Chapter 38: For Boney 6, No, For Myself
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[Title: Production Skill Tier List!]
> ‘Sup? Nice to et you. I’m a hunter who commands nurous production hunters like blacksmiths, jewelers, tailors, and so on.
> Production hunters, listen up. I see people arguing about who has top-tier or 2nd-tier skills on the forums. So let clear this up for you, so y’all can shut up.
> First off, there are countless production skills. Blacksmithing, jewelry crafting, tailoring, item crafting, mining, tallurgy, cooking, slting, woodworking, potion brewing, tanning, leather crafting, weaving, enchanting, chanical engineering, herb gathering, blueprint designing, alchemy, etc.
> Yikes, it’s exhausting just to list them all, huh? You can look up what each skill does on your own ti.
> The important thing here is that all skills have their own value.
> The goal of the production class is to create sothing, right? And of course you want to make the best items possible, right?
> To do that, you need all the skills listed above. Nothing is unimportant. The higher the performance of an item, the more diverse and rare materials you need. Therefore, all those skills listed above are at least 2nd-tier by default.
> Since they’re all 2nd-tier, there’s no need to argue. Arguing about your skills is like asking, “Who is stronger, the navy or the air force?” Their purpose may be different, but the fact that we need both does not change.
> But actually, there are 1st-tier skills among those. Just two.
> Why, you may ask? Because you can perform other skills just by learning these two skills.
> The 1st-tier skills I’m talking about are ‘Item Crafting’ and ‘Alchemy.’
> Item Crafting consolidates skills like blacksmithing, jewelry crafting, tailoring, and potion brewing.
> Alchemy isn’t just about making gold; it’s about combining leftover materials to extract other materials. Therefore, Alchemy makes obtaining high-value tals, ores, blueprints, jewels, herbs, and so on easier.
> So if any of you kids turning 20 have either of those skills, you should jump for joy.
> In conclusion. Item Crafting and Alchemy are 1st-tier. The rest are 2nd-tier.
> If you disagree, your argunt is valid. If you’re still upset, co find at White Swine.
> Cheers.
“Hmm.”
Inside the rented room, I summoned Boney 6.
—Creak?
The short skeleton tilted its head, holding a tiny, cute bone hamr.
I sent it to the makeshift magic furnace.
—Sizzle!
The fuel boiled and burned red-hot, fascinating to watch.
[Skill: Interdiate Slting]
[Level: 1]
[Description: Extracts tal from ores.]
[Effect 1: Can slt iron ore.]
[Effect 2: Can slt copper ore.]
[Effect 3: Can slt silver ore.]
“Hm.”
First, I went out to buy so piles of iron ore nearby.
“Alright, give it a try.”
Of course, I had no idea how to slt. But Boney 6 was a blacksmith, so it would know, right? Just like Boney 1 could naturally swing a sword.
—Creak!
It nodded and carried the iron ore piles to the furnace, slowly pouring them in.
[Using skill ‘Interdiate Slting’ (Lv.1).]
[Crafted 1 ‘Iron Ingot.’]
[Crafted 1 ‘Iron Ingot.’]
[Crafted ‘Waste Pile.’]
[Proficiency increased by 1.]
[Tip: When proficiency exceeds a certain value, the level increases.]
“Woah.”
Iron ingots piled up at the base of the furnace as ti passed. These were the basic materials needed to craft items.
[Skill: Interdiate Weaving]
[Level: 1]
[Description: Spins thread and weaves cloth.]
[Effect 1: Spins ‘Interdiate Thread.’]
[Effect 2: Weaves ‘Interdiate Cloth.’]
The weaving skill was similar by buying materials like spider silk, cocoons, wool, goat hair, and flax and spinning them on the loom.
[Using skill ‘Interdiate Weaving.’]
[Spun ‘Interdiate Thread.’]
[Spun ‘Interdiate Thread.’]
[Crafted ‘Waste Pile.’]
[Proficiency increased by 1.]
Various colors of threads blood splendidly.
“Wow.”
I was impressed.
In short, Slting and Weaving were skills to extract materials. And it was as simple as a ga with no need to overthink it. I just had to put it in and presto! It was made.
“Boney 6.”
—Creak?
It looked at after setting the loom.
“Shall we try alchemy now?”
I made up my mind to use all the skills it had today.
The alchemy stand wasn’t in the rented room. There was only one public stand in the farthest back room of the shop.
It makes sense since alchemy is a rare skill.
The shop owner didn’t seem to stock many.
—Clomp, clomp.
Moving to the room with Boney 6, I saw a man in a hood. He was smoking heavily, focused on sothing. He seed to be a custor using the shop.
Though I have Boney 6, so.
I decided not to mind it. I was an uncommon necromancer, but that person also must possess an uncommon alchemist profession.
I stood there, observing what the man was doing. After about 30 seconds, he reacted.
“Are you a beginner?”
“Pardon?”
“The alchemy stand can be shared, but you were just standing there.”
“Ah, I see.” I nodded, a sign of affirmation.
“If you’re a beginner, I can show you. Co over here.”
The man was kind. As if recalling his early days, he offered his help.
It’s fortunate for .
I looked at him with shining eyes and expressed my gratitude. “Thank you.”
“Hmm, being here ans you must have the Alchemy skill. But what’s with that skeleton? Are you a necromancer?”
“Ah, actually. I don’t have Alchemy, but this guy does.”
“…What? Really?” The alchemist licked his lips. “Life sure brings strange experiences. I never thought I’d see a skeleton that can use Alchemy.”
“Honestly, it’s fascinating to too.”
“…Well, do you have any junk items?”
“Junk items?”
I checked my portable bag. I had collected a few things while exploring C-rank dungeons recently.
—Rustle…
I shook the bag, and about two dozen junk items fell out. They were ‘itemized’ materials like poison glands, tail hairs, and bone fragnts.
“Oh?” Watching the scene, the alchemist’s pupils dilated. “These are all useful materials above C-rank. They must have been difficult to get.”
“I just got lucky.”
“I see.”
The alchemist glanced down to check the white naplate at my waist. It seed like he was gauging my skills. White ant E-rank, so he’d likely think I was a wealthy hunter.
“…Well, alchemy is actually quite simple. Just put ‘waste piles’ or material-type ‘junk items’ into the stand and use the skill.”
“It really does sound simple.”
I followed the man’s instructions and had Boney 6 pour all the junk items in. And then I waited.
[Using skill ‘Interdiate Weaving.’]
—Thump! Thump! Thump!
[What item will be created?]
With various effects, ssages popped up.
Wow, this felt like a lottery.
After so ti, ssages appeared one after another.
—Ring!
[You obtained ‘Mandrake.’]
[You obtained the blueprint for ‘Sturdy Steel Sword.’]
[You obtained ‘Silver Ingot.’]
[You obtained ‘Interdiate Cloth.’]
[You obtained ‘Interdiate Thread.’]
[You obtained ‘Lowest-Level Sapphire.’]
[Proficiency increased by 2.]
—Rustle!
Items poured out from under the stand.
This…
It felt familiar. You know the feeling? Like when you were a kid playing with a gacha machine by putting in a few coins.
This is a fun skill.
Just as the combat skills of swinging swords and fighting monsters were enjoyable, these production-type skills also had their own charm.
After praising Boney 6 internally, I was about to gather the items when it happened.
“Huh?” The alchemist watching us had wide eyes. “What is this? You used Alchemy but got blueprints, herbs, and even jewels?”
“…What’s the matter?” I tilted my head.
Isn’t that what Alchemy does?
[Skill: Interdiate Alchemy]
[Level: 1]
[Description: Synthesizes materials to create new random materials.]
[Effect 1: Can obtain basic materials.]
[Effect 2: Can obtain interdiate materials.]
That’s what the skill description says.
“No way. Mandrakes or sapphires only co from interdiate and above.”
“Is that surprising?”
The alchemist looked astonished.
Why? What was the problem?
“Wait, are you an interdiate alchemist? How can an E-rank do that? Is this a trick? Are you a magician or sothing?”
“I’m not a magician. Hm, is an interdiate alchemist rare?”
“…Okay, this is nuts. I need to take a puff. Judging from what you’re saying, you’re clearly a beginner.” The alchemist sighed heavily and exhaled smoke. Then he continued, “Fuu. Of course, they’re rare. Do you know how hard it is to raise the proficiency of Basic Alchemy? It takes thousands, millions of materials to reach Interdiate Alchemy.”
“Ugh.” I was shocked to hear that.
What? But Boney 6 started as an interdiate alchemist.
“On your own, raising the skill level to interdiate is almost impossible. You’d need so guild-level support.”
“…”
“…It’s crazy to see a beginner with Interdiate Alchemy. Even in White Swine, there are only about five interdiate alchemists… This is unbelievable.”
“Then what about advanced alchemists?”
“There aren’t any yet in this world. Even though it’s been over ten years.”
“…”
Now I understood why production professions were underrated despite being fun and why they couldn’t beco as famous as combat jobs.
Because this skill can’t be developed at an individual level.
The difficulty was imnse.
It would take tens and hundreds of millions of won.
My bank balance was less than ten million won.
Hm.
However, it was strange. After hearing this, I should have felt despair.
But why do I want to raise Boney 6 more?
Instead, I felt it was the right choice because it was better to raise a rare profession than sothing that just anyone could raise.
I just need to work hard.
‘Hard work’ was my biggest weapon. Besides, I didn’t have to do it myself as I could just summon Boney 6 and have it work. In the anti, I just needed to keep bringing materials from dungeons without needing to stand in front of a hot furnace myself.
Alright.
I felt passionate.
It might cost a lot of money, but I didn’t care. This guy was practically stock that would surely rise exponentially in the future, so it was worth the investnt.
“Thanks for the advice. Here, take this.”
I handed him the mandrake as a token of appreciation.
“What? No, you shouldn’t have! This is a valuable interdiate herb.”
“It’s fine. We’ll be seeing each other often. I’d appreciate the occasional advice.” I smiled brightly.
Then I looked at my lovely Boney 6.
Boney 6, I’ll keep gathering materials so you can grow without trouble. So in return, you have to make great items for , alright? Gehehe.
I chuckled sinisterly to myself.
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