The Protagonist’s Sister Is Actually The Strongest Chapter 137: Chapter 133: Crafting With Hilda

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Chapter 133: Crafting With Hilda ----- The power of the [Crafting] Skill and the [Alchemy] Skill might seem like all I really need to craft items, but their results are often subpar. Indeed, even when they can even become as high as S Rank and more, their Ranks are not everything. There are certain things named Essences within all Materials, and these Skills, which do the crudest way of fusing items together, cannot exert the Essence out of items or merge them perfectly and seamlessly to create completely new effects, powers, and qualities that Blacksmiths and Alchemists can do. I’m neither of the two, and I only have the most basic Skills I’ve used, which often create items with little durability and barebone effects. Sometimes I mostly make up for my lack of mastery over the manipulation of Material Essences by utilizing incredibly high-quality materials, and thanks to my Gathering Skill, I can easily increase their rank. However, compared to what Hilda can do, I’m nothing! Her mastery over the hammer, her blacksmithing techniques, the manipulation of Material Essences, and her ability to merge the strengths of items together to shape them into what she has planned meticulously and carefully are incredible. I still can’t believe she wasn’t even mentioned in the story past a certain point, most likely dying in one of the many catastrophic events that are soon to come as the Awakenings fall to Earth, and the {Scenarios} truly begin. But now, thanks to my influence, I’ve given her the perfect opportunity to go from a forgotten extra to a pivotal character to move the plot forward! And while I give her the materials so she can keep improving her Skills and even her Stats, as she’s capable of growing stronger by crafting items too, I can benefit from it by getting top-notch equipment. I would say it’s a pretty good trade-off. However, my attempt at trying to learn any of her skills at all came as an utter failure. As she inspected the items and started smelting the metals and creating a wonderful combination of metals into an ingot, I couldn’t quite follow her at all. I could only watch, trying to learn as much as I could. I think I could use Skill Points and learn a low-ranking Blacksmith Skill from the Skill Shop—another benefit this system has—but what better would that do when I cannot even follow her techniques? [Jack of all Trades] is certainly doing its job, but because it can only let me learn B-rank skills and below, Hilda’s skills, which are all S-rank at minimum, cannot be easily replicated. “Here it is. Did you see, Anna? This is not something your Alchemy can create; it is part of my Divine Smelting Skill! I can create brand-new metals into ingots by fusing their components and Essences together.” Hilda showed me the seven ingots she created; they were glowing with bright red, dark red, and purple auras of power. A single look with the Divine Eye of Truth was all I needed to see how incredible they were. ----- [Hellfire Abyss Demonite Ingot (S+++ Rank)] A Special Ingot created by fusing the [Demonite Ore (B+ Rank)] [Crimson Copper Ore (C+ Rank)] [Blood Crystals (A Rank)] and [Abyssitite (S Rank)] Materials and Their Essence by Blacksmith Hilda, the Great Apprentice of Hephaestus. A Special type of metal that carries a strong aura of blood, darkness, and demonic energy. Despite having been made with materials that exude corroding and toxic substances such as Demonite, their substances and essences have been converged and refined into almost perfection, making it an easy-to-manipulate metal that can offer both incredible protection and offense while being very light-weighted. The new metal’s ability to conduct Mana is top-notch, but above all, it has the innate ability to naturally conjure Darkness, Blood, and Demonic Powers by absorbing the Mana of the wearer or wielder of the armor or weapon crafted using this metal, creating incredible results. ----- “Amazing…” I was left shocked. “There’s no way I could ever make s