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Sean had actually trained under a Night Keeper specialized in the medical field. Sean also had the title of Master!
However, Marvin actions were at the same standard as him!
This was something that went against his knowledge and experience!
“Damnit…”
“Seers really are a group of freaks!” Sean cursed.
He then began to treat Marvin’s ankle.
Marvin shrugged.
‘As for seers.’
‘My esteemed self has transmigrated.’
Just as he was thinking that, he felt a burst of violent pain from his ankle!
“Ah… Easy!” Marvin let out in alarm!
“Quiet! You soft egg.” Sean faked anger.
However, he seemed somewhat pleased with himself.
Chapter 86: Feinan Era
Chapter 86: Feinan Era
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Sean deserved his title of First Aid Master. It seemed he wasn’t just a blacksmith, but also a doctor.
He soon completed the treatment of Marvin’s ankle.
Even though Marvin still had to use crutches to walk, he estimated that he would recover in two or three days.
This was already pretty good. The problem with being wounded was that it would often not be completely cured and would leave sequelae behind.
And in this field, the formidable side of the Night Walker’s organization was revealed.
Although they only had eighteen people remaining, as a former leader Sean had many good things.
Including some divine spell scrolls and some secret medicine.
The value of those medicines was very high, but he didn’t hesitate to use them on Marvin.
From his actions, it could be assumed that he had already decided to take Marvin as his apprentice.
Indeed, apprentice.
After completing the first task, Marvin learned from Sean that he had to go through a process to become a Night Walker, and it was far more complicated than what he thought.
He was still an apprentice at the moment and had to complete a year long trial period before he could officially advance to Night Walker!
But a year was really too long to Marvin!
He hadn’t expected something like that!
If he had known earlier about the one year apprentice trial period, he wouldn’t have decided to advance through that path, no matter what.
But Sean apparently noticed Marvin’s apprehension and quickly appeased him.
After hearing Sean’s explanation, Marvin sighed in relief.
‘Turns out it’s like that.’
…
The next two days, Marvin carefully rested in the blacksmith shop. During that time, he met the blacksmith’s daughter Jane. The latter apologized to Marvin, visibly very embarrassed.
“Turns out you were really there to look for my father. I thought…” The girl shyly said.
“It’s fine, a girl with strong vigilance is a good thing. And by the way, the porridge you cooked was actually very tasty.” Marvin smiled.
Jane’s face turned red, as she found an excuse to slip way. Marvin didn’t mind. He hadn’t come here to chase after girls. If he could learn Sean’s craftsmanship it’d be just fine.
But having said that, didn’t it seem like his territory was missing a good tailor?
…
Two days later, with help of all kinds of secret medicine from the Night Walkers’ organization, Marvin completely recovered.
He was back to being healthy and lively.
Sean saw the scene and nodded at Marvin, indicating that he was ready.
Because the 2nd task was about to begin.
Very late in the night, in the backyard of the blacksmith shop.
“I didn’t expect a basement to be there.”
Marvin followed the old blacksmith Sean into the basement.
There was a spiral staircase at the entrance and candles flickering constantly
The atmosphere was very gloomy. It sounded like someone in the distance was chanting some ballad from the ancient times in a low voice.
“The Night Walkers are a very hidden organization. Few know of our existence,” Old Sean stiffly answered.
“Including your daughter?” Marvin asked.
“Kid, if you dare to say anything about the Night Walkers in front of Jane… Trust me, even if I lost more than half of my fighting strength, I can still squish you a few times,” the old blacksmith coldly snorted.
Marvin shrugged, not the least bit afraid of the threat. “Jane isn’t a fool, she is actually very clever. You won’t be able to conceal anything from her.”
The old blacksmith was silent for a moment, before slowly shaking his head. “I only want to keep her away from danger.”
“If she could have a lifetime of peace, it would be great.”
“Quite difficult,” Marvin remarked.
“Kid, in the end, what have you seen?” The old blacksmith couldn’t help but ask, “Hathaway saw destruction. What about you?”
“A calamity.” Marvin didn’t hide anything. “No one would be spared. If you want Jane to live her life in peace, I’m afraid Oak Town isn’t a good location.”
Sean gave a skeptical glance at Marvin, before saying:
“We’ve arrived.”
…
They arrived indeed.
At the end of the stairs, was a small narrow room.
In a corner of the room was a pitch black mural.
The content on the mural was very monotonous. There was only a pair of eyes with a faint source of radiance underneath.
There was a massive pile of bones in the radiance, and the people on them struggled and howled in anguish.
Even though it was just a simple picture, to Marvin, it had a great impact!
“This is…”
“This is the scene of the ancient era’s people struggling in the eternal night,” Sean solemnly said. “The Night Monarch left the darkness and protected Feinan’s lives, keeping monsters and foreigners from invading.”
The Ancient Era?” Marvin was stunned.
He actually didn’t know much related to the night monarch. The information in the games rarely mentioned him. It seemed the next pieces of information would bring new details.
When Marvin transmigrated, the Night Monarch’s real body had yet to appear.
According to Marvin’s knowledge, the history of Feinan was roughly composed of four eras.
First, order. Primal chaos and order. Before the arrival of the Wizard God Lance, Feinan’s magic power was made up of the power of order and chaos overlapping, producing life.
During the chaos era, day and night would sometimes appear with strange timing for a long time. For example, 4 - 5 years of continuous night.
That was the legendary eternal night.
The Night Monarch apparently emerged in this era. Some said he was a fiend from the abyss while some said he was one of the incarnations of the Wizard God Lance.
But in fact, the records about the Night Monarch mentioned him appearing earlier than theWizard God Lance.
The chaos and order era ended with the arrival of Lance.
Lance made the Holy Grail, and built the Universe Magic Pool, making the whole world lean toward order.
At that time, the first nature god of Feinan was born, named Fertile. Fertile was one of Feinan’s high elves. He turned into an elven old god through some unknown method. He had an excellent relationship with Lance.
At that time, Lance was busy fighting some monster from the outside. He temporarily gave Feinan to Fertile.
Thus, the high elves suddenly rose to dominance, ruling everything.
This was the glorious 2nd era. Apart from the elves, all the other races were inferior.
The old elven god didn’t like this situation and thus left Feinan, helping Lance deal with the enemy. He later went into a deep sleep. After the elves left, the 3rd era of peopl
e vied for supremacy. It was also in this era that three fate tablets appeared.
The people that obtained a part of the tablets became gods.
Most gods in existence at this point had been formed through the power of the fate tablet during the third era, aside from the first generation of ancient gods, those few nature gods.
After the Wizard God returned to Feinan, he established the wizard era and humanity rose up abruptly.
In the fourth era, the Wizard God left once again. This time it appeared to be a very definite leave.
The gods who had risen abruptly during the third era began to turn restless.
Because the prophecy said that the 4th fate tablet was inside the universe magic pool, but they had to smash it into pieces. Once broken, it would appear above Feinan!
Thus, the 4th era, the reign of terror ended, slowly opening up a new era.
…
These memories slowly passed through Marvin’s mind
That painting before his eyes became somewhat more vivid.
“Let’s go. One year apprenticeship. I hope you can endure.”
“I’ll let you know that this hurdle is called patience!”
Sean pressed one hand on an eye, hinting at Marvin to also do so.
He then began to chant an incantation that Marvin simply couldn’t understand.
This incantation was very complex and lasted no less than three minutes.
Suddenly, Marvin felt his palm warming up and a large pulling force came from the eye!
He was sucked into the mural!
…
Darkness.
Marvin had darksight, but in here, he couldn’t see anything!
This was the [Eternal Night Paradise], belonging to the incomplete plane of the Night Monarch!
Sure enough, Marvin had to take the one year apprenticeship in the incomplete plane.
The only good news was that the time flowed differently here.
A year here was equal to a day in Feinan!
It was because of this that Marvin decided to keep working on Night Walker’s advancement. Otherwise he would have had to go back to the Three Ring Towers to deal with the Battle of the Holy Grail.
But even so, this year would be hard to bear.
Because time would incessantly pass.
“What do I need to do?” Marvin asked.
Sean’s voice echoed from afar. “You are my apprentice, it’s only natural that I have something for your to do.”
“What did you plan?” Marvin asked, stunned.
“Clang! Clang!”
Sounds of metal echoed in the distance.
“I’m a blacksmith,” Sean answered.
“Come kid! During this year, you’ll become friends with a furnace and a hammer!”
Chapter 87: Blazing Fury
Chapter 87: Blazing Fury
Translator: Translation Nation Editor: Translation Nation
In the darkness, sparks scattered, along with the clanking noises of blacksmithing.
The red furnace kept on burning as a grime-covered Marvin added more charcoal inside.
“You put too much!”
“A higher fire temperature isn’t always better!”
When Sean began working, he would turn extremely irritable.
Even though this guy was completely human, his temper was more like a dwarf’s. Not only did he have bad temper, he also drank heavily.
Marvin, as his apprentice, was the only one he could order around in this strange incomplete plane.
He could only silently bear with it!
Because this was his advancement task. As a pitiful blacksmith apprentice, he had to learn Sean’s blacksmithing skill within a year!
A change had already happened in his quest menu. The previous task had been completed and the 1500 general exp reward received.
It now displayed the 2nd task of the advancement quest. The reward was 2000 general exp and the qualification to move on to the next task.
He couldn’t help but think that this task was quite the torment!
For a whole year, Marvin could only follow Sean and help with his work.
Apart from the necessary resting time and mealtimes, Marvin spent most of his hours with the furnace and iron hammer!
The old blacksmith didn’t exaggerate.
This task tested people’s patience to a level that was simply horrifying!
Fortunately, Marvin was very unyielding!
Since he received this assignment, he couldn’t give up halfway!
Apart from Night Walker, Marvin didn’t know the way to obtain the other ranger advancements.
But he ended up arguing with the old blacksmith!
This guy cursed Marvin all day long, saying Marvin looked like a girl, was weak and not worthy.
A true man should pick up an iron hammer and forge his own weapons!
Marvin didn’t complain about that and silently did as he said!
His constitution was really too weak.
His strength was also lacking.
Forging could really have a tempering effect, to some degree.
Time went by. The first month, Marvin could still bear with the bad temper after forging.
The third month, he began to become extremely irritable. When the old blacksmith swore at him, he would curse back. Moreover, he would use all kinds of fancy insults which could sometimes made Sean speechless.
Half a year later, he totally stopped caring. He would just repeat the actions the old blacksmith told him to do!
He didn’t bother asking what the blacksmith would have him do next!
For him, every ore was more or less the same, and each kind of iron forging technique was also very similar.
He was an overlord. Once he was out of this damnable place, he would probably not come in contact with anything related to blacksmithing again.
But even if it was so, under the long tempering, Marvin not only obtained the life class [Blacksmith], but its experience had increased at lightning speed.
He hadn’t allocated any experience to the class but when this frightening year ended, Marvin had already reached [Intermediate] rank!
If Marvin remembered correctly, the most amazing blacksmith all of White River Valley was an Intermediate Blacksmith!
‘This is hilarious. This lord actually became an Intermediate Blacksmith.’
‘A Blacksmith Overlord… In all of Feinan, there shouldn’t be many!’ Marvin made fun of himself inwardly.
“Clank!” kept echoing in Marvin’s ear. He had heard it to the extent of nearly having a bit of a nervous breakdown!
The final month, Sean didn’t teach Marvin another forging skill. Rather, he began to make a weapon.
Marvin could only act as a support on the side.
He only had one thought in mind, and it was for this damned apprenticeship to quickly pass!
He had transmigrated in Feinan not long ago and hadn’t expected to spend a year in this Night Monarch’s incomplete plane!
If not for the flow of time being different, Marvin would definitely not have done something so inefficient.
But it still felt very boring.
“Smelly brat! Don’t look around. There is nothing worth seeing here.”
“Quickly get me that chunk of lava rock!”
“And that scroll, on the shelf behind you!”
Facing Sean randomly giving orders, Marvin had already became apathetic, quietly doing as told.
As time went on, Sean’s forged weapon seemed to gradually take shape.
But soon afterward, he clearly cast Marvin to the side, having him practice his blacksmithing skill on another furnace further away.
Marvin could only do as told.
‘This old geezer, why the hell is he so secretive?’ Marvin thought, bored, while hammering a very rough ore.
…
Time continuously passed during this boring training.
The last day, Sean called Marvin over.
A faint
ly discernible object was set up on the weapon shelf.
But it was covered by a layer of cloth.
Sean said, somewhat tired, “Kid, congratulations. Your apprenticeship is finished.”
“You actually managed to last a year. Youths these days don’t have this kind of temperament.”
No kidding… Marvin inwardly mocked. He didn’t have the kind of temperament of kids jumping around. He obviously knew that although Sean’s test was dry and dull, it had a lot of advantages and wasn’t harmful!
In the course of one year of forging, Marvin had turned 15 years old and it looked like he had matured a bit.
The most important change was him taking on quite a bit of muscle on his biceps and chest! He also grew a bit.
The stats gave the most direct observation of his changes. In this year of tempering, his strength rose by 1 point and his constitution rose by 2 points!
He actually gained 3 attribute points in one year of tempering!
Marvin wasn’t an idiot. The forging techniques Sean taught him were definitely not ordinary.
There were definitely some hidden strength and constitution raising methods included among those, to have such an amazing effect.
3 attribute points! One needed to level up 6 times to get that kind of increase!
Although everything wasn’t just a simple conversion, completing Sean’s test was a small increase in strength for Marvin.
At least his constitution’s increase wasn’t small, so he wouldn’t be as weak!
As for the 2000 general experience, it came at the right time. He was about to advance and what he needed the most right now was experience.
In general, advancement quests had three tasks. He had already cleared two, and after the third task he would be able to advance.
When the time came, he would have to use a great amount of experience to be able to activate his advanced class!
Marvin did not want an awkward situation like successfully completing his advancement quest but not having enough experience to unlock it.
…
“Patience is a necessary quality for a Night Walker.”
“As the reward for your patience, this thing is your gift. Regardless of whether you are able to be acknowledged by the Night Monarch and become a Night Walker, this is my gift to you.”
Sean pointed at the item on the weapon shelf while talking.