Chapter 22. The Third Ancient Knowledge (1)
Two days later, Sanghyuk received a ssage that the bone whip he wished for had been completed. It was the bone whip personally made by the greatest smith, the ‘Firehamr’ Tokan.
And since this was made from the best material, the Ten Millennia Goldbone, he could look forward to it even more.
Ten Millennia Goldbone Whip [Unique ]
– A special weapon made by the greatest smith using the greatest materials. It looks even more special thanks to the fact that the smith’s abilities were used to the maximum. Also, the value can also increase more since it’s the first of its kind.
[Basic stats] Attack power 150( 30), Critical hit rate 20( 4)%
[Special stats] Critical hit damage 50( 10%), all stats 10( 2)
[Special effects] 〉It doesn’t snap(A): Durability increases by 20 tis.〈, 〉It’s better than spider strings(A): Can latch onto an opponent stronger.〈, 〉Hit more(B): Can present the greatest bliss towards a being with peculiar preferences.〈
[Bonus effect] (1) Movent speed 5%, (2) Agility 12.
“Wow…….”
The mont he checked the bone whip given to him by Tokan, he subconsciously exclaid. A unique-grade item, no to be exact, a double plus ( ) unique grade Ten Millennia Goldbone Whip had great performance.
A ‘ ’ sign on an item grade usually ant that it had a special history or reason for it. In this case, there was one plus from the masterpiece craft bonus from Tokan using more than 100% of his ability, and another plus from the first creation bonus.
One plus ant a 10% addition to item’s basic stats and special stats. In other words, a double plus, like in this case, ant a 20% increase in the bone whip’s basic and special stats. The number within the () brackets were the additional stats.
Not only that, every plus ca with a bonus effect.
‘This is almost an e(elite)-unique item.’
Items with an e on the front of its grade had an unbelievably higher stats than the sa grade. Elite-grade items could normally be acquired through special quests or raids, and naturally, it wasn’t so common.
“How is it, isn’t it good?”
Tokan asked Sanghyuk with full confidence.
“Yes, It’s really good. Thank you so much for making such an amazing item.”
“Hehe, I made that for two days and two nights. I can claim that it’s better than any other item I made recently.”
A masterpiece by a master artisan such as Tokan was identical to a divine product in the eyes of ordinary artisans. No matter how godly a double plus divine product was, the difference between an ordinary artisan and a master artisan was big, so they could be considered similar.
“And I decided to make the mass-produced bone whips with soft iron. Although not as good as the Ten Millennia Goldbone, it’s a very soft tal so it should suffice for the bone whip. Of course, the price of the bone whip would be expensive one due to the high cost of the soft iron, but special items must be traded at a special price.”
This was exactly like how Sanghyuk knew. In his previous life, the mass-produced bone whips were made of soft iron as well.
“Thank you for your consideration.”
“Nah, it’s a mutual benefit.”
Sanghyuk conversed with Tokan and spoke the words he had prepared. Since he had already made the ring of fate with Tokan, it was very likely that what he was going to say might work.
However, he had to be safe than sorry, so Sanghyuk conversed with Tokan while waiting for the best opportunity.
“……In the end, the most important thing is the power of fire and the power of earth! That’s why we are always near a fire elental and an earth elental.”
The words Sanghyuk had been waiting for had finally popped out of Tokan’s mouth.
‘Now!’
“The fire elental and the earth elental…… if it’s not so rude to you, do you know of a way I can get close to them?”
“Why, do you want to learn the hamr?”
“Oh, no. Not that much, but I do have an interest in elentals, also called the providence of mother nature.”
“Really? Hmm…… if you want to know about elentals then go to Vaize. Oh, that secretive loner won’t just et anyone, so I’ll write you a letter of recomndation.
Sudden quest ‘Tokan’s Recomndation Letter’ has been generated.
‘Yes!’
The ‘Seeker’ Vaize. Another reason Sanghyuk had raised his familiarity with Tokan was that he wanted to acquire a letter of recomndation to et this guy. Of course, it wasn’t only Tokan that could write a letter of recomndation to et Vaize.
There were around 6 more NPCs who could do the sa in Falcon City. However, not all letters of recomndation were the sa. Obviously, a letter of recomndation from the legendary-grade NPC Tokan was the highest tier.
“Thank you.”
He had no reason to refuse, so he imdiately took a bow. With this recomndation letter, he would have no need to et Tokan for a while. He would have to manage his familiarity if he didn’t want the ring of fate disappearing, but that wasn’t so hard.
“You want to learn about elentals?”
Tokan’s recomndation letter was indeed very effective. If he acquired a letter of recomndation from another lower-rank NPC, he would have to raise his familiarity all over again.
“Yes.”
Sanghyuk politely nodded his head while he replied.
“Why do you want to learn about them?”
“I have once heard that the most mystic power that makes up this universe is the power of elentals. I wish to learn more about the elentals that appear in many objects and make the world turn.”
This was obviously a line that Sanghyuk had prepared beforehand. Preparing lines before eting special NPCs like Vaize was a must.
Of course, a model answer like this didn’t work on all NPCs. For so NPCs, one had to adapt to the circumstances. However, this kind of answer worked fine for the ‘Seeker’ Vaize.
“Hmm, from your words, I guess you aren’t soone to boast with your elentalism.”
Vaize closed the book in front of him and stood up from his seat.
“Follow . I shall tell you what elentals are.”
Vaize pulled out a book from his shelf. When he did, the shelf split in half and a hidden chamber appeared.
‘Vaize’s secret laboratory! Tokan’s letter of recomndation sure is amazing.’
Sanghyuk’s model answer on top of Tokan’s letter of recomndation worked seamlessly, and he could enter the secret laboratory without any chain quests. It was an unfair reality for the other users who would have to go through suffering, but so what? The world was like that…….
Congratulations. You have cleared the sudden quest ‘Tokan’s Recomndation Letter’ and acquired a slight amount of karma.
The sudden quest was done, but that wasn’t important right now.
“Elentalism is one of the things I have researched for a long ti……, though, I still have a lot of things I don’t know than I do, but I think I can tell you what elentalism is.”
Along with those words, Vaize gave him a thick book.
You have acquired ‘Foundations on Elentalism’ from the ‘Seeker’ Vaize.
Sanghyuk smiled happily while looking down at the thick book in his hand. Foundations on elentalism, this was the book through which he could acquire the Ancient Knowledge ‘Elentalism’.
Elentalism was the stereotypical nullary Ancient Knowledge.
Nullary Ancient Knowledge was also referred to as the Mastery Knowledge. While other Ancient Knowledge expanded from primary to secondary and tertiary, Mastery Knowledge didn’t expand like so.
Instead, they had proficiency on each skill, and many more things were revealed as the proficiency increased.
The most common Mastery Knowledge was ‘Elentalism’, which Sanghyuk had just acquired, ‘Taming’ and various summoning-class Ancient Knowledge.
“Actually, even I do not know what elentalism exactly is. I have researched and investigated deeply into elentals, but the more I did, the more difficult it was to understand them. I wish you could succeed and find out what elentals are.”
‘Ol’man, you’re saying things nicely, but you’re going to give the sa book to the others, aren’t you?’
Actually, the book of Foundations of Elentalism he got from Vaize was a copy of it. Of course, Sanghyuk wasn’t going to nitpick about this here. Nothing would change even if he did, and he also had so other business with Vaize as well, so it was better to not decrease his familiarity with him.
Sanghyuk put the book inside his bosom and left after greeting him politely.
This was naturally to register the Ancient Knowledge ‘Elentalism’ into his third Soul Hole.
Normally, users with Elentalism were called Elentalists, and the majority of Elentalists preferred Double Souls. The most popular combination out of all of them was to use Elentalism along with a long-range Ancient Knowledge.
However, Sanghyuk had no plans to acquire Ancient Knowledge with long-range skills. Not only that, he wasn’t going to raise the elentals like the other elentalists would do.
To the elentalists, elentals were not only friends and trustworthy companions, but they were also faithful subordinates as well. That was why they made an effort to communicate and interact with them.
Later, the greatest elentalist of all ti, the ‘Early Wind’ Maeda would also say that understanding the elental’s will was the first step of succeeding as an elentalist.
In other words, even if elentals were a type of NPCs with an AI behind them, disdaining was no good, and elentalists had to be considerate of them. However, Sanghyuk was planning to ignore these basics altogether.
The new type of elentalist he thought of…… was beyond revolution; it was a destruction.
To make new rules, one had to start by denying ‘common sense’. However, making new rules was difficult precisely because denying common sense was very risky.
However, the important thing here was that Sanghyuk knew the outco of this challenge. Since he knew the results, he did not need to fear failure. There were pioneers who stepped on this path before Sanghyuk in his previous life, and as the one who observed them from the closest, he knew precisely what he had to do.
To understand this more correctly, it would require revealing a knowledge unknown to the people of Sanghyuk’s previous life…… and it was that the ‘Burst’ Nar’el, who also contributed to the popularity of card matter along with the ‘Crash’ Choi Sangryul was also a masterpiece made by Sanghyuk.
The ‘Burst’ Nar’el – the pioneer Sanghyuk knew of.
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The Ancient Knowledge ‘Elentalism’ will be absorbed into the third Soul Hole.
You have ‘1’ empty Soul Hole remaining.
Sanghyuk didn’t delay and imdiately learned Elentalism through the book.
Ancient Knowledge ‘Elentalism’ [Beginner-level Elentalism]
: You have acquired the knowledge of the power of elentals, passed down from the ancient tis. You can now feel the power of elentals in various objects.
Details: Fragrance of Elentals(C)[Movent speed and attribute resistance increases.], Friend of the Elentals(C)[Magic power and attributed attack power increases.], Care of the Elentals(C)[Magic defense and physical defense increases.]
Proficiency : 0
Summon lowest-rank fire elental
-Summon a lowest-rank fire elental that looks like a lizard.
[Proficiency : 0]
Summon lowest-rank water elental
-Summon a lowest-rank water elental that looks like a fish.
[Proficiency : 0]
Summon lowest-rank wind elental
-Summon a lowest-rank wind elental that looks like a butterfly.
[Proficiency : 0]
Summon lowest-rank earth elental
-Summon a lowest-rank earth elental that looks like a boar.
[Proficiency : 0]
Summon lowest-rank wood elental
-Summon a lowest-rank wood elental that looks like a stag beetle.
[Proficiency : 0]
Elental contract (Lowest-grade)
-You can contract with nurous lowest-rank elentals of this world.
[Proficiency : 0]
Sanghyuk nodded his head after looking at the skills. Learning elentalism enabled the user to summon what was known as the five elentals. However, there were nurous elentals in the world of EL. Of course, growth from lowest → low → mid → high → highest was only possible for the first elental.
The rest either had no rank or could only grow to mid or high rank. So elentals didn’t even possess a rank.
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