The Natural Empire of the Oceanic Dragon

Atilan said he wanted to impart the knowledge of crafting magical weapons from the Ocean Wyrm heritage to Taishan, but aside from teaching Taishan a few techniques for handling obsidian and wooden shafts that one time, their forging mini-class never convened again.

Hearing Atilan ask him to help forge obsidian weapons, Taishan excitedly waved his arms.

“That’s exactly what I wanted! I’ve been researching how to use water elements to polish obsidian and earth elements to increase its toughness, so the obsidian spearhead doesn’t shatter the moment it hits something hard.”

“I didn’t expect to actually figure something out.”

The Leopard Woman suddenly felt a sense of urgency. When you realize that a classmate who usually ranks about the same as you suddenly makes a big leap in grades, you will suddenly feel the urge to study hard as well.

Otherwise, you'll be stuck on the Iron Throne of last place until you die.

Although the Leopard Woman had begun researching shadow energy according to Atilan's suggestion, shadow energy belongs to a niche subject in the entire druid system, and it is difficult to find research materials from predecessors.

Most are biological analysis materials involving shadow creatures. Basic property analysis of shadow energy may only be found in the Scourge faction, the most extreme and least numerous in the druid system.

The Scourge faction, also known as the Death faction, advocates taking punitive measures against intelligent life that over-reproduces and breaks the balance in nature!

The simplest approach is naturally to eliminate the excess intelligent life.

“It's just not mature enough yet. I was thinking of discussing it with you again when I have time, Atilan, but it's not convenient for you to manipulate the elements for obsidian forging right now, is it?”

The Leopard Woman secretly breathed a sigh of relief. She was even prepared to ask the Bearman for some Scourge faction research materials on shadow energy. Fortunately, Taishan hasn't produced stable results yet.

She also needs to cultivate diligently and not be surpassed by Taishan!

Atilan had been paying attention to the Leopard Woman's expression. He certainly wouldn't let this woman, who took the lead in eating in front of his sickbed, off easily.

“It doesn't matter, you can just forge next to me. I'll see if I can offer any optimization suggestions. It's a good opportunity to train my perception as a druid.”

“Alright, I'll go prepare the materials now. I'll definitely give everyone an eye-opener later. Everyone should stay and give me some advice. Don't just prepare to go home after eating!”

Taishan excitedly ran off to get materials, while the Leopard Woman was a little restless.

Atilan immediately teased her.

“Although today isn't a knowledge gathering, you can still bring up any topics you want to discuss, Leopard Woman. Maybe others also have plans to research this area.”

“You!”

What topics could she possibly discuss? The elementalization of the Shadow Leopard was already a commonplace topic. The Leopard Woman couldn't propose a new research plan, so naturally, there was no way for everyone to optimize it.

Atilan knew that the Leopard Woman simply couldn't come up with a new plan in such a short time. Seeing Taishan's progress, and with his instigation, he was certain that the Leopard Woman must be feeling even worse now.

The Leopard Woman gritted her teeth and vowed to seriously study shadow energy after returning, and propose a new research plan at the next gathering to leave Atilan speechless!

The Eagle King asked curiously:

“Atilan, how did you end up like this? I feel like your injuries are much more serious than when I first tried to transform into a Storm Eagle. The Leopard Woman said you'll have to lie in the life support device for a month. Is that true?”

Don't change the subject so awkwardly. Are you secretly in love with the Leopard Woman?

“I simultaneously performed the Totem War Dance ritual of the four elements and planned to use my life force to temper and absorb the four elements, and then return it in the form of a Rain of Grace with elemental characteristics to the people participating in the ritual.”

Just simultaneously performing the Totem War Dance ritual of the four elements and rotating the four elements is complicated enough. Atilan also had to temper and return the Rain of Grace of elements that were not completely devoured.

As expected of a Dragon Druid, he dares to think and dare to do.

If they were to do it, they might fail at the step of gathering the four elements, but Atilan failed at the last step. Or rather, he didn't fail, but he just couldn't bear the cost of maintaining the ritual.

Atilan's speed of progress made all the druids present feel a sense of urgency to improve their strength.

Half a year ago, they were wondering why Master Gai'ogai wanted to take a dragon as a disciple. Now, looking at Atilan's speed of progress, not only has his druid level reached level 6, but he can also preside over such an exaggerated large-scale ritual involving thousands of people.

They all felt that they were living a little too relaxed. Has their druid level increased over the years? Have they been cultivating seriously?

It seems that it's not that they don't work hard. Most of them have been cultivating very seriously, but their talent is simply no match for a freak like Atilan.

The Totem War Dance and Lightning Tempering Body are not particularly technical. With their knowledge reserves, they can completely replicate similar secret techniques independently, but they don't have Atilan's imagination.

At this time, Taishan came running over with a large bag of obsidian and a bundle of wooden sticks on his back.

“Now I will demonstrate the forging method I discovered to everyone.”

Taishan took out a piece of obsidian twenty centimeters long from his backpack. The first step was to manipulate the earth element to reshape the obsidian, making its structure less likely to break.

At the same time, in this process, the obsidian was faintly shaped into a spearhead.

The second step was to polish the obsidian with the water element. Because Taishan had shaped the obsidian into a spearhead in advance, the polishing time was greatly shortened. In less than ten minutes, he polished out a gleaming obsidian spearhead.

“I didn't expect your skills to be surpassed by Taishan so quickly, Atilan. It seems that there are still many things you need to learn.”

Atilan also said with a smile:

“That's right, I really need to learn from Taishan, but it seems that the spear in someone's hand was still forged by me, and it only took me three days to forge it.”

“I wonder if someone's skill in making obsidian spears has improved now?”

The Leopard Woman glared at Atilan fiercely. Since losing to him, she has been on the road of planting pasture, and after planting pasture for almost two months, the Leopard Woman was surprised to find that her level of manipulating plants had increased greatly.

But she is an animal faction, and improving the level of manipulating plants does not help her advancement much!

This is actually the Leopard Woman's shallowness. Compared to other druids in the forest, the Leopard Woman is somewhat seriously specialized. Animals, plants, and elements should all be objects that druids control.

Is Atilan oppressing her?

No, he is clearly helping the Leopard Woman understand the true meaning of the druid!

After the spearhead was made, it was the turn of the wooden stick of the spear shaft to be enchanted.

These were all oak branches carefully selected by Taishan. Only simple adjustments were needed to obtain the perfect center of gravity. With the addition of extreme speed runes and return runes, a magical weapon, the obsidian throwing spear, was made.

Of course, the connection between the spearhead and the spear shaft also needs to be taken care of, otherwise, if the spearhead flies out during the battle, the face of the maker will be lost, and the life of the user will be lost.

The adhesive used was a tree sap that Taishan had selected, and earth element magic was also used to assist in the adhesion, ensuring that the spearhead would not fall off.

Everyone else was marveling at the ingenuity of this magical weapon. Such ordinary materials were used to create a fine magical spear. Taishan has become promising.

After seeing it, Atilan was thinking that the process of making the spearhead could allow the minotaur who has learned to control the earth element and the murloc who has learned to control the water element to shape and polish it separately.

The wooden stick is polished by a carpenter, so there is no need for druid spells to reshape it.

As for rune enchantment, weapons used by ordinary soldiers do not need to be enchanted.

Taishan made a magical weapon that can be thrown and used in close combat. Atilan plans to make ordinary weapons that can be mass-produced for ordinary soldiers, divided into spears for close combat and short spears for throwing.

Short throwing spears do not even need to be stabilized with the earth element. With the level of the minotaur and the murloc, they can only be used as disposable weapons, and the wooden sticks can be recycled.

“Taishan, can you give me this spear?”

The Leopard Woman looked at him eagerly. The Leopard Woman is the only druid who likes to throw spears as weapons.

Originally, Taishan didn't like to fight with weapons very much. It wasn't until he saw the obsidian serrated sword designed by Atilan that it completely conformed to his aesthetics. Compared to spears, he was actually conceiving how to create a perfect obsidian serrated sword.

Compared to a spearhead fifteen centimeters long, serrations four centimeters long and two centimeters wide are sharper and less prone to collapse after being shaped by the earth element. The wide wooden board inlaid with serrations in the middle can inscribe more powerful runes.

Even if one or two serrations collapse, the overall tolerance rate is much higher than that of a spear with more than thirty serrations.

So Taishan made a serrated sword on the spot for Atilan to give some advice.

When making a weapon that he likes, the enthusiasm that Taishan bursts out makes the finished serrated sword emit a faint magical aura intertwined with cyan and yellow, which is much stronger than the obsidian spear in the Leopard Woman's hand.

The Leopard Woman looked at the spear and then at the serrated sword.

“Taishan, you're not paying attention!”

Taishan smiled honestly and said:

“Why don't I give you this serrated sword as well.”

“Then what will you use yourself?”

Taishan smiled again and said:

“I'm not very satisfied with the quality of these weapons. My skills still have room for improvement. The weapon I use myself must naturally be the best.”

The Leopard Woman grabbed the serrated sword.

“Then thank you!”

Although she was angry, she wouldn't refuse such a good weapon for nothing!

Taishan's skills are already quite mature, and Atilan couldn't offer much advice. Instead, he talked about the idea of ​​mass-producing obsidian spears on the assembly line that he had just thought of, and asked Taishan for advice.

Taishan stroked his chin and said:

“Although the quality of the weapons made in this way is not high, they can arm soldiers on a large scale, and they can be replaced immediately if they are damaged. It seems that it is indeed a good idea.”