The requirements to forge the imperishable sword were staggering, to say the least.
…Unlike anything Alden ever expected.
He innately understood that Elder Grimnar had to work with something in order to create something. In other words, a material input was essential to the crafting process. Alden had thought maybe that would come in the form of an expensive yet common enough ore.
Unfortunately, not only did he have to scavenge for an extremely precious ore rarely found, it was also inside an environment where death was so abundant, so regular, that it almost made fighting a horde of Defiled more attractive than traversing it. Second only to the Pyre Peaks and the crash site of the meteor, this vast oceanic region terrified Alden.
Add to that the absurd sum of Mana Crystals he had to gather, and it all pointed towards the fact that he would have to delay his plans of wielding an imperishable sword, until he was strong enough to retrieve the materials necessary to craft it.
