Chapter 112. Start Crafting

I woke up feeling refreshed and ready for work, the sun was just rising so I had plenty of time to use.

"Ok let's get started."

Golden carrots in my hand while looking at the wall trying to imagine how I would make a furnace system besides the crafting table.

I was thinking of putting a chest connected to a hopper that would put the shovels into the furnace and once the furnace is done another hopper would take the golden nuggets ready to be reused.

I know it's a waste but I don't have any reason to keep a few chests filled with golden shovels.

With my breakfast done I started to work on my setup, which only took half an hour at most.

"Everything is done up here, I now have to only get dirty once again."

I sighed not too excited for what I was about to do, I checked around the house in case anyone was looking after me or spying on me before braking a block from my wooden floor.

Beneath the block there was a staircase that led to nowhere in the water, I carefully got down and put the wooden block back.

Once in the water, I walked a little falling in the water.

I didn't panic as I expected this, and the fall wasn't for too long as I arrived at the bottom.

Then I felt around with my hands until I recognized the wooden door which I quickly opened.

Before the water was about to pass the door, I quickly entered and closed it behind me.

Once I opened my eyes I could see the light emitted by the flame of the torch exactly as I left it yesterday.

Then I went down the long stairway arriving at my secret base.

But someone was already there waiting for me.

"You scared me, Violet, were you here the whole night?"

The big Enderwoman seems to take residence in my humble base.

At least she didn't seem angry anymore which was a good thing.

Speaking about her, I did promise I would finish her room today.

I should finish with that before I get myself into crafting and forget everyone around me.

I don't want to make her more mad, who knows how she would react.

"I came here to finish your room."

This made her smile a little, even though it was a little creepy to see.

I looked around the room thinking about where I should start breaking the wall.

It didn't truly matter since I didn't plan to make another room anyway, probably a small portal room at most.

In the end, I decided to break the wall opposite the chests.

I made sure to make a high door and the room to be as big as mine since she needed to put her items all over the place.

This project took me around two hours to finish but I was getting used to, so my speed started to increase with time.

Once the room was done I thought about how I should decorate or if I should do that at all.

The builder in me couldn't accept to leave it like that so I put white concrete on the walls, nether bricks on the ceiling with some lanterns, and stripped logs on the floor.

It wasn't one of the best builds that I made, but it was way better than just stone, dirt, and diorite.

"What do you think Violet, do you like it?"

The Enderwoman seemed to be excited about her new room, she kept teleporting from one corner to another with her creepy smiles.

"Do you feel better than yesterday?"

She stopped and looked at me for a second before giving me a nod.

I was forgiven.

I think...

I'm still not sure if I'm the reason she was mad, to begin with, it's hard to communicate with someone who doesn't speak.

"You can take whatever Redstone item you want from the chest, you know which one."

As I was about to leave she teleported in from of me and crossed her arms in an X shape.

"What's the problem did you forget which chest?"

She just walked to a chest, opened it, and put her hand in it only to stop after a block.

"You don't have access to inventory's chest?"

She nodded her head as yes.

I didn't know only humans can use the System's chest.

Or maybe only monsters can't, since the piligers and the piglings can still use it.

Are they still human or another species altogether?

Didn't matter, Violet wanted her items and she didn't have access to them.

So I looked through the Redstone's chest and took out some pistons, Redstone dust, repeaters, observers, slime blocks, honey blocks, and a button.

Then I went to her room and placed all the items down.

But she still seemed unsatisfied, until I remembered that I promised to make her the flying machine again.

"I'm going to make the flying machine once again, so pay close attention."

Suddenly she was happy and right behind me as I started to build and explain everything to her.

After I was done, I wished her to have fun and filled my inventory with gold bars, ready to start crafting.

I exited my secret base, broke into my house, and took a shower to wash off the swamp water.

But now I was ready.

I kept a stack of gold bars in my inventory, took some oak wood, and made it into planks and then into sticks.

With two sticks and one golden bar on the crafting table, I started to merge the recipe with the hammer on the side of the crafting table.

I now had a golden shovel in my hand, it was very different than the other shovels, it looked more majestic if I would describe it.

But I still prefer the design of the diamond tools, it feels like they're moded.

With a sad sigh, I put the shove into the furnace now to be smelted.

I opened up my skills tab to see my progress.

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                               SKILLS

_Crafting lvl 5

    13.800/1.000.000

_Enchanting lvl 6

    470.130/10.000.000

_Brewing lvl 4

    20.500/100.000

_Trading lvl 4

    51.500/100.000

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"Only 300 XP?! No wonder it's hard to get to the final level. I would need to craft a little over 3.000 shovels for that!"

I didn't even want to think how much I have to craft for the diamond level.

I could already feel a headache coming and I wasn't too fan of it.

But I said that I would do it, so I will do it, no backing down.

With a little more encouragement, I continued to hammer the recipe for the shovel.

Unfortunately, I couldn't craft multiple items at once, instead, I could place a stack of items on the crafting table and it would still stay after one item was crafted, so I only needed to hit with the hammer and wave my hand through the hologram to receive the tool, then I was back to hammering.

An hour passed, then two, then four, then half a day.

For half a day I kept hammering at the crafting table making shovel after shovel.

The furnace couldn't keep up with me so I had to put a few chests beside me to store the tools.

At one point I just left them on the ground giving up on storing them nicely.

They're all going to end up as nuggets anyway.

"I have to eat something otherwise I'll faint here."

"Finally finished for today?"

I quickly turned around to see who snuck up on me.

It was Catharine, and she seemed bored out of her mind but also a little scared in case I was getting back to work.

"Catharine! How long have you been there?"

"I stopped keeping count after two hours, please tell me you won't get back to work now."

I sat down on the chair and took some golden carrots to eat.

"I intend to take a break for now, what's the occasion for the visit?"

"I was sent to tell you one thing, actually two things."

Suddenly she bowed to me.

"I'm sorry for what happened at the festival, I was drunk and didn't do that intentionally."

Oh yeah, I got vomited on, not a pleasant memory for either of us, I tried to forget it as much as possible, I have a lot on my mind anyway so that was pretty easy.

"Don't worry, happens to the best of us, just drink more responsibly next time."

"Thank you, as for the real reason that I'm here, Elder Flora asked you to visit her when you're free."

"A request from the Elder!? Why didn't you stop me then?"

"I tried ok, but no matter how much I yelled you couldn't hear me, and I didn't know how you'd react if I disturbed your flow."

"I didn't realize that, sorry for making you wait for so long, I'll visit her now thank you for the message."

She gave a tired sigh but was relieved that everything went well.

"Don't worry, this is my job after all."

With this, she left my house, and I continued to eat the rest of the golden carrots.

After I had my fill I went to see what Elder Flora wanted from me.

At the huge house, the butler was the one to open the door already expecting me, he told me that Flora was in her office and I could go directly there.

After I said my thanks I went directly upstairs and knocked on the door.

*knock knock

"Come in."

I opened the door and saw that the Elder was relaxing on her chair and drinking something that I could only assume to be tea.

It's hard to tell from this far apart, and it's not a commonly used drink after all.

"Elder Flora, you wanted to talk with me?"

"Yes Trader, do you want a cup of tea perhaps?"

I looked at the square clay cup and the small handmade coldrun beside it.

"Sure, I would love to have a cup of tea."

She only smiled and poured me a cup as well.

It was still hot as steam was rising from the cup, and after a sip, I could tell it was with berries.

It was good but I preferred it more sweet.

"Ellen told me you used an interesting weapon on the mission to capture the rogue witch."

I stopped and thought what she was talking about, perhaps the bell?

But that wasn't truly a weapon, and from what I could tell it only worked for me.

"He told me you used fireworks instead of arrows, and it had greater results. I want to put an order for you to make two stacks of those for the Clan."

"That's a lot of firepower, but I should be able to do it. What would be my payment?"

"Since only you know how to do those in the whole Clan, I will give an enchanted token to pass the mist."

That was a pretty good deal, It means that they accepted me as a friend and I can come back here any time I want.

I could accept the deal like this, but I feel like I can get some more, I'm the only one that can make them unless they go to a big town, but still, it would be very expensive for them.

"That sounds pretty good, but I don't think it would be enough."

This seemed to take her by surprise, which only made me smile.

I won't be on the losing end anymore, I should represent the nickname that I have at least.

"Is the recipe that hard perhaps?"

"Not, it's very easy, but one of the ingredients is gunpowder."

She nodded in understanding once I said that.

While monsters don't attack them usually, if they start a fight the monsters will fight back, and even if you want to buy it, it's heavily regulated and sold in small quantities.

"What do you have in mind?"

That was the best question that I could've got.

"I heard you one of the older witches in the Clan, I'm curious to see if you have some unique potions of your own by any chance?"

She smiled realizing what I wanted, but still got up and took five glowing potions from her chest and put them on the desk.

"This is what I'm willing to part with, but you can only take two."

I looked at all of them with excitement and took the first bright green bottle to see its effect.

-Luck 2

I did not expect to see something so great right from the start, how was this even possible?

"How long will this last?"

"You're not even curious about what it does?"

"I've heard legends about it, but never thought it possible. Any chance you can share the recipe with me?"

"It would last for 30 minutes"

She said that with a smile but didn't say anything else.

I took the next potion which was bright pink.

-Feather falling

This disappointed me a little since it wasn't costume-made, I know you can brew it with the System.

It's probably here because it requires a high level of the Brewing skill.

I took the next one which was dark purple.

And this time I was shocked.

-Invincibility

"Is this what I think is?"

"Yes, but it would last you only three seconds."

Still, it was a good potion.

The fourth one was murky yellow.

- XP boost

"How are you not dead? I'm sure the System is not too pleased with this."

"The System already punished me once, there's no point in doing it once more. Also, that would last for 10 minutes and you can drink one once a month, 50% boost in anything."

She said that with a smile like she didn't just show me something that would make nations go to war.

This makes me wonder what kind of adventures she's been through to have this kind of item.

I looked at the last potion with wonder.

It was emerald green and cold to the touch.

-Jump boost 5

I was disappointed but also surprised. In comparison with some others, it didn't seem too much, but it's still something better than what the System makes.

Of the five presented only three were truly amazing and unfortunately, I could only choose two.

In the end, I decided to get the Luck and Invincibility potion.

Sure I could take the Xp boost to help me with crafting, but it's too short of a time that it can be used.

With Luck, I can at least gather some ores with Silk Toch, then go crazy afterward.

"Those are some amazing potions, I'll probably buy more from you at a later date. Tomorrow I will send the fireworks as well. Pleasure doing business with you."

We each gave a warm smile to each other before I left.

Time to get back to crafting.