The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 2088 A Holy Spear

Eryman followed Rue and Tian into the upper level, and then to the side room where the forge was laid out.

Much to his surprise, they were not alone, and they werenʼt the only ones using advance smithy techniques. There were four Lycans in the forge, creating weapons for the daily supply quota, but curiously, only three of them were finishing the weapons.

”What is is that the last one there is doing? Heʼs clearly an Elder, but heʼs leaving the items incomplete,” Eryman asked.

”Oh, that. Heʼs making weapon blanks for the Runemasters to finish. Itʼs easier for them to upgrade the weapon to Epic or Peerless Grade with runes built on a quality base than it is for a smith to turn out a Peerless Grade weapon on pure skill.

So, one person a day does the blanks. There will be someone doing the same for wooden and stone items as well, over in the carving shop,” Tian explained helpfully.

”You donʼt keep that a secret?”

”You look like the sort that can afford to buy more than one batch of spears.”

Eryman laughed and nodded his head. ”You have a point there. I can afford to buy more than just one batch of spears, and now that I know you can supply such high quality items without gouging me for specific materials, I certainly will.”

Tian gave his best offended look. ”We donʼt gouge. Itʼs just that we run out of some things. But with Runemasters on the staff, we donʼt need as many as most do. Some are still necessary, and we will ask for them if theyʼre needed, but mostly we just accept anything that is useful.

If we donʼt use it for your item, weʼll use it elsewhere, and their trades will go to another. Itʼs a constant supply circle, and it only runs into hiccups when we need too much of the same thing.

Like this holy ore. Weʼve got quite a bit, enough to make all the spears without issue. But if you wanted a full suit of armour for everyone? We might need to ask that you go get more of it for us.”

”Ah, I see how it is. So, if theyʼre not picky about the materials, and they donʼt need a specific element itʼs easier?”

Tian nodded. ”And if they donʼt need it to be supreme or store mana. Those ones are hardest for me. I can do Immortal Rank items mostly with [Earth Manipulation] and some elemental materials to make the alloy.

But Iʼm not Supreme Ranked yet, Iʼm just a baby fox.

Give me some time and Iʼm sure that Iʼll be able to do it, and then we can make your team even better stuff.”

That made Eryman laugh. Better than Epic Grade Supreme Ranked weapons? Could he even afford that? Just getting the materials would be a nightmare. Finding a full group of Legends to do anything was nearly impossible on this world, there werenʼt enough for five or ten to be idle at once.

Plus, they had an all taken on far too many responsibilities, and had mostly given up on the search for Divinity. Eryman was still on the path, but very few of the others were.

They had decided that a few millennia as a Legend wouldnʼt hurt anything, and that few millennia had turned into stagnation. Now, even if they started over, it would take them hundreds of years to really build momentum.

”Well, I will keep that in mind for after you advance. Iʼve got time.”

That made Tian giggle, while Rue patted him on the head.

”Get the metals in the forge, and letʼs get started on the alloy. It will take some time to be ready, and we can prepare the runes to add the bonuses while we wait. That way, there wonʼt be a delay.”

Tian nodded, and turned to Eryman.

”Can you read the ancient Runic languages? If you can, you can proofread our work. If not, we just go over it ourselves one final time before we inlay it on the weapon. We havenʼt had one fail in a while, but you never know.”

The pair fell silent as they began to sketch, each working on a different section, as they had done a hundred times before. It was a well practiced, and once they got close to finished, they set the sections together, and began stitching them with the runes that made everything synchronize.

Then, they reshaped it to work with the spear shape, and ran over the runes again to make sure that they worked as intended.

Eryman watched in silence, wondering what runic language they were using.

It almost looked like old Dwarven, but there were too many unknown runes in the mix. So, it was not Dwarves Forge Runes, but perhaps something that had come before them? Certainly, they couldnʼt mean that it was really one of the Ancient Runic Languages, the ones used by the Ancient Species of the Creatorsʼ Pantheon to build entire worlds?

Karl was an avatar of the World Dragon, so it wasnʼt impossible. But those runes were usually withheld for only the most powerful and favoured of the Immortals, the ones who had a true shot at becoming a Demigod, or who had a bit of blood from the Ancients themselves.

Rue nodded in satisfaction, and explained things to the Legend. ”Alright, it looks good. We will make the first one, and ensure that it actually does what itʼs supposed to before we make the others.

If it falls short, we can just slag it down into ore and alter the runes.”

The molten ores were stirred together and alloyed using [Earth Manipulation] to trigger the chemical bonding, and then shaped flawlessly into the shape of the spear by Tian.

Then, Rue created a floating copy of the runes, and inlaid them all on the weapon in one smooth motion, while Tian blessed it as a Holy Weapon.

{Item Created} Defenders Spear of Justice. Supreme Rank, Epic Grade Holy Weapon. Becomes Peerless Grade in the hands of one Devout in their Faith to the God of Justice. Increases the effect of [Holy Light] by 300 Percent of Spell Power, Increases all Holy Effects by 50 Percent. Adds 150 percent of base damage as Holy Element Damage when attacking. Deals 50 Percent less damage to Holy Element beings.

”One Holy Spear. What do you think?”