My Professions Have Too Much Personality-Chapter 162 - 115: Craftsmanship Department, Becoming a Soldier Nurturer

Chapter 162: Chapter 115: Craftsmanship Department, Becoming a Soldier Nurturer

"Is he trying to avoid it?" Liu Chen commented.

He Kang had spoken with Su Chen a few times and didn’t think he was the type to run from a challenge. "No, I doubt he’d hold off on his promotion just because he might get challenged."

A glint appeared in Liu Chen’s eyes. "Who cares. If he wants to be a prickly character and stay aloof, he’d better have the strength to back it up."

Wei Yufan glanced over and said coolly, "Watch yourself."

...

The conflict among the four Core Seeds grew increasingly intense. As time went on, some Inner Court Seeds who had been suppressed for years finally made their move after observing several battles.

Two months after the challenge-based ranking system was introduced, the third-ranked Core Seed—Liang Jingcheng—was defeated in a grueling battle by the Inner Court Seed, Feng Zi.

This caused a massive uproar, as he was the first Inner Court Seed to successfully challenge a Core Seed.

Chong Jingtian himself appeared on the scene to congratulate him on becoming a new Core Seed. Even Su Chen went out to take a look.

The others finally came to the stark realization that the Core Seed positions were truly no longer secure. Even after holding the title for seven or eight years, one could still be unseated.

Feng Zi had once been a member of Liang Jingcheng’s own faction, making this a case of internal strife. This caused considerable turmoil within the small group. Liang Jingcheng’s staunchest supporters left, and his faction was severely weakened.

The coronation of a "new king" further ignited the ambitions of many Inner Court Seeds.

What followed was a series of even more pressing challenges. Several truly powerful Inner Court Seeds made their moves, and Ming Lin and the other two had to endure several grueling battles, coming close to defeat.

In the end, however, they managed to defend their positions.

Faced with the resilience of the veteran Seeds, many turned their attention to the two fledgling new Seeds. Countless people were waiting for them to advance to Tier Three so they could be challenged and overthrown!

Su Chen, however, was unconcerned with the turmoil outside. Every day felt like a repeat of the last: forging... resting, resting... forging.

On this particular day, he brought his hammer down, and the crimson Gold Ore let out a crisp sound.

Su Chen froze. His Spiritual Power surged out of control, and the dark brown particles scattered on the floor began to tremble uncontrollably.

[Heart Burning Meditation Method has been upgraded to Master Level. Ability Gained—Burning Chant Boiling Fire: Imbues abilities derived from Spiritual Power with the properties of the Fire Element.]

His Meditation Technique had reached Master Level. Su Chen breathed a sigh of relief, reining in his growing Spiritual Power.

He glanced at his status panel—

[Wind and Thunder Envoy: 70%]

[Secret Thought Master: 85%]

[E-level Thunder Brilliance Body Refining Technique—Mastery: 60%]

’The progress for Secret Thought Master is almost maxed out. On the other hand, because of all the recent forging, my Body Refining Technique has fallen behind quite a bit.’

’Time to switch to a new Meditation Technique...’

Su Chen stopped what he was doing, first turning off the gravity field before taking out his wristband from his storage space to pull up some files.

With his current clearance, he could freely access any E-level Training Technique.

The Meditation Technique he selected this time was called [Cloud Breath Meditation Technique], which could enhance one’s spiritual acuity.

It involved carefully holding one’s breath and visualizing one’s Spiritual Power spreading out like a formless, omnipresent mist.

After getting a basic grasp of it, Su Chen resumed swinging the large hammer. His progress on the material refinement requirement had already reached 98%. He could finish it tonight at the earliest, or by tomorrow morning at the latest.

Perhaps because his goal was so close, his movements became much faster. Just after midnight, Su Chen tossed the Cyan Gold Hammer aside.

"Finally... it’s over."

Su Chen took a deep breath, feeling a great sense of relief.

’He didn’t find forging fun at all. After nearly a month of it, he just found it incredibly tedious. If the Soldier Nurturer profession hadn’t been dangling in front of him, he would have quit long ago.’

’Change my profession!’

Su Chen could hardly wait. In an instant, he felt as if his head had been struck by a heavy blow. A massive amount of knowledge was forcibly shoved into his mind: the properties of various metal materials, temperature control, the angle of a hammer strike, and so on...

The knowledge-based requirements for the profession had been bypassed, and now, the information was being force-fed to him instead.

[Soldier Nurturer Profession Change complete. Ability Gained—Soldier Nurturing Skill: You can nurture weapons and, by consuming double the materials, cause them to evolve.

Note: The number of weapons that can be nurtured is determined by your Spiritual Profession’s Tier.]

"Double the materials..." Su Chen kneaded his brow. ’My guess was right.’ According to the Translation Department’s files, upgrading a weapon via a Soldier Nurturer would require at least three to four times the normal amount in extra materials.

’But I only need to use double, and it’s probably because of the key factor of doing it "by hand."’

’Perhaps... it’s not that no one else has discovered this, but personally forging a hundred tons of raw materials using my method would take half a year, or even longer.’

’Most people probably aren’t willing to waste that much time.’

[Bonus Reward Triggered: Material consumption for Soldier Nurturing Skill upgrades is halved.]

More text appeared on the panel, and Su Chen’s eyes lit up. ’I almost forgot about this bonus reward.’

’The upgrade cost is halved again? Does this mean it’s cheaper for me to upgrade a weapon than it is for a Weapon Master?’

’Normally, upgrading a weapon via forging consumes 1.2 to 1.5 times the theoretical amount of materials due to various losses, and that’s not even including "labor fees" and such.’

’This way, I’ll actually save a lot of resources and energy.’ Su Chen was in a good mood; his efforts over this period had not been in vain.

"Let’s try it... this so-called nurturing..." Su Chen took the Cyan Rope out of his storage space. "I’ve heard that it takes some time to fully nurture a weapon... Huh?"

He froze as a stream of information flooded his mind—

"...Forged from cyan-steel alloy, upgrade requires refined gold as the main material, supplemented with Spirit Essence Fiber..."

’This... the nurturing is already complete?’ Su Chen was stunned.

His expression shifted as he understood.

’Nurturing for an upgrade can be understood simply as a type of magic activated by Spiritual Power. The essence of nurturing is to thoroughly imbue the weapon with Spiritual Power to understand its properties...’

’But I’ve already turned them into Secret Artifacts, which are highly compatible with my Spiritual Power, so I can skip the nurturing step entirely.’

’Tsk, what a fantastic synergy.’ Su Chen’s mood improved even more. This would save him a great deal of time.

’These materials aren’t too rare...’ Su Chen estimated. ’However, to upgrade them to Tier Three, my Spiritual Profession also has to be Tier Three.’

’No need to rush, though. It’s just around the corner. I’ll have the Gu Family start preparing first.’

’First, let’s get this Forging Furnace out of here. I can finally train properly again.’

As his gaze fell upon the Forging Furnace, however, he thought back to when he was refining the materials. ’Hmm... the force I used was a bit too much, and the interval between strikes could have been a little longer. The Gold Ore is... ’

As he kept thinking, Su Chen’s face darkened. ’What is this crap? I’m not going to be a Blacksmith.’

It was the knowledge that came with the Soldier Nurturer profession, making him subconsciously recall his previous mistakes.

’I won’t need Jiang Xi to deliver any more materials. The Craftsmanship Department will probably just think I lost patience and didn’t want to continue, they won’t think too much of it.’

It wasn’t long before dawn, so Su Chen decided to take a shower and had No. Zero prepare a hearty breakfast. He was genuinely a bit hungry.

While he ate, Su Chen listened to the news summary from No. Zero.

"Ming Lin was almost defeated, too?" Su Chen raised an eyebrow. "The Inner Court Seeds really are full of crouching tigers and hidden dragons."

To this day, the position of Chief Seed remained undecided, while the positions of the other Core Seeds were hanging by a thread.

After he finished eating, an unexpected visitor arrived.

"Du Yu?"

Su Chen was quite surprised. He invited him in; it had been a while since the two had seen each other.

"Brother Su, you should get out and socialize sometimes. It’s not good to just train all the time." Du Yu was familiar with Su Chen’s habits. He, Zhang Hengyu, and a few others from Southwind often got together.

"I’m used to it," Su Chen said, then asked, "Are you... here at the Judicial Court for work?"

People from the Inspectorate couldn’t enter the Judicial Court without permission.

"No, Vice Minister Cheng gave me clearance to come find you and pass on a message." Du Yu sat down on the sofa, pressing his palm against the cushion.

"Cheng Lang?" Only then did Su Chen remember the man’s previous recruitment attempt.

’All that clanging must have rattled my brain, I almost forgot about this,’ he muttered to himself before hearing Du Yu continue, "He invites you to meet at the Translation Department."

"Alright, I understand." Su Chen nodded. ’My Secret Technique Energy Crystal and the Thunder Core will probably have to come from this Cheng Lang.’

Du Yu was envious. Vice Minister Cheng was a major figure in the Inspectorate, and even in all of Ying Feng.

A personal invitation from him had only earned a simple "I understand" from Su Chen.