Chapter 348: A Pie Falling from the Sky

Chapter 348: Chapter 348: A Pie Falling from the Sky

’I guess there’s no such thing as a free lunch after all.’

Seraphina Sinclair muttered to herself, the slight smile that had formed because of the Skill’s effect completely vanishing.

She closed the Skill page, deciding not to dwell on it.

It was better than nothing. At the very least, in a critical moment, it might just be the move that turned the tide.

Pushing that small bit of disappointment to the back of her mind, Seraphina Sinclair focused her attention on the final, and most anticipated, reward—the [Random-Grade Engraving Scroll].

After all, she still had a fragmented D-level Engraving Scroll piece stored in her Silver Moon Earrings.

Though the names of the two items were quite different, they both boiled down to the same two words—Engraving Scroll!

Today, she would finally find out what that fragment in her Silver Moon Earrings was for.

[Random-Grade Engraving Scroll]

[Description: A special item with no grade. Opening it will grant one random Engraving Scroll of any grade, from E-level to S-Class! The respective probabilities for E-level to S-Class are: 65%, 25%, 7%, 2%, 0.8%, and 0.2%!]

"...Heh." Seraphina Sinclair let out a soft, ambiguous chuckle.

Those odds were blatantly telling her that hoping to get a high-grade scroll through sheer luck was just wishful thinking.

Even with the bonus from her S-Class Evaluation, it would probably only raise the probability of getting a C-level or higher by a minuscule amount—a drop in the bucket.

Just like with the Skill Book from before, the item was already in her hands. Might as well use it.

Seraphina Sinclair sighed and chose to open it.

The scroll dissolved into a chaotic ball of light in her hand. The light swirled rapidly, its color shifting erratically before finally settling on purple.

Seraphina Sinclair’s pupils had already dilated slightly before she could even process what this meant.

’The only color above purple is gold. Could it be...?’

[Engraving Scroll (A-level)]

An A-level!

Seraphina Sinclair’s heart leaped, and she could hardly believe her eyes.

An A-level! With only a 0.8% chance, she had actually gotten it!

The sudden, immense surprise made her fingers tighten unconsciously around the scroll.

The scroll was a deep purple. Its material was like neither leather nor silk, warm to the touch yet with an underlying chill.

Complex and esoteric patterns were traced across it in some kind of Dark Gold lines. A faint shimmer of light seemed to flow slowly within the lines, emitting an unnerving fluctuation of energy.

In short, even someone with no eye for quality could tell with a single glance that this was something extraordinary.

Seraphina Sinclair didn’t check the detailed information right away. Instead, she closed her eyes for a moment to calm her turbulent emotions.

Luck was just that unreasonable sometimes.

One moment she was disappointed over pulling a D-level Skill Book, and the next, she had received an A-level Scroll!

Taking a deep breath, Seraphina Sinclair looked at the scroll and used Insight.

[Engraving Scroll (A-level)]

[Description: The manifestation of an Engraving Master’s lifelong wisdom and skill! It can give you much, and also very little. The final result depends entirely on how you choose to use it!

1. Use as a medium to imprint a weapon: After using the scroll on a weapon below A-level, a Fine Weapons Engraving Diagram for that weapon will be generated. The diagram will list the required materials, and the weapon will suffer no negative effects!

2. Use as a material to craft a weapon: After using the scroll on a Fine Weapons Engraving Diagram below A-level, the weapon can be crafted instantly without any materials and without meeting the diagram’s learning requirements! The scroll will be consumed. Additionally, the Engraving Map is not consumed, but a map that has had an Engraving Scroll used on it cannot have another scroll used on it again!]

Seraphina Sinclair’s gaze was fixed on the second function, her breathing unconsciously hitching.

’No materials needed, and I don’t even have to meet the diagram’s attribute point requirements!’

’And it doesn’t even consume the Engraving Map after crafting the weapon!’

’Even though I can’t use an Engraving Scroll on it again... what would I need so many weapons for?!’

What Seraphina Sinclair needed right now was one good long-bladed sword.

Just as she was wracking her brain trying to find materials for the Water Dragon Roar map, the appearance of this scroll was like a godsend—a true blessing from the heavens!

At this moment, Seraphina Sinclair believed from the bottom of her heart that her perseverance in the dungeon, the arguments, every choice she made, everything... it had all been right. Incomparably right.

With an almost reverent attitude, Seraphina Sinclair took out the faintly glowing, light-blue Engraving Map for the Water Dragon Roar from her Silver Moon Earrings.

The A-level purple scroll and the B-level blue map shone in her hands, their energy fluctuations pulling at each other and emitting a low hum.

There was no reason to hesitate. Seraphina Sinclair took a deep breath and gently pressed the A-level scroll onto the Water Dragon Roar’s Engraving Map.

In that instant, a brilliant golden light erupted!

The purple scroll seemed to come alive. The Dark Gold patterns on its surface broke away like swimming dragons, wrapping themselves around the blue map.

The ethereal blue runes clashed violently with the Dark Gold light, then slowly began to merge, like mysterious star-iron being melted down and reforged.

Seraphina Sinclair instinctively narrowed her eyes, but she couldn’t bear to look away for even a second.

Then, the Water Dragon Pattern on the map seemed to be injected with life, beginning to swim slowly along with the runes from the scroll!

The phantoms of Deep Sea Crystal Stones in the dragon’s eyes burst with a blinding radiance. The entire map floated up, leaving Seraphina Sinclair’s palm to hover in the air before her.

The A-level Scroll transformed into a pure stream of purple light, which was greedily absorbed by the map as if it were the highest-grade fuel.

The map’s material began to transform at a visible rate. Its original, slightly thin parchment texture became thick and heavy, its edges even taking on a faint golden sheen.

In the center of the map, the image of the long-bladed sword grew sharper and more three-dimensional. Every Dragon Scale on the blade, every ripple of water, was rendered in exquisite detail, looking as if it might burst from the map at any moment!

The entire process lasted for about ten seconds.

When the last wisp of purple light was completely absorbed, the floating map abruptly retracted all its brilliance and drifted lightly back into Seraphina Sinclair’s hand.

The texture was completely different now.

It felt slightly heavy, as smooth and warm as jade, yet with the resilience of leather.

The entire map had turned a deep, bluish-purple, its edges inlaid with an extremely fine golden border.

The long-bladed sword pattern in the center was no longer simple line art but more like a miniature, three-dimensional relief carving. It rested there quietly, faintly emitting a sharp aura that could make one’s skin crawl, along with the coolness of water vapor.

[Water Dragon Roar - Materialized Engraving Map (B-level)]

[Status: Special. The power of the scroll has been infused. Can perform one material-free corporeal forging. After forging, the map will not disappear and will revert to a normal Engraving Map state.]

[Perform forging immediately?]

Only after seeing that last line of text did Seraphina Sinclair’s heart begin to pound wildly, as if it were just catching up.

’I’m finally going to get this B-level weapon...’

Her fingers trembled as she clenched the transformed map in her hand. Without hesitation, without even a second glance at the daunting list of materials, she raised her hand and chose—

Yes!