Black Wind stared at Abel passing the soul potions to Rib Bone No.1 with its eyes wide open. How come it didn’t get anything? He began to ruthlessly rub his head against Abel.

“Now now, Black Wind, don’t be naughty. I’ll make sure to put aside your share!” Abel felt like a parent lying to a kid about tooth fairies. He had to constantly comfort Black Wind.

Abel left Black Wind and White Cloud 3 bottles of ‘soul potion’ each, so he could do anything he wanted with the 6 bottles he had left. In the past, he felt inclined to drink these soul potions because of how beneficial they were to the mind. However, now he realized that not drinking these soul potions was even more of a waste since their power could not be fully utilized.

Regardless, he should still be studying something with his time. He had the 2 recipes from Master Mara, and most of the “Introductions to Crafting Magic Staff” had not been looked into too deeply.

In the next couple of days, Abel drank down 10 bottles of soul potions, virtually refining the ‘healing potion’ and ‘poison antidote potion’ recipes from Master Mara. Although he had not physically made any of them into real potions, he was confident that he had the recipe under his belt.

He had also grasped a special spell called the “soul gather” from the “Introductions to Crafting Magic Staff”. This spell had not appeared on the skill tree after he learned it, so it seemed like he had just wasted those potions. The single spell was incredibly difficult to learn, and it had taken him 5 bottles of ‘soul potion’.

Abel had finally understood why the making of magic staff required a Blacksmith Master and a Wizard after leaning ‘soul gather’. In order to get the soul of an official soul beast, it had to be killed. Only wizards could kill official soul beasts, so only wizards could use soul harvest to get souls from the official soul beast.

The soul also needed to be put in the magic staff during the construction of it. And that also needed to be done by the wizard, so you could say without a wizard, a magic staff couldn’t be made.

At the same time, only the expertise of a Blacksmith Master could make expensive metals and ingredients into a magic staff.

Not every Blacksmith was as lucky as Abel, who was able to get enough blank magic staffs to use as a carrier for an official soul beast. Therefore, making a magic staff that the Holy Continent had considered as very powerful.

Similarly, without proper requirements, Abel was only able to virtually practice how to make the magic staff.

Soon, it came time to leave the Dark world. Although 2 out of 10 soul potions’ effect had been wasted, Abel didn’t feel bad about it. The improvement in power was quite noticeable.

Abel took out the attribute sign from his Kong Kong spirit portal bag. His attributes were displayed on the sign after a stream of white light appeared.

Power: 22.84

Speed: 6.50

Constitution: 17.02

Will: 41

/54

Mana: 530

/530 (the Bahamut Vampire’s Ring 120Mana)

After becoming a commander, his power, speed, and constitution had been raised considerably. Constitution had also been raised because he had risen in ranks as a knight, breaking the 15 point bottleneck.

Because the dark gold rank magic staff ‘Bane Ash’ was a two-handed magic staff, it was usually kept in his portal bag. If it was equipped, mana would be improved to 560.

Finally, it was the magic staff dropped by the fallen shaman, though only 25 had been recovered, others were destroyed in the battle. Some of them were also broken, to begin with, and some more had been whipped out by Bishibosh’s self destruct. The Fallen shamans were concentrated around Bishibosh. Therefore, there weren’t many magic staffs that could be recovered.

Abel threw one of the staff in the Horadric Cube:

Short staff (common)

Durability: 19-20

2 point Firebolt

50% damage to undead

There wasn’t much interest in white rarity magic staff, though 2 firebolt was alright, it was paled in comparison to the Bane Ash’s 5.

Abel identified the magic staff one by one, throwing them into the Horadric Cube afterward.

In the end, 10 of them were blank, one had 3 firebolt, 3 had 2 firebolt, and the others had 1 firebolt.

He had hoped to get one with an official wizard spell attached, ideally an attacking spell. But out of the 25 magic staff, none of them had an official wizard spell.

Abel was getting disappointed, but he noticed Rib Bone no.2 awkwardly standing aside. It had a magic staff stuck in his ribs. How did it get there? Abel commanded Rib Bone no.2 to come to his side with his power of the will and carefully removed the staff.

This staff was unique, having a small indentation on its tip. He’d guessed that it was just another Fallen shaman magic staff with a socket.

Most of the equipment from the Dark World had sockets, and they usually have all sorts of gems and patterns on them. This gave them different attributes and runes. The best equipment was the one with a ‘rune word’.

‘Rune word’ was a special system of ordering specific runes in a specific order. When those runes had been installed with a correct onto equipment with socket, it could give it a lot of special bonus attributes. Afterward, the item could also be identified as dark gold. Therefore, a ‘rune word’ would give your weapon a special name and great power.

Abel opened the Horadric Cube and threw the staff inside:

Staff (Common) (1)

Durability: 18-20

50% damage to undead

sockets(1)

This was an attribute-less Fallen shaman magic staff. Other than the 50% undead damage bonus, it had no attributes. But despite that, Abel still formed an interest in it, since it was his first equipment with a socket.

Previously when Abel was making magic equipment, he would open up a socket on them. However, those sockets were not recognized by the Horadric Cube. This also meant that it was not recognized by the Dark World as sockets for gems and runes. Though the sockets he made could also harvest the powers of some magic gems, it was not suitable for a rune word. He would make equipment with Runeword. If a socket was not recognized as sockets for runes by the Horadric Cube, the power of Runewords would definitely not be able to be activated.

Abel inspected the socket thoroughly, as a Blacksmith Master, he was confident in replicating the socket of this Fallen Shaman magic cane. All he needed to do is to compare the sockets he made in the past to the ones recognized by the Horadric Cube.

In his eyes, the socket on the staff seemed insignificant, just like a socket that had been made really smooth. But when it is inspected in more detail, the socket is made from intricately placed lines, barely noticeable by the naked eye.

Using his power of the will, the lines inside the socket was actually a complicated rune net. Such intricacies on a common white item had completely exceeded his expectations, perhaps equipment in the Dark World was far superior to the ones in the Holy Continent.

His newfound confidence in his forging had just been utterly crushed by the equipment from the Dark World.