Chapter 196: Chasing Perfection


    Trantor: Sparrow Trantions Editor: Sparrow Trantions


    Wang Yu took out the raw metal that had just cooled, and ced it on the anvil as he prepared to hammer it. A small number ’0/18’ appeared beside the anvil, indicating that Wang Yu had to strike it eighteen times to finish this step of the forging.


    When Wang Yu raised the hammer, he noticed that there were eighteen green circles on the sword, showing him exactly where he had to strike.


    Like the temperature indicator previously, these green circles were a special indicator that came as a result of the refining skill that Wang Yu possesed, normal yers wouldn’t have this luxury.


    Wang Yu tapped one of the green cirlces with the hammer, causing the circle to turn green, showing that this point had already been struck.


    <System notification: Not enough strength applied. Completion rate 72%.


    Wang Yu raised the hammer, striking at a different circle this time.


    <System notification: Sufficient strength applied. Completion rate 100%.


    Mary remained silent as she watched Wang Yu striking the sword. It was already pretty good that Wang Yu could achieve this for a beginner.


    But what Mary saw next hadpletely shocked her...


    100%, 100%, 100%... Wang Yu had actually managed to achieve 100% seventeen times in a row! This allowed him to achieve 97%pletion for the third step in the forging process!


    A normal yer would face two challenges when they were doing the third step. Where they should strike and how much strength to use.


    The ces that one should strike with a hammer to temper their item they were forging was something that could be learnt with experience. But how hard they should strike was something that required talent. Not only was it hard to control the strength of their strikes, each different point required a different amount of strength and every weapon or armour they forged would require a different amount of strength.


    Mary had probably forged a de over eighty different times, but she had only managed to get 100%pletion consecutively once in her life.


    ording to rumours, the number one cksmith in <<REBIRTH was only able to achieve about 95% with every strike. There would be endless amounts of people trying to scout him as their cksmith if word of Wang Yu’s forging spread out.


    But how was Wang Yu’s forging so good, mary wondered.


    Even though it was said that talent was very important in forging, ho was it possible that Wang Yu was performing so well on his first attempt? It was because Wang Yu had the aid of the system, which told him where to strike and how many times to strike.


    For a simple task like striking the metal to temper it, Wang Yu only needed a little guidance as to where to apply his strength.


    After tempering the de, all that was left was to assemble it.


    The hand guard, the hilt and several other smallerponents. These were all things that could be purchased from the store. After all, the blueprints did not have these items either.


    With the help of his refining skill, Wang Yu was able to expertly assemble the de, achieving 100%pletion in the assembly process.


    <Christopher’s Fury (Set)


    Physical Attack: 25-27


    Magical Attack: 25-27


    +15 Strength


    +15 Vitality


    Christopher’s set 1/3


    Christopher’s Fury (Weapon) 1/1


    Christopher’s Conviction (Armour) 0/1


    Christopher’s Spirit (Armlet) 0/1


    Set bonus:


    [Fury]: Increases the effectiveness of [Tornado sh] by 15% (Already active).


    [Conviction]: Increase physical defense and magic resistance by 20%


    [Spirit]: Increase the damage of the yer by 20% if his health falls below 50%


    Its attribute bonus was not bad, but the damage it had wasplete garbage... but what was the most difficult to ept was the fact that this de was extremely ugly! Wang Yu would have nowhere to find his shame if anyone else saw this de and Boson would rather go into battle bare handed than to carry something so hideous onto the battlefield.


    "Brother Bull, this..." Boson hesitantly spoke...


    Wang Yu wordlessly kept the de in his own inventory as he spoke to Boson: "That didn’t count, how about I make another one for you? Do you have enough materials?"


    "Yeah I do..." Boson sighed in relief as he took the some materials out. Fortunately he had prepared enough materials to craft this set a few times over.


    "Ok!" Wang Yu chirped, starting the forging process all over again.


    This time, Wang Yu was extremely careful when he was casting the de, slowly pouring the melted metals into the mold, achieving 100%pletion.


    With his previous experience in tempering the de, Wang Yu was able to easily achieve 100%pletion with each strike of his hammer. But somehow, he had only managed to achieve 99%pletion for the tempering process.


    After he had finished forging the weapon, the base attributes of the weapon had greatly increasedpared to his first try.


    Boson happily received the de from Wang Yu under the unhappy stare from Mary.


    Regardless if he was receiving the help of the system or not through his refining skill, it was no mean feat to achieve 100%pletion with each strike of the hammer in the tempering process. There was no way that Wang Yu could achieve this if he himself did not have a monstrous amount of talent. Mary secretly sighed, resigning to the fact that she would never beat Wang Yu in this lifetime.


    "Brother Bull... you really are the best! How can I ever repay you?" Boson emotionally asked.


    "Let me forge it again..." Wang Yu honestly replied.


    "Forge it again??? But why? This weapon is already perfect!" Boson asked in confusion.


    A forged weapon was already stronger than most weapons that could be acquired from the boss. The weapon that Wang Yu had created from the second time that he forged wasparable to most top-tier Gold tier-ed weapons. It was already more than satisfactory for Boson.


    "It isn’t, I only managed to achieve 99%pletion during the tempering process. There is still room for improvement..."


    As a martial artist, Wang Yu had always chased perfection. He felt incredibly ufortable with the fact that he had almost forged the perfect weapon.


    "Er... about that." Boson awkwardly replied.


    "What’s the matter? Is there some problem? Do you not have enough materials?" Wang Yu asked.


    "Yea, I only had six pieces of Stardite and they’ve all been used up." Boson nodded.


    Crafting high-level equipment required magic stones and stardite was a type of magic stone. Wang Yu required three stardite’s each time forged Christopher’s Fury,pletely using up the magic stones that Boson had.


    "How about this? Will this do?" Wang Yu asked as he pulled three red crystals out of his inventory.