Chapter 230: 230
Draco's lips twitched vigorously . He felt like his horizons had been broadened .
As a Legendary Tradeskill, how could he have been so naive as to expect any other outcome? Even Magical Engineering swallowed Aether Crystals like they were water, much less Scrivening .
Draco suddenly understood why the lore for Boundless had been structured in the way it was . If players were to play in a world like the old era, there would be little room for growth, because the NPCs would own everything .
Epic and Legendary Tradeskills required truckloads of Aether Crystals to function, so by establishing the lore as every single Dragon getting slaughtered, it put the world into an Aether Crystal deficiency .
With this, it didn't even matter if a player was so outstanding that they received an Epic or Legendary Tradeskill as a fair reward, because it would severely limit how much they could benefit from it and thus a proper balance could be kept in this section of the game .
But how could the AI have predicted that a beast like Draco would exist? Even if it somehow could have accounted for bloodlines before this, what were the chances of a Serpent God Inheritance member possessing the affinity of a genuine dragon? And a Black Dragon, at that?!
Even that would have been fine because without bloodline compatibility, they couldn't learn Draconic skills or spells before Update 5 . However, Draco had gone to spray his DNA over the AI wickedly .
Not only that, but he had also abused his future knowledge with Eva's help to discover the only remaining White Dragon on the material world, who had an entire global story event revolve around her once players reached the higher Ranks and began to encounter True Gods .
All of that went down the drain once Hikari was 'captured' by this vile beast, who proceeded to lay his monstrous claws on her fair skin .
If it was just that, the AI could have swallowed the bitter pill and re-organized the events of the quest . However, the fellow had then built his bloody settlement over the Aether Mine and used it to form his current City-State .
His claiming of Hikari led her to grant him the Aether Production passive skill, paving the way for Draco's ensuing evil .
Afterwards through the fellow foolishly underestimating the immensity of the heavens and earth by playing with the Aether Conversion Orb in the Anomaly Realm beneath the Aether Hall, his Aether Production had been upgraded to the Aether Conversion, which was even stronger than what Hikari possessed .
He had become a factory for Aether Crystals, and just selling a batch he had spawned over the course of slightly more than a week had made instantly turned him into the world's richest man .
However, there always had to be balance in life . He had gained the Magical Engineering and Scrivener Tradeskills which were huge Aether Crystal sinks . . .
At the end of the day, Boundless was a game for players, so they would be given better treatment and a higher priority .
Draco sighed and let it go . He had come here to test the validity of the Tradeskill in order to craft some items and get a hand for its procedures . Once he raised its level with his accumulated Tradeskill experience, everything would become better .
As such, he paid with 1 medium-grade Aether Crystal to have both Sword Skill 1: Inclined Slash and Sword Skill 2: Parry converted .
A progress bar appeared beneath both Tradeskills, signaling that it would take 3 hours for the conversion of each of them .
Draco frowned at the long duration, but attributed it to his low Tradeskill Rank . If he went higher, it was likely that he would be able to shorten this process to mere seconds .
At least for the basic Tradeskills, higher level meant less time and resources, so it should be no different here .
In the meantime, he rested his tired mind by mediating in the silent library . He felt his lapsing concentration solidify and his headache begin to diminish slowly .
The other Tradeskill masters occasionally glanced at their lord who had been silent ever since he entered, with his eyes dazing into the air . They wondered what was going on with the fellow .
Not only that, but he suddenly began rubbing his temples and whispering expletives under his breath . Such a thing would be inaudible usually, but in this silent atmosphere, he might as well have been yelling .
Many of them felt their faces redden, because some of the combos Draco used were truly too amazing . They, who were 'intellectuals' who would never reduce themselves to uttering such profanities were naturally exposed to the dark side of the world .
Many of them were awed . One could actually put such vulgar words together to achieve such a critical hit? Wow! I must try this on that enemy of mine…
Caff!
Of course, this was just a passing thought, it wasn't like we would do such things in reality, hahaha!
After the two techniques were converted, Draco's mind had recovered by 90% . This had taken 6 hours, meaning that the day was almost over .
However, he wasn't bothered . By spending such a great amount of effort recording his first 100 techniques, he could slowly convert them over time .
That was another thing, the conversion timer . As Scrivening didn't require one to be at a set location, he could easily pay for the conversion anywhere and have it work in the background .
So, he could fight, explore or craft while the conversion was going on, maximizing his efficiency . He had chosen to meditate because his splitting headache prevented him from doing anything else .
However, it had largely recovered now, so he had no problem . As such, he decided to continue the process of Scrivening and learn what its end result was like .
First, he checked the converted techniques, and saw that they were presented like a skill book in his mind, with their details highlighted .
「Sword Skill 1: Inclined Slash – Active Skill
Rank: Common
Effect: Swing one's sword in a 45° angle to inflict severe lacerations . Deals 20% sword damage on contact .
Cooldown: 5 seconds . 」
「Sword Skill 2: Parry – Active Skill
Rank: Common
Effect: Enter a defensive stance that parries a single attack from an enemy wielding a similar weapon .
Note: This only negates damage, but not the physical force of the attack .
Cooldown: 10 seconds . 」
Draco was extremely impressed with his sword skills . They were the first ones he had created, a basic offensive slash and a defensive posture to resist one attack, but they had been further amplified by the conversion .
20% sword damage on the first one was almost on the level of an Uncommon skill . Not only that, but the cooldown was great, only 5 seconds!
An average swordsman with this skill would really be crucial in a raid . He could deal 20% of his sword damage every 5 seconds . This was almost as good as the Common Rank Fireball spell which dealt 15% fire damage every 7 seconds .
If it wasn't for the Sword Skill requiring one to be within arm's length from the enemy, it would be even better than a similarly ranked magic spell!
As for the second one, it was even better than the previous one because it negated physical damage from one attack every 10 seconds .
Of course, the attack had to originate from a sword, and even then, it only negated the damage, but did not removed the physical force of the attack .
Still though, it was an extremely good skill for PvP fights between swordsmen . The one who had this skill would easily wipe the floor with another .
Draco nodded with satisfaction . Both skills could be used by many players and NPCs of the world, meaning that it would have a great selling value .
Paying 50 Low-Grade Aether Crystals was equivalent to 50,000 platinum, but if this skill was mass produced and sold, one should easily be able to recoup costs . . . eventually .
After all, the AI would have to be very foolish to create a Tradeskill where unless one had many cheats like Draco, it was impossible to profit off it .
If that was the case, why not just slap "for Draco's use only" on the Tradeskills and let matters rest?
Draco went to the third screen, which was to pen the skillbook itself . Here, the options were to prepare the ink, prepare the paper and then Scriven .
Draco selected to prepare the ink, and found that a new pop-up appeared, asking him the Rank of the skill he was choosing to pen .
He chose the Common Rank, and then a list of materials was shown to him . Aside from that was a detailed process of how to prepare the ink itself .
When Draco saw the materials, he slapped his forehead . Most of them were Common Rank materials that could easily be acquired . In fact, many of them were already present in the Rank 7 Castle .
He understood everything now . To make a skillbook at a certain Rank obviously required materials of a similar Rank . How could he use Legendary materials to make a Common product?
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