“Then let's make it.”
“How would you like me to make it?”
“We should build up from the bottom. We must properly lay a foundation.”
Mud was the material he was most confident about. As a child, he would use dirt to make a house or a dam and play whenever it rained. Playing with dirt could be called child's play for him!
'It doesn't even take any money, I could play with it as much as I wanted as long as it rained.'
The boy who silently played in the mud while getting hit by rain in the rainy season grew up and became Weed.
That work experience also proved its worth in the construction site. He had excellent ratio control when mixing cement, sand, and water! He was able to smoothly apply silicone into the bathroom cracks. They were experiences he had earned through playing in the mud.
“Humans develop all their potential when they're young after all.”
Weed revived his experience to create an enormous mold with the mud. Its height was at the level of a 12 story apartment! It was a form that was made by building up the dirt through Dirtman, packing it in with a trowel, and smoothing it out with the sculpting knife.
The problem was that no matter how cheap the brass was, it would take an enormous amount of money to fill up the entire thing.
“Dirtman.”
“Yes, Master!”
“Do you like saunas?”
“What is a sauna?”
“There's something called a clay sauna. And since you're an earth spirit, you won't die from the heat anyway… There's a first for everything, experience is important. Take your friends in there.”
Weed threatened Dirtman, and instructed it to fill up the inside of the enormous mold. Then he poured in the brass material.
Pang, pang, pang!
The enormous brass sculpture that emerged once the mud was broken off! It was a sculpture made through the sacrifice of Dirtman.
It was in the shape of a gigantic and nimble lizard. A Black Imoogi with small, atrophied feet!
Since it wasn't complete yet, he had to make the form more detailed.
“It'll be a breeze to sculpt the head.”
He sculpted the head delicately while looking at the Imoogi head that he had looted.
“Identify!”
Head of the Black Imoogi, Freykis
Durability 1,671/3,200.
The head of an Imoogi. Retains an unknown power. It seems difficult to handle carelessly.
Options: Can respond to a special production.
In truth, he didn't know what the Imoogi's head was for yet.
“Because a high level monster like this has almost never been caught before.”
It was hard to guarantee victory even when an entire guild went after a level 400 boss class monster. Even if they won, they would incur an enormous loss!
Even the likes of the King Hydra had never been hunted down before, so Weed was the first to have killed a Black Imoogi.
Weed finished sculpting the Imoogi's head, wings, torso, and even the toes with great detail.
An opponent that Weed had personally fought before, he even gave it a vicious and mean appearance. With its wings spread wide open, the Imoogi was twisting up its long neck.
A sculpture that looked down on those below it with its realistic eyes and snout!
Ding!
— Please set the name of the sculpture you’ve made.
“Hm.”
Weed looked at the sculpture for a moment.
The sculpture felt so alive that it made him perfectly recall the fight with the Black Imoogi.
“Very Strong Imoogi.”
— Is 'Very Strong Imoogi' correct?
“Yes.”
Ding!
A sublime monster sculpture, the Magnum Opus 'Very Strong Imoogi' has been completed!
A Magnum Opus made by an Eternal Sculptor!
A sculpture created using metal. This is a work that will be an excellent example for Sculptors who learn the Blacksmithing skill in order to make sculptures with broader approaches.
The Black Imoogi, Freykis, that was hunted in the River of Lamentation, was sculpted. A work that perfectly restores the appearance of Freykis in life, the Imoogi that exerted its great wickedness on the Versailles Continent is now left as a sculpture. The sculpture will be a reminder of the Black Imoogi Freykis's might.
Artistic Value: The work of one who is walking the path of genuine works. 10,921.
Special Options:
Those who have seen the Very Strong Imoogi statue will have their Health and Mana regeneration increased by 31 % for a day.
All Stats increased by 15.
Wisdom and Intelligence stats rise by 54.
Spiked increase in the emergence of snake type monsters.
Reduces monster aggression by half.
Reduces the footstep sound of Thieves and Assassins in dungeons by 37 % and heightens the effect of the Stealth skill.
Effects do not stack with other sculptures.
Number of Magnum Opuses completed until now: 6
Sculpting skill proficiency has been improved.
Handicraft skill proficiency has been improved.
Sculptural Understanding skill level has risen by 1.
Fame has increased by 912.
Art stat has increased by 17.
Endurance has increased by 3.
Perseverance has increased by 19.
Wisdom has increased by 7.
For creating a Magnum Opus sculpture, All Stats have increased by an additional 3.
“Check Sculpting skill!”
Advanced Sculpting 6 (99 %): Can sculpt. A beautiful sculpture will also sell for a high price.
You can spread your name on the Continent by making glorious sculptures.
Good for buying a woman's affection.
There was only 1 % proficiency left until the Sculpting skill went up a level.
“A Fine or a Masterpiece sculpture will be enough to raise it.”
Even though the Sculpting skill didn't rise quickly, he calculated that one more would be plenty. When his Sculpting skill, which was very difficult to raise, reached level 7, he would only have 3 more to go until he reached Master.
Weed made a sculpture of the King Hydra using cheap, common copper. A magnificently sized Fine King Hydra was made. Made next to the Goddess Freya statue, it felt distinctive.
A pet of the charming Goddess, it was a guardian creature that looked like it would save her from danger. Or it was a vile King Hydra that was threatening the life of the Goddess! The Black Imoogi sculpture was made on her left, and on her right was the 9-headed King Hydra.
Morata's specialties were further increasing as Weed's Sculpting skill level went up.
Advanced Sculpting skill has risen to level 7.
Your sculpting will become surprisingly detailed and delicate.
As your eye for art develops, Wisdom and Intelligence stats increase by 52. Charm has increased by 39.
Sculpting was a skill that had never betrayed him. As he approached Master level, he gained considerable increases every time his skill went up a level. Besides the obvious changes, there were various effects in every field, like his color palette growing more diverse when using Moonlight Sculpting.
“Well, I guess I should just use the remaining metals.”
Since they were already melted materials, Weed decided to make huge armors while he was at it. They were armors that could go over the King Hydra and Black Imoogi's torsos.
“I've got to make new attempts for the Blacksmithing skill.”
His proficiency wouldn't rise much at all even if he made a simple longsword from the raw materials he'd made from melting the mixed metals. Rather than that, he made armors that huge monsters could use.