Chapter 30

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Chapter 30: Forgemaster Hobbit!

One hour later.

Everyone piled up all the weapons and equipment they could collect in the hall.

Brother Watermelon and Du Yuan each put on a set of steel armor, along with a steel shield and sword.

"These weapons are amazing, all Blue Quality and Green Quality!"

Brother Watermelon looked at the wooden shield he used before, "Hmm, our previous weapons didn’t even have any information, which means the system doesn’t recognize them as weapons!"

Fang Ze put on a set of leather armor, took a steel sword and a steel long spear on his back.

Fly and Zhang Qingyan also changed into lightweight leather armor.

Fly chose two steel daggers as weapons, while Zhang Qingyan grabbed the only steel bow.

"We’re out of steel weapons, the rest are all made of iron and bronze, let’s sell them all."

"Okay."

Everyone agreed.

Just as they were about to take their equipment, Ye Qiu suddenly stopped them, "Wait, there’s more than just these weapons here."

Fang Ze looked at Ye Qiu, "Do you have other discoveries?"

Ye Qiu nodded, "Over there is a forging room, I think we should search carefully, there might be something else."

Fang Ze: "That’s true, let’s explore it first."

After making up their minds, everyone headed to the forging room together.

But there was nothing else here, Ye Qiu had already searched.

As expected, everyone searched around but found nothing.

Brother Watermelon was sweating heavily because his equipment was too heavy. "Wow, this equipment is really heavy!"

Beads of sweat formed on Du Yuan’s forehead. "This equipment is indeed heavy, but is there really something around here?"

"We’ve been searching for so long, but found nothing at all."

Du Yuan casually tapped the dwarf statue beside him as he spoke.

Ye Qiu smiled silently at this. His purpose in bringing everyone here was simple: to awaken Forgemaster.

It was the small dwarf statue.

But he couldn’t directly point out the problem with the statue, as he couldn’t explain the previous issue.

So he decided to let everyone discover it themselves.

Instead of reminding them himself.

Click!

Suddenly, the dwarf statue cracked massively!

Du Yuan was stunned, "Oh no, did I just tap it lightly? Is this statue so fragile?"

Click!

Cracks on the statue kept widening, then it broke into pieces like pottery shards!

Soon, a bearded face appeared in front of everyone!

It was a bald dwarf with a very thick beard on his chin, standing only about four feet tall and looking very old.

"Hmm… The petrification spell has been lifted. Who woke me up?"

The dwarf suddenly spoke, leaving the five people speechless with shock.

Ye Qiu, who had anticipated this moment, smiled and walked up directly. "Are you the Master Hobbit?"

Hobbit was taken aback. "I haven’t introduced myself yet. How do you know me, human boy?"

Ye Qiu smiled, "I saw a statue at the ground floor of the Tower of Seals that looks exactly like you."

"Forgemaster Hobbit, it must be you, right?"

Hobbit chuckled, "Correct, human boy. You do have some knowledge."

Hobbit was in a good mood, and after some thought, Ye Qiu finally asked him a question that had always puzzled him.

"If Disaster is so scary, why not just kill them instead of sealing them in the tower?"

Faced with the sudden question, Hobbit’s eyes sharpened, "How do you know about this? Who told you?"

Ye Qiu replied, "I just heard about it by accident."

Hobbit glanced at everyone, "Do you think we don’t want to? If disasters could be killed, why would we seal them here?"

"If Disasters could be killed, we wouldn’t call them Disasters, young human."

Ye Qiu nodded, "I have another question. If we want to undo the seal of the Tower of Seals, would you stop us?"

Hobbit crossed his arms, "Seems like you know a lot, young human."

"I can’t be bothered to stop you. If you want to undo it, go ahead. This world no longer concerns me."

So that’s how it is.

Ye Qiu finally unraveled the mystery that had puzzled him for generations.

But Fang Ze and the others all looked at him strangely, wondering what was wrong with him.

He seemed to know how things would turn out, and was not surprised by any of it.

And what did he mean by seals and prevention? What was he talking about?

"Ahem." Ye Qiu cleared his throat and said, "I don’t have many hobbies, I just enjoy studying the background stories of games. I saw all this on the statue, but I don’t know what it means."

Forget it.

It doesn’t matter.

After all, it’s just the background story of a game.

Fang Ze thought for a moment, "Mr. Hobbit, I have seen this statue before. I thought it was just a backdrop."

Fang Ze walked over to Hobbit and said, "You must be the master of this place. Did you create all the gear outside?"

The descriptions of those gears all mention that they are made by Hobbit’s hands.

Hobbit nodded, "Yes, do you want me to make a weapon for you?"

Fang Ze asked, "Is that possible?"

Hobbit smiled, "I will charge you and you need to provide the materials yourselves. Who gave you the right to take my collection without my permission?"

Fang Ze suggested, "Why don’t you leave here with us, there are monsters…"

Before Fang Ze could finish, Hobbit interrupted, "Stop it. I won’t leave this place. There’s nowhere for me outside. This is my home."

"If I wanted to leave, I would have already. Why do you need to call me?"

"If you want me to craft equipment for you, bring materials and money when you come to me. Don’t come here randomly if you have nothing to do."

"Consider those treasures as gifts for you all, now just leave if there’s nothing else."

Seeing Hobbit’s temper being so irritable, Fang Ze didn’t say much more, "Alright, then I’ll trouble you later, sir."

Seeing Fang Ze and the others about to leave, Ye Qiu started to size up Hobbit.

Something’s not right, Hobbit does more than just help players craft equipment.

He also knows how to advance in three schools, why didn’t he mention it this time?

Is it because his favorability rating isn’t high enough?

Ye Qiu, confused, directly asked, "As a legendary blacksmith, you must also possess some extraordinary powers, right?"

Hobbit, a bit impatient, glanced at Ye Qiu, "So what if I do, do you want to learn?"

"To tell you the truth, I am not only skilled in battlefield school, but also in expert school and Ground Divination School."

Ye Qiu laughed, "Of course, I want to learn."

Hobbit also laughed, "You want to learn, but I don’t want to teach, hehe."

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