The next morning Henry woke up in a great mood, he was happy that he finally had the opportunity to level up his blacksmith level.
After dressing in his sport uniform he headed out to have a run, he didn't have any reason to be impatient because he had 16 days until the time limit of the quest. While running however he was thinking of what piece of equipment he was going to build and sell, anything could do but the more expensive the item the less he would have to do so he looked at the Metamorphic armor. He would most probably end the quest with only one armor since this stuff was ultra rare !
'Here's the plan, I make the armor as soon as I can and sell it on the auctions of The market. It will take a fair number of tries to make one I guess, it definitively won't be as easy as making a dagger...'
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After breakfast Henry went to his workshop that was left as it was, not even a single thing inside had moved.
'I guess she didn't come here, she deserves a bit more trust than what I gave her.'
'Alright system give me the blueprint for the Metamorphic armor please.'
Henry rolled his eyes, this system really was weird but he had thought too much about it in the recent days and decided to forget it.
The method to make the Metamorphic armor got infused in his mind and soon he knew what to do.
'This will be easier than I thought, the process isn't very different from the dagger. It's just way longer and uses a unique technology for the shapeshifting.'
As he guessed the hardest part wasn't making the armor, the first thing he did was making three different armors by using the hide and scales of a shapeshifter dragon.
This step took him 23 hours and that was when he realized that he might not have the time if he didn't focus his attention on making the armor !
The three different armors were of course the three forms of the Metamorphic armor, the next thing to do was to make the chip that would make the two largest forms fit into the body tight one.
Hours, hours and hours went by, Henry was using a small pincer and tried as hard as he could to fit the small pieces on a microscopic chip ! Everything he needed and couldn't get on the shop of the system was sold on the market and delivered in minutes so he lost almost no time on trivial stuff. He could focus on being as meticulous as he could be while making the chip.
3 hours.
6 hours.
9 hours.
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21 hours !
Finally after almost a whole day of focus on a microscopic chip using a magnifying glass and pincers the chip was looking good !
All that was left now was letting it do it's work, he put it on the biggest armor and it suddenly started shrinking and disappeared inside the chip !
"It works !!!! Damn !"
Henry was so excited that he started dancing on the spot, although it took time it was way easier than he thought ! He picked up the chip and put it on the middle sized armor, the same process happened and a few seconds later all that was left on the worktable were the body tight suit and the chip.
'Alright last step !'
He put the chip on the body tight suit and as expected nothing happened, he picked up the Metamorphic armor that he had just made and started putting it on.
"Alright time to try it !"
He thought about changing the armor into the second form and everything started going the wrong direction, first from the body tight suit started going out the arm of the second form but from that arm started going out the third form ! The arm then exploded into a huge number of sharp splinters, his arm was bleeding when he realized he had been too stupid ! His only solution now was to try to take if off while the rest of the armor started appearing, since it was defective it took quite a long time to change so that played in his favor and he escaped the disaster by heavenly luck.
The body tight suit that was still weighing on the ground and changing form time after time, a second it was the second form armor, the next second it was the third form and It kept changing, whenever the third form started appearing while the second one was still out it would break and shatter into sharp pieces of iron.
"Fuck !"
Henry looked at the result of 2 day's work with sorrow, on top of costing 42 000$ of production this armor took lots of time and efforts to make !
After a long minute all that was left of the armor was iron scraps scattered on the ground on top of the leather like material that he had used to make the body tight suit.
'Where did I make a mistake ? Damn I'm tired !'
Henry decided to rest before trying again, he was decided on completing this quest by using the Metamorphic armor and nothing else even if it meant failing it ! He felt like he was being challenged by the armor and it was teasing him saying :
"You can't make me, you're not talented enough."
His spirit was ignited, he cleaned up the workshop from the iron scraps and went to lie down on the couch, slowly his mind drifted and he fell into slumber.
That night he once again dreamed about himself fighting with those weird dark blue humanoids, since that night when he had sold his first dagger he had been free from this nightmare and here it came once again.
After a long and exhausting fight the monster used its sharp tail to slit Henry's throat and he woke up sweating.
"FUCK ! Again..."
He lied down again and tried to still his breathing, every time he had this nightmare he woke up in panic and wouldn't be able to breath for awhile. Today wasn't an exception however he wasn't fighting with the two spears this time but with a long and thin red sword.
He looked at the time and although it was only 5AM he knew he wouldn't be able to sleep again and went back to work !