Chapter 123: Shanzhai
Klauen didn’t know how to use magic circles, so he drew more than ten drafts of forging diagrams.
While drawing, he maintained the same concentration and joy as when he was building Transformers as a child, completely immersed in his own world.
He knew what Del had said to him and that Nick had come to the blacksmith shop, but it all seemed to happen in another dimension and he didn't react.
When he finished drawing and copying all the drawings, it was already 2:12 in the morning and he regained his sense of the outside world.
The night breeze outside the house gently tapped on the door, and two oil lamps were placed on a wooden rack next to the table.
Nick sat not far away, flipping through the metal-bound Bible of fire. Del, wrapped in a wolfskin coat, sat in a corner of the room, performing the chicken-pecking-rice trick with great rhythm.
"Gurgle"
The feeling of hunger surged in like a rising tide, and Crown held down his stomach which was sounding a frantic alarm.
Nick came over following the voice and asked with a gentle smile, "Are you awake?"
After saying that, he threw out a bottle of holy water.
Raising his hand to catch it, Crown tilted his head back and drank it. He exhaled and laughed, "I feel better now."
"Fortunately, I have completed the task. I have drawn the forging diagram of the armor. However, I don't know which one is the correct one because I don't understand the magic circle." He walked to the priest and handed over a drawing.
Nick picked it up and flipped through it quickly: "Your drawing is very beautiful. Although it is not a normal forging diagram, the data is very detailed. Is the proportion correct?"
"Guaranteed to restore the same proportion."
"Okay, I'll go back and study it and give you feedback tomorrow."
While the two were talking, Del woke up from his sleep. He immediately stood up with the help of the wall and went to the two of them.
"Let's go, it's more comfortable to sleep back home," Crown joked.
Del lowered his head and laughed.
The three of them left the blacksmith shop, and Crown caught a glimpse of several dark shadows circling overhead, sometimes diving into the gray fog and sometimes swooping down rapidly.
He squinted his eyes and looked carefully, and found that these black shadows looked like bats and were the size of basketballs.
There are red fluorescent threads on the wing membrane, which look like blood vessels.
Seeing him stop and look up at the sky, Del raised his head and glanced at it and said, "That's a mutant bat, very ferocious, it will pounce and bite people when they're not paying attention, it just appeared two days ago. They have poisonous teeth, and usually come out in the second half of the night.
Recently, I have encountered many animals that have grown much larger. Baru said that a group of brown bears came to the camp in the evening, and some of the cubs looked like normal bears. Have the animals adapted to the outside environment? "
"The animals you see have all adapted to the environment. Their appearance may not be much different from their original appearance, but their internal organs have probably mutated a lot," Nick said slowly.
There is a method of animal taming that can be learned. It is time to find an opportunity to catch a few flying birds for experimentation. Klauen's focus is on the word "normal". Since the gray fog came, the bears he has seen either have strange tentacles or have lost their hair, revealing black and red skin with sores and pus.
The animals' appearance returned to normal, indicating that the animals had adapted to the mutations brought about by the gray fog.
Animals have taken the first step towards mutation and evolution, and it is unknown what impact they will have on the human world in the future.
. . . .
The next morning, just as Clown finished visualizing the Golden Light Mantra, there was a knock on the door.
"Bang, bang, bang." The knocks on the door were very rapid, with no pauses in between.
He once told his friends here that they should not be disturbed during the two time periods of Maoshi and Youshi, and no one disturbed him during these time periods.
"Crown, I have confirmed the forging drawings," Nick's surprised voice sounded.
Crown opened the door and saw the priest holding a pocket watch in one hand and a stack of blueprints in the other.
"I've been waiting at the door for quite a while. I knocked at the right time, so I shouldn't have disturbed you."
"No, please come in."
"Come and see," Nick squeezed in before he could make way.
The priest was a very steady man. Seeing how happy and impatient he looked, Crown felt that this drawing meant a lot to him.
Is this because the profit margin on armor is so high?
The priest walked quickly to the table, spread out the blueprint, and said with shining eyes:
"My enchanted armor can improve defense by stimulating holy power, and it can also speed up the operation of holy power. Although it is a standard armor, the craftsmanship is not low. The church's extraordinary blacksmith Andrea can only produce three or four pieces a month. I didn't expect that you could draw the structure of the armor so finely."
"Look, the pattern of the magic circle on the breastplate in this picture is wrong. It should be the structure in this picture."
Crown hurriedly took out his backup drawings. He listened attentively to the other party's explanation and made marks.
Nick talked nonstop for half an hour, pointing out all the problems.
Based on the priest's advice and on-site guidance, he revised and drew a forging blueprint.
"The reinforcement of the magic array nodes is fine, and the energy circuit is fine." Nick pointed at the magic array on the blueprint and muttered to himself. After checking it three times, he nodded with satisfaction:
"There is no problem with the magic circle. We can try to forge a sample. Let's go to the blacksmith shop to work."
The priest stood up and pulled Crown out without saying anything.
"Do you know what the material of the magic circle is? I have no idea how to embed the magic circle into the armor," Klauen responded with a helpless smile.
"Don't worry about the magic circle. I understand! I will use ordinary materials to make a magic circle for experiment. I have seen the embedding method before. It is very simple. Just embed the magic circle into the middle of the mold."
"Won't forging destroy the magic circle?"
"Of course not. The materials of these magic arrays have good ductility. If you use crude iron to melt and cast billets to make things, you need to forge for a long time to remove impurities, but refined iron only needs to be melted into molten iron to cast the mold, so there is no need for long-term forging!"
. . . .
Two days later in the evening, the clanging sounds in the blacksmith shop finally stopped.
Crown used the fine iron as a blank to forge a new suit of armor, using the shape and size of his first high-grade armor.
Only the breastplate will be embedded with the magic circle, so the workload is not much more than last time, not to mention there is an extra helper and supervisor, so the forging speed is much faster than last time.
When he had fastened the last rivet on the leg armor, Nick put it on directly, ignoring the dirtiness of the freshly forged armor.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
"Hmm," the priest coughed twice, clenched his fists, and stomped the ground lightly with his feet.
"Yeah," he coughed twice again.
"I say, why are you more nervous than me? Why don't you try the effect?" Crown couldn't help laughing when he saw his actions.
Nick tilted his head and said seriously: "If the experiment is successful, do you know what it means?"
"It means that we are truly advanced. I will tell others that this armor was designed and made by a genius who is only in his twenties and has been in contact with forging for less than half a year. In the future, he will definitely be able to forge soul-infused equipment."
Ten minutes later, the priest asked, "Do you understand?"
Clown laughed twice. He felt that the priest's empty promises were aimed at the wrong person. He had heard of empty promises too many times in his previous life, but the actions of those empty promises had never disappointed people.
"Try it quickly and make sure the imitation is successful first."
Nick mobilized his own strength, and the armor slowly lit up with flaming flowers.
"Hahahaha", after laughing wildly for a while, the priest stopped laughing: "The next step is to melt the powder of the enchanted armor. The modules are ready."
The experiment was successful and Crown was very happy, but he immediately waved his hand to interrupt the priest: "Rest for a night before starting work again. I am too tired to continue."
During these two days, except for the hours of Mao and You, he spent all his time forging armor.
"You go back and think about what kind of mark to put on the items you forge at night. Senior blacksmiths all have their own unique marks," Nick waved his hand. He was indeed very tired these two days.
He turned around and said, "Del, let's work hard tonight to melt the armor powder. We can't delay Crown's work tomorrow."
Five days later, Nick put on his new armor and activated the holy power, and the flowers of fire bloomed.
The priest's face was as excited as it was a few days ago. He smiled foolishly for a long time, took off his helmet, stroked the pattern of three triangles, one large and two small, and asked, "What does this mark of yours mean?"
“It’s an icon of a mountain,” Crown replied.
"Does this mean that the equipment you forge is as solid as a mountain?"
In fact, it means "copycat". After all, your armor is a stolen craft. Klauen smiled, neither admitting nor denying.
. . . .
"You two, pack your bags, we will be leaving here in a few days," Klauen came to the room of the witcher master and apprentice to convey the latest news.
The ice and snow in the sunny areas have all melted. The church notified the town of Zak and arrived at the town of Kux in half a month, and set off for Rhine City together with the residents there.
He told Geralt the church's decision, and a smile immediately appeared on his face. "I'm finally leaving here. My restless heart has already flown to Rhine City."
Allen said, "We don't have much to pack. We only have weapons, some spare clothes, and a small wooden box filled with herbs. We can take them away anytime."
"How many Purifying Talismans can you spare now? We want to buy some," Geralt asked.
Now, he often took the Qingxin Talisman Water, and his manic mood was completely suppressed. Even on the night of the full moon, he could still maintain sufficient rationality after taking the Talisman Water.
He felt that he was qualified to take the mutagen for the third time, and planned to return to Rhine City to inquire about the price of the potion from his acquaintances in the Warlock Brotherhood. The mutation process also required the assistance of some talisman water.
Clown smiled and said, "That's a lot. It all depends on how many spirit coins you can take out of your purse."
As his proficiency in the Golden Light Mantra continued to improve, the amount of Sun Fire Liquid or Moon Dew he obtained with each visualization also slowly increased. He had more than eight hundred pieces of the Heart Purification Talisman in stock, and even more, more than one thousand one hundred pieces.
He came specifically to inform the two of their departure because Geralt had previously stated that he would purchase a batch of Purifying Talismans as a backup before leaving.
He knew roughly how many spirit coins the other party had in his hands, and was ready to empty the other party's assets.
A friend pointed out that the Holy Armor Technique was not very similar to the Golden Light Spell. After thinking about it, I realized that it was true, so I changed it to the Golden Armor Technique. (End of this chapter)