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  Vd quickly assessed all his gains and separated the things he would use from the things he would have to sell. He carefully looked at the corpses of the Wild Dogs, the Bck Wolf, the Blood Bats, the Blood Bat King, and the Obsidiaons. He first ied the Wild Dogs and their Bck Wolf Boss, the quality of the bones, fangs, cws, horns, a, and if they had any use.

  Although tougher than some other animals, the Wild Dogs pelt could only be good for making normal clothes, and he remembers seeing a lot of people using clothes that used their fur, so it was a fairly on ingredient for oner clothing in the Realm of Obscuritas.

  However, they had use for crafting in his eyes.

  After iing that, he moved to the Bck Wolf, and as he had expected, their pelt was very tough, tough enough to easily make most physical blows bounce off of it. It also had a slight amount of magic resistand good durability.

  “Iing.”

  Their bones, however, weren’t as tough as the fangs and cws, so aside from the tough pelt, Vd discarded the rest and decided to sell it ter.

  And then, once he was doh the es, he moved on to i something he had some curiosity about: the Blood Bats and their King. These were the mohat inhabited the sed dungeon of Elderbridge.

  Despite being bats, they weren’t small at all; the normal Blood Bats were as big as oer and a half, and their King was a three-meter-tall threat. Their fur was pletely red, and their eyes were bright green.

  They had very long vampirigs, and with them, they could easily drain the life out of anybody, leaving a dried corpse behind. However, with his Heavenly Demon’s buff, Vd deals with them very easily.

  He ied their pelt and fur durability or effects, and although they were almost as tough as the Wild Dog’s pelt, they had some special effects.

  “hese are ideal for me.”

  He discovered they had a good resistance against Blood, Darkness, and Curse Magid that they somehow reacted when a Vampire wore them, enhang their defensive effects.

  It was ideal for him to make himself some Vampire Equipment!

  Aside from their pelt, their bones were weak and not worth anything, but their vampirigs were enormous; the smallest were thirty timeters long, and the King’s fangs were fifty timeters long.

  He tested them on other materials, and the results were incredible!

  “Oh damn, not bad.”

  They were immeough ahe bloodsug and life-sug properties even now, as he mercilessly tested the fangs on himself, feeling how the fang was trying to drain his own blood from his arm.

  After gently pulling it out to not cause too much damage, his wound slowly regees by itself through his False Immortality Skill. He found it very veo be a Vampire, as he could experiment on his own body and easily regee most wounds quickly.

  They definitely could make amazing ons that could fit both Vd and Chris's pystyles. They could use them to drain their foes' life force or blood as they fight; who says they have to kill their oppo first?

  These fangs were perfect to create ons that would slowly weaken a foe by draining their life and blood, and then ohey’re weak enough, finish it off with a spell like a Fireball.

  After that, he moved to the Obsidiaon Bohe basic durability tests and magiductivity tests were a success; they were good at dug Ara and also very tough.

  The yers or Adventurers dealt with these tough skeletons was by hitting their joints and making them colpse on their ow by making them lose bance. Ohey fell, they would tear their arms and legs apart and crush their skulls.

  It was a slow process for low-level pyers, though, and because there were so many skeletons, it was easy to get swarmed while taking care of only one, which made this Dungeon a literal “newbie killer” area.

  It was either going there and risking dying or having a big enough party to handle everything and then divide the loot between everyone, which would very few earnings.

  Uher VRMMames out there, Fantasy Story Online was rather tougher in difficulty, and pyers would die all the time if not prepared or in a party. Even the weakest of monsters is ing and quick-witted; the Wild Dogs, in particur, are a pain in the ass for any newbie that tries to solo the game.

  Having a party of allies is almost essential in the game, and those that solo are usually already over-leveled and have ridiculously strong skills and equipment. Having already spent a lot of money in the game tress this quickly, the game hasn’t been out for more than a week after all.

  Due to the difficulty, Vd often noticed pyers calling this game “the Bck Souls of VRMMs,” paring the game’s difficulty to the famous game franchise popur for its unfiving difficulty.

  Therefore, the skeletons were very tough foes; no newbies dared go against them with a party of less than five pyers, but the parties usually included ten pyers, the maximum amount to enter a dungeon.

  “Tough and strong, I ’t believe I secured such good loot.”

  Vd felt proud of what he had done, even though any pyer would call his trait ability a plete cheat, and quite holy, it was!

  heless, there was ahing about the skeletons: their rusty armor and ons. After a quispe, Vd learhey were all made of rusted steel, and once he melted them inside his Murim Cauldro pure steel, an already very good material for ons and armor.

  The amount of steel he got from all of this was ridiculous; once he was done, he was sitting on close to fifty of them, all ready to be used in anything he could imagine.

  However, what about the bck bones? Were they tougher than steel?

  He gave it a test, quickly wielding a bone and hitting steel armor with it.

  BAAAM!

  He did this several times, cheg both the item's description and durability. Eventually, once he stopped, he deduced that the bones were tougher and heavier than steel itself!

  “Not bad… Not bad at all!”

  After having fully ied everything and satisfying his curiosity, Vd immediately moved on to the smelting process. The bones were of a texture simir to metal, so he assumed he could melt them like steel.

  “Huh?”

  But he was terribly wrong!

  The momeried doing that, the bones, instead of slowly melting into the shiny bck liquid metal, started burning and slowly turning into a pile of bck ashes!

  “N-No way…”

  Although they appeared tougher than steel and somehow simir to metal, their position was still like that of bones, which, once burned enough, would simply turn into ashes.

  Without being able to smelt them, he wouldn’t be able to easily vert them into ons, accessories, and armor.

  They were also weak against hot temperatures! Perhaps it was just the innate weakness of the undead against fire that had transferred to their bones.

  It was rather natural once he thought about it.

  “What happened?” Chris wondered, looking back at Vd, who was devastated. “Are you okay?!”

  “The bones burned,” sighed Vd. “They are so amazing, but they have such a terrible weakness against Steel. What I do about this?”

  “Hmm? You’re taking this too seriously; just use them differently or something?” wondered Chris. “Didn’t you say your e was made by bining materials? Do the same with the bohen.”

  “ht, yeah.” Vd calmed down as he heard Chris's words. “Smelting is easy, but I suppose with alchemy, bining or shaping an object should still be possible, right? As long as I modify their molecur structure somewhat. But would that be too plicated for this game to even have?”

  “Wiving it a try, dude,” Chris smiled back.

  “Yeah, you’re n, Chris.” Paul nodded. “Heavenly Demon, got anything to say?”

  [“What do you wao even say? It’s all up to you. But as the bride didate said there, the Alchemy you’ve learned from me is much different than any other; it is the Art of bining the Elements of Heaven ah! Shape, transform, and bihem as you please.”]

  "Okay, that’s reassuring enough; let’s do it.”

  Vd immediately started once he heard some encing words. The beginning was tough, though; he tried to first bihe obsidian bones with the steel, failing miserably. The bones would end up breaking doweel and making it weaker.

  Eventually, he moved to try something else, mixing the st mithril he had with the bones and the Bck Steel from Murim, ign the normal Steel.

  The first result was ckluster, showing clear fws, but he tinued using the same pile of materials and bining them over and ain.

  Eventually, as the cauldron bubbled rapidly, the materials started to meld together better. Paul started to get the gist of using Alchemy, which relied heavily oerous and small infusions of Ara and Soul Aether, while also moving the materials with the tools he had, such as the alchemy gloves.

  But above all, his imagination!

  He o visualize what he wahe items to bee. Slowly, after trying four times, his fifth time ended as a success.

  What surged from the cauldron itch-bck steel, glowing with a strange phantasmal aura, simir to the ohe skeletons possessed.

  “The hell did you make now?” Chris wondered. “That steel has like an aura! How is that possible?!”

  “I-I have no idea…” Vd smiled out of pure joy.

  Crafting and creatihings were super fun, actually.

  Although he had a lot of failures, eventually, whe the st piece of the puzzle dohe result was staggering.

  A ype of synthesized metal was made!

  He had already created Bck Spirit Steel by mixing Bck Steel and Mithril together, but now he had made something a bit cheaper to produce.

  It was called...

  “Phantom Obsidian Steel…”

  He quickly ied the new material’s properties; it possessed the bioughness of Bck Steel and Obsidian Bones, as well as the amazing magiductivity of the bones.

  Above all, it possessed new properties—something phantasmal, an aura of dead souls within it. It seemed to grant the ingot some resistao dark elements and curses, but there might be more hidden effects he would have to find out ter.

  “Alright, with this done, let’s move on to the actual crafting. Chris, you’ve been studying diligently, so I’ll get your clothes and ons done first.” Vd smiled gently at Chris, his friend.

  “Aww, really? You’re too nice!” Chris giggled, feeling overly pampered but accepting it.

  “Alright, your clothes... I guess I bihem with the pelt of the Bck Wolf; yeah, I’ll also add some little bits of Phantom Obsidiao see what happens,” Vd smiled.

  As Chris saw Paul crafting and having a lot of fun, he began to wonder what the actual hobbies were that he liked making things so much.

  “Do you like making clothes or something, Paul?”

  “Huh? Ah… Well, a bit, yeah. I do like sewing. I used to do it, but some years ago I stopped. I’ve been ied iing, but it was too expensive of a hobby to even do. But I’ve researched a lot about those things.”

  “I see, it makes sense now, you’re a total nutjob for this stuff, haha.”

  “Maybe I should just not make your stuff first…”

  “Sorry! I didn’t mean to say it in a bad way…”

  Chris panicked a bit. Paul had quite the grip on him now that he had bee the party’s manufacturer.

  “It’s fine; I know what you meant,” ughed Paul. “You’re like that, I guess... Alright, I think I’m mostly done.”

  “Already?!”

  Chris saaul was moving his hands dexterously and rapidly, sewing the melt together and then putting all the clothes ihe cauldron so the sewed materials would glue together and bio aent, creating a more refined result. He also added rings and s made of Phantom Obsidiao see how it would look.

  In the end, Chris's incubus clothes, which were already sexy, became even more amazing, now with a clear punk style to them with bck spikes and s. Chris had to admit that he loved it! He has always been into punk and gothic aesthetics, after all.

  Ding!

  [gratutions! You have successfully synthesized the [Bck Wolf’s Punk Devil Shorts (B Grade)] x1 [Bck Wolf’s Punk Devil Top (B Grade)] x1 [Bck Wolf’s Punk Devil Boots (B Grade)] x1!]

  [The Subcss Skills: [Alchemy (C): Lv5] [Crafting (D): Lv2] [Runigravement (B): Lv2] has Leveled Up!]

  [You learhe Subcss Skill: [Sewing (D): Lv1]!]

  [The Subcss Skill: [Sewing (D): Lv1] has Leveled Up!]

  “It’s done, your whole clothes at least; get them on and try them; they should’ve at least bee better,” said Paul. “I imbued some Beast Cores into them too; each piece has one, which might help make yic a bit stronger.”

  “Oh my gosh, thanks; they look so cool! Holy sh*t, I wish I could wear them IRL now…” Chris was fasated by the clothes.

  “Eh? Wouldn’t that look a bit too much IRL…” Paul felt a bit weirded out.

  “Ah! I-I mean…” Chris became slightly nervous. “What’s wrong? They’re cool! Shut up.”

  As Chris tried out his new clothes, Paul moved on to upgrade his trident and then make the magic bow. It was indeed going to be a long day, but the strohis little incubus became, the better they would fare inside dungeons.

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  Pach