Chapter 105: Advanced Magic Item Crafting

  To provide better ditions for the soldiers and eheir survival in battle...

  food and water, clothing, bs, tents, and other basic supplies are not enough!

  In the dangerous Troll Valley, besides the maing, powerful, and deadly trolls, there are many other dangerous ahal magical creatures.

  Apart from ordinary ons and gear...

  Matthew o prepare special potions, magical items, spell scrolls...

  And most importantly, ented ons and armor!

  After all, his doppelganger wasn't afraid of death, but his soldiers only had one life!

  Currently, Matthew’s magic item crafting skill had reached 98, putting him at the peak of intermediate level.

  He could now steadily craft basic magical items, tools, potions, and spell scrolls.

  He had handed over the produ of blood-replenishing potioirely to Mountain because crafting those potions no longer improved his skill level.

  His ask was to prepare "ented" equipment for the professionals!

  Crafting magical equipment falls under magic item crafting, which generally sists of two parts.

  One part is the creation of the physical object itself, such as ons, armor, accessories, and tools.

  The other part is the "entment" applied to the surface or interior of the item.

  In most cases, even an alchemist with extensive knowledge and strong hands-on skills would specialize in just one area.

  And for most enters, to baheir spell research, they focus more on the entment aspect.

  This is because entment is closely tied to spellcasting.

  In fact, "entment" itself ot be separated from the aid of spellcasting.

  Matthereparing to ent a batch of ons and armor.

  He didn’t jump straight to difficult challenges.

  He was only preparing to ent a batch of spears and longswords with the Tier 1 spell "Sharpen."

  Matthew took out a longsword and, as usual, checked its quality.

  "Refined iron longsword, excellent quality, made from refined iron mixed with brotack +2, Sharpness +1, Durability +1, market value 5 gold s."

  ons of this caliber were the best that most soldiers could use.

  Even if there were better ons, they wouldn't be able to wield them effectively.

  This batch of ons urchased by Adam Smith.

  It wasn’t that Bay Vilge couldn’t produce its own ons and equipment.

  Thanks to the efforts of two master bcksmiths and many mid-level bcksmiths, Bay Vilge’s armory was noable of produg excellent-quality spears and shields.

  However, Matthew had only tasked the armory with experimenting in on and equipment produ, allowing them to train new bcksmiths and improve their craftsmanship.

  This was because Matthew didn’t want to expose the existence of the iron mi.

  Without suffit strength to protect it, revealing it would be tantamount to suicide.

  Matthew then took out some obsidian powder and mixed it with troll blood.

  Ohhly blended into a faintly glowing dark red, he sprinkled in ruby powder and tiirring.

  Setting that aside, Matthew took out a silver rod and carefully traced it along the ter of the longsword.

  As the silver rod scraped against the sword, a faint "sizzling" sound was heard, and a bright silver line began to appear uhe light.

  The silvery line gradually formed a plex, mysterious pattern resembling a spell model.

  Matthew’s movements were steady, thanks to his strong attributes, and about two mier, the design was plete.

  This design correspoo the Tier 1 spell "Sharpen."

  But this was only the first step—progress was at 10%.

  Matthew id the sword ft and carefully dripped some of the dark red liquid onto the pattern.

  The round droplets were slowly absorbed by the silver design, gradually disappearing from sight.

  The previously silver design now faintly glowed with a reddish hue.

  Under Matthew’s watchful eye, as more of the liquid was absorbed, the pattern deepened in red and even began to emit a faint light.

  "Entment progress +1%. Now at 12%!"

  "Entment progress +1%. Now at 13%!"

  "Entment..."

  About 50 milliliters of the liquid were pletely absorbed by the seemingly insignifit design, whiow shone brightly, blood-red and dazzling!

  Matthew khat this was the "Sharpen" spell in its activated state.

  At this stage, it was only h on the surface of the sword, and its power would dissipate quickly.

  Now, step two was plete, with progress reag 50%!

  This step could normally be repced by using a spell scroll, but Matthew's method was a bit more challenging—though it had one key advantage.

  Even an enter without spellcasting ability could use this method to produted items.

  This teique was also something researched by pyers.

  Many real-world stists believed that are magid spells were phenomena, rules, and principles of power!

  If you uood the knowledge itself, even without mana, you could find alternative methods.

  Just like in the real world!

  Except in the real world, verting knowledge into power required more tools.

  In this world, spellcasters were the tools themselves!

  As the light stabilized, Matthew pced the sword into a bzing fire.

  Ohe sword turned red-hot, the glowing are pattern fused with the bde itself.

  During this process, Matthew carefully rotated the sword to ensure eveing while preserving the iy of the entment design.

  Simultaneously, he evenly sprinkled some magic crystal powder over the bde, which emitted small fshes of light as it nded.

  The glowing swradually became translut, and the are pattern’s light stabilized.

  This was a slow process, testing both the enter’s trol over heat and their uanding of the materials.

  It was Matthew's first time attempting such trol, but fortunately, the system’s data dispy allowed him to track progress and status accurately.

  "Fme temperature slightly too high..."

  "Switch the heated area..."

  "Energy infusion is a bit slow, add more magic crystal powder..."

  "..."

  Drawing from his experience crafting blood-replenishing potions, Matthew followed the system’s prompts and steadily pleted the final steps of the entment.

  The glowing red light gradually cooled, revealing a much brighter sword.

  paring it to the inal longsword, Matthew smiled broadly.

  "Refined Iron Ented Longsword, excellent quality, made from refined iron mixed with bronze, Entment: Sharpen, Attack +4, Sharpness +3, Durability +2, market value 180 gold s!"

  The attack power had doubled, sharpness increased by +2, and durability by +1, with the on's value multiplied many times over.

  Even after dedug the nearly 20 gold s in entment material costs, the profit was still over 150 gold s!

  What is true profit!

  This is the profit of war supplies!

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