From Abyssal Invasion to Bursting Stars with a Single Sword-Chapter 273 - 223 Forging Business

After completing the quenching process, Lu Heng went to see Gulu and showed him the two A-grade weapons.

These two A-grade weapons were naturally the Star Shield and the Thunder Hammer he had obtained after killing Alex Austin.

The Star Shield had been chopped into two halves by the Rift Slash, while the Thunder Hammer was still intact.

"Master Gulu, do you think these two A-grade weapons could be used as materials to perform a three-forging upgrade on the Aurora Blade?"

Upon hearing that Lu Heng wanted to three-forge the Aurora Blade, Gulu raised an eyebrow and answered, "To perform a three forging, you'd need to upgrade to S-grade, which requires divine materials. That's extremely difficult."

In fact, he didn't have much confidence himself, since he had never forged an S-grade weapon before.

The forging craft of the Black Iron Dwarves once was mighty, but after the Abyss Descent, with the Black Iron Tribe moving several times and becoming increasingly weakened, although the forging skills hadn't been lost, the deeds of forging S-grade divine weapons had become legends of the Black Iron Tribe's history.

Lu Heng was, of course, aware of the difficulty of forging S-grade weapons, and now that the Aurora Blade had reached A-grade, he definitely wanted to push for S-grade.

If it didn't succeed once, he would try several more times.

"I understand, isn't history there to be created? If we can forge an S-grade divine weapon, we might be able to regain the glory of the Black Iron Tribe."

Upon hearing these words, Gulu became excited, clenched his fist, and said, "That's right, we must seek the glory of the Black Iron Tribe and forge an S-grade divine weapon.

"Come with me, let's see how the ancestors of the Black Iron Tribe forged S-grade divine weapons."

He said this and dragged Lu Heng by the arm, running towards the direction of the library.

The Black Iron Dwarves are very strong; otherwise, they wouldn't be able to wield such heavy forging hammers.

Lu Heng was dragged by him in a mad dash into the library.

Gulu pulled out a pile of ancient books, some of which were even forged from iron plates.

Who knows what technique they used that allowed them, sealed for so long, to have not rusted.

"Here, the materials needed to forge S-grade divine weapons..."

While looking, Gulu muttered, "This is too difficult; it actually requires the horn of a Demon Dragon as a material, and I've never even seen this kind of material."

Lu Heng leaned over to look and saw that to forge an S-grade weapon, using two A-grade weapons alone as forging materials indeed wasn't enough.

Because forging an S-grade weapon requires divine materials.

According to the ancient books of the Black Iron Tribe, the S-grade divine weapons they had once forged used the horn of a Demon Blood Sub-dragon as a material.

According to the description, the Demon Blood Sub-dragon belonged to a sub-dragon species.

Even as a sub-dragon, it was a formidable existence.

The fact that the Black Iron Dwarves could once deal with such a Demon Blood Sub-dragon spoke volumes of their past splendor.

The thought of obtaining the horn of a Demon Blood Sub-dragon did seem a bit preposterous.

Gulu continued to mutter, "It would be best if we could also use Dragon Blood for quenching, as that would enhance the forging success rate."

Quenching and forging, although two separate crafts, are not entirely distinct from each other.

During weapon forging, in order to improve the success rate, it is often necessary to perform quenching in the final phase to stabilize the weapon's level.

In fact.

When a weapon is forged, its level is not fixed at a certain value.

Although the Aurora Blade's level is A-grade, it doesn't mean that all A-grade weapons' attributes are the same as the Aurora Blade's.

That's because the attributes of forged weapons are arranged in a linear order, and if they fall within the range of a level, they will be displayed as that level.

Sometimes, A-grade weapons can even have attributes close to those of S-grade weapons.

Usually, such weapons are referred to as A+ or Quasi-S Level by superpower users.

However, these terms are just colloquial among superpower users; the data panel won't display it this way.

On the weapon's data panel, A-grade is A-grade, S-grade is S-grade.

Because once an S-grade weapon is forged, there is a chance for a divine effect to occur, and that's the real reason S-grade weapons are called divine weapons.

In the final phase of forging, performing the quenching process is aimed at activating divine materials and infusing divine effects into the weapon, so as to forge a real S-grade divine weapon.

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Gulu continued to flip through the ancient books of the Black Iron Tribe and introduced, "There are many other divine materials that can be used for forging weapons, like the Demon Dragon Horn, Abyss World Sacred Items, and Demon King's Heart... all of which are materials impossible to obtain."

After going through the ancient books, he made a very justified evaluation.

The materials recorded for forging S-grade divine weapons indeed proved to be extremely difficult to acquire.

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After understanding this, Lu Heng said, "We just have to leave it to fate; if there's a chance to acquire them, then we will attempt to forge."

"Alright, as long as we get the divine materials, we must forge an S-grade divine weapon and reclaim the glory that belongs to the Black Iron Tribe," Gulu clenched his fist with determination shining in his eyes.

He decided, "Starting today, I will practice forging skills, and later on, I'll have Little Linzi come over and provide me with more weapons to hone my craft."

Lu Heng swallowed, thinking to himself that Gulu was being a bit too direct.

Even though it was indeed for the sake of practice, these were orders from customers, and how could business continue if one spoke so bluntly to them?

However, he could leave these matters to the Flame Emblem Club's responsibility.

The club was already handling the quenching business for Quenching Castle, and adding another forging service shouldn't be an issue.

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Until today, Gulu had been coasting through life, rarely involving himself personally in quenching, and forging was also left to chance.

Lu Heng, however, understood this mindset; after all, Gulu was the only Black Iron Dwarf left in Quenching Castle.