East Meet West

98- Hypothesis

‘ding’

‘Host please name the knife.’

I thought for few moments but damn it, the novels that I have read, and all the mighty weapon names from it are coming to my brain like ‘Heaven Cleaver’, ‘Heaved destroyer’, ‘God killer’, ’Immortal slayer’. And prefix and suffixes like – Heaven, destroy, dragon, thunder, light, etc. Are just popping up.

But if I name the knife something like - [God’s throat slicer] or [Demon’s bone knife], even I would get ashamed to call it out and if someone finds out this name, then I will have to commit suicide by drowning in a bucket of water.

After thinking for a few minutes, I decided to name it as- ‘The First Product’

To be honest, I am bad in the ‘naming department’ and I felt that naming it in simple terms would be way cooler than making it complicated. Of course, this is what I found in my previous life- To keep it simple.

‘ding’

‘Knife has been successfully named as [The First Product].’

After that, I used the ‘Observation’ skill on the knife,

‘ding’

Name: The First Product

Weapon Type: Knife

Stats:

+1 Strength

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“Huh?”

“That’s it?”

“Just one stat and that too strength stat increased by 1?”

“Is this a joke?”

Well, I guess that's what you get for using a metal like bronze and being an amateur in this profession.

Well at least I got the job and in the future using more good materials, I can build weapons with more good stats.

Thinking about this, I felt refreshed.

I looked at the [Black Smith] job proficiency and found that it has risen to 21.32%.

After that, I took back all the things in the ‘Storage box’ and started walking back to my room.

Yeah, I could just continue making another weapon, but if I am away for so long, then the people will start looking for me and then the thing that I had been trying to be secretive about would be exposed and I will be facing new problems. So, instead of all that hassle, I went back to my room and spent the rest of the day with my usual routine.

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The next day, I woke up due to the knock on the door and it was a guard who asked me to follow her to meet Sheela and Bertha.

As usual, the second stage of the procedure continued, and Bertha sucked some blood, and I went back to my room.

After returning to my room, I rested for an hour, but I decided not to make weapons because this where most of the characters with special power or secrets make mistakes.

Usually, he/she will go to some secret place with no living beings in the area. And there they practice or work on their secret or special powers. And since they are missing every day, someone gets a doubt and will follow him/her, and that will lead to secret or special power exposure.

Now, I don’t want others to find anything related to me, so I will lay low for now and continue to work on making weapons later.

But while I was free, I was pondering over the fact- Why did I get the ‘Blacksmith’ job and not the other jobs like ‘Swordsmanship’ or ‘Spearman ship’ or ‘Martial Artist’ or any other job.

What was missing?

Did I do something wrong?

Or did I miss some key conditions?

What is lacking?

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Like this, a week was over and my daily routine – Waking up, Letting Bertha suck my blood, resting for an hour, lunch, meeting Armelia and teasing her once in a while, spending / to be precise wasting 2-3 hours in thinking about the key that was missing [Related to getting a job], dinner and sleep. Continued.

I did not touch the blacksmith job because I felt that I needed to understand the key point, which made the system unlock the [Blacksmith] job.

As for getting stronger by leveling up, it is out of the question. Because the area where I currently am is occupied by affiliated and Subsidiary tribes. And I might kill someone from them and that will create disputes which will lead to more problems. Or they might just capture me and treat me as a snack. Plus, I don’t think, I would be able to kill any monster easily, unlike when I was in the outer area, where I was able to kill most of the monsters, here the monsters are strong. So, it's risky.

I cannot cultivate because the poison has yet to be eliminated. And the current progress of antibodies has only reached 1.02%. which means that I have to wait for a long time.

Hence, my daily routine does not have many tasks or events in it.

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While I was walking in the Lamia tribe, I reached the training grounds of the lamia tribe.

The training grounds are practically used for training the young children of the Lamia tribe.

Although, it might look like Lamia’s are all females and so, they will not have much combat ability. But I would say that it is an understatement.

Because the first thing that has to be remembered is – they belong to the monster family. Hence, they are inherently stronger than humans at the same level. And they have intelligence too, which is a lethal combination.

But the most lethal thing about Lamias is that they have mental powers. In a fight, if the opponent gives off a small flaw, then that one flaw is enough to decide his life and death. And Lamia’s have the ability to disturb the opponent’s mentality which creates a flaw and then he/she can only wait for death.

Lamia’s mental power depends on its cultivation level. Normally, Lamia’s mental power can only create a small disturbance when in combat, so they have to take quick action when the opponent exposes his flaw. But this is where the Lamia’s short coming is – they have low mobility.

For a Lamia to transform into a human form, one has to reach the Royalty realm. And according to my investigation, there are only 4-6 Royalty realms within the Lamia tribe. With Sheela being the strongest. And other Lamia’s below the Royalty realm can only transform into human form with the help of transformation herbs and medicines.

While in human form, Lamia’s retain 70-80 % of the original strength and combat ability. And in monster form, they are at 100% but their mobility is sacrificed. Because they have tails which makes it harder for them to move around while fighting. But this is only a shortcoming that is overcome by their mental ability.

And I also heard that if the difference in level is high, then Lamia’s have the ability to hypnotize and control their opponent, which is the worse situation for the opponent in a fight.

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