Flocking Like Ducks

“Forget it. I’ll just wait until I enter the game later, then open my backpack and look through everything slowly.”

So he waited quietly as the pure white space around him gradually faded away.

After a few dozen seconds, Chen Zixuan was teleported to the resurrection plaza in the Main City.

Although it wasn’t yet seven in the morning, there were already quite a few players around Chen Zixuan, all seemingly eager to claim their game maintenance rewards.

Familiar with this entire process by now, Chen Zixuan quickly donned the Nightcloak and headed purposefully toward a less crowded street.

He wasn’t about to let himself get caught on the spot by that group of fanatical players right after logging in.

A few minutes later, Chen Zixuan arrived at the inn where he often stayed previously. With practiced ease, he checked in at the counter, and only after entering the room on the second floor and locking the door did the silver-haired girl under the hood finally let out a sigh of relief.

Ever since playing this game, he’d had to move carefully every day. He finally understood what celebrities must feel like when traveling incognito.

He undid his cloak with one hand and sat on the bed, opening his backpack to look for the flintlock pistol blueprint he’d just seen.

There was a lot in his backpack, almost everything imaginable, but only a couple of items were purple, so with just a glance, Chen Zixuan found the system-rewarded blueprint.

However, when he opened the details of the blueprint, his facial expression immediately became a bit strange.

[“Gorgeous Highborn Vampire Flintlock Pistol”

Blueprint]

Usable at Lv.15 and above

Class restriction: Vampire Prince

Rarity: Epic

Type: Secondary Weapon

Materials Required: High-grade Mithril (0/5); Heart of Bloodthirsty Tree (0/1)……

Chen Zixuan was aware of secondary professions, but this was the first he’d heard of a secondary weapon mechanic.

Could this be part of the recent game update? From now on, will this world of sword and magic be transformed into the age of firearms?

It might be fine for ranged classes, but for melee classes to abandon cold weapons and just pull out pistols and shoot at each other… That would be wild.

However, after only a few seconds, Chen Zixuan dismissed this unrealistic idea.

As far as he knew, every class in this game had its own unique weapons. The Vampire Prince could use the assassin’s “dagger”, but the assassin could not use the Prince’s “short blade”—it should be the same for secondary weapons.

Besides, it wasn’t even clear if other players had unlocked secondary weapons at all yet. On the bright side, maybe he was the only one who’d unlocked a secondary weapon—which was this flintlock pistol, crafted like a work of art.

If others were still using cold weapons or chanting with staves, and he could simply pull out a gun—it was thrilling just to imagine.

Times have changed, my lord!

He closed the interface and made up his mind: if he could gather enough materials, he would definitely craft this secondary weapon!

By then, his combat power would surely rise by more than one tier.

A few minutes passed. Gu Yanxi still hadn’t come online, so Chen Zixuan decided not to wait any longer.

Now, with materials, level, and secondary profession all in place, plus the new “Weapon Master” title’s extra 5% success rate, he wanted to see today if he could craft the [Rose Maid] set.

Of course, he only had enough materials for one attempt—if he failed, it’d be gone, and gathering everything again would take who knows how long.

So, he had to make sure it succeeded in one go, with no mistakes.

Still, this was his first time forging equipment, and he had no clue what to expect, so after a moment’s hesitation, Chen Zixuan decided to try forging with Dawn’s Light and Yuewu’s blueprints first.

Since both of them were team captains, as soon as the game updated, they eagerly logged in, and both were currently online.

Right after he messaged them privately, Yuewu replied almost instantly.

【Yuewu: Sister, where are you! I’ll bring the materials over right now!】

Seeing this greeting, Chen Zixuan was a bit speechless. If he’d known, he wouldn’t have messaged this woman.

You’re the sister—your whole family are sisters.

Still, as required of a guinea pig, he made allowances, and obediently sent over the inn’s location.

Thinking further, Chen Zixuan added a note.

【Cecilia: Bring two sets of materials, please.】

He didn’t believe those well-funded teams had only one set of materials—they’d surely have contingencies.

Anyway, for now, he was the only grandmaster-level forging master in the entire game. With such wealth delivered to his door, why not take advantage? If they brought two sets and he succeeded at once, he’d simply profit the spare set.

As expected, Yuewu quickly replied with an OK.

Shortly after, Dawn’s Light messaged too, and Chen Zixuan told him to bring two sets as well.

Dawn’s Light had no problem with this; he knew it was Cecilia’s first time forging gear, so mistakes were normal, and he agreed readily.

A dozen or so minutes later, the two of them arrived at the inn one after the other.

Thanks to Cecilia, the two had both reached level 11 over the past couple of days. With higher levels, their previous equipment’s stats had instantly fallen behind, and Yuewu, who had never used a set before, was especially eager for an upgrade.

In addition, having sharply sensed that Chen Zixuan and Gu Yanxi’s relationship was unusual, Yuewu specially gathered a set of [Hymn Class Novice Nun] materials in private for flattery’s sake. Though they weren’t very valuable, some materials were rare and saved Chen Zixuan a fair bit of time.

Handing over all the materials and blueprints to Chen Zixuan without a word, the two simply left together—there was much to explore in the game right after a big update.

Switching his [Noble of the Dark] title for [Weapon Master], Chen Zixuan left the inn and headed for the nearest weapons shop.

He needed to rent a forge workshop to complete the upcoming forging.

With [Weapon Master] being a unique title, Chen Zixuan didn’t worry about any other forging masters reaching grandmaster rank—such was the benefit of being the world’s first grandmaster player. Even if another grandmaster forging master did appear, there’d be no comparison.

With this unique title, any weapon he forged would have its success rate and attack increased by 5%. Though it sounded like only 5%, at later stages, when materials were extremely precious and stats improved even more, this 5% would matter greatly.

Chen Zixuan nearly forgot—he’d also acquired the [Vampire Artisan’s Glamorous Forging] skill, so the durability, attack, and magic of all his gear would increase by another 20%.

They may use the same blueprints and same materials, but with this 25% boost, gear he crafted would always be the very best of its level.

That alone was enough to make countless people flock to him in droves, utterly mad for what he could produce.

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