Liyue Harbor, the Cold Steel blacksmith shop.
Li Qiuzhi and the others passed the Adventurers' Guild and greeted Katheryne, then followed the wooden steps down to the blacksmith shop below.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
Master Zhang, who had short black hair, was hammering away at an iron ingot that had softened after being heated red-hot.
Without stopping his hands, he looked up at his visitors.
"You're here. Let me finish this Sword Billet. It won't take long."
"Mm-hmm, take your time. We're in no hurry," Paimon said, lightly waving both hands. Lumine nodded in silent agreement.
Li Qiuzhi moved a little closer to watch Master Zhang work.
He had often watched Wagner forge things before, so he could roughly tell that Master Zhang was making a Sword Billet for a one-handed sword.
Come to think of it, if he learned forging too, with the help of Experience Points, he should soon be able to forge high-quality weapons to sell all by himself.
Four-star weapons in particular fetched several million each, making them very profitable.
That way, he could earn Mora without even going out adventuring!
Uh, no.
He still needed to adventure. Without fighting monsters, where would he get Experience Points to improve his skills?
Still, when it came to making money, forging was actually about the same as being an adventurer.
After all, even smiths at the top of their trade like Wagner needed more than ten days to make a four-star weapon. Subtract half of its price of over five million for materials, and only two or three million remained.
That averaged out to a little over a hundred thousand a day. Wasn't that about the same as Li Qiuzhi, who already counted as a top-tier adventurer?
A relatively dangerous intermediate commission to clear out monsters also paid about