Frostbound

The first action I had to do after evolving was to get to work fixing everyone's gear. Now that I was a blacksmith I had to service all the gear and make sure it was up to snuff.

I took the time to walk Vinny through how I got the class and watched over him for a couple of hours until he unlocked it. Now that there were two of us, work would go a lot faster.

Fixing everyone's weapons was a lot harder than anticipated. Some weren't that bad and were barely used, only requiring a grind down and sharpen, while some would have to be reforged completely. Mark's battle axe was near scrap metal by this point.

Getting the profession didn't make us master blacksmiths and there were still major learning curves to figure out, but Vinny and I were getting the hang of it. I used some of my personal points to buy some more tools we needed and got specific oil used for quenching.

I had no way to tell how much better it made the weapon as everything we made was labeled crude by the system. When I used Identify on the knife that got me my profession it said, [Crude Iron Knife].

All of our starting weapons were the same and had the Crude label. I didn't know what it would take to go above that and we tried to make them the best we could with what we knew.

It took a few days to service all the weapons and the eighth wave came in that time. There wasn't anything of note during the wave and we got through it without any major problem.

My new class was a blast to use and it had me mowing through the enemies. The increase in stats from my evolution and two levels in blacksmith really proved themselves.

Austin was the same way. He didn't tell me what he picked but whatever it was, it was devastating. We didn't tell each other our classes but I did manage to get his affinity out of him. He had the solar affinity.

I guess my joke about the sunflower was more truthful than I thought it was. As soon as he told me I refused to use his name anymore. If I had to get his attention I would call him my little ray of sunshine.

I thought it was hilarious.

He did not.