Versatile: Alternate World

Getting the task of reforging the Carnwennan, I went to work right away. I didn't want to waste my time as the Carnwennan might be something that will be useful in the near future and with it broken, it would prove fatal if I made the item a bit more later.

With the free blacksmithing area available for me to perform the reforging, process, the only thing left for me to perform the reforging is to know what materials the Carnwennan needed to fully reforge it to its former glory.

Compared to normal forging where you gather different materials first and you already have the end product results lying on your hands and once done, the quality of the weapon or armor or even an item will depend on what items you used, and how much was added and how it was forged. As for reforging, things get a bit different here. To reforge a broken weapon, you needed the base broken weapon or any weapon that needed to be reforged. Next is the identification part.

What is the identification part? That is when you determine what materials are needed to repair the item back to its former looks and former durabilities and abilities without making it a new item. And compared to normal forging, you either need the actual item that is needed to reforge or find something that will be equal or greater but has distinct similarities between the two materials so that it won't move away too much from the base form. In short, reforging is much harder than normal forging.

Now, this is the real challenge that comes in. Because the Carnwennan is one of the known legendary weapons in the game, the materials needed to repair this are also close to legendary stuff. If it isn't legendary, perhaps they are items that are hard to obtain and will task you to take an item that would be hard to obtain like the ingredients that Sigma and the others gathered for the quest of Almira.

Entering the forging area of the tent, I checked every single tool available and was satisfied seeing that all of the tools that I might need to use are available for me to use. Not only that but everything is in top condition. The only gripe I have is that all of them look brand new. For a blacksmith borrowing a forging area, I would be more confident to use tools that are already used as that would also mean these tools are good and already tested.

Alright, let's begin.

First, I placed the Carnwennan on the anvil and opened the panel menu. Yes, this doesn't have any realism in some way since we are using the game system just to identify items. But there is nothing I can do about it, maybe it was the game's way of things to do.

To identify the items needed, the panel shows me a few sliding puzzles with pictures of the materials. You can say it was a minigame but it was not just a normal sliding puzzle, it was a bit complicated and it has a lot of complicated slides just to finish it up but in the end, it was just a small puzzle and despite the difficulty, it wasn't that hard and I managed to identify the items that I needed to get to repair it after solving all the puzzles.

However, it just ended with me furrowing my brows seeing that most of the items here are already in my possession. There are three of the materials and two of them are ready to be used on my inventory. The only one that is not available on the list is the Cleansed Iron of the Lake. Based on the name, I think this item can be found on the Island of the Avalon if I am not wrong.

And since this is the only thing that I am missing right now, looks like I will have to go and fly back to Resurgia to fetch the item before coming back. I can't reforge the Carnwennan back to its complete state if one item is missing during the process and I know that it sucks but that's just how it goes. I can't do anything about it.

It's not a big problem for me since I can just fly back and forth with Leona, the only thing I don't know is how long before I can retrieve the item before I can reforge the item. But I just hope things will go my way.

With the item identified, I didn't waste my time and went outside and summoned Leona. I asked one soldier to relay to the queens that I will be retrieving the items necessary for the reforging process. Since the soldier already knows who I am, he didn't ask second questions and bowed before going to report what I wanted to relay to them. As for me, it's time to go back to Resurgia and visit the Island of Avalon.

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Back in Resurgia where most of the players are staying and have been exploring as the place is much bigger than expected, most of the players have been in constant guild wars here and there and most are just focused on dungeon raiding that the beginner players have been on a big disadvantage already in terms of farming enemies due to how other guilds are just occupying the good areas to farm and gatekeep them from farming the areas, which forced many beginners to move far from the usual farming spots and go to areas that are either hard for beginner players to handle or areas where towns and cities are very far to access for supplies.

Currently, a group of new players is exploring a thick forest that they just passed by. Although they are a party of 4 people, their levels are too low that even the considered weakest mob that has appeared in that area is a big challenge to them already.

"Yna! Handle that goblin on the side!" the female druid is struggling to keep the lone goblin at the bay with her staff as she was being targeted by it.

"Wait for a bit! I am still reloading! GAH!" the female gunslinger of the group named Yna is having a hard time as she reloads her revolver in panic. Since she was extremely panicked, she struggled in reloading the magazine to full which made the trouble for her to fight harder.

"I will handle it for now! Focus on the reloading! Shana! Pass it here!" the male samurai then stood firm and put the katana in front of his face before activating a skill, [Taunt of a Warrior].

"Catch!" the druid who is named Shana, deflects the crude sword of the goblin using her staff before kicking it at the male samurai. The distance between the samurai and the goblin allowed the effect of the [Taunt of the Warrior] to immediately take effect and the goblin switches its target from Shana to the samurai.

"KEKEKEKEKEKEKEKE!"

'The goblin drolls as it immediately assaulted the samurai multiple times and the samurai struggled to block all attacks as the goblin was for some unknown reason being too harsh in their battle that even if he finds an opening to strike its weak point, he can't easily do it since the moment he will be attacking, the goblin will exploit that and attack their weak point, which is why he remained on the defensive for a while.

"Koji! Come on! Are you done designing the trap!? We are almost dying here!"

"I am almost done! Just wait for a bit!"

Koji, one of their male companions is designing one trap using the Blueprint. Because he can't think of a good trap to use,, he is stuck there for a while, thinking about what good trap would immediately help and reverse their situation.

Yna who is still struggling earlier finally managed to complete the reload process.

"Alright! Gin! Handle it! I will be shooting that *ss goblin!"

Yna immediately released a few shots of bullets at the goblin, effectively hitting its body. Despite that, the goblin continues to move. The samurai who is named Gin had enough of having the bad aim Yna immediately grabbed the head of the goblin even though the risk of being stabbed is high and shouted Yna, "SHOOT IT ON THE HEAD!"

Responding to the shout, Yna shoot the gun once and a bullet penetrated the goblin's head. It didn't take too long before the goblin lost all of its HP and died.

Currently, this has nothing to do with the task of Bladeheart in getting the item he needed to reforge the Carnwennan but the fates of these people will soon intertwine with Bladeheart as they are both heading to the same destination. They might just be a motley crew but who knows what will happen if Bladeheart encounters them? Is there gonna be changes or nothing will happen at all? Only time will tell.