Making a huge amount of items ca with its own share of problems, the most vital being sourcing the materials needed.
Luckily for Cain, he had Pudding to help out with this.
He space around him folded in on itself and his body warped through to the other side.
He was imdiately greeted with the cool embrace of the salty ocean breeze.
Standing on the shore once again, he waited for a few minutes before the ground beneath his feet rumbled.
Cain took a step back and watched as a giant sinkhole appeared out of nowhere.
A mont later, a collosal abomination the size of a train sprouted out of the ground.
Cain admired Pudding's harrowing beauty with raised brows,
"Well, this is sothing..."
For one, as the giant otherworldly worm grew, it didn't seem to be resembling its predecessor one bit.
The {Athyst Silkworm} has been a titanic creature, with hard chitin that covered up the bulbous flesh underneath. It also had other terrifying features Cain didn't feel like recalling.
However, its most distinct properties were its aty legs, horns, and wide mouth that spanned the entirety of its face.
In other words, according to logic, it had lacked any optical organs as far as he could tell.
'Then why...'
Staring at what looked to be an eye growing right in the center of Pudding's head, Cain felt remarkably uneasy.
The eye looked like a regular eye, if one was willing to dismiss the thick red veins attaching it to the creature's face.
Other than that, there were a few changes from the original design. The aty legs were replaced with sothing more insect-like. They were still thick, but a bit more chitinous in composition.
Then, there were the horns.
Unlike the original's unremarkable horns, Pudding's horns were like trees of a vibrant athyst gem jutting out of her head, stretching across the creature's back, all the way to its tail end.
It was beautiful.
But it was also scary.
Cain shivered,
"Could it be the difference in diet?"
Pudding opened her mouth and let out a strange sound, as though to greet her master.
Cain patted the creature's side.
He ntally communicated with it.
He frowned. Communicating with the worm was a bit more difficult compared to his communication with Ruby and the Dark Diver.
Still, he didn't mind.
The eye on Pudding's head stared at him for a few monts.
Then its mouth opened.
Its body wriggled and twitched, causing Cain to feel queasy in his stomach.
After a mont, Pudding began spitting out tones of tallic ore she had excavated from the depths of the ground.
The {Athyst Silkworm} was a rather special creation.
A special acid in its mouth could break down useless rock, allowing the tal to enter its stomach.
In its stomach, so of the tal it consud would be absorbed by the creature to be used for its sustenance and growth, while the rest would form large individual tal sedints.
It could then chose to either digest these sedints slowly over a long period of ti, or in this case, give them to him.
Cain stared at a huge lump of glistening tal bigger than he was with a grin.
The {Eye of General Observation} ca into action.
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{Castille Steel}:
Description: Born from a subtle radiance produced in the depths of the earth. Incredible strength and resilience, as well as the property to withstand corrosion and extre temperatures without damage.
***
Cain nodded. It was a rare material, but it wasn't anything too special. There was probably an abundance of it under their feet.
Not only that, but its properties were perfect for weapon making.
However, that was not all...
***
{Crystal Flint}:
Description: A near unbreakable rock gem with an affinity to flas, capable of producing fire without the need for combustion.
***
Besides tallic ore, Pudding also has a tendency to dig out rather exciting gemstones from ti to ti.
There were many others like this amongst the pile, but only a few stood out.
Since they didn't have the ti, Cain reasoned he couldn't afford to dabble with variety.
He sent a peculiar string of instructions with his thoughts to Pudding.
There was a mont of silence between the two as sparks of thought flew from man to beast and back.
Once he received confirmation on its understanding, Cain wiped the sweat of his brows and sighed in relief.
He gently parted the beast's side, to which it let out a rather cute squeal too.
Then, it dove back into the ground, covering the sinkhole back up with the dirt and broken surface rock it had upturned.
Cain smiled.
His request was for it to abandon its random digestion and focus on the particular tals and gemstones he had requested.
He didn't need anything that was super impressive or rare. What he needed were good ores that were of decent quality and could be found rather abundantly.
With that, he would have the materials to craft a thousand weapons in no ti.
'In the anti...'
He gathered up the tals and chunks of gemstone Pudding had dropped for him and placed them into his inventory all at once.
Then the space around him distorted and his body disappeared...
Reappearing a mont later in his cabin on Gwendolyn.
He took only a mont to relax, before he headed straight to the {Draconic Blast Furnace}.
The mont he stepped in, he was greeted with the sound of loud clangs from all the other craftsn working in the forge.
This was one of the secret weapons he would be employing in his quest to make so many weapons in such a short ti.
The noises stopped the mont they noticed he had entered the forge.
Their eyes locked onto him, excitent burning in them.
Haru quickly ran up to him,
"Boss! We are very prepared! We have readied our minds and bodies, sharpened our skills, cleaned out tools! All for this mont!"
A little overwheld by the enthusiasm of Haru and the rest, Cain couldn't help but chuckle,
"Alright, that's enough."
Then he cleared his throat,
"I won't say much. I need all the help I can get."
He paused for a mont,
"Not just swords, but spears, guns, and even bows. We will also be making a ton of ammunition. In other words, there will be no sleep, and as little rest as required this week. Do I make myself clear?!" Find your next read at empire
"Yess, Boss!" They all yelled in response.
Blushing a little, Cain cleared his throat again.
Then he emptied his inventory of the tals and gemstones,
"We have a lot in store when it cos to variety and quality, but what we need now is quantity. We'll create a chain that..."
As he explained the way he wanted things to go, Cain couldn't help but think to himself,
'Don't I sound like very cool right now?'
It felt a bit awkward. But it was sothing he couldn't avoid.
It was a privilege and a burden, both of which he had earned.
His knowledge and expertise was sothing he had worked very hard to build up. It was true treasure. Sothing he would lose only if his mind was tampered with by so abominable Eldritch nightmare that could feed on brains.
Once he was done briefing them, their work began in earnest.
Slting down a large amount of tal could take a lot of ti, so they quickly got ready.
In the anti, Cain got to work translating and reading through the pages of the {Record of Akasha XXX}.
He was working on another chapter of the book, this ti, reading as he translated the work.
He was so engrossed in the pages, he was barely able to track down the passage of ti as he flipped through, his brows furrowed.
Finally, what seed like a re minute, Haru called out to him.
The forge was extrely hot thanks to the flas spouting out of the dragon maws.
Although he was sowhat resistant to flas, even Cain had his clothes drenched in sweat after staying in there for so long.
"Boss, it's ready." Haru said, his expression serious.
Cain nodded,
"Then the real work begins here."
He closed the book and threw it into his inventory.
Then, he calmly threw off his short to reveal his chiseled body glistening with sweat.
Light shimred between his fingertips as he retrieved the {Burden of Xicina} from his inventory as well.
Under the light of the flas in the forge, the hamr glowed with mystery, one that was obvious to see.
"Prepare the crucibles! Get to work!" Cain barked out.
Like a well oiled machine, they began executing his orders.
Soon, Cain found himself staring down at a crucible filled with red hot glowing tal.
He gripped his hamr harder and his eyes shone with marvelous light.
The hidden aspects of the tal that even the system didn't point out were revealed to him.
He waited for the tal to cool a bit before pouring it out into a sword shaped mold.
Perfecting the shape a bit with the {Divine Essence of tallurgy}, he raised the hamr over his head...
A split second later he let it fall.
BANG!
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