Alexa Drey- Hero Hunting by Ember Lane

Author:Ember Lane [Lane, Ember]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781983290459
Publisher: Ember Lane Books
Published: 2018-05-04T22:00:00+00:00

My magic was gray—the same as Sakina’s. It poured into the mixture until the liquid became like quicksilver. Jack lofted his eyebrows.

Congratulations! You show great promise. You have crafted your first mana-infused potion. You have leveled up. You are now crafting, level 4.

One level to go until I’m done with it, I thought, but was secretly pleased by the skill advancement. I also noticed that my poultice and potions skill had jumped a load of progress percent points—that had leveled last night too—when I’d made Krakus’s healing potions.

Jack poured the potion into a half-dozen tubes, colored the top half silver and half black and replaced one of the yellow-topped ones.

“Your one is…more suited to you than my mixture, shall we say.” He slid the belt away again. “There’s one more thing that I can teach you and that concerns metals and...weapons? There are a number of things you can do to enhance simple weapons. Have you got any? Your sword certainly can’t be classed as normal, nor your staff. Do you have anything else?”

I thought about bringing out the Black Knight’s dagger, but decided it wasn’t worth the dirty look that was bound to follow.

“Nope, they all seem to have their own…uniqueness.”

Jack appeared to accept that and reached across me picking up a dull copper knife. “Have this,” he said. “I used it to mold a knife holster in your boot.”

Neat, I thought. He handed me the knife, and I turned it over and over. It was dull, lifeless, and had no stats of any kind. “So, what can we do with it?”

“You? Alas, not a vast amount. You’d need crafting level 10 to be able to imbue any kind of stat into the metal, but you can manipulate it. So...” And he took the knife back, drawing it across the wooden countertop. “See? See how blunt it is. Now, let’s say you’re…”

“Hanging off my cliff?”

He laughed, and I knew that was a rare thing.

I took a sip of my cool honeyed tea. “No cliff?”

“No cliff, but this is important. Say you’re in some sticky situation and all you have with you is this blunt knife. How can crafting help you?” He ran two fingers along the knife’s blade. “Remember I told you that you could manipulate certain types of metal at level 3. Well, that was a simplification. You can manipulate copper or lead, gold or silver quite a lot—because they’re soft metals. Titanium and scarletite…hardly at all—too tough. A little bit more with every level, though.”

“So how does it help me?”

He handed the knife back to me. “Run your fingers along the blade and imagine it becoming sharp, imagine a fine edge running all the way to its point.”

I did just that, staring at it, willing it like he’d taught.

“Ouch!” I said, as I felt it slice into my thumb. Looking down, I saw my scarlet blood run along its edge. I cursed, and ran my bloodied thumb back along the blade, trying to clean it off, but

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