8 Making the Fire Glove

A Fire Glove, simply put, is a glove that can produce fire attacks. The material components needed to make these gloves are already owned by Cien.

Mana Core as a battery for gloves to produce magic and a Monster Core from the Inferno Bear.

Monster Core is a rare material that is usually found in the bodies of monsters of Rank 5 and above. The use of the Monster Core itself is usually used to learn the skills recorded in it.

Monster Core is a memory that crystallizes in a monster's body. Monsters usually do this so they can pass on one of their techniques for the next generation after they die. And fortunately those who can learn from this Monster Core aren't just monsters, humans can learnt it too.

By getting a Monster Core and absorbing the memory in it, a human can learn the recorded skill. Therefore, a Monster Core is something that everyone in the world really wants.

And because of its rarity, the price of Monster Cores can reach immeasurable values. Although the contents of each Monster Core itself are unknown. Each Monster Core can only be used once, once one absorbs its contents, the Monster Core will just become an ordinary rock.

So, for Cien, buying a Monster Core is like an expensive gamble. It would be funny if you buy a Monster Core at an exorbitant price when it turns out that you will only get the [Waterball] technique.

Yup, at least that's the only use for Monster Cores. Get the skills that are in it. But now Cien learns new things after reading recipes on his cellphone. It turns out that Monster Cores can also be used as materials to make magical objects. Perhaps in the Kastia Continent, only he knows how to do this.

Oh, and maybe he's also the only one in the world who can know the memory contents of Monster Cores. With the camera function on his cellphone, Cien can find out what skills are recorded in the Monster Core.

In the Monster Core that he got from Inferno Bear, he will get the skill of [Tongue of Fire]. A technique of fire magic where the caster would launch flames that burned an area in front of the caster twenty meters away.

Unfortunately, because it was fire magic, Cien, who had found the Monster Core yesterday, didn't feel happy at all. This was because he had no affinity for fire magic. His affinity was water.

Even though he can learn it, Cien just feels it will be too troublesome to master it. Moreover, he has a little mana. The skill will be less effective if he learns it directly. The firepower maybe will become just like a firework than flamethrower.

But if he can make it a magical weapon like a Fire Glove from this Monster Core. Cien knew that the firepower of the skill would be greater. He was even excited just to imagine it.

So, without thinking about how late it was, Cien immediately moved to start making the Fire Glove.

The first thing he did was study each step he had to do. Since that stupid app didn't allow him to automate production, he had to handcraft each recipe by himself.

Cien had no experience in forging iron. However, he had a bit of experience in sewing, making woodwork, drawing, and writing from his life on Earth. All the craft skills he learned at school from elementary to high school. Plus he also works as a 3D artist, so imitating the models in every recipe is not a problem for him.

Although still in question, can he still do it?

All night Cien learned to understand every step and theory in the recipe. The most important theory was about applying Monster Cores and Mana Cores to an object and turning it into a magical item.

In the morning, after he had absorbed as much knowledge as he could. Cien returned to making grilled meat for breakfast before starting to make the Fire Glove.

After feeling refreshed, he went to the storage room. Took a Monster Core from Inferno Bear, and one Mana Core. Yup, these are the only important materials he needs. The rest, for leather cloth, he would use his old robe. Cien remembered that the robe material came from cowhide.

Cien has no other choice, even though it is prescribed it is said that monster skin is recommended. Unfortunately he doesn't have that. There was an Inferno Bear hide in the storage room, but he didn't know how to tan the hide.

Cien brings all the ingredients to the workshop. First of all, Cien made his gloves first. With minimal knowledge, he measured, cut and sewed from morning to late afternoon. He had almost forgotten to eat meat for lunch.

Time flies so fast for Cien. He is very concentrated with his work. In the workshop, fortunately, all the equipment is available. Needles, thread, he even found fabric dye in one of the drawers.

Until the afternoon, he finally managed to make the gloves. The gloves are fairly simple. Its color was faded black, because of his worn robes. The outside and the inside of the gloves wear the same cloth, so when he wears them it's a bit uncomfortable. The surface of the skin on the inside made his hands a bit sticky.

Cien could only shrug as he couldn't do anything else. After finishing making gloves, Cien took a black cloth dye. He brought the water to a boil in a pot with the fabric dye, then threw the gloves he had made into the boiling pot.

For about an hour, Cien watched the boiling pot, occasionally stirring the glove inside. When he was done, he took out the gloves. Wash it clean, then dry it.

After everything was done, he then made dinner and then planned to end his work for today.

The next day, Cien woke up early, ate breakfast as usual and then continued his work.

The next process is very important. The following steps were foreign to Cien, even to all of the humans on the Kastia Continent. So the difficulty is much higher than before.

First, Cien takes one Mana Core. Each Mana Core he got from the app was thirty centimeters long and about five centimeters in diameter. Admittedly, the Mana Core he obtained was quite large. It was almost the same size as a water bottle in his former life.

The problem now is, Cien had to cut this one Mana Core into twenty pieces, and he didn't know how to do that!

Carrying his Mana Core in hand, Cien scanned the contents of his workshop for tools that could be used to cut the precious stone. In his old life, to cut a stone one needed a saw machine, to polish it needed a grinder. These two important tools, Cien searched even to the blacksmith's place, were not found.

In the end, he returned to the workshop and leaned back limply in the chair. He felt that his enthusiasm had suddenly disappeared.

"Come to think of it, how do people here cut gemstones? The technology in Kastia isn't as advanced as it is on Earth."

That is true! Cien suddenly realized his mistake. Since he had never seen stone processing in Kastia, it made him think that the processing was the same as on Earth. Technology in Kastia does not depend on science, but on magic!

Cien stood up, he scanned the entire contents of the workshop at a glance, and his eyes were now focused on the large table in the middle of the room. He walked over, and saw a magic circle on the surface of the table.

Cien took his cellphone, opened the shop section and looked for the function of the table in front of him. Sure enough, the table is called 'Crafting Table'.

He didn't need to bother anymore, just activated the magic circle on the table. For a moment, a bright light illuminates the room. Then a projection screen suddenly appeared in front of Cien.

[Put the material in the center of the circle.]

Cien put Mana Core according to the instruction. Then the text changes to a screen of image of a Mana Core and some tool icons next to it. Cien immediately realized something similar in previous life after seeing the screen.

'It's like a sculpting app…'

Half an hour later Cien spent the time getting to know every function of the screen that was there.

Even though it was like a sculpting application, the function of the screen in front of him was not as advanced as the software he had in his memory. All the screen can do is cut, polish and sculpt. He couldn't combine one stone with another, color the stones, shape the stones as he wished and so on.

'Well, this is enough. After all, I just want to cut it.'

Cien quickly cut the Mana Core to twenty pieces on the screen. After he finished cutting on the screen, he pressed the 'done' button. The flash of light blinded his eyes again, and a second later, the Mana Core on the table had been sliced ​​apart as it had been on the screen.

'Nice and perfect.'

After the Mana Core cutting was complete. Next is crushing the Monster Core into powder. Cien was very surprised when he first read this step, because he had to destroy those precious Monster Cores.

What if he fails? What if the skills inside are also destroyed? He was a little worried, but since he couldn't use it, he just hoped the recipe in his cell phone could actually make the magical items.

Just like the Mana Core, Cien placed the Monster Core on the table. Turning the Monster Core into fine shards powder on the screen, and pressing the done button.

Now Cien has prepared three important components. Gloves, Mana Core, and Monster Core powder. He smiled.

'Lastly, I just have to put it all together. Let's see, is the recipe real or not?'