"You're not a craftsman," she whispers. "You're an artifact smuggler. No... worse. You're a creator ."
Lillie takes the dagger to the forest. The chapter cuts to a silent, near-wordless action sequence. Lillie, who was previously struggling, now dances through the goblin squad. The dagger cuts through the Armored Goblin's steel hide like paper. The "Silent Edge" allows her to take out sentries without alerting the horde. "You're not a craftsman," she whispers
The table whirs to life. Nanites (or magic particles, it's ambiguous) swarm around the materials. Within three panels, a gorgeous, leaf-shaped dagger with a crystalline edge appears. Lillie, who was previously struggling, now dances through
Lillie, the elf ranger, returns, this time not as a suspicious stranger but as a customer. She has a problem: her hunting knife shattered against a new type of monster that appeared in the eastern woods— Armored Goblins . These aren't the standard low-level goblins. They have metallic hides and crude iron weapons. the elf ranger
This is the heart of the chapter. Kou accepts the commission, and we get a breathtaking 11-page montage of crafting.