Chapter 100: Moon Healing Talisman

Chapter 100: Chapter 100: Moon Healing Talisman

"???? A workbench??"

"Wait, what does that mean? High-level blueprints need special equipment to craft?!"

"Fuck! I always thought you could just craft it directly once you had the materials!"

"’Any workbench’? Where the hell do you get one of those? Has anyone seen one?"

"@Nightingale, so you have all the materials but can’t make it? HAHAHAHAHA, sorry, but I have to laugh first."

"It’s over. All that excitement for nothing. So we can look but can’t touch, huh?"

"Actually, it’s pretty reasonable if you think about it. I get that we can craft these current blueprints by hand, but if we could also hand-craft precision instruments or super awesome weapons in the future... now *that* I wouldn’t get."

"So that’s where workbenches come in. ’Any workbench’ probably refers to the type of workbench, right? Meaning there could be several different workbench blueprints."

"And the workbench blueprint has to be below D-level. Otherwise, we’re screwed, haha. No one will ever be able to make high-level items."

[Nightingale]: Do you have any idea how hard it was for me to get a D-level blueprint?! I gathered all the materials and I still can’t make it! And this blueprint is like a blind box, it’s so frustrating... System, go &#&##&￥% yourself!

"Wait a sec... who was it that said this guy was calm and collected?"

"LMAO."

"Quick, post the blueprint and let us see!"

’Yeah, hurry up and post the blueprint!’

Seraphina Sinclair was also curious. What did he mean by ’like a blind box’?

After all, this came from an E-level Supply Box. Personally, Seraphina Sinclair was wary.

She had a feeling the system had slipped something weird in there.

Perhaps because too many people were curious, Nightingale posted the blueprint details directly.

[Tiberius Lawson’s Surprise Blueprint (D-level)]

[Learning Requirement: Intelligence ≥ 10]

[Required Materials: wood x15, Earth x5, Black Fog Crystal x1, Sunshine Crystal x1, Blood Moon Crystal x1!]

[Effect: Crafts a little surprise! Each craft can be used nine times. After all uses are depleted, the item is destroyed.]

’A surprise blueprint?’

’Tiberius Lawson?’

The name was completely unfamiliar to Seraphina Sinclair, as it was to some others in the group chat.

But someone who had majored in history stepped up to explain who this person was.

"Tiberius Lawson? Sigh... after surviving in this hellhole for a few days, it’s a bit surreal to suddenly encounter a name from the textbooks of my past life."

"Dude, stop keeping us in suspense!"

"He’s the forefather of firecrackers. Or to put it another way, he’s the inventor of fireworks."

’Fireworks?’

Seraphina Sinclair paused and took another look at the effect.

’A little surprise... nine uses...?’

’It does sound like it.’

The group chat had clearly realized this as well, and the discussion grew even more heated.

"Fireworks?! The kind I’m thinking of? The kind that explode in the sky?!"

"It needs three types of crystals... just to make fireworks? And it’s a D-level blueprint! I don’t believe it. It must have some kind of special effect!"

"So this blueprint is just for show? Not only does it need a workbench that’s nowhere to be found, but the thing it makes is useless?"

[Nightingale]: So it’s fireworks? I got excited for nothing. I thought I could make a superweapon or at least a useful tool, but it’s just decorative fireworks... and from a D-level blueprint, no less. This is so ridiculous.

Seraphina Sinclair stared at the chat log, her fingers tapping unconsciously on the floor.

’Is it really just fireworks?’

Speaking of which, Seraphina Sinclair suddenly remembered the blueprint she had.

The Firework Launcher blueprint had a 100% chance of attracting all monsters within a 500-meter radius upon firing. Its grade was merely F-, yet it already had a special function. Nightingale’s blueprint, on the other hand, was D-level.

But it was useless to speculate now. Until a workbench was built, she couldn’t craft it to find out.

Seraphina Sinclair shook her head, stood up, and began her move for the day.

She used up all 300 sunshine and got a total of seven F-level Supply Boxes and two E-level Supply Boxes.

The F-level Supply Boxes didn’t yield anything good, and the contents of the E-level Supply Boxes were just so-so: a few crystals and a new set of clothes.

’That’s pretty good, too.’

Seraphina Sinclair was quite content. At least she had a change of clothes now, right?

Seraphina Sinclair took out the gasoline she had sealed yesterday, the one mixed with Moonlight Powder. She raised her brush to dip it in but then set it down again.

’I should first try adding Moonlight Powder to the materials for the other two runes and see if I can create a new type of rune.’

’Especially the Corpse Suppression Rune, that useless F-level rune.’

’It has to be improved!’

But needing improvement was one thing; in terms of practical use, Seraphina Sinclair naturally prioritized the Blood Stopping Talisman.

Seraphina Sinclair carefully divided the Moonlight Powder into two very small portions, mixing them into the prepared herbal juice and monster blood respectively.

The herbal juice was originally dark green, but after mixing in the Moonlight Powder, its color became slightly clearer, as if fine motes of moonlight were flowing within. The dark red monster blood, on the other hand, grew even deeper in color. The specks of Moonlight Powder made it look like a solidified night sky, giving it a profound appearance.

Spreading out a sheet of rune paper, Seraphina Sinclair focused her mind and calmed her breath, then dipped the tip of her brush into the shimmering, modified herbal juice.

The first one she would make was, of course, the Blood Stopping Talisman!

The moment her brush touched the paper, that feeling of mental clarity and minute control washed over her again.

The drawing process was slightly more sluggish than for a normal Blood Stopping Talisman. She could feel some kind of "energy" slowly being consumed, but it was far easier than when she had drawn the [Purifying Flame Rune].

Perhaps it was because Seraphina Sinclair had been under triple the Mental Pressure back then, whereas today, she was in peak condition.

Her brush moved with fluid grace, and the rune was completed in a single, unbroken flow.

As the final stroke fell, a gentle, vibrant emerald-green light bloomed on the rune paper before receding into it a moment later. The lines on the paper now resembled the natural veins of a growing plant, dotted with almost imperceptible points of moon-white light.

[Successfully Crafted Unknown Rune (Requires Naming)]

[Effect: A healing rune containing the life-giving power of Moonlight. It can more effectively promote wound healing and counter the erosive damage caused by sinister energy (superior effect to a normal Healing Potion, especially effective against wounds caused by negative energy).]

[Evaluation: Moonlight dew nurtures life; its clear radiance heals wounds. This rune contains a trace of pure life force. You have once again invented a new type of rune!]

’That was way too easy.’

Seraphina Sinclair raised her hand and gently brushed her nose. She looked up, thinking for a moment, then decided to name this rune the [Moon Healing Talisman].

It was also E-level! Excellent!

Seraphina Sinclair carefully put the rune paper away, then shook her head, trying to get a feel for her current state.

But that sort of profound, mystical feeling was hard to gauge. After a moment’s thought, Seraphina Sinclair decided to just go ahead and try.

She picked up her brush and dipped the tip into the monster blood, which was as deep and dark as the night sky.

Seraphina Sinclair put her brush to paper once more.

She didn’t know if it was because of the rune itself, or because she had already made one Moon Healing Talisman, but she could clearly feel that this attempt was significantly more difficult than the last.