Hidden genius: Black belly snake

Chapter 256: First rate talent Part7

Tang Yue buried her head in smithing for the next couple of days.

She found herself engrossed in the forging process and patiently worked on the three weapons, one after the other.

Since she had to worry about a lot of things at the same time such as mana control, earthen essence manipulation, and her own strength to properly forge the weapons, this in itself was a form of cultivation.

So she was able to continuously work through the two days and really drill the feeling of the forging process into her bones.

Only after finishing all the three weapons to perfection, at least to the extent she was capable of, Tang Yue sat down on the ground and wiped the sweat off her forehead.

Charlotte eagerly grabbed the three weapons and stared at them, one after the other.

Even though she herself was not interested in the forging process, she was still curious to see Tang Yue's results.

"Huzzah! All three weapons are low-grade quality!!!"

"The dagger and the saber both have an agility boost!!!"

Charlotte acted as the appraiser and proudly declared the results.

Tang Yue watched her act like an excited child and smiled bitterly. She badly wanted to mess with her.

These past couple of days, while Tang Yue was busy forging weapons, Charlotte had already broken through from the Silver-tier Saint Core to the Golden-tier Saint Core.

Her body constitution was indeed top quality. The girl barely did any hard work, but her cultivation soared.

Luckily Tang Yue didn't know that Charlotte had spent most of the past couple of days ogling at her, and had only cultivated for a very short while.

Otherwise, she would have puked out blood.

After resting for a while and gobbling down a lavish meal, Tang Yue again got back to the grind and melted the next batch of ores.

She used the same three molds and prepared the weapons just like before.

But before starting to hammer them and refine them, she suddenly stopped.

Tang Yue had an idea and she wanted to try it out. She touched the piece of metal in front of her and activated her skill 'One with the earth'.

The skill was a tremendous energy drain every time she activated it and her cultivation base was not big enough for her to use the skill efficiently.

However, Tang Yue tried to focus only on the metal in front of her and then stopped.

The dwarven girl then pensively looked at the metal for a few more seconds, before beginning the familiar routine of banging, clanging, and donging.

This time she was able to comprehend the metal and the earthen essence flow much better and the entire process felt a lot easier.

Tang Yue was able to finish forging the first weapon, a dagger, in about half the time she had taken during her earlier first try.

She herself was amazed at the results and was convinced that this was the right way to go.

Even though she was not a born genius with high innate talent in comprehending this technique, she was still able to use the technique she stole from the quagmire centipede and achieve the same result.

The finished dagger even had an additional strength boost along with the agility boost.

After confirming her theory, Tang Yue applied the same technique again as she forged the other two weapons as well.

Bingo! Just like before all three weapons were low-grade and they had additional attribute boosts.

If she had joined any other smithy in the city and exhibited this same level of talent and effort, she would have been undoubtedly labeled as a genius, as a first rate talent.

But here, unfortunately, Tang Yue only ended up impressing Charlotte, over and over again.

And of course, also a certain little kid, who was lazily napping on the warm fur ball Little Blue.

Tang Yue again rested for a bit and piled all the weapons she had forged in a corner of the medium-sized smithy.

She then put away the remaining iron ores in her possession and took out a higher grade ore.

While iron ores were typically used to forge common grade and low grade weapons, heavy silver ores were used exclusively to forge low grade weapons.

Considering that a low grade weapon was even capable of mortally wounding a Martial realm expert, they were one of the commonly sold weapons in the market.

And most low grade weapons were forged using heavy silver ore as the base.

Heavy silver ores were originally supposed to be more difficult to handle compared to the iron ore chunks, but once Tang Yue activated her 'One with the earth' skill, she was easily able to comprehend the balance and the rhythm in this metal as well.

She let out a sigh of relief and forged the first weapon to perfection. 

It was undoubtedly a low-grade weapon and had excellent attribute boosts.

But Tang Yue didn't relax just yet. She also had other things that she wanted to try.

This time she not only circulated earthen elemental essence amidst the molecules of the metal, but she also circulated fire elemental essence.

The forging process suddenly became a lot more complicated and even after activating 'one with the earth' skill, she still found it extremely tedious.

Tang Yue didn't mind it and continued hammering at the weapon persistently and patiently.

She maintained the same level of concentration and care from start to finish and whole-heartedly worked on the task at hand.

Loud sonorous sounds echoed in the run down smithy and even Charlotte could tell that something was different this time around.

The small dagger, that Tang Yue was hammering onto, glimmered with a subtle golden sheen.

And when Tang Yue finally finished the forging process, a loud crackling sound resounded at the end.

Before Tang Yue could even examine it, Charlotte excitedly grabbed the finished weapon and stared at it with her eyes wide.

"This Yue!!! You are a genius."