A Certain Middle-aged Man’s VRMMO Activity Log

Heave-a-ho! Heave-a-ho!

I am again in the tunnels around Nexia mining ores.

At any rate, my consumption of Light Metal has intensified to the point where if I dont come to mine it wont be enough.

The improvement of the Blade Shoes and its going to a large overhaul, will use even more, so thats why Ive come here to dig it out, but.

Ho ho

So this is the form he gave it

So you kick with this quite harshne.

But its quite good for referencezo

Those are, well, most likely my fellow Blacksmiths, but they keep looking this way en masse, and I can totally hear their voices

Is there something you need?

With a purposefully annoyed voice, I call out to the watching masses.

Anyhow, on top of them looking this way, being able to hear their jabbering voices makes it impossible to be able to concentrate

The voice that had said something about kicking came again.

Nono, please dont mind us.

Is what it said

Your voices are reaching me, you know; its honestly really hard to concentrate and mine for ores this way

With a bitter look, I replied.

Ever since that one battle with the Fairy Queen, the amount of players who would keep looking at my equipment greatly increased.

Some of them are probably looking because the equipment designs are pretty weird, but it seems that somehow Im being considered the top Bow user, so there are many people who are hoping to use it as reference.

They say that rumors about people might last 75 days, but especially for about the first 10 days theyre things that will prosper.

This point is one of the reasons my sighs have increased.

Anyway, since Im done mining ores I turn towards the forge; continuously being exposed to peoples gazes is really tough; people like TV celebrities who go out are really amazing.

Aa, let me look a little longer~!

Since that voice also told me not to mind them, I ignore it.

No matter how long I let you look, you wont be able to do work to this degree.

Even though I had to do all sorts of experiments and research to produce them

Do they not know about the problems it took me to make this recipe? Have they forgotten?

And along with that, could it be that people who use Kick have increased? Having received requests, are they trying to figure out how they should make it by using mine as a reference for the direction they should take it in?

Maa, whichever theyre working hard for is fine with me.

The fact that my login time is related to the time I get a bunch of crafting requests is a reality I cant get away fromnaa

I finally arrive at Fausts forge.

I greet Boss whos here as usual.

Lets get to the task of turning ores into ingots right away.

Today as well, there are a lot of small Fire Fairies flying around.

It makes me feel like Ill be able to make something good.

When there are a lot of Fairies floating about around you while youre crafting, its easier for a good product to come out; I am envious of the people who can bring their own Fairy arent limited by having to rely on them

Thats beside the point, anyway I thrust the ores into the furnace in or to eliminate the impurities so I can heartily continue on to make ingots.

Since I need to use Light Metal and Steel, for now Ill just mass produce for numbers.

It took some time to make the ingots.

After a while the amount of ingots is enough, and finally I can well, this should be the point where I can start producing the Blade Shoes, but

Um and why would you be surrounding me so closely ?

Its not just Boss, there are a lot of other Blacksmith players peering in.

If anyone from outside is looking in, this must look incredibly ridiculous.

Maait cant be helped, cause right now you, good sir,1are the player to keep an eye onna!

For Boss to say that,uummu, it means that in the end I just have to accept this situation its not like I wanted to be famous!

It cant be helped, so with a Stand back a little further please,na, warning, I got started on the Blade Shoes 2 stage production.

Ive already gone through all the hardships with making the shape of the shoe portion last time, so that is largely averted.

Its just, instead of the iron, by making it mainly out of the light-weight Light Metal, I will be able to increase the amount of overall armor part that covers the shoes.

The result is an increase in stability in the security from before; just as planned.

The spikes made for the bottoms of the shoes no, honestly theyre more like stakes, I will make out of Steel.

On top of that I will twist them like a screw, in the manner I had developed when I was making Twist Arrowheads.

With this it should put out more attack power than regular stakes.

Its become even crueler, but in this circumstance its fine, so lets do it.

And finally its the Blade, the cutting part, but here Im going to make a huge change.

Last time I put them on the sides of the shoes, but this time Im going to cut that part.

No matter how I used it before, my kicking form was contorted and it was by no means adaptable.

Now then how should I do this in the front and back the shoe will be 4 blades total extended and shaped like fangs, and then on top of the foot, about where you would kick a ball, are 3 twisted stakes, attached in a somewhat even fashion.

In other words, at the ends of the feet with the 4 fang-like blades equipped evenly spaced out, when kicking an opponent, theres the possibility that the fangs would be driven in as the stakes gouge out.

With this kind of shape, my kicking form wont have to be contorted, and compared to the length of the blade that Ive had until now, the sharp parts that can cut have the possibility to be longer, so the attack power will probably also go up.

In addition, the fang-like blades at the tips of the feet are an inset-styled design to be able to swap the out easily.

With this, the sharp feel of kicking falls, but the flexibility of being able to immediately swap them out is born.

This is also a part thats different from the previous times Blade Shoes.

The previous Blade Shoes had a lot of faults, but I got a lot of good data from them.

They also served meaning as a challenge.

Now then, Im done figuring out the form, now all thats left is to make it.

Since I wanted to make the stakes twisted, with some difficulty I steadily began to produce them.

The bottom of the shoes have 7, the tops 3, so with both feet all together there are 20.

Being made out of Steel, thats another reason these items are so time-consuming, and for that reason I laboriously make them.

All the people surrounding me are being noisy, but if I try to fight them again it will never end, so instead I go full-force ahead with crafting.

Next is the fang-like blades.

The ones pointing forward with be full blades, while the ones pointing backwards will have about the back half of the blades made.

Since theyre shaped like fangs, its unavoidable that they become thicker little by little around the part where the force is applied; and just like that its easily a fang.

The inset part was inserted from the front of the fangs root; like this Im prepared so that I can make them longer or fix them.

Now I need to make a slot in the front as a spot to attach the fixture in and check the stability of the fixture.

The fangs are about 5 cm long.

To some degree, because the actual blade is curved, the true length is a little longer.

I swing my hammer many times to make everything; if its wielded poorly it will bounce.

In the end it took over 1 hour before I finally finished all the parts; after this all thats left is to attach each and every one to the main shoe part.

Even though the new fang-shaped blades, in particular, had many parts to be uneasy about, I more or less got everything attached safely.

Fang LegBlade

Added Atk+29 Added Def+10

An attachment made of Light Metal with a Steel blade, when equipped to Leather or Light Armor shoes, Kick powers are increased; if its not a equipped to shoes, it has no effect.

Also, if the Kick Skill is not 30 or above, it is impossible to use.

Quality 6 Reduces damage reflected due to Kick

Deals Bleed to opponents on occasion

Increases weight

Somehow or other it took form.

Around me, Oo~ and voices like that were raised.

I was a lot more comfortable when they went, Hes making something weird again, thoughnaa.

Regardless, these attachments will increase my kick attack strength by quite a bit.

The LegBlade Prototype attack strength added was +12, so this as quite the large increase.

But as expected, its still a long ways away from the more popular weapons, so it will still be difficult even though I made this one thing.

Its time to equip it, and in front of the people watching, I lightly tested out the feel.

The parts that cover the iron has increased, but the increased parts are made of Light Metal, so in actuality the total weight isnt all that different from the Prototype that I had been using up til now.

If anything its become a bit lighter; no matter how many kicks I did, there wasnt any uncomfortable feeling from the weight.

Whats different from the Prototype is that, since the stakes and fangs are laid out so that they will stab when you kick normally, theres a good feeling, that is, theres probably no feeling of hindrance when kicking. From now on, this guys going to be my kicking partner.

Now then what should I do, with how to treat the Prototype that Ive used up until now.

I cant just leave it here; itll be turned into research material.

In the future Ill turn it back into ingots, so for now lets put it in the Item Box.

Its done its best up to now, and now that its finished its duties its going in the trash; its rather sad, so for this guy too I say a word of thanks and parting, like I did with the bow previously.

SKILLS

[Wind-Blown Hunting Bow]Lv1

[Kicking Assault]Lv12

[Farsight]Lv47

[Craftsmanship]Lv47 2UP

[Cooking]Lv50

[Stealth]Lv38

[Physical Ability Reinforcement]Lv17 1UP

[Thief]Lv33

[Whip]Lv34

[Fairy Language]Lv99 (Forced Acquisition) (Unable to be moved to Reserved Skills)

Reserved Skills

[Woodworking]Lv28

[Blacksmithing]Lv33 3UP

[Alchemy]Lv40

ExP 14

Titles Possessed: The One who Charmed Even the Fairy Queen, The One who Defeated a Great Foe Alone

A/n: And so, the second stage of the Blade Shoes Ive gotten a lot of feedback from has been unveiled.

It was a pretty difficult delivery.