Chapter 300
Chapter 300. Crafting a Weapon
After Fulan completed the fourth-sequence Modification Surgery, she discovered something wrong with her voice.
Previously, her voice had been rather ordinary and had no particular distinguishing quality, but now it was different.
“Hello...”
Fulan casually said a few words. It was very easy to recognize that the timbre of this voice was still her original voice, but...
She could hear the gentle emotion within it. Merely listening to it made one instinctively feel favorable toward her, as though returning to a warm harbor...
“This effect is a little too strong, but it is not as though I cannot explain it to others...”
Fulan’s voice had changed greatly, but overall, people who were familiar with Fulan would still be able to recognize that it was her voice.
“And in truth, I have not adapted to these vocal cords yet. My Mental Power cannot freely control the activation of these vocal cords. After a few days pass, this effect should weaken a little.”
Fulan made up her mind. Before her Mental Power completely controlled this organ, it would be best for her not to meet people who were familiar with her, so as to avoid trouble.
Then Fulan opened her panel and looked at the traits column. Now she had two new traits.
[Aquatic Creature (After undergoing modification, you can now freely survive in water.)]
[Siren’s Voice (The Siren’s vocal cords have given you a voice beyond the mortal realm. Your voice can begin to entice or control others. The difficulty depends on the difference between your Mental attributes.)]
Fulan looked at the two new traits that had appeared on the panel. To her right now, these two traits were better than nothing. They did not bring her any substantial increase in combat strength at all.
However, the reason she chose to undergo modification at this time was that before returning to the Material Realm, she had gone to the Adventurers’ Guild at the market.
The other party had informed her that the First-Tier Monster she wanted might possibly be hunted within the next few days.
That was why she had hurriedly completed the previous few sequences of modification. If her commission was completed before the Trial of the Sun began, she could modify herself to the fifth sequence and slightly enhance her own strength.
“Now I need to start making a temporary weapon.”
Fulan adapted slightly to the newly added organs in her body, then began the next step.
She took out the Dragon Blood and Dragon Bone she had obtained from the Spirit Realm. They were all materials from the Second-Tier dragon Fulan had killed in Monsa.
There was no helping it. Materials of this kind from the Second Tier usually had to be reserved at least a week in advance before she could obtain them, but what she lacked most right now was time.
Left with no other choice, she set her sights on the Second-Tier dragon she had killed. Although the materials from its body had declined somewhat in quality due to the long passage of time, Fulan was not picky.
She felt that as long as she had materials, that was enough. Even if these dragon materials had dropped in quality due to time, they were still genuine Second-Tier materials.
Under these circumstances, only extremely top-tier First-Tier materials could possibly be better than these dragon materials.
But that kind of material had a problem Fulan could not ignore, which was that there was absolutely no way for her to obtain such materials in a short period of time.
Although she had already reserved the materials she had taken a liking to, it was very unlikely that she would receive them before participating in the Trial of the Sun.
There was not even any guarantee that she could obtain them within a month.
So she could only give up on buying the best materials all at once and instead begin using these dragon materials as a transitional option.
Fulan once again looked at the materials in her hands. It was not only the Dragon Heart. Fulan had brought over the dragon’s bones, as well as some Dragon Tendons. This could be considered stripping that dragon of its tendons and bones.
Fulan shook her head, pressed those thoughts down in her heart, then began focusing on what weapon she should craft next.
If she were now trying to craft a usable Second-Tier weapon, she would have wanted to make a staff.
That was because things were different from the First Tier. At the First Tier, the enhancement provided by a staff was relatively small.
It was not even as useful as the combat strength she gained by using a sword and fighting in melee.
So at the First Tier, although she knew a staff could strengthen her spells, she had always lacked interest in using one, precisely because the enhancement was too small.
But once she reached the Second Tier, the situation was different. At this stage, not only did spell power multiply, but the improvement in materials also made the enhancement provided after crafting a staff much greater.
So she had no reason not to make a staff as her weapon, but...
“The quality of these materials is somewhat inferior. And among the spells I currently have, the only ones that seem able to benefit from the enhancement of a Dragon Bone Staff are Fireball enhanced by Dragon Flame and spells related to the earth element.”
Using Dragon Bone as a staff did provide some enhancement to all spells, but that enhancement was still rather weak. The true enhancement lay in abilities related to dragons.
Moreover, even so, the enhancement a Dragon Bone Staff provided to the above spells was still inferior to some Second-Tier materials. Using Dragon Bone purely to make a staff was somewhat unsuitable.
Real Dragon Bone was more suitable for making certain melee weapons or bows. As the bone of a dragon, it was an extremely top-tier material in terms of physical attacks.
The problem was that Fulan currently did not possess a Second-Tier melee profession. Even if she crafted this weapon and used all of her melee techniques, at most, she could fight an Emissary like Heather.
In the Trial of the Sun, Fulan had found a bug. Although Sunflame Knight was a Second-Tier profession, normally speaking, this trial should be participated in by Professionals of the First Tier and below.
Even if those Second-Tier people participated in this trial, they would not obtain this profession, because there was no meaning in doing so.
But Fulan had the panel. As long as she completed the requirements on it, she could obtain the Sunflame Knight profession. So participating in this trial was meaningful for Fulan.
In this Trial of the Sun, Fulan could use her abilities as an Elite Mage of the Elemental School, making her chances of victory even higher.
So logically speaking, since crafting a melee weapon was not particularly good, Fulan’s best choice right now was to use the Dragon Bone to make a staff. However...
“I still have a third choice...”
Just as classic Western fantasy professions had the three classic roles of warrior, mage, and priest, Fulan could also choose to craft priest equipment.
After Fulan entered now, her identity would be that of the Emissary of the Lord of Radiance. Crafting a specialized weapon could just happen to reinforce her identity.
For this purpose, Fulan even deliberately recalled what weapon the Bishop of the Church of the Goddess of the Currents had been holding when she encountered her last time...
Then Fulan discovered that she had absolutely no impression of what the Bishop had held, as though the other party had not held anything at all.
“Forget it. I remember those Church Warriors held some rather special weapons. I can just refer to the weapons of those Church Warriors.”
As she said this, Fulan looked at the skills related to Radiant Priest on her panel. Among them was one skill that did not look like it belonged purely to a backline ranged attacker.
[Holy Light Strike (Proficient) (Proficiency: 1034/10000)]
This proficiency had come from the skill being released along with the rune “Lord of Radiance” on her longsword whenever she used it. Even now, it had not increased much.
However, with this skill present, she thought that no matter how one looked at it, this profession could not be considered a purely backline profession.
“I can simply make it into a large club, then use some methods on it to strengthen Divine Spells. That way, this weapon can serve two purposes.”
The more Fulan thought about it, the more she felt that this idea was excellent. When the time came, she could also use it to roughly disguise her spellcasting level.
Fulan took a deep breath, selected a relatively large Dragon Bone, and used Telekinetic Hand to place it in the air.
She first sprinkled some Dragon Blood over it. The instant the Dragon Blood touched the Dragon Bone, that red liquid adhered to the pale Dragon Bone.
Because Dragon Blood and Dragon Bone were originally both products from within a dragon-type creature, the Dragon Blood did not make a sizzling sound when it was sprinkled over it.
Then Fulan began polishing the Dragon Bone, shaping it into a large club. This process went very smoothly for Fulan, and it took only ten minutes to complete most of it.
After that, Fulan began recalling the weapons in the hands of the Church Warriors of the Church of the Goddess of the Currents.
She noticed that those weapons all had some unusual patterns on them, and almost all of the Church Warriors’ weapons emitted a distinctive fluctuation.
According to Fulan’s speculation, those patterns were likely unique patterns used to release the Divine Spells of the Goddess of the Currents, while that fluctuation was most likely produced by a special weapon-manufacturing method unique to the Church of the Goddess of the Currents.
When it came to Fulan, however, trying to refer to these two ideas was somewhat difficult.
Because, judging from what she had seen in the current Monsa, even the Second-Tier Lyle did not have any proper priest weapon on him.
Just thinking about it was enough to know that the Lord of Radiance had not developed a method for crafting weapons for his faith.
Although Fulan had Habos’s instruction, and although she herself possessed Extraordinary-level knowledge of Forging and a deep understanding of weapon crafting, that understanding did not include the contents of priest weapons.
If she could obtain a weapon from the Church of the Goddess of the Currents, then perhaps after studying it for a while, she might be able to work something out. But the current Fulan clearly did not have the conditions to do that.
Then what should she do now? Fulan had long since prepared for this. She took out the Radiance that still had two uses remaining and directly used one of them.
When she had used it in the Spirit Realm last time, Fulan had discovered that this Radiance seemed able to produce all sorts of functions according to her own thoughts.
“I want the weapon before me to enhance my Divine Spells.”
After a burst of light flashed, Fulan saw golden patterns appear on her Dragon-Bone Club.
Relying on her keen perception toward light, Fulan could sense that the patterns on it were glowing faintly, and they also emitted a fluctuation similar to what she had felt from the divine statue of the Lord of Radiance.
“Compared to directly using this Radiance in battle, I feel that using it to manufacture weapons and equipment is the true way this Radiance should be used,” Fulan sighed.
Her eyes drifted toward the patterns on the Dragon-Bone Club. Perhaps she could use these patterns as a reference to craft priest equipment in the future.