[Craft (Forging) +1]
Slightly glancing at the prompt that had just flashed by, Luna placed the longsword in her hand, which had just been fitted with a hilt, alongside the other seven swords.
After becoming an official assistant, Habasher Delin was finally interested in listening to him talk, but of course, it was limited to 20 words or less. So Luna picked up her hammer and clanked three longswords together, then picked one and handed it to Habasher Drinn, telling him seven words, "This is what I'm good at". Then Luna changed her job from potions assistant to forge assistant. At that time, Luna's forging skill was level 14, and she could create qualified military weapons and occasionally excellent quality weapons.
Long Sword (Excellent Quality): usually includes swords with open blades on both sides, combat swords, or military swords. Sometimes a longsword may only have one side open. There is no standardized specification for what is called a longsword, and its form varies by culture or region. The most common characteristic of a longsword is its length, which usually ranges from thirty-five to forty-seven inches in length, with the blade in the latter case usually taking up nearly forty inches. Most long swords are open on both sides and have a sharp tip. Still, such swords were suitable for swinging rather than stabbing.
Stats:
Damage Power: 1D8+1
Damage Type: swinging slash
Weight: 4 pounds
Weapon type: longsword
Type: one-handed use]
An excellent quality longsword is, statistically, nothing more than a slight increase in damage over a normal longsword. In essence, both the sharpness, toughness, and balance are a cut above a normal longsword. Such a sword was easier to use, consumed less power, lasted longer, and was sharper. It was the first choice of those mercenaries who couldn't afford magic weapons, and if they got a high-quality weapon, they would cherish it as a family heirloom.
After saving up enough money, many mercenaries would choose to enchant the weapons they had at hand and strengthen them into magical weapons.
What Luna handed over to Habasher Delin at that time was such a longsword, and after a very good enchantment and decoration, such a weapon could be sold for hundreds of times its price. For a long time after that, he spent most of his time in the blacksmith's room, smithing iron, except for late night hours when he went to study in Archmage Harbathur Delin's library. In half a year's time, after melding some of the knowledge he had gained in his previous life, his forging craft was continuously upgraded by three levels.After building countless daggers, short swords, thin swords, long swords, hand-and-a-half swords, and two-handed giant swords, he finally built a fine quality longsword. Such a longsword could even be comparable to a +1 magic weapon statistically, and in terms of overall quality, a +1 magic weapon was even farther behind. In magic weapons, there are often those mages who create "freaks", powerful but difficult to use abound, and it is not surprising that they hurt themselves.
Creating a fine quality weapon also raised his forging craft to the level of 17, and now he can create some exotic weapons such as katanas, scythes, and so on, with a low success rate, and can carry out the crafting of metal armor, which is a small leap forward. For building weapons, he had basically come to the relative end of his exercise, and it would be hard to progress. So Luna was going to move on to crafting armor.
Weapons could be categorized into five grades: rough (quality decreases), common (stats remain the same), excellent (damage increases), refined (damage and hit increases), and superior (extremely handy). Basically, the Excellent is the highest quality for general purpose weapons, and the Superior quality only applies to specialized weapons that have been designed based on hand size, weight, strength, and habits, among other things. Such a weapon can be extremely powerful in the hands of the person for whom it is intended. Another avenue for upgrading a weapon is to use better materials, like black steel, secret silver, fine gold, and alloys that Luna knows of, etc., none of which Luna is equipped for.
After getting away from working with health-damaging alchemical potions, he felt noticeably healthier. There was also weapon enchanting, but that was something only a full-fledged mage could do. "Weapon Enchantment" required a 1st or 2nd level mage who had mastered 1st ring spells, while 3rd ring spells such as 'High Weapon Enchantment' and 'Sharp Edge Technique' required a mage of the 5th level or above, which had nothing to do with a small magical apprentice like him. This had nothing to do with a small magic apprentice like him. All he had to do was to make a large number of excellent quality weapons and laugh at those mages who aged prematurely due to enchantments.
In any case, the opportunity to enter the library and study every day was the most precious.
He wouldn't forget what was most important.
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"Check this out, surprise guaranteed!" Nicolas carefully took out a large cloth bag and set it on the table. This is Luna's attic, since Luna is no longer living here, this place has become a black spot for Luna and Nicklas to trade, sometimes his sister "Black Lily" will also show up.Luna builds weapons, the price in the black market is several times the normal price, and it is hard to find a ticket.
After Luna analyzed the formula of the King of Thieves potion, their business grew bigger and bigger. As a result Luna would also buy some precious items through them, things that could never be accessed from normal channels. For example, the dark green hard leather that Nicholas unfolded in front of him, the neck skin of a winged serpent dragon. This magical sub-dragon was eight feet long from head to tail, the product of a cross between a dragon and a serpent man. It could spit poisonous gas like a dragon, and its degraded wings allowed it to glide briefly; it also possessed the ability to cast several of the class spells. Of course, its main fighting style was still physical combat. Although this kind of sub-dragon didn't have a high challenge level, encountering hordes of Winged Serpent Dragons would definitely be a big disaster.
"Winged Serpent Dragon!" Luna looked at the well-preserved leather and exclaimed with surprise.
"Yeah, as far as I know, that's a big guy that's almost 20 feet! A whole team of people died for it, and it cost me a fortune to get it for you." Niklas unsurprisingly took every opportunity to raise the price.
"Come on, Nicolas. This one is nice, but it's a little eight-footer. If we encounter a giant winged serpent dragon that's almost 20 feet, I guarantee no one will come back alive, and it would be better to go kill it than to just go slay a dragon. Now let's talk about the price."
After some exchanges, Luna bought the four-foot-square piece of sub-dragon skin for 2,000 gold coins per foot. Nicolas rolled up most of Luna's belongings and left with a flourish, and Luna returned to the lab and began to test the leather's properties with various reagents. There was definitely something wrong with where this piece of leather came from, Nicolas didn't know how he got it, and it was certain that it was bound to have nothing to do with the hunting process. So he only knew the general situation but overlooked the essentials.Luna's ability to discern materials was greatly strengthened after her Forge Craft level 12. He, who felt something was wrong at that time, directly hid the anomaly.
After analyzing it again with magic reagents, he finally determined that it was the neck leather of a cherished subspecies in the Pterodactyls, the Spirit Energy Pterodactyls, and that magical items made from this kind of leather would be accompanied by certain very rare effects.
Luna soaked the leather in the alchemical solution for a full week before the layers of the leather separated completely. After removing the dark green horny layer, the layers of leather underneath were revealed to be as smooth and white as silk, as thin as a cicada's wing, divided into a dozen or so layers of white translucent leather of the same size. After drying and nitrating, it turned into pure white cotton like paper, but harder than the face, the material is very tough, ordinary strength can't tear it open at all.Luna cut it into one-foot-square paper, a total of two hundred and thirty-three pages.
Made from multiple layers of heavy pterodactyl neck skin cuticle in one, studded with brass rivets to make a thick, hard book cover with a leather spine that tied around her waist. The dark green cover was inlaid with scales in the shape of a snake's head, and the snake's eyes were two tiny emerald green gems. After binding the pages, he asked Harbinger Delin to cast the spell "Spellbook Crafting". The level of this spell was not high, but the level of the caster determined the final effect of the spell.
Even Habasher Delin was impressed with the spellbook he created.
After returning to his laboratory and using his treasured "Appraisal" scroll to appraise it, the spellbook began to grow deeper and darker, looking somewhat sinister.
Serpent of Darkness: Luna's Spellbook
A spellbook crafted by Luna from the neck leather of a psychic pterodactyl dragon. Archmage Habasher Delin cast a spell to fully energize the book's abilities. The book totals two hundred and thirty-three pages, and it has an average ability to document.
Special Abilities:
Toughness: this book is nearly as tough as an iron shield.
Magic Nourishment: The leather of magical creatures can automatically absorb free magic, this book can effectively preserve magic scrolls. This book can effectively preserve magic scrolls, and allows you to cast "Darkness" once per day.
Resistance Enhancement: The wearer has a 30% chance of being immune to Poisoning, and is immune to the immobilizing effects of Human Fixation and Arachnoid Web].
Luna straps the Serpent of Darkness to her belt and walks a few steps, then takes it off and straps it to her left upper arm and makes a few blocking motions. This book is so hard that it can be used as an arm shield, it's really a strange magic book. Luckily, the attributes were all very powerful, especially the immunity to immobilization, which could be used as a surprise in battle.
With the spell book, Luna could finally start transcribing the spells recorded in the library. Spells with less than three rings were not difficult to obtain in the Baldur's Gate region, and even war spells such as "Fireball" were popular because they were too versatile. Therefore, in the library of Archmage Habasher Delin, Luna quickly collected all the general spells below the third ring, and also found a scroll of the fourth ring spell "Roar" that had lost nearly half of its magic power in an old book. He carefully put the roar spell into the spell book and nourished it with the magic of the book, hoping to transcribe or use it one day.