Moonlight Forge [Crafting]

[Awatsuki]

After earning some money by hunting and gathering materials I was exploring this world a little. Soon I realised that I need much better Equipment if I wish to survive. I look on the startor armor and Katanas with a sigh. "I realy need better equipment..." I mumble to myself and open my diary. In the diary there are many sketches for armor and weapons I was planning to create. "Alright... This would be the best way since buying equipment would be a waste of money..." I mumble as I look around in the Londonium City. I walk through it and finally I find a small abandoned forge building. "Alright... It's small but it will be enought..." I look through it. It's a normal corner building with a smithing forge and other equipment in the ground floor with a small flat above it. In the end after thinking for a while I decide to puschare it with the money I earned. "Alright... Let's get started..." I mumble and walk inside.

Inside it's quite a mess... That explains why it was so cheap... I think as I sigh. "Well... I will clean this mess quickly and get to work. The higher level of my crafting class will be the better equipment will I wear." I say as I look around to motivate myself and start cleaning the place up. It took me two or three hours to clean the ground floor and other twoo or three hours to clean the upper floor. In the end I sigh and take a Blacksmith's Apron atop of my equipment and adjust it. Then I go over to the materials I put on a simple table there and look on them. "Well... That should be quite enough." I mumble to myself... Then I go over to the iron signboard I found there. There was a silver moon displayed over an anvil with the letters saying "Moonlight Forge". I smile lightly and walk out of the builning and hang the iron signboard there after cleaning it. Then I return and open my notes preparing the materials and equipment again.

"Let's get started for real now..."

[Words: 359]

[Awatsuki]

I go over to the table with materials and grab the notes. "Hmm... So... Metal, Coal and Quencher, right?" I mumble to myself as I look through the materials I have on the table. I take the Iron Ingot and check it. It's not that high quality but I guess that with so low level of my crafting subclass I would just mess up with higher level material. I look on the note again.

Wakizashi (Metal Equipment)
Materials Required: 1 Metal, 1 Coal, 1 Quencher
Requirement: Level 1 Blacksmith

I grab the coal and go over to the forge and throw the coal inside. The forge starts emiting pleasant heath as I use the blacksmith tongs in my left hand to heat the iron ignot inside it. I keep using the bellows by steping on them again and again to increase the temperature in the forge. Finally I notice that it's high enough and I take the Iron ignot out the red-hot metal ingot and lay it on the anvil. "Well... It isn't tamahagane but it will work..." I mumble to myself. I grab the blacksmithing hammer with the other hand and start the hammering. Clang. Clang. Clang. Clang. I hear the sound of hammer striking the red-hot iron shaping it slowly. It probably works quicker than the reality but that's how the world of Elder Tales works. Finally I form a large metal plate and look on it. "Now I should bend it again and again to form the shape of the blade..." I mumble to myself again and start heathing the metal in the forge again.


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[Awatsuki]

When the temperature rises again and the metal plate is red-hot again I take it out with blacksmith tongs again. I take it outside and lay it on the anvil pushin few mischievous locks out of my face. I don't have the level or high quality material to make it. So a basic Maru type katana will be enough. Maru... The most cheap type of Katana. It breaks my heart to do such thing but I don't have any other choice. I would realy like to make a Honsemai or Kobuse type blade but I would need much better materials. Not this cheap steel. I sigh and start bending the metal. Over and over again. Over and over again. Heathing it again. Bending over and over again. Hammering and bending. Hammering and bending. And finally after this long time a wakizashi-blade shaped red-hot metal appears before me.

"Huh... That's harder than I thought..." I mumble to myself. I go over to the table again and grab two big leather gauntlets. I grab the metal again now and walk towards the quencher. I cool it of steam rising from around it. I continue to carefully cooling it more and more steam around. Then I take it out and observe it. I smile lightly. When I will finish the grip and polish the blade it will be nice and much better than the basic starter Katana. "Much better weapon to start living in this world... I guess that with this one I will be able to fight my oponents much efectively." I say to myself as I observe the blade and look for any errors on the blade. Then I slowly walk over to the table, laying down the blackmith tongs and blacksmithing hammer near the anvil.

[Words: 291]

[Awatsuki]

"Alright... Now I should create the grip and sheat and finish the weapon." I mumble to myself as I take the materials prepared to make the scabbard and grip. I check each one of the materials and also I observe the scabbard of starter Katana which gave me an idea how to create a scabbard for it. I move hair out of my face and glance over the items on the desk with the gaze of my red eyes. I take the materials and start working on the grip slowly forming the each part into the perfect shape. I adjust it on the metal and take the cloth to make the wraping around the handle. Slowly and carefully without even a single error I make a perfect grip. Then I move to create the scabbard and prepare it. That took me an hour of carefull moving of the materials to make the perfect scabbard for my Wakizashi. I lay the scabbard aside and take the polishing stones.

I sit in a comfy chair and start polishing it with quite good polishing stone with a rough grain. Normally it takes week to polish such quality weapon but the system there makes it faster, and since I'm not making the best quality Wakizashi with the best materials it will take much less time. I swich the stones again and again. It takes me more than three hours to finish my work. I use finer and finer grains of polishing stones in this process. It's called glazing. I continue until the blade has a mirror finish. I clean the blade to finish my work and put it inside the scabbard laying the finished weapon on the table with a sigh of relieve. A status text for the Wakizashi appears.

Fine Wakizashi: Item level 1. It's a fine Wakizashi created by Awatsuki. The metal and other materials used to create it aren't the best which lower it's quality but anyways it's a fine and sharp weapon which is on much higher level than the starter gear. The blade is long 45cm.

"Nice..." I mumble and attach it to my side instead of one Starter Katana.

[Words: 360]
[Craft cost: 15xItem level=15 (*sigh*)]
[Item created: Fine Wakizashi, Item level 1]
[Description of the created item: It's a fine Wakizashi created by Awatsuki. The metal and other materials used to create it aren't the best which lower it's quality but anyways it's a fine and sharp weapon which is on much higher level than the starter gear. The blade is long 45cm.]

[Awatsuki]

"I guess I could craft better armor too." I think to myself as I walk over to the table with materials and notes again. I grab one of those notes and look through it. "I will use this one... Just few little... Changes..." I say when I draw few aditional things to the armor. I'm an assassin. Chainmail armor gives me the advantage of beter protection, but it's heavier and it makes noise when I'm not carefull. I draw few aditional parts. There... And there... Yes... This should do. I add separate parts trying to figure out how to do the rest, continuing to design my new armor which should be the best armor for my combination of Class and side-classes. Alright. Now let's check the materials needed... I think as I look across the table.

Basic Assassin Chain (Metal Equipment)
Materials Required: 1 Metal, 1 Coal, 1 Quencher, 1 Farbic, 1 Thread
Requirement: Level 1 Blacksmith

The armor I designed looked like a regular japaneese leather/cloth assassin armor. The only difference is that to few parts were added more protective parts. On the left side there are few metal plates. Also metal gloves and few metal plates on the heavy leather boots. It seems that it's kind of useless but it protects all the vital parts and limbs. The only part which is made of chain armor in the stomach area. "This will be harder I guess..." I sigh and take the materials from the table, choosing a cheap steel ingot, coal, quencher, pieces of farbic and leather and corase thread.

[Words: 245]

[Awatsuki]

I start by forging those plates. I take the coal and go over to the forge throwing the coal inside. The forge starts emiting pleasant heath once again as I use the blacksmith tongs in my left hand to heat the steel ingot inside it. I keep using the bellows by steping and stomping on them again and again to increase the temperature in the forge. Finally the heath increases as I look on the steel ingot. It's red hot now. I take it out of the forge with blacksmith tongs grabbing it and holding it on the Anvil. With other hand I grab the blacksmithing hammer and start hammering. Clang. Clang. Clang. Clang. The sound of my hammer fills the smithy as my mighty strikes of my hammer re-shape the ingot into a plate. Finally when I manage to form the plate I cut it in smaller pieces with other various smithing tools.


I take the biggest one, grabbing it with the blacksmith tongs, and take it to the forge, heathing it again to the red-hot phase just to reshape it to bend it lightly. I do the same with one plate of similar size. Grab it, take it to the forge, heath it, hammer it, bend it, give it it's finil shape. When I create three of those plates and cool them down in the quencher I take few small rivets. I take them and slam them into the hot steel to force it together overlapping it lightly. I connect those three plates with rivets, adding few aditional parts too and then cool them down in the quencher. I take it out and look for any errors. Then I lay it aside with a smile. I take four smaller plates. Each time I heat them until they're red-hot and reshape them to bend them lightly. Then finally I connect them again adding few aditional parts. I do the same with other four plates of the same shape and create second thing. Theese will be the armor I will add to the gauntles. The spare metal I use to create long wire or something that looks like it. "Good..." I mumble sweating heavily. "Now let's make the chainmail part of the armor." I take long wire to my crafting table with warions tools.

[Words: 384]

[Awatsuki]

I take a metal rod and reel the wire on it slowly. Then when I'm finished I take it of and start cutting the wire into small "rings". When there is a solid pile of them and the whole wire is used I take two pliers and start fixing those rings into each other. Slowly, one into another I form a Kusari hex pattern chain vest. I smile and put it aside near the the plate parts of the armor. "Alright. Last metal part..." I mumble to myself as I walk over to a pair of heavy leather boots. I take few small plates and bend them in the middle using rivets to rivet them to the bood. I knock on the plate if it holds good in place and then take the other boot. I repeat the same process riveting the plates to the boot. I check both boots. I smile when I see that they're a fine piece of work. I set them aside and add the few metal parts to the black leather vest I bought. Also the black skirt I will use was bought outside on the market. I make few last changes and paint the protectiv plates red. Then I grab the finished armor and look on the statistics with a smile. They didn't raise much but it surely will be easier to move around in it. I grab the armor and walk towards my small room above this one.

I change into the new armor and look on it. I go over to a broken mirror which is hanging on the wall and turn around to check it. I add few common cloth features and smile. "It looks almost like a school uniform." I chuckle as I look on myself. I adjust it a bit more and walk back down to my working place. Hmm... What should I create next? I think. But for now I guess that I can go outside and train in my new armor. I think quickly as I open the interface and equip my weapons moving into the streets of Londonium district. So I walk outside and look into the sky. I wonder what will happen next...

[Words: 368]
[Craft cost: Materialx5xItem level=25]

[Item created: Basic Assassin Chain , Item level 1]

[Description of the created item: It's a fine chain armor created by Awatsuki. The metal and other materials used to create it aren't the best which lower it's quality but anyways it's a fine and the steel that's used will protect her much more than the starter armor. It's also easy to use in and it doesn't make so much noise. The armor consists of Black leather vest, black leather boots, black leather gauntlets, Red Metal Protectors (Hands, Legs), Kusari chain vest and black skirt. Akari is wearing a white shirt without sleeves under the armor. The collar is shown in addition to red necktie. It looks a bit like a school uniform. [Armor] ]