Seth sat in Master Tored's workshop. The dwarf stood before him with a blackboard and piece of chalk. Seth looks questioningly at the motivated dwarf.
"Since your training officially starts today; we will do it right. Since you never had a formal education as an ori huma, I will start from the basics," he said and wrote down 7 words.
"As you probably already know, or not, the system knows 7 ratings:
Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic, Legendary, Myth, and the outlier Unique.
You will find these in every aspect of the system. What do you think they rate? Strength? Rarity? Those are only partly true. What they rank are the requirents. My grandfather taught that before the system descended materials had specific requirents that a blacksmith had to fulfill to be able to work with them.
Take for example. A tal so thoroughly soaked in darkness; does it make sense that you can simply forge it? During my grandfather's ti, a blacksmith who wanted to work with it needed a high resistance against darkness. A high affinity with the earth was needed to work with mithril.
Constraints like these were common and limited the number of materials the different races and individuals were able to use. When the system ca, they were categorized into the 7 ranks and now you only have to reach the skill level corresponding to the rank of the material. I′m starting with this, since you asked about the reason as to why you were unable to use , when you were an apprentice. This is the reason." Tored made a short break.
"But classes and items are also ranked in the 7 ranks, this explanation doesn't make as much sense with those..."
"It doesn′t? A class is ranked by the requirent you need to fulfill to attain it. The strength simply coincides with the difficulty of conditions that need to be t. The only exception is "Unique", as this truly just ans one of a kind. Items are usually ranked by the skills a crafter needs to make the item. But take what I say with a grain of salt. The system is no dead and rigid automaton, otherwise there would not be sothing as ambiguous as the unique ranks."
Seth nodded. He had experience with the system being quite flexible at tis. From there Tored went off on a tangent about his grandfather who was given a unique class as an ori dwarf and how back then all the dwarven masters had to grind their classes because the system made them start from beginner and lv.1!
It followed a short history lesson of this continent and the structure of dwarven governnt. The dwarfs were organized in many small kingdoms with a dwarven high-king or emperor at the peak. Seth did not really understand why he needed to know this, until Tored started to explain their work from now on.
"I am telling you, so you won′t embarrass later. We, the dwarfs of Ora, are officially tasked with supplying the imperial army with equipnt. This ans you will also take part in this order. Let′s get to work!"
"Wait! That's it? I thought you would give basic education or whatever...?"
"I think this is enough? I will teach you about the rest while doing it. It′s a lot better to spend ti working and learning instead of wasting it will talk." the dwarf said dismissively.
This was how Seth′s work under Master Tored started. And as the dwarf said, he explained as they went along with it. The first thing he did was to bring show him several ingots of a material Seth had not seen before.
"This is the tal that will make any demon worshipper pee his pants and make vampires cry for their maker.
The enemy in the north were the people responsible for that horrible curse and the allies of demons. Items made from this tal would be a devastating advantage.
"Unfortunately, we only have these few bars."
"What?!"
Even the dwarven empire that spread far and wide through the underground of the central mountain range, only knew a few mines where could be found. As expected from a material that crystallized from the shed blood of a holy being. To further save ti, the Ora received was split among the craftsn and masters to increase manufacturing speed.
"Is it really ok, to only use rare material to arm an army on such an important-" he bit his tongue as he got a slap to the back of his head.
"Did you just turn off your brain or sothing? I thought I just told you, that the rating is not always a solid indicator for strength. What do you think would be better in this situation than the blood of a holy being? Do you want us to get the blood of god to deal with a bunch of necromancers? Not to forget, arm a whole army with it?!"
"I-I′m sorry...?"
"Yes, you should be! Disrespecting such a precious tal like that." the dwarf rebuked him seriously.
Then he explained to Seth the plan. The craftsn were tasked with making the armors, the masters were going to make the weapons. They would make spear tips from , a tal refined from with a high affinity to any magic and able to retain different traits.
These spear tips could be blessed by a priest and would be able to retain this power for longer than most other tals, while channeling a user′s magic at the sa ti. So, all skills or magic used with these weapons would also retain a slight holy attribute.
In addition, similar to how Seth used as inlays for Mike's sword, they would use the to make inlays at the tip of the spear's blade. Just getting in touch with this tal would work on undead and demons like the sun on a vampire. Or so Tored told Seth.
"You will take care of the inlays. Here, take this." the dwarf said and handed him a small scroll of paper. Seth instantly knew what it was, an Enchantnt Scroll. The first ti he had heard about this, Seth had thought these were random scrolls that would put a random enchantnt on a weapon. Things like this existed as dungeon loot.
But in reality, these were scrolls created by enchantnt masters and were similar to skill books or scrolls and instantly taught the user a specific enchantnt, if they possessed the corresponding skill. Seth had seen a few of them, but he never used one. Their price was astronomical. It was cheaper to simply buy a weapon and sacrifice it to the skill, to learn the enchantnt.
A master like Tored giving it to a disciple was the only way to get them for cheap. These scrolls took an ungodly amount of mana and ti to create, hence their price.
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