NABC Chapter 713 Hawk's Forge
Chapter 713 Hawk's Forge
chapter 713 hawk's forge
at the mention of filling a set amount of progress, forgemaster granite began to laugh.
"so, it works like blacksmith or weaponsmith does as a system skill. you need a thousand points of progress to reach journeyman. not every creation will give you an advancement, but sometimes when you learn more than expected it will give you more than one point.
now, it's all up to talent and time. if they're starting as apprentices, it might be a year or more before they're journeymen, and a decade before they are getting close to being called real rune masters.
but lucky for us, the system will give them new bursts of knowledge when they advance."
that was the one saving grace for the new crafters of all sorts. if the system wasn't giving them knowledge, the entire craft that they had gotten a skill for might remain lost to time.
before the apprentices could head to their stations, hawk came out to stand on top of the armoured glass enclosure of the clean room, startling everyone with his massive and majestic presence.
"what's up hawk? decided to say hello to everyone?" karl asked.
[they don't know fire well enough.]
that explained it.
"my friend hawk says that he's willing to help enlighten the smithy on the wonders that can come from fire magic." karl explained, as hawk began to draw mana into his body.
the fires of the forge began to flicker, then turn faintly blue as runes appeared on the walls above the forge pits.
"what is he doing?" granite gasped as he read what was appearing on the walls.
the only issue was that life steal was ugly.
not the runes for the ability. it was one of what the runemaster's book had called the third path, unlinked runes. so, unlike the rest of the weapon, it was just a cluster of runes with no coherence or intricate patterning.
[why not carve it into a gemstone, then put the stone in the axe? you can hide all the ugly that way.] remi suggested.
oh, that was a wonderful idea. if he just added a few more sets of runes to link a gem setting to the rest of the inscription, it would be perfect.
he just needed to warn the forgemaster.
"master granite. please put a setting for a half-fist sized gem in the blade. i will need to set an enhanced stone to create one of the effects." karl warned.
"understood, monarch. i know just how."
karl thought about his pattern for a second. "make that two gemstones, if possible."
if he put life leech on one side and brutality on the other side, it would balance out the design, and an overlord would get a seventy percent strength and size increase from the second buff.
utterly terrifying.
hawk dropped a few stones out of his space, and karl showed them to granite before he started the carving.
that part only took a few minutes a stone, as he wasn't trying to recreate the whole spell, only describe the effect well enough that it would merge with the rest of the runes on the weapon.
"runemaster, the axe is ready." granite declared, half an hour after he had started to forge the axe.
it glowed faintly blue, the same colour as hawk's flames, and there was a stone setting on either side, where he had embedded the two stones, ready for karl's handiwork. already, it would have three spell effects on it, from the forge and the stones. but they were just getting started.