Chapter 1355: As thick as his thumb
With the Set of Beashaz finished, all that was left for Seth was to wait for Nädel and Rún to finish Mina’s Set. Then he could hand their new equipment to the both of them. In the meantime, Seth spent his time on planning the engagement dinner while his primary focus was supposed to return to the Sky Dragon Armor.
The plans and blueprints for the set had been pretty much finished during their Meeting of Masters. However, Seth didn't know how long exactly Nädel would need and didn't want to start on making the first set just yet.
That didn’t mean there was nothing he could do now. The full set was not the only thing coming from their meeting. In case someone already had legendary equipment and wouldn’t be able to equip a full set, Seth saved a bunch of designs of individual pieces he could make for those.
Even if they couldn't wear a full set, customized pieces would not fall behind. There were a few candidates that would be unable to don a full set like the one they were designing, Bart, the Chosen of Krios, for example, who wore the Ram Helmet originally made for Mike.
Since the helmet of Krios had technically become his holy armament, he wouldn't be able to wear a complete set. This was why Seth decided to take a small portion of the materials and gather some experience working with the dragon materials. He intended to make a pair of gauntlets, similar to ones proposed by Tored during the meeting.
He chose to make a pair of gloves because Bart was still using the Schooling Gloves that Mike originally wore. That pair of gloves was designed to work together with Mike’s original Flaming Fury sword, raising Swordsmanship, sword damage, and magic damage cast through a sword.
Although he wasn't a very proficient fighter with the sword, things were okay as long as he used the flaming sword and gloves together, but Bart had long since switched to the Axe of Ignoramus, which he had received after the Battle of Delta. His equipment was no longer fitting his skills, and he couldn’t receive a full set because of his helmet.
Bart was a prime example of someone who needed to get smaller sets or individual items, such as the pair of gauntlets. The base design was a shorter traditional mitten design that protected the hand in an articulated shell, instead of individual fingers. They had decided against this design for the final armor because a caster usually needed their finger for gestures.
The blacksmith would forge the armor plating from the legendary dragon scales, while the gloves inside would use the relic-rated wing leather. While the scales had a better defense, the wing leather actually had a slightly higher mana conductivity.
This was something Tored brought up when he suggested this design during the meeting. Not only would it enhance the transmission of magic power between the weapon and the user for skills and spells, but it could also save them some work, as it was simpler than an articulated finger. Unless the user would need to be able to articulate their hand in combat, of course.