My Skill Bar is Full of Monster Skills-Chapter 66: The First Magic Equipment

"Miss Elise... Of course, there is. It’s just that Master Rogers hasn’t forged any armor this month; instead, he forged a shield." Jenos’ eyes brightened as he immediately pointed to a spiked shield displayed in the shop’s left window.

Raine immediately looked up.

With just one glance, Raine fell in love with the shield’s design.

The material of the shield was jet black, seemingly made from a rare stone, and its shape was not the common round, oval, or kite-shaped, but an exceptionally uncommon irregular form.

It looked like a fragment fallen from an unknown boulder.

Moreover, in the central region of its irregular shape, a fist-sized conical spike was cast and affixed.

"Is this the shield Master Rogers crafted?" Elise asked, slightly puzzled.

Because in her impression, Armor Master Rogers rarely made shields, often crafting armor instead.

Moreover, even when making shields, he usually crafted meticulously detailed heraldic shields with symmetrical carvings and elegant beauty.

But the shield before them...

"Yes, Miss Elise, doesn’t it seem a bit different from Master Rogers’ previous style?"

"That’s right. Actually, this was crafted from a whole piece of obsidian shard. You’ve heard of obsidian, haven’t you? A hard and heavy stone... Master Rogers found it irresistible..." Jenos explained eloquently.

"Obsidian? The kind with high resistance to all sorts of energy elements?" Elise’s eyes lit up instantly.

"Yes." Jenos nodded proudly.

"But I’ve heard that obsidian is supposedly twice as heavy as steel for the same volume, so being so heavy..." At this moment, Elise seemed to think of something, her brows slightly furrowing.

"Miss Elise, actually, this is a piece of magic equipment."

"Magic equipment?" Elise’s beautiful eyes shone brightly.

And Raine couldn’t help but look at Jenos.

"The inner side of the shield is covered with lightweight spell runes etched by senior rune masters. Because of the high resistance of obsidian material, eighteen lightweight spell runes barely reached the effect of three standard runes."

"But it can basically maintain a continuous absorption of free energy for 24 hours and release it, making it one-third lighter than a steel shield of the same size."

"Other than that, it doesn’t have any other magical effects. As Master Rogers said, the strong and overall resistant obsidian is itself the best shield."

"Then, as a piece of magic equipment, does this shield have a name?"

"Of course, this shield is named ’Obsidian Defender,’ Master Rogers’ proud masterpiece." Jenos said somewhat proudly.

"Obsidian Defender?" Raine savored these words in his heart.

At the same time, he quite agreed with Master Rogers’ philosophy— "If the material of the shield is already excellent, then the simplest processing is needed."

Elise originally wanted to ask Raine’s opinion, but as her gaze swept over Raine’s face, she smiled slightly and decided not to inquire further.

She turned and said to Jenos, "How much is it?"

"Only 32 gold, but if you purchase, I can decide to give you a 5% discount and round it off. Miss Elise, how about 30 gold?"

"Mr. Jenos, this price is too expensive as it’s at least 30% higher than the same tier of magic equipment from the association."

"Hehe, Miss Elise, you also know that magic equipment is rare and having a higher price is normal." Jenos chuckled slightly.

"Alright! But I want to let Mr. Rein try it first. If it suits, I’ll take it."

Oh my!

Really buying it?

Raine’s eyes widened, finding it hard to believe as he looked at his new teammate— Miss Priestess.

This is 32 gold, not 32 silver!

"Mr. Rein?" Elise’s brows and eyes arched like a crescent moon as she smiled while turning to look at Raine.

"Wait, this..."

Before Raine could finish, Elise playfully blinked and interrupted, "Mr. Rein, as a mage apprentice, don’t you have confidence in your future earnings?"

Upon hearing Elise’s words, the first to be stunned wasn’t Raine but the halfling store owner, Jenos.

Jenos was taken aback as he glanced over Raine’s outfit, thinking to himself, are mage apprentices now protecting themselves like this?

While Raine’s mind was overwhelmed with repayment plans—

’If one task earns 10 silver, he needs to complete three hundred tasks to save enough money to repay Miss Priestess.’

’Three hundred...’

’And even if each task is lucky enough to earn 50 silver, it would take sixty tasks to accumulate enough to repay Miss Priestess.’

As Raine’s mind was rapidly calculating, the halfling Jenos had already recovered and swiftly retrieved the shield ’Obsidian Defender’ from the window.

Holding the obsidian shield in his hands, Raine couldn’t help but smile wryly and immediately began trying it out.

However, he resolved to decline Miss Priestess’s kind offer by claiming it didn’t suit him after trying the equipment.

Undoubtedly, the obsidian shield before him was definitely a fine piece, but from Raine’s perspective, a purely steel knight’s shield costing around 1 gold would suffice for his current needs.

This shield is just too expensive...

But when Raine extended his left hand, grasping the shield’s inner side wrapped with two dark leather-coated metal handles, an extremely fitting sensation surged in his heart.

He tried swinging the shield quickly, and the whooshing sound of it cutting through the air erupted.

’The feel is really good!’

’And this obsidian doesn’t seem as heavy as it looks; the weight is just right.’

In an instant, Raine wanted to refuse, but when the words reached his lips, he hesitated, finding them hard to say.

...

Half an hour later.

Besides the warhammer, all other equipment on Raine had almost completely changed as both he and Elise boarded the carriage once more.

His chain armor had been replaced with a solid plate armor worth 3 gold, though not the knight plate armor set, just a simple chest armor.

It wasn’t due to money, but because Raine considered that when using gigantification, his body would suddenly expand by 30%, and even though the full knight plate armor set had soft lambskin lining, it couldn’t withstand such a drastic change.

Especially the neck, elbow, and other joint areas.

But the craftsmanship of this chest armor used relatively traditional methods, joining two metal plates at the front and back, with layered buckskin folds in between, providing good stretchability and lacking shoulder and elbow joints.

Therefore, when Raine wore this chest armor, he wouldn’t feel any discomfort even when using gigantification.

The horned helmet on his head was also changed to a steel horned helmet, almost identical in design, except the material was changed from horn to steel.

The war boots on his feet were also replaced with thick boots with steel panels on the surface and lamb’s wool lining.

Of course, the cost of this equipment update was ’painful,’ as Raine’s original 1 gold and 78 silver now left him with only 8 silver, while he owed the wealthy Miss Priestess a whopping 35 gold ’huge loan.’

...

Meanwhile.

Outside the Dorne City Adventurer’s Association Hall.

A woman with a hooded head and a graceful figure entered the hall looking somewhat travel-worn.

After surveying the area briefly, soon a plain-looking man dressed as an adventurer slipped a note into her hand.

Laisa slightly lifted the hood and opened the note:

"The target appeared at the Adventurer’s Association Hall half an hour ago, got on a carriage, left through the south gate, suspected to be returning to Mill Town."

Compared to the remote Mill Town, the Talin network in the big city naturally has more systematic intelligence.

But upon seeing this message, Laisa’s eyes widened, and a breath almost didn’t rise in her chest.

"What!"

"Gone again?!"

However, she reconsidered.

If they left just half an hour earlier, catching up would be quick since they were using a carriage.

With a bit of thought, Laisa decided to set out immediately.

...