MMORPG: Rise of the Primordial Godsmith

Chapter 1363: Sudden Request

”…Man.”

Loitering near one of the coliseumʼs exits, Valyr briefly gazed at the setting sun as he pondered over all of the things he and Mystia talked about with his two identities.

Letting out a sigh by the time he was done going through all of them, the young man faintly shook his head as he set most of the conversation aside for the meantime.

”After all, almost all of that information would only be useful once the tournament begins,” muttered Valyr to himself, only to then ask himself whether or not to return back to him being Ataraxia.

In the end, the young man decided to stay in his current state for a bit longer, keeping in mind the other parts of his unique conversation with Mystia as he came up with the decision.

”Then again, itʼs quite surprising I was able to pull that off in such a short amount of time.” As these words left his mouth, Valyr began to grin, reminding himself to spare some time every once in a while to train his control over [Soul Split].

”In any case, since Iʼm gonna stick with this identity for a while, I suppose I should go and do stuff only this identity can do for the meantime.”

”Other than that, I should also probably prepare some stuff I could use as Ataraxia,” said Valyr to himself, finally heading out of the coliseum with the help of his movement skill.

Whoosh!

Zooming through the air on top of an azure dragon, the young man headed straight in the direction of Algerie Kingdom.

…

Keeping in mind that he needed his player self to reach the early stages of Rank 4 at the very least to enter the tournament, Valyr eventually found himself standing at the entrance of the Blacksmith Guild.

Giving Julian a heads-up that he was at the guild, he soon made his way to one of the private workshops, occupying it for a short amount of time as he forged a set of equipment for Alisa free of charge.

At that point, he wondered whether to forge a few more equipment sets as upgrades to his own set, as well as the sets Thomas and the others owned.

Though, before he could even come to a conclusion, the man heʼd given a heads-up earlier finally appeared at the workshop he was in, giving him what he could only describe as an over-the-top smile.

After talking about the current state of the war for a bit, the young man decided to do a couple of forging quotas for the guild, knowing that Julian would continue to pester him to no end if he were to talk his way out of it.

Of course, accepting a couple of forging quotas from him also meant that he gained greater leverage in any subsequent requests he had.

Such as the one that came out of his mouth the moment he was done forging.

”Say, Julian,” said Valyr to the man, wiping off the sweat from his forehead. ”Now that I think about it… is there any update to the inquiry I made about the Elder Wyvern Core?”

”Elder Wyvern Core…?” Hearing those words, Julian slightly frowned as he closed his eyes for a bit. ”When did you…”

”Ah, now I remember.” Opening his eyes once more, the manʼs expression gradually turned into that of a bitter smile.

”Well, after you obtained enough merit points to exchange for the Elder Wyvern Core, I immediately sent a request to the Meltierre Empire branch to have it delivered here.”

”However, just as that branch was finally to obtain a fresh core from an Elder Dragon, the war expanded to involve the elves around that time, which forced the Blacksmith Guild to cancel the delivery.”

”…In other words, it hasnʼt been delivered yet?” asked Valyr as he summed up Julianʼs explanation.

Seeing that the man shook his head at the question, the young man followed up with another question. ”Would it be possible to deliver the Elder Wyvern Core right now? Also, would it be possible to deliver the other parts of the Elder Wyvern alongside it?”

”I donʼt see why not,” responded Julian after contacting a couple of people from the Meltierre Empire branch of the guild. ”That branch of the guild has already found an equilibrium in how much equipment they need to forge for the war.”

”Plus, even though itʼs already been over a month since theyʼve harvested the parts of the Elder Wyvern, Iʼm sure they used a lot of materials to preserve its energy.”

”Iʼm sure that if you were to have it delivered now, it would still have as much energy as it did the moment they obtained it.”

Nodding in response to those words, Valyr went ahead and asked Julian to have the parts of the Elder Dragon delivered to the guild, knowing that the request he made to Mystia would become useless if he didnʼt.

Fortunately for him, Julian told him in return that he had already sent a request to the Meltierre Empire branch the moment he brought the topic up, giving him an estimated arrival time of around a week from now.

Thanking the man for his help after that, Valyr then asked how much merit points it would cost for all of the materials, recalling that the man gave him a figure of about 400,000 points the last time he asked.

However, rather than mention any number to him, the man instead told him that it was free, prompting the young man to wonder if the parts of the Elder Wyvern was considered a low-level material under the agreement he made with the Imperial Production Guild.

In the end, the young man was forced to forget about it after Julian became insistent that he shouldnʼt think about the cost to obtain those parts whatsoever.

Naturally, those words were more than enough for Valyr to understand what was going on, prompting him to inwardly thank the man once more as he made a promise to do more forging quotas for the guild if he had the opportunity.

Getting the feeling that Julian wouldnʼt want to talk about him paying for the parts outright, the young man decided to respect his decision by shifting their topic to the blueprints the Blacksmith Guild had.

In response to his new inquiry, the man brought him to the room where people could access the guildʼs entire blueprint repository, briefly reminding Valyr of the time he entered the same room back at Danyhris Town.

Placing his hand on the orb that acted as the terminal for the repository, Valyr soon felt his mind be filled to the brim with various blueprints after the orb recognized both him and the agreement he made with the Imperial Production Guild.

Closing his eyes to better process and organize all of the blueprints he was receiving from the orb, the young man eventually removed his hands from the terminal around an hour later as he let out a wide sigh of relief.

With his steps slightly wavering as he headed out of the room, he soon decided to head back to the private workshop he was occupying once more, making use of the new blueprints heʼd obtained to create new sets of armor for Thomas and the other two.

Then, after that, he went ahead and created a new set of armor for himself with the intention of using it once he got to the peak of Rank 3.

ʼAlthough it may not seem like it with my insanely high stats, the Arcane Duelist armor I forged on a whim back then is still fulfilling its purpose.ʼ

ʼBut now that I think about it…ʼ

ʼShould I also forge an armor set for the time I ascend to Rank 4?ʼ

…

By the time he was done with everything he wanted to do in the guild, it was already late in the evening.

Thanking Julian once more as he left the Blacksmith Guild, Valyr hastily conjured an azure dragon as he headed back to Astella City.

Though, just as he was only a few kilometers away from the city proper, the young man dispelled his movement skill all of a sudden as he landed in the center of a nearby forest.

Whoosh!

Taking out all of the equipment he forged in the Blacksmith Guild from his spatial bracelet, Valyr spent a bit of time updating himself on the ongoing mission he was taking with Hal and the others before returning back to his player self.

”[Soul Shift].”

Swoosh!

Ding!

”Hmm?” Hearing the system go off just as heʼd returned to being Ataraxia, Valyr swiftly went ahead and brought up his messages while he was in the middle of readjusting to his lower levels of strength.

Expecting that the messages were from Thomas or any of the members within the Azure Coalition, the young man was instead slightly caught off guard once he read that the sender of the message was someone named Malutar.

”Who…?” Knitting his eyebrows as he tried to recall who Malutar was, Valyr soon recalled the man that volunteered back when he and Thomas sold beauty elixirs for the first time.

Realizing this, Valyr went ahead and responded to the manʼs first message with a casual reply. ”Whatʼs up?”

”I… have a proposal for you, Ataraxia,” wrote Malutar, taking quite a bit of time to type down what was ultimately a short reply. ”Iʼm sure you and your guild will greatly benefit from this.”

”What proposal?” asked Valyr in return, going through the various activities guilds could access early in the game in his mind. ”Wait… are you inviting me to a one-time dungeon?”

”Yes… and no,” responded Malutar, causing a bit of confusion to appear on the young manʼs face.

However, once the man he was talking to cleared up that confusion, the expression on his face soon turned into shock.

”Although itʼs classified as a one-time dungeon, a maximum of 200 people can enter the dungeon at the same time.”

”If I remember what my friend told me correctly about those dungeons, theyʼre also called… world raids?”