest since they could be done at the same time, after-all, all desmond needed to do is heath the end of the metal stick to a point where he can use his tools on the hot and deform-able metal and wound it around the emerald antler spearhead, like a spiraling snake, allowing it to be held sturdy in place.

receiving the finished product , dan was satisfied whit what he got

'finally, a weapon that is better than the hatched, with this i can breeze trough most mid-stage monsters, and if lucky some low defense high-stage monsters'

'Scan'

[Chaotic system]

[Emerald antler Spear] mid-stage

A spear crafted by an unknown craftsman, it can be used to dig a hole in any mid-stage target that doesn't have special defense abilities or inborn talents

[Chaotic system]

[Double headed Emerald antler Spear] mid-stage

A spear crafted by an unknown craftsman, it can be used to dig a hole in any mid-stage target that doesn't have special defense abilities or inborn talents.

The double spearheads increases the speed of hunting , slightly, depending on the skillfulness of the wielder.

using scan to make sure that the spears are usable than is left with a satisfied smile on his face

"thanks, this is a good spear"

Said dan with a smile on his face and a glint in his eye's after handing him twenty thousand cash

"glad you like it customer, is there anything else you would like to request"

ask Desmond, hoping to get more work from such a rich customer with unique materials he has never seen.

"actually yes, i might have a business opportunity for both of us"

"pleas, pray tell"

responded desmond, hoping to ride on someones coattails

"its simple, see the leftover parts of the emerald material? refine it into beautiful trinket and sell it, i am pretty sure you have some connections or are informed of areas where unique and beautiful item can fetch a good price, whatever you sell , 20% is yours"