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He found that meditation brought a lot of energy into the cultivator's body and only through battles could this energy be purified and assimilated into his body, that is, he could level up fighting after a lot of meditation, because even just by defeating enemies he could gain experience.
Nicola took the rest of the day to go to two places, the first was Banco Pluto, where he deposited the money his staff had collected and asked for the items given as tournament prizes to be delivered to him through a small teleport matrix , which he gained access to after becoming a VIP customer, of course he paid the activation and handling costs.
With the amount of money he deposited this time, he was elevated to a VIP bank customer, second only to gold level cultivators. These cultivators used to keep their worldly riches in banks, but their true natural treasures were kept in their own space artifacts.
The second place he visited was the mercenary guild, he upgraded his medal to one of eight silver stars. So he used his merit points to get information about the auctions that will take place in the country. Nicola had a hidden agenda to fulfill and it would be essential to building his strength. He was especially looking for information about materials to build, magical tower cores, and information about races with abilities he found interesting and their locations.
Having got what he wanted he went back to the inn to meet his staff before continuing on his journey. They would spend another week discussing plans and building up their backlog of items to sell before leaving.
Nicola couldn't wait any longer before putting into practice what he had learned from Brianna's twin hammers. He thought he could create a prototype of his own technique after observing the workings of that weapon. The fight was very quick and he didn't have time to get close enough after the fight was over, but he used his elemental eyes at all times to catch the workings of those pseudo cores that caught his attention.
Normally in artifact forging, a blacksmith didn't differ much from an alchemist at first. His first activity was to prepare the ingredients that would form the final item. However, unlike the alchemist who extracted the medicinal essence from the items, the blacksmith melted and compressed the entire mass together with the special characteristics of the ingredients into a single mass that would shape his final item.
For example, to manufacture a space ring required the Karsus Ore to be placed on a worktable and it would be compressed as many times as possible depending on its purity level to form space rings. Metal itself has the ability to maintain a stable space within itself. However, the blacksmith leverages this ability and uses other techniques such as blood binding and spiritual marking to ensure that the artifact is of high quality.
The twins bracelet is a good example, the materials used in both were a metallic alloy of Karsus Ore and other metals so that it was possible to withstand the other spells that were imbued in them, some of these spells like shield and appearance change could not be reproduced with a specific material, so they were engraved in resistant materials that had the ability to maintain the energy released by the runes that formed the corresponding spells and these spells were maintained by the energy of the core of magical beasts and mana crystals embedded in the surface of the bracelets.
That is, there were two main ways of producing artifacts: using the ability of the material itself to show desired effects and recording a circuit of spells in a resistant material with an energy source to make it work the way it needs to.
Nicola's space artifact for example had the ability to keep living beings inside because of the materials that made it up, but Cassius coupled two more life-saving spells inside it. Nicola had never used any of these spells as he still didn't want to reveal trump cards. And since a gold-level artifact could help him for a long time ahead, he hadn't revealed such secrets.