Miraculous Forging from Honkai Chapter 10

PS: It felt rather strange to return to my old trade after nearly half a year.

I hope to bring everyone the best story possible.5

Drawing Cards Bankrupts Three Generations, Spending Ruins a Lifetime!

"Chen Li, what's wrong? Chen Li, don't scare me!"

"Why? Why were you fine when we parted, yet by the time I returned, we were separated by life and death? Sob, sob..."

"Stop crying, stop crying. Elysia, your crying doesn't sound sincere at all," Chen Li said gloomily.

"But you really do look awful. Did you fail to finish forging the weapons? Or did something sad happen? You can tell me anything." Elysia looked worried as she watched Chen Li sit on the sofa, cradling a teacup with vacant eyes.

"Oh, the weapons are already forged. Someone can come collect them anytime."

"You forged ten thousand standard-issue weapons in seven days? Your forging hammer must have struck sparks by now. Oh, wait, forging already makes sparks." Elysia expressed her surprise at just the right moment.

"For weapons I've forged before, I only need a certain amount of energy, such as Honkai crystals, to synthesize them quickly. The quality isn't as good as something forged by hand, but it's not bad either," Chen Li said casually.

Besides a Forging Table, Chen Li also had a Synthesis Table.

But the weapons made by the Synthesis Table had no soul.

In simpler terms, forging weapons this way gave Chen Li very little enhancement. The enhancement from the same type of weapon even diminished over time. It also did not grant profession experience for Miraculous Forger or experience for the life skill, Forging.

Forging Miraculous Item Embryos by hand did not grant profession experience either, but it increased his Forging skill experience and provided a considerable amount of physical enhancement.

Thanks to those hundred Miraculous Item Embryos, Chen Li gained 300 Forging experience, raising the skill to lv7 (130/700).

Chen Li felt that, after forging one Miraculous Item and a hundred Miraculous Item Embryos, he could now beat two versions of his pre-transmigration self.

At the same time, synthesized weapons only had a probability of nearly one in a thousand of gaining special effects. In the end, Chen Li had forged eleven special weapons.

He did not put them away separately. Instead, he wanted to see what kind of attributes these eleven special weapons would condense after falling into other people's hands and fermenting over time.

"Then what are you sad about? Is it because you didn't see me for seven days? If you say so, I'll be very happy." Elysia blinked.

"Elysia, have you ever heard a saying?"

"What is it? Is it that Elysia's beauty is unmatched in the world?" Elysia asked with great interest.

Elysia liked that saying very much.

"No. It's that drawing cards bankrupts three generations, while spending ruins a lifetime." Chen Li felt that the resentment in his heart could drown the entire Moth Chasing Flame... or at least one room in it.

So Chen Li decided to build his happiness on someone else's pain.

"What does that mean?"

"It means... do you want to try your luck?" Chen Luo took out several purple Starstones and held them in his palm, tempting Elysia, whose eyes could no longer move away from them.

"You mean that by spending these Starstones, you can get a chance to obtain forging materials from different worlds? But the uncertainty is very high?" Elysia fondly played with the Starstones, beautiful as a purple night sky.

In terms of appearance alone, Starstones truly were top-notch.

They were beautiful enough to fool an innocent young girl into going home with someone.

Their temptation for Elysia went without saying.

"Mm. I just spent ten Starstones and drew two items. Their effects were both pretty bizarre." Chen Li nodded.

One was a ghost story book that would reappear by your side no matter where you threw it, and the other was a Desert Eagle with Infinite Bullets.

This was the Starsea Trove function of the Miraculous Forging Guide, which allowed him to randomly obtain items by using Spacetime Crystals.

Whatever you obtained would be equivalent to the number of Starstones you invested, and it would definitely contain sufficient traces of "time, space, and destiny."

This function complemented the Miraculous Forger profession.

Besides random acquisition, there was also targeted acquisition.

Chen Li could specifically obtain specialty items from worlds where Miracle Beacons had been established.

However, the Honkai world was vast, and Chen Li currently needed every kind of attribute. There was no need to limit himself to the Honkai world, so he first made two completely random Starsea Trove draws.

"Is this thing very precious?" Elysia asked.

"Very precious."

Since Spacetime Energy recovered automatically, Chen Li could only obtain one Starstone per day. That sounded like a lot, but it only amounted to 365 Starstones a year.

Perhaps the Honkai world was a little special, or perhaps it was because he was in another world, but Chen Li could currently obtain ten Starstones every seven days.

"I see," Elysia murmured.

"Do you want some?"

"Mhm, mhm." Elysia nodded repeatedly.

"I can give you twenty."

"Really?"

"But these twenty are funds for forging a Miraculous Item for you. You can choose to use them to draw cards, or you can save all of them." Chen Li smiled.

"Li, why are you smiling so maliciously?"

"No, I just want you to experience the tangled pain I felt. So here's the question: do you want to draw cards, or do you want to keep them for yourself?" Chen Li placed a small bag of Starstones in her hand.

Chen Li glanced at his balance after giving the Starstones to Elysia.

Starstones: 110 (+50)

The "+50" represented the disturbance caused by Chen Li giving the Starstones to Elysia, but it had not been added yet.

At some point in the future, these Starstones might prove immensely useful.

So this gift was not a loss.

"What a vicious lottery." Elysia's hand trembled.

"So you don't want them?"

"I do!" Elysia nodded.

"Then let's begin." Chen Li gestured for her to proceed.

Chen Li thought this setup was pretty good. Let people who were unsure what Miraculous Item they wanted draw cards themselves, preventing Chen Li from getting so angry at his terrible luck that he overheated.

The premise was that they had to pay the forging fee.

"How many Starstones should I use for my first try?" Elysia asked directly.

As for worrying?

There was no need to worry! How could a cute girl have bad luck?

"The Starsea Trove you obtain is proportional to the number of Starstones you invest, so any number is fine. I put in five Starstones for my first draw," Chen Li said.

"Then..." Elysia picked out ten Starstones, intending to crush them all at once.

"But then again, one forging material isn't enough to forge a Miraculous Item. You need at least two or three." Chen Li suddenly reminded her.

"Could you say everything at once next time?" Elysia complained, then crushed five Starstones in one go.

With Chen Li's permission, the originally incomparably hard Starstones burst like foam in Elysia's hand.

A mysterious black opening appeared before Elysia.

"Reach in and take out whatever is inside," Chen Li reminded her.

"Oh." Elysia nodded, then eagerly reached into the black hole.

When Elysia struggled to pull the item out, she and Chen Li looked at each other in bewilderment.

"What is this? Cloth?" Elysia tilted her head.

"This... seems to be Heavenly Garment Fabric." Chen Li took one look and answered.

Chen Li could identify the basic information of Starsea Troves freshly retrieved from the Starsea Treasury.

"Heavenly Garment?"

"Mm, seamless Heavenly Garment. Clothes made from this fabric have no seams."

"Can you use it?"

"It can be used to forge Miraculous Items, either to Extract Attributes or as a vessel. I don't know how to sew clothes with Heavenly Garment Fabric, but spending one Crystal to make it adapt automatically will do," Chen Li said.

"So it's a big prize?"

"Mm, a big prize. Keep going."

"I told you, cute girls can do anything."

Brimming with confidence, Elysia crushed another five Starstones. Elysia charged in!

"What kind of Miraculous Item can all these things be forged into?" Elysia, with only two Starstones left, looked at the items before her and could not help asking.

Elysia now understood why Chen Li had been so gloomy at the beginning.

Because she was practically depressed herself.

Drawing cards really was something people both loved and hated.

"Heavenly Garment Fabric, a broken Gale Sword, a copy of the Guide to Love-Struck Fools, and a lock of gorgeous golden hair cut from some princess?" Chen Li scratched his head as he looked over the items.

That was why Elysia could not help asking—could these things really be used to make a magical item?

"They can. It's not a big problem; I already have a preliminary idea." Chen Li thought for a moment before answering.

"Then I'll leave it to you."

"Elysia, do you want to make a bow or a piece of clothing?" Chen Li asked.

"Clothing is possible too?"

"Mm. The item is merely a vessel." Chen Li nodded.

The so-called Miraculous Item Embryos were actually preparations meant to compensate for the lack of Attack Power of functional Miraculous Items.

And Elysia clearly did not lack offensive methods.

"Then let's make clothing."

"Do you have any requirements for the style?"

"Anything is fine. Don't you think I look good in anything?" Elysia tilted her head.

"Fine. Wait here for thirty minutes." After agreeing to Elysia's request, Chen Li took the items and left.

After returning to the forging workshop, Chen Li lit the forge and tossed everything except the Heavenly Garment Fabric inside.

As the items gradually dimmed, attributes of varying brightness slowly appeared within the flames.

Extreme Speed, Wind Control, Hatred, Love, Obsession, Splendor, Imprisonment...

These were all items "with stories." Although the source attributes extracted from them were not as bright as those of Relics, they were still usable.

Looking at the attributes of varying brightness, Chen Li hesitated for a moment before reaching his hand into the Miracle Fire. A drop of blood seeped from his fingertip, then melted into the Miracle Fire.

Everything was for more Crystals!

Time, Space, Destiny.

Three new attributes rose from the flames.

Chen Li raised the Miracle Hammer high.

The forging began.

Elysia: You Call These Black Stockings Attack Speed Gear? Attack Whom?

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