Forging

While Auruelle was eating her dumpling, Zhen Lun opened his inventory and combined his soul and blood fragment into one.

With the wraith soul and blood essence ready, he opened his crafting menu to craft the available weapon.

[???]

Required Material:

10/10 Ghoul's Bone (Any type)

50/50 Ghoul's Claw (Any type)

1/1 Wraith Soul

[Due to your skill in your forging, the chance to successfully craft the weapon was only 1%]

[Additonal for your 39 LUK you receive another 7.8% of success rating]

[Do you want to craft the weapon?] Yes/No

'So that's what the bar that appeared for, it was displaying my forging skill.' The bar below his experience bar appeared recently. He didn't know what it's for until now.

Zhen Lun unequipped the cursed ring and increased the chance of success to 16.8%.

Though it's still quite low, there's no harm for him to try crafting it. He can always grind for more soul fragments.

Ding*

[Forging Progressing]

[You successfully crafted 'Mourning Claw']

[Relic Weapon, Mourning Claw]

Required: Level 30

Effect: +10 to basics stats +10 AGI

Attack Power: 5200-5500

Additional Skill:

[Lifesteal]

Passive Skill, Allow Player to restore health when attacking enemies.

(Turning 10% of the damage that has been dealt into health points)

As he finished crafting the claw, the forging's experience bar immediately filled up.

[Forging Skill leveled up]

The claw instantly appeared onto his hand. The handle was made of ghoul's bone and skull, with the eyes on the skull glowing eerily, releasing chilly mists.

'A claw?' Holding the claw on his hand, he examined its stats.

"flmmpf flmmpf flfff flath mmmph" Auruelle spoke with her mouth fulls.

Gulped*

"I'm sorry, where did you get that?" She gulped them down in one go.

"I crafted it." Zhen Lun replied. It wasn't true but the system was part of him so he wasn't lying to Auruelle either.

"You? You're lying, it's impossible for you to craft it. I bet you didn't even know how to hold a hammer" With a glance, she could tell how it was made.

Ignoring her, Zhen Lun moved to the next item that he could craft. This time he was going to craft the one that needed Ghoul's blood essence.

With his forging skill now increased to level two, the rate of success was increased to twenty percent.

[Forging progressing]

[You successfully crafted 'Bloody Ripper']

[Relic Weapon. Bloody Ripper]

Required: Level 30

Effect: +15 AGI +40 Attack Speed +20 Movement Speed

Attack Power: 5000-5500

Additional Skill:

[Bleeding]

Passive Skill, Allow Player to deal 'Bleeding' effect when attacking enemies

(Bleeding make the enemy lose 1% of their health every second)

Just like that he successfully crafted them even though the percentage of success was quite low.

'It's another claw again.' The Blood Ripper appeared out of thin air, above his palm. It almost looked the same as Morning Claw but the bones were red-colored and the eyes on the skull were releasing bloodlust aura with red mist.

Checking his crafting menu, he discovered a new choice for him to choose.

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Required Material:

1/1 Mourning Claw

1/1 Bloody Ripper

50/50 Cursed Golem Flesh

Zhen Lun clicked on it, he was relieved to see that the golem flesh that he collected can be used by him.

[With your low-level skill the chance for you to success was 0%]

[Due to your 79 LUK the success rate was increased to 4%]

'...Only four percent?' Zhen Lun was contemplating whether should he tried his luck or not.

All of his luck must have been used in crafting blood ripper and mourning claw, he doubts he will succeed again.

After a few seconds of his considerations, he clicked yes.

[Forging progressing]

[You failed to forge 'Cursed Claw']

[You received 'Cursed Golem Flesh' from the lump]

[Your forging skill leveled up]

"That's... you summoned the golem?" Auruelle was shocked to see the flesh on Zhen Lun's hand. The trembling that happened just now was because of the golem.

"Yeah, It suddenly appeared out of nowhere." He never expected that he could spawn a boss from ghouls' blood.

"Did you not get injured as you climbed up the floor?" Auruelle asked.

"Their weak attacks can't injure me even if I stood still." Zhen Lun bluntly said. He wasn't wrong saying that confidently. The only thing that can deal damage to him were the wraiths.

On this floor, he was bothered with their unusually high physical attack resistance, that's what made this floor tougher even though he has become much stronger than before compared to the first time he arrived.

"Too weak? This is Hell Dungeon!" Auruelle cried out.

"Did you possibly killed the ghouls and skeletons using physical attack?" Auruelle asked with a tint of fear in her tone.

"Yeah, I only have a few fire elemental skills with me. To save my skill for the wraith, I was forced to beat them up repeatedly until they die."

"You... What level you're on right now?"

"Thirty."

"Then, how much strength do you have?"

"Over seven hundred." His strength was upped by the new pieces of equipment that he wore.

"Seven Hundred?!" Auruelle was utterly shocked. "What kind of class is a martial artist?"

It's normal for him to have over seven hundred. Each time he brokethrough his stats will change drastically. Especially during the transcendent mortal realm, each stage gave him a hundred of every basic stats.

"You sure you're class weren't hero?" She can't believe that Zhen Lun was much more overpowered than the mage that she feared. Other than that, she believed his class was comparable to Hero too.

"The hero class you're talking about, how much strength will he has when he reaches this floor?" Zhen Lun wanted to compare himself with the hero she talked about.

"Hero was a growth-type class, Their growth rate was much faster than normal people. For normal people, they only gain 5-10 stats every level but Hero class gets 30-100 stats every level, depending on what kind of hero."

"Other than that, they could also learn any skill they wanted to learn, which was the most outstanding trait of being a hero. Of course, there are limits to it so they need to choose wisely."

"Judging from the strongest hero I've met, which beaten a blood golem, as you did too. He has over a thousand strength stats. By the way, How much is your agility?"

"Almost six hundred."

"...Your class is broken." Auruelle was depressed as she heard that. She pitied the hero that was weaker than Zhen Lun.

Her image of a hero was all broken to pieces by Zhen Lun, it was turned into an ordinary-looking man. (Zhen Lun looked ordinary to her, as every hero she met was very handsome, compared to his appearance)

'My image of Hero...' Auruelle cried.

"Can you tell me about the treasure you're talking about? If not I'm going to the next floor." he has stayed in her shop for quite long already.

"...The treasure, I'm sure you obtained a worn-out looking weapon right?" Auruelle got back to nibbling the rest of her dumplings as there are only a few lefts. Before Zhen Lun left, she wanted to eat all of them.

'Worn-out weapon?' There's indeed one in his inventory, it was a sword.

The sword didn't seem to be useable to him. He left it there because his inventory menu has plenty of space to spare.

"It's actually part of a legendary weapon, it's one of the benefits I mentioned for entering Hell-mode dungeon. By opening a hidden chest, you'll found the part that needed to restore the worn-out sword to his original ability."

'Legendary weapon? Is it a top-ranked weapon?' No matter how hard he tried to imagine, the worn-out looking sword didn't look like a reliable to him.

"Most of the heroes entered hell-mode for the weapon, depending on their specialty, they receive the corresponding weapon. Judging from your looks, you must receive a sword." Auruelle explained.

"I see, thank you for your information." Zhen Lun left and head to the next floor.

"Un..." Auruelle nodded and replied as she sighed inwardly.

...

...

Arriving at the next floor, the temperature dropped drastically. The wraiths' attack got stronger but he's totally fine as he could dodge them.

On this floor, when he confronted the ghoul, the blood it left actually attacked him. Just like Blood Golem, the blood turned into a creature.

[Parasite Blood]

HP: 10000/10000 MP: 0/0

'What happened?' Zhen Lun was shocked.

The blood was sticking on his leg, trying to gnaw on it but he's too tough for the blood to deal some damage to him. He only felt ticklish when the blood try to bite him.

Using his fire mastery, he easily finished the parasite blood. It turned into dust as soon as a tiny fire touched it. It was weak toward fire too.

Other than moving blood, the rest were the same. The ghouls got tougher so did the skeleton. In a few hours as he grinds his way, he found the checkpoint area where the stairs and Auruelle resided.

"Do you have more dumplings?" When she saw Zhen Lun, her mouth was drooling. The dumplings were finished by her, she wanted more.

"No, I needed them. Once I leave this place, I'll bring more for you." He'll be staying in the dungeon for a while. He needed food to fill his stomach. Even though he's at transcendent mortal, he still needed to eat at least once, every two days.

"Stingy..." Auruelle became grumpy.

"Bye."

"Stingy!" Auruelle kept pouting like a child.

...

...

On the 19th floor, if he's not wrong, the monster will undergo massive changes and receive new skills.

Back when he's on the ninth floor, the goblins gained a new skill that almost got him killed. He has learned his lesson at that time.

Arriving on the nineteenth floor, as usual, the first monster he saw was a wraith.

As the wraith was close enough it started its attack. the damage per second it dealt was increased to fifteen damage every second.

Zhen Lun didn't kill it instantly as he wanted to find out if it has any new skill.

The wraith suddenly did an unusual action that he never saw before. It tries to dive into his body but Zhen Lun dodged it.

'It's a new skill.' He could easily recognize it as it was unusual behavior from the wraith.

Checking his surroundings, Zhen Lun ensured no one was near him. He wanted to try to receive the new attack from the wraith.

Since the wraith was afraid of the holy element, he pours the holy water over his body.

As the wraith about to dive again, he didn't try to dodge it. It managed to pass through his body.

The moment it did, his senses became unstable.

[Affected Confusion]

He suddenly can't feel or hear anything. His mind became unstable as that happened.

Three seconds passed and he's back to normal again. During those three seconds, he didn't know what he did. He found himself near the stairs, he was no longer at where he stood formerly.

'That is dangerous!' Zhen Lun was sweating badly, the experience was horrible. He was inside a pitch-darkness and he can't do anything at all. It was similar to goblin's taunt but worse. In this state, his mind wasn't completely his anymore. It was out of his control.

'Definitely not doing it anymore.' From now, he makes sure to avoid it no matter what.

The second time he saw a wraith, he will instantly kill it without hesitation.

Next, was to check the ghoul out, what kinds of skill it has.

The moment it saw him, it became enraged throwing itself at him. The blood on its body evaporated and it formed a black mist, using its claws it swipes down ferociously.

'It was faster.' Zhen Lun was grazed by its claws but it still won't pierce his tough skin.

'Good, the only thing that could damage him, for now, was wraith's death aura.'

Zhen Lun started his counter-attack, punching it repeatedly with his bare hands.

A few minutes passed and the ghoul finally died by his hands.

'Three hundred and twenty-four punches. What a tough one.' The previous floor, it only could take over a hundred punches from him. It became twice tougher than before.

Lastly, the skeleton knight. It took him a while before he could lure one to a quiet place.

'Let me see what you got.' Without hesitation, he rushed at him and throw his punches like what he did to the ghoul.

Waiting for new skill from the skeleton knight but nothing happened until he shaved off all of its health points.

Its body lied on the floor lifelessly but there's something wrong. Usually, it would be turned to blue particles.

'Hm?' The skeleton on the floor suddenly rise up again, its health was restored to the brim and was livelier than ever.

'It was revived?'

Zhen Lun repetitively used his bare hands to kill the skeleton knight. When the skeleton knight's health points hit zero it was revived again.

'Did it became immortal?' He wasn't convinced that the skeleton cannot die.

Instead of using his physical attack, he decided to go all out. Summoning his clones out, he executed fiery palm and fireball.

The skeleton was instantly killed with all of his skills released. It was a bit overkill but it was to ensure that it was dead.

[You received 150000 Experience points]

[You received 'Skeleton's Bones']

[You received 18000 Gold]