Chapter 26

Sam lifted the box that was handed to him by Ella and realized how heavy it was, it must have been at least 100 kilograms ! And that monster like girl could actually carry it while appearing so leisurely ! Sam sighed at how big of a difference there was between a grade one evolver such as himself and a grade three evolver such as Ella, however this thought didn't last long as it was soon replaced by his motivation to grow stronger !

After carrying the heavy package all the way back to his workshop Sam was drenched in sweat, his legs were burning, his arms were aching, his back was bent and his mouth was dry. He dropped the big box inside the workshop and walked towards the back of the office where there was a bathroom, he showered very fast to get rid of the sticky feeling and put on some old dirty clothes he had brought from home.

Now he was planning to strip the midnight cat from it's hide, bones and meat and so he would obviously get extremely dirty, he opened the box and inside it was lying the carcass of a 5 meters tall beast, it was squeezed as much as possible for it to fit in this smaller box.

Sam tipped the box open on all four sides and started working on dismembering the beast, the work was slow but pretty easy, the cat never had a really thick hide so even with his mythril dagger he was able to slowly strip the skin.

Step by step he slowly worked his way down to the bones, meanwhile Mechy was giving him a lesson about beast materials.

[The bones are the toughest part as you can guess but with a certain technique involving the energy inside the core you can make them malleable and work them into the shape you want, do you have an idea of what kind of item you'll make out of this beast?]

'I need a weapon first, this mythril dagger is useful against weak grade one beasts at most, against higher grades beasts like the midnight cat it is like a toy.'

[Fair enough, since you're used to daggers how about going for that?]

'Yeah I agree, I never used any other cold weapon than daggers.'

Sam was working hard while already thinking about what kind of equipment he would make, with the help of Mechy they decided they would make four pieces : two long combat knives, a thin leather armor and ranger boots using the rest of the leather. After they did that all there would be left will be useless stuff such as the entrails, the heart, etc. Although that could be eaten Sam didn't like it's taste and decided he would try to sell that away to a restaurant instead.

Lots of branded restaurants in the city sold beast meat in their luxury menus and Sam was well aware of that, he also knew that these dishes sold for sky high prices to the nobles and the rich so if he could make a small amount of those leftovers he would do it with great pleasure.

[Focus.]

Sam was thinking about the money that would come flowing in his bank account in the next few days and completely forgot about the task at hand until he was pulled out of his revery by Mechy.

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Soon, Sam was done stripping the beast. Bones were aligned on the ground, the skin was hanging on a thread to dry while the meat and the entrails were put inside a freezing room, Sam didn't know what the past owner used that for but it was very convenient that it was there as even though beast meat didn't go bad as fast as normal meat it was still better to keep it at cooler temperatures.

"Alright Mechy let's start !"

Sam was getting hyped up when the environment around him changed from the old workshop to a grassy field with no sky.

"Huh? Why the dream world ?"

Mechy appeared in front of Sam in the shape of his clone and he flinched, he was expecting to get punched like last time but it didn't happen, with a flick of it's fingers the clone made an anvil appear, then a beast core, a long bone and a hammer, Sam looked with wide eyes until he started realizing what was happening here !

"Can I train how to forge inside the dream world too? Then I won't have to waste any money or precious materials!"

[Exactly, I will show you once how to do it and then you try, if you don't understand something you can ask me. The time limit for this mission is 72 hours in the outside world or 720 hours in the dream world, you must be able to make the three pieces of equipment with at least 95 percent success rate. The reward will be good so work hard Sam.]

"So I basically have a whole month."

Sam smiled wide, this was basically cheating but he didn't care. If someone else had the opportunity to cheat to get stronger and richer he doubted they would refuse, of course he wouldn't refuse a heaven sent opportunity either.

He looked at Mechy pulling out the energy from the virtual grade three beast core very slowly, he could do this too but until today he didn't think it was useful, since humans didn't know a thing about what Mechy called Core Crafting, the only ones who had a use for beast cores were evolvers and researchers.

As he pulled out the energy in the core Mechy slowly filled up the bone with it, the bone was as thick as a Sam's thighs and as long as a baseball bat and it looked extremely sturdy but soon Mechy took the hammer and started hitting on the bone that soon began to morph under each hit it's shape got closer and closer to the combat knife Sam imagined, once in awhile Mechy also threw the bone inside the furnace and in the end after working on it for barely 30 minutes Sam's clone had a ghastly white combat knife in front of him.

[Your turn.]