As Victor headed toward the crafting room, he could see more than half of the players anxiously huddled together, waiting for soone to reach Level 20.
Snap.
Everyone’s head turned in his direction, and a look of fear appeared in their eyes as they rembered how casually he had killed a person.
Victor paid them no attention and kept walking.
After walking for a few minutes, he reached the production area where the crafting rooms were located. He could already see a few NPCs there crafting swords, armor, and guns for the Black Church.
He walked past them and headed toward one of the private rooms, which could only be accessed by paying a premium.
The other craftsn paused their work montarily and raised their eyebrows when they saw Victor entering the room.
It was common knowledge that most craftsn were weaker in terms of combat and relied solely on their creations to fight, or, as most did, commissioned others who were adept at fighting to gather materials for them. The Black Church followed a similar pattern. Even those in large guilds were assigned powerful mbers for their protection.
Unlike Victor, who could increase all of his stats without concern, the others involved in production work allocated most of their stat points to Dexterity, Intelligence, and Mana, which were essential for improving their skills and crafting higher-rank items. So naturally, they were weak in combat.
"At least it’s worth the price," Victor mumbled as his eyes swept across the entire room.
The room was filled with high-tech equipnt for creating modern weapons, along with a large smithy to forge magic-based weapons like swords and spears.
There were more than enough materials to create hundreds of weapons, all provided by the managent after paynt. Soone might ask why—were they generous? No, that was not the case, because when crafting items, the success rate was only 30%, and usually 70% of the materials were wasted.
"Ti to get to work," Victor mumbled as he took out the two blueprints. As he willed it, the two blueprints vanished into thin air, and two notifications instantly appeared on his retina.
[You have learned the crafting thod of ’Basic Sword’]
[You have learned the crafting thod of ’Handgun’]
A torrent of information rushed into his brain, causing him to blank out for a mont before regaining his composure.
"Sigh, blueprints are really the easiest way to acquire crafting knowledge," Victor muttered.
Blueprints allowed one to instantly learn the crafting thod of an item; otherwise, the only way to learn was manually, which took considerable ti and effort.
The grades differed according to the rank of the items the blueprint represented. The two blueprints he had just used were of the lowest grade.
Victor then grabbed the required materials and walked toward the large crafting table.
One minute later...
[You have crafted a Handgun]
[You have crafted a Basic Sword]
[You have received 30 experience points]
[You have received 35 experience points]
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Item: Basis Sword
Rank: Common
Attack: 2
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Item: Handgun
Rank: Common
Attack: 3
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After few failures Victor finally managed to craft the two items. Then another notification popped on his retina.
[Ding Dong]
[You have coptled the Quest : Magic chanic]
[You have received the skill Creation Tab]
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Magic chanic (SS Rank)
The only bloodline which allows to create weapons by combining technology with magic
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Creation Tab
Rank: SS
Description: Allows the user to combine blueprints of tech based and magic weapon and create a new kind of weapon. Requires experience points to create new wepaons or upgrade existing ones.
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Hiss
Victor sucked in a deep breath as he read the description of the new bloodline he had obtained, and for a mont his jaw hung loose.
"Holy shit... though I suspected it, I never thought I would actually get this... aren’t humans not supposed to possess this bloodline?" Victor scread internally. From what he knew, no human possessed such a bloodline, and humans had to purchase these kinds of weapons from other races. These weapons were among the most powerful and rarest in existence.
The shock was not over as another row of text appeared on his retina
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[You have received ’The ch Shop’]
Victor’s eyes shrank to the size of pinpricks when he read the text and rubbed them in disbelief. If Magitech was superior to ordinary magical or technology-based weapons, then chs were the pinnacle of Magitech. In fact, most powerful civilizations used these kinds of weapons even for their cannon fodder.
Victor took a deep breath and opened the shop, and his eyes glead as he saw rows of ch blueprints available for purchase. He even saw chs that had never existed before, which could easily annihilate the top-tier ch armies used by the elites of many civilizations.
"Let’s see which one I can use to imdiately equip my soldiers with after I return," Victor mumbled as he browsed through the shop, his lips twitching when he saw that all of them cost millions and even billions of EXP points. He stopped when he finally found one.
------[ch shop]
Long Sword Knight ch Blueprint
Unlock Cost: 25,000 exp points
Rank: Common
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Don’t look down on its rank. Even though it’s common, it could easily rival soldiers equipped with items one or two ranks above it. That’s how broken chs are.
Another thing about chs is that they allow non-Warlocks to use their own skills through the ch. For example, the Long Sword Knight ch allows a Knight to use his original sword-related skills while operating the ch, and the ch enhances those skills.
"Sigh, the items needed to create them and equip them to soldiers... would completely drain the wallet," Victor mumbled, then smirked. "But I have a 100% drop rate."
"Let’s keep grinding; there’s still one week left until the opportunity to escape presents itself," Victor muttered.
One week later.
Victor looked at his new stats in satisfaction, as his chances of escape had increased drastically.
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Na: Victor Silvernum
Race: Human
Bloodline: Origin Bloodline (SSS Rank)
Class: Warlock
Tier: 0
Exp Stored: 0
Free Stats Points: 0
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Level: 19 (0/1100)
HP: 2090/2090
Mana: 2140/2140
Vitality: 19 ( 190)
Attack: 19 ( 190)
Defense: 1 ( 190)
Agility: 19 ( 190)
Mana: 24 ( 190)
Intelligence: 1 ( 190)
Dexterity: 1 ( 190)
Skills ( Expand)
Bloodline ( Expand)
Inventory (Expand)
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Bloodline:
Origin Bloodline (SSS Rank) Ch-2
Purgatory Bloodline (SS Rank): A bloodline unique to you, which is at least twice as strong as a normal Lightning Warlock Bloodline, and due to its power, the appearance of the lightning has turned pitch black.
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Skills:
Purgatory Lightning Bullet
- Rank: E
- Level 1 ( 0/1000)
Damage: 100
- Mana used: 40
- Requirents: Intelligence 60
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Victor looked at his new stats and skills, which he had upgraded by accumulating experience points through grinding monsters and crafting items.
Knock. Knock.
Victor frowned, walked away from his workbench, and opened the door, only to see a grunt from the Black Church looking at him.
"All recruits are to gather at the training grounds. The Captain has summoned all of you." Without giving Victor any chance to respond, the grunt moved on to the next recruit and repeated the sa ssage.
"Huff... about ti." Victor took a deep breath to calm his nerves as the day had finally arrived.
A few minutes later, Victor arrived at the training grounds, which were packed with players. He quietly stood in a corner of the area.
Victor could see that the players here were much different from before. They had all shed their naivety, and he could see the wariness in their eyes as they looked at one another. Victor also noticed that many of their ntal states had deteriorated, with traces of madness beginning to surface.
Step. Step.
Everyone’s pupils constricted when they felt an overwhelming aura approaching along with the sound of footsteps, and a middle-aged man arrived before them.
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