Chapter 680 The Blacksmith and the Tiger Soul
The blacksmith is of course not the blacksmith in the camp who specializes in repairing weapons. Of course, this blacksmith can also repair weapons. He is a blacksmith in the mercenary volunteer army. He is not tall, only over 1.7 meters tall, with a medium build, rat-like teeth and a goatee. Although his body is not very burly, his muscles are very developed, and his beer belly is very prominent even when wearing clothes.
The blacksmith saw them and ran over to say hello: "Hey, are you feeling better? What's your name?"
"Wayne." Irina said for him Said: "Thanks to you for saving him last time, he always wanted to say thank you personally."
"Yes...yes." Wayne said, holding his chin.
"I saved you, is there any benefit? Are you going to pay for the things I bought this time?" The blacksmith smiled, and with this smile, his exposed front teeth were exposed even more.
"Uh..." Wayne looked so embarrassed.
The blacksmith laughed: "I'm kidding."
Selt didn't know the blacksmith, but Ursula had seen him.
The blacksmith is an old mercenary who has always been bohemian. Seeing that the two officers had no intention of showing off, he was too lazy to salute the military salute. He said: "Are you going shopping?"
"Ah, yes." Irina said, holding the rune stone in her hand: "I bought a piece of 'Gatma'."
"Just right." The blacksmith said, "Come with me to the weapons store. Come on, I will help you inject the power of the rune stones in a while.”
The weapon shop is not far from the valuables shop, less than 15 meters diagonally opposite. Next to the weapon shop is the armor shop, and directly opposite is the grocery store.
Arrived in front of the weapons store, Luo Qi asked: "Your weapons are so good, do you still want to buy weapons?"
Selt looked at the weapon on the blacksmith's back early in the morning. Heavy Sword: "It is indeed a good sword and can be considered a treasure. If sold, it will cost at least 70,000 gold."
"Seventy thousand gold?" the blacksmith said with a straight face: "Humph, you really have no vision. 'Tiger Soul' is my favorite work. Although it looks very ordinary, in fact it is no worse than those famous weapons."
Irina said curiously: "You made this sword yourself. ?”
The blacksmith said proudly: “Every part and every detail of the ‘Tiger Soul’ was forged by me myself, and I spent a lot of money to hire a well-known alchemist to make its materials. Even Captain Thane's 'Double Swords' are refined. To help reforge, of course, his two swords are far inferior to my 'Tiger Spirit'. Hehehehehe..."
"Awesome!" Wayne exclaimed, holding his chin. Said: "Hey, look at me and see if my 'Reverse Halberd Sword' can still change "Is it better?"
The blacksmith took the knife and looked at it: "It looks good, not inferior to Captain Thain's 'Zhan Feng'." He put his hand on the blade and used it secretly. Power: "Well, it must be infused with the power of the rune stone 'Blade'."
After the power of the 'blade' is injected, the sharp weapon can become sharper.
Wayne nodded slightly: "Yes, the appraiser said so too." Before he got the reverse halberd sword, the blade had already been infused with rune stone 'blade'.
The blacksmith saw the runestones in Wayne's hand and said: "This knife can inject the power of one or two runestones at most. If there are any more, the knife can't bear it."
< br>Irina helped and asked: "Is it one piece or two pieces?"
The blacksmith said: "Then it depends on what is injected. What are the rune stones? The abilities contained in different rune stones are also different." He looked at the rune stones that Wayne took out: "You will definitely not inject 'Gatma' into the weapon. Inject 'leaf'. 'If so, you should be able to inject another runestone of 'Blade' quality, but not if it is 'Fire'."
Wayne said slowly: "Then let's inject 'Fire'. I've always wanted to add attributes to my weapons. I didn't buy 'Leaves' just to use them for weapons. I want my armor to be lighter."
The blacksmith asked: "How much did you pay for this piece of 'fire'?"
"8200 gold coins." Luo helped him.
The blacksmith shook his head: "It's too expensive. My 'Tiger Soul' was also infused with 'Fire', and my 'Fire' only cost 5,500 gold coins."
"So cheap? ”
When Wayne heard this, he became very angry and turned around to return the product.
The blacksmith stopped him and said: "Forget it, most of the rune stones there are on consignment and will not be returned to you. More than 8,000 gold is not too expensive. The 'fire' rune stones have always been other The best-selling type of elemental runestones, 'Water' and 'Light' are generally 3 or 4 You can buy it for 000 gold, and the cheapest "Fire" is more than 5,000 gold. The normal price is about 6,000 gold. The "Fire" rune stone is rarely produced in the Vulcan area, so buying one here for 8,200 is not too much of a loss. "You know a lot, blacksmith," Selt said.
The blacksmith laughed and said: "I help you repair weapons and forge equipment every day, and often help others appraise the quality of weapons. I don't even know these things, so how can I be a blacksmith? Ah."
The owner of the weapons store waited for them to finish speaking, and then said: "You can come and help me identify it now."
It turns out that the blacksmith came to the weapons store and was invited by the store owner to appraise the weapons.
The weapon shop is not big either, but it is much bigger than the valuables shop. Maybe it's because there are 12,000 new troops, or maybe it's because the army has issued standard weapons. The business in the weapons store seems not to be very good. There are all kinds of weapons hanging on the wooden shelves in the store. and shield. From meteor hammers to small daggers, from broadswords to halberds, from carved wooden bows to magic bone staffs, there is a dazzling array of items that can make one’s eyes dizzy.
Luo looked at the prices marked on the weapons and shields. They were not expensive, ranging from more than a dozen gold coins to dozens of gold coins. There was a Puluo-style golden triangular light shield that looked pretty good, but it only cost 720 gold, which made him feel a little itchy. A shield like this would cost at least 1,000 gold elsewhere.
The shop owner moved a box of things from the warehouse at the back and said: "I have collected a lot of things while cleaning the battlefield these days. You have a better eye than me. Help me see which ones are good and which ones are inferior. Of course, the appraisal fee will be yours.”
The blacksmith said: “Hey, you didn’t want me to see so many things?”
The shop owner hurriedly said: "No, no, there are only a few items. I can see the quality of most of these items, but I can't be sure about a few items, so I have to let you see." He took out seven items from the big wooden box. There are weapons and shields, helmets and armor.
For a craftsman who has forged thousands of weapons and equipment, especially those who have personally forged high-quality weapons, it is difficult for any equipment to escape his eyes. The blacksmith is undoubtedly such a person. As long as he touches and sees how much these things weigh, what materials are used, and what methods are used to forge them, he can know that they are almost complete.
The shop owner said: "I feel that these seven items are all good things, but I can't figure out how good they are. Please help me take a look."
Selter and Ursula are also people who have seen treasures, and their eyesight is also good, and they can also see that these seven items are good. However, although they have good eyesight and have seen many things, they only know a rough idea, which is not as good as that of a blacksmith.
The blacksmith looked at these seven items one by one and quickly identified the good and bad ones. It only took more than ten minutes from beginning to end. This is something very incredible to Irina and Wayne. They think it takes a long time to identify the quality of the same thing.
In fact, they don't know that when it comes to identifying something, whether it's a historical relic or weapons and equipment, there's a huge difference between an outsider and an expert. A layman might not be able to see anything special after looking at it for hours, but in the eyes of a professional connoisseur, the quality of a thing is immediately apparent as soon as he gets his hands on it.
As soon as the items were appraised, the owner of the weapons store was very happy. These seven items were indeed good items. Almost every item was no worse than Wayne's halberd knife, and the prices marked on it were also the same. Thousands to tens of thousands, this is still a cheap price.
Originally, it would cost 50 gold to authenticate an item, but the item was good. The shop owner was happy and gave an extra 50 gold, making up a total of 400 gold coins.
Wein looked at the four red, yellow, blue and green magic crystal coins with envy and jealousy. He worked hard as a mercenary for many days to complete a task, sometimes even risking his life. Only then can you earn dozens or hundreds of gold coins. The blacksmith can earn 400 just by looking at a few things and saying a few words. It feels like an imbalance.
The blacksmith weighed the money and said cheerfully: "Let's go, I'll invite you to the canteen to eat."
Luo Dao: "No need, we just finished eating in the canteen."
"Oh, that's easy." The blacksmith smiled, holding his goatee, and put the money into his pocket. inside.
Ween said with envy: "Blacksmith, you must have made a lot of money coming to the barracks."
"There is nothing." Although the blacksmith waved his hands to deny it, his face That's not what the happy expression on the face means.
Ween asked curiously: "How much money do you make now?"
"What for?" The blacksmith looked at him warily and said, "Don't try to take advantage of my money. My money is useful. I have been saving for so many years, and I am only over 200,000 short of my goal. "
"More than two hundred thousand?" Irina said: "Why do you save so much money?"
"Buy equipment?" Luo said.
The blacksmith waved his hand and said: "No, but it's almost the same. I ordered a set of 'Runestone Secrets' from a friend. The total cost including the runestones is 1.75 million gold coins." He took off the bag on his back. The tiger soul giant sword carefully stroked the sword spine and said: "I have always had a wish, which is to infuse my beloved 'tiger soul' sword with the power of the secret language of runes, so that it can become a truly powerful treasure."< br>
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(End of this chapter)