The day after the incident Blaike had come back do to promising the apprentice he helped that day. Blaike made his way through the the tunnels each day for a week helping the apprentice with delivering materials and watching the blacksmiths forge weapons.
"Repeated observation and helping at the forge has resulted in you gaining the [Blacksmithing] skill."
“You can Improve your [Upgrade] skill by mixing the [Blacksmithing] skill into it would you like to do so?”
Yes or No
“I don’t know what kind of effect it will have on my actual skill, but it says [Upgrade] will be improved so “Yes”.”
As Blaike kept heading to the Smith’s Shop he never went to training making him fall behind the ‘heroes’ in power, but he didn’t mind that as he didn’t want to be a combat oriented person he would prefer to be crafting or healing than being up front and killing others.
Blaike also forgot about the Slave trader he met a week before. His pets did sometimes come with him to the shop though and they were able to help around effectively though it was odd seeing a sprite and slime moving blocks of iron around.
When they weren’t helping Blaike with the shop they were at the castle practicing with the ‘heroes’ making their power raise, though the magic taught by the sage was the basic chanting type it was still effective.
The slime as of now is able to take hits from an enchanted sword by one of the ‘heroes’, but it does get wounded quite a bit by it, while the sprite is able to break all the spells cast to hit it making them great target practice for the ‘heros’.
After the week was up Blaike had an improved [Upgrade] skill and wanted to test it out on one off his items, but he only has his clothes and a wooden sword. He thought about it in his room during the morning at the castle for a bit only to attempt at using the upgrade skill on it.
Wych Elm Sword
16/18 Durability
2 sharpness
Can be imbued with magic to change tree type to
-Equa Tree
-Worl Tree
-Null Tree
-Presur Tree
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“Hm, imbuing things with magic may help further improving my [Upgrade] skill so what do each of these trees actually do or what are they?”
Equa Tree
A magical tree that takes magic of any type and balances it to an optimum amount for the environment.
Imbuing Cost: 100 MP of each available magic type
Worl Tree
A divine element tree that fills the world with energy.
Imbuing Cost: 350 MP of Divine element
Null Tree
A Void element tree that created a magic free zone in order to grow others of itself.
Imbuing Cost: 350 MP of Void element
Presur Tree
A tree that only grows in places of gravitational extremes
Imbuing Cost: 100 MP of Gravity element
Looking at the costs of the different tree alignments and powers Blaike chose to go with the Equa tree as it would make the spells he cast by the most efficient at casting a variety of spells compared to the others that would overpower or underpower some spells.
As he selected to upgrade the wood his sword was made of his mind started to fade and lines of white,Black, and purple began to seep out of him towards the the wood sword in front of him. In order to recover from the expenditure of his mana he closed his eyes and let his mind wander.
By the time that he opened his eyes he was starving and the sun was setting making him hurry to the dining hall that normally was serving dinner at this time. The rest of the day went as it normally did with him delaying checking the sword until morning, but as he went to sleep a blue screen popped up.
"Your pet “sprite” as gained enough wisdom and time around your language to obtain the [English] skill. What would you like to name it?"
“Well you can understand me now can’t you? So would Alan be a good name?”
In reaction to hearing the name it thought about it only to accept it in the end.
“ Okay since you like your name what about you “Slime” what will your name by…? Ah, I got it it will be Satoru, how bout it do you like it?”
The newly named “Satoru” jumped in what seemed to be a happy manner so Blaike thought they accepted their new names and went to sleep.
He woke up the next morning to see to naked little kids sleeping in his room and another blue screen open.
"Do to extreme acceptance of the given names by their master and high levels of emotions your pets have gained a new ability [Humanization]."
“Wait, what the. How. Why the heck did my simple naming of them cause something like this to happen?-sigh-” Blaike got up soon after seeing them grabbing his sword and leaving to find a servant to get them some clothes.
Blaike to care of them for the rest of the day and only was he able to check on his upgraded sword after Satoru and Alan calm down and adjusted to their new forms.
Equa Sword
32/36 Durability
1 sharpness
“Wow the sword doubled in durability, but it did also lower the sharpness stat. Hm, how do I make it better. Do I go into carpentry or wood carving maybe?”
The entire day was spent helping the two get used to their human forms and changing between forms as well. The next day Blaike spent his time looking for a carpenter wanting an apprentice only to find a small carpentry shop in the slums near the slave trading part of it.
“WELCOME!!! What wares do you want good sir?”
“Um, uh, that is I want to work for you for a short while to understand the feel of this job to see if it appeals to me mister.”
“Sure you can work for me but since it is only to learn the craft I want you to pay instead of me paying for you brat.”
“Fine I’ll pay if it’s a reasonable price but I don’t have much at all.”
“I want 2 small Silvers for each day your are going to be working here and 5 big copper extra if you plan to sleep here as well.”