Next, Great Qin had two main tasks. First, the Great Qin Soldiers would continue clearing the Terror Forest, finishing the remaining third of its area before unifying the Terror Forest and moving on to clear other regions.
Second, they needed to produce true damage talisman papers. Although they had the materials and the method of production, Great Qin still could not make them because it lacked a profession: talisman masters.
The main role of talisman masters was to create all kinds of talisman papers. Great Qin did not normally use talisman papers very often, only purchasing them in bulk during events, and thus had never trained any talisman masters.
Among these auxiliary professions, Great Qin had only cultivated two: equipment masters, who forged equipment, and alchemists, who refined pills.
Since they were the most needed, those two professions had been cultivated in large numbers. But now, talisman masters also needed to be trained in great numbers. Aside from making talisman papers, Zhao Fu also wanted to create talismanic equipment, also known as rune equipment.
Rune equipment required rune stones to create, as rune stones were the core material. The crafting method was also rather complicated and required the involvement of talisman masters; otherwise, it simply could not be made.
According to Golden Dragon, this rune equipment was something the Heaven-Slaying Empire had obtained after destroying an immensely powerful Talisman Empire long ago. It was an extremely potent type of equipment, as well as the Talisman Empire's closely guarded secret.
White-grade talismanic equipment was stronger than ordinary blue-grade weapons. It could also be used together with talisman papers to produce an immensely powerful enchantment effect, with power even slightly greater than that of ordinary silver-grade weapons.
Unfortunately, Great Qin was severely lacking in rune stones, the core material. Rune stones were