"You know what? There's a monster in the mine!"
Lu Yuan, who was wandering in the market, accidentally heard such a piece of news. 【Read the latest chapter】
"Is the plot about to begin?" Lu Yuan said to himself.
He came to the trading area today to buy fire magic materials. The fireball magic staff obtained from the burrowing worm cave can store fifty rounds of fireball magic in advance, but the handle has obviously been used, and now there are only about seven rounds in it. Lu Yuan bought fire magic materials just to charge it.
After walking around a lot, I bought a firebird tail feather.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Lu Yuan also sold the trial-produced "handicraft weapons", including several samurai swords, at a good price. After all, they were all of high quality.
"Has the output of iron ore been affected?"
"I don't know, probably not. There has been no change in the ore shipped to the north this month."
"Oh, thank you." The output has not been affected yet. It seems that it will take some time for things to ferment. Taking a quick look, I saw a bunch of white silk thread placed beside the stall. I couldn't help but curiously leaned over to look at it, "What is this? Silk?"
If you look closely, you will see that the white color is more like animal hair, but the roots are soft and fresh. Even if you rub it with your hands, it will not get twisted with other threads.
"That's a unicorn's mane," the stall owner replied listlessly, thinking he was looking for someone to tease him again. "It's used to make bow strings."
Although it is called a mane, it is actually taken from the tail to have such long hair.
"Oh", Lu Yuan became interested when he heard the bowstring. "How much does this bundle cost? How long can it be used to make a bow string? I can't twist this long hair even if I twist it with my hands. Can it be used as a bow string?"
"If you want to buy it, we will continue. If you don't want to buy it, then please go ahead." The stall owner said politely.
"Come on, don't be angry, I'm really interested in buying it. Just tell me first."
"This mane cannot be tangled in one place by nature. If you want to make a bowstring, you need to find the silk sac mucus of a huge poisonous spider to wind it into a bowstring. Such a bunch of mane, for your stature, is probably enough for two people. Tuo's bowstring is just enough. This bundle costs eleven hundred gold coins to take away."
"Yi Tuo" refers to the length of the two arms when they are straightened left and right. For a local man-made longbow, the bowstring is basically the length of the user's "Yi Tuo". Usually, bows and strings are used interchangeably.
Lu Yuan wanted to get these manes, so he immediately put aside his eloquent words, talked for a while, and finally bought them for 200 gold coins and a few gems, a total of about 900 gold coins, and also came with a "bow string" "A Book of Preparation Methods", I slapped my hand on the book and saw a flash of golden light - the money fell.
I happily took the things back to the workshop, but what I was thinking about was making a crossbow.
After graduating from college, he played with crossbows for hunting for a period of time, but later the country banned the use of weapons with more than 20 kJ, so he gave up. Now that I think about it, in the world of Bode, although the crossbows on the market are sophisticated and some are magically enhanced, they actually rely on the power of the crossbow arm and bow string to fire arrows. This power is common to modern crossbows. The launch force optimized by the torque converter wheel is 16 times different! Yes, it's just a measurable and quantifiable number.
Under the same conditions, a crossbow equipped with double torque wheels requires only one-eighth of the winding force, but the firing force is eight times that of a normal crossbow!
This gap is too big.
Put two thin steel sheets, one long and one short, together and fix them. This is a crossbow arm made of steel ingots with two hardnesses. When the two types of arms are put together, they can produce amazing elasticity. The entire bow arm is strong, tough, and foldable. The only flaw is that it is a little heavy.
Now he has mild steel that can be used to make the crossbow arm; the carbon torque converter wheel can be replaced by the snow wolf skull bought in the market. I believe it will be equally lightweight, wear-resistant, and tough; the bow body can be used Ordinary good wood will do; other small parts such as the trigger and the mountain are not difficult to make. After all, the only thing left is the poisonous spider silk sac to glue the bow string.
This thing may be available in Belgost in the north now!
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Spell wands are wands made of specific materials that store specific spells.
For example, the lightning magic wand is made from atmospheric magic materials and a blank staff, and then constructed with "lightning magic". Up to fifty identical magic prototypes can be constructed in the wand, and after charging, an energy stick is formed. A "Lightning Staff" that fires fifty lightning bolts.
Making a spell staff is a very troublesome thing.
In addition to consuming a large amount of precious materials, it also requires giving up a small amount of vitality just like making magic items. It turned out that Lu Yuan didn't know this secret. If it weren't for the system's prompt message, he might not have discovered it until his body was seriously injured. This immediately made his impression of Habaser Delin worse.
The Wizarding Grocery Store employs so many mages for production, but there are very few of Habaser Delin's own works. Lu Yuan originally thought that it was Habaser Delin who controlled the output in order to maintain the value of his works. Thinking about it now, it is obvious that Habaser Delin knew this secret, so he passed the cost of producing magic items onto others. Those mages received high commissions, but they didn't know that they were obtained in exchange for their vitality. Even if one day they find that their bodies begin to weaken, Habaser Delin can explain it as being caused by frequent exposure to alchemical potions.
Just like a worker at a nuclear power plant, your boss tells you that your discomfort is caused by mild radiation. This is believable, right? Or it could be caused by over-casting spells. Mages in this world are generally in poor health. Excessive spell-casting and the infringement of arcane power on the body are considered to be the main culprits.
So, what does this have to do with Habaser Delin?
Even if a magic staff can be charged with fifty spells, it will eventually be used up one day, and it will need to be charged again. The staff is like a battery. The internal structure has been completed. After the power is consumed, it can be recharged. In the wizarding grocery store, charging the wand is the job of the apprentice, and the wizarding grocery store has its own secrets in this regard.
For example, the fireball magic staff requires a wizard who has mastered the third level to cast the fireball spell, so it also requires a wizard of level five or above to charge it. And Habaser Delin invented a way to reduce the required casting level by consuming magic materials and recharge it. Taking the fireball staff as an example, it can be charged by an apprentice who only masters the zero level by consuming fire-based materials. It's just that a fireball magic wand with a full value of fifty rounds can be charged up to twenty to thirty times, so it is called sub-charge.
This makes sense for large-scale munitions. Habaser Delin is indeed a master of alchemy.
The fiery red feathers in front of him became lighter again, and Lu Yuan spent all his spell slots today to charge the fireball staff. After stopping, I checked and found that the number of fireball spells that originally had only six rounds had increased to twenty-three, with one-third of the remaining capacity remaining.
After stopping, the brain becomes numb, which is also a sign of excessive spell casting.
A mage without combat training can actually only withstand two-thirds of the spell casting capacity, which is two-thirds of the spells he prepares every day. If all are used, the mage may faint on the spot or collapse to the ground weakly. This situation is not only very troublesome to recover from, but mages generally believe that it will damage the body.
Therefore, apart from going out on adventures, mages rarely prepare all their spell slots, usually two-thirds.
Lu Yuan tried to fully cast the spell many times, but apart from the troublesome recovery process, the system did not prompt him for physical damage. So he dared to do it.
Lu Yuan lay on the armchair to regain his energy.
The three twisted and wide leaves driven by the spell were strangely suspended beside Lu Yuan's body and rotated rapidly, blowing out a pleasant cool breeze. A paper airplane flapped its wings and flew around Lu Yuan's head with his eyes slightly closed, making a chirping sound.
"Meow~", a small black cat suddenly appeared on Lu Yuan's chest, and its claws stepped on his clothes.
Lu Yuan closed his eyes and reached out, carefully scratched the kitten's neck a few times, and then took out the letter from Mu Xing from the collar. Because of Mu Xing's deliberate concealment, Lu Yuan did not know the existence of Afu Cat's father, and Nini was responsible for delivering letters to and from him.
Duskstar expressed some lovesickness in the letter, and mentioned in the letter that many groups of hobgoblins appeared in Cloak Forest. She is currently tracing the origin of the migration of hobgoblins.
Lu Yuan thought for a while, and Savrok should have started his conspiracy to usurp the highest power in Baldur's Gate. Part of this conspiracy is to contaminate the iron ore in Naxikai and cause an iron ore crisis. The other part is to secretly develop iron ore within the Cloak Forest to monopolize the arms trade in Baldur's Gate. In the end, he provoked the war crisis between Baldur's Gate and Amn, and then ascended the throne of Baldur's Gate Grand Duke by manipulating the arms trade and assassinating important people.
The hobgoblin tribe mentioned by Evening Star should be one of the mercenaries that Savrok controls the iron mines in Cloak Forest. Savrok's plan used a large number of evil races such as kobolds, hobgoblins, ogres, etc. This just shows that he received support from the Temple of Baal. He wrote his conjecture in the letter and suggested that Duixing could organize people to conduct reconnaissance near the iron mine where he took the last adventure.
After thinking about it, he handed the letter and the paper airplane to Nini and asked her to take them with them.
"Meow~"
Nini's cry of grievance interrupted Lu Yuan's thinking.
"What's wrong? Nini."
As Lu Yuan spoke, he took the aggrieved little black cat into his arms and rubbed her delicate and soft hair with his fingers.
Nini acted coquettishly for a while, then opened the collar with a meow, showed him the empty inner space, and looked at him with a grievance in her eyes.
Lu Yuan thought for a while before he realized that the large cup of ice cream and a dozen fried fish that he had prepared and stored in the morning were gone. How could you, Muxing, snatch Nini's food... Lu Yuan's head was covered with black lines.
At this time, the distant cloak forest.
Among the thick branches of the big tree, Duixing was wearing "Forest Dance", sitting on a big tree branch with her legs swinging, her eyes slightly narrowed, and she was happily eating a cup of ice cream.
A paper airplane was flying around the Evening Star on its own, while "I Love You" sung by Hong Chil from "East and West" was playing.
"I love you, I love you, I love you you you~"
There is also a black cat squatting next to it, elegantly enjoying the fried fish on the leaf.
"What is he doing?" Duskstar asked.
The black cat closed his eyes for a while, then opened them and replied, "I'm making new ice cream for Nini." At the same time, he glanced contemptuously at the owner who snatched Nini's ice cream.
"Damn it! He has never made such delicious food for me before! Ah, Ah Fu, don't be angry again. Children's stomachs will be upset if they eat cold food, so I have to help."
"And~"
