"What's this?"
Maric took it easily, opened it and saw the dense graphics and numerical labels on it, and felt a little dazzled.
"It's a blueprint for making a weapon."
Varina knocked on the table and continued: "I would like to ask you to help me find a craftsman to make it."
"You should be able to find the 'craftsman', right?"
This is the design drawing of a folding knife. It was one of the first things Wariner dug out of his memory. It was also the item that came to mind when he meditated for the first time.
The blade of this knife can be completely stored inside the handle, and only a small flip is required to unfold the stored blade again.
So delicate and handsome.
He was fascinated by the weapon at that time, imagining how it would look when turned over in his hand.
Along with the folding knife drawings, there was also a design drawing for a wrist crossbow.
Varina disliked the difficulty in replenishing the crossbow arrows of the wrist crossbow, so he decided to just make a folding knife to replace the dagger currently used.
"There's nothing wrong with 'craftsman'," Maric looked at the drawing again, frowned and asked, "Did you design this? Are you sure you can build it? How much are you willing to pay to build it?"
Varina raised his right index finger, shook it, and said with a smile:
"You underestimated the sophistication of this drawing."
"I think if you show a part of the drawing to the 'craftsman', he will be eager to see the whole content and try to build it."
"The drawing itself is the reward for the 'craftsmen'. I have only one request."
"The 'craftsmen' can use the design and knowledge in the drawings freely, but they can only create one finished weapon."
This is not Varina's exaggeration, but the sophistication of this drawing is really quite high.
In the original book, at Klein's Extraordinary gathering here, there was a woman who was connected to the "craftsman" and sold a deformable meat saw knife for 25 pounds.
Although there was no detailed description of the structure of the meat saw knife, just hearing the name, Varina felt that its design would never be more sophisticated than his folding knife.
The reason why Varina chose to ask Maric for help instead of going to the woman was because he attached great importance to the design drawings of the folding knife and hoped to control its spread as much as possible.
"I hope your judgment is accurate enough."
Maric put away the drawings doubtfully, "I can only help you so much at this stage, don't do anything else."
Then, he took out the thick holy book and said:
"You haven't received a sermon for many days. Next, I will take you to study the holy scriptures and understand the teachings."
Seeing this, Varina quickly sat upright and assumed a solemn posture.
On the surface, there is nothing wrong with his attitude, but if you get to the bottom of it, he actually has more admiration than belief.
Varina admired Torzner's ability to find a path of "temperance" that favored order and justice in the "prisoner" path that favored disorderly evil.
But if he wants to believe in Him because of this, Varina feels that he has not reached that level yet.
When it comes to faith, his current preference is the goddess of the night.
But even for the goddess of the night, he had too much concern and did not dare to pray sincerely.
He is now considered an unbeliever who is rare and rare in this era; or, to put it mildly, he can only become a pan-believer at best, and he is the kind of pan-believer who can take care of multiple gods with peace of mind.
So the summary is that he is a complete heretic.
If there were wars of faith and the burning of heretics, he would have to take turns going to each church.
…
After receiving the sermon, it was already late at night.
Varina returned to his residence and finally had time to think carefully about his future plans.
First is the short-term plan to digest the Instigator potion.
Judging from Triss' behavior in causing the "Clover" tragedy in the original work, as long as he can instigate enough people, the potion can be completely digested in just one performance.
Varina considered whether the requirement to spread disaster could be reduced accordingly if more people could be instigated.
In fact, Varina has already had experience in this regard.
That was before he became a Beyonder, when he committed his first theft in the dock union. Varina misled the judgment of Kent, the boss of the Dead Eel Gang, and accidentally caused a street fight between gangs.
This is actually a quite successful advance performance.
After he drank the "Instigator" potion, he felt that the potion that had just entered his body was being digested to a certain extent.
Judging from this incident, Varina feels that his idea is likely to be realized.
If you instigate enough people to spread a not-so-fatal disaster, even if you can't completely digest the "Instigator" potion, you can certainly digest most of it.
Varina took a fancy to the Corn Bill and felt that there was an opportunity in this matter for him to digest the potion.
There is also the long-term plan to break away from the Witch Cult.
In this regard, Varina's idea is actually somewhat similar to the operation of Alger, the "Hanged Man" in the original work.
He also planned to hide it from his superiors, get promoted secretly, and wait until the opportunity was right, then openly push the situation in the direction he desired.
Here, Varina has an unavoidable difficulty -
Unlike Alger, he will be promoted to a Sequence 7 "Witch", which will change his gender and his external appearance will change dramatically.
This requires finding a way to cover up.
He needs a magical item corresponding to the "Faceless Man", or with a little more reluctance, the "Rose Bishop" may be able to do it.
Varina spent a lot of energy, digging deep into his memory in the "reasoning state", and finally found a piece of usable information——
Count Wolfe has in his collection a mask that was taken from the Eggers family mausoleum.
From the conversation between "Star" Leonard and the "old" angel Pales, known as "the last conscience of the thief", we can know that this mask has the extraordinary ability of the "faceless man".
At this point, a general planning framework was finalized in Warina's mind.
1. Taking advantage of the general trend of repealing the Corn Laws, instigating the crowd and spreading mild disasters to digest the magic potion;
2. Before the potion is completely digested, it is best for him to collect all the materials for the "witch" potion;
3. Before he is truly promoted to "Witch", he had better steal the magical item "Azik's Mask";
4. In order to reduce the possibility of being exposed by his actions, he had to find a way to get rid of Qili's entanglement and avoid too much contact with her.
The general points are these four. What Varina needs to consider carefully is how to arrange and implement them, and what is the specific sequence.
Soon, he had a certain idea.
He has handed over the collection of materials to Maric, and the progress cannot be controlled by himself. In addition, if he wants to fully meet his expectations, he must pay at least 800-1,000 gold pounds - he has to consider the material premium;
He can use the digestion potion as an excuse to stay away from Qili temporarily; and when the potion is digested, he will probably have a new excuse because he is too "famous";
The difficulty is, should he steal the mask first or digest the potion first?
