Chapter 104 Star Iron
"Stop making noises!" Raven walked out of the room with a heavy face. The gray dwarves immediately became quiet, but they all still looked indignant.
The face of Eric next to him was full of helplessness: "Lord Baron!"
"What happened?" Raven glanced over and saw that the gray dwarves were about to start making trouble again. , and immediately said: "Send a representative to speak out!"
Bowell stood up and said: "Lord Baron, I want to complain to your retainer for refusing to let us gray dwarves appraise jewelry. It is simply discrimination! ”
"Yes!" Wherever there is Bowell, there is always Sohei: "Not only that, they also prevent us from screening minerals. They have absolutely no idea about the talents of our gray dwarves!"
Lei Of course, Wen would not believe their words and turned to look at Eric.
The retainer breathed out bitterly: "Lord Baron, what they say is nice, they are appraising jewelry and screening minerals, but the result is simply sabotage and profiteering!"
said Then, he opened his palm and showed the evidence.
It was a gold ring inlaid with emeralds, but now the gems have been pried off and the ring has been deformed.
Raven looked at Bowell with a questioning look. This gray dwarf who claimed to be "very polite" was not afraid at all: "Lord Baron, I didn't expect that you are also a rough man with no taste!"
He Walked up to Eric and took the ring in his hand: "Look, this is poor craftsmanship, the gemstones are not even It is inlaid, but stained with glue! If you look at these rough lines, you will see that they are the work of a silversmith in a small workshop. If this kind of thing appears in your inventory, it will be a blasphemy to your status as a baron. !”
Raven looked closely and found that what the gray dwarf said did make sense.
Although he doesn’t know much about jewelry, Lei Wen did a lot of petty theft in his life in Men’en City. This kind of ring looks like it is worn by the lower class people in the city. The gold content is very questionable. If the gems are removed, it may not be as valuable as a gold coin of equal weight.
"Well..." Raven thought for a moment and took the ring back into his hand: "A piece of jewelry doesn't mean anything. Go to the treasure house and let's take a look together."
Under the leadership of Raven, a group of people returned to Heleti's treasure house.
After a day of sorting out, Heleti’s treasure house is much more organized than before. The gold coins have been boxed and sealed and put aside. Various enchanted armors and weapons have also been distributed, leaving only a few A few boxes, large and small, were piled together.
Several boxes have been opened, revealing the various jewelry contained inside.
"Let's begin." Raven ordered.
“Ahem!” Bowell straightened his collar, strode to the jewelry box rather arrogantly, reached out and picked up a string of pearl necklaces: “Look, Lord Baron, this is a pearl necklace. Judging from the size of these pearls, the necklace was obviously produced in the Agate Lake of the Grand Duchy of Kaspersky among the Feton city-states, and it has been around for some years and has obviously started to turn yellow.”
"Only a bumpkin like Heleti would regard it as a treasure. A true noble would not use such low-quality pearls from the lake even if he grinds pearl powder!"
As he spoke, he looked like He threw the necklace on the ground like trash: "It's just The gold chain in the center will only be valuable if you take out the pearls!”
“And this, this, and this are all rubbish!” Each piece of jewelry was criticized as worthless! They were all thrown on the ground one after another, but they were all justified.
He raised his head arrogantly, and his height of 1.3 meters managed to show off the temperament of 1.9 meters: "Now you can finally recognize my professionalism, right!?"
This sentence Although he was talking to Raven, his eyes were pointed at Eric, and the proud look on his face made Eric's teeth itch.
"Indeed, very professional." Raven nodded, and suddenly the conversation changed: "But should I take out what you just hid in your sleeve?"
"Huh?" Bo Wei Er's originally gray face suddenly turned a little red: "Lord Baron, I..."
"Huh?" Raven glared over.
Bowell smiled, reached out and took out a small piece of gold from his sleeve: "...this, this..."
Putting the gold into his belt, Raven His face turned cold: "Within three days, all gray dwarves are not allowed to drink alcohol!"
The gray dwarves were full of complaints and looked at Bovel with dissatisfaction.
Raven was too lazy to care about them: "Eric, gray dwarves can participate in the appraisal of jewelry in the future, but they must be searched before leaving."
Dare to steal money from me? Go against Tiangang!
"Yes, Lord Baron!" Eric finally let out a breath of evil breath.
At this moment, Suohe quietly left the gray dwarf team, walked to the corner of the warehouse, and grabbed a piece of black ore that looked like briquettes in his hand.
Eric was about to stop shouting when he was stopped by Raven.
At this moment, Raven opened the Eyes of Truth and saw that this gray dwarf had a very special energy flowing in his body. It operated like fighting spirit, but its attributes were things that Raven had never seen before.
Suo Hei took a deep breath, and his hand was suddenly covered with a layer of orange-red and black blazing fire, as if it was magma in a furnace, wrapping the briquette-like ore in his hand.
The firelight penetrated, and cracks suddenly appeared on the surface of the ore, like the shell of a boiled egg breaking.
In a burst of heat, the black part on the surface of the ore fell to the ground, leaving only a core the size of a dice.
"Hey, Lord Baron, look!" Suohe raised his hand high: "Jewelry and other things are only for looking at. This ore is the foundation of your future hegemony!"
Leaven His eyes lit up: "This is... star iron?"
Xing Chen iron is a second-order mineral. Although it is deep and black, if you look closely, you can find that its surface is shining with bright lights like stars. It is an extremely excellent casting material. You only need to add a little during the forging process. It can greatly improve the quality of finished products.
This metal is added to the crossbow string of Raven's hand crossbow, so it can withstand double enchantment. Eric was also stunned: "I am a steel grudge, how come I have never felt the steel breath in this ore before?"
"Because you don't have a nose as sensitive as a gray dwarf!" Sohei rubbed the tip of his nose: "Lord Baron, is our wine okay..."
"No, one code is the same." Raven Decisive refusal: "If you kill someone and save another person, can you avoid the death penalty?"
"But after three days, your share of drinks can be doubled for three days!"
The gray dwarves immediately jumped for joy.
"Suo Hei." Raven asked: "What happened to that fighting spirit you used before?"
"This is a gift from the Lord of the Forge! It is proof of talent!" Suo Hei slapped his chest.
“Isn’t it just ‘forging vindictiveness’...” Bowell curled his lips, but he could not hide the sour taste in his words.
Under the gushing introductions from the dwarves, Raven and Eric had a preliminary understanding of this fighting spirit.
This is a kind of fighting spirit unique to dwarves.
Unlike humans, dwarves rarely use god-given potions to awaken fighting spirit. In fact, the god-given potions used on humans do not have much effect on them.
When a dwarf lives to be 150 years old, he will usher in his coming-of-age ceremony. After going through various rituals, he may awaken his fighting spirit, and a very small number of lucky people will awaken "forged fighting spirit" in the process.
This kind of Dou Qi is hotter and more stable than ordinary flame Dou Qi. Although it is difficult to release, it can be excellently used for mineral refining and metal forging. The improvement method is also unique and requires continuous refining. Minerals and forged weapons can be accumulated and improved bit by bit.
Therefore, also known as the "gift of the master of the forge", every owner of this kind of fighting spirit may become a future forging master.
This is why Suohe can boast that he is the "pioneer of the forging family that has been passed down for thousands of years."
After making detailed arrangements for the division of labor among the gray dwarves, Raven finally had breakfast.
After that, he continued to take care of the seriously injured soldiers as before.
It is worth mentioning that they were not harassed for two consecutive days and received generous meal rations compared to before. The kidnapped women gradually discovered that the Eagle Army was indeed in contact with the horse thieves There is a huge difference.
So these women began to take the initiative to take on some odd jobs, such as cleaning, washing and mending clothes, cooking, and taking care of the wounded, which greatly reduced Raven's pressure.
In the next few days, the gray dwarves gave full play to their subjective initiative. Bowell selected four pieces of elf-crafted jewelry for Raven from a variety of mediocre varieties. Not only were they extremely valuable for collection, Even a layman like Raven can feel the beauty.
So as soon as these ornaments were delivered to Raven, one of them was "cut off" by Nancy.
That's a pair of earrings.
The main body is made of silver doped with mithril. It looks very bright, without the dark texture of ordinary silver jewelry. The bottom of the earring is inlaid with a drop-shaped top-quality ruby called the 'Eye of the Phoenix'.
Leaven didn't have any objections to this. Nancy's contribution was so great, and it was just a pair of earrings, which didn't count.
And when it was worn on Nancy's ears, it swayed like a fire-colored meteor, which showed her lively, hot and quirky temperament, more like Raven's impression. Loli.
If Jenny were here, she would definitely feel strange.
Although elf jewelry is rare, Nancy also has a box, but she has never liked such ostentatious things, so she rarely wears them.
Time passed and came to January 1, 1194 in the Guangming Calendar, the New Year.
It was also the thirtieth day since Raven and others left the Eagle Territory.
The previous battles had suffered too many casualties. From Raven to Xiaobing, no one had the intention to celebrate the arrival of the New Year. The dwarves' calendar was different from that of humans, so they had no idea in this regard.
So, Raven spent the first New Year after traveling through time in a dull atmosphere.
But there are good things.
With careful care and the effects of therapeutic drugs, several seriously injured people have regained consciousness and are able to walk on their own, and the injuries of other injured people have also stabilized.
The last batch of trophies counted, the magic cores, were also delivered to Raven.
There are eighty-two first-level magic cores, twenty-one second-level magic cores, and one third-level magic core.
Along with the magic core was a gray magic scroll.
But Raven no longer had time to study it carefully. The soldiers' homesickness became more and more serious, and Raven himself couldn't help but miss the Eagle Territory.
"It's time to set off."
Raven said.
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(End of this chapter)