I, Stone Golem, only want to forge.

In theory, Murphy has not reached the rank of lord.

It's not because I'm not strong enough, it's simply because I'm not at the right level.

In this world, strength and level are not entirely correlated.

If the stats are high enough, even an Excellent-level being can defeat a Lord-level being.

However, in most cases, very few creatures can win by crossing a higher level.

There are currently only two ways to cross social classes.

One is through the physical body, and the other is through a profession.

In essence, both are simply a restoration of a specific rule or symbol.

Upgrade your rank through your own body, like the Thing other than Murphy.

Because the gods that constitute them are essentially remnants of the mountains.

Therefore, they can gradually bring their bodies closer to this god from the mountains, and gradually transform their own characteristics into the shape of the mountains.

That is, to become a mountain giant or something like that.

Or perhaps some stone beings are more intelligent, believing that their abilities come from the rocks.

They will gradually align their characteristics with the rules of the Geo element, becoming Geo Lords.

Another path, however, originated from species whose ancestors may not have been as powerful, such as humans, elves, and dwarves.

In other words, I randomly choose a profession, and then, through the form of that profession, gradually find a set of rules that belong to me.

Of course, it's worth mentioning here.

These two paths are not contradictory; you can walk them together.

Some humans have special physical constitutions, such as having dragon blood or other special bloodlines.

You can restore your original bloodline while simultaneously finding a new profession to advance in.

Murphy is actually this kind of person.

It has both its own profession, that is, craftsman, and its own identity as a stone man.

But it never expected to build a stove itself.

He inexplicably acquired the identity of an ice elemental lord.

What's going on here?

Murphy scratched his head, looking bewildered, and walked to the pile of ice crystals.

The ice crystals swarmed over Murphy as if they had seen their most revered elder, surrounding him completely.

Seeing this scene, Xiao Mo, who was in the corner, suddenly felt a flash of green light in the bullet casing, and a surge of jealousy turned into an evil fire that rose up inexplicably.

Xiao Mo immediately split into five dragon eggs and charged forward, crashing into the ice crystals on Murphy's body.

boom!

Fortunately, Murphy raised his hand in time to restrain Little Murphy's true form, otherwise, given Murphy's current physique, he probably wouldn't have been sent flying.

But the commotion is expected to be quite significant.

Murphy held Little Mo in front of him, tapped Little Mo's eggshell, and asked...

What are you doing?

Little Mo just stared at Murphy, its green pupils inside the eggshell filled with grievance.

Left with no other option, Murphy ordered the ice crystals to go elsewhere.

However, since Ice Crystal lacks intelligence and is basically obedient to Murphy, she is much easier to deal with than Little Murphy.

Seeing this, Xiao Mo shook its egg body with satisfaction, then slipped away from Murphy's hand and went back to reflect on its actions.

Murphy watched the dragon egg wobble away, unsure of what to say.

How can someone have such a strong possessive streak?

Are all dragons like this?

Murphy didn't know anything about dragons, so he had no choice but to give up and instead spend some time studying his newly acquired lord status.

The way it became a lord is somewhat like becoming a god through faith.

It doesn't mean that it can actually control ice element crystals through its own magic.

Instead, it takes advantage of its ability to break the curse on the ice element crystal, so it directly maxes out the affinity.

He forcefully reached the level of a lord.

As for what use this lord is?

Murphy discovered that because his affinity for ice elements was so high, a lot of ice elements, after entering through the earth's breath, simply stayed there and didn't leave.

As time passed, its body gradually began to glow with a blue light.

And that's about it...

No, no.

If you really want to know, it seems to have some use.

This also made Murphy realize that perhaps he should find an opportunity to break through to the Lord level.

Although it didn't stay at the advanced stone golem level for very long.

But the difference between advanced, that is, excellent and lord is actually just a tiny bit of opportunity, not time.

When the opportunity arises, a breakthrough will naturally occur.

However, for Murphy, the opportunity for a breakthrough was not hard to find.

The difficulty lies in choosing the type of breakthrough.

After thinking for a while, it realized that it wasn't in a hurry to break through to the Lord level, so it decided to ask other people for their opinions later.

So it temporarily put the matter aside and planned to go out and get the other mountain kernels.

……

When Sylph saw Murphy leave the workshop, she originally planned to immediately go up to him and discuss the matter of spider silk.

But he paused, narrowed his eyes, and carefully examined Murphy.

Why does Murphy look a bit bluish?

Is it just my imagination?

But it doesn't seem to be an illusion; that blue light has a feeling of ice element.

Is it because of the high affinity for ice that ice elements are clustered together?

As an elf, she has a high degree of natural affinity.

It is naturally unlikely that the type and existence of an element will be misjudged.

But this made her feel a little strange.

Why can a stone golem be a craftsman, possess dragon's might, and have such a strong affinity for ice elements?

It couldn't have been caused by some ice dragon having a relationship with some stone golem, could it?

Although dragons are lustful, they don't... well, it's not impossible.

Because elves live a long time, they always like to seek out fun everywhere, so they have recorded many romantic jokes about dragons.

Sylph's impression of dragons had always been rather strange, and of course, this strange impression wasn't entirely unfounded.

But that's not the important thing!

Sylph shook her head sharply, banishing all these random thoughts.

She quickly walked up to Murphy and immediately said...

"Mr. Murphy, I have something I'd like to discuss with you. Perhaps we could collaborate on something?"

Murphy stopped in his tracks, looked at Sylph with a puzzled expression, but nodded, signaling her to continue.

"Are you familiar with the silk of the cave spider?"

A glint flashed in Murphy's eyes.

However, perhaps due to the excessive amount of ice, the light in its eyes turned blue.

Why are you asking this?

Murphy had certainly looked into it; he had even promised Siri he would build him a ship.

Among the materials was this spider silk, and seeing that Sylph was also mentioning it, he became interested.

"The silk from the juvenile spiders of this species is very suitable as clothing fabric, so I wondered if it were possible to cultivate them on a large scale to provide silk for clothing."

After quickly proposing her conjecture, Sylph went on to give her specific ideas.

"Judging from the caves we've been to, this spider produces a lot of silk. As for its ability to keep warm, I just tested it, and it's not bad at all."

As you know, a cold wave is approaching, and warm clothing is in short supply... so having access to such a lightweight, warm, and incredibly durable material will definitely generate a significant response in the market.

Murphy nodded slightly after hearing this and asked...

"So, what exactly is the scope of the collaboration?"

Seeing that Murphy was interested, Sylph became even more excited and spoke up.

"I need your help to make a device similar to Mr. Gobble's for the breeding of these small spiders."

After she finished speaking, she pointed to the row of little spiders and remote control next to her.

"And like those things that can control spiders, devices that can control spiders to spin silk."

Upon hearing this, Murphy seemed to ponder for a moment, and then uttered a statement that was neither an agreement nor a refusal.

"Don't you think this spider silk could be used to build ships?"

"what?"

Sylph was stunned for a moment, blinking her eyes in confusion.