Crackling, the bonfire exploded into a ball of bright sparks.
The shadows on the faces of the two people beside the fire moved slightly. Tata silently watched the fragments of ashes flying upward in the darkness, and then looked up to see the sparks rising to the treetops before disappearing.
A half-circle of blue moon hung above the head, and its cold silver glow shone on the mountains in the distance.
There is an owl on a tree branch in the distance, with silver-gray feathers, staring motionlessly in a certain direction. It was pitch dark there, only the downs of some curly plants were glowing, fireflies were flying up and down, and there were dots of light in the ancient forest.
After Fang Plover completed the last process, he let out a sigh of relief.
He took out a biscuit from his pocket, broke off a small piece and gave it to her: "This is today's dinner."
Tata sat on her knees on a dead leaf and turned to look at him curiously: "Actually, I don't have to eat."
"But I always feel weird eating alone, and besides, you can't eat much." Fang Yu scratched his head in embarrassment.
"Is there no food left?"
"It doesn't matter, you can always find food in the forest."
Miss Goblin held the biscuit in both hands, paused for a moment, lowered her head and took a bite. She chewed it gently, and the crumbs of the biscuit were all around her cheeks, and then wiped it with her small hands. It was so cute.
"Is it tasty?"
"It tastes like sugar, very sweet."
"Have you never eaten anything before?" Fang Plover asked curiously.
"The dragon soul does not need to eat." Tata answered while holding the biscuits and looking up at him.
"Huh?...Will something go wrong?" Fang Pliance became a little worried again, suspecting that he had done something stupid.
But Tata shook his head. "No," she replied. "The cookies are nice, thank you."
Fang Plover breathed a sigh of relief.
It had been a day and a night since the two left the elven ruins.
Judging from the relative position of the Dragon Roar Mountain Range and the sun during the day, the teleportation array of the Anji Na Temple should have teleported them to the south of the Sea of Ancient Trees. Fang Plover believes that this place should be near El Paxin - that is to say, they are already very close to the Rainbow Bay area.
Basically the opposite direction to Hidden Spring and Kapka.
Tata also agrees with this judgment.
Rainbow Bay is located south of the Sea of Ancient Trees and close to the Sea of Clouds. Since the two floating continents of Talon and Ithulian border here, they form a curved and long coastline of the sky and the sea. The clouds here change iridescence all year round, so it is named after it. Got its name.
And because this place is too far away from Kapka and completely opposite to the south, Fang Plover does not plan to return to the Rodale area. He planned to go to Elpaxin first. Elpaxin is the first of the seven cities in Rainbow Bay. It is the commercial and trade center in the south of Talon. It is also the seat of the Sea of Ancient Trees Artisans Association.
I just happened to pass the alchemist promotion test there, and then find a way to find a boat to Aquin.
There is a land passage from Aquin to Goland Port, the capital of the Kaolin Kingdom, and it only takes half a month to walk. Goland is the registration place of the Dawn Star Adventure Group. There is a huge difference machine in the headquarters of the Kaulin-Ithulian Geography and Explorers Association, which relies on punched paper tape to record and store each registration. The status of the adventure group.
He wanted to see who else survived from the Dawnstar. Did Mr. Quelord and others ever leave the Dead Zone and escape? Although it is unlikely, Jeffleet's red team will even have time to hunt him down, and the others are more likely to be in trouble.
But even if everyone is gone, he will at least inherit and register this name.
Because he promised Miss Scarpet that the Dawn Star would exist forever.
As long as he is still in this world—
Of course, Fang Plover also has his own goals.
Promoting to an official alchemist is just one of them. The more important thing is to accumulate experience and wealth to prepare for your own aerospace ship. For an adventure group determined to go to the second world, the aerospace ship is the minimum equipment.
Of course, this goal is too far away.
A miscellaneous ship below the seventh level is worth at least one million Lissels, and this kind of ship cannot sail far away at all. Fang Yu’s goal is at least a sixth-class frigate. The ex-factory price of that kind of flying-wing warship in Kaolin-Ishulian is as high as tens of millions of lisels, and its limited production is also sold by Kaolin-Ishulian. Lian's navy has a monopoly with the major guilds, and there is a price but no market.
Fang Yu didn't have much idea about this. He could only take it one step at a time. If that didn't work, he could still accept an airship with a boat-like structure. After all, going to the second world itself was not an easy task.
He was never Pollyanna.
Of course, he also planned to take a side trip to Fenris Island to see the legendary green dragon 'Maguri' there. Fenris Island is located in the air sea between Talon and Aquin, just in the channel of the shuttle ship. There are rumors that this dragon is a rich man in the Cloud Sea area, and it is also the Corin-Ithurion The titular vice-president of the Federation of Craftsmen.
Fang Plover had already heard about this giant dragon with a very interesting experience.
But, the most important thing right now is how to get out of this forest.
Fang Yu couldn't help but touch his belly. After eating the biscuit, his hunger seemed to become more obvious. With dark eyes, he raised his head and looked at this deep forest. This forest is called 'Egonli', which means lowland forest. Because it is located in the lower reaches of the Gorgon River, the forest is surrounded by wetlands and swamps. , although rich in natural resources, it is also a hundred times more dangerous than its northern part.
He and Tata alone would not be able to get out of this forest no matter what.
But fortunately, he still had something to rely on, and he picked up the work he had just completed - it was a somewhat dim crystal, waxy white.
In Aitaria, most people think that non-attributed crystals are the ugliest type of all crystals, because most non-attributed crystals contain impurities and look like cracked and atomized glass from the outside. They are not really crystals at all. Pure and crystal clear.
But even the most flawless non-attribute crystal is outstanding compared with the one in Fang Plover's hand. At least they still look like crystals, while the latter is more like a wax pillar with pointed ends, which has no beauty at all.
However, this ugly crystal is the most beautiful thing in the world in Fang Yu's eyes.
This is the alpha crystal, the original form of the one-piece crystal.
It took him a full four hours to create it, and it only took him ten minutes to use the 'Elemental Separation' skill to create a non-attribute crystal. Moreover, he used finished materials to make this crystal - the material was a non-property crystal removed from his glove. Of course, this also made half of the silver rails on his dial useless.
But just in time, he also removed the remaining half, leaving only a pair of silver rails.
He also removed the brass dial itself.
Tata sat on his knees and looked at the crystal, his eyes shining brightly with the firelight. "There are still too many impurities, and the magic power contained is only one-third of the originally described level at most." She said after observing it.
"There's no other way," Fang Plover turned around and smiled bitterly: "Whether it's tools or materials, this is the only condition."
Tata nodded. "And what does Mr. Knight intend to do with it?" she asked again.
"Making walkers," Fang Plover replied: "Apart from clockwork fairies, I can only do this. In fact, I learned this drawing a long time ago, but I have never found a suitable crystal."
The walker is a flexible structure used in combat. As we all know, among the flexible constructions, only the Clockwork Fairy can use non-attribute crystals. Fang Plover's words are quite self-talking. But Tata didn't care anyway, still listening quietly, as if he was the best listener.
Fang Plover turned on the craftsman skill - this was his first time making something within the framework of the system, and he was still a little unskilled, and his movements were slightly out of shape. However, this small problem cannot trouble him. After all, this person was once a hardcore player without a system.
He only thought for a moment, then projected the shell drawing, and then adjusted the shape little by little to form a spherical shadow in front of Tata.
"Is this the shell of a clockwork fairy?" Tata was a little surprised.
Fang Plover nodded.
Artisan's craftsmen are not rigid in their work - it won't be a design, it can only be made into one shape. In fact, a set of design drawings is composed of multiple components. As long as the selector fully understands the design drawings, they can choose and match them by themselves.
Fang Yu has only mastered these few drawings in the past few months, and he is already familiar with them.
There are only two key points in the Walker construction. One is the chassis, which is divided into two types: six-legged system and four-legged system. The two chassis styles determine the maximum combat load of the construction. The second is the core crystal, which determines the maximum combat load of the construction. Maximum output power.
As long as these two items are met, the shape of other components does not matter.
Compared with the Clockwork Goblin, which mainly considers the lightweight shell, the Walker's defensive shell is much bulkier, so using the former to replace the latter has no problem except for the lack of armor value. .
Then just pay attention to readjusting the center of gravity position.
Fang Plover methodically moved a rock that he had prepared in advance to serve as a simple workbench. Then he placed the spherical shadow in the center of the workbench and put the removed dial into it. The brass dial immediately became translucent, and many stars appeared inside like the universe.
Large and small light spots are actually the material structure of brass. The better the quality and the higher the strength, the more structural points. The craftsman needs to concentrate on connecting these light spots during production. Each time the connection is successful, the machine will move forward. Production progress.
However, if all structural points have been used but the production progress has not reached 100%, it means that the material structure is damaged and the production will fail accordingly. On the contrary, the more redundant structural points left when the production is successful, the higher the durability of the finished product.
Since the dial itself was a finished product that had been made once, most of the structural points on it were dull, and only a few were still usable. Fang Yu couldn't help but frown slightly after looking at it.
He calculated the production progress.
The total production progress required to make the clockwork fairy shell is as high as one hundred and eighty. With his current craftsmanship skills, he will gain fifteen to seventeen progress points for each successful connection, and the remaining structure points on the dial are less than Thirteen, he basically only has one chance to fail.
Fang Plover took a deep breath.
Whether you can make it out of this forest or not depends on this bet. If he fails, he may have to die again. He will have fewer stars as a stowaway, and if he dies again, there will be no chance of resurrection.
So even he couldn't help but feel a little nervous.
Tata looked at him, then at the dial, opened his mouth, but finally made no sound. She was also worried about disturbing Fang Plover.
Unexpectedly, it was Fang Yu who spoke first: "Tata, can you see this system?"
"Well," Tata nodded: "It is a system for managing information that is generated by the carrier crystal and the dragon soul."
"Management information——" Fang Pulver said, successfully connecting a structural point, as if he was understating it.
Then came the third and fourth times, and it was not until the seventh time that he failed for the first time, but Fang Yu breathed a sigh of relief.
He found that each connection was somewhat like a ranged attack on a structural point. The landing point is a scatter range, and it does not require a 100% hit. There can be a certain error, but the greater the error, the lower the accuracy of each connection.
Different designs have different minimum craftsmanship accuracy requirements, and the Clockwork Goblin's case requirements are obviously very low.
He felt he could do it easily.
He immediately went straight to the eighth node, and after success, he directly connected to the end in one breath. When the last structural point was connected, Fang Plover finally relaxed, and the shape of the dial had turned into a shiny copper hemispherical shell in his hand.
Fang Plover picked up the shell and carefully looked at every inch of it in the light of the campfire, feeling a sense of accomplishment in his heart.
In the past, when he made clockwork goblins, he was basically only responsible for the drawing design and assembly. After all, the shell and various internal parts, including the hinge structure, were all delicate blacksmith work. They were not alchemists who had only studied for a few months. Apprentices can do it.
But once you have a system, it's completely different.
This is the power of the Chosen One.
"Mr. Knight is the most talented alchemist I have ever seen." Tata said suddenly after watching the entire production process without saying a word.
Fang Plover turned around and asked her curiously: "Have you met other alchemists before?"
Tata nodded. "I have some memories, but I can't tell whether they come from books or my own experiences. But in my impression, no alchemist can be so stable."
"Stablize?"
"The craftsman system uses magic to change the internal structure of materials. It is based on a system of high-intensity spatial analysis and distance judgment. In addition to the boost that attributes and craftsman-related skills can bring, it can only be said that Mr. Knight is here He has extraordinary talent.”
Fang was stunned for a moment, remembering that Scarpet and Mr. Querod seemed to have said similar things to him, but the difference was that they were talking about his control of flexible structures.
He couldn't help but look at his hands, wondering if he really had a good talent in this area?
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