Dead?
Xia Yao recalled the Aldridge she met in the trial cave. His dirty clothes, gray hair, and the way he walked that was hard to notice unless you looked closely, really... looked a bit like a ghost.
"Where is my brother now?" Tears suddenly welled up in Ophelia's eyes, and she held Xia Yao's hand even tighter.
"In the cave of Hurricane Mountain." Xia Yao answered truthfully.
"Hurricane Mountain... so he went so far..." Ophelia murmured with red eyes, "What a cruel heart! How could they have the heart to kill Aldridge back then..."
After a brief moment of lost recollection, Ophelia suddenly realized she had lost her composure. She let go of her hand and said with an apologetic smile, "Sorry, I was too excited just now... Oh, by the way, my brother praised you highly in his letter, saying that you have both the perseverance and strength required of an enchanter. I was wondering if you are interested in this field?"
certainly!
Xia Yao nodded without hesitation.
"Well, let's go to the market and buy some tools, and dig up 50 pieces of copper ore before dark."
As soon as she finished speaking, Xia Yao saw the task panel automatically updated.
[Task: Go to Mount Quint to dig 50 pieces of copper ore (0/50) (Note: Please complete this task before dark, otherwise it will be automatically destroyed)]
Mining requires special tools, so after leaving Ophelia's residence, Xia Yao rushed to the market in the city.
The Perth Empire covers a very large area, and there are three markets in the east, south and north. Xia Yao followed the map to find the nearest southern market and spent 6 gold coins to buy two iron pickaxes.
This is the good thing about big cities. Unlike the novice village, where players can only buy and sell things by setting up stalls, there are three markets here where goods can be traded. Both NPCs and players can participate. In addition, there is a 6-story commercial hall where all kinds of daily necessities can be purchased.
On the way, she passed by an equipment purchasing shop in the southern market. She sold all the unused equipment in her backpack and got more than 200 gold in exchange.
Ophelia gave her a time-limited task, and mining is a time-consuming job. There were less than 4 hours left until dark at 7 o'clock. In order to save time, Xia Yao found an NPC in the city to teleport.
On Mount Quint.
Xia Yao aimed at a certain spot on the ground and stepped on the pickaxe. As a result, the stone that was marked "complete copper ore" the previous second suddenly cracked and the label changed to "broken copper ore" the next second.
It seems like I used too much force.
The broken copper ore was a failed product and was of no use at all. Xia Yao shook her head and turned to look for other stones.
This time she deliberately restrained her strength, and the pickaxe was fixed on the edge of the ore, and then she pried the stone carefully and slowly.
However, the stone only loosened slightly, and the ore in the middle remained motionless.
He had no choice but to inject strength into his arms, and the strength was transmitted to the ground along the pickaxe. The soil and rocks finally loosened, and the ore was pried out bit by bit.
It’s about to be obtained.
Suddenly there was another snap.
Xia Yao took out her pickaxe and sighed. A professional player actually suffered a setback in mining (╥_╥)
When she played keyboard online games in the past, whether she was collecting herbs or mining, she only needed to stand next to the target and click the mouse lightly. The whole process was mechanical clicking, which was completely different from now. She wasted the durability of the pickaxe several times and still failed to dig up a complete piece of ore.
There must be some trick, she just hasn't grasped it yet.
Take a deep breath and remind yourself not to rush.
Then he began to practice with the surrounding stones in an orderly manner.
After her deliberate adjustments, she dug with different strength and angles each time.
I still failed the first few times.
But judging from the degree of ore fragmentation, we can see that we are getting closer and closer to success.
Finally, after she had shoveled countless pieces of ore, she shoveled down one shovel after another.
【Mine copper*1】
Done!
At the same time: [The durability of the iron pickaxe is too low, please replace the tool in time]
An iron pickaxe can be used for 50 shovels. The first one was broken, but fortunately she bought two, so she replaced it with a new one and continued to mine.
When she dug the 35th block, she received a system prompt.
[Proficiency reaches 70, skill [Mining] is upgraded to level 2]
Life skills below level 10 all belong to the apprenticeship stage, and upgrading to level 2 is not a big deal. Xia Yao didn't have any thoughts, closed the text box, and continued to work.
After digging for nearly three hours, she finally collected 50 complete copper ores.
I still chose to pay and teleport back to the city, and gave the things to Ophelia for inspection.
"You are just as my brother said, a child with great potential~" Ophelia smiled in surprise and satisfaction.
System: [Successfully complete the mission, experience +1400, gold +140]
1400 experience points may seem high at first glance, but it is just a drop in the bucket for her who has already reached level 10 and is preparing to reach level 11. After all, she needs more than 50,000 experience points.
Fortunately, she upgraded quickly in the Novice Village. So far, only a few people had reached level 10 while she was mining, so it didn't matter if she didn't gain experience points for the time being. Besides, Ophelia's mission wasn't over yet, so she had to light up the skill [Enchantment] first.
As mentioned before, before learning enchantment, you need to learn [Mining] and [Forging] first. She is now at level 2 in Mining, and has yet to learn Forging.
As if she could see what Xia Yao was thinking, Ophelia smiled and took her to the back garden, took out the key and unlocked the basement door.
Walking down the long stone steps and turning on the lights, an extremely spacious room appeared before my eyes.
"This is the workshop my brother used to use. It has all the necessary tools. Since you already have the ore and enchantment blueprints, just follow the steps on the blueprints to forge it."
After giving her instructions, Ophelia left.
[Task: Forge at least one gem of white quality or above according to the enchantment blueprint]
There are 10 levels of gems, among which level 1 gems are white, levels 2 and 3 are green, levels 4 and 5 are blue, levels 6 and 7 are purple, levels 8 and 9 are orange, and the highest level 10 is gold.
Xia Yao put away her taskbar and briefly glanced at her workbench. The large, approximately five-meter-long table was covered in a dazzling array of tools, but none of them were familiar to her. So she took out the enchantment diagram, spread it out on a spare area on the table, and, following the instructions and images on the diagram, slowly learned to identify the various basic tools.
Fortunately, she has a good learning ability and she memorized the purpose and usage of all the tools in just over ten minutes.
Start forging.
First, pour the copper ore into the furnace in the corner to melt it. After setting the time, the ore turns into water and flows out along the high-temperature resistant glass next to the furnace until it is poured into the large flask at the bottom.
Wearing special gloves, he poured the solution from the flask into the molds little by little, until the solution filled 25 molds.
Then put it into the cooling system to cool it down slightly. When the solution feels neither hard nor soft and the temperature is just right, you can start cutting.
Although the cooling step seems simple, this step alone ruined 15 of her semi-finished products.
Either it is told that the material is too hard to be cut, or too soft, resulting in it not forming a shape after cutting, thus becoming a failed product.
The 16th time, she held her breath and further refined the cooling time.
Finally, she succeeded in obtaining a semi-finished product of good quality!
After that the remaining 9 were also cooled perfectly.
Xia Yao sat on the chair, relaxed for a moment, then put on her goggles, lowered her head, and began to meticulously cut little by little with the saw blade and hand file.
Cutting depends a lot on the stability of your hand, but as a former professional player myself, my hand stability is beyond doubt.
Two hours passed in a blink of an eye, and 10 pieces of jewellery had taken shape.
All that's left is the final grinding and polishing.
The gems were rubbed finely with sandpaper to smooth out the less round parts, and then polished back and forth with a polishing cloth. After another 2 hours, 10 gems of good quality came out.
I picked up each gemstone one by one to check its properties. Except for one gemstone that was rated as defective due to a tiny crack inside due to improper polishing, and another gemstone that was not well-cut during cutting, which made the final rating become white quality (slightly flawed), the remaining 8 gemstones are all grade 2 green gemstones!
The intense forging work almost exhausted her physical strength, but after seeing the results, she relaxed with great relief.
The moment she stood up, Xia Yao felt her legs go weak.
[Warning, your current stamina is less than 10, and you are in danger of fainting! Please replenish your stamina and take a short rest.]
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