Reincarnation Of Audemars - Chapter 128

When the apprentices were preparing for dinner and were guided on what to prepare, I decided to head down to the Realm of Mind once again and work up on my Forging skill in order to increase the level of my Blacksmith as well as earning some base points and experience points as well.

It was like throwing a stone and it killed a bird a cat and a dog at the same time. Hah hah hah… Since the cat was about to pounce on the bird and the dog was waiting for the cat as well…

I threw 2 handfuls of iron ores as big as my fist and managed to drop something like 6 ores in the furnace. I looked back and realised that the number of ores inside the old wooden cart had not depleted one bit. Maybe it’s just my illusion… And I shook it off my mind as I began to pump the bellows.

“Just create a bunch of these for 3 hours and I would be done with it.” I thought to myself and asked Ceres to time me since I do not wish to miss dinner time afterwards.

*Tink! Tink! Tink! Tink! Tink! Tink!*

10 strikes…

20 strikes…

50 strikes…

And I threw the forged iron ingot inside the bucket of water. “That’s one piece.”

1 piece…

5 pieces…

10 pieces…

30 pieces…

*Ding* Times running out. You’ve got another 30 minutes to go before the 3 hours are up.

31 pieces…

36 pieces…

*Ding* Times up. Time to log off and return to the real world, buddy.

I wiped my forehead and I was literally soaked in my own sweat and I logged off and returned to the real world.

…..

“Mummy… Did Daddy fix the plumbing or the showerhead in the bathrooms or something? How come his tunic and pants are all wet?” Kayla asked when I emerged from my room and headed straight to the courtyard to catch my breath and to cool myself down.

“Ah… Daddy is working out as well. Since you are all grinding to Level up, Daddy is levelling up too in his own way.” Patricia reason with Kayla as I had a long ice-cold drink from the water station in the courtyard.

“Fuyoo… Yeah, Daddy is levelling up too. As you can see, I’m the only one with the outdated system which Daddy doesn’t want to upgrade just yet. It is an old system but a very complex one. It was alright for me at first but after knowing that nearly everyone has a new operating system, I think I’m the odd one out right now.” I said as I untied the front of my tunic to cool myself off.

“You should upgrade it, Daddy. Your base level is in the 100,000 while everyone else’s is on 1000 only. Yours may look cool in their 5 digit levels but the actual fact it’s only a 2 digit progress if based against us.” Adam advised me as he too could see my levels, class, profession, wealth and my unallocated points.

“After dinner, we and the juniors are out again for night grinding. I wanted to teach the goblins a lesson again for jeering at me. No doubt I’m the youngest but I’m as spicy as a bird’s eye chilli you know.”Kayla informed me with her hands on her hips and was standing in a prideful manner.

“Hahahahaha… I’m sure you are Kayla. Well, it’s just too bad there are 8 to 9 goblins there at any one time. And the trolls don’t even have a drop at all but it gives you the same amount of experience points as any wild beasts but 5 times the threat. Don’t risk it, ok. It’s not the time yet. Even at my level, it takes 3 bolts to bring them down with Aimed Shot.”

“After dinner would be about 645 pm and you’d be back here slightly after 9 pm, right? I too would be grinding and levelling up as well…” I said as I saw Patricia coming over me with a fresh pair of clothes and a towel.

“What would we be having for dinner, Daddy?” Ingles asked with anticipation and I replied that we are having baked turkey cheesy pasta and pork chops in bread crumbs with wedges and stuff.

“Wow… I would take some baked turkey pasta for dinner. Then the pork chops I’d reserve for supper, would that be alright, Daddy?” Jane asked as she was quite full from lunch and heavy breakfast.

“Of course my children, I don’t expect you to dump everything down your trap like a trash compactor. Hah hah hah…at least don’t overeat or else you won’t be able to even go over the low wall and clear the second obstacle of the course.” I laughed and joked of them being overweight and too wide to pass through the V-shaped stepping stones of the obstacle course.

“No, we won’t, Daddy… We have a higher metabolism rate than other people because we run 5km every morning before clearing the obstacles and then went to the 3 stations before we went about our own matters. Like you, Daddy…you are fitter than most men because you exert your energy when you level up too… ” Ingles spoke up and defended their eating habits and their exercise regime daily.

“Ah well, I’m checking whether dinner would be ready while I go and shower first. I’m going to soak in the pool later in the evening. I would be levelling up soon after dinner and I will check on you guys afterwards. By the way, the giving off of allocation points is up to Level 5 and then you would be in your own by then.”

“Yes Daddy, we understand. No worries, by level 5 you would have given us 500 points and that’s more than enough.”

“Wait for a second, if Guild Master hands us 500 points each after we had reached level 5 and there’s 24 of us, that means… Err… 12,000 allocation points. Does that mean our Guild Master is already at level 1200 or even more?!?!” Rodney, the spokesperson for the juniors were wide-eyed in bewilderment as he realised something about my levelling up.

“Is our Guild Master some kind of Grandmaster? Eh…how come we never think of it before…?” Rodney continued as he was stumped and so did the rest of his mates when they heard me being a Grandmaster.

“Eeerrr… Not really Rodney. I’m using an old system. If let’s say I learn about plants and had acquired new knowledge of 100 plants, I reached a 100% progress and earned a level and 10 points. There are 20 to 30 thousand plants so I level up 200 or 300 levels one time after I had learnt about plants.”

“Levelling 300 levels in my old system means its only 3 levels in yours. As you can see I have more than 17k in my levels which is just a level 17 compared in your system.”

“That’s the reason I’m sticking with my old system due to its levelling up and experience points. If my system is upgraded to the new one, I would only have 170 points to give away… Am I right?”

They did the math and found that the old system is rather beneficial rather than the new one especially in gaining experience points as well as the ability to stockpile on the points and allocate as and when it’s necessary.

When they used Insight, they could read me like an open book and found that my stats are indeed detailed but have no secondary traits that I could master. Just as they were studying me, dinner was served and everyone washed up before proceeding.

Since everyone would be away after this, I would be away in the Realm of Mind for 2 hours in the real world timing. After a quick dinner and storing the rest for supper, Patricia headed to Level up herself as the members all went for the usual night hunting and were looking out for fowls tonight as well as other meats.

Back in the Realm of Mind in the Blacksmithing zone, Ceres was watching over me producing the Level 2 iron after every 50 strikes and when I was closing on to the 6 hours mark in the Realm timing. I realised that I had produced 90 pieces of Level 2 Iron ingots that are now sitting underwater in the bucket.

*Ding* Progress Report. You had gained +4 on your base level and blacksmith level.

“WWHHAATT…?!?! JUST 4 ONLY?!?! Crap… What a waste of my bloody time…!!!” I cried out in exasperation and was reminded by Ceres that quantity is not a matter but the effort does.

“Damn…i sure need to eat those ginkgo nuts again to add my brainpower. Well, never mind for these pieces. At least I could turn them to Level 15 if I want to.”

“Ding* That’s 650 strikes per piece and you’ve got 126 pieces of Level 2 iron ingots. It would take you 65 minutes to make a single Level 15 iron ingot and each piece gives you 0.65% on your level up.

*Ding* You could make 21 pieces from 10 pm to 5 am every night based in the real world timing and you would be able to earn 13 levels for your base and Blacksmith level.

*Ding* You need 42 more levels to upgrade to a professional blacksmith where you can create Level 16 Iron. To surpass it, you need to Level up every 1000 levels before you can forge the next level of the iron piece.

“Thank you for reminding me, Ceres. Uurrgghh… Nevermind, just bear with it. By the way, what happens when I hit the 100,000 level?”

*Ding* your proficiency levels would increase to 5% based on your 1% now. Its a multiplier of 5. This is based on the old OS. If you have an upgrade you might find it more frustrating and have much lesser experience Points to allocate. Your stats will disappear and you have at least 5 traits to add on per attribute and you would have 6 attributes instead of the maximum five.

“What are the new attributes like? But losing all the efforts in gaining the experience points is such a waste you know.”

*Ding* You will gain Charisma as an added attribute on top of Strength, Wisdom, Dexterity, Constitution and Intelligence. You would not waste gaining experience Points because you will have a 0.025 multiplier for each progress and with your luck increment by x7 x15, you would gain a 2.6% each time.

*Ding* if you earn a 20,000% in your current progress that equals to 200 levels, in the new system you would earn 520 levels which would increase all primary and secondary bases.

*Ding* primary bases would be increased at 2.6% while secondary bases would be increased by 0.25% across the board. Your primary and secondary levels would be a limit to 1,000,000. All points can be carry forward or reset back into your allocation points.

*Ding* For your info, you have 113,000 unallocated points. You can only carry forward your base level which is 17,568. All attributes point 29,140 would be placed back into the unallocated points where 5 points will be allocated into your 6 attributes.

*Ding* Your distribution points based on your current professions would be reset and pooled as follows:

HERBALIST: 116

CRAFTER: 14,428

BLACKSMITH: 958

CULINARY: 142

I sat down as Ceres narrated for me and I furiously noted down the things that I need to know and find out. Upgrading is one sure way to increase my levelling up but would it affect my crafting and forging?

*Ding* For now, you are still able to produce Level 15 iron. But to get past that level, you need to hit 1000. Once you hit that the next level to upgrade every level of iron would be by a 10,000 until you hit level 25 iron. Then it would be 15,000 levels for each increment of purified iron for 5 levels.

*Ding* As for steel, it would be 20,000 levels for each grade until you hit Grade 10 Refine Steel before another 5 of 25,000 to hit Grade 1 Purified Steel for 5 levels and another 5 of 30,000 levels to achieve Grade 1 Stainless Steel

“Uurrgghh… This is too much for me to take in now… I’ve got to take a break…..” I laid down on my back spread-eagled and was making dust angels like when I was discovered by Hiko Seijuro when I made up a system.