Elemental Warriors Online

Smithing

Cassius felt the hammer glance of the edge of the anvil his rhythm lost. He stifled a curse as he reoriented his aim.

“You should not rush anything Cassius. Blacksmithing takes time.” A voice spoke up from behind him.

“But Charles I have been doing this for six hours. Its repetitive and boring.”

The man called Charles gave a boisterous laugh. It would be more right to actually call him a young man because the only blacksmith in the slums does not look a day older than twenty. Though he was built like a combat vehicle.

Seven foot tall of pure muscle and power. It was even more defined when you put his incredibly beautiful, fair and petite wife next to his humongous, dark and scared skin. But Charles Becks had a charm and handsomeness all of his own.

Cassius had immediately hit it off with this guy the moment they met. Of course this could be largely due to the fact that Charles was an extremely amicable person and was fun to be around. Or Cassius just loved staring at the butt of his wife Serena as she worked at the counter of their conjoined weapons and potions shop.

“Maybe you are right, alright here are some recipes to create some basic kitchen tools. If you successfully make something not bad, then we will move on properly to the weapons.”

Cassius almost made a jiggle like dance in excitement. He didn’t know why, but the very idea of creating something lit a fire in him he did not know he had.

[[SYSTEM ALERT!:]]

[YOU HAVE LEARNT THE FOLLOWING FORGING RECIPES.]

[COMMON KITCHEN KNIFE, COMMON SPOON, COMMON FORK, COMMON COPPER LADLE, COMMON BUTTER KNIFE.]

Cassius jumped right into the forging process. Multiple times he messed up, as he spent hours creating and destroying things through a trial and error method. And Kabiru was there all through. The young Half Dragon seemed to have a love for the forge. He massively enjoyed the heat and the gleam of metal. And for the past three hours Kabiru had taken the function of a bellow, blowing flames into the molten metal that Cassius was forging.

Cassius finally made something after a few hours. It was a spoon. His first and most successful equipment forged.

IRON TABLE SPOON

GRADE: IRON

ATTACK: 10-12

DURABILITY: 350

Apart from the massive durability and the fact that a spoon could deliver as much damage as an ordinary dagger. The spoon was an iron grade. This of course was due to the bonus from the divine creator class. With it, Cassius can never forge or create anything below the iron Grade. And that is just when his blacksmithing skills were at the lowest level.

Cassius hurriedly took the spoon to Charles, immensely proud of his work.

“Well this is certainly uncommon, and of the best grade possible for something forged from a low quality iron ore. I am duly impressed Cassius. So impressed that I will give you a contract.

I need you to forge a thousand pieces of this table spoon. And I will pay you 1 gold coin for very ten sets of ten spoons made.”

[SYSTEM ALERT: QUEST RECEIVED: DIFFICULTY: F]

The blacksmith Charles Becks has asked you to forge a thousand pieces of uncommon grade table spoon for one gold coins per ten sets. You are required to be done in two days.

ACCEPT QUEST: YES/NO

QUEST ACCEPTED.

Cassius could feel himself break out in a cold sweat. One thousand of those spoons will drive him crazy. Money or not making those spoons would be an incredible repetitive action that Cassius did not have the patience for. And he was sure Charles knew it.

The young blacksmith was probably doing this to teach him patience with the added money as incentive. Cassius knew he would do it for the money. While the exchange of in game currency and real life currency was open to him, the game has only been active for three days, so the exchange rate has not been settled and agreed on. Which means stock pilling Money was a good idea.

Besides Cassius needed this money to start up his spy Network and purchase or construct a base here in the slums. So unlike other players, it seemed Cassius would be stuck here in the beginner town or city in for a lot longer than other players, so it was expected his leveling speed will be impacted.

Cassius gave a sigh as he walked back to the forge. He could kiss his dreams of being on the level rankings and being famous goodbye. At least for now anyway. He already had the super lucky charm that was Kabiru Ahmed so he was sure catching up to other players would not be too hard.

That and the fact that from here, he could be making more Money than anyone would expect. The auction house was just a click of a button away, so once he starts to forge equipment properly, there will be a veritable flow of money. So Charles can rest assured. His lesson of patience, has been learnt.