Shane had the same opinion as Jason. He had already been able to purify a common grade-3 ore, to some extent after Solaris, the black origin flame had evolved!
As such, now that his mana eyes, mana perception and control received a substantial increase in their capabilities, Jason should be able to purify Yvaldranite- and Affanyr ore.
Adding the fact that Jason and his soulbonds obtained a stigma through the primal Celestia bloodline awakening, which enhanced every aspect that had to do with mana! With that being said, Shane would be disappointed in his disciple if he were to fail.
It sounded ridiculous after thinking about it, but Shane couldn't see Jason as a youth anymore.
Jason's blacksmith capabilities were already higher than his own...and he had learned how to forge for more than 200 years, while his disciple had just started!!
Shane was extremely envious about almost everything Jason had, whether it was his talent, his eyes, or his magnificent soul, however, instead of loathing his disciple because of that, Shane gave his best to help Jason to become stronger.
The dangers humanity had to face in the next few years would be numerous and chaotic but Shane was confident that Jason played an important, if not the most important role to solve everything.
Yet, in order to face those who were stronger than Jason, he would have to be stronger.
Shane couldn't help much to improve Jason's mana absorption and he was unable to support him in many other things.
There was only one exception! He should forge one of the strongest, if not the most powerful weapon ever made by humans for Jason! This would increase his combat prowess drastically.
Adding that Shane wanted to forge a soul weapon for Jason, it would grow with his disciple's increase of strength and maybe even exceed its limits.
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "64ce79d606107d003c23ea27", id: "pf-5140-1"})Under normal circumstances, soul weapons were bound to their material limitations, but that was not the case with all of them! There were a few exceptions and Shane wanted to apply all of them at once!
If the materials used were perfectly refined, a material would receive a huge, qualitative leap in its characteristics.
Meanwhile, if one's soul was integrated into the whole forging process, from the beginning to the end, the soul weapon would adjust itself perfectly to the wielder.
Other than that, there had also been the possibility that nurturing a soul- weapon/armor/accessory might create a mutation, forcefully increasing the weapon's quality and material limit by a small margin!
For the latter part, the first case about perfectly refined materials had to apply too! As such it was important to purify the used ores, perfectly!
Adding the Mayrod Soul wood that was considered the strongest, yet very dangerous material to produce a soul weapon with, Shane was confident that Jason would receive a huge increase in his combat prowess.
That was if everything worked according to the plan he had in mind since the Big clan gathering had been announced.
Every kingdom was filled with war and one could say that the Shandra country that was governed by the Shiabi clan was the most peaceful right now. There were only a few other big clans that were able to hold up against the onslaught of foreign races.
However, this was because there was an unknown race supporting the Shiabi clan. Shane hadn't heard anything about that race and neither had anyone else, except those who belonged to the Shiabi clan.
Everyone remained silent and nobody knew how many individuals from the unknown foreign race resided within the Shandra country or what their true plan was.
The only certain fact was that Shandra country's citizens were safe and Shane was sure that this had something to do with the unknown race and the fact that the Shiabi clan was in contact with them!
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "64cc9e79c7059f003e4ad4b0", id: "pf-5109-1"})Nevertheless, Shane and Dalia felt that the situation within the Shandra country was completely different from every other country and it was like the mysterious foreign race was genuinely helping the Shaibi clan.
If that was truly the case, there had to be something important the Shiabi clan possessed which nobody knew about.
Furthermore, it shouldn't have anything to do with human trafficking or something similar to that.
This was important because Shane and Dalia had carefully thought about every single step they were taking.
It was already a difficult decision to decide which country on Canir they should visit, stay or even support once forging the soul weapon was done.
In the end, there were multiple big clans, Shane wanted to support because they had been good to him when he was pursued by the alliance of other big clans, however, he was unertain whether they were still like before or if something about them had changed!
There were too many unknown factors about the soul contracts some big clans had formed with the foreign races and it wouldn't be surprising if some clans had been forced to wage war against other races.
As such, the Shandra country seemed to be the most reliable one right now and Shane felt like supporting the Shiabi clan that had already received support from a mysterious race might be the best way.
The Shiabi clan had defended Shane and even tried to protect him to a certain degree, at the time he had been pursued.
One could say that many facts pointed towards helping the Shiabi clan but on the other hand, there could always be ill-intentions behind goodwill!
Turning to Haepha, Shane couldn't help but shrug his shoulders as he said
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "663633fa8ebf7442f0652b33", id: "pf-8817-1"})"You've heard Jason, if he is confident, why shouldn't he try it. I won't be able to purify it perfectly, but that doesn't mean he is unable to perfect purify them!"
Jason smiled, inwardly thanking his master's trust as he thought
'In the end, these materials are just goods mankind was able to procure. That means they're already limited in their capabilities from the get-go.
There might be ores and materials we call grade-3 and grade-4, but I doubt that they're something special to foreign races.
It might be enough to forge a great weapon for someone at the Prismar stage but that should already be it!'
When Haepha saw how confident both Shane and Jason were while Dalia was more interested in the surrounding antiquaries, she couldn't help but feel that something was going wrong.
Looking at the only normal member of their small group, Haepha stared at Emily, who was not sure how difficult Shane and Jason's plan really was.
She had already concocted grade-1 potions, but according to what Dalia, her master, had said, concocting and blacksmithing are somewhat different.
Something like soul potions didn't exist! Because of that, Emily was unable to understand how difficult it would be to forge a soul grade-3 weapon.
From her knowledge, she could understand how difficult creating grade-1 goods was in comparison to grade-3 goods but that was already it.
Thus she remained silent and didn't say anything while listening carefully.
Haepha had to look between every member of the small group that was consistent of four members only to sigh deeply.
"Alright, it's not like I'll lose anything if I sell you the Mayrod Soul wood, Yvaldranite- and Affanyr ore, but I have a condition!
If you want to purchase those three items I want an explanation of what a primal awakening really is and everything included! It might as well be easier to summarize your life because I don't get how someone like you, Jason, was unheard of before! "
