All three of the shop owners looked like they were about to feint. "Little lady, if you help us create these weapons it would be a true honor!" said the smith. "as you probably noticed given your bloodline talents, crafting as well as forging, require incredible control over auras." said Julia "In fact even though our abilities may seem miraculous to others, we are simply journeymen. Our abilities are merely the standard!". "I did notice you two were quite good." said Cynthia "but what I noticed was that the processes you two used were heavily reliant on physical action.". Cynthia then cast forward her energy and masterfully removed every last bit of the aura of renewal from the obsidian. "That is the level of control of the second most talented divine bloodline!" said the crafter astonished once again. "and you are merely a child as well!" said Klein "you will grow to have even greater control over mana with time!".
"Still." said the smith after the three calmed down a bit "a legendary weapon will still be quite the challenge. I said it would be simple, but that goes for a fully grown divine bloodline and a master level smith.". "What are the levels of smiths?" asked Cynthia now very curious. "First are apprentices. These smiths are capable of making pretty much any mundane item as they are always sourced from master smiths from mortals. They are capable of making some magic items but not many." replied the smith "Journeymen like me and Julia, as crafter ranks are practically identical, are capable of making many magic items but ascendant level magic items are beyond our ability. Ascendant magic items are what you would call lord level.". "A master level smith is capable of making ascendant magic items but how many they can make is highly dependent on the individual as an ascendant magic item is considered a masterpiece and is what defines a master level smith's career." continued Klein "A heroic level smith is capable of making legendary items and much like ascendant items with master smiths, legendary level items define a heroic smith's career". "Above all of that is divine level but nobody can fathom such a thing but a god." Klein said while finishing his explanation.
"So I'm asking you to make an item two grades above your level?" asked Cynthia. "In essence, yes!" said Nirvana. "no offense but do you know any master level smiths?" asked Cynthia. "No offense taken!" said Klein "while handling that level of material would be an honor for us, we are fully aware that the outcome of such a forging, would end up with the worst quality of legendary or even end up an ascendant weapon which would completely ruin the materials.". "There's a monster forge owned by a master smith in this town, I'll give you some directions. Meanwhile we have plenty of obsidian mirrors for you to buy." said the shop keep "Obsidian mirrors are popular among beast nobles of lower bloodlines. What I will say is that you can probably wait until those two spiders reach adulthood and they'd have their own humanoid forms naturally.". "Their rewards are mostly the weapons, I just want them to have a humanoid form sooner rather than later." said Cynthia.
Cynthia brought the two spiders to where the obsidian mirrors section was and had them pick out their favorite. Yue picked one out that had pink obsidian. Pink obsidian was unheard of on earth so Cynthia was quite interested and found that it has an aura of beauty as well as change. Sebas picked one that had a skill design on the rim of the mirror. Cynthia brought both of the mirrors to the counter and actually had to reach up quite a bit to put them there. She then looked at the xingxing, grimaced when picked another one out. "Make no mistake, old man, this is no reward." said Cynthia "I'm just sick of hearing people assume you are a xingxing, and I'm also sick of seeing that godawful bumbling form.". standing up on her tippy toes once more she put the third mirror on the counter. "that'll be seven low rank beast pearls and five gold coins" said the elf. Cynthia put a mid rank beast pearl on the table. "Consider the extra a tip for the information and the directions." said Cynthia. "If you don't mind could they transform here? It isn't every day you see three beasts achieve human form for the first time, never mind legendary ones!" said Julia. "Sure. But I was naked when I first transformed so I'll make a curtain before and have them change into their clothes and then you can see their human forms." said Cynthia.
She did just that after handing each of them their mirrors. Unfortunately she didn't know what their measurements would be once transformed so she would at least need to see them to give them clothes that would fit. All three proceeded to transform. They shone with light like during an evolution but the light was much dimmer as their forms began to morph and change, the spiders more than the zombie. Yue became a teenage girl with a slim figure her appearance was close to sixteen years old. She had dark caramel skin like that of a human whose ancestors lived on a tropical island. She had distinct spider legs growing out of her back which had razor sharp tips ending in blades. The zombie became a burly man who appeared to be in his mid forties. There wasn't much else of note about him other than the fact that he had lot of white hair all over his body, much more hair than a typical human. Sebas was the most impressive as he looked dashing with black hair and a handsome face. Sebas also had a slender figure but he had much muscle visible in quite a few places. He looked lean and powerful. Sebas also had the signature spider legs growing out of his back, but while Yue's legs looked precise and nimble, Sebas' legs looked like lean killing machines, able to expertly rip apart his prey.
Fortunately Cynthia was prepared for this. She had bought all sorts of clothes at the clothes store including clothes for men, as she had this idea for their rewards beforehand. Cynthia quickly picked out a black dress with an open back for Yue. She gave a basic suit with a tailcoat to the xingxing. Lastly she decided on a stylish suit made with a hole in the back paired with a cloak made with quite the abyssal black. While the dress and the cloak were both black, if you compared them, it was like night and day. You could tell just by looking at it that it absorbed pretty much all light it came into contact with. Instead of seeing the color black, it was more apt to say that nobody's eyes could perceive any light from the cloak because the cloak simply absorbed all visible light that came into contact with it. It was almost like Cynthia's stigma except it seemed much darker. Upon Cynthia making this connection the system responded. A blue window appeared "The system has detected the stigma of a tiger king. This stigma has long since lost it's owner and has remained dormant waiting for a new owner. Accept the tiger kings stigma into your fold? Y/N". Cynthia thought for a moment. "Can I still bestow some of it as a cloak to Sebas?" Thought Cynthia to the system. "Once you have acquired the tiger king's stigma you will have the ability to permanently manifest stigma. The tiger king's stigma with become part of your stigma but you can effectively create something identical and it will even have the defense capabilities of a celestial white tiger's stigma." said a new system window. "Lets do it then." said Cynthia. The cloak transformed into a liquid as all of the stripes on Cynthia coalesced into a sphere in front of her. The liquid of the cloak flowed into the sphere, forming a thin layer. "Congratulations! You have successfully absorbed the tiger king's stigma! The defensive capabilities of your stigma have drastically increased! The tiger king's stigma is incomplete. Complete the tiger kings stigma as the final step to becoming king rank!".