"If I told you I was busy, what would've you done?" Hearing the question asked at him, Valyr joked as he let out a chuckle.
"Of course, I would've just forced my way in." In response, the man that entered his workshop laughed as well. "It's not like you can stop from entering parts of the guild that I currently lead over."
"Well… all jokes aside, what brings you to the workshop, Julian?" Returning his attention to the weapon he was forging, Valyr went ahead and asked the man a question. "You told earlier that you had sothing to tell ."
Seeing that the young man looked to be in the middle of forging sothing, Julian softly nodded to himself as he decided to be brief. "Well, aside from checking up on you and taking a look at what you're forging, I just wanted to know if you're prepared for the tournant against the other candidates tomorrow."
"As you can see, I'm as prepared as I could ever be," said Valyr in response, briefly glancing at Julian with a slightly sarcastic smile before returning to the anvil. "Of course, if you want to answer that honestly, then I'd say that there are still so things I wished I could've prepared in advance, but it doesn't really matter much."
"If anything, I'll get to those things after the tournant instead." As these words ca out of Valyr's mouth, the young man thought about upgrading his Nascent Wyvern Armor up another rarity in preparation for his journey into the Four Pillars' Inheritance.
Though it was already considered an Epic grade armor set by the system, which was already plenty strong to many people, Valyr still felt that the strength of the armor set wasn't enough in a way, especially with how he was going to enter an inheritance where he had no idea what lied inside.
Of course, this thought arose after he thought about trying to increase his strength even further before the inheritance began. With how he was not allowed to evolve to Rank 3 and comprehend his own Intent, he instead decided to check out other avenues of increasing his strength, upgrading his equipnt being one of them.
'Now that I think about it, I should go grab so passive stat boosting skills from the Boundless Skill Pavilion before the tournant as well, especially with how much XP I still have.' Thinking about other things he could do after the tournant, Valyr eventually created a checklist he would follow once everything was done.
"So, no more last minute preparations or anything of the sort?" Nodding in response to Valyr's words, Julian asked once more to be certain.
"None at all," replied Valyr.
"Unless… if you consider stocking up on health and mana potions a last minute preparation." Activating [True Prodigious Blacksmith's Sight] and [Hunter's Tracking Eyes] in tandem, the young man then put all of his focus onto the piece he was forging, hoping to iron out as much of the imperfections on the weapon as possible.
Unsurprisingly, with [Hunter's Tracking Eyes] being a massive improvent over [Gambler's Discerning Eyes], the amount of imperfections he could remove through the combination of the two skills was far greater than ever before, allowing him to achieve a greater level of cohesion and harmony amongst the materials.
In fact, because of how Jekyll had trained him to use [Hunter's Tracking Eyes] as a way to look for weak spots and vital spots, similar spots had began to unknowingly appear on the equipnt he was forging, prompting him to focus on those spots as he slowly but surely finished his first weapon of the day.
'Am I really watching a Rank 2 blacksmith forge a weapon?' Noticing the crimson rings surrounding Valyr's irises as he was stunned silent with how quick and efficient the young man was, Julian went ahead and picked up the weapon Valyr had just finished forging.
Schwing!
With the weapon being a simple-looking shortsword, Julian was left at a slight loss for words once he heard the sword make a ringing sound just after moving it slightly. With his expression becoming more and more solemn as the sword continued to ring while moving it around, he eventually used his identification skill to take a look at its properties, only to be left at an even greater loss for words.
Ding!
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[Shortsword of Beginnings] (Level 35)
Rarity: Rare
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Forging Quality: Exceptional
A strong blade forged by a truly prodigious blacksmith using considerably crude materials, this shortsword has been imbued with the strength of the artifact 'Hamr of Beginnings', allowing its properties to be comparable to equipnt forged by blacksmiths renowned for their equipnt quality.
In fact, if one took a long look at it, one would eventually feel like they were returning to the forge, feeling the heat and pressure the sword had to endure to beco the blade it currently was.
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