Ashen God
Chapter 656 - 655 [Ivory Pendant]

Chapter 656: Chapter 655 [Ivory Pendant]

"I remember when I opened the Drop treasure box from the Demonized Emperor Crocodile before, there was an Exotic Toothed Heavy Sword inside, and here there’s another Exotic item—could it be because the Demonization Skill of the Demonized Mammoth is actually ’Demonization (Mutant)’?""

If it had been the old Zhang Yanhang, he would have been very familiar with this, but since he hadn’t checked the Attribute list for the monsters he hunted recently—the Demonized Saber-toothed Tiger and the Demonized Mammoth—Zhang Yanhang wasn’t too sure whether the Demonized Mammoth actually had the ’Demonization (Mutant)’ Skill.

However, just from the name, the likelihood of the Demonized Mammoth having ’Demonization (Mutant)’ seemed pretty high. After all, if it didn’t have it, why would there be an unexplainably labeled ’Mutant’?

"Although I’m not sure whether the Demonized Mammoth has the ’Demonization (Mutant)’ Skill, that mammoth’s tusks were several meters long. How huge would the scimitar made from it be? It wouldn’t be as tall as a two-story building, would it?"

Even though Zhang Yanhang didn’t pay much attention while hunting, the size of the Demonized Mammoth was indeed as tall as a two-story building. It was as long as a large truck, and the length of its tusks was more comparable to its body length than to its height.

It’s just that a seven-meter-long tusk, despite being curved, would still be very long overall. Standing it up to reach the height of two floors wouldn’t be a problem, so he was a bit curious about how one would normally use such an Ivory Scimitar.

Zhang Yanhang felt that even he would need to use Giant Transformation to wield it properly. Otherwise, with a height of less than two meters and using a seven-meter weapon, he thought he would look a lot like a street sweeping robot when using the weapon, especially when spinning it, or maybe like a low chassis lawnmower.

To confirm his speculation, Zhang Yanhang first checked the Attribute list of the Exotic Ivory Scimitar and then the thumbnail image.

The result was just as he thought. It wasn’t that just a piece of the tusk had been used to make the Exotic Ivory Scimitar, but rather a whole tusk had been processed into a seven-meter-long Exotic Ivory Scimitar, which was quite preposterous.

"Although I might use it after Giant Transformation, let’s forget it. Compared to the Blue quality Exotic Ivory Scimitar, the Golden Quality Four Great Emptiness Purifying World Fist would be more useful." While saying this, Zhang Yanhang clicked on the last Item slot, which would definitely be the equipment-related option.

[Item Five]

[Option One: Ivory lighter, Green quality, Equipment]

[Option Two: Ivory Necklace, Blue quality, Equipment]

[Option Three: Ivory Pendant, Purple Quality, Equipment]

"Well, all three pieces of equipment have ’Ivory’ at the start. But the Quality difference is huge, especially this Green quality Ivory lighter. I don’t smoke, so what the hell do I need a lighter for? Although perhaps it can be used for lighting a fire, it’s also very convenient for me to use Magic for that."

Even with only two Fire Magic spells, Zhang Yanhang would have no problem in using them to start a fire. Perhaps the Third Tier Ma Youfu Micro Meteor wasn’t very suitable for starting fires, but using the Scorching Ray was absolutely easy, and visually, it was definitely much cooler than lamely using a lighter.

"As for this Ivory Necklace, what use do I have for a Blue quality necklace? The necklace I’m wearing right now is a Purple Quality fully-scored Crimson Iron Heart+6. Even if the Ivory Necklace has all its attributes unlocked, I’m not sure if it could even merge to a medium-scored Purple Quality, as it can only be fused four times after all."

Even though necklaces were rare, considering the quality issue, Zhang Yanhang chose to decline, mainly because there was really no need to get another Purple Quality necklace. If it were Dark Purple, he might have been tempted.

As for Light Golden Quality, he would definitely take it, even if the added effects were a bit disappointing, he still preferred a Light Golden Quality necklace.

After successively checking both the Ivory lighter and the Ivory Necklace, Zhang Yanhang quickly moved on to examine the highest quality, the Purple Quality Ivory Pendant. Although he couldn’t determine from the naming style whether it was an equipment made by the Elf Forger Apprentice or not, Zhang Yanhang was still very much looking forward to it.

[Ivory Pendant]

[Quality: Purple]

[Type: Equipment]

[Origin: Ashen World, High Elf Empire, Supreme Forest, Elf Court Avando.]

[Durability: 50/50]

[Defensive Power: 35]

[Additional Attributes: Attack Speed+10%.]

[Usage Requirements: Agility 30 points.]

[Score: 120 (Purple Items Score ranges from 71 to 150.)]

[Introduction: My name is Azikasa Baofeng Saint Silvado, a seemingly ordinary War Hero who, upon closer inspection, turns out to be not too ordinary after all. It is this intriguingly mediocre me who now, with deep experience and no psychological burden, collects my special retirement pension and leads a dull and uninteresting retired life.]

Ever since my imprisonment ended and I was released from the dungeon, I, despite having learned and become extremely skilled at refining medicine due to the queen’s orders, still didn’t really like the task of potion making. Thus, during this time when I was unable to forge, I didn’t continue to practice making potions.

To pass the time, I tried following others’ advice to learn how to read the air, but after some actual practice, I found it wasn’t challenging enough to fully occupy all my copious amounts of free time. So, to pass the time, and also to find some enjoyment, I turned my attention back to forging.

However, I couldn’t go against the queen’s orders. Although there were no high elves supervising me, I still decided to wait ten more years before forging again. Just as I was fretting over how to solve this dilemma, I spotted a highly suspicious figure outside my door. I dashed over at flying speed, captured them in one fell swoop, and subconsciously used the skills I’d honed during the war to expertly tie them up.

It wasn’t until then that I suddenly realized this extremely suspicious individual, who’d always been strangely fixated on me, was actually my former forging apprentice. But for some reason, this person, who used to chatter endlessly around me, now had a flushed face and remained completely silent. Was it because she was resenting me for treating her like an enemy and abruptly tying her up?

While that was a possibility, a more likely reason was that I’d applied binding techniques meant for the shorter stature of dwarves to a tall elf. This resulted in bindings intended for a dwarf’s entire body to be concentrated on her upper half, compressing her ample chest a bit too snugly.

I felt that rather than some fearless emotions, it was more likely that the tightness around her heart and lungs caused by the ropes was making her face turn red. I remembered having a similar expression when a dwarf lord once gripped my chest so tightly on the battlefield that I couldn’t catch my breath.

Even though the structure of a high elf’s eyes doesn’t allow me to see my own face, I was confident that I must have had a similar expression. I could deeply empathize with the suffocation that comes from restricted breathing, so to prevent my former forging apprentice from suffocating, I quickly undid the bindings.

But what puzzled me was that even after I’d untied her, her complexion showed no signs of improvement, and her lips even started to pout.

To that end, my judgment was that due to her being underage and her physical development incomplete, her recovery abilities were nowhere near those of myself, a war hero of the High Elf Empire. Hence, she would need more time to recover.

However, I couldn’t be bothered to wait that long since I was very busy pondering how to pass the time. So, I straightforwardly asked her for the reason she had come. But she didn’t speak, simply huffed, turned her body to the side, yet occasionally sneaked glances at me from the corner of her eyes.

Although I hadn’t encountered such behavior often, based on my own life experience, I thought she might still be incapable of speech due to physical weakness and feared being mocked by me, which is why she didn’t dare directly confront me.

Or she might have felt the overwhelming power from the war hero of the High Elf Empire and was ashamed of her own weakness, so she didn’t dare face me. I thought both of these possibilities were quite likely.

But I still felt a third possibility was even more probable, that she had heard of my immense accomplishment in the great hall, where I bravely spoke out to save the empire from the tailoring conspiracy that was leading it to ruin. She was so full of reverence for my grand deed that she simply couldn’t directly face me and was resorting to furtive glances to observe me.

Although I didn’t feel that the powerful charm of my personhood, and the saintly radiance of my loyalty unto death, were dazzling enough to make an elf unable to look directly at me.

But faced with the forging apprentice’s behavior, I still habitually held my head high with pride and gladly accepted it. After all, I am the renowned Azikasa Baofeng Saint Silvado, the Imperial War Hero and Empire Saver. There is nobody in the entire Elf Clan who knows better how to accept others’ admiration. Hahaha![]

"I really didn’t expect this, just when we were coming to the end, suddenly more storyline related to the Forging Apprentice pops up. But since it’s her equipment that she created, it makes sense for her own story to appear, and in a way, it does provide a fitting conclusion.

However, it’s clear that the storyline hasn’t ended yet, it’s only just reached the questioning phase. I feel like there must be further developments to come.

Moreover, Azikasa Baofeng Saint Silvado began by contemplating how to pass the time when bored, and this issue hasn’t been addressed yet, so it seems the story still has some way to go.

But following this plotline further, it wouldn’t be Azikasa Baofeng Saint Silvado and the Forging Apprentice passing the time together, right? Somehow, I’m a bit eager to find out."

Zhang Yanhang guessed that the continuation of this storyline is likely to be found in the new equipment from the Drop Treasure Box of the Demonized Four-Eyed Wild Boar, or possibly from Lord Monster Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen Pei Qi’s Drop Treasure Box. Both seem quite plausible.

"And has Azikasa Baofeng Saint Silvado’s emotional intelligence dropped even further after spending a year in prison with no one to talk to?

Azikasa Baofeng Saint Silvado seems even more straightforward than before, a true ironclad straight male. Even I know that when someone has cardiopulmonary problems, you should immediately perform CPR and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation while the situation isn’t serious yet, right?"

Zhang Yanhang felt that Azikasa Baofeng Saint Silvado must have spent the majority of his childhood in cultivation, which is why despite being centuries old, his emotional intelligence still seems akin to a naive fool.

After quickly reviewing the lengthiest part of the equipment introduction, Zhang Yanhang turned his attention to the other important sections.

"The initial Equipment Score of the Ivory Pendant is one hundred and twenty, which is a high score for Purple Quality, and the Usage Requirements are thirty Agility points, with an Additional Attribute of a 10% Attack Speed Bonus. If I remember correctly, isn’t this Attribute List exactly the same as the Emperor Crocodile Belt from before?

Ah, the craftsmanship of this Forging Apprentice really hasn’t improved at all, and while it’s not the same piece of equipment, the effect is exactly the same, which is absurd. Considering she has been expelled from her sect, perhaps her lack of progress in her craft could be considered somewhat excusable?"

Although an Attack Speed Bonus is a very good Additional Attribute, what slightly disappointed Zhang Yanhang was that he still hadn’t obtained new equipment that could increase his Physical Recovery Speed. It looks like it will be somewhat difficult to maintain a seven-to-four work-to-rest ratio moving forward.

"And since the Ivory Pendant, aside from its introduction and name, is exactly the same as the Emperor Crocodile Belt in every way, then the Fusion process afterward might just be the same as well.

That is to say, following the previous process of fusing the Emperor Crocodile Belt, I really would need thirty-two Ivory Pendants to fuse them into a Light Golden Quality Ivory Pendant+5."

Zhang Yanhang felt somewhat regretful about this, but thankfully there was still a way to solve the problem, so it wasn’t too much of an issue.