"Now, all that's left to do is transform this amazing sword into a fantasmagorically strong artifact!"
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After hours of studying artifact refining...
"So to transform a normal weapon into an artifact, I'll have to imbue a rune onto it so that it can gain an ability, but..." Mo Fan began, doubts starting to fill his head as he quickly checked all the content of the scroll of the Harmonious Artifact Refining Arts, searching for something without managing to find it. "This fucking scroll doesn't even say what those runes are! It doesn't even say how to draw them! The only thing that it says is how to harmoniously permeate the runes with weapons! How am I supposed to draw them, huh? Does this scroll expect me to create them on my own?! Fuck!"
"Wait, calm down, Mo Fan, calm down. Remember what the old man always used to say 'The only thing that someone needs is patience; if one knows this art, the art of waiting, then things will eventually come to him'."
~Inhale~
~Exhale~
"Phew, that really worked.... but now what should I do? Should I search for some books about artifact refining and runes in the library.... mmh... yes, maybe I should try doing that-" And just as he was about to get up and leave to go the library, a note suddenly fell from the scroll on the floor, Mo Fan immediately picking this up and starting to read what was written on it:
Mo Fan, if you are reading this, it means that I'm no longer with you and Qing'er and it also means that you've healed your meridians and body constituition since your reading the scroll of my Harmonious Artifact Refining Arts, I'm so happy for you.
"O-old man..." At reading that, Mo Fan's emotion got the best of him in that moment, and so a couple of tears couldn't help but descent from his eyes, rendering the lecture of the note impossible, and so forcing him to immediately wipe the tears off to continue reading.
Said this, or to better say 'written this', I'd like to ask you something if perhaps I wasn't able to say my last word to either you or to my pineapple, Qing'er, please, Mo Fan, look after her, protect her, and please don't let her get into any problems, you know that her character attracts a lot of them.
"I'll do it, old man, I'll do it..."
Now, coming to more important things, I'd like to tell something really important...
After that, a lot of blank space followed, making Mo Fan immediately scroll his head continuously down out of curiosity, until he found the continuation of the sentence:
You're stupid, hahahahaha!
"You old decrepit shit!!"
Hahahahahahaha, I really love angering you, your funny reaction always fill my heart with joy. Well, then I guess that this will be last time in absolute to personally anger. Goodbye, Mo Fan and, once again, please continue protecting Qing'er. I hope that you'll achieve your dream of touching the stars.
Your father, Luo Bao.
P.S. Spirit Arrays and Artifacts have something in common...
"Father... so you finally recognized me as your son instead of only your heir now, huh? Why did you have to tell me on this note and not while you were still alive? You're making me miss you more in this way..."
"Ugh... well, I think that I've had enough of an emotional moment... now, I should return to do what I was about to do and go... to... the library..." Mo Fan was saying after quickly shutting off his emotion, but immediately he stopped when all of a sudden the last part of the note came to his mind. "Wait! How could I have forgotten that arrays use a runic system to work?! The old man was right to call me a stupid!"
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At the library...
"What?! Forty thousand contribution points just for two fucking books?! Have you gone nuts or is the library perhaps in a crisis?!"
"The last part that you said is not entirely wrong, but well, you see, those are books that if thoroughly read and studied can permit one to even build an array formation, even though of only the Peak Ordinary level at the very most, so I think that this price is even too low for them." Librarian Zhu replied, not even phased a little bit by Mo Fan's angry yellings as he had already learnt how he was: when there was money on the line, the golden-haired kid would show all of his greed and act gentle with a person if this had to give him money, but if this had to instead take points from, his personality would an entire three-sixty and act all angry and stingy with him! The librarian even started to worry that if someone offered money to Mo Fan to kill his family, he would have perhaps even done it!
"Sigh... you and your fucking marketing! I know what you are trying to pull off! You are trying to make me believe you, huh?!"
"No, I think that-" But Mo Fan didn't let the librarian even talk for a second that he immediately began shouting again. "Twenty five thousand points! That's the least I can pay for the two of this books!"
"That's out of the discussion; with that price, the profit that I'll make will be-" And once again, the golden-haired kid interrupted the Book Guardian as soon as he started talking. "Twenty four thousand contribution points! I know just how much this library needs those points of mine to continue on living! You don't want the Head Elder to destroy this place to build a training hall in its stead, do you?"
"But-"
"Twenty three thousand! You better accept or I won't set my foot on this library anymore!"
"Ah, fine, you scoundrel! I'll sell them to you for twenty four thousand contribution points!"
"Hehehehe, I knew that you were smart, librarian Zhu," Mo Fan exclaimed with a smile, immediately handing over the money to the old Book Guardian and then heading for the exit, jumping out of joy during his way to the door. 'Hehehehe, I didn't think that I would have got those two books for so little, Meng Wu Ya asked me for sixty thousand points when I asked him for them!'
"Sigh... this scoundrel's contracting skill seem to improve everyday. At this rate, the next time that he comes to me, he'll end up getting things for free..."
...to be continued
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Remember to check my other work "Uniqueness Emperor" and "Nano Machine: The Player"