The next morning Henry has a hard time opening his eyes, there was no natural light opening in the workshop so he didn't know if it was morning already but had a feeling that he had woken up early, it was because he was impatient to make his first dagger.
He opened his phone and it was only 7:30 in the morning.
'Good, I can work on my craft until I can't move my arms again !'
Most people would be discouraged by the painful and heavy arms but he just didn't think about it, the pleasure of working hard towards greatness was like a drug to him and made him persist through both pain and tiredness.
After going out to grab something to eat he picked his hammers again and hammered the second bone, this time however everything went well !
That was not all, when the dagger was done a black box similar to the ones he got when he bought one from the shop appeared underneath the dagger !
Although his arms were heavy and painful from yesterday he actually completed a dagger, a tear almost fell off from his eyes. He had lived all his life in poverty and by thinking realistically although he had high ambitions he wasn't sure if he could make them into reality but now ? He had taken his first step towards greatness and that was all due to his native skill that has finally awakened !
'Thank you System.'
Weirdly he thought he heard a smile in the system's voice but threw the idea away, the system sounded like a robotic being, there was no way it could smile.
Slowly he picked the dagger and felt his body becoming stronger and lighter, he had successfully given it stats. Now was the time to see if the skill had been implemented too, he touched the blade and the 5 times weight added to his already tired body made him fall to his knees however he was laughing, he looked like he was having the time of his life.
'When was the last time I felt this happy ? I love you System ! Hahah'
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That Saturday he made 3 daggers, he wanted to close the quest on Sunday but even though he had the motivation his body just wouldn't move, his whole body was aching he couldn't even stand to buy food !
'Eh ?'
He finally remembered that he hadn't really looked closely to the other items, he had been focused on starting the production of Dark bone daggers so he left the rest for later.
He opened the store and started looking at the items one by one, most of them were pieces of equipment but there was one that wasn't, Henry supposed it was that one and pressed it.
[Energy drink :
Made from the blood of an Energetic Bull, other minerals and plants, this drink can make someone recover from light injuries, from tiredness and from low level diseases.]
He looked at the bottom of the pop up and saw there was a blueprint for this drink too !
"I can make this ?!"
He was so surprised that he didn't say it in his mind but said it out loud, the price for three bottles was of 180$. It made it less expensive than a dagger for one bottle but since it was sold in a bundle it ended up higher than the dagger on the list of the shop.
A few seconds later he was holding a bottle with a pinkish colored drink inside and drank it right away, he felt a warm current spreading from his stomach to every part of his body. Most of the effect was felt on the limbs where he was the most tired and painful and then : no more pain !
It had completely disappeared, he felt as good as before starting smithing.
'Time to go back to work!'
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Around 10 at night the whole set of ten daggers were lying in their respective boxes on the ground in front of Henry while he looked at them with a silly smile splattered on his face.
"This is worth around 140 000$ if I sell them at the price I had first guessed they'd cost.
I'm rich... I'M RICH !!! Hahahahaha"
That night Henry slept like a log, he woke up the next morning early enough to go home and get his uniform and head to school. He also bought the daggers home and hide them well, he couldn't know if the renting girl had a copy of the keys and he didn't want her to find a set of items worth a fortune, worst thing : she knew what he looked like and someone knowing he was a blacksmith holding a valuable blueprint was the last thing he wanted to happen.
Although the Dark bone dagger wasn't expensive in itself it was perfect for mass production since the ressources needed were very cheap and the final item was super expensive, some bad people might kill him for such a profitable blueprint.
Since it was still early for school Henry created the same ad on the Market as the first one and left for school after putting on his uniform, if he had any message he would answer it after he came back from school.
That day everyone at school was excited, most kids of that school weren't rich so tomorrow's trip to planet Reso would be their first time out of Buton for most of them and it would also be a first time for Henry as far as he remembered, since he was an orphan he was sure if he was born on Buton.
He had been picked up in front of the orphanage when he was around one year old, Madam Maria had given him a birthday but he didn't know his real one either, he hated knowing so little about himself but could do nothing about it. Most of the time when he was asked his birthday he refused to answer, he hated being wished happy birthday because he knew that it wasn't his real birthday.
Later that afternoon Henry got home and started packing for tomorrow's trip, the trip should be 1 week long so he took a big bag where he put his clothes and a smaller one for necessities.
When he was done he sat down on his desk and looked at the hundreds of messages he had got during the day, after reading and answering a few of them he had already sold all the daggers. He had tried leaving the ones who bargained on the waiting list and in the end sold them all for 19 000$ each !
'Maybe I was wrong on my price estimation and this is actually the real price...?´
He opened his bank account and smiled dumbly, he had actually never seen such a huge number !
[Balance : 208 200$]
'I have an offensive item, I need defensive items now.'
He opened the system's shop and looked at the cheapest armors.