Chapter 27

Sam took up Mechy's place in front of the anvil and started hammering non-stop, with each hit he was told what he did wrong by Mechy to the smallest detail and it only took him 30 hours in the dream world to get better at it and to have a decent result at crafting the combat knives, he still kept practicing because he wanted a perfect result even though Mechy told him that would be more than enough.

As he didn't feel any fatigue in the dream world Sam entered a trance whenever he started hammering, he swung the hummer down with as much precision as possible while integrating every little advice given by Mechy, at this point he wasn't even thinking and everything had became an automatism.

After 45 hours in the dream world he finally felt satisfied with his creation, the sharp white knife, around 25 centimeters long, one edge was extremely sharp while the other one was serrated, if the knife was used to stab someone or something and then pulled out, the serrated part would make a mess of the wound !

Sam had also used some of the cat's leather to make a comfortable handle with a decent grip, he looked at his creation and was satisfied. Mechy on the other hand was surprised, it didn't expect Sam to have such a talent for Core Crafting, it had planned to use the whole 720 hours in the dream world to make a decent knife and leave the boots and inner armor for later but he didn't expect Sam to get it done so fast and of such a high quality !

[Well done, I'll show you how to make the other two pieces now.]

Sam nodded at Mechy's intervention and watched it attentively, without missing a single detail while it made the combat boots, they were made of leather and seemed a lot tougher than the ones who came with the military uniform.

Sam wondered if they weren't more cumbersome but didn't really care, he truster Mechy and even if in the end he wouldn't wear them he would have learned something new and useful today.

Just like this 500 hours went by in the dream world, Sam was hammering on a thin body armor that looked like a long sleeved t shirt made of leather, on the ground were lying 6 combat knives, 4 pair of boots and 3 similar body armors to the one Sam was making.

[Alright Sam I think you're done, let's go back to the real world to make the real deal.]

As Sam just finished making the last armor he was mercilessly pulled back to the real world, he found himself laying down on the cold ground and each part of his body was hurting.

"Next time you take me to the dream world, give me 5 minutes to find a comfortable place to lay down... ugh!"

As he got up Sam couldn't help but complain, Mechy on the other hand didn't care and ignored him, seeing he won't get any answer, Sam snorted and went to pick up the materials to make the bone knives.

As he put the bones on the anvil and picked up the hammer on the wall he realized that the weight, balance, attrition, everything about this hammer was the same as the one he had used in the dream world !

He understood that it was Mechy's doing and it made him happy, he was already used to this hammer even though he had never used it yet, how great was that ?

Once again Sam started hammering and energy tempering with the core, he was already so familiar with the process that he could finish making the pair of combat knives in less than thirty minutes but he got so focused on making his best that making a single knife had taken him a total of 2 hours!

Bone forging was different from classic alloy forging as it was a lot more complicated but also a lot faster, to make this same piece with alloy would have definitely taken at least 10 times this time and that was only the time needed for a knife, for a sword it could take up to a few weeks or months !

When he finished wrapping the bare handle of the knife in leather Sam picked it up and admired his creation, he couldn't wait even a second anymore and straight away opened his status page.

< Status :

Name: Sam

Level: 1st grade evolver

Experience: 2%

Race: Human

ATK: 12 (+6)

DEF: 8

SPE: 9 (+3)

INT: 16

Characteristic points left to distribute : 1.

Skills : None.

Equipment:

- Midnight knife ( Forged from the bones and the core energy of a midnight cat, this knife gained the ability to confuse the perception of the target ; ATK +6 / SPE + 3 ) >

Sam looked at the short description of the knife in front of him and then showed a confused expression, could this be considered a skill ?

"Mechy..."

[Yes, although it very is faint, the natural ability of the midnight cat spilled a bit in the knife. I'm surprised you can already do that, to most people this step would take at least 5 years of hard practice.]

Mechy was more and more convinced that Sam's talent lied in smithing, although his cultivation speed was fast it was because of the technique from the Zolds, if he didn't have it, Sam would have an average talent at most. On the other hand his talent for blacksmithing was just otherworldly !

"I want to try it !"

Suddenly Sam looked extremely eager to fight but he had nobody to try his new weapon on so he had to calm down and go back to work, that day he made a second Midnight knife, sadly this one didn't get infused with the natural ability of the midnight cat but still had the great stats boost. Whenever he held the two weapons at the same time, Sam felt like he could lift a whole building !

Then the started working on the combat boots, they were a lot longer to make as the leather needed more core energy than the knives to get that stretchy feel. This time it took Sam a whole ten hours to finish the pair, it looked extremely similar to the military boots he owned since he didn't know how to design anything else so he had just copied them with the help of Mechy, they just looked a little bit heavier and had a dark brown color to them.

This time he didn't get impatient as he had already seen the effects of the two knives and Sam didn't put them on, he gently put them down to the side and started working on the armor, at the same time he was thinking about a method to get the general to accept sending him on Tunger moon, he wanted to train and try his new items and even though there were only grade one beasts there and a few scattered grade two beasts it was still a nice training.