On the finger post was written “Crafting District”. Sky followed throughout the road reading the signs of every shop on the way.
“Cori The Herbalist”
“Matilda’s Bakery”
“Tailor Shop”
“Architect Tedio’s Palace” sky read and laughed. “This is just a stone house, how can it be called as palace” and continued walking, looking for blacksmith.
“Carpenter Bowie”
“Cook Joy”
“Fenie The Cobbler”
As he kept walking and reading the signs randomly learning about the shops, he heard a metaling sound.
“Dong”
Sky stopped reading the signs with small but quick steps walked towards the source of sound.
There was a man near anvil punching heated iron. This was a huge shop as big as combination of four or five shops. Next to anvil there was a round small furnace, made of stones. Than Sky realized there are other furnaces and anvils next to them five in total. But only one was occupied which seems to a player crafting something with metalsmith. Sky thought if he was a craftsman, he would be furious if somebody interrupted, so he decided to wait for man to finish before approaching.
He kept punching and punching the metal with a brown colored hammer. As Sky was pretty far from the sight, he could only understand it was a metal thing that he was punching from the sound but cannot see the shape. After five minutes or so, man stopped and put the metal inside a water bucket. Only than when he lifted the metal high, Sky saw that it was some kind of sword in zigzag shape which he never saw before.
Sky approached near man.
Hattori Hanzo Lv2
“Hi, Hattori Hanzo?, Kill Bill?”, Sky said and looked the man with curious eyes. Man took a step back. A great shock could be seen on his face. He looked Sky from head to toe then replied.
“Hi. Sorry, I was not expecting to see a player in this city. Yes, I liked movie Kill Bill so much that I thought I should name myself Hattori Hanzo, but you can call me Kevin”
“I am Sky, Nice to meet you Kevin. May I ask what were you crafting?”
Kevin held the wavy shaped sword like weapon. After looking it for a while said.
“This is kryss, a fencing weapon, one of dagger type. Blacksmith Lur gave me a task to make one”
“Looks promising, may I ask what the attack power is?”
“No need to ask here, take a look” he said and gave the kryss to Sky.
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KryssType:DaggerDurability:30/ 30Quality:NormalEffect:Damage 2-4Speed:1.3/secKryss crafted by Hattori Hanzo
Sky examined the kryss and the system information for a while then tried swinging the kyrss.
“It is faster than I expected and pretty light, thanks for showing” and gave kyrss back.
“Yes its weight is 7, but sharpness is poor quality. I have a long way to go, before I can make a perfect katana like in movie” Kevin said and laughed after.
“Weight and Sharpness, how can you understand them” Sky asked.
“After learning item identification, I was able to see weight of items and after learning arms lore I can see sharpness of weapons. Here take this book, it teaches you item identification. I bought an extra from Lur by mistake” he said and gave yellow colored book to Sky.
Sky took the book and looked into it.
Item Identification Learned
He checked his book of combat arts but there was no change.
“How can I see description of Item Identification? This game is weird there is no skill window” sky said in reproaching tone.
“You need book of Common Arts. Yes it is a bit weird at start. But I heard you will be able to take disciplines in later game and make a copy of your skills to a scroll and pass it to your disciplines. That is why they say books are ones legacy.”
“I understood, nice to know. How much money I owe you?” Sky asked.
“Book was 300 golds, but it is no big deal. If you want to learn Arms Lore you need to take quest from Lur and craft a dagger for him.”
“Thanks for your help”, Sky said respectfully and handed him 300 golds for the book.
“Take this six iron ingot, You can learn blacksmithing from Lun for 300gold, and buy a book of craftsman for 250gold by using system assist it will take a minute to craft dagger. You don’t need to do it manually like I did.”, Kevin continued talking.
Stolen novel; please report.
Sky was already tankful towards Kevin for helping him this much, but got a bit puzzled after last words of him and asked politely as possible.
“I am sorry, it might be so rude to ask, but why are you helping me this much?”
Kevin patted Sky’s shoulder and laughed.
“Don’t over think, You are first player I saw in this city. It is pretty lonely around. I heard only a few thousand took path of advanced players out of millions of players. And populated countries are in different channel, so it I just don’t want to lose an opportunity to have a friend and team up in this city”
Sky smiled after hearing Kevin talk in a hectic way. He thought for a moment than said
“Sorry, we can of course team up. Where are you heading to, do you have plan in your mind?”
“Yes I was about to go to mountains to mine iron, and craft better items. Maybe I can craft a weapon and armor for you. “, hearing this Sky looked Kevin with an unwilling face. Because he was not planning to waste time on things like mining or crafting that much, but he thought he can play with stones and boulders to increase his strength. So he said
“Ok, let me take arms lore and we can set sailing”, Sky said laughing.
“Take mining skill as well, mining can also increase strength so easily. With your level of 5, you can carry 2 times more iron than I can. I can easily craft items out of them for you” Kevin said. Sky just nodded to him and went inside the shop to meet the Blacksmith Lur.
Sky couldn’t chat long with Lur, just told him that he wanted to learn blacksmithing and gave him 300 gold fee of learning. Lur showed Sky how to punch the heated iron with blacksmith hammer and after Sky tried it.
Blacksmithing Learned
Sky bought a Book of Craft for 250gold to check his new proficiency and Lur asked him to craft a dagger as Kevin mentioned before.
Blacksmithing:RankBeginnerProgress%30.0Effect:Able to craft metal items
Chance of crafting better item increases by x/10
Iron Dagger Recipe:Requirement[/tds][td2]%25 Blacksmithing
Iron Anvil
FurnaceEffect:Chance for successful craft is %60 + Bonus effects + (Blacksmithing/4)
Chance increases with better Blacksmith Hammer
Chance Incresases with better anvil
Chance Incresases with better furnaceUses:6 Iron Ingot
Sky looked new learned skill and recipe with astonishment and went to outside where Kevin was waiting. He stand next to furnace and anvil and selected the dagger shape in his book and system took control and his hands started moving automatically. First heated iron in blazing furnace next to him and started beating the iron after with 21 hammer hits it was finished.
Dagger successfully crafted
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DaggerType:DaggerDurability:10/ 10Quality:PoorEffect:Damage 1-3Speed:1.2/secWeight:6Dagger crafted by Sky
“My first successful item craft, Wohooo!”, Sky shouted and jumped upwards as kids do, holding his new crafted dagger. Kevin congratulated him nodding his head. After examining his newly crafted dagger with astonishment, he went back inside to finish his quest.
Arms Lore Learned
“Time to go to mountains”, Sky said and he together with Kevin departed from the Blacksmithing Workshop to go to mountains.