Sword Among Us c1-1268

by Black Swordsman Online

  "I've brought the ingredients for you."

  Heartless Iron's eyes lit up. He rubbed his hands subconsciously and said, "Give them to me!"

  "But they're not second-echelon weapons."

  Thunderous Battle brought out a weapon from his Universe Bag, and Heartless Iron's eyes instantly fixed on it. He felt a noble, luxurious, and aggressive air charge at him, and his heart stopped for a few seconds.

  "Nation Protecting Divine Sword!"

  When Heartless Iron registered the situation, he lost his composure for the first time. He rushed in front of Thunderous Battle and took Nation Protecting Divine Sword from his hands. Then, as if he was observing a matchless artwork, he c.a.r.e.s.sed the blade with sparkling eyes. He watched it for a long time, feeling beside himself with joy.

  "Clan master, are you sure I can refine grade one masterpieces now?!" Heartless Iron mumbled while stroking Nation Protecting Divine Sword. Then, for the first time, his expression grew nervous and solemn. "I heard that the price of Nation Protecting Divine Sword is more than fifteen million. If I fail…"

  "Don't worry. Refinement has always had its risks. Even if you fail, it's fine. As long as you successfully forge one, we'll succeed, but even if you fail with all of them, we can treat this as an investment. I think you can gain quite a lot of experience even if you fail in refining grade one masterpieces. It can help you become a Great Forgemaster."

  While speaking, Thunderous Battle brought out three more Nation Protecting Divine Swords. Right under Heartless Iron's nearly frozen stare, he placed them on his forging table one after another.

  The three Nation Protecting Divine Swords and the Nation Protecting Divine Sword in Heartless Iron's hands contrasted with each other and shone brilliantly!

  The luxurious and noble presence, the unique brilliance, and the long blade all released a brilliant aura. It practically made the entire forging room as bright as day. Heartless Iron's breathing became disorderly, much to his disappointment, and he only managed to calm down after a long while.

  Four grade one masterpieces!

  They were four masterpieces that were publicly acknowledged as the most high-end masterpieces. They were four Nation Protecting Divine Sword which had the chance to reach the same rank as divine vessels!

  Heartless Iron felt as if his heart was about to burn up from excitement and exhilaration.

  "I heard that Nation Protecting Divine Sword has a chance of becoming a real divine vessel. Are you sure there's no problem with me refining them?"

  "You just need to refine them. There aren't that many divine vessels in the world anyway, and in truth, there aren't that many ironsmiths who have gained the essence of grandmasters either," Thunderous Battle spoke at the perfect moment.

  "But I have to say, I can't quite control myself when I face these four Nation Protecting Divine Swords. I can't steel my heart to let you refine them either… but some twenty days ago, Happy told me that as long as you become a Forgemaster, he will immediately give you a batch of grade one masterpieces so that you can attempt to create third-echelon equipment. I can only be considered as being generous in his place."

  'That's about right! Aside from Happy, who else in the game could gather Nation Protecting Divine Swords?

  'Besides Happy, who else can bring out four Nation Protecting Divine Swords in one go?

  'So, there's a person that I should have noticed standing right behind Thunderous Battle…'

  Heartless Iron s.u.c.k.e.d in a deep breath before calming down once more. "Clan master, don't worry, I will definitely do my best."

  As he spoke, he moved the Nation Protecting Divine Swords and three groups of ingredients Thunderous Battle had placed in the forging room into his pouch. He only left one set on the table.

  "I look forward to good news from you."

  Thunderous Battle might have acted based on Happy's orders, but when he saw that Heartless Iron had heated up the fire and was prepared to refine the weapon, he could not help but be nervous.

  "If you succeed, we will not be at a loss. Heartless, at that time, Happy might let you refine the entire Golden Armor Set…"

  Heartless Iron had finally managed to calm his heart down when ripples spread through it once more. He smiled wanly and shook his head. "Clan master, you should go out."

  "Ah, sorry, I'll leave."

  Thunderous Battle knew that during refinement, the forgemasters ha to remain absolutely calm, so it would be a little inappropriate for him to stay. He smiled bashfully, drew the curtain, and left.

  Heartless Iron was the only one left. As he faced the luxurious Nation Protecting Divine Sword and the dazzling, dark blue unakite on the refinement table, he closed his eyes slowly.

  Chapter 390 - Extreme Grinding

  During the last half a month, there were very few people who entered the royal mausoleum!

  Those who did come were no longer people from Vast Martial City, but from other places, and they were not especially powerful either, because the people in Vast Martial City and the people on the Dragon Rank and Phoenix Rank knew very clearly that the resources in the royal mausoleum had been monopolized by Happy. Even if they entered too, no one could snatch a lot of loot from his hands.

  Still, there were some blind martial artists who thought highly of themselves and tried to snatch Happy's resources.

  However, those who frequented the royal mausoleum knew that the top ranked player on the Famous People Rank who could destroy Class One Hall's branch alone was not someone with a good temper.

  Happy only needed to activate his Wind Spirit Spin for a few ants to "accidentally" enter his attack range, and the end would be there. He would destroy their body fortifications with one slash, and the second slash coming right after the first would take their lives.

  Happy attacked without showing mercy, and once he was done, he did not even cast a glance at his victims before leaving.

  After realizing that, the people from Vast Martial City treated the royal mausoleum as forbidden ground!

  The elites on the Dragon Rank and Phoenix Rank would not waste their time to venture far and wide just for a little bit of resources, especially when they even had to do so at the risk of offending Happy.

  Right then, all he needed to do was let the people who wanted to try their luck to enter the royal mausoleum first. He could ignore the splitting throwing knives in the hall once he went inside and just wait quietly. He allowed the Knife-throwing Ninjas kill the martial artists while he hid by the side and watched. Once most of the people were dead, he would wrap things up calmly.

  Sometimes, an elite would enter the royal mausoleum. When they showed the slightest intention to snatch the resources, Happy did not attack them, but when he entered the second level, he would personally pass by the area with Ninja King and leave once he said his greetings. Then, he would leave behind the elite who would long to cry but be unable while faced with a fierce and aggressive Moksha Realm boss…

  Just like that, for half a month, there was basically no one who could enter the second level of the royal mausoleum.

  Hence, Happy became at ease, and he boldly carried out his great plan to train.

  His calm life was only interrupted when a new Life and Death Realm player who had just entered the Dragon Rank appeared in the royal mausoleum.

  That person also revealed the secret behind why Happy stayed in the royal mausoleum for a long period of time.

  *****

  He was training there!

  Aside from obtaining most of the masterpieces in the royal mausoleum and killing most of the ninjas, Happy left the large group of ninjas in the hall of the second level as well as Ninja King. Then, he activated a very commonly seen high-tier body fortification technique, Rotating Circle Barrier, to withstand the attacks from Ninja King and the Knife-throwing Ninjas.

  The Knife-throwing Ninjas' splitting throwing knives filled the hall, and Shadow Warriors closed in to attack.

  Happy's body fortification coul
d absorb a lot of damage within a short amount of time, and his experience increased by leaps and bounds.

  While he did that, two men in Golden Armor moved back and forth through the hall. One of them had a sword, and the other swung his fists.

  Ninja King's attacks were equivalent to eight Life and Death Realm enemies' attacks.

  Since there were many other ninjas as well, the experience Happy absorbed was equivalent to three or four times the amount of experience he could receive outside.

  At the moment the Life and Death Realm player entered the hall of the royal mausoleum, he was immediately dumbfounded!

  When he saw that there were still plenty of ninjas in the hall, he ignored Happy's warning and pounced over in glee. He was prepared to fill up his pocket and get some masterpieces.

  But the moment he killed two ninjas, a sword force that was as fast as a shooting star rose from among the ninjas and shot through his body.

  "Either you leave, or die!"

  Many experienced players expressed their opinions!

  [This is an extreme way of training!]

  [Looks like Happy is also striving to reach Life and Death Realm.]

  [Duh. Class One Hall is growing stronger. If Happy doesn't work harder, even Mu Clan will be ruined.]

  [The attacks of those ninjas in the royal mausoleum is pretty good, and there are plenty of them as well. It's indeed a good training spot. But there aren't many people who can train in those conditions right now.]

  [The attribute of Golden Armor that allows us to retain our posture makes it one of the best for training. It can help us retain our attack speed. His weapon can also increase his attack speed. When it comes to practicing sword techniques, Happy's equipment advantage is great!]

  [Now, everyone is catching up in terms of their qi realms. You won't be able to get high class battle assessments so easily anymore. Happy should have seen through this, which is why he thought of this method that can allow him to practice three martial arts at the same time.]

  [Two of them are active skills, and one of them is a passive skill. There's no need for us to mention the active skills. With Happy's weapon and armor, his speed won't be any slower than ours. But his method to train that high-tier body fortification is amazing…

  [If he can persevere, the speed at which he increases its realm will be astonishing. Even though having a second high-tier body fortification technique won't be very useful, the speed at which he can transform his qi will be very shocking! Reaching 320 qi points is definitely Happy's goal!]

  A lot of people betrayed that they were very envious of Happy's advantage. His high-tier body fortification's training alone was already three times faster than a normal person's!

  At the same time the official website was in commotion, Class One Hall also became nervous.

  "Happy is practicing a low-tier sword technique! I heard that there is a quest in Murong Clan in which a player is supposed to learn one hundred martial arts. It's to inherit the ultimate technique, Shifting Stars. He only needs to learn them up to the tenth realm, and if he's fast, pushing one low-tier martial art to the tenth realm isn't too much of a problem. If Happy completes this quest and gets his second ultimate technique, there will be very few people who can control him!"

  The person who said that was Class One Hall's Vice Hall Master Blood Robes.

  Dream Clouds and Barren Murderer's expressions were very unpleasant.

  They knew very well just how great were ultimate techniques.

  With the power of their guild, the three of them had inherited different ultimate techniques.

  Happy already had one mysterious ultimate technique, and it was because of this that he never lost when it came to one-on-one fights and could firmly secure his spot as the top-ranked player on the Famous People Rank.

  If he could get one more, especially an amazing divine martial art such as Shifting Stars, which could control the situation of a chaotic battle, he would definitely become someone very troublesome.

  "Hall master… if I'm not wrong, Happy's Rotating Circle Barrier has almost reached great completion. He should have started practicing it since that day. Once he reaches great completion, he will enter Life and Death Realm," Chief Lonesome Night said tentatively.

  Dream Clouds nodded. "From this, we can be certain that Happy's qi has already reached 315. He should reach Life and Death Realm in a few days."

  "Mu Clan's development is also much faster than what we expected. Thunderous Battle is indeed a talent. He might be big and look careless, and he brought in a lot of players focusing on occupations recklessly and outrageously, but when it comes to refinement, his development is indeed far more stable than ours, and they ran into far fewer obstacles than we did.

  "Now, he continuously uses second-echelon middle-grade masterpieces in exchange for grade two masterpieces, and he uses second-echelon grade two masterpieces in exchange for grade one masterpieces. His business is going very well," Barren Murderer said.

  "This isn't Thunderous Battle's idea," Blood Robes said, contradicting Barren Murderer's words. He paused for a moment before he explained with a heavy tone. "The person who suggested the details is Happy. In truth, he mentioned it to Beautiful Robes Faction a month ago, but Mu Clan only had the ability to push forward with it after Beautiful Robes Faction was destroyed.

  "This guy not only has astonishing gaming talents, but he's also very good with fortuitous events in the game and seizing his chances. He's a great opponent. Dream Clouds, I think it's time for that person to enter the royal mausoleum. We can't let Happy develop any further. If this continues, it won't be beneficial for us."

  When the others heard Blood Robes' suggestion, their spirits lifted, and they looked at Dream Clouds.

  They had decided to destroy Beautiful Robes Faction because of his appearance. It had made them believe that they had gained the ability to control Happy from then on.

  Dream Clouds' furrowed eyebrows suddenly relaxed. As she smiled, she shook her head slowly. "No. It's not the time yet. Based on what he said, he found an interesting place a few days ago, and he won't leave it for some time."

  Chapter 391 - Phantasmal Crystal

  "Happy, good news."

  When Happy walked out of the royal mausoleum, he immediately received a letter from Thunderous Battle. When he spread it out, the fatigue he felt from fighting against the ninjas for most of the day instantly vanished. A wave of heat and energy rose in his body again, and a hint of happiness appeared on his face.

  The last couple days, good news had been coming from Mu Clan one after another.

  Beautiful Robes Faction's development continued in a neat and orderly fashion. Thunderous Battle led his clan members to clear the large forest of Blood S.u.c.k.i.n.g Wood in the depths of Shennongjia. With hundreds of players, they whittled down its HP for a day and night before they killed it and helped Red Coral get the Thousand Year Blood S.u.c.k.i.n.g Wood Root. At the same time, they obtained countless high-grade medicinal herbs from the Blood S.u.c.k.i.n.g Wood forest. Among them were a thousand-year ginseng and a thousand-year lingzhi.

  Heartless Iron had become even more skillful.

  Even though it had been his first time trying to make third-echelon weapons and he only managed to refine one of the four Nation Protecting Divine Swords, which meant that he wasted more than seventy million worth of ingredients, Happy was not disappointed in him. He continued to provide Nation Protecting Divine Swords and Golden Armor Set parts to Heartless Iron to fully support him in his refinement!

  During the final stages of refinement, Heartless Iron had already learned from his past lessons, and he figured out a set of patterns as well as incorporated the refining of grade two masterpieces. Every time he failed in second-echelon grade two refinement, he used the level-headedness he gained from his failure to challenge making a third-echelon weapon.

  It had to be said that it was quite effective.

  Heartless Iron had received all five parts of Golden Arm
or Set from Happy. After a few days, he successfully created three sets of Golden Armor and two individual parts. His success rate was more than 60%. Happy decided to be generous and gave him contribution points that were worth sixty million taels of silver.

  Thunderous Battle also benefited from that. He obtained a third-echelon Nation Protecting Divine Sword and a set of third-echelon Golden Armor. On the second day, he arrogantly went to cause trouble for Stone King in the crystal mine, and he was lucky enough to get two unakites and some high-grade crystals from it.

  And after all that, Happy still received some more good news.

  The person who dug out that crystal was a female miner from Black Rose Clan. Her name was Small Herb. Thunderous Battle used the name of the clan to give Small Herb contribution points that were worth ten million taels of silver, and he also said that whoever dug out a Phantasmal Crystal again would receive ten million taels of silver as well.

  Black Rose Clan was absolutely shocked.

  [Beautiful.] Happy was not stingy in his praise. [Big Brother Thunder, you can be considered to have made a rather wise move. Black Rose Clan is a group that we should draw to our side if we can. Phantasmal Crystals may be low in value in the market right now, but the drop rate is really low. The five sects have only managed to produce a few of them over the past month. Its value will increase once or twice in the future.

  [Ten million is worth it! Also, once the month is over, give them contribution points based on the system for normal clan members. They will share our resources equally. Even though Red Coral will definitely give them allowances, those women are not simple characters either.]

  Thunderous Battle answered quickly. [That's right. I have to say, those girls are much more hardworking compared to many other people. When they're serious, regardless of whether it is the people from Beautiful Robes Hall or War Hall, we're all rather impressed.]