Farming With The In-game World - Chapter 57

Chapter 57: Chapter 57: Forging Is Costly, and Engineering Costs Three Generations of Fortune

An Wen wanted to dispose of the newly-made hammer. After working on it for half a day, its attributes still turned out to be completely unsatisfactory.

“Mm, it’s not that my skills are poor, but the hammer that I used to forge it was not powerful enough.”

An Wen attributed the cause to the hammer in his hand. It was purchased from the real world and did not have any additional attribute effects, so it was unable to produce good equipment.

That’s right, this must be the case.

“Let me continue making another hammer with the hammer that I just made myself.”

Smelting, followed by casting, and then forging…

Clang clang clang…

An Wen picked up the copper hammer in his hand and began hammering another copper piece.

He was extremely serious this time and even used a balanced amount of strength while doing so.

An hour later…

A new copper hammer emerged from the water used to cool it down.

A bolt of dull golden light flashed.

“It’s good!”

Upon seeing that flash of light, An Wen knew that the hammer would be excellent, and its attributes would surely be outstanding.

“I knew it, how could I not be able to make an ‘outstanding’ grade hammer with my skills? Of course, it had to be because the tool I used just now was unbalanced and hard to wield.”

Smiling gently, he tapped to see the attribute list of the new hammer.

“Bronze Weapon: Fine Blacksmith Hammer”

“Grade: Outstanding”

“Attributes: Hammering Strength +65%, Impurity Removal Effectiveness +55%, Recoil Reduction +50%, Instant Kill Rate Against Dogs +80%”

“Attack Strength: 85 – 160”

“Durability: 650”

Upon reading the attributes of the hammer, An Wen became dumbfounded.

He was slightly overwhelmed.

After remaining silent for a long while, An Wen looked at the name of the hammer and remarked, “How is this just a ‘fine’ hammer? It’s wickedly fine!”

Instant Kill Rate Against Dogs +80%?

What on Earth is such an attribute?

The hammer is used for forging and not for combat!

Indeed, even if it is used to fight, what use is there for this attribute?

To hammer the opponent’s head to his death?

This attribute…

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An Wen threw the ‘fine’ hammer out immediately.

Outside the blacksmith store, Yuan Pan, who was bathing in the sun, was frightened by the hammer that An Wen suddenly tossed out.

(＃￣～￣＃)

He looked at the hammer, feeling extremely displeased.

However, he was just a weak, pitiful, and powerless worker tortoise who was still a glutton. What could he do about that?

Crawling a few steps forward, he found another spot to continue bathing in the sun.

He pretended not to have seen the hammer.

Inside the blacksmith store, An Wen was making yet another hammer.

More than forty minutes later…

Slam!

A new hammer landed not far away from Yuan Pan.

He turned his head around to see a hammer one meter away from him. His expression: (•́へ•́╬)

However, recalling the wretched state of that laboratory rat…

Yuan Pan climbed a few more steps forward and settled in another spot.

Another hour passed.

Slam!

Never-ending, huh?

Yuan Pan climbed with his feet. Sticking close to the wall, he stretched his head near the door to have a look at what was going on inside the blacksmith store.

At that moment, An Wen was wildly hammering a copper piece in his madness.

He was also shouting as he hammered.

“40, 40, 40, 40, 40…”

(ｷ｀ﾟДﾟ´)!!

Upon seeing that scene, Yuan Pan’s shell trembled visibly. Without any hesitation, he turned back around and ‘ran’.

He could not afford to provoke him!

How frightening it was for a tortoise!

Yet another hour passed.

Lying on a stone platform 15 meters away from the entrance of the blacksmith store, Yuan Pan stared in that direction.

Based on his estimation, An Wen would be throwing another hammer out very soon.

However, another half an hour passed.

No new hammer was thrown out, and Yuan Pan was completely bewildered.

Right at that moment, An Wen walked out of the blacksmith store, holding a copper hammer in his hand.

“Let’s have dinner, I’m going to have an extra-large, sumptuous meal today.”

The fatigued An Wen said to Yuan Pan.

(O_o)??

An extra-large, sumptuous meal?

Are you going to ‘end’ a tortoise now?

Yuan Pan’s shell began trembling visibly. His eyes were focused on the copper hammer in An Wen’s hand as he thought about whether his own shell could withstand the force from it.

“What are you thinking about? I’m talking about the fruits, do you want to eat them or not?”

An Wen rolled his eyes. He did not know what was wrong with Yuan Pan recently, always having wild thoughts.

Half an hour later…

An Wen and Yuan Pan sat on the floor eating the fruits.

After hammering the entire afternoon, he still had not produced a hammer that he was satisfied with.

Furthermore, apart from the second hammer that he made, none of the rest were of an ‘outstanding’ grade.

How frustrating.

“If only the hammers could be fused with the main skills like the other equipment.”

An Wen was extremely displeased. Why was it that equipment could be fused with the main skills to be leveled up and for sketches to be formed, but not the hammers?

“No… The hammers should be classified as weapons. I think I recall weapons can be leveled up as well?”

At that moment, An Wen suddenly recalled the lists activated by the mixed-use complex.

Among them, he seemed to remember that there was a Weapon Upgrades list.

At that thought, An Wen jumped to his feet and ran to the mixed-use complex with his hammer.

Plop!

Seeing An Wen jumping up so suddenly, Yuan Pan was taken by surprise. The fruit in his claws fell to the ground.

What’s the matter with you?

Why are you so easily frightened?

Picking up the fruit from the ground, Yuan Pan put it into his mouth before crawling toward the mixed-use complex unhurriedly.

By then, An Wen had already opened the Weapon Enhancement List.

“Do you wish to spend 10,000 Survival Points and 5 units of ore to enhance the weapon? There is a 100% chance of success for this enhancement.”

What was there to hesitate then? Of course, he would proceed with the enhancement.

“Confirm.”

An Wen selected ‘Confirm’ and a white light flashed across the virtual screen.

“Weapon enhancement complete. Please retrieve your weapon.”

It was already done?

An Wen was momentarily stunned. He was still prepared to spend more Survival Points to immediately complete the enhancement process.

He had not expected that the weapon enhancement to be instant.

There were progress bars for skill enhancements, but why was there none for weapon enhancements?

Retrieving the hammer, An Wen tapped on its attribute list.

“Bronze Weapon: Excellent Blacksmith Hammer +1”

“Grade: Excellent”

“Attributes: Hammering Strength +25%, Impurity Removal Effectiveness +25%, Recoil Reduction +15%”

“Attack Strength: 55 – 105”

“Durability: 350”

Upon reading its attributes after the enhancement, An Wen contemplated hard.

In general, its Hammering Strength and Impurity Removal Effectiveness had both increased by 10%, so the enhancement was considered successful.

Nevertheless, when An Wen saw ‘+1’ after the name of the weapon, he suddenly felt a sense of foreboding as chills ran down his spine.

After all, when he played games in the past with such +N enhancements, he had been duped countless times.

An Wen looked at the Survival Points he had remaining – it was a ten-digit figure.

He felt confident.

“Do you wish to spend 10,000 Survival Points and 5 units of ore to enhance the weapon? There is an 80% chance of success for this enhancement.”

How ‘shameless’, the success rate dropped to 80% just like that?

Looking at the decreased success rate, An Wen’s face turned black.

“Confirm.”

Whoosh!

A white light flashed across the virtual screen.

An Wen retrieved the weapon and tapped to see its attributes.

“Bronze Weapon: Excellent Blacksmith Hammer +2”

“Grade: Excellent”

“Attributes: Hammering Strength +40%, Impurity Removal Effectiveness +30%, Recoil Reduction +20%”

(Other attributes omitted)

The overall attributes had increased by 25%, but it was still of an ‘excellent’ grade.

“It seems that in order to enhance a weapon’s grade, its attributes must be fully enhanced up to the lowest criteria of the next higher grade.”

After reading its attributes, An Wen made such speculation in his heart.

What was he waiting for then? Continue enhancing!

“Do you wish to spend 10,000 Survival Points and 5 units of ore to enhance the weapon? There is a 50% chance of success in this enhancement.”

“Confirm!”

Whoosh!

No light flashed this time.

“Sorry, due to metal fatigue, the weapon enhancement failed.”

“…”

Looking at the empty weapon column, An Wen remained silent for a long while.

At that moment, he was reminded of when he was manipulated by enchantments in games in the past.