Well they thought they would have to fight tooth and nail to get what they wanted but to everyone's surprise the party had gained an amazing deal.
"It would be incredibly rude not to accept that offer, no matter how prepared I was to give you hell in a battle of words to get what we need," Walker responded with a firm laugh. "To be fair we will also be staying here to assist where we can if you don't mind? Unless you are all unable to begin working at this point in ti?" Walker had closed the deal and even offered assistance however the smiths didn't know that it was also part of the party's quest as well.
"Yes please I'll take the help, the more the rrier I'll be making the needles and enhancing those knuckles I'll need two scales, one person to catch the trimmings I'll use for the needles, and the owner of the knuckles so I get the shape right," Rodney spoke up quickly, eager to get back to work and be down working the front.
With a nod, Gil and Rey began moving towards the door "hurry up kid my knuckles are itching for an upgrade so I can teach the kids a few morals back ho." Rey looked like morels may an fights but nobody dared say it out loud. With that, they could hear Rodney speaking way too fast all the way down the hall.
"From your gear I take it you will be using the shield?" Sherman asked Su directly
"Yes, that would be ".
"Good then follow Brutus and bring four of the scales, your shield will take the most due to its defensive needs. Lastly, I'll be taking two scales and a darkness crystal for the staff. We will remain here since this room is open." After that Brutus let out a Hmpff and turned around while Su quickly grabbed the scales from Walker and followed.
Walker brought out the crystal and last scales along with five gold for Sherman. "Everything looked to be in order, now that the crystal will be last, first we need to heat and shape those scales with so real tal. Using my combined skill they will fuse and share properties aning I'll be able to pour and shape your staff then attach the crystal and begin Attunent." Sherman laid out his plan after taking the gold and moved toward a dium sized pot that had been scorched black by years of use. "Bring those scales and drop em in I'm adding the iron and so copper, maybe so extra carbon...or so...this too.." Sherman began adding small things to the pot mumbling to himself as Walker dropped the scales in to it as well.
Sherman continued moving around until "let's add just a little of this, and slide it right into that Forge fire we'll see how long it takes to lt down but while we wait how about you tell what you were looking for in the staff?".
"Well, my party lacks magical damage so I will be filling that role. So I will need mana, and magic attack improvent. I chose the darkness crystal to add an elent to the staff instead of a non elental staff if that is alright?" Walker knew mana would be a problem but was rembering that having elental attacks could be incredibly useful.
There were basic elents such as fire, water, earth, and air. So rare combination elents like ice, magma, lightning. He also knew of darkness and light elents. So rumors existed that there were, even more, extending all the way to space and ti but the rarity was so high that they were most likely just myths.
"Good good all of those are doable and I can even promise to add the dark elent to the staff without issue. Since your party seems to be young I would be willing to buy any additional darkness crystals from you. They tend to be more rare than the basic ones and I know a client who has been looking for one." Sherman confird but also surprised Walker by asking to buy a darkness crystal. Walker knew that the rarer the crystals the more expensive since he had heard of the basic elental crystals selling for 80G as materials but he had no idea what darkness or its counterpart light crystals would sell for.
" I do have an extra and would be willing to sell it at market price." Walker pulled out the second darkness crystal and offered it to Sherman who smiled and reached for a pouch on his waist.
"120G is the current value due to its rarity in the area as of late. Here it is, I'm sure you'll cross paths with my client at so point as their darkness affinity is obvious in their gear and skills."
Midnight who had been resting silently was perplexed by the exchange for gold but suddenly stood up and returned to Walker side ""black food" was what walker felt coming from her. Pulling out the final crystal walker thought towards her "you want this to eat?"" Without a second of pause, Midnight snatched the crystal and swallowed it whole. This surprised both Sherman and Walker who witnessed a slight shimr in her scales before midnight returned to her warm resting place to nap.
"Well I'd like to say it's strange but if that little dragon had black crystals her elent may be darkness. I guess you gave her a pretty nice treat." Sherman laughed as he returned to the forge brandishing thick leather gloves giving the pit a shake. "Move that mold toward it's ti to pour!"
Without hesitation walker looked over at a heavy tal block with a small hole in it on wheels and pushed it with all his might toward Sherman. The second it was in place Sherman pulled the pot and poured molten white orange liquid in to the block's hole until it was full. Small black wisps ca off from the tal as dust burned off.
"Get that coal over there and start shoveling. If this cools down too fast it will crack. We need to slowly lower the heat around it!" Sherman's orders were firm as he himself also threw so coal around the block and let it start to burn
The ti passed slowly as Sherman would order for more or less coal and sotis oil to be poured over the block as it could be slowly seen losing its heat. Walker was now roughly covered in black coal dust from head to foot, not surprisingly midnight looked the sa. For so reason Sherman seed to be clean though, walker wondered if it was a perk of his system.
More ti passed and soon Sherman had stopped the orders completely and grabbed a large hamr swinging it down on the block separating it in to two pieces. The tal inside was revealed to be black iron with twists like a dragon's tale and an open claw at the top empty and waiting. Grabbing it with his gloves he lifted it up and in another had grabbed pliers. " hold the crystal in the center of that claw while the tal can still bend. I'll be attaching it there" Sherman spoke out again causing Walker to jump to it and carefully hold the crystal perfectly in the center of the claw. For every one of the five claws Sherman bent to touch the crystal it seed to fuse more with the staff almost sinking in to it until the final claw touched causing shadows to dance in the flas of the fire welcoming the elents.
"Hahahaha perfect perfect now kid ti for you to let your mana flow in to this black dragon staff. I knew the dragon claw mold would fit the crystal perfect all that's left is fitting it to your mana so there won't be any misfired spells."
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