Thomas arranged the leather he'd already removed from his inventory in front of himself. With that set, he dug through all of his inventory space for any other leather he might have. After searching through various boxes and crates he found one with a few pieces of leather inside of it that made him grin. How could he forget about this leather when he was wearing armor made from it? He ran his fingers over glossy black scales covering a thin leather hide. The black Elder Lizardman hides. He'd...
2019-12-19 23:21:06 +0000 UTC
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Thomas looked at the notification asking him to name the new goggles for a bit. He wanted to give them an interesting name so he didn't rush like he usually would. After thinking for a minute, he said, "Ultrasonic Goggles."
System Notice: You have created a Rare rarity Ultrasonic Goggles. Quality: Excellent. You have gained 959 Magitech Engineering experience. You have gained 959 experience.
Armor Type: Ultrasonic Goggles
Rarity:
2019-12-17 22:42:03 +0000 UTC
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Thomas read over the description of the Claymore Mine and nodded to himself. It was more powerful than he expected it to be. The shrapnel and explosion would deal damage equivalent to a Power of 350 within five meters. That range would basically cover the entire width of most of the cave tunnels that he'd seen. The mines also had a nice maximum range of twelve meters, though he expected that anyone beyond seven or maybe eight meters would barely be harmed by the mine unless they went for some...
2019-12-15 21:29:37 +0000 UTC
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Thomas didn't know exactly how a claymore mine was made off of the top of his head. He only knew the general principle of the mine. It should be a directed explosion that releases a cloud of shrapnel and is triggered by a tripwire. He was pretty certain that he could cobble that together without too many issues. He even had wonderful Trolls to test the mine on. Oh yeah, he also needed to put legs or spikes on the bottom of the mine so that it could remain standing and aimed where he wanted it...
2019-12-13 21:16:01 +0000 UTC
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Before moving onto the next phase of his work he decided to spend the experience he'd gained from the Trolls he'd recently ended. Since he didn't have that much experience he figured it wouldn't be much of a deal to do so. At this point, each Troll killed was approximately equivalent to a single attribute point in anything but Magic. For the moment, killing Trolls was highly efficient since he could increase his attributes easily. When he opened his character sheet he gaped at the changes he ...
2019-12-12 04:35:33 +0000 UTC
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After fully recovering to peak condition using Serenity, Thomas climbed to his feet and stepped back out of the safe room. He went through twelve rooms at random and killed another twenty-one trolls. The experience gained would be spent later on, he didn't need to do it right that moment and was, instead, finding a 'secret' location to do his work in. Doing it inside of the saferoom would be... well safer but the pirates could also come in at any moment. He would be better off working in a cl...
2019-12-10 20:49:11 +0000 UTC
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The guards stared at the dust-covered Thomas and the hole he'd dug through the wall. Thomas glanced over his shoulder at the short tunnel and smiled, "What? I thought I'd found something in there. Turns out I did."
He looked up at the darkening sky and smiled to himself, "Workday is over. I'm going to get some sleep. Let Yorik know that I'm heading into the dungeon tomorrow. I also plan to stay inside of it for forty-eight hours straight."
Several of the guards gave Thomas odd loo...
2019-12-09 23:52:44 +0000 UTC
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With the baton done, Thomas pulled out the list of requests and looked it over again. He was hoping to find something he could make with what was left of the day. Sadly, the projects remaining on the list would take at least the majority of a day to complete. So, he ignored them and decided to do his own thing. First up was cleaning the slag from the Sunshine Gold and pouring it into the ingot mold. The melted material left within the crucible wasn't quite enough to fill the entire mold and T...
2019-12-07 15:24:13 +0000 UTC
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Once he got the final section of bar stock for the baton down to a proper size, he set it off to the side to cool down. With the steel cooling, he returned to the forge to check the crucible. After removing some slag from the melting metal he let it be so it could continue to melt. He approached the first ingot he poured from the golden ore and sent a gentle breeze over it to cool it a little faster. He was really curious about what it might be.
System Notice: You have ...
2019-12-05 17:46:33 +0000 UTC
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Thomas carefully examined the burns on his hand. Thankfully, they were pretty light and his skin had only reddened a little bit. Touching the ingot had felt similar to accidentally touching a hot panhandle. It stung and burned him lightly but didn't do too much real damage. The longer he held it the more damage it would do. It only took a few minutes for his hand to heal and return to normal. Clad and the guards were looking at him funny so he just smiled and said, "Still a little too hot to ...
2019-12-04 20:51:50 +0000 UTC
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Thomas took off the armor and set it over by the weapon rack to be picked up by whoever it was going to. He didn't pay attention to the names of the people ordering the gear, just what they wanted. With the armor taken care of, he checked the time and decided to call it a night. As he made his way to his sleeping spot he stopped and looked at the wall in front of him while smiling. His eyes started to glow blue as he activated his 'All Seeing Eyes'. His vision was flooded with mana particles ...
2019-11-27 06:09:08 +0000 UTC
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A hammer striking hot metal echoed in the workshop as Thomas continued his work on the breastplate. He was forced to occasionally use his Transmutation ability to fix little mistakes here and there. It had been a rather long time since he'd actually hand forged something like this. The last game he'd played for a few years had been technologically advanced so simple metal armor didn't really exist. It was all power armor made from machines similar to giant printers. He'd hated that part of th...
2019-11-19 01:43:01 +0000 UTC
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During his delicious breakfast the following morning, Thomas examined the most recent request list that came with said breakfast. There were some new additions but not many. It seemed like most of the pirates had already made a request. Since he was specifically looking to make some armor today he ignored all the weapons requests and only focused on his goal. As he chewed on some orc bacon he saw a request that piqued his interest. Someone wanted a breastplate imbued with Earth magic to provi...
2019-11-15 02:44:47 +0000 UTC
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After working on creating bar stock for a while, the sword breaker on the anvil finally finished cooling down. Thomas picked it up and dismissed the metal magic spell that had been holding it straight to get rid of the small warp in the blade. He held it by the tang and observed it from a variety of angles. Spotting no more signs of warping he gave a nod of approval and carried it over to the grinding wheel. Sparks flew as he worked on the blade and started to bring it to its final form. The ...
2019-11-13 00:56:33 +0000 UTC
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For the sword breaker meant to match the rapier, Thomas had decided to do something sneaky and mean. He took the rest of the Damascus metal he'd created from steel and Icebound Platinum and put it to the side. Since the sword breaker would not be ice-based using that material would be a complete waste. A sword breaker was a special type of left-hand dagger, or main gauche, that had slots in the back. The idea was to catch and control your enemy's sword in one of the slots. Actually breaking t...
2019-11-06 21:55:34 +0000 UTC
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Thomas stared blankly as the pristine and perfectly white blade gripped in his tongs. Just how in the hell did the blade turn so white? Also, what about the cool Damascus pattern he wanted to see? He pulled the blade close and examined it with his 'All Seeing Eyes' but couldn't find even a hint of the pattern he wanted to see so badly. It might not be a true Damascus sword, but the pattern always looked cool regardless. He let out a sigh of disappointment and lowered the blade, "Damn."
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2019-10-31 22:40:43 +0000 UTC
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Weapon Type: Glaive
Rarity: Uncommon
Quality: Excellent
Description: This glaive has been forged from metal mana infused iron and enchanted to take advantage of that fact. When mana is channeled into this glaive the blade will become nearly indestructible with an edge sharp enough to easily slice through iron.
+75 Power (Attack with Glaive only)
+Greatly enhanced durability and sharpness while infused with mana...
2019-10-29 23:06:05 +0000 UTC
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After breakfast the next day, Thomas got to work right away on the completion of all the grenades to use the last of the shrapnel cubes. While he worked, Clad was assigned to grind the mana crystals. Thomas didn't trust him with grinding the Firestone's into powder. Since he'd used less than half of the small cubes the day before, he went ahead and made another thirty shells, pins, and leather bags for the grenades using his Transmutation. It took hardly any time at all as he pumped them out ...
2019-10-28 00:31:54 +0000 UTC
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Thomas actually lied to Clad, there was no fun to be had with the next phase of making the materials for the grenades. And since it wasn't something he needed to do personally, he turned to Clad and said, "Grab an axe and chop the bars up into little squares. Try to keep them as even as possible so that each square really is a square and not a rectangle. They will be used as the shrapnel inside of the grenades. While you do that I'll work on something else."
Clad did as he was told and ...
2019-10-25 23:42:23 +0000 UTC
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Over the course of the next six hours, Thomas made his way through the third floor of the dungeon and slaughtered trolls left and right. During this time he did a little experimenting with the trolls and came to the conclusion that they had somewhere between 250 to 300 Endurance. He reached this conclusion by attempting to use his new greatsword without the flames activated. When he did his hits with the sword barely bruised the trolls and their regeneration immediately reversed any minimal d...
2019-10-24 23:55:19 +0000 UTC
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After looking over the description of the sword, Thomas couldn't help but smile. Just the base Power bonus of 150 was more than his own Power attribute of 130. Even without using the fire element this sword would more than double his Power! That was a huge buff to his strength. If he boosted the power of the sword by channeling his mana into it and got the full 500 Power bonus then the sword would literally be five times as powerful as he was. This was a prime example of why he loved being a ...
2019-10-19 22:59:15 +0000 UTC
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Once the large block of steel was properly heated in the forge, Thomas removed it with a pair of tongs and set it on the anvil. At the moment the steel was a large rectangular shape about a meter or so long. For the sword he was envisioning, it needed to be longer and thinner. He started hammering the block of steel to lengthen it and thin it at the same time. Over the course of several heats, the block of steel became nearly two meters long, twenty centimeters wide and six centimeters thick....
2019-10-17 23:47:43 +0000 UTC
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Thomas placed his foot on the blower and channeled mana into it to make the flames in the forge hotter. Feeling how slowly the blower was draining his newly improved mana pool brought a smile to his face. He would definitely be able to work a lot longer without breaks now. Even so, he wanted to increase his mana pool further and get it to the point that he could work for a full day straight without taking a break to recover his mana. If he currently had that much mana then he could start rais...
2019-10-15 22:46:52 +0000 UTC
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As Thomas stepped off the teleportation circle he spotted the guards sitting around playing with a deck of cards to pass the time. He almost felt bad for the people having to guard him. They couldn't do anything to improve themselves and were stuck doing nothing for hours at a time. He wasn't going to do anything to make the experience better for them but that didn't mean he couldn't pity them, just a little. As he walked closer the guards looked up from their game and looked a bit surprised,...
2019-10-12 21:35:15 +0000 UTC
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Thomas spent three hours bashing his way through the first floor of the dungeon. During that time he went through thirty-four rooms that contained anywhere from fifteen to twenty-five goblins. He kept count of how many he killed and the total came out to six hundred and eighty goblins, not including the ones he blasted in the first room. He had the wild dungeon all to himself and it took a while for him to find the entrance to the next floor culminating in a large experience point gain. Durin...
2019-10-09 04:48:53 +0000 UTC
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System Notice: You have created a Magical rarity Bearded Axe. Quality: Excellent. You have gained 427 Magitech Engineering experience.
Weapon Type: Bearded Axe
Rarity: Magical
Quality: Excellent
Description: A stylized war axe with a long beard that has been excellently crafted with mana infused iron. While the user channels their mana into this weapon it becomes hardened. While hardened this w...
2019-10-07 20:24:04 +0000 UTC
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Thomas examined the ore as best he could but the ore was so fragmented inside of the rocks that he couldn't find a piece big enough to send his mana through using Metallurgy. With a shrug of his shoulders, he went around and dug out the biggest crucible he could find in the workshop. After setting it on the swingarm above the forge he tossed in five chunks to fill it. The ingot he was originally working on was still left, forgotten, on the anvil. Once the chunks of raw ore were inside of the ...
2019-10-04 18:18:47 +0000 UTC
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As soon as his Mana Control changed into Mana Mastery, Thomas felt something subtly change within his body. It was extremely hard to describe in words. It was almost like something was... Loosened? Unlocked? Whatever it was his mana now flowed more freely through his body and immediately responded to his thoughts. If he wanted mana to gather in just his big toe, it did. If he wanted mana to gather inside of his pinky finger, it did. As he was playing around, he channeled mana into his eyes. I...
2019-10-03 13:34:27 +0000 UTC
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Thomas held the cutlass in his hand and smiled broadly. He was right in his speculations. Without any special materials or enchantments, he'd turned a regular iron ingot into a true magical weapon! If he used special materials like Origin Steel or Fahrentite Ore, he could likely make an uncommon rarity item. If he threw in an enchantment or something fancy during the creation process he just might be able to hit the next rank of rarity.
However, he paused when he thought to there. He co...
2019-10-01 18:31:33 +0000 UTC
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The guards heard Thomas's exclamation and were confused. They had been keeping their eyes on him the entire time he had been working. They'd seen the flash of red light and knew he'd done something but what? The iron he'd been hammering still looked like a pile of crap sitting on the anvil. Aside from that single flash of light, there was nothing even remotely interesting or powerful looking about it. They wondered if Thomas thought that the lump was an actual weapon. If he did, then he would...
2019-09-28 18:32:43 +0000 UTC
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