Undying Warlord

"What do you think about this blueprint, Old Jeff?? Isn't it amazing?"

A small crowd of 20 people had formed around a young, excited man and an old, slightly baffled man.

Meanwhile, everyone else, who surrounded both, couldn't help but look at the young, excited Dilan with doubt and shock.

'Is that really our Leader?!?'

'That's not the same man, who can kill without mercy, and slaughters hundreds of monsters in a matter of minutes!!'

'Who the hell is he, and what did he do to our Leader?!?'

Everyone had the same confusing thoughts echoing in their heads. Nobody could believe that the excitedly smiling Dilan was their leader.

It made no sense, and it was harder to believe that he could be jolly and relaxed than expecting him to start slaughtering thousands of monsters all by himself any minute.

None of them knew that Dilan was excited especially because of the weapon blueprint he was proudly showing Old Jeff just now!

[[Serpentine Blade] <Tier-1 Bronze>

The Serpentine Blade is a longsword with the ability to turn into a long-range weapon!

Can extend with the use of mana- the metal scales/blades are placed at regular intervals throughout the length of the blade- can be used as a whip-like sword, can stretch out and cut over a range of several meters, or scatter all blades to act as a finisher!]

The description was truly complicated, and something Dilan wouldn't understand without seeing the picture of the Serpentine Blade.

To explain it in simple words, the Serpentine Blade was a longsword consisting of a hilt and several razor-sharp pieces of metal that could be compared to scales.

These scales were connected through a highly mana-conducive metal thread. This allowed the wielder to turn the longsword, which was its origin form, into a weapon that could be labeled as a bladed whip.

As long as he had enough mana to control the Serpentine Blade, it could reach opponents up to a distance of more than 7 meters!

The Serpentine Blade was simply the best weapon he could wish for right now, even more so because its characteristics were simply too advantageous.

[[Serpentine Blade] <Tier-1 Bronze>

Description: The Serpentine Blade is…

Required Materials:

→Silveria (Alloy made of 30%'Silver iron' and 70%'Yarir')

→Molten Tier-1 Essence

→Graphene

Forging Process: Graphene, procured from the Graphite veins in the deepest parts of the Krendel's Underground Valley will be….]

The required materials were quite unique, to put it simply.

First of all, there was no exact amount of materials stated in the blueprint of the Serpentine blade. Secondly, the Molten Essence had only one requirement.

The Essence crystals had to be Tier-1…

It didn't even state how many Essence crystals were required if it made a difference whether the Essence crystals were of the same kind or not, or if it would be advantageous to provide higher ranked Essence crystals such as Tier-1 Bronze Essence crystals!

At the same time, the exact amount of Silveria and Graphene required was not stated as well, which made things definitely difficult for Old Jeff.

That was also why he frowned deeply while looking at the excited Dilan.

Of course, Dilan knew about the difficulties of forging the weapon, but considering that the blueprint didn't state the limit of the weapon's strength, he hoped that it was correlated to the Molten Essence, and the blacksmith's capabilities to unveil the potential of all used materials.

Thus, he couldn't help but stare at Old Jeff with bright gleaming eyes.

"Can you do it?"

Dilan was full of expectations. He knew that Old Jeff was a great blacksmith according to the words of his friend, and the way Old Jeff presented himself.

Thus, he was not all too surprised by Old Jeff's answer.

"Forging the Serpentine Blade should be no problem. I have never forged such a weapon before, but it should be fine as long as I have enough materials, and the necessary time to research everything.

It won't be easy for me to get a grasp of the different items, Essence crystals, and the other ores have. Even though I'm a former blacksmith, I have never forged with mana-intertwined materials.

That is quite obvious, right?" Old Jeff smiled lightly when he stated the last comment.

Dilan could tell that the blueprint of the Serpentine Blade attracted Old Jeff's interest. His smile turned only brighter when he saw that Old Jeff's eyes gleamed with vigor as he began to focus entirely on the words written on the blueprint and the forging process that was described in both words and pictures.

'Would it help him to advance and become a Tier-1 Blacksmith?'

The answer to his thought was an obvious 'Yes!'. Dilan could clearly tell the gains of advancing to Tier-1, even more so if one wanted to pursue an auxiliary occupation.

All abilities would be related to forging as long as Old Jeff picked the Blacksmithing occupation as his ancient path of advancement.

"How long will it take for you to research and forge the Serpentine Blade? That is, of course, assuming the fact that you will receive the materials on time."

Dilan's impatience was obvious to the eyes of everyone but Old Jeff was nearly unbothered by this.

He could only sense the terrific pressure that revolved around Dilan, which was what could be considered as somewhat bothersome.

Old Jeff still took his time to think about the most likely answer before he decided to give up. He shrugged his shoulders a moment later.

"To be honest, I'm not able to give you a precise time frame. It might take days, a week, maybe two weeks? I don't know the quantity of required materials yet, and neither do I know how well I will be able to forge in the workshop. In fact, the workshop is yet to be operational.

I might be able to finish everything until tomorrow evening, but that is if I work only on the workshop and nothing else!"

Dilan was slightly disappointed for a few seconds.

However, after these few seconds, he calmed down before nodding his head.

He could have expected Old Jeff's answer and it was only his excitement that caused him to be hopeful and eager.

Of course, it would take time to make such a great weapon as the Serpentine Blade, and Dilan wanted the best of the best.

This simply indicated that he should be ready to wait for a few weeks.

Thus, Dilan smiled oddly before he recalled something he wanted to know.

"Are you already level 10, Old Jeff? If that is the case, and you have a high-ranked ancient path of advancement for Blacksmiths that you want to pick, I can start farming Essences for you.

By tomorrow evening, everything should be in place!"

Dilan's offer astonished only a few Survivors around him.

They could tell that Dilan favored Old Jeff because he was able to forge. However, this was something to be expected because their group of Survivors lacked weapons, and protective armors the most!

Old Jeff just smiled at Dilan's question before he leaned toward him as he mumbled,

"I can choose an [Rare++] ancient path of advancement customized for Blacksmiths!"