Chapter 134: Forging A Weapon

The Hatching Room was thick with ice Elemental Energy. As soon as Su Lun entered, he felt a biting chill. He picked up the depleted Frost Moon Stone and replaced it with a new one.

This low-level ice Elemental Crystal cost thirty Gold Nar each. Basically, one Frost Moon Stone could last for two days. To hatch these Frost Wyverns, just the cost of Frost Moon Stones would be nearly a thousand Gold Nar.

After replacing the Frost Moon Stone, Su Lun checked the thirteen Frost Wyvern eggs in the Hatching Room. These thirteen eggs had no problems; the vitality and ice Elemental Energy inside them were slowly increasing.

This meant the eggs were developing normally. If the vitality inside a Wyvern egg weakened or stopped, it meant that egg was likely dead. A skilled hatching master might have a chance to save it, but Su Lun could only watch helplessly.

After checking the Wyvern eggs, Su Lun got up and left the room. He told two Barbarian Warriors to guard it carefully, then continued his inspection of other parts of the camp.

Next to the Lord’s Castle was the Sugar Workshop. The White Sugar produced by the Sugar Workshop was the biggest source of income for Northguard Keep. However, the White Sugar Trade had ended for the year. Actually, the wild sugar beets collected by Northguard Keep were almost used up.

The area controlled by Northguard Keep now had a diameter of twenty kilometers. The areas close to the keep had been thoroughly searched. To find more sugar beets, they had to look further away. Sugar beets weren’t like wild grass that grew everywhere.

Lately, the teams sent out to dig for sugar beets were finding fewer and fewer. To gather enough raw materials, Su Lun had sent out over twenty groups, totaling six hundred people.

The Sugar Workshop could produce twenty catties of White Sugar per day, amounting to six hundred catties per month. Besides White Sugar, there were also varying amounts of waste molasses and beet pulp. The waste molasses was sent to the Rum distillery, and the leftover beet pulp was used to make silage feed.

Northguard Keep now raised over a hundred Wild Oxen and even more Zebra Antelope and Great Horned Deer. The amount of green feed they consumed daily was very high. One of the most important tasks in the territory recently was storing feed.

Among the slaves bought from Karlt City, many were skilled in raising animals. Even though they hadn’t raised Zebra Antelope, Wild Oxen, or Great Horned Deer before, after a few months, they understood their habits quite well. After the harvest in the territory, besides the potatoes, the leaves and vines were also chopped up to feed the animals.

You could say Su Lun’s territory had now formed a simple industry chain, linking all the current resources together.

Growing sugar beets could be used to make sugar. The waste molasses from sugar making could be used to make alcohol. The beet pulp could be used as feed for the livestock. The livestock manure, after fermenting, could be used to fertilize the fields. A somewhat rough industry chain was built this way.

As long as Northguard Keep didn’t make bad decisions or get overrun by monsters from the Wilderness, the place would become more and more prosperous.

After inspecting the workshops and the animal farms, Su Lun went to the Blacksmith Shop. Near the Blacksmith Shop stood an Iron-smelting Blast Furnace, visible from far away. Due to technical limitations, the blast furnace didn’t always produce steel. After all, Su Lun’s knowledge of iron-smelting was limited, so they had to rely on the craftsmen to figure things out slowly.

Su Lun came here to have a new weapon made. After reaching the Legendary Level, his old spear was no longer suitable. The best weapon forgers in this world were the Dwarves and the Elves. Both races knew how to forge low-carbon steel and carburized steel.

Weapons made from carburized steel were naturally +2, even without enchantments. The best forger in Northguard Keep was Bruce. Su Lun planned to order a new weapon and also asked Heatherway to enchant it.

There were very few blacksmiths with high skills, and even fewer could forge a Legendary Weapon. To forge a Legendary Weapon, besides needing a highly skilled blacksmith, you also needed some supernatural materials, plus a decent Alchemist, and finally, a bit of luck. Only by combining all these could you possibly create a Legendary Weapon.

Right now, Bruce was skilled, but he wasn’t at the master level yet. Heatherway was only an intermediate Alchemist. Advancing as an Alchemist required lots of hands-on experiments and gaining experience to level up. In short, it was built by using lots of materials.

With this team, forging a Legendary Weapon would require their ancestors’ graves to smoke with green mist, or for the Goddess of Fortune to lift her skirt for you. Su Lun was now planning to forge a high-level magic weapon.

“Bruce, can you forge a Supernatural Weapon now?” Su Lun asked as he entered the Blacksmith Shop.

“If I have the materials, I’m about eighty percent sure. But I don’t know Alchemy, so I can’t enchant the weapon,” Bruce said, wiping sweat from his face.

“Don’t worry about the enchanting; I’ll find someone for that,” Su Lun waved his hand. “I have a weapon blueprint here. First, see if you can make it.”

Su Lun spent a thousand Gold Nar in the System shop to buy a Purple Dragon Halberd blueprint. He also bought Meteor Iron, Tungsten Steel, and Purple Crystal to forge the weapon. This set of materials cost five thousand Gold Nar.

Weapons in this world were divided into ordinary weapons, Supernatural Weapons, and Legendary Weapons. Ordinary weapons had no bonuses; they were basic white-grade weapons. Supernatural Weapons were also called magic weapons; the lowest were +1 enchanted or +1 enhanced.

For example, the War Axes used by the Barbarians were +1 Sharp. Experienced blacksmiths sometimes made these; they were considered fine equipment and much more expensive than ordinary weapons. The Centaur Longbow Su Lun bought last time was +2 equipment. These items were also called low-level Magic Items.

As for +3 weapons, Su Lun’s own Steel-Reinforced Bow was one. This belonged to mid-level magic equipment. If Su Lun successfully forged the Purple Dragon Halberd he was planning now, it would be a +4 high-level magic weapon. Those Legendary Weapons started at +5. As for the legendary divine artifacts, Su Lun hadn’t seen any, but he guessed they must be at least +7 or +8 equipment.

After getting the materials, Bruce prepared to start forging. But first, he picked up the Purple Dragon Halberd blueprint to study it. The Purple Dragon Halberd was a type of halberd. Actually, the System shop had even more powerful weapon blueprints, like the Double-Edged Halberd, Dragon Gall Bladder Spear, or Ghost God Double-Edged Halberd blueprints. However, these weapons were at least Legendary Level.

The materials needed for them weren’t sold in the System shop, and there were no master craftsmen to make them either. So, he ultimately chose this Purple Dragon Halberd to forge.