I went home all sweaty. But for some reason, I felt fulfilled.

It seemed like he was right my fighting style was better with knives.

I had tried to use the sword for several days but it never felt right in my hand.

Anyways I pushed open the door to my room and walked in.

I was so tired I just collapsed on the bed.

No dreams came to me at night. It was very restful.

The next day when I got up I used my glasses to check were cannon man is and then I went to find him.

He was standing on top of the wall like he did every day.

"Hey" I said while putting my hand on my shoulder. He knew I was there but still pretended like I didn't exist.

"After some consideration, I made you a legendary ring to double the firepower of the cannon"

His eye violently twitched but he still didn't say anything.

He opened his mouth to speak "Its impossible for you to enter the crafting room by yourself. And as for making me an ability ring all of mine are soul bound im destined to stand here my whole life.

That was kinda sad, I felt bad about teasing him.

"I came because I need into the crafting room."

He replied "That pin is a mana item that allows you access as long as I permit it. I'm never leaving the base anyway so as long as you behave yourself you don't have to ask for permission"

"Okay" that's all I said I didn't feel like messing with him after learning he could never leave.

I arrived in the crafting room.

Wait, I needed to go get materials. I went to the beast vault and picked out a hundred-year panther foot, 100-year harvester bug, and a 100-year monkey.

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With that done I walked into the room and put the panther foot in the chest. My plan was to craft one rare ring and too normal ones but too have them all have specific conditions that relied on each other to work.

I poured the required mana into the chest and pulled out a ring that had a simple noncolorful crouching tiger on it.

The rest of the rings were made like clockwork there abilities were.

Stealth buff~Add a buff to a group that gives stealth as long as the team is together and in the forest. This ability runs off mana

Danger Awarnes~Sense mortal peril once a day as long as user is under a stealth buff, in the forest, and pouring mana into this ring.

Fleet foot~ Users gain increased agility for a period of two minutes. Its caused by danger awareness ability ring activating in the vicinity of users. This ability consumes mana and only works in the forest.

My idea had worked I was able to bring out the maximum power of the group I made the rings for.

The only downside was if one of them got insta wiped all of the rings wouldn't activate.

It was a calculated risk I grabbed the rings and went to the cafeteria.

My meal was mana regen again, I met up with the girl with the buffer ability and two rough-looking gathers.

"So this is your team," I said

"It's not my team they agreed that they would join and forage with me if the benefits were good enough," She said in a very neutral voice.

They just eyed me up and down. I guess it didn't matter they couldn't use the ability rings without her so I suppose it didn't matter what kind of characters they had.

"Heres what I have to offer."

I took out the rare ring and gave it to her. She equipped it as soon as she saw the grade without even checking if it was soul binding.

The other's eyes changed once they saw a rare ring.

I pulled out the other two and asked

"Wich one of you is the older hunter?"

"I am I'm about a year old"

I handed him the danger awareness ring.

He was sad that it wasn't a rare ring and didn't equip it right away.

While he was examing the ring I handed the other one to the third hunter.

I didn't say anything and just sat there. They all listed off what the rings did, I could tell that the other two hunters were wary of the conditions.

But upon examing the rings they were using I knew they would except.

One of them asked, "And what do you get out of this?"

I responded "For certain reasons I can't leave the outpost so if the outpost flourishes I will get rewarded.

Seemingly satisfied with my response they both equipped the rings.

I took that as them accepting the team.

"Congratulations," I said

"We haven't gone on our gathering trip today this will be our first venture out as a team," She said in a triumphant voice

I simply nodded and walked back to my room, I'm sure cannon man was listening in on our conversation but he didn't say anything from begging to end.