The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 678

The blue dragon clerics looked at each other with excitement. This was something that they could do. If they had Runecrafters trained, they could copy this and make Commander Rank weapons, as long as they were powerful enough.

It would be immensely time-consuming to provide them to the entire army, but they could provide higher quality weapons to the Academy and the new students.

Karl was thinking the same thing. He had eleven students in total, between the Acolytes and the Beast Rangers team. Eleven weapons was a day’s work, but he could manage that without any major complaints.

"Should we go further and see the extent of the capabilities of our modern steel?" Karl asked.

"It should be more durable than ancient steel, unless it was from a System Enabled period of history.

We don’t actually know when this book was written, and there hasn’t been any mention of the System in it, only of crafting skills. So, it could be from nearly any point in the past." The team leader noted.

"More durable doesn’t always mean more mana compatible, though. This alloy probably wasn’t in use at the time, so we may have to continue to study which alloys are the most suitable in the modern era." One of the others added, sparking a small argument about which alloys should be tested first, after they had their own Runecrafters trained.

Karl let them argue as he began to inscribe the other axe, making an identical copy. One of the two was going to be destroyed by the testing, and he was certain that the clerics would want one brought back as a sample for whatever sort of presentation they were going to have to give to their superiors.

The final consensus was that they might have to bring back some of the old alloys, the ones which had silver mixed into them, or other precious metals.

That was not good for the utility of a nonmagical weapon, but for one with Runes on it, the change could be critical.

By the time that they finished arguing about the answer, Karl had already finished the other weapon, and the delivery man had brought him a whole pile of short swords and daggers for the students.

"We are ready. Please begin to upgrade the blade." The clerics announced in unison, then began to laugh at their synchronized thoughts.

Karl slowly added mana density to the test weapon, and the runes began to turn from gold to a shimmering amethyst purple, which filled the carved runes like a solid gemstone.

It was absolutely exquisite.

Just as the transformation finished, Karl stopped adding more power, leaving the weapon at the lowest possible Royal Rank power level. That was enough to prove the point, and he wanted to see if the weapon was going to remain stable.

The clerics began to cast spells on it, and turn it carefully in their white gloved hands as they studied it, then one went to the phone on the wall and made a call.