47 Weapon and Armor Dealer
She arrived at her destination
A two story building was standing in front of her, the words 'Weapon and Armor Dealer' stood on top of the hanging post, there's no specific name in it unlike the shops she went past just now
At the door there was a sign indicating that it was open. She went inside and was greeted by a counter
"A costumer?" A middle aged man turned around when he heard the sound of the door opening
Seing the counter, Xylene went there while looking around
"A kid?" he muttered "Excuse me young miss, do you have business with the shop?" he said while observing the girl in front of him
"Y-Yes, I was looking for a weapon" Xylene timidly said while popping her head on the counter
'Cute' The middle age man mused to himself, "Were you a member of a guild?"
Xylene popped the Bronze plate on top of her hand
"Ok, Ok, I see, so adventurer's guild huh" He was kind of amazed since children's at her age don't usually had a chance to become one. There was an indication carved within the plate, and it says 'Rank 2', an indication that they are able to possess actual weapons. As for how the small girl managed to acquire the rank, it should be the responsibility of the guild
There is a law in the capital that restricts the regular civilians until rank 1 guild members to possess a weapons, the reason is to avoid violence and protect the safety of the place
Xylene has no idea about this but just nodded to the confirmation and entered the place
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Several rows of weapons were lined up within the room, several items stacked were horizontally positioned on the rack, each and every one of them were a different type. One thing she realized were that the variety here grown even more than the one on the guild. The place even included gauntlets and the likes. Hook swords, Crescent daggers, Crossbows, Horn bows, Long bows, and many more, bundled up in each spots...
She was mused by the sight and imagined what would it be like to hold them within your arms. The feeling of gallantly wielding them and executing several skill like techniques...
But one thing she noticed is that each one of the blades excluded a thin noticeable veil of aura that screams off its sharpness
Unlike the storage room within the guild, this one possesses sharpness. And she knew that they were sharper than the old sword she had before
She browsed them each and every one. The prices also visibly grow higher and higher for each one she walked past into
One thing that took her interest was the prices for greatswords
It started from silver before going past large silver and the last being at the price of gold
This was true seing that they are visually big chunks of iron "Now that I remembered it, were they made out of iron or steel?" out of curiosity she grabbed one short sword to inspect
As soon as her hand touched the hilt, a sudden prompt appeared on her vision, accompanied with a ping
A non-transparent frame, an interference appeared in front of her, along inside her mind, a word appeared aswell
[Blacksmith Skill: <Appraisal> activated]
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Iron forged Shortsword (Tier 1)
▪Durability :(Tier 1)
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She was left there in a daze, frozen, thinking about what just happen right now. A frame appeared out of nowhere and even without her specifically doing anything
If anything, she did exactly think about wanting to get an information, and the frame in front of her did so in response
'hmmmm' She was stuck on thinking and decided to touch the next one on the pile but nothing happened
Seing no response, she thinked once again about wanting to get an information
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Iron forged Shortsword (Tier 1)
▪Durability :(Tier 1)
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The frame reapeared and a word prompt inside her mind...
"So this was a sort of system huh" She was left there in hanging not knowing whether to laugh or not
A frame no less different than a floating paper, adorned and hovering on top of the item. If one were to compare it to Soul Status, this one wins the more eye catching
"But for two systems to appear in one world, this is no joke"
Her mind was on turmoil and distress, she dont know the difference between the two and that she dont know exactly what wrong she did for the two system to switch
She has take things a little seriously for now on. If anything, troubles are meant to come later and that is why she has to make a move now before its too late
She inspected the weapons one after another. All of them were tier 1s, tier 2s, and tier 3s
Tier 1, Iron Forged ones
Tier 1, Fine Iron ones
and Tier 1, Refined Iron ones
They were all made of Iron, she dont know if they even knew how to make steel
"A tier 2?" its called Reinforced Iron, and it specifically comes from a shield
"Oh wait... they do actually have steel!" Steel was marked Tier 2, coming from the rank of regular 'Steel'(Forged), 'Fine Steel', and 'Refined Steel' "Steel was... if I'm not mistaken, it should be made of carbon" it was no ordinary metal and is most compatible with tampering
One thing she was wondering was if its actually possible for one to use Vanadium as a material for making a weapon. Vanadium was mostly used on heavy tools and its weight was notably heavy. Its also used for hammer, and... hmm... it should be possible for axes right?
All in all, weapons are meant to be chosen specifically by the weilder. Also... based on how these sounded, The tiers are meant to diferenciate which is better between them
A rate of S, which she got from the old halberd she made back then, she dont know what tier could that possibly reach and how did she make it end up like that
'Regular process and...' she slapped herself in the face before clutching herself into a ball in the floor...
'What the hell did I do, why did I finish it off after only tampering it one time!. I'm a fool!, I should've done something better!, surely it wasnt because of that right!?' She remembered how one should tamper the iron multiple times to strengthen it, else it would get chipped off way too easily due to how brittle it will ended up
"ugh..." but anyways I am inside a proper shop, filled with proper stuff. If anything, I also wanna learn proper blacksmithing
She looked up one of the walls to observe a crossbow hanging on it. A medieval early crossbow, a type that you can use only by aiming horizontally or else the arrow would just fling off
A few ideas flashed before her eyes, several blueprint of what could possibly be the structure of the modern crossbows
She glanced around her and saw no one around, she tugged it and took it from above, bringing it in front of her
As expected, it really isnt some kind of rubber string, instead it was a plastic kind of tough string
"Weird... hmm" she pulled the string into the hook, directly above the trigger. She can actually see the whole skeletal part of it from inside out, and its entirely made out of wood
*Thush*, she pulled the trigger releasing the string from the hook
"Hmm?" up close and seing it actually work in front of her, she stimulate an image in her mind. The difference and the actual logic of why the string wasn't rubber "If its a rubber string... then..."
1.) The string flings but the direction would then depend on the string itself...
2.) The string would now be less durable because it had to stretch itself, before sooner or later... making it soggy
"Reasonable" she tugged it once again into the hook, the arm of the bow part bends along the way... *Thush* it sprang itself once again
"Then how do metal based crossbow works. Plus those composite bows aswell..."
She returned the crossbow with a conflicted face, if she could recreate those crossbows, her abilities would naturally grow aswell. But that wasn't possible yet, since she was still technically a novice in the art of crafting
"I need to learn something" she remembered the school mentioned before, and she groaned in dissatisfaction, it was technically considered 'end of the school' when she left her old world, and now, not even 2 week has passed and shes literally back to school once again 'If this isnt abuse, then how would you call it!?'
She grabbed the sword she fancied from before, a similar type single bladed rapier, but with its guard different than before. A guard that also guarded the whole hilt... an arm guard if it wasnt obvious. The hilt was modified to something you could use to pull it out, along with its blade being different than the piercing type. Its a totally specialized rapier at the price of 5 Blue silver, and its also the highest cost in the bunch
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Fine Steel Rapier (Tier 2)
▪Durability :(Tier 2)
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She also grabbed the sheath made of leather that was priced at 8 copper, a huge difference than the actual weapon
She dont know if leathers were pretty common since back then they are literally costy
She walked around and found no trace of any armor until she met the stairs on the far end of the room
She went her way upward and finally saw a bunch of armors and stuffs around. There are 3 dividers here and a total of 4 division
This one had signs in it...
Unarmored, Accessories, Light armor, and Heavy armor
She dont know why exactly was it named Unarmored, but after seing it from her position, she could see Leather coats, Leather robes, Leather armors, and the likes
Seing lots of leather works, her interest was piqued and its the first place she visited... only to get slightly disappointed due to finding her initial size not matching any of the displayed stuffs, exept for few exceptions. And those exceptions were the ones built with adjustable belts... it was a heaven sent and she immediately look for matching one...
Her excitement didn't last long when she remembered that she has to consider herself being a female, mostly... or like everything she took a liking were male looking, with only few that was unisex...
She considered it before checking the accessories corner. The accessories were... in a sense... were actually mostly accessories... Circlet, Bracer, Bracelet, Necklace, and finally Mask. One thing that made it into a division however was what mostly fill the rest, and that was the miscellaneous stuffs like Belts, Belts with pocket, Knapsack, Sling bag, Traveling bag, and all things considered necessary...
"Ooooh" her eyes were sparkling due to the finds, well she's in dire need to be exact, but shes also hesitating till she saw the prices tagged in them... kind of affordable... only if she knew how much they value in this world
Now, after seing the stuffs she needed most, she was already satisfied...
Out of curiosity she visited the heavy armor division
Plate Armor, Scale Armor, Chain mail, Plate mail, and the likes. Each and everyone radiated how heavy they were, and also they are all made out of metal. One thing she noticed was that each and everyone in here was made and priced as a set. Its also visible how pricy they were...
Distressed, she visited the Light armor corner, and saw a group of people browsing in there. She immediately got tensed up making her shut up almost immidiately
Even while on tension she still browsed around but didnt went in deeper to where the group was...
Plated armor, Light Chainmail armor, Armored Vest, Plated Vest, and few more on deeper parts. Some were made as a set but the others weren't. What she liked most was the plated gauntlet which arent part of a set... She liked it and decided to take it along. She didn't get to see the plated boots which were on the deeper parts but she was plenty satisfied
She went back to each division and picked up all the items she chose before heading into one spot...
Fine Steel Rapier (Tier 2)
Leather Sheath -----
Leather Hoodie (Tier 1)
Leather Boots (Tier 1)
Iron Plated Gloves (Tier 1)
Sling Bag (Tier 1)
Belt with Pocket (Tier 1)
She immidiately gulped the moment her eyes laid on the items on her hand, they were very very costy. She could feel the sweat pouring on her face as her mind swirls into distress. Is this how it actually feels like whenever I spend my money big time right after I earned them in-game? "I swear, I will definitely die if this was a gatcha" she huffed as she bundle them together and count out the total cost...
A whopping total of 6 Large Silver and 1 Silver... or exactly 6100 Si. one that costed more was the Rapier(5 Large Silver) and the Hoodie which specifically had a color of black(7 Silver). At most the price ranged from bronze to silver
However, this rolled back to her remembering the value of coins...
Gold coin was 100 Large Silver so it still had some change. However she had to bear the burden of who knows how heavy amount of Large Silver, luckily... this was where the Sling bag would pop in...
Now... the real question was...
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Do they have a fitting room?
