Brand New Life Online: Rise Of The Goddess Of Harvest

Chapter 1700: Spirit Weapon Forging Art

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“Can you give me the ingot, master?” Ignis asked.

“Here,” I said, giving it to him.

It was a golden and silver colored ingot imbued with a shiny rainbow light. I had created this by sacrificing one of the hundreds of weapons I had to create to grind all the way to where I am now, obtaining Ignis’ favor by completing his tasks and everything.

The weapon used in particular was… Hm, I believe it was a Spirit Sword, a special weapon imbued with spiritual power I was selling like pancakes back there. And damn, I really need to get back to BNLO. I’m already missing the place quite a lot.

“Very well!” Ignis nodded. “Then let’s begin, master, this shouldn’t be anything too hard. Can you use your Blacksmith Skills here?”

“I don’t think I can, none of them are Soul Bound,” I explained. “But I do remember their rhythm and everything.”

I quickly grabbed a forging hammer from my inventory and nodded.

“Let’s give it a shot, anyway, shall we?”

“Heh, alright then, this time it won’t be too easy, master, the Skills won’t be there to correct all your mistakes.”

“It’s fine, let’s see what we can get out of that hammer.”

I nodded confidently, as Ignis agreed, and the two of us then began to work on the hammer rapidly.

I used my hammer and Ignis his flames to shape and transform the cursed hammer.

CLANK! CLANK! CLANK!

Turns out Cursed Ice is a lot more like crystal than actual ice, it simply would not melt no matter what.

But that worked in my favor, as I was able to shape and forge it better and imbue it with the golden and silver alloy of this ingot.

Ignis helped me melt and meld materials together, and for the finishing touch, I added dust made out of the crushed Spirit Cores of the Ice Trolls and a bit of the Frost Troll.

FLUOOOSH!

The hammer blazed with power, as I felt amazed I had obtained a new and wonderful weapon.

I was on my weapon collecting spree in this Realm, and I couldn’t stop getting more awesome weapons, quite honestly.

I’m definitely going to use them on BNLO or let other people borrow them as well.

“It’s done, master!” Ignis said proudly. “It might be a little rough around the edges without a proper forge in here, but I believe we made a decent job.”

“You’re not wrong,” I nodded. “It looks a lot less dark and intimidating than before.”

“Wow, good job!” Mark said. “I didn’t think you would work in this house, but you did. That hammer looks really different now too. It got all the gold and silver on top, the crystals seem to have melded nicely with them, resembling pointy, large decorations in the back.”

“Yeah, right? Looks like a completely different thing,” I nodded.

[Through the powers of your Magic and the Abilities of your Contracted Forging Spirit, Ignis, you have successfully reforged the [Abyssal Hammer of Cursed Ice] into the [Mercurial Silver Hammer of Dark Spirit Ice]!]

[The hammer’s Corrupted Energy, a combination of Nether, Miasma, and Demonic Energy, has been merged with the purity of Spiritual Energy and the materials used for its reforging, reaching a state of balance between various elements, becoming stronger.]

[Because you have ingrained the ability of forging and how to use the very spirits to create such wonderful weapons, your Spiritual Heart reacts!]

[You have learned the [Spiritual Arts]: {Spirit Weapon Forging Art: Tier 1: Rank 1}!]

“W-What the…?” I was shocked when I heard the Voice of the World once more telling me what had just transpired.

What I thought was going to be just flavor text turned into a new ability altogether. So using that forging technique and Ignis’ help triggered the ability to learn a new Spiritual Art right away?

That’s really impressive.

“Seems like I even learned a new Skill!” I said happily. “I mean, a new Spiritual Art. Unlike Spells or Physique Abilities, Spiritual Arts can be learned on their own through accumulated experience and actions using spiritual energies and engraving them deeply into the Spiritual Heart, which is apparently done automatically. I would have assumed I should have done this for a while, but I somehow obtained the Spiritual Art right away.”

“Must be because of how great you were already, and well, the weapon you made too,” Mark pointed out. “What else? Well, Ignis is a very strong, high-ranked spirit too, right? His existence gave you enough of a boost, I’m sure.”

“Oh, well, that’s good to know,” I nodded. “This hammer didn’t have any specific abilities, or something told by the Voice of the World, though. But that’s mostly because I didn’t make it into a Living Weapon nor any of those things. Though the living weapons were born out of receiving blessings directly from the Gods, I believe. Morpheus was a special case, but his ingredients were already very talkative skeletons anyway.”

“Yeah, I know about them,” Mark nodded, rubbing his chin. “I wonder if I could learn that Spiritual Art too? After all, I helped you a lot back in the forge in BNLO.”

“It’s worth giving it a try,” I nodded. “Here, why don’t you try reforging this hammer on your own? I’ll lend you my little forging hammer and also another ingot, this one is from a knife.”

“Alright, leave it to me,” he nodded happily, beginning to work.

Ignis helped him out quite a lot, and Mark then used his own powerful spirit flames to forge, shape, melt, and transform the weapon and ingredients given to him.

He was a little clumsy, though, committing a lot of mistakes and then making Ignis really mad, reprimanding him.

However, in the end, he was done, his hammer had its own shine to it, with a redder silver steel covering it.

“Aaaand… Oh!” his eyes widened, glowing green and gold for a second. “I think I got it…? Yeah, it worked!”

“Well, that’s nice!” I said, nodding. “Now we could use that Spiritual Art for a lot of things. Just think about the possibilities.”

“Yeah, we’ll definitely be using it,” nodded Mark.

“Nice,” I nodded. “I think we’re already getting closer… Hm?”

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