Abe the Wizard - Chapter 23

Chapter 23

“I have all the materials you need . Although I had been collecting them for many years, it is only recently that I’ve found the perfect fire magical gems and ice magical gems . ” Master Bentham said . Meanwhile, he opened a box that contained all the things that he had just mentioned .

“Is this it?”

Within those materials, some somethings looked very familiar to Abel . It was three red gems and three blue gems . He took the six gems out of the box and inspected them carefully . They were the ones he sold at Harvest City earlier .

“These are the fire magical gems and ice magical gems I was talking about . It was so hard to find such perfect ones like these, but luckily I had found these in Harvest City . ” Looking at how excited master Bentham was, Abel wondered if the price of these gems were much higher than the price he had sold them for . If he mistakenly sold magical gems as normal gems, what would be the actual value of magical gems?… but Abel decided not to ask . He did want to regret his decision even further .

“Your task in the future will be sketching out those runes, make sure the angle, force, and the thickness of the strokes are the same . ” Master Bentham repeatedly emphasized as he took out a brush from a box .

“Is this an ink brush?” Abel was shocked once again . Ink brushes were one of those things that Abel was all too familiar with . From the tip of the brush to the body of the brush, this brush that master Bentham was holding looked exactly like an ink brush from Abel’s original world .

Master Bentham explained as he handed the rune brush over to Abel, “Ink brush . Hmm . I like that name, but it’s called the Rune brush, boy . The body of the brush was made out of a kind of wood that is resistant to magic, which prohibits other external magical force interrupting the Runes writing process . The tip of the brush was made out of the softest handful of fur located in the very back of a wind wolf’s head . The wind property of a wind wolf allowed the brush to deliver runes ink more efficiently . ”

“This rune brush is very difficult to master . There are lots of training and learning you need to do until you can draw the lines of the rune correctly . Here, give it a try . ” Said Master Bentham to Abel as he took out a bottle filled with normal ink . He opened the lid and placed it on the table . Then, he took out a piece of lambskin parchment and also placed it on the table .

Abel held the rune brush by gripping it between his middle finger and the ring finger, while his thumb pressed against the body of the brush . He then proceeded to dip the brush in the ink bottle and gently whipped off the excess ink . A glanced at the runes in the book, in one take he wrote down the entire first page .

Master Bentham was stunned as he watched by the side . The master himself had been practicing to use a rune brush for more than 20 years . Yet, his position and control of the rune brush were not even as good as Abel’s first attempt . Even basic things such as grasping the amount of ink the brush needed to be dipped, had taken Master Bentham countless trial and errors . Although there was still a bit of disparity when it came to Abel’s replication of the runes . He was able to recognize when the lines should be smooth, straight or curled . These runes were no worse than the ones written by Master Bentham . As long as Abel kept on practicing, he could have surpassed his master in no time .

Master Bentham could not help but feel the waves of jealousy sprung up from within as he lamented on the god’s bias from the inside . He had never heard of a person of Abel’s age becoming a fifth-level novice knight . He had also never heard of a person who was able to forge a Sword Of Hundred skills after only a month of training . Even The Power Of Will he had so deeply desired was possessed by Abel .

Now when it came to writing runes, Abel had also excelled . His first attempt was already on par with those who dedicated decades of effort . Master Bentham could not take it anymore, he waved his hand at Abel and said . “Ok, You can go back to practice by yourself now”

As that been said, Master Bentham took Abel out of his room . He needed time alone to lament with his injured soul .

After Abel sensed that maybe Master Bentham dissatisfied . He packed up all his things and went back to his room in the castle . There was not a quiet place in the blacksmith shop for Abel to practice writing runes in peace anyway .

If Abel knew what Master Bentham is thinking, he would have told him “oh no, you are overthinking it . I only know how to use an ink brush, and this amusing thing is a rune brush . ” In Abel’s previous world, he had been systematically learning how to use an ink brush since the beginning of elementary school . Even after he got a job, he did not give up on this hobby . From time to time, he would take out an ink brush and wrote down a few characters to enhance his mood .

After a week of training, Abel was able to completely master the four magical rune characters . The sizes and proportions of the strokes were perfect . However, during the process, he also realized that the fire magic rune character seemed very familiar to him .

It looked very similar to the 8#Ral rune in Diablo 2 . However, there were a lot of connecting lines in this fire Magic Rune . Some were responsible for connecting to the hilt of the sword, and some were responsible for connecting the entire body of the sword . Overall the structure of the rune as a whole still very similar . The purpose of the 8# rune was +5, -30, fire damage, which was also similar to this fire magic rune .

Could it be that the rune of this world was related to the runes of the Dark World? Legend has it the Dark World’s rune system had been long lost . To create a rune system, the only way was to use an ancient Runestone to realize the power of each rune . Therefore, since the runes still existed in this world . If one had mastered more runes in the future, maybe they could also turn all the rune of Diablo 2 come into reality .

But for now, it was still too early to say . Abel had only mastered 4 runes . To establish a rune system, it required the combination of the entire 33 rune characters within Diablo .

As for the four runes Abel had mastered, after careful analysis and identification, Abel had corresponded them to the runes of Diablo 2 . They were individual, the Fire Magic 8# Rune, Ice Magic 10# Rune, Electric Magic 9# Rune, and Poison Magic 7# Rune .

However, there was 1 rune system that Abel could remember from memory . If it wasn’t because this runes system was generally ranked at the top, out of the many rune systems, Abel wouldn’t even remember that it had even existed . The rune ability in this rune system was terrible in Diablo 2 . It wasn’t even as good as any ordinary low-level dark gold . This rune system was called The Ancient Vow .

The Ancient Vow:

material required: 3 Kong shield

rune required: 8#+9#+7#

Ability of the final product:

General defense +50%

Ice defense +43%

Virus defense +48%

Fire defense +48%

Electricity defence +48%

10 % of damage could be converted to magical power

Abel though it might be doable . Although its attributes were not that good in the game, it would be a powerful shield in reality . So Abel had decided after he had mastered all the single rune weapons, he would proceed to make this shield .

The next day, Abel returned to the blacksmith shop with the rune brush and the ink bottle . He found Master Bentham and said, “Master, I have mastered the four runes, I want to start making magic weapons today . ”

By this point, Master Bentham had been shocked by Abel’s speed of mastery way too many times . He had become completely immune to It . Even if Abel were to master the rune brush a few more days faster, he wouldn’t be any more surprised .

Master Bentham took out a sword of a hundred skills that had Abel forged a while ago . This was because the Knight of Marshall had stipulated long ago that Abel have the right to possess all the weapons he forged himself . Since Abel would one day inherit the castle, he should be able to use the iron as resources as well .

Upon completing these swords of hundred skills, Abel would often carelessly leave them in this operation room, which was assigned by Master Bentham as Abel’s private room . If an ordinary person had entered this room, they would go insane . The floor was scattered with more sword of hundred skills than all the weapons store combined in Harvest City . There were only 3 masters with the ability as high as Master Bentham, supplying their weapons to the weapons stores in Harvest, and Master Bentham could only forge 1 sword of hundred skills in a month at most . Therefore, the limitations of masters can be clearly seen . To progress from forging 80 skills to a hundred skills weapon, if one did not possess The Power of Will, the only way was to rely on experience and a large number of mental calculations . Masters would normally start from 80 skills, and slowly forge 1 or 2 more skills on to the weapons each day .

Only a blacksmith who possessed The Power of Will such as Abel could forge a weapon from 80 to 100 skills in one take .

However, these days, master Bentham no longer needed to send his weapons to another weapon store to sell . This was because, in exchange for Joshua, Lord Joel had given The Knight of Marshall a weapon store, located in the most prosperous part of the Harvest City . While as for the five captured servants, they had also been generously sent back .

That weapon shop, which was worth more than tens of thousands of gold coins, was now bringing more than 500 gold coins per month to Harry Castle .