Chapter 302: Mask
With their business done, Lillia took Monica out to get an order placed for a waitress uniform that would actually fit her. Raen headed back off to return to his guild and begin preparing for any meetings that the Menagerie would set up for them with the Montibeau family, and Arwin found himself once again left to his own devices.
It was a strange sensation to realize that there was absolutely nothing he had to do. He decided that he quite liked it. He had a lot of projects that he wanted to do but hadn’t had a chance to focus on properly before — a chance he’d finally earned.
He strode over to the Infernal Armory without a moment of hesitation. He’d had a fair bit of practice with Cursed Dwarven Smithing now, but not every item he made was going to be cursed.
My raw technique still has a lot of growing that can be done. I won’t let myself make the mistake of relying so much on the magic and the System that I’m crippling the potential strength of the equipment I can make.
He had some practice to do — and he knew just what to practice on.
Arwin had started making the Ivory Executioner Set a long time ago. The chestpiece he wore still wasn’t even technically part of the set, and it still needed boots to be completely finished.
It was about time to rectify that. He still had enough materials to work with from Rodrick and the others’ previous efforts to get him supplies — and he could recycle the chestpiece itself by pulling the magic out of it with Soul Flame and then breaking it down and separating out the parts with the use of lava.
The final set would be composed normal magical items, of course. None of the other pieces in the set were Cursed, so it made no sense to start cursing them now. This was just going to be some old fashioned Dwarven Smithing… and Arwin welcomed it.
Let’s see how far I’ve come in these past few weeks.