It was okay to call Seth slow, but he would also argue that the solution was also abstruse when he thought about her reactions and what she said, and what he knew and could do. It was hard to believe sobody would do that.
"You can't an that he split off parts of his soul and used those on these items?" he threw out the easiest but most unnatural solution. Sivri didn't say anything, but her intricately crafted face betrayed her silence. Her reaction confird his suspicion.
It wasn't like the blacksmith didn't have the sa thought. For one, he was able to infuse souls to strengthen them, why wouldn't he be able to fuse foreign souls into his own to power up? It was a similar concept to how Cromwel's immortals absorbed souls to grow. However, he saw the sa problems with that as when he fused souls.
The remnants of old mories and information would mix up and muddy his soul. It may not have been a problem for a soul cluster with a hivemind but for a normal person? Seth couldn't see any outco but going crazy.
Was this why Frogebrand created the Soul Refinery? But even then ssing with a living soul, especially his very own seed utterly dangerous and with unknown consequences. So much so that it was a taboo in Seth's mind. He never dared to actually think about doing it.
However, if Forgebrand was able to identify and split off parts of his soul that held so of his skills and knowledge, it could explain sothing like the Golem Forge, Cerberus, or the Soul Refinery. But splitting off parts of his soul ant serious harm, even if souls were prone to heal. Maybe he didn't need pure souls to strengthen himself, but to heal the parts he separated?
He stared at Cerberus, the Golem Forge, the Soul Refinery, and Sivri for a mont, concentrating on and the ability to detect souls.
"But you aren't part of his soul, right?" he singled her out since she had a different aura than the other crafting stations. Forgebrand had split off part of his own soul for most or maybe all the crafting stations and Cerberus, but not Sivri.
"Please..." she asked him sadly. He didn't know whether she ant not to ask further about Forgebrand, or not to experint with his own soul. He just barely. managed to reign in his curiosity.
"Either way, let's drop this topic here. I won't ask you further about Forgebrand and I have no intention to doctor with my own soul. You could at least tell about this skill? How can I level the ?"
Since Seth couldn't hope to gain enough skill points to level it further, he thought it would be the easiest to ask Sivri, how the skill worked and how he could gain proficiency in it.
"What do you an? I should be the last component you were missing," the golem asked surprised.
"But my status says it's level 9. Don't skills usually develop when they reach lv.10 or beco lv. Max? There should still be a level left to achieve," Seth insisted.
"Hmm, let check," she closed her eyes, jumping at the chance to get further away from the previous topic.
"I see, this is the system's arrangents. A successor isn't supposed to only inherit the skills of their predecessor, but develop them further. Try concentrating on the skill, it should have changed a little with lv.9."
Seth was a little confused by what she said, but he followed her suggestion and concentrated on the skill. In his mind, he could feel the different crafting stations belonging to the workshop. He instinctively knew their information and could grasp the power to summon them and call them back. As he was sinking deeper into the skill, he really noticed sothing he had overlooked while using the skill casually.
"Are you telling , to level the I have to add more crafting stations myself?" Seth asked flabbergasted.
"That is correct. As the successor, it seems like the system wishes for you to further add to the skill. You should have been able to do this from the beginning, but it seems to have only unlocked after you got ." the dwarf bot explained.
Seth may have sounded displeased when he called out, but he was actually exhilarated. He had often thought how cool it would be if he could add more to the , such as his etching table with the self of all the acids he had bought and Alison developed.
There was only one problem. To integrate a crafting station into the skill he needed to use a special thod to create it, using . He couldn't just throw anything at it, that would take a lot of ti. Ti he didn't feel like spending in their current situation. As much as he wanted to follow this distraction, he had more pressing matters.
"You have the sa level of skill as when it cos to jewelry, right? Here, take these and show what you can do," he suddenly said and imdiately shoved so of his work on Sivri.
What the blacksmith handed her were the Sun Bead he had gotten from Solar Solace and a small bar of legendary . As much as he would have liked to make sothing like a staff for Lynri, his legendary was almost depleted.
Since Sivri had suddenly appeared before him, he thought that it wouldn't hurt to let her make an accessory with the bead and a small part of the leftover silver. This way he could save ti and see what the dwarf automaton was capable of.
"I can largely copy your skills, but I have no way to imitate your demonic forging ballads. Would you mind if I use traditional songs and enchantnts?" she asked confidently.
"You can sing?" Seth asked surprised.
Forging Ballads was sothing Cerberus had been unable to truly copy since the golem had no voice. But Sivri's question ant more. She was not restricted to copying his skills, but she possessed her individual wealth of knowledge and experience, independently from him.
"I have a voice and I can sing, yes. However, I'm restricted to Journeyman lv.9," she answered quickly.
"Then go for it, show the best you can do with these two." "Alright!" motivated the dwarf took the two materials and sat down at his jeweler station.
Seth on the other hand moved to dismantling the crude club he got from the dragon newt in exchange for its life. As much faith as he put into the Armor of Lunacy, the best way to increase their power quickly, was legendary items.
Which was why he also started working on new equipnt for his people. It didn't take too much work before he finally held the legendary component in his hands.
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