The next day:
The next day I went to Steel Blood weapons shop again and took i hand five fur pelts, not the special kind, I would first need to test and see if this guy could make some armour for me.
I walked in and found Hikaru serving another customer at the time, a couple with a small child that had her face plastered onto the weapons counter staring in awe at all the weapons displayed. I saw the girl's name and wasn't surprised;
Tenten Higurashi, Weapon lover Lv- 3 REP- 0 I scoffed, even at this age she loves harp pointy things. I waited in the back while they were done, looking through a few clothes I could eventually maybe wear. When they finally left I approached Hikaru with the pelts, "hey."
The man looked down at the odd purple and white fr pelts I had in hand, "what do you want kid?"
"Can you turn this fur into leather?" I asked putting the pelts onto the counter.
The man looked at it and then me, "it'll cost you 1,000 Ryo. Each." My eyes went wide, "a thousand ryo?! For leathering something?!"
The man shrugged, "it would be a custom order, shit like that's expensive. If you don't like it, do it yourself."
And then it hit me, of course I'll just do it myself! I had a crafting skill didn't ? I took the petals back and left, heading straight to the library. I returned the books I took on kanji and grabbed the ones on leathering and metal works. It was a huge book that had both, and the moment I touched it;
Ping!
You have obtained a skill book!
Would you like to learn it?
Y/N?
I couldn't say yes, obviously. So instead I got the book's name and author name and wet to a bookstore and got my own copy. Five hundred ryo less I walked out with my own copy of them book which I ten quickly learnt;
Ping!
You have unlocked two crafting skills! Tanning- Helps convert fur into leather. Iron- Allows the crafting off iron tools. Crafting, Lv- MAX Your ability to make an object using the raw materials at hand.
Recipies known:
Fang dagger Tanning Iron Okay, now this is cool. I immediately took out a pelt and touched the tanning option on the crafting menu. Only:
Ping! You cannot craft leather without using the appropriate items needed for tanning!
Fuck me! Seriously?! Dman it, and when I just thought things were going my way! The amount of machinery needed to tan leather was phenomenal! I can't just fucking build it on my roof! Or...no, won't ever work.
I sighed, so now I need to find a tanning place that would let me use its tools, sounds perfect. I looked around the village and found a tanner near the outskirts of the village outside the giant walls.
I told the owner I just wanted to see around and the man refused, so I had to pay him a thousand ryo for that privilege. He didn't ask any questions.
I went inside and looked around, finding the first contraction needed for leather, the lime baths. I approached it and immediately a menu popped open; Tanning:
Available80 fur pelts 1 rare cat fur pelt 1 fire proof pelt I selected the a single fur pelt and suddenly the pelt disappeared from my inventory and instead in it's place a leather sheet, perfectly square, around 10 inches in length. I grinned, perfect.
I then turned my attention to the two special pelts I had, I choose to use the fire proof pelt first, just incase it lost its property when tanning, I didn't want to risk losing the +5 STR bonus from the rare cat fur pelt.
And instantly I got a brand new leather sheet, 15 inches in length and it still had it's properties! I nearly squealed in joy seeing the menu say that! Ping!
Your skill has leveled up!
Observation, Lv-5 (1%) The skill to learn about an object or person by observing them.
Kind of random, but okay. I quickly converted half of my remaining pelts into leather sheets and the rare cat fur into leather as well. I walked out of the tanner smiling, the owner couldn't understand why because as far as he knew I just stood there for five minutes poking the air.
Now I needed to make this into a useable armour piece and for that I decided to go to a smith I knew was across the tanning factory and asked the man in charge whether he could make items with the leather I hade. Luckily, he could.
It costed me 10,000 Ryo but I think in the end it was worth it. I had the man make the rare cat fur into a large cowl with a removable face mask and hood. I had him make it size adjustable since I would eventually grow up and I intend to be using this thing for as long as possible.
The fire proof leather on the other hand I asked to be made into vambraces with a detachable metal plate covering my forearm. The leather strips holding together could be easily reforged and the metal plated replaced if needed.
Over all he promised to have it all ready in a month's time, which was just fine with me.
Funny thing being an eight year old kid, time just seemed to fly by you when you blink. I spent most days in school forced to listen to boring old lecture or playing outside with Naruto, who honestly became less and less like a character I admire and someone who seems like a good friend to me.
By the end of the first school year his REP score reached 83, the highest I ever saw on someone. We became close, like brothers. People used to say when the blonde goes the shadow is forced along...or something like that.
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