"Maria, I heard that Master Ian is recruiting temporary workers. Are you going there to try your luck?"
Lina didn't speak Chinese, but a common language in the Celtic continent, which is a bit like an ancient Western language on Earth and has nothing to do with Chinese.
"Yes." Ye Mo answered briefly, trying not to reveal his unfamiliarity with this strange language.
Lina grinned. The goblin's mouth occupied a quarter of their face, and two rows of pointed teeth could be seen inside, white and shiny. "Master Ian is a senior craftsman. There must be a lot of people going today. Let's walk faster."
Most goblins spend their entire lives forging weapons and equipment. Their profession is craftsman. Goblin craftsmen are generally divided into four levels: primary craftsman, intermediate craftsman, senior craftsman, and legendary craftsman.
Thousands of years ago, there was a half-blood goblin. He was not only a legendary craftsman, but also an excellent alchemist.
Don't be surprised. For tens of thousands of years, there have always been people of different races who love each other, even if it is the short and sturdy goblins and the elves who are always famous for their beauty.
The fire axe in Ye Mo's hand was assigned by the system to be made by the junior goblin workers.
Since there are senior craftsmen recruiting workers, let's go and have a look first. It's too inconvenient to have no money on me.
There is no time to waste.
The two goblins were hurrying on the road. The goblins with slender legs always had a sense of joy and humor when they were hurrying on the road.
Ye Mo: "..."
The underground world of the goblins is clean, tidy and orderly. Seeing this world with my own eyes, I was quite shocked.
In the residential area, the winding alleys divide the entire underground world into small living areas. Each living area has a special garbage chute and a deeper underground drainage ditch, which is managed by an old goblin.
The goblins are also very strong in spirit. They can clearly distinguish this maze-like underground world in the dark. They are worthy of being a group that has lived underground for a long time.
After more than 20 bends, the alleys become wider and wider.
On the walls of the caves on both sides, there are murals painted with colorful pigments. These murals are lifelike and vivid. There is not much artistic conception, but they are filled with the atmosphere of simple and joyful life.
As underground creatures, the way of survival of non-intelligent creatures and intelligent creatures is of course completely different.
Passing by a goblin workshop.
Bang!
Dozens of goblins were hammering with hammers or other tools. It was said that they had asked the magician to draw a silencer array to control the hammering sound within the scope of this workshop.
When Ye Mo followed Lina to Master Ian's recruitment workshop, there were already hundreds of goblins lined up here. Seeing two newcomers coming, a senior goblin showed a threatening look.
"Hey! Little girl, this is not the place for you."
"Master Ian has no age limit for recruitment." Ye Mo pulled Lina, who was about to cry, behind him. He never thought that one day he would compete with the dwarves for a hard labor job.
Lina stared at Ye Mo with emotion, and her big copper bell eyes became more and more "beautiful".
…
Master Ian is a goblin with a thick green beard. Forgive Ye Moka's boring description. To her, the difference between the more than one-meter-tall goblins in front of her is really small.
The craftsmen are very serious about their work. Even if they are temporary workers, Master Ian decided to select them personally.
The test is mainly divided into two procedures. The first is to hammer a piece of iron the size of a small mountain into a square. The second is to carve a fixed pattern on the four sides of a square stone the size of a palm.
The goblins lined up to receive a large piece of iron first. Once they received it, they found a fixed position and started to knock it. The earlier the work was completed, the greater the chance of being selected.
Ye Mo also received a piece of heavy iron weighing more than 500 kilograms and found an empty corner.
Each goblin has different hammering and shaping tools. Many goblins' hammers are sharper than the fire axe in her hand. Her fire axe is just a little weird in shape.
Bang!
Ye Mo hammered hard twice. Sure enough, the hardness of the iron in this world is much stronger than that on Earth. The strength of 23 attribute points plus the fire axe only left a shallow mark.
This is purely a laborious job.
Ye Mo stopped daydreaming and, like other goblins, hammered and forged the iron with all his strength.
Bang bang bang!
Boom bang bang!
Bang bang bang! Bang bang bang!
The process of hammering is very hard, no less than grinding an iron rod into a needle, but every goblin did not give up, even if their hands were rubbed red and sweat was all over the floor.
[Survivor Ye Mo has been detected to have broken through the critical point of strength, strength attribute +1].
This is the first time that Ye Mo has broken through the critical value other than the spiritual attribute. Apart from the reason of potential value, was the strength she consumed when killing zombies before not enough?
I don’t know how long it took, but Ye Mo’s body was very, very tired.
Her square iron block finally took shape, square, and then she took out the iron nails and hammered it from her backpack to shape it, so that the error of the side length of each iron material did not exceed 0.1cm.
Master Ian took a general look and announced with a smile: "Little guy, you passed!"
Ye Mo breathed a sigh of relief. There were more than ten goblins who completed the task earlier than her, and more than forty of them completed it one after another. Master Ian announced that these people had successfully challenged the first level.
The newbie Lina was a little short of time and failed. Her two big dark green eyes were wet, and she could only leave reluctantly. Before leaving, she cheered for her little friend.
"Come on, Maria!"
Ye Mo nodded to her and lined up with the rest of the goblins to receive palm-sized stones. Unlike the physical test just now, carving and grinding stones requires certain skills.
Thanks to her profession, she was able to quickly understand the work process of the goblins in Maria's memory. Moreover, the professional knowledge on Earth is not completely useless in this world.
Unlike most goblins, Ye Mo was not too anxious to start this time.
Instead, I first grind the stone with a whetstone, neither too hard nor too soft, and at a moderate speed, thinking about which composite material on Earth has the most similar properties to the stone in my hand.
Then I remember all the patterns I need to carve in my mind, not missing any details, and then I take out the black carving knife and outline the overall outline bit by bit.
There is a kind of grinding stone material called "black crystal" in the Celtic continent. It is indispensable for rough engraving, fine engraving and precise engraving. The materials that can bear the engraving of black crystal will have extraordinary hardness, toughness and sharpness.
Only weapons that have been engraved with black crystal can accept the next step of magic array processing.
Ye Mo is only taking on a rough grinding task now.
But this process is still not simple. The difficulty lies in the fact that the strokes must be continuous, otherwise the magic array processing can no longer be carried out, which is equivalent to waste.
The most troublesome part of the pattern is not the carving frame, but the grinding of a small number of fine lines. The finer the pattern, the more difficult it is.
At this moment, Ye Mo's elementary mental control technique played a decisive role. The pattern emerged little by little under the black crystal sharpening knife. Not to mention whether it was continuous or not, she even completed it in one breath!
It's just that the speed is very slow.
[It is detected that the survivor Ye Mo has broken through the critical point of spirit value, and the spirit attribute is +1.]
...
Many goblins were sweating profusely while carving, but they still lost at this level in the end.
There is no way there will be a second stone material, and they were eliminated.
Gradually, the goblins either failed in carving or completed the carving task.
Only one young goblin who had just reached adulthood was still continuing.
Don't worry, Master Ian has been paying attention to this young goblin since a long time ago, and now he has stopped the other goblins from talking and quietly waited for Ye Mo to complete the task.
The workshop became very quiet, and the only sound was the friction of black crystal material in the corner of the 'central display stand'.