"Forge successfully, obtain item [Twisted Dagger], experience +26"

【Twisted Dagger】

weapons

Quality: Coarse

Attack: 1-3

Durability: 12/12

Value: 3 gold

"Anna, Anna?" A voice called out to Anna outside the workshop.

"I'm going to work, you can refine it yourself here, the iron ingots in the bucket should be enough for you, if you don't understand anything, come and ask me." With that, Anna trotted out.

Ethan looked at the progress bar of proficiency that had risen to 6%, and suddenly felt that the energy in his body had returned, and continued to pick up the hammer in his hand with great interest.

Five hours later.

"Ethan, how's it going?" Anna, who had been doing the final debugging work on the mecha in the first workshop of the smelting room, couldn't spare time to take a look at Ethan's progress, and she didn't have time to take a look until it was almost time to get off work.

As soon as I walked into the fourth workshop, I was startled by the short daggers full of barrels.

Next to the anvil, Ethan was intently tapping at the red striped blade. The rhythm is fast and slow, heavy and light, and the hammer makes a nice "clanging" sound on the iron sheet.

Ethan put the red-hot blade into the already muddy sink, and behind the rising mist, Ethan had a satisfied face.

"The proficiency of the forging process has been increased, and the deputy profession has been upgraded to [Skilled Apprentice of the Forging Master], and the strength attribute is rewarded with 1 point."

"Forge successfully, obtain item [Delicate Dagger], experience +33"

【Delicate handleless dagger】

weapons

Quality: Good (Rough - Normal - Good - Excellent - Flawless - Epic - Legendary)

Attack: 1-6

Durability: 16/16

Value: 5 gold

"The next level is the Beginner Smith, which rewards 2 Strength and a skill point that can be used to select the off-hand class skill. However, judging from the progress bar, it is estimated that the proficiency required to level up to the next level is ten times higher than when it was an apprentice. Ethan thought to himself.

And Ashera is right, there are a lot of experience points gained from developing the deputy profession, and more than 600 experience points were gained in one afternoon.

Anna, who had just entered the door, opened her mouth wide and looked at the bucket full of daggers in disbelief, roughly estimated that there were 20 of them.

"Ethan, you ......" Anna was a little speechless, she felt more sorry for the lost iron than she was at Ethan's forging speed. It would take at least 50 kilograms of scrap iron to get that bucket of iron ingots, and if Ethan's rate continued, it wouldn't be long before the Vault's reserves were depleted. The wreckage of the Cockscomb Flower harvested before finally replenished a wave of material shortages, and now seeing that the iron reserves in her hands were rapidly depleted, Anna had a "squirrel disease" attack, and strongly felt the crisis of material shortage.

Although the equipment created by the system warriors is also iron and copper products, due to the injection of energy or mana of the system warriors, the material structure of these equipment has undergone a qualitative change, so these finished products cannot be melted and reused, and can only be sold to the system's recycling station at a low price. Because once the durability of these equipment is cleared, it will disintegrate on its own, and the disintegrated equipment will no longer be composed of iron or copper molecules, but will collapse into a component named "black gold".

Of course, these are not the key, the key is the shortage of materials in the shelter, and the shelter can't afford such a large amount of consumable materials as Ethan!

"Whew~ It's okay, right?" Ethan took out the good quality dagger he had just made and showed it to Anna.

"Uh, are you still forging here tonight?" Anna asked with a bitter face.

"Well, what's wrong?" Ethan saw that Anna's face was a little wrong, and wondered.

"Let me tell you this, our shelter is in short supply, and if it continues to be consumed at your rate, we won't be able to use iron in a few months. So ......"

"Hmm...... Okay, I'll forge at this time in the future, right? Although Ethan was a little dissatisfied that he couldn't continue to practice the deputy profession tonight, the objective facts were like this, and he couldn't be unreasonable.

"There are several other professions, which are in the armory next door and in the rest area on the third floor, so you can check them out when you have time." After hearing Ethan's words, Anna breathed a sigh of relief and suggested to Ethan other ways to cultivate the profession of deputy.

Ethan nodded slightly, and then left the workshop.

During the night, Ethan continued to train against Carl and Athera. Fortunately, the forging at noon did not consume too much mana, and he was still able to train in a good mental state.

Due to the irreversible damage caused by frequent use of the teleporter, it takes a few days for the body to recover.

For the next three days, Ethan took turns playing against Athera and Carl. While fighting Athera, he found that while quicksand was effective against agile warriors, it was a bit difficult to resist against a warrior like Athera, who was known for his strength.

The thin repulsion of the quicksand technique can certainly reduce the impact of Athera's weapon, but Athera's strength several times that of Ethan can still easily knock Ethan away through this layer of repulsion. Therefore, even with such a powerful skill, there is still no chance of victory against Athera.

As a senior, Carl is good at fighting, and naturally he is not training stakes, while Ethan is improving, Carl is constantly summarizing and reflecting on his mistakes and optimizing his playing style. Over the past few days, Ethan's win rate against Carl has been declining day by day.

In terms of the deputy profession, in addition to being an apprentice blacksmith, Ethan also went to the third-floor infirmary to learn primary medical techniques and the armory room to learn primary refining techniques. Obtained two deputy classes, the Medic Apprentice and the Prop Master Apprentice, and spent a day each increasing their proficiency to Proficiency Apprentice. Gain 1 Spirit stat and 1 Agility stat.

Three days later, Ethan was promoted by one level, reaching level 13, gaining a valuable spiritual attribute that could make up for the mana gap after using up the quicksand technique, and the next level of upgrading required 10,000 experience points.

Ethan, who has quicksand skills, has greatly increased his strength, and is already fully capable of leading a team out to explore alone. Moreover, the fifth group has an ant number machine, and the overall strength is not much worse than that of the second and third groups.

In the lobby of the vault, Ethan waved goodbye to Jeff behind him, signaling that he should not be overly worried, and then stepped onto portal four with the members of the fifth group.