Bloodsteel shaping: Infusing metal with blood-essence for durability and mana conductivity.
Cursed Runes: Carved into the weapon, offering devastating power… at a price.
Void Integration: Manipulating unstable space-energy into the blade, making strikes unpredictable, reality-distorting, or impossible to block conventionally.
Binding Rituals: Weapon forging sealed with soul-fragments or oaths, ensuring loyalty to the wielder — or their destruction if betrayed.
Sion's eyes narrowed, his Curiosity Power and Tactical Overthinking working in tandem — memorizing every step, dissecting rune patterns, understanding the dangers.
[SYSTEM NOTIFICATION]
You have observed a Forbidden Crafting Process.
New Skill Acquired:
⚒️ Forbidden Blacksmithing (Theoretical)
Effect: Grants understanding of illegal weapon creation, cursed material integration, and forbidden rune application. Cannot craft directly without proper tools, but enables:
✅ Identifying cursed weapons.
✅ Detecting weaknesses in forbidden gear.
✅ Deconstructing or manipulating forbidden weapons if obtained.
✅ Theoretical design of future personalized cursed gear.
Nyx whistled low beside him, grinning.
"Master… you're not even buying anything, but you just stole the whole process."
Sion's smirk deepened.
"That's how real power works."
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Options:
1. Leave now, knowledge gained, no need to stay.
2. Subtly manipulate the smith into revealing more secrets.
3. Eventually forge your own weapon later with another trusted contact.
Where next, Master of Forbidden Knowledge?