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"Li Tian, the day for your competition with the Weasel Tribe must be today, right? How are your preparations going?" A cat-tribe orc with tabby ears stopped a drooping black-eared orc with a worried look on his face.
Hearing his friend's question, Li Tian sighed deeply and subconsciously touched the silver ring on his finger. "I feel like I'm doomed this time. I heard that Itachi went to someone else to steal two new C-rank equipment for this competition. Add to that his old equipment, and his equipment bar is almost full."
The opponent was almost fully equipped, and he himself only had three D-level items except for the silver ring which was a B-level equipment. How could he compare with Itachi?
The tiger-striped beastman frowned. "I think that Itachi had bad intentions from the beginning. He deliberately provoked you to bet on the match with him. His ultimate goal is to get the B-level ring on your hand!"
The bet between Itachi and Li Tian was Li Tian's only B-level equipment - the Frost Ring.
This is the relic left to Li Tian by his grandfather. It is his only thought and the most valuable thing in the family. I didn't expect Itachi to be so excessive. He always brings people to bully the cat people and snatch food and drink from them. Now he even doesn't let go of the relics in other people's hands!
The weasel tribe lives not far from the cat tribe's territory, and its strength is not much different from that of the cat tribe. In the past, it was even slightly inferior to the cat tribe. However, since the cat tribe experienced several invasions by other tribes, its strength has declined greatly, and it has become the weakest race in the forest.
Since then, the Weasels have come to harass them from time to time, giving them no time to breathe and recover.
Adults are like this, and children follow suit, especially the guy named Itachi, who specifically gathers a group of idle orcs of the same age to bully others everywhere, and has become a nightmare in the hearts of underage cats.
If the Weasel Clan and the Cat Clan had not yet completely torn their faces apart, I'm afraid Itachi Nian would not have obtained the Frost Ring through betting, but would have directly robbed it!
Li Tian said with a sad face: "I have no choice. It was Itachi who forced me to make a bet with him. If I don't agree, he will burn down my house one day. What should I do? What should I do? I really don't want to lose the ring left by my grandfather."
"How about you go to Uncle Li Ming's equipment store and buy... Oh, no, borrow two new pieces of equipment?"
"I've already been there, crying and begging, but Uncle Liming won't lend me any equipment." Li Tian shook his head, his expression growing increasingly frustrated. "My family doesn't have much spare money to buy equipment, and my parents are out with the hunting team looking for new resources. They only left me some money for food, which isn't enough to rent equipment."
There is a shortage of resources around the cat tribe's territory, which is completely unable to support the residents of an entire town. Coupled with the plundering of other tribes, the available resources are even less sufficient.
Over the years, the leader has been continuously sending people out to search for new resource points, but even at the cost of many tribesmen's lives, the gains are still very little.
The tabby cat was very worried about his little friend, but he only had a few copper coins in pocket money and could not help much.
Suddenly, as if he had thought of something, his eyes lit up and he suddenly grabbed Li Tian's sleeve and said, "Come on, follow me quickly. My mom just mentioned that there's a new equipment store next to our fruit store. As long as you provide the materials, they'll help you forge equipment for free!"
Li Tian was happy for a moment, but soon became disappointed again: "But, but my family only has 10 sets of forging materials. These were the rewards given to my parents by the leader after they joined the overseas team. What if..."
"Forget it, I'm not going."
The survival rate of the dispatched team is not high, which is recognized by the cat tribe. Therefore, the leader will give 5 B-level materials as compensation to every fellow tribe member who is willing to join the dispatched team. Li Tian's parents received a total of 10.
The tabby cats ignored Li Tian's hesitation and simply dragged him forward.
"What's the point of thinking so much? Let's go and take a look first. It won't hurt to take a look." Liwei, or the tabby cat clan, knows the concerns of his little friend. Equipment masters have a certain success rate in forging equipment, and a lot of materials will be wasted.
There are a total of four blacksmiths in their cat tribe, two D-level, one C-level and one B-level. Not to mention the other three, just talking about the B-level blacksmith, his success rate of B-level equipment is only about 55%, and he has very few B-level equipment blueprints. He usually only forges five or six types of B-level equipment.
Among the B-grade materials given by the leader, almost none of them are the forging materials needed among the five or six types.
The usable B-grade materials had already been given to the blacksmith to be made into equipment to arm the hunting team.
In fact, neither of them had much hope. They went there just for the free forging. But when they saw the simple shop door with only a simple sign and only an orphan cat who had just reached adulthood in the shop, their last glimmer of hope was shattered.
Li Tian's brows drooped. "I said I wouldn't come a long time ago. Look, it's useless to come. What real forging skills can an orphan who's not as good as us have? Even if she really awakened her forging talent, she definitely doesn't have the equipment blueprints. Even if she did have the equipment blueprints, she would probably waste all the materials."
Having said that, he turned around and was about to walk back.
"Hey, wait!" Riwei grabbed Ritsu's hand. "I saw on that sign that it says the forging success rate is 2/3, and three sets of materials will definitely produce two sets of equipment. How about this, I'll try using my D-grade materials first. If it works, you can use B-grade materials. How about that?"
Li Tian thought about it and agreed with Li Wei's suggestion: "Okay, let's do as you say. But I can't let you suffer any loss. Whether it succeeds or not, I will help your fruit shop pick wild fruits for a week for free."
Since his friends treat him sincerely, there is no reason for him to take advantage of them.
Knowing Li Tian's character, Li Wei did not refuse. Instead, he secretly ran to the fruit store's warehouse and found three D-level materials without his mother's knowledge. He then quietly slipped into the newly opened material store and handed the items to Yan Yu: "Hello, can you help me see if I can forge a piece of equipment with just these three materials?"
Yan Yu, who had keen senses, had heard clearly the conversation between the two at the door. Upon hearing this, she lowered her head to look at the materials brought by Li Wei. They were exactly 3 D-grade iron ores, and she happened to have the relevant drawings.
Yan Yu: "Which one do you want, the D-level eyebrow knife or the D-level dagger? The eyebrow knife requires 2 iron ores, while the dagger only needs 1, but the properties of the eyebrow knife are stronger than the dagger."
Unexpectedly, Yan Yu could really forge it, and even gave two different options. Li Wei and Li Tian looked at each other excitedly.
Liwei made his choice without hesitation: "Let's go with the daggers. Three iron ores can produce two, right?"
Yan Yu smiled and nodded.
"Okay, I'll give you the materials." Liwei handed over the iron ore and asked, "How long do we need to wait?"
It takes their cat tribe's D-level blacksmith more than ten minutes to forge a piece of D-level equipment. C-level and B-level blacksmiths take slightly less time to forge D-level equipment, but it basically takes more than five minutes.
That is to say, 3 materials will take at least 15 minutes.
This time Yan Yu did not speak, but activated his talent directly in front of the two of them. In less than a few seconds, three palm-sized D-level daggers appeared in front of them.
The level of D-class equipment was too low for Yan Yu, and she couldn't make much money from it, so she didn't take 1/3 of the materials as her reward as planned.
Seeing that Yan Yu turned all the materials into equipment in just a few seconds, Liwei and Litian's eyes widened instantly, and their inner anticipation rose again.
Looking at the properties of the new equipment again, it was better than the equipment made by the two D-level blacksmiths of the cat tribe, and he couldn't help but feel excited.
Liwei shouted anxiously: "Litian, hurry up and take out your materials and let the boss see if it can be forged!"
"good!"
Li Tian hurriedly took out 10 B-level materials and handed them to Yan Yu, and asked a little nervously: "Boss, can these be forged into equipment?" As long as he could forge one piece, his chances of winning the competition would be greatly improved, and the probability of keeping the frost ring would also be greatly increased.
Before Yan Yu could utter the word "can", a sharp and sarcastic voice suddenly came from the door of the equipment store.
A tall and thin weasel-like orc with a pointed face and monkey-like appearance walked into the store with four or five of his younger brothers.
"I thought you had found some life-saving straw, but you ended up finding an equipment store that's obviously not doing well." Itachi glanced at the empty store with disdain, and finally his eyes fell on Yan Yu, "Hey, the owner of this store looks familiar?"
He narrowed his eyes, and after a careful recollection, he suddenly said, "Isn't this the unwanted orphan Li Yu? How come, before, when he met us, he would just cry and hide behind others, but now he's become capable and actually opened a shop."
Yan Yu's identity is "Li Yu" among the cat clan.
Itachi: "Don't worry, based on our friendship, I will definitely come to your store every day in the future."
The implication was that they would harass her every day and she could forget about living a peaceful life.
Yan Yu dug out relevant information about the orc Younian from his unfamiliar memories and found that he was just a street urchin who disliked everyone but dogs. His behavior was the same as that of the young man from Blue Star, and his impression of him instantly dropped to the lowest.
Her eyes were sharp, her pupils were bottomless, and she asked, "Are you threatening me?"
Itachi was startled, his hair stood on end, as if he had seen a natural enemy, and he involuntarily took two steps back.
When he reacted, he felt that he had lost face in front of his brothers, so his brows were tightly knitted together, and he glared at Yan Yu fiercely, drew his weapon, and pointed the tip of the sword directly at the tip of her nose: "So what if I threaten you! You coward, softie, do you still think you can resist!"
His level is 38, and his equipment is a high-end combination of 1 B-level and 7 C-level items. Not to mention the poor Yan Yu on the opposite side, he is not afraid even if someone from the cat hunting team comes!
If Yan Yu dares to resist today, he will kill her with a sword to establish his authority over the cat clan. Then, he will see who dares to defy his will and will have to be his obedient dog kneeling down and licking his feet!
Li Wei quickly tugged at Yan Yu's sleeve and whispered, "Boss, we can't defeat them all. Why don't you just give in first..."
Li Tian also quietly took two steps back, with a hint of fear and timidity in his eyes.
Occasionally, passersby on the street saw Itachi draw his weapon and hurriedly trotted away, fearing that they would get into trouble.
Oh my god, that guy Itachi is causing trouble again, and someone is going to be in big trouble again!
【Author’s words】
Thanks to the little angel who irrigated the nutrient solution: Schrödinger's physics, Keke is not afraid of being fat, the most handsome man in the world, my dear children, happy Valentine's Day, hahahaha
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