Chapter 19

Eara was busy with hammering a tanto, it was her sisters blueprint, when she first heard of it she was completely excited, she also wanted to make her own blueprint but she didn't want waste materials in crafting random equipment only to come back with an inventory full of failed items

Eara was on manual crafting, meaning she's fully in control and was hammering with her own skills. The system already dumped down all the necessary information and data on her head and now all she needed to do was apply them.

Obviously she couldn't apply it perfectly, she crafted multiple failures and several more with negative effects like bent, blunt, chipped, unbalanced and what not.

Her success to failure ratio was about 60% to 40% in crafting blades while on the shield was much worse with a 50% to 50% ratio.

Unbeknownst to her however that all of the major guilds craftsmen are actually beneath her and their usual success to failure ratio was 30% to 70%.

She could of course go to auto crafting but there are several reasons she's not auto crafting, first is that auto crafting gives a player less experience points compared to manual crafting, second Eara genuinely wanted to learn how to become a proper blacksmith, third auto crafting proceeds in a much slower pace depending on your proficiency, consuming more time when crafting manually, finally, auto crafting has a higher failure ratio than manual crafting, as long as a player is not proficient in crafting a certain equipment, that player would have a much lower chance successfully crafting a decent equipment, and most of the times it would just fail.

Auto crafting however also has its own pros, auto crafting can be used when you have mastered an equipment blueprint and you wanted to mass produce that certain equipment. Auto crafting would lessen the time needed to craft said equipment as long as your proficiency is high enough.

Eara however still haven't mastered her sisters blueprint yet so she's stuck to hammering the blade.

[gained, Y1 Tanto Prototype 2]

Tier 0 Y1 Tanto Prototype 2

Rarity : common

Atk: 12-14

Sharp: 4

Atk Spd: Fast

Thin: The blade is thinner and lighter than usual, (increased attack speed but reduced attack damage and durability)

Durability : 15/15

Eara stared at the blade before chucking it on her inventory, her gaze wandered towards her sisters items and equipments and to the coins and remembered her sisters words.

"w-where did you get all of these?! and why are you giving me all of your stuff? are you quiting the game?"

"pffft- nah, i found a dangerous chain quest that's all, it first rewarded me with those coins when i completed the first phase and im about to enter the second phase."

"And these items?"

"i brought them using the coins. Oh an i have a good news for you!"

"huh? wuzzat?"

"the company that i was working at decided to enter the game, and i was one of the selected people to enter the game, you know since im a beta tester and all, it's a good thing though, now that i work in the game, we could message each other once and a while! and after working, we can just meet in game and play together!"

Yulis will now be tackling her quest and it would obviously be weird if she didn't log out of the game to go to work, creating an excuse like this was her only way to hide her actions. This in turn mader her frown, she needed to hurry and quickly make money in order to stop lying to her sister.

While they were conversing, Eara noticed a pained expression in her sisters face, although her sister tried hard to hide it, Eara was extremely perceptive when it comes to her older sister.

I have to quickly become a competent blacksmith and start selling stuff, my sister must be carrying a heavy burden that she's still hiding from me! As long as i can make money, my sisters burdens will be lessened..... no! i need to remove my sisters burden! i can't be delayed any longer!

Eara resolutely hammered down on an incomplete shield, her eyes blazing with commitment and strong will. She's now carrying the burden of becoming her sisters supporting pillar, she wants to be with her sisters side and support her with all her power, but for now she's still weak.

Couple of hours went by and Eara exited her rented workshop, after several hours of thinking, she finally took the courage to try an make a blueprint. Not because she's getting ahead of herself but because in order to be promoted as a journeyman blacksmith, her mentor ordered her to create a unique equipment.

In eve of reincarnation, a blacksmith can create unique equipments even without a blueprint, although those equipment are either trash or exceptional. The red wolf leather armor that her sister made was something similar, although she had created an upgrade of the existing villager clothes that she had so most of it's attributes should be around average.

Eara wasn't confident in making one, her sister told her that players below journeyman level have a much lower chance of making decent unique equipment. Her sister however still made one, giving her courage and confidence that she could make one before she blows through the 500 gold coins.

Walking towards the auction house, she placed the equipments that she crafted and began buying materials for her blueprint.

Most materials that are being sold are slightly above the market price, since large guilds around and outside the Kingdom kept snatching any material that are being sold ag fair price.

Eara clenched her teeth and pressed the button, tapping multiple times and buying multiple stacks of different materials until most of the remaining materials on sale are those that are sold at double the market price or higher.

She spent 100 gold coins in just a few seconds, in the current gold to credit exchange value was priced at 1 gold coins equals 30 credits, she almost collapsed at the thought of spending 3000 credits on the spot.

She couldn't even spend more than 5 credits a day, and she had never spent 5 credits a day. Now that she just spent a small fortune in just a span of a few seconds felt like a whole world to her.

She was quite dizzy for awhile before her sisters pained image flashed on to her mind, the dizziness vanished and her mind that was like a collapsing stable suddenly turned into a solid and immovable fortress.

Her will buckled for a moment there and she despised herself for it, she obviously had a few chinks on her armor here and there but she's hammering them off.

There was a sudden uproar to the various guilds and players when the new equipment was released at the auction house.

They were the regular round shield and tanto but the one who made them were different, the famous tanto that made its first appearance several days ago which had the Black Lotus insignia was now carrying the Golden Rose insignia which was the second player that had appeared with the shield equipment.

That means that the two blacksmith had connections with each other or somehow one way or another met.

The reactions of the guilds weren't as dramatic as the reactions of the players, because sooner or later, they too will have their own blacksmiths. and blueprints.

The regular players however started circulating rumours and unbelievable stories, although in the end they couldn't understand how the two met.

With the large size of the kingdom it was almost impossible for new players like them to travel from town to town.

Arriving back at her workshop she began to hammer a basic sword she took out an ingot, heated it until it glew into a bright orange before she started hammering away.

The ingot slowly grew longer and longer reheating it regularly and hammering again before being carefully shaped into a basic form of a double edged sword.

Before she could reheat the the sword for the fourth time it suddenly shattered when her hammer hit the blade.

Some of the searing hot iron shards flew directly on to her face, the iron stuck in to her face and Eara fell down her chair.

"aaaaghhhh!!" Eara ripped the largest iron shard off of her cheeks ripping some of the skin in the process, quickly moving for the other large shards before submerging her entire head in the nearby basin filled with water.

Eara sat on the floor, holding an empty potion bottle, her wounds already healed but the fortress on her mind was once again besieged.

Once she realised what was happening she immediately crushed the bottle in her hand before punching herself in the face.

"what the fxck am i doing!? am i really this weak that i am already on the ground after a few flesh wounds!?" Eara was furious, not at the broken sword, but at her pathetic self.

"My sister is doing everything she could just to be with me and here i am pathetically kissing the ground like a piece of human garbage!"

Eara stood up once more and pulled out another ingot and began hammering away. This time the blade of the sword was completed and she was making the handle for it.

Her carpentry and wood carving skills wasn't just for show and she did a good job making a comfortable grip.

Finally when the status of the sword appeared, Eara frowned, although she expected it, the sword was pretty much trash.

Eara sighed and began to crafted a saber this time. This cycle repeated multiple times, although she was gaining a lot of subclass exp, she still haven't produced a single blueprint.

Eara on her nineteenth try, still failed, deciding to rest and review some of the blueprints she got from her sister. Particularly the tanto, she slid her index finger on the lines of the paper slowly tracing the lines that formed the tanto.

Eara switched into hammering swords to crafting the bow from her subclass quest, Eara had multiple tasks to do in order to be promoted. First is to make her own unique equipment, second is to craft the bow in the blueprint given by her mentor, third is to craft all of the equipment in her quota, fourth is to learn several particular subclass like woodcarving, carpentry, metallurgy, mining, and crafting, all of which are in basic levels, and fifth is to gain enough subclass experience.

Bringing out her carving knife she first started working on the shaft of the bow, the blueprint used the wood as it's muscle and the metal as it's skeleton.

Yulis followed the blueprint meticulously, after an hour she roughly completed the shaft of the bow, next she began to smelt an iron ingot into an iron plating, after that she started to shape the iron into the desired shape.

Finally smoothing out the rough shaft and assembling the entire bow before taking out an item in her inventory.

[Forest Silkworm Bow String]

Slowly connecting both end, bending the bow it slowly creaked before suddenly snapping in half.

Eara sighed and checked at the bow to see what was wrong with it. She later found out that the skeleton was to thick and stiff and wasn't bending, causing the wood to break in one end.

Eara repeated the cycle, this time the bow snapped again when the shaft was too thin, again and the part of the bow that was holding the string broke.

After a few more hours of finding the sweet spot she finally made a completed bow.

Tier 1 Hunting Bow

Rarity : common

Atk: 32-39

Atk Spd: normal

Durability : 40/40

Short: decreased attack range

Eara clenched her fist before collapsing on the floor. Laying down on the floor while staring into the ceiling, she thought for a moment before realising that if she turned in her work to her master, then she would have to return the blueprint as well!

Then she'll just have to take this opportunity to craft as much bow as she can before the deadline! what a genius idea!

Eara quickly got up and began to craft like a madman.

Inside of a large manor, inside of a hidden chamber, multiple maids were found tormenting a black haired girl, they found pleasure in playing with this girl like a doll.

Poor Yulis once again became a dress up doll for several women, atleast this time they're hidden from public view.

Her black hair was slowly died blonde and her eye color was changed using contact lenses that somehow exists in the game.

After walking out of the room she was greeted with a mirror, the reflection then talked to Yulis. "Well done, though it feels weird seeing another me.... in front of me.... come we have much to do concerning your etiquette, we have made sure that you looked exactly like me and now it's time to learn how to act exactly like me."

They first entered a room filled with butlers other ones that looked liked an instructor, Yulis was given the assignment to learn the basics of noble etiquette and learn several manners that her employer was used to do.

Yulis logged out after several agonising hours, she took a peak at her sister who was still laying down on her bed, she sneakily entered her room.

Looking around it lacked the usual decorations that one would found in a girls room, instead it was completely bare, other than the huge bear that was placed next to Eara, there wasn't much inside of her room.

Yulis clicked her tongue, before moving her gaze towards her sister, a creepy smile emerged from her face as her eyes became terrifyingly creepy.

"ehehe"

She smacked the bear who was in tears as it fell on the floor and Yulis slowly climbed in her sisters bed and laid down next to her.

Unfortunately, the helmet was completely blocking her sister's face which greatly disappointed Yulis.

Still she slowly moved her hands and feet and hugged her sister using both of her limbs.

She felt her sister's warmth for a few moments before she noticed that the green light present in one of the many light indicators in the helmet that indicated the full dive function turned yellow.

She quickly jumped out of the bed and tried to escape but accidentally stepping on the bear that she carelessly threw aside which caused her to slip and slapping the back of her head in the floor.

Quickly getting up and ignoring her head that had a huge bulge in it as she placed the teddy bear back in the bed and hurriedly went to the other side of the bed, and pretended to fix her sisters covers.

"sis?"

"oh! im sorry did i disturbed you?"

"oh, no you didn't, i was just in the middle of crafting some equipment."

In the game, a notification would pop up in her view if the helmet detected foreign movement, an abnormal change in room temperature or any other abnormalities.

In this case Yulis recklessly hugged her sister that made the helmet very suspicious.

Many cases of which the users room was on fire yet the user was busy playing in the game to notice, the helmet has saved hundreds of lives across the world with this function.

"I'll be making breakfast soon you can go back and I'll wake you up when im done" Yulis smiled at her sister, completely ignoring her throbbing head.

Eara simply shook her head and removed the helmet before speaking. "nu-uh I'll be helping you out."

Sliding out of her cover, Eara followed her sister out of her room while the two reached the kitchen. The pair started by brushing their teeth and washing up.

In a dark room, a girl is found floating in the middle of it while several screens of data surrounded her, closing a screen which showed a certain work shop in a certain game.

"odd, the anomaly Black Lotus has an incredibly deep connection with this one..... This girl for some reason accepted this connection.... it's as if there're unconsciously connected in some form..... i must investigate this further...."

Her eyes suddenly flinched, she then vanished and reappeared into an open space, a large ball of white light the size of a small mountain dominated the space, this ball of light had thousands if not millions of strings of lights with varying sizes some the size of a thread and some the size of a large tree trunk.

A tiny figure floated near the ball of light and slowly approached a certain string of light, it had a darker color and was alone in the sea of other threads of light.

The girl floated slowly and gently held the string and after admiring it, slowly pulling it and absorbing it. The string slowly floated towards her forhead and entered her head. Her closed eyes slowly shook making her eyelashes flutter.

Slowly opening her eyes her demeanour suddenly changed, her lifeless expression changed into a colder one. She began exploring her mind and made some subtle changes as well.

Looking around the ball of light she failed to find any more of the strange thread, she beheld the ball of light as if it was her baby before slowly parting ways with it.

She disappeared and reappeared in another room.