I complained at the loss of gold, but it was a necessary sacrifice I had to make for He Yi’s sake, so I paid the blacksmith 100k gold and left the materials with him. While he was working, Shadow Dancer Xue Wei and I sat together at a nearby stone bench and waited for him to finish.

……

Ding ding…

The Master Blacksmith sweated like it was raining as he smashed his hammer against the melted Ice Soul Steel and Soulstones again and again. He also tempered the gemstones before fitting them onto the molten metal.

The good news was that the forging process didn’t take long at all. It was finished in just ten minutes or so!

Ding~!

System Notice: Congratulations, your "Ice Soul Barrier" (Spirit-grade, Outstanding★★★) has been forged!

……

The next moment, the blacksmith passed me the exquisite shield with ice flying around it with a smile. "Are you satisfied with my work, my lord?"

I accepted the shield and examined it closely. The refined shield was well designed and beautiful-looking, and I was sure that He Yi would fall in love with it at first sight. Feeling pretty overjoyed myself, I replied to the blacksmith "I love it" repeatedly while checking the shield’s stats. It was astonishingly good—

Ice Soul Barrier...