I Reincarnated As A Stick Chapter 149 – Tinkering

“I would like this equipment to bear the name of ‘Killer of the Sapient’,” Aurus said as a response to the question displayed on the screen in front of his field of vision.

Whoosh!

Not long after Aurus gave his answer, the text on the screen disappeared for a while, seemingly processing the answer Aurus gave to the system. It took around ten seconds or so for the system to respond to Aurus, with text appearing on the screen.

On the screen, the text said, ‘The name ‘Killer of the Sapient’ has been chosen. Due to the name given to the equipment set, all damage dealt to Animates shall be increased by 20 percent. On the other hand, all damage dealt by Animates to the user shall be decreased by 20 percent.’

“Well then,” Aurus could not help but mutter in surprise after reading the text on the screen. “I wasn’t expecting that kind of buff from such a name. To be honest, I would be given an effect that was more on the lines of greater attack, not balanced attack and defense. Then again, that would allow me to fight against Animates for a longer time.”

A few seconds later, the text on the screen was changed once more, being replaced with what looked like a diagram. To be more exact, it was a diagram which showed the equipment set that was going to be made. As far as what Aurus could see, the equipment set on the diagram was made up of 5 parts, with four of them being armor, while the remaining one was the weapon.

Aurus did not find any faults in this as this type of set was the most common case for MMORPGs, even ISE was not exempt from this pattern. But then, when he thought that the system was just showing him the diagram to see the parts that would be made after he inputs his FP, a prompt appeared on top of the current screen he was looking at, with words being written on it that said, ‘The user can customize the appearance of the equipment set being shown on the diagram. Not only that, the user can also customize the type of weapon and armor that is being made.’

Not long after, the text on the screen changed once more as it said, ‘The type changes that can be made to these equipments are only either Physical or Magic. Changing the equipments’ type to Ignition cannot be made as the Ignition type stacks with Physical or Magic type.’

Although the words said by the system was quite confusing at first, Aurus understood what the system was trying to imply. What the system was trying to say was that since he already chose an Ignition type equipment set to be made, he could make the effects of Ignition more specific, whether it leaned towards the Physical side of things, or the Magic side of things.

As he was a mage of his own right, he chose the weapon of the equipment set to lean more towards the Magic side, which made the diagram of the weapon on the screen to glow a faint green. As for the four pieces of armor, which consisted of a helmet, chestplate, leggings, and boots that definitely did not fit a wooden sculpture like him, he decided to balance out the inclination of these pieces of armor as he was sure that he would not just face only magic attacks or only physical attacks in the war.

With two pieces inclined to defend physical attacks, and the remaining two inclined to defend magic attacks, Aurus was more or less finished customizing the equipment set he was making, except for the fact that he customized the look of the weapon by a bit. He was modifying the weapon to look more like one of the weapons he made before, Staff No. 1.

Speaking of which, due to the previous Flux Weapon crafting skill being fused into a greater Flux Equipment fabrication skill, Staff No. 2, which was the last weapon he made with the Flux Weapon crafting skill, unfortunately dispersed into FP.

After customizing the look of the weapon for a few minutes, he was now satisfied with the overall appearance of the set and allowed the system to move on further in the fabrication process.

Whoosh!

Being finished with the customization of the equipment set, the system then gave Aurus choices as to what the equipment set’s effect would be. On the screen in front of him were five choices which were inclined towards a certain stat. Two of these choices were focused on enhancing the survivability of the user, another two of the choices were focused on enhancing the offensive power of the user, while the remaining on was focused on enhancing the healing ability of the user.

Of course, since he was just tinkering with the new fabrication skill for now, he did not bother that much with the equipments’ set effect, although he did commit the name to memory as he was planning to use that to make a better version later on. In the end, he just chose the Arcana set effect, which boosted the damage output of energy-based attacks by 30 percent.

Whoosh!

After the set effects were the unique effects of the equipment set, which he only had two choices to choose from. Reading through the short descriptions under the choices, he found out that choosing the Enchantment effect would boost his overall stats by 10 percent as long as he wore the equipment. As for the Party Resonance effect, it was the same as the Enchantment effect, except for the fact that the more allies that were in the vicinity wearing equipment sets of the same effect, the greater the boost.

At that point, it was a given that he would choose the latter. But since he was just testing out the skill for now, he went with the Enchantment effect for now.

Whoosh! Ding!

And so, the screen in front of his field of vision disappeared, with a monotonous voice resounding throughout his mind not long after.

‘How much Flux Points would you like to invest into this equipment?’ the monotonous voice asked.

Since he had fused all of his FP storage skills into one giant skill, as well as fused his Class Seed skills into one, the amount of FP that Aurus currently had was enormous when compared to his previous maximum capacity. After a moment of ponderation, he decided to invest 3000 FP into the equipment set, deciding to use up all of his FP after he made sure of the pattern that he would use when he would manufacture equipment for the alliance.

Indeed, this fabrication skill was going to be a trump card for the alliance. After finding out that the skill did not limit him from allowing the equipment he crafted to be used by others anymore, the thought of making it a trump card entered his mind and stuck on.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Not long after, a cacophony of sounds started to resonate from Aurus’ mind as intangible threads started to shoot out from body, transforming into five large balls of light in front of his field of vision not long after. The five balls then started to absorb energy from the surroundings as they gradually took on a shape, to which Aurus noticed were the shapes of the equipment on the diagram he tinkered around with.

It took a few minutes for the five balls to solidify into the equipment that Aurus envisioned, shrinking down to a size that was near invisible to the naked eye as they headed back to Aurus’ body, seemingly being absorbed by it as a notification sound resounded from the system not long after.

Ding!

‘The equipment set [Killer of the Sapient] has been created.’

At the very moment this notification resounded throughout his mind, Aurus commanded the system to open up the information regarding the whole equipment set.

Ding!

The system followed Aurus’ commands, only to stop as it asked a question.

‘Would the user like to view all of the information of the equipment, or a shortened form?’

“Hmm…” Although he wanted to see every bit of information of the equipment, he thought that it would be better for him to just look at the shortened version for now, and save the full version for the equipment that he really put thought into later.

“I’ll look at the shortened version for now,” he answered back, to which the system complied as a screen appeared in front of his field of vision. Even though the system said it was a shortened version, the amount of information written on it was still a lot, making him shudder inwardly as he imagined the amount of information he would be reading if he chose the full version.

Whoosh!

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[Killer of the Sapient]

Equipment Type: Ignition

Rarity: Grand

Set Effect: Arcana (+20% Magic Damage)

Unique Effect: Enchantment (+10% boost to stats when worn)

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Parts:

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[Defiler of Sentience (Weapon)]

Type: Magic

> +330-520 Attack

> -30% Cast Time

> +30% FP Recovery Rate

> +30% Damage

> Has three Ignition stages

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[Helmet of Vitality (Armor)]

[Chestplate of Vitality (Armor)]

Type: Physical

> +850-1230 Defense

> -20% Physical Damage Taken

> +20% HP

> 10% chance to reflect damage taken

> Has three Ignition stages

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[Leggings of Intelligence (Armor)]

[Boots of Intelligence (Armor)]

Type: Magic

> +430-650 Magic Defense

> -20% Magic Damage Taken

> +10% HP

> 5% chance to nullify damage taken

> Has three Ignition stages

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“Even though this is just the shortened form, this is still a lot,” Aurus could not help but say in awe as he read through all of it, satisfied with the effects of a Grand level equipment set. Then again, he could not help but think about the stats of a Mythic level equipment set, which was the highest rarity craftable by the skill.

Nonetheless, he placed this thought at the back of his head as he closed the screen regarding the equipment set, opening up his skill list as he tried to come up with new trump cards with the skills he had currently.