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Thinking of this, Chu Tian, filled with excitement, once again opened the副职业 (sub-profession) panel of his clone.
Previously, Chu Tian had been disappointed.
This was because he knew that finding a God-Tier Blacksmith now was impossible.
In his previous life, he hadn't heard of anyone becoming a God-Tier Blacksmith, not even after five years.
Naturally, there was also no God-Tier Refiner.
Without a God-Tier Refiner, God-Tier materials couldn't be manufactured.
Upgrading his equipment to God-Tier was impossible.
Therefore, to obtain God-Tier materials, he could only purchase them from players who dropped them.
Such high-tier materials that dropped would inevitably be astronomically expensive.
However, thinking of his clone and the inheritance it had received, Chu Tian’s hopes reignited.
Indeed, upon opening the panel, three sub-profession skills were displayed.
This immediately made Chu Tian’s eyes light up.
Excavation Skill… God-Tier.
Blacksmithing Skill… God-Tier.
Refining Skill… God-Tier.
“Hahaha… Chu Tian laughed maniacally!”
The God-Tier Refining Skill would completely enable Chu Tian to smelt and forge those low-grade ores.
Finally, he could extract the refined essence and re-temper it into God-Tier materials.
He suddenly felt that this old man Daotian was too endearing, as if everything had been perfectly arranged by him.
What was there to wait for?
He once again opened the God-Tier Blacksmithing Skill.
He found the equipment reforge and upgrade button.
He directly opened it and threw one of his pieces of equipment inside.
This was a Golden equipment, and the next upgrade would be into Dark Gold.
The materials required to upgrade this piece of equipment appeared below.
Chu Tian glanced at it and secretly gasped.
The materials requested were undeniably rare items.
He had just browsed these items on the auction house.
Their listed prices started at ten thousand gold.
Those ore materials were also extremely scarce.
It wasn't enough for Chu Tian to upgrade a single piece of equipment.
“Huh? It can be upgraded directly?”
He noticed that the materials listed below were already present in his inventory.
This was because the reforge button was lit up.
This indicated that he had sufficient materials in his inventory.
Opening his clone's inventory, Chu Tian took a look. Indeed, among the large quantities of high-tier materials in his clone’s inventory, some of the ones he needed were present.
“This feels amazing!”
Chu Tian was almost bursting with joy.
After a rough estimation, he confirmed he had enough items in his inventory and proceeded to upgrade all his equipment to Dark Gold.
A set of Dark Gold equipment was considered very powerful at this current stage.
Not just very powerful, but exceptionally powerful.
Without a second thought, since he had the materials, what was he waiting for?
He casually clicked the button to begin forging.
Ding… System prompt: No forging furnace nearby, cannot forge.
“Damn…”
Chu Tian cursed. He had forgotten that Blacksmiths needed to be near a forging furnace for anything they did.
Looking around, Chu Tian didn’t bother with the formalities. He quickly took off all his equipment and handed it over to his clone.
Then, he issued an instruction for his clone to rent a forging studio at the Blacksmith Association, the best and most expensive one.
This would greatly reduce the time spent forging.
However, the most expensive forging studio was not cheap, with a rental fee of one hundred gold coins per hour.
For others, this might be an astronomical price.
But for him, time was money.
With his clone leaving with his equipment, Chu Tian dived into the All-Materials Engineering shop.
Without being discovered by anyone, he rushed straight to the top floor.
“Huh? I think I just saw someone run upstairs naked!”
Someone looked in the direction of the stairs.
“Don’t be ridiculous. On the top floor, besides the Magician who has clearance, no one else can go up. I saw the Magician go up earlier and hasn’t come down… Are your eyes playing tricks on you?”
Another employee in the shop looked in that direction and said.
“Are my eyes playing tricks on me?” The person was confused.
He had clearly just seen a naked body in his underwear heading upstairs.
But then again, it did seem like his eyes were playing tricks on him.
After all, only the Magician had access to the top floor.
“Maybe my eyes really are playing tricks on me! I guess I’ll have to go to a gay bar to vent after logging off…”
This fellow muttered softly, a faint smile on his face.
Although his voice was quiet, the salesperson in front of him heard it perfectly clearly.
He broke out in a cold sweat.
It turned out this fellow had a non-standard sexual orientation. He really wanted to know what exactly he had seen that made his eyes play tricks on him.
The person who thought his eyes were playing tricks on him also believed he was having fantasies about men.
The small incident downstairs was unknown to Chu Tian.
Otherwise, he would have definitely rushed up and slapped that guy a few times, making him understand what “flowers are red because of what” meant.
Reaching the top floor, he directly entered the room that even the Magician did not have permission to enter.
This room could only be accessed by the shop owner.
Even Chu Tian did not have the authority to grant access to this room to anyone else.
This was the system’s final defense line.
The operating system within this room allowed for the transfer of the shop.
Therefore, the system strictly stipulated that only the shop owner could enter and operate it.
Anyone attempting to gain unauthorized access would be directly eliminated by the system.
Upon entering the room, he directly opened the operating panel.
This panel directly connected to the shop’s warehouse.
He knew that the Magician must have acquired a lot of ores.
This was because most of the materials used in Engineering also required minerals.
They would even directly purchase finished materials.
After opening the control panel, connecting to the warehouse, he saw rows upon rows of various ores and materials.
“Heh heh!”
Without a second word, he waved his hand.
He almost emptied the warehouse. At the moment he was operating, the Magician, in his own workshop, was preparing to craft a new gadget he had researched.
He was also connecting to the warehouse to retrieve some items.
However, just as he raised his hand, preparing to grab the material he wanted, it suddenly disappeared.
“Huh?” The Magician grabbed at empty air and froze on the spot.
This was because he found that all the ores in the warehouse, various high-tier materials, and even some leather had vanished in an instant.
“Woc… Someone stole it!”
The Magician, with his disheveled hair, jumped up directly.
He rushed to the door, holding a strange object.
The object looked a bit like a gun, but its appearance was not quite the same.
Holding this object, he flashed into the storage room.
He kicked the door open with his foot.
“Thief, I see you! Drop what you have right now, or my Magic Energy Cannon will blast you back to the新手村 (novice village)!”
Standing at the doorway, holding what he called the Magic Energy Cannon, he was met with silence.
Inside the storage room, it was almost empty.
The ores had previously occupied eighty to ninety percent of the storage room.
But now, only some junk remained.
Not entirely, however. There were some high-grade fabrics, herbs, and some finished engineering items, all valuable.
They were still neatly placed there.
The Magician stood at the doorway, feeling a cold breeze blow past.
He instantly sobered up.
“This is the system shop warehouse, how could there be a thief? Could it be… the system has a bug?”
While he was still bewildered, his communicator suddenly rang. Upon opening it, countless private messages and video calls bombarded him.
These were all his subordinate engineers.
He knew that these people must also need to use items from the warehouse and found it completely empty.
The Magician was now on the verge of tears.
He had no idea what had happened.
He calmed himself for a few seconds, quickly returned to his workshop, and opened the control panel.
This was the store manager’s permission panel. After opening it, he directly checked the warehouse’s inventory and withdrawal records.
“I’ll be damned!”
It was better that he didn’t check. Upon seeing it, he jumped up again.
This was because the panel displayed in dense text: “Item X was withdrawn by I’m Not a Druid!”
This time, the Magician was even more shocked than when his items were stolen.
He even rubbed his eyes, confirming he wasn't misreading.
He instantly transformed into a man of wind and headed towards the innermost room on the top floor.
Bang bang bang…
Chu Tian was still fiddling with his inventory, stuffing items into his clone.
His clone had already arrived at the Blacksmith Association and rented a studio.
The studio there provided an independent warehouse.
“Spending more money is good!”
Chu Tian muttered to himself, quite pleased.
The knocking sound from outside startled him.
It caused his hands to tremble, and a string of ores dropped to the ground, hitting his big toe.
-1376!
“Hiss…” Chu Tian gasped in pain.
He wasn’t wearing any equipment, and being hit by an ore on his foot caused him to lose so much health.
“What the hell, who is it?”
Chu Tian hobbled to the door and pushed it open.
“Boss!…”
A tall figure pounced on Chu Tian and hugged him.
“Wuwuwu…”
“Aow… Pain!”
The figure was naturally the Magician. He hugged Chu Tian, making muffled sobbing sounds, as if crying.
However, Chu Tian let out a cry of pain.
This was because the guy had stepped on his already injured toe again.
Fortunately, his level was high, and his attribute points were monstrously allocated.
His strength far surpassed that of the Magician, a pure sub-profession player.
He shoved the Magician away; otherwise, the guy would still be standing on his foot.
“Boss, wuwu… You’re finally back!”
After being pushed away by Chu Tian, the figure, with a tearful voice, rushed towards Chu Tian again.
“Scram…”
Chu Tian quickly waved his hand.
He slapped the Magician away.
However, he held back, not slapping his face.
After being slapped by Chu Tian, the Magician finally calmed down.
He looked at Chu Tian pitifully.
Just as he was about to speak, Chu Tian said with a displeased tone.
“Alright, I have things to do. Wait for my contact!”
He had been in a good mood earlier, but after this stunt by the Magician, his mood soured.
Especially his toe, which was still throbbing with pain.
Seeing Chu Tian’s anger, the Magician became even more aggrieved.
He still wanted to ask where Chu Tian had taken all the ores.
His actions had led to the warehouse being emptied, and many orders could not be fulfilled.
However, he dared not speak.
As he was deliberating, Chu Tian took out a town portal scroll.
After thinking for a moment, he took out a money pouch and threw it directly at the Magician.
The next moment, he used the town portal scroll and disappeared.
The Magician was stunned, opened the pouch, and looked inside. It was filled with gleaming gold coins.
“Woc… One million five hundred thousand gold coins!” The Magician’s hands trembled, almost dropping the pouch.
His entire warehouse of ores was only worth about two hundred thousand gold coins.
Yet Chu Tian had directly thrown him 1.5 million.
He was unsure whether he had lost or gained. Some orders that were due soon could probably not be completed even if he bought ores to make them.
However, he felt he had still lost, as it was Chu Tian’s money that was lost.
But before he could fully process this, he received a message.
I’m Not a Druid: “Collect ores with high collection value, and all low-grade ones too!”