I, Stone Golem, only want to forge.

Inside a remote cave.

The stone is hitting the stone with the stone.

boom!boom!

Murphy's body, made of stone, was incredibly swift and precise; the stone hammer in his hand slammed down heavily.

Two final, dull thuds rang out.

A page suddenly popped up in front of it.

Stone spear

[Level: Common]

[Quality: Perfect]

【Effects: Hard, Sharp, Swift】

[Usage Restriction: Strength level 10 or higher]

Murphy nodded in satisfaction when he saw the "perfect" quality.

He handed the spear in his hand to another stone golem beside him.

The stone man took the spear, raised it high, and hopped around a few times.

The ground around it trembled, as if it were very happy.

After its excitement subsided, the stone man took out a pen made of some unknown mineral from its sachet and drew on Murphy's body.

Then it slowly rolled away.

A light flashed on Murphy's body, and the strokes drawn by the stone man seemed to come alive, converging on the hammer totem on Murphy's back.

[One forging has been completed]

[Forging target: Ordinary Intermediate Stone Golem.]

[Forging Result: Perfect]

[Gained Infinite Strength Level +1]

[Unlimited Strength Level 3 (+1): Strength attribute increased by 50% (+10%)]

Murphy is a craftsman from the Stonemen tribe, and the only craftsman in the vicinity.

But not long ago, it was just a stone man who liked to knock things.

But then, for some inexplicable reason, he found a fragment of a human craftsman's soul.

It learned a lot of skills and knowledge from those fragments of the soul, which is how it became a craftsman.

After that, it began to practice its craft and helped its fellow stone people weave a leaf bag.

This talent—[Tinker's Hammer]—was unlocked out of nowhere.

The Craftsman's Hammer:

1. You will receive a Craftsman's Hammer, which can be transformed into any tool. The hammer will evolve as your forging level increases. (Current level: Normal)

2. When you complete a forging operation, you will gain corresponding world insights based on the purpose and circumstances of the forging (currently, you can only gain skills or increase skill experience points).

Its hammer was originally a wooden hammer, but it was later transformed into a stone hammer after it worked for others for a long time.

Murphy likes to bang things.

Its dream is to get a better hammer and to make better things.

So it will keep hitting.

Just as it was about to pick up another stone and a piece of leather next to it, preparing to finish the custom order for the slime community next door.

咕噜 咕噜

Another small stone slowly rolled over.

This stone is a rudimentary stone man; it doesn't have arms or legs, so it could only bump into Murphy as a warning.

Murphy swayed and tapped Little Stone's head, as if to ask what was wrong.

The little stone bumped into things a few more times before returning to its original position.

It turns out that the slimes who ordered the items wanted to make some changes and asked Murphy to meet with them.

Murphy tapped the small stone with his hand to indicate his understanding, and then moved towards the reception room inside the cave.

Go see what new demands those slimes have.

Along the way, they encountered several stone men on guard duty. After they saw Murphy...

They all tapped the ground with their stone spears to greet each other.

In fact, very few people would be willing to deal with this group of pure stone spirits who can't even identify minerals.

However, there will always be some wild beasts that like to run rampant, so their group has a watchman on duty every day.

In the past, these stone people were bulky and had no means of attack.

All we could do was watch as those frenzied beasts ran rampant through the cave, smashing and destroying many things.

Now that they have this spear, not only have they moved faster, but they can also take down those wild beasts with a single shot.

Therefore, they all have great respect for the intelligent Murphy.

After dawdling and procrastinating, they finally made their way to the living room.

Murphy indeed found three or four large slimes there, splitting the smaller slimes and playing.

Puff, pew, pew!

One of the slimes, wearing a crown, saw Murphy arrive and spat out the other slimes inside its body.

The slime wearing a crown hopped and skipped over to Murphy.

Puff, pew, pew!

They do not share the same language.

But Murphy has a special ability.

This is its own ability, and it's the reason it was able to pick up and absorb the craftsman's remnant soul.

[Telepathy: You can communicate seamlessly with any species.]

So it quickly learned that the slime had come looking for it.

It's because a group of druids recently arrived and wanted to trade some gel with the slime group.

However, aside from killing slimes, the gel is only produced when slimes reproduce and divide.

The magic stone bed that the slimes commissioned Murphy to make was simply a way to speed up the number of slimes that split during breeding.

Now it hopes to split more gel on top of this.

Murphy nodded, then made the request:

"Life-giving moss, more than half."

It did not speak, but communicated telepathically.

The slime flattened its body forcefully, indicating its agreement.

Life moss is abundant in slime colonies and has little value to them.

But for Murphy, this moss, which could absorb life force...

However, it is an important material for it to advance to the next level of craftsmanship.

After discussing the price, Murphy followed the slime out of the cave.

Murphy noticed that there were an unusually large number of stones that had arrived today.

As one of the few mid-level stone golems in the race, and even one who may break through to a high-level stone golem in the future.

Everyone was very kind and made room for it.

It leaned closer and saw only the distant horizon.

A jet-black dragon is fighting with another giant snake.

Wait, why is there a giant dragon in this godforsaken place?

Murphy used its stone brain to think for a while, then gave up thinking.

Anyway, even if there really are dragons, it has nothing to do with it... right?

The giant dragon in the sky was struck as if by a heavy blow and plummeted from the sky.

boom!

A loud bang was heard, the earth shook, dust rose, and broken wood and rocks flew everywhere.

After the smoke and dust cleared,

Murphy could then see a figure, as large as a small mountain, lying prone not far away, about two or three kilometers away.

(o_0)!

Oh no, this is now relevant.

The location where the dragon fell was obviously not far from them, at most two or three kilometers away.

In the memory fragments Murphy obtained, dragons were a very rare species, let alone one that landed nearby like this.

Even the slightest trace will attract a large number of people to search for it.

They are safe here simply because the benefits of dealing with them are disproportionate to the costs.

But if suddenly some traces of a dragon, or even a dragon's corpse, appear, the situation is different.

Those beings who are interested in dragons wouldn't mind kicking them to death as a matter of course.

Don't die here...

Fortunately, its worries didn't last long.

The giant snake didn't seem to have any intention of killing the dragon; instead of coming down to finish it off, it simply left.

Even more fortunately, the dragon did not die, but after a short while it flapped its wings and flew away.

Murphy stepped forward slightly, wanting to see how the dragon flew.

The dragon seemed to have mind-reading abilities and understood Murphy's thoughts.

The direction of takeoff was actually towards Murphy's side.

The dragon trotted a few steps, and with the flapping of its giant wings, a strong wind howled, stirring up the already scattered debris around it once again.

Then its scales began to glow faintly, and its body rose up little by little. With a loud bang, the dragon's massive body flew straight forward.

Its giant wings spread wide, blotting out the sky and casting a dark shadow over the area in front of the cave.

However, just as the shadows were fading and the dragon was about to fly away from the cave, an accident occurred.

Boom!

Beneath the gradually disappearing figure of the dragon, something—a black dot quickly fell down.

It just crashed right in front of Murphy.

(0.o)

It's an egg!

This thing is about half a person's height, with a dark shell and an irregular surface, resembling a rhomboid scale structure, uneven and irregular.