Blacksmith of the Apocalypse - Chapter 1236

Chapter 1236: Settling Sets

"Let's start with this one since I already have someone in mind for this set. These are the robe, the ring, and the orb of Gönndalf.” Putting them on the table one by one, Seth introduced the three items that made up some of Natina's main gear.

“My suggestion would be to give the set, together with the Storm of Death, to Morgana of Team 5,” the blacksmith finished after explaining the abilities of the items. Morgana had already been a candidate for the Storm of Death, but Seth was worried because of her low Willpower attribute.

The staff carried the presence of Furfur, a demon that should not be underestimated. Without proper Willpower and mental strength, it was hard not to be corrupted by such power. The problem was that it seemed like a waste to gear her full equipment toward willpower, just to carry the staff, when it wasn't her main or necessarily secondary attribute as a mage.

The powers of the Gönndalf-set could fix that, as it not only came with a good boost to willpower but also the legendary effect of Never Lost Hope. Like the Blessing of Lethe, it protected against mental ailments as well as raising willpower. It countered exactly what the bard was worried about.

Seth shared his thoughts with the assembled members, but the resistance was not as strong as he would have expected. In fact, there was none at all. Although some seemed to think about the set, many casters in Minas Mar already owned Lunacy Sets or tailor-made items by Neeco Boos, and they were not willing to give them up for the legendary set, despite the resurrection effect.

“Thank you,” Morgana said meekly, slightly overwhelmed as she took her new equipment. Morgana returned to her seat with four new legendary items and a slight skip in her gate. Suddenly she had become one of the members with the most legendary items, but nobody was jealous of her.

“This is an individual item, that also belonged to Gönndalf, but is not part of the Set, Gönndalf's Tome,” Seth introduced the last item of Gönndalf. The tome that gave strong buffs on magic and mana and allowed the use of one of Gönndalf's spells once per day was a lot more popular than the set.

It spawned a heated debate with almost every eligible mage, except Morgana, taking part. Despite focusing on alchemy lately, it was Alison who outmaneuvered the others with unexpected eloquence in the debate and claimed the tome for herself.

Albeit, Seth suspected that she wasn't after the book for the item effects, but the knowledge within. Thanks to her title, she gained power simply by gathering knowledge. The higher the quality of the knowledge.

She would probably even have fun, trying to decode the text of the book. Seth lost interest in trying to read it the moment he looked at the pages and realized they were encoded in some way, since even couldn't make sense of the gibberish.

The alchemist came to the front. Her usual expressionless, tired face didn't betray whether she was actually happy to get the tome, but her quick steps and the way she snatched it from his hands made it obvious that she was excited.

Looking at Al, who was a lich for almost two centuries, she signaled that she had no interest in this set. Next, the bard looked for Jack Felton, to see whether they had any promising candidate among the Oathguard, but the man waved his hand signaling no interest.

Seth could have figured as much, there weren't many mages in the oath guard, since they only recently were able to offer fabric sets for casters, thanks to Neeco, Nädel, and Nädel's apprentices. Not many mages wanted to join, even if the oath armor was great, even individualized it was not the best for casters.

Seth's mage armors were something reserved for the field teams. This led to very few mages joining the Oathguard, especially since the duties of the oathguard were nothing that helped them raise their skills for many of them. So there were few mages and necromancer was a very rare class among them.

Not just because there were few who even got the opportunity, but because very few chose to take it. Who wanted to deal with rotting corpses all day long, when they had better alternatives? No wonder there wasn't a second one among the members of Minas Mar. The blacksmith could only let out a sigh.

“I guess we will have to put these on a back burner until we raise another necromancer,” he said a little disappointed.

“Or we sell them,” Al suggested out of nowhere. She sounded absolutely serious. The spicy sorceress wanted to sell the stuff that couldn't be bought no matter the money. She wanted to sell away items that could be counted as royal treasures! She- was absolutely right. ṝâŊóВÈṡ

“Not the worst idea,” the bard mumbled. Right, these legendary items were of immeasurable value- for others. Seth was able to pump out legendary items regularly and they were definitely better than the set, even if their effect was not as unique.

Something in high demand that money couldn't buy, but he was able to sell just that. Just how much would they be able to extort out of potential buyers?

“And you even have a quasi-ally that is really unto all things undead.” Mary didn't fail to mention. Yes, Arget Nore would be even more interested in this set. This needed some more thought, but Seth couldn't help but imagine what he could get out of them

If he could exchange the three items for wagons of epic irons or silver ore, it was like he got the license to print money! Or legendary items in this case.

“... but couldn't you also try taking them apart?” Wedan asked curious.