Chapter 011: Equipment Master
The night passed without another word. Chen Ran wasn’t foolish enough to bring up Lia’s painful topic again. He also understood that Lia wasn’t the selfish girl he had initially imagined. He let Lia cry on his shoulder for a long time, her tears soaking his robe, and sat motionless for half the night, letting the girl lean on him.
Feeling Lia’s emotions at that moment—helplessness, bitterness, a forced strength—perhaps she didn’t want this fate either. Perhaps it was the obsession in her heart that she couldn’t let go of, making her persist even if it meant giving up everything. In truth, she was quite pitiful.
He gently poked the bonfire with his left hand, his movements careful, afraid of disturbing the girl sleeping on his right shoulder. He looked at her sleeping, weary face, which held a touch of lovely purity, making one want to caress it.
At this moment, Chen Ran felt that as a man, he should probably do something.
He carefully laid Lia down, placing her gently on the ground and covering her with his own clothes. After doing this, he suddenly felt as if he had matured a little.
With a helpless smile, he unconsciously walked over to the corpse of the dead Saber-toothed Tiger King.
As for the spoils of their journey, Chen Ran had never asked for a single share in order to improve everyone’s impression of him, but that didn’t mean these things were useless to him.
Now that everyone was dead, it would be a waste not to use them.
He stretched out his hand, and a ball of fluorescent purple light appeared in it. It was his epic-level life skill, “Material Refinement,” which included the skinning ability.
Under the envelopment of the fluorescent purple light, the Saber-toothed Tiger King’s corpse began to be dismantled. First, the damaged parts of the tiger pelt were repaired by Chen Ran’s priest skills. Then, a long, neat incision was made from the stomach, and the pelt was perfectly separated. Next came the bones and meat. When he got to the tiger’s penis, Chen Ran hesitated for a moment but still chose to separate it.
Under his master-level Appraisal skill, the following items were obtained:
Saber-toothed Demonic Tiger King Leather (Green): Can be used to make armor.
Saber-toothed Demonic Tiger King Bones (Green): Medicinal item.
Tiger Meat (White): Edible.
Saber-toothed Demonic Tiger King Penis (Blue): Medicinal item, highly nourishing.
Seeing this information, Chen Ran couldn’t even be bothered to complain.
As for the leather, it went without saying that it could be used to make corresponding equipment. There was enough leather to make more than three sets. The bones could be used for medicine, and the meat was the most useless—it was for eating, but it seemed a bit tough and not as tasty as regular rabbit meat. As for the tiger penis, it was highly nourishing and unexpectedly a blue-quality medicinal ingredient.
Regarding item tiers, in Chen Ran’s system, there was no difference from the game.
White quality (Common), Green quality (Good), Blue quality (Fine), Purple quality (Excellent), Dark Gold quality (Epic), Rainbow Gold quality (Legendary).
As long as the corresponding crafting skill was high enough, green-quality materials could generally be made into good-quality items, with a very small chance of creating a blue-quality fine item. As someone who was a master of all sub-professions, Chen Ran naturally wouldn’t be foolish enough to turn good-quality materials into white-quality items.
Setting aside the Tiger King leather, Chen Ran threw all the other useless items into his spatial ring.
Material Refinement was a good skill and an important one that had helped him become a master of sub-professions. Not only could it be used to gather and refine quest items, but when combined with crafting skills, it allowed him to make equipment without a workshop. And Chen Ran’s mastery of equipment crafting was not just for show.
Back then, he had spent several years studying the world’s most popular aesthetics and crafting details, and had even gone abroad for further study. The effort he put into his sub-professions far exceeded the energy he spent on guild raids, which was one of the helpless reasons he had chosen the useless priest class in the first place.
At this moment, the Tiger King leather began to change bit by bit under his control. The various parts of the clothing were completed one by one, then assembled into the general shape of a complete and beautiful garment. There were no loose threads, and the seams at the cuffs and other joints were naturally connected, increasing its sturdiness and durability.
Soon, two new pieces of armor were made.
Saber-toothed Tiger King Tunic (Green): Health Potency +100.
Saber-toothed Tiger King Skirt (Green): Health Potency +130.
There were two sets of clothes in total: one for Chen Ran himself, and one, of course, for Lia.
The set Chen Ran made for himself was done rather casually. In his opinion, without items that had suitable attributes for him, a priest’s defense didn’t matter much. He wasn’t going to be tanking monsters. If a magical beast got close to him, wearing better equipment wouldn’t be of much use since he couldn’t tank without taking damage. So, he used the scraps of the tiger pelt. The set he made for Lia, on the other hand, was made from the most lustrous and toughest part of the pelt from the tiger’s back. That’s why the defense of her set was a full 30 points higher, and it was crafted with more care.
The only thing he found a bit strange was that in the game, as long as the class and gender were suitable, anyone could easily equip the corresponding gear. Here, however, he had to make it according to real proportions. For this, he had to visually estimate Lia’s measurements to make her set. However, this other world had its advantages. As long as you could wear it, anyone could use any class’s equipment, and there were no level restrictions.
Of course, such a semi-finished product was far from enough.
Next, Chen Ran took out the various spoils that the group had collected from their hunts.
There was a large amount of fur, mostly white-quality (Common) or even gray-quality (Damaged) items. Here, Chen Ran had to complain about the terrible skinning skills of the now-deceased George and Tyris, who had ruined perfectly good pelts. Although Chen Ran himself had master-level skinning skills (one of the applications of his master-level Material Refinement), he didn’t want to be a free laborer, and since the spoils weren’t his, he wasn’t going to debase himself by offering his services.
The furs were not what he was looking for. He found a small pouch, which contained the magical beast cores from their hunts.
“Fire-element Magic Core (White): Fire Energy Potency 6.”
“Fire-element Magic Core (White): Fire Energy Potency 15.”
“Water-element Magic Core (White): Water Energy Potency 9.”
“…”
“Wind-element Magic Core (Green): Wind Energy Potency 35.”
Tier 1 and Tier 2 beasts in the dense forest didn’t have magic cores. Only Tier 3 beasts could be considered true magical beasts, but they only yielded small, white magic cores with low energy. Apart from the green magic core obtained from the Tiger King, these scattered crystals were mostly white cores with energy potency between 5 and 20, and there weren’t many of them.
