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Chapter 13 - Blacksmith & Board games

After waking up, being paranoid as usual, the ghost ask chibi if anything had happened. Chibi shook her head in reply, and headed over to the training area to go play with Kuro.

Seeing Chibi heading over, the ghost followed closely behind her, when he reached the training room, he saw that the heavy skeleton cavalry was naked. That had reminded him that all of it's armors were broken during the fight with the knights. Wondering if he was able to repair the armors, he checked the item shop to see if he could find something that could help him.

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Item : : Teaches the user how to smelt, repair and forge basic items. [Cost : 50 dp]

When he purchased the book and started reading, a notification pops up.

On the left side of the training room near where the training dummies are, a door appeared on the wall. The ghost flew over and through the door was a 10m by 10m area with is a furnace on the center wall of the room.

: An Iron hammer for hammering

: Iron tongs, chisels, vices, casts

: Increase success rate of forging by 5%

: a table to place the tools and equipments on

He immediately opened the layout menu and a new tab had appeared next to the alchemy tab.

After clicking on the new tab, he quickly set the locations of the new items he had received, he place the blacksmith table with the blacksmith tools on left side of the wall, place the iron anvil in front of the furnace and the hammer on it.

Realizing that there was no charcoal or coal in the furnace, he check the item shop in order to purchase some. While he was at it, even though the basic blacksmith book didn't mention, he remembered from his past life that there was a technique call quenching which would improve the hardness of the metal. So he bought a long metallic drinking trough to contain the cold water that he would use for quenching the metals.

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Item : : A combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, used in furnace, or fireplace. 10kg [Cost : 2 dp] x 3

Item : : A watering trough intended to provide drinking water to animals, livestock, automatically refills with water. [Cost : 2 dp] x 2

After purchasing the items, he place 3 sacks of coal near the furnace. Then, in the dungeon layout menu, he place one of the trough on the first floor next to the live animals, while the other one he place next to the Anvil. Next he cast his ice bolt spell, and drop the ice bolt lightly into the trough next to the anvil to decrease the water temperature.

He then tasked his skeletons to bring the rusted equipments that were taken from the dead bandits and the crate that they had gotten from the raid, to him, while he started the furnace by placing the coal into the furnace and heating it up to temperature. Once the rusted equipments have arrived, he removed all the wooden parts and started smelting the metal.

With the assistance of the skill, from the pile of rusted metals he manage to salvage, 3 bars of bronze and 3 bars of iron. Next he took the broken iron armor of the and tried to repair, but due to it being zero durability the skill did not allowed him to repair it, thus he had no choice but to smelt them down as scrap metal into 2 iron bars. After smelting, he begin the repairs on the iron weapons of the heavy skeleton cavalry and the bandits.

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Item : (uncommon) : +7 Atk, durability 25/25 x 2

Item : (uncommon) : +6 Atk, quick attack speed, durability 25/25 x 2

Item : (Common) : +10 def, durability 20/20

"Hmm, the weapons seems to be enhanced, is it because of the quenching technique?" the ghost pondered at the slight increase in damage on the iron weapons. Without giving any thoughts, he tried to forge a bronze sword with the remaining bronze bars.

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Item : (uncommon) : +6 Atk, durability 20/20

"Seems like it really is because of the quenching technique, even this bronze short sword have increase atk."

"Mr ghost, are you free?" chibi called out as she peek into the blacksmith.

"Yes, what's up?" the ghost looks over from the table.

"There are 4 people entering the dungeon, they don't look like bandits,"chibi replied him.

"Okay, I'll be right over." the ghost replied and he begin to tidy up the table and turn off the furnace.

After a few minutes, he walked towards the dungeon live broadcast screen in the main hall, chibi was laughing at the guy named Clifford who is doing live commentary. It felt like the ghost is back in his original world watching some live influencer showing off a place that they were traveling in.

Watching them being so cautious, it felt like he was watching some sort of ghost hunter type of live action series. Seeing that they couldn't cause much troubles, he went over to the training ground to check up on Kuro and the rest of the skeletons who are training.

The first thing he did when he headed into the training ground, he bought a full iron armor set for the heavy skeleton cavalry. Kuro on the other hand was curled up like a ball, on top of one of the cliff in the training ground. Without anything to do, the ghost headed to training dummy in the middle to train his bone spear skill as a type of magic spell. After almost hitting the limit of his mp, he begin testing the durability of the repaired weapons using the skeletons that were training with the spears on the training dummies.

Not long after, Kuro who was sleeping had awoken it beginning yawning and stretching, when it saw the ghost ordering the skeletons. It jumped off the cliff immediately and strolled towards the ghost. It started purring when it got close to the ghost.

Noticing a small purr behind him, the ghost turned around and rubbed Kuro on the head and it's chin. After getting patted, Kuro purred once more and jumped onto the console, the ghost flew over and set the training grounds to the next levels of difficulty.

All of a sudden, chibi came into the training area and asked, "Mr ghost, do you need me to do anything?"

Feeling weird by the sudden question, he asked, " Is something wrong, weren't you watching that adventurer group in the dungeon?"

"They're just gathering some roots after fighting the flying weapons in the basement of the graveyard and it looks very boring now." chibi replied.

Hearing what she said, he wonder what he should do as well, cause most of the important stuff are done for the moment. Thinking about it, he looked into the item shop to see if there is anything he could purchase to past the time.

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Item : : A board game [Cost : 2 DP]

Item : : A board game [Cost : 2 DP]

Item : : A board game [Cost : 2 DP]

Item : : A board game [Cost : 2 DP]

Item : : A card game [Cost : 2 DP]

Seeing that there were board games, he bought reversi which is one of the easiest board game to learn, he bought a table and 2 chairs as well. After purchasing the items, he brought chibi to the main hall, placed the table and chairs (F.O.C.) in front of the dungeon live broadcast screen, and then he get chibi to sit on the opposite side of him. Next he placed the reversi board on the table, chibi tilted her head and looked confused.

The ghost immediately explained to her how the game work and started playing. As she started playing and understanding the game, her eyes begin to brighten up.

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Dungeon Points (DP) : 1446

Number of DP to be awarded at the end of the day : 14 DP

(List of enemies) (List of death) (List of trapped enemies)

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List of enemies - Current DP worth (resets at the end of the day)

Warrior (guardian) - 3 DP

Hunter (spy) - 3 DP

Mage (priest) - 2 DP

Warrior - 2 DP

Horse - 1 DP x 2

Cow - 1 DP x 2

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List of Death - One time DP worth

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List of trapped enemies - x 3 Current DP worth (resets at the end of the day)

After playing with her for who knows how long, the ghost looked over towards the dungeon live broadcast screen.

"Hmmm, seems like those fellas have gone to sleep." He looks at chibi and asked, "Do you still want to continue playing?"

Chibi shook her head and went to looked for Kuro. Since he had nothing else to do, he decide to knocked himself out and increase his max mp skill, thus he summoned a zombie which effectively consumed the last of his mp.