Karl’s idea was to make a fresh new skill for him, but one that both Dana and Rae would appreciate once he was finished with it.
If he combined [Shadow Step] or [Teleport] with [Invisibility] or [Ghost Beast], he should get an ambush skill that allowed instant movement either while remaining unseen, or with the ability to move through walls.
All of the options were good ones, so Karl started to mentally formulate the spell while he put the weapons away, and the others in the room started to plan how they were going to obtain more of the weapons to bribe Karl with.
Immortal Craftsmen had very little motivation to make things for others, most of the time.
If they were truly poor, they would sell things that they made, but that was usually at a market or to the Hall. They rarely took custom orders unless they wanted something very specific in return.
In Karl’s case, they knew what he wanted, weapons that grew with their wielder.
The crowd began to disperse, so Karl kept working on the new skill, while sketching plans for the basic runes to go on the weapons.
The customer was a Ninja, so he was a fast-moving stealth Rogue type class. Bonuses to stealth and agility seemed more important than standard damage bonuses, but Karl decided to add one more item, just make them spicy.
Ambush Damage to targets. It would give the first strike a huge burst of damage, even if it didn’t matter for the rest of the battle.
Rae nodded in appreciation. Ambush Damage was excellent. But she thought that instead of a new skill, Karl should give the weapon Devastate.
[Devastate] Strikes dealing more than ten percent of the target’s health do double damage.
With that and Ambush damage, that first strike would rapidly turn into an instant kill skill. She could just have Karl add the new skills to weapons for her to use in humanoid form.
No need to give them to strangers.
Karl edited the runes for the weapons. If he put [Devastate] on one weapon, and [Shatter] on the other, to cause bonus damage on hit, then linked the two, the bonuses would resonate, and in theory, you should get an extra bonus for using both at once.
The Alchemy Shop workers silently stared at the runes Karl was scribbling all over the page, wondering what language it was in.
Then, he took out the two blades and began drawing on them with a paint pen, the sort that blacksmiths used to outline cuts. That seemed strange, and the paint shimmered in the light as Karl drew all over the weapons.
Seemingly satisfied, he put the weapons away three hours later.
He didn’t want to finish them in front of others, but he could tell that the final effect should be just what he wanted. A resonant set of blades to be used as a pair.
Just after dark, the others left, and Karl was alone with just the bunnies in the building, so he took the blades back out and used [Ghostfire] to etch the runes into the blade.
A final flow of mana caused the lights in the Alchemy Hall to flicker, and Karl learned that Runecrafting evolving weapons of this grade was far more mana intensive than even Mythic Weapons had been.


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