Chapter 16: Magic tals
"I can answer that." Vivian stepped forward as Boran crouched down and observed the anvil and divine mithril piece.
"Celestial tals are called so, since the first cases of their discovery was from teorites. Later on, they were also found in normal ore veins, but the na stayed."
"Basically, all tals have a celestial variant of the sa type. For example, celestial iron is the variant of iron. It is also known as black steel after being processed. The difference between normal iron and celestial iron is the fact that the celestial iron can conduct mana."
"This in essence ans that the tal does not hinder the flow of mana, thus magic can be effectively used with the weapon. So, in the case where you try to use a magic skill with a normal sword made of iron, the mana would cause it to aggressively vibrate as it courses through it. Normally if the weapon is of poor quality it would just burst into pieces due to this."
"But a celestial iron sword, or more often called black steel sword, would not experience this adverse effect."
"I recognized that you said it would not hinder the flow. Would materials then enhance the flow instead?" Eldrian asked.
"Yes, basically when you use a skill, it is the sa as using a spell. The difference is that with spells you don't use a dium to transport it. Celestial tals are the most basic of magic tals and thus it would absorb so of the mana you sent through it. But the higher tier magic tals would instead enhance this the flow of mana by absorbing surrounding mana."
"This is why, even though for mages don't need to use anything to cast spells, many prefer to use a staff or wand."
"The wand is then an enhancer right?"
"Exactly. It would enhance their spells' strength by either providing more mana to the spell or allowing better control for the mage."
'This is a lot like electricity, with mana being the thing moving through the tals instead of charge. So then the purer the tal is to a certain ideal magic tal, the easier it would flow. And after a certain stage it will even be strengthened.' Eldrian thought as he tried to let it make sense according to his knowledge base.
"How big Is the advantage of using higher tier tals then."
"I don't really know. But in a sense you can imagine it like this. If you use a steel sword and send 10 units of mana thought the blade for a skill, only about 2 would exit the blade to form the skill."
"But if the blade is made from black steel, then around 7 mana points would form the skill. And if you have a even better tal, like mithril. Then instead it might give the skill a boost, resulting in 11 or so mana points to form the skill."
"The opposite effect would happen to the weapons durability, due to the poor mana conduction. So the steel blade would loose almost double the amount of durability, than the black steel. While the mithril blade would lose no extra durability for casting a skill through it. This is why most people avoid using weapon related skills in battle if they do not have a good weapon."
'Such an in-depth system. Most players probably don't know this or wouldn't learn this for a while,' Eldrian thought to himself as he realized how lucky he is to have found Vivian and her dad, who was teaching him so much.
"Dang Haru, you really stuck it in here!" Suddenly they were interrupted as Boran scread this. Looking at him they saw him laying down with his legs pushing the anvil away, while he was pulling the divine mithril piece.
This caused both Vivian and Eldrian to laugh. Seeing Boran, red faced trying to pull such a small piece of tal out of the large chunk of iron, which made up the anvil.
"Serves you right." Vivian said as she pulled a face at the struggling Boran.
A few seconds later a grating sound was heard as Eldrian and Vivian saw Boran successfully pull the piece out.
This caused Eldrian's mouth to hang open. He just saw soone pull a piece of tal so hard it literally tore out of the anvil.
"Few! Finally!" Boran said as he stood up with the piece in hand, it was still in the exact sa shape it was since the start.
Eldrian quickly walked to the anvil and was left flabbergasted. Boran had literally torn it out of the anvil. 'Just how strong is he. It was so snugly fit in there that the outwards pull caused the iron to deform.' Eldrian asked himself as he shivered. Deforming solid iron by just pulling on a piece of tal certainly blew Eldrian's mind.
'How did he not cut his hands.' Was the next thing which popped into Eldrian's head.
"Well now that that's done, let's get back to business. Haru follow ." Boran said as he placed the divine mithril piece, with its friends on the ground.
Eldrian followed as Boran he was led to his huge forge. Boran next out an iron rod into the forge and turned to Eldrian.
"Okay, no tricks this ti, turn the rod into a rectangle. You have an hour." Boran said as he gave Eldrian a new hamr.
[Player quest has been updated.]
[Quest na: Basic blacksmithing.]
[Quest giver: Boran]
[Quest Description: Player must blacksmith an iron rod into rectangular form.]
[Quest Progress: 0/1]
[Quest rank: SS -> E]
[Quest Ti limit: 2 hours, 1 hour 5 minutes left]
[Quest Reward: 600 XP, condition to becos Boran's apprentice, Unknown]
Seeing the new quest rank Eldrian was a bit sad. This certainly ant that the reward was going to be lesser.
He shook his head to get rid of this unnecessary negative thought and started hamring the rod when he believed it was at a good temperature.
30 minutes later Eldrian had succeeded in turning three quarters of the rod into a square shape.
As he turned it around to heat the other end, he saw Boran walking to him.
"Haru, seems like you do have talent for this. When you hamr you seem to do it in the correct manner without having been taught. Let give you so other tips to help you improve on this instinct of yours." Boran said, as he lightly slapped Eldrian's shoulder in a brotherly manner.
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Eight minutes later Eldrian finished forming the rod into a square.
"It's done." Eldrian said feeling quite relieved.
Boran walked over and took a look at the finished product. It was mostly flat on the sides, with just a few bumpy areas from uneven hamring.
"Mmmh, well done. While not perfect, for a first tir it is really good. I can even see the clear improvent from before to after I gave you so tips. This is why I love to give beginners a forming test. You can see from the one end to the other how they improved while getting used to it." Boran said proudly as he looked over the rod.
"See here, from here you obviously discovered sothing, and from here was when I gave you those tips. The improvent is so clear. Well done." Boran said after he had looked over it for a few seconds more.
[Quest completed]
[Rewards:600 XP]
[Can beco Boran's apprentice]
[Weapon Choice]
"I certainly won't mind training you in blacksmithing. Also co pick a weapon as your reward for doing such an excellent job." Boran said, patting Eldrian's shoulder again before going trough the only door in the room again.
Exhilarated Eldrian followed after Boran. Being able to choose a weapon of choice, from a quest, was definitely a great reward. Eldrian believed that this was due to the previous rank of SS.
He was sure that if he could have completed the SS, he would have gotten a magic weapon, now he felt that most likely he will just get a normal tiered weapon. Still for the current poor him this was a great opportunity, since he felt good weapons would be far out of his league.
He thought this because of what he saw on the forums. Most players had bought armor and weapons, resulting in them getting really poor quality equipnt. But even those who had only chosen to buy one thing had found that it was on the lower end of the items available to them.
As soon as they entered the shop Boran took a turn left to go into a different room.
"The weapons on display is only for normal custors. The second floor only for nobles and the third only for military captains and above. But I am taking you to my failed prototypes. Normally I don't sell these weapons as they are too poor quality for nobles for the price, and far too expensive for normal soldiers. So, since you proved yourself you can take your pick." Boran said
This greatly surprised Vivian. She knew what Boran was talking about. While is failed experints might not et the requirents of nobles and where too expensive due to the materials used, it didn't an they were bad.
Rather just that the thing he tried to achieve didn't work. Thus making it to expensive due to the use of magical materials in its production, with no magical effect because of the failure.
As far as she knew only close friends of Boran were allowed to take these weapons. He never sold them keeping them for when he wanted to give soone a gift or when a friend was in a pinch.
They were the perfect gifts. To expensive to sell normally, too valuable to throw away.
Of course, this is only true when you give it to aspiring soldiers or adventurers. Since Elite soldiers and adventurers and the more professional people would be able to afford the better weapons.
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