Chapter 15: Why it is an SS rank quest
'That food we ate must have been special. When considering the cost, it makes sense.' Eldrian thought as he saw that he was almost in top shape. 'Seems like I can go all out.'
First, he waited until the tal was glowing. Then he took it out, ensured that the lengths were about equal and naturally he started hamring.
'As expected, no system ssage or help. I wonder if other players would have gotten so system support by now' Eldrian thought after his 5th ti he had heated and hamred the pieces.
After the first two tis, he had started hitting the tals far harder. At this ti, he was using full force to try and make them form. What he found was that they just stayed apart, by now Eldrian was feeling that the quest Boran had given him was impossible.
Unknown to him Vivian had gone to Boran to give him an earful.
"Really Boran you too. I thought at first that you had put the wrong tal inside, it seems you did it on purpose. Why do you and my dad want to give him such a hard ti." Vivian asked in a huff of anger.
"It isn't that we want to give people a hard ti, rather that we want to ensure they are committed, even when it seems impossible." He defended himself.
"Bullshit! If that was the case you wouldn't have given him mithril. You can only forge it via magic hamrs or by channeling mana. How do you expect a high elf who has never learned about mana to do that?" She almost scread at Boran, just barely keeping her voice in check.
"Aren't the Chosen blessed? So, let him show why I should teach him." Boran countered smugly. Clearly, he was happy with himself.
'Why are they so an.' She complained to herself as she kept observing Eldrian at work.
Vivian gnashed her teeth. She knew in the entire city only about 8 blacksmiths could work with mithril. They were only in a dium city so this was already considered good. Normally that number would be less than 5 in other cities of the sa size.
'What the hell are these tal pieces? It won't bend at all!' Eldrian asked himself completely shocked by the toughness of this tal. He already wasted around 40 minutes trying to get the tals to blend. At this ti, he started considering if the tals couldn't be forged at all.
'I guess it makes sense. There is no way a newbie at the ga can complete an SS ranked quest.'
Having reached this conclusion Eldrian just wanted to see how strong the pieces truly were. He placed the bundle on the ground, taking only one small thin piece to try and get it to bend.
After waiting for the piece to heat up, Eldrian placed it onto the anvil. Instead of trying to hamr it as he did previously, he hamred the piece between the anvil and his hands. Trying to force it to bend at the very least.
What happened next Eldrian couldn't believe it. When he hamred the piece it had released a blue flash of light. After which he found that the piece had cut into the anvil quite deeply. His hamr had also shattered into pieces when it connected with the lone piece.
'The fuck! How is that even possible.' Eldrian scread in his head. The piece he took was only 1.5 milliters wide, with a thickness less than that. This piece was now stuck in the anvil-like so weird wire.
Unknown to Eldrian in that hit he had lost almost half of his mana, but since he didn't know how it felt to control and move mana, he didn't realize it.
Vivian's mouth hanged open when she saw the piece cut into the anvil. She knew mithril wasn't that hard. It would have at most scratched the anvil, ending up bent from such a hit, even if mana wasn't channeled into it.
She looked at Boran as if he was pure evil. 'How was this supposed to be a fair check. The only tal she knew of that was that hard was adamantine, but that tal is a blackish-purple color. She also knew that only Boran was able to even work adamantine in the city. 'What the hell is that tal then. I have never heard of a silver tal with that amount of strength?' She asked herself.
As if feeling the angry stare directed at him Boran stopped his work to see why Vivian was so angry. When he saw that Eldrian was now struggling with all his might to get a piece of tal out of an anvil he almost broke down laughing.
So chuckles still escaped, resulting in Vivian directing and an even angrier glare at him.
"Okay, okay. I admit that was unfair. To be honest I just planned to see if the kid would work at it till the end or give up. I didn't think he'd try experinting to see if he could bend a single piece, since that wasn't part of the test I gave him." Boran said as he started laughing for real.
Vivian turned around to see why Boran started laughing after controlling himself. What she saw was Eldrian trying to regain his balance, as he had pulled the anvil up via the small tal piece.
Seeing Eldrian dancing to try and counter-balance the weight of the anvil Vivian also couldn't control herself and started laughing.
Eldrian continued struggling to keep his balance for almost 10 seconds, before he ended falling down. Luckily the anvil didn't fall on him but rather missed him.
Breathing out a breath of relief Eldrian looked at the two laughing figures. By now, Boran was lying on the floor struggling to breathe as he laughed.
This confused Eldrian a bit since he hadn't seen how his performance looked, scratching his head he thought, 'Was that really so funny? Even Vivian is struggling to keep standing."
This entire scene happened because Eldrian wanted to remove the piece from the anvil. He didn't expect it to be stuck so fast, so when he had pulled with all his might the anvil had simply left the ground.
What resulted in him struggling so much to regain his balance, was the fact that the tal piece still hadn't bent, so it was still in its zig-zag crack pattern, with an anvil attached at its one end and Eldrian on the other.
"Boran, what the hell is this tal. When I tried to check if I could bend it, it just cut straight through the anvil. Through a freaking anvil! How is that even possible?" Eldrian asked finding the situation a bit funny himself after he thought about it a bit.
"Hahaha, sorry Haru… I wanted to check your resolve. I never… expected you to actually succeed. The tal is called divine mithril, or rather that is what we decided to call it for now. It is very rare and very valuable. That single piece stuck in that anvil is worth probably around 30 gold in its raw form, and that is a conservative estimate." Boran said, laughing in between every sentence, and a bit in-between.
'Holy shit, that is a lot of gold,' Eldrian thought as he looked at the small tal wire again thinking 'That is just a few grams of tal, how is it worth so much.' Luckily he wasn't the only one who was confused.
"Wait what, I have never heard of divine tals before," Vivian questioned as this wasn't sothing she has ever heard of before.
"Of course not. It's sothing new that was discovered when the invasion began. It was found in a celestial silver mine, surrounded by mitral." Boran said after he finally cald down.
"As you see it there is as it was inside the vein. Like cracks in a rock, except the cracks were filled with divine mithril and the rock was mithril. The only way we managed to extract it was by removing the surrounding mithril." Boran said as he lifted his hands to indicate how helpless they were. But a yearning look was present in his eyes as he glanced at the divine mithril again.
Vivian had shocked all over her face when she heard that even Boran couldn't shape it, since it was still in its raw form. That ant this tal was really, really high tier.
"Why did you ask Haru to form it then?" Vivian asked. She was even more irritated that he would give an impossible task to Eldrian.
"Simple, for inspiration. That kid certainly reached an interesting approach quickly. I never even thought of trying to bend it. Mostly due to it not really accomplishing anything, but still it was smart of him to think of that." Boran said as he walked over to the anvil.
"Why do you call it divine mithril?" Eldrian asked as he looked at the pieces in a new light. They were a pure gold mine. Currently, players haven't even started exchanging in-ga money, mostly because no one has succeeded in making any, so hearing how much one piece worth certainly tempted him.
The gains from animal kills were at most 20 copper per kill. And that is if the players skinned the animal well and sold the at. Nothing else was gained except a little XP.
This ant one divine mithril piece would be worth months of hunting.
"That, well we called it that since like celestial tals, being the magic variety of normal tals, this seed to be the more advanced tier of magic tals," Boran answered
"Celestial tals?" Eldrian asked no one in particular.
"I can answer that." Vivian stepped forward as Boran crouched down and observed the anvil and divine mithril piece.
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