The master ignored Gordon's act of being obedient despite taking advantage.
He coughed a few times and continued: "Using a large amount of materials from the Sky Comet Dragon and replacing machinery with biological structures, the cost of this sword has been increased to the point where it is almost impossible to copy.
In fact, this completely went against my original intention of designing the jet sword. "
Gordon, who got the advantage, was too embarrassed to answer the question.
Initially, the core concept of the master's design of the jet sword was to use a fully mechanized structure to reduce material requirements and be replicable.
In other words, he hopes to make a "universal" sword that a three-star, four-star, or even lower-level swordsman can gather materials for mass production, can be strengthened all the way to the upper level, and has power beyond conventional standards.
For example, like the explosive knife, the number of users can be hundreds or thousands.
Not this kind of "legendary" weapon that is implanted with the energy core of the ancient dragon species and cannot even be touched by ordinary hunters.
After a moment of silence, the master and craftsman sighed with a complicated expression, "The chief engineer and I took this road astray, but we didn't expect that in the end, it was that guy who helped us get back on track."
"That guy?"
Gordon recalled that the master did mention just now that the final shape of the jet sword also relied on the opinions of "another person".
He originally thought it was referring to the great craftsman of Longli Academy, or some engineering scholar.
Now it seems that it is not that simple.
"Um."
The master's mood was obviously very low. He hesitated for a moment, and finally took out something from the drawer.
It was a half-burnt notebook.
"This is."
"Well, this is Black Hawk's relic." The master paused for a few seconds, "Hilda found it next to Black Hawk's body and brought it back, ahem.
The people in the dark night checked it and found nothing special. After confirming that it was just some drawings, they handed it over to me for analysis. "
Caressing the heavily carbonized leather cover, the master craftsman continued: "What is written on it are the Black Hawk guy's ideas for improving the jet sword.
He proposed the concept of using 'explosion' to explosively increase the power of sword swings through short bursts of energy.
It was inspired by these ideas and referring to the jet structure of the Sky Comet Dragon Wings that we finally finalized the 'explosive heat mechanism [Silver Wings]'.
The [Silver Wing] Great Sword does not need to use the materials of Tian Hui Long. As long as some kind of material with strong impact resistance and blast resistance is found, small-scale mass production can be achieved.
This is the real 'Jet Sword', not the 'Sky Dragon Jet Sword' that can only be obtained by killing the Sky Comet Dragon.
Even though the latter is stronger," the master patted the burnt notebook, "it has a more important significance in the history of equipment development. "
Gordon didn't answer.
He didn't want to evaluate Black Hawk, but he also understood what Master Jiang meant.
The "Jet Sword" that has been fully strengthened with the materials of the Sky Comet Dragon only belongs to him, while the [Silver Wings] belong to more great swordsmen.
"I will keep an eye on the new sword for you. Don't be impatient. Is there anything else?" Putting away the Black Hawk's drawings, the master craftsman was not very interested, but he still asked Gordon patiently.
Gordon, who was supposed to leave, hesitated for a moment, and finally asked the question that had been bothering him for several days.
"Master, what are the rules for promotion to a high-level hunter?"
The master was stunned for a moment when he heard this. He did not expect that Gordon would ask this question. Hayata, who was also curious, also pricked up his ears.
"I understand, you are talking about your promotion to Seven Stars."
The master smiled slightly and said, "I was negligent. In the past two years after you were promoted to a high-ranking position, you spent most of your time in a small stronghold and did not have many opportunities to communicate with other high-ranking hunters, so you were confused.
In fact, it's not that complicated. The promotion rules for high-level hunters are not fundamentally different from those for lower-level hunters. They all accumulate a sufficient number of tasks and then get the opportunity to apply for promotion.
The key lies in the leap-forward increase in task difficulty. "
Seeing that Gordon and the two didn't understand, the master thought for a while and said: "There is no need to say more about the number of tasks. This time, Gordon, you were promoted to seven stars, but Ancil was not. It's because of the number of tasks completed by Ancil. not enough.
The key lies in the second half.
Let me ask you, what are the six-star dangerous monsters? Just name a few. "
"Uh, Fei Spider, Skeleton Spider, Frozen Gelong, Black Horned Dragon, Black Boom Dragon"
"Well, most of them are subspecies of monsters that are quite dangerous, right?"
"It really is."
"What about the Seven Stars?" Master Jiang continued to ask.
Gordon thought for a while, "Dinosaur, golden lion, rare species of fire dragon, gold and silver fire, etc.?"
"Well, what about Eight Stars?"
"Uh" Gordon was stunned. What are the eight-star monsters?
The master did not continue to lie, and said with a smile: "Most of the monsters rated as eight-star dangerous are ancient dragons, steel dragons, flame king dragons, Xialong, etc., as well as some extremely dangerous two-level monsters.
Your mission to hunt the Celestial Comet Dragon this time is also defined as eight-star difficulty. Do you realize something strange? "
Without waiting for Gordon and the others to answer, the master continued: "After entering the upper level, the hunter's level is not completely proportional to the danger of the corresponding star-level monsters and the difficulty of the task, but in a very exaggerated steep way. The curve is rising.
It can be said that when a six-star hunter fights alone, he is more confident in completing the six-star mission.
Seven-star hunters often have to work in teams to complete seven-star missions more safely.
As for eight-star missions, such as this hunt for the Sky Comet Dragon, it is basically impossible for even an experienced eight-star hunter to complete it alone.
Taking Hilda as an example, letting her hunt the Celestial Comet Dragon in its prime state alone is no different from letting her die directly. If it were me who was in the Nine Star Hunter period, the result would not be much different.
As for the nine-star mission, well, there is no need to understand it for the time being. Anyway, it cannot be completed by one person.
So in this case, how can upper-level hunters be promoted to eight or nine stars? You can't use hunting ancient dragon species alone as an assessment. "
"Really not." Gordon scratched his chin.
He objectively evaluated his own strength and said that being a qualified seven-star hunter should have no problem.
If he were to hunt a seven-star dangerous monster alone, such as the Tyrannosaurus Rex, he would have about a 60% chance of successfully hunting, a 30% chance of failing and retreating, and a 10% chance of being eaten directly.
This "probability" is said casually and does not have serious reference value, but it roughly means this.
In short, if you have some confidence, you can try, but you may die if you try.
This is not how the rare high-level hunters are used. If they really have to be assessed in this way, in a few years, the high-level hunters will probably die.
“So, except for investigation tasks whose difficulty is difficult to define, hunting tasks above six stars are basically carried out by teams of multiple high-ranking hunters.
As a result, it becomes quite difficult to accurately divide the strength through assessment tasks.
At the same time, it is common for upper-level hunters to participate in missions with higher star rating than their level. With the two combined, the promotion assessment can only be conducted in a more flexible way.
The first step is to complete a sufficient number of tasks corresponding to the level or above to prove that you have enough experience.
The second step is to show strength 'higher than one's own level' in a more difficult task.
High-level hunters who achieve these two points will receive notification of promotion.
Your promotion this time may seem a bit sudden, but it is actually the most normal promotion step for upper-level hunters.
So there is nothing to worry about, just accept praises and awards with peace of mind. "
Ps. Regarding the promotion method of high-level hunters, here is a supplementary setting.
Very few people can face the ancient dragon alone. This is set at the beginning of the book (Chapter 37, the eight-star hunter Xia Zuo went to investigate Xialong alone, and almost did not poison him when he came back. Yamos therefore questioned Minagaar Chairman De’s decision)
Also, the highest hunter level in this book is nine stars, there is no special G level, master level.
After all, it's not a fairy tale or fantasy theme where you can change the map. Once a level system is opened, the previous eight or nine star hunters will lose all their prowess.
Master is a kind of honorific title, master and craftsman. People like Samantabhadra will be respectfully called "master".
As for the so-called nine-star mission, it may involve taboos
(End of chapter)
