Chapter 26: A003 – Mainstream Blacksmith’s Way of Forging

A few moments later, Hecate arrived at her destination.

It was a small workshop building with a signboard of 3 swords, a shield and a spear overlapped together above the doorway. There are text of unknown language in the signboard, but Hecate already knew the meaning of the text was "Dalmagna Blacksmith".

This was thanks to many of the Ascension Player base who painstakingly decipher every text languages found in the game.

While Players and Natives can speak with each other freely as if they had the same language, the written text was different. Their alphabet and structure of grammar greatly differs from the real world and it takes a long time to make sense of it.

After a few attempts to decipher the text, the Player found that the language used by the Natives was really different than the real world.

When they asked some Natives to teach them the writings, the Native's mouth and their voice was not synchronized. It seems that the reason why communication was possible because the game system translates the language directly into their ears.

Even after two years since the game was launched, the progress of their language research was only the tip of the iceberg.

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Hecate was about to open the door, but her hands stopped as she remembered something.

"Oh, I almost forgot... The gift! Ei!"

It was an unwritten rule of the players in any RPG game to try to earn the favorability of the NPC as much as possible. In Ascension, favorability of the Natives can increase the chance of triggering quests and important events.

Favorability can be earned in many ways, praising and giving a gift was one of the easiest method to befriend the Natives.

She immediately activated a certain skill.

—Mana Stone Creation: Basket Shape (40.000 MP)

A white light immediately enveloped her hand and slowly consolidated to a basket shape.

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