And he refocused his attention on his Nichirin Blade.
Since forging was his golden finger, could he find some way forward through it?
Yet... though no one else had ever known, Tetsu no Sosuke knew that the sunblaze attribute attached to a Nichirin Blade had a limit.
One hundred!
That was the limit.
Whenever he tried to exceed one hundred, the blade would fail to take shape.
He had tried it. Rather than a sword, the result was more like a severely corroded sheet of iron.
Every attribute would drop to its lowest value...
"Could it be... because I've already reached some kind of limit? Do I need to find another way to break through?"
He stared at the ceiling and mulled over the possibilities, but after thinking for quite a while, he came up with nothing.
"Once my body recovers, it looks like I'll need to spend a lot of time forging." Tetsu no Sosuke fell silent. "If I can't find any way to break through the current limit, then I'll have to turn to the golden finger's all-purpose 'rewards' for a solution."
After all, when he thought about it carefully, both Breath of the Sun and the Meditation Guide had been rewards from forging.
And increases to his own attributes depended on it as well.
What mattered most now was breaking through the limits of his technique and forging sharper weapons.
Only then could he trigger new rewards!
If a new reward offered a way to break through the limit, he would have found a way out of his current predicament.
Whether this approach would actually work ultimately came down to... luck!
Besides, even if he broke past one hundred, where would the next limit be?
What would he do then?
And when that time came, would the