Soul Weapon Awakening, My Weapon is a Harmonica - Chapter 36

Chapter 36: Forging Technique

In the volcanic region.

“Whoosh!”

The sharp sword sliced through the flesh, and a magical beast that looked like an orangutan slowly fell to the ground. Its three-meter-tall body crashed heavily into the ground, stirring up a thick layer of volcanic ash.

After Copperfield confirmed that the magical beast in front of him was completely dead, he let out a light breath.

A three-star mid-tier Blazing Orangutan was resting in a cave in the volcanic region.

It had been three days since he signed the contract with Doragon.

During these three days, the huge black cocoon emitted a huge soul power fluctuation. Within the powerful fire-type soul power, there seemed to be an aura of death that could cause one’s heart to palpitate.

Copperfield observed and discovered that his own hell-type energy was slowly transforming Doragon’s body. The energy fluctuations within the huge cocoon were getting stronger and stronger, it was far beyond what a three-star low-tier creature could achieve.

Therefore, this transformation could be considered an evolution for Doragon. If there were no problems, after Doragon broke out of the cocoon, his combat strength would undergo a qualitative change.

Just this morning, the energy undulations emitted from the giant cocoon became more and more intense, as if the evolution process was about to end.

As his thoughts flashed through his mind, Copperfield took out the tier 3 magic crystals from the ape before him and threw them into his soul ring.

After three days, Copperfield saw that the evolution of Doragon had not ended, so he decided to search for a suitable magical beast in the volcanic region to engage in battle, in order to stabilize the soul power in his body. Within three days, Copperfield had obtained a total of seventeen tier 2 magic crystals, along with four tier 3 magic crystals.

In order to solidify the soul power in his body, Copperfield didn’t choose to summon Nameless to help him in battle.

Therefore, although Copperfield didn’t obtain many magical crystals within three days, his soul power had already reached a rather solid level. His meridians no longer felt as swollen as before.

His cultivation base was already firmly established at two-star high-tier power. It wouldn’t be long before he would be able to smoothly break through to three-star, given sufficient opportunities.

Although Copperfield felt that his cultivation base had increased a little too quickly, since the soul power in his body didn’t feel weak, Copperfield decided to let nature take its course. Since there wouldn’t be any instability in his cultivation base due to his power increasing too quickly, there was no need for him to deliberately suppress his power advancement.

After three days of battle, Copperfield was already able to determine his actual combat strength.

With Copperfield’s current two-star power, without summoning Nameless, he would have no problem facing a three-star low-tier magical beast alone. Although it would be a little strenuous to fight against a three-star mid-tier magical beast, it would not pose much of a threat to Copperfield.

If he were to summon Nameless, then even a high-tier three-star magical beast won’t pose any threat to him.

In Copperfield’s soul ring, a high-tier three-star Skyfire Leopard Magic Crystal had already explained this point.

As for a four-star magical beast, Copperfield did not find any traces of a four-star magical beast during his three days of training in the volcanic region. Most of the four-star and above magical beasts had their own fixed areas of activity, which meant that they had their own territories, for example, the ape that he had just killed should be under the jurisdiction of another four-star magical beast. When he was out hunting for food, he met Copperfield.

However, he picked the wrong opponent to fight and died under Copperfield’s sword.

These few days of training weren’t just to consolidate his soul power. Just three days ago, Copperfield had entered Doragon’s lair to rest.

The lair wasn’t dark. On the contrary, there was plenty of light because it was filled with crystals with various fire-type soul powers. It was estimated that these crystals were left behind by Doragon after many years of hunting magical beasts. Copperfield couldn’t help but be surprised by Doragon’s wealth, it turned out that the ancient records that the dragon race liked to collect all sorts of treasures and hide them in their lairs were true.

Other than all kinds of crystals, Copperfield also found a lot of human artifacts in the pile of crystals. For example, fragments of armor left behind from battles, or some weapons embedded with soul crystals that contained soul power fluctuations, and so on.

In a corner of the cave, Copperfield also found a very interesting ancient book by accident.

“Soul Forging”

There was no fancy description. In the book that was filled with a sense of time, there were four big words that emitted an ancient aura.

After Copperfield flipped through the contents of the book, he found that the ancient book actually recorded the forging method of a soul.

It was one of the two books that Blacksmiths on Titan Continent learned, other than the Battle Artifact Soul Awakeners.

What made Copperfield really interested was that he had never heard of many forging methods being recorded in the books.

In the former Russell Family, there were naturally blacksmiths who belonged to the family. Copperfield had been especially interested in forging books since he was young, he had once found a blacksmith who belonged to the family and learned some basic knowledge about forging.

But the forging method recorded in the books in front of him had a lot of knowledge that Copperfield had never heard of. In fact, there were many conflicts between this and the forging method that he had once learned.

But after reading carefully, Copperfield seemed to have opened the door to a new world. If the forging method recorded in the ancient books was handled properly, it would indeed be much stronger than the items refined by ordinary forging methods.

However, according to the records in the ancient books, using this kind of forging method required a powerful soul perception. Otherwise, during the forging process, it would be impossible to notice the minute changes that occurred during the forging process.

Soul perception. Although Copperfield’s strength was only at high-tier two-star, the strength of Copperfield’s soul, who had lived two lifetimes, was already much stronger than ordinary people when he was born. According to the records in the ancient books, before learning this kind of forging method, he still needed to go through many years of continuous training and gradually improve his perception during the forging process in order to meet the entry requirements to learn this forging method.

Upon seeing this, Copperfield already understood why he had never heard of this forging method before.

The strength of the soul was something almost constant. It was already destined when everyone was born. Even if one was able to pass the acquired training and slightly improve their soul perception, it would still require many years of practice.

Even if one’s soul perception was enough, it only meant that one had reached the entry level of learning this forging method.

One could imagine how difficult it was to learn this forging method under such harsh conditions. Therefore, it was normal for people to gradually forget about this forging method as the years went by.

For Copperfield, his soul perception had far surpassed the minimum need to learn this forging method. In other words, there were no harsh criteria for Copperfield to reach to learn this forging method, a powerful soul could also improve Copperfield’s ability to control the materials far better than others during the forging process.

The blacksmiths on Titan Continent were divided into first to ninth grades. The blacksmiths who were still active in the eyes of the world were at most eighth grades. They lived in the largest city in the innermost region of the southern border and were heavily protected by the awakened ones of Titan.

Copperfield’s father’s saber Soul Slayer was also made by eighth-grade blacksmiths. However, it was said that when he was forging Soul Slayer, the eighth-grade blacksmiths told his father that the sword Soul Slayer could only be considered a semi-finished product now, as with his forging ability, he was actually unable to fully display the actual power of the materials used for Soul Slayer.

As for where the materials came from, Copperfield had never asked his father.

According to the introduction in the ancient book, the blacksmiths who practiced this method were limited by the strength of their souls. The highest they could reach was the seventh-grade realm. However, the items forged in his hands were far stronger than ordinary eighth-grade forgers.

This was also what attracted Copperfield the most in this ancient book.

In Copperfield’s opinion, even his father, a nine-star soul master, was not as strong as his soul. It was a pity that the Titan continent did not have a method to cultivate the soul. Otherwise, the current Copperfield, with such a strong soul strength, would definitely have a much higher power level.

However, the appearance of the “Soul forging” could be said to have given Copperfield a way to increase his combat strength by relying on his powerful soul power.

If Copperfield could learn this forging method, it would be equivalent to being at the same level. The strength he could display would far exceed that of an awakened at the same level.

This was also the reason why the profession of a blacksmith was so valued in the Titan continent.

Although the requirements for the soul power of ordinary blacksmiths were not as high as recorded in the “Soul forging”, they still needed to be a little higher than ordinary people. The improvement of the soul perception could be said to be the key for all forgers to step into the high-grade class, this was also the reason why the blacksmiths were so scarce.

Therefore, Copperfield was currently collecting forging materials while hunting magical beasts. As for where to find forging materials, there were a lot of weapons and defensive equipment piled up in Doragon’s nest anyway, so it would use a few as experiments, it should not refuse.

As for the heart of lava, Copperfield had let the necklace absorb nearly half of the energy. The energy stored in the necklace had now reached 170%. For the next half a year, Copperfield did not have to worry about this matter anymore.

As for the rest, Copperfield planned to give it to Doragon after it broke out of its cocoon. After all, Doragon had looked at the lava heart longingly that time.

Moreover, Copperfield also needed to use a part of Doragon’s spoils of war when he continued to practice forging methods. That half of the heart would be used as compensation.

Copperfield calculated the total amount of magic crystals in his hands. It should be enough for him to practice for half a month. He currently did not have the tools he needed to forge with.

First, he returned to Doragon’s nest and looked at the current situation of Doragon.

He needed to find time to buy some tools for forging. As for where the money came from, the materials he obtained hunting magical beasts during this period of time should be able to sell for a lot of money. A set of low-grade forging tools should not be too expensive.

If he wanted to take revenge on the Cavendish Family, his current strength was far from enough. Before he could accomplish this task, the Magical Beasts Mountain Range seemed to be a good place to train.

A flute could be heard playing softly.

Copperfield returned to the cave at midnight.