Chapter 121 Mir: Huh?
——Squeak, the door of the blacksmith shop opens.
The dwarf Mir poked his head out of the door. When he saw who the guest was, the impatient expression on his face suddenly became more wrinkled.
"May your holy light shine forever, Master Mir." Luo Xiu greeted with a smile.
"Tsk." Dwarf Mir said, "Why are you..."
The forging master of the dwarf race still has fresh memories of his previous experience of being haggled by Luo Xiu.
However, although Mir was impatient with Luo Xiu's arrival, he still opened the door of the blacksmith shop and let Luo Xiu in.
…
"Tell me." The dwarf Mir sat on a rattan recliner. He gave the recliner a slight push, causing it to rock back and forth at a constant speed. "What do you want to do here this time?"
As the owner of the blacksmith shop, Mir almost pointed his nostrils at his customers, and his attitude was quite bad.
Mir regretted the previous stupid move of selling the "Moon-Cutting Scythe" to Luo Xiu for only 60 gold coins, very much.
He didn't know whether his head was caught in the door or whether there was something wrong with him, so he actually agreed to this deal!
This dwarf craftsman, who is not good at business, actually sold things to others at cost price because someone "knows the goods" is an unknown reason!
As a result, almost a month later, this turned out to be the only order he sold!
“……”
Mir simply could not imagine that as a dignified "rune blacksmith" with a "threefold destiny" of [intellect], he had eaten dirt and drank the northwest wind for almost a month.
It's a good thing that the storefront of the "Authentic Dwarf Blacksmith Shop" is property owned by Mil instead of leased. Otherwise, he would have to close down this month and hide under a quilt under a bridge.
Sometimes, Mir almost doubted whether he was a true believer in [intellect].
In the past month, the painful experience brought to him by "poverty" even gave Mir the illusion that he was a believer in Kutu.
…
"I'm just an ordinary guest." Luo Xiu said with a smile.
"...You said the same thing last time."
Dwarf Mir blew his beard angrily and said loudly, "I can't possibly give you such a big leak like last time..."
"Don't worry, don't worry." Luo Xiu nodded and said seriously, "I understand, I'm really just an ordinary guest."
Mir: "..."
But Mir didn't say anything more. Anyway, the "preliminary statement" had been made. Then, no matter how much the Holy Inquisition on the other side bargained, he was determined not to be moved!
Tamil, the famous blacksmith of the dwarves! I swear that I will definitely stick to the quotation and never let go!
……
Mir then led Luo Xiu to his underground storage room again.
Many of the same extraordinary equipment and weapons as last time are still quietly placed on the wall shelves. Although the wall shelves and walls have been covered with a thin layer of dust, the surfaces of those equipment and weapons have been wiped clean. Clean, reflecting hazy light.
The equipment and weapons are well maintained.
Luo Xiu's gaze passed over the equipment and weapons placed on the wall.
Although the dwarf Mir does not clean his blacksmith shop very much, he takes good care of the weapons and equipment forged by his hands.
Luo Xiu saw it and didn't say much.
Luo Xiu walked past a glass showcase, and his eyes fell on a piece of soft scale armor through the blocked glass window.
[Ghost Faced Scale Armor (Blue Rare+)] is the name and quality of this inner armor.
It was a piece of light armor with a ghostly face pattern on the armor. The base material used for forging it was "Ghostfaced King Snake Scales" - it was from a race with a thin blood relationship with "Dragon", the "Crazy Category" The material peeled off from the body of the monster "Ghost-faced King Snake".
As the main protective gear, [Ghost Faced Scale Armor] can provide a large number of "Physique" and "Resistance" attribute value bonuses.
This piece of equipment forged from the "Ghost-Faced King Snake Scales" can also inherit some of the "Ghost-Faced King Snake's" abilities and has a range of terrifying effects.
Luo Xiu didn't see this piece of equipment when he came to Mir's Blacksmith Shop before.
It should have been recently forged by Mir, and has not yet been engraved with any runes.
That is to say, it has not yet been finalized, and it is only a semi-finished product.
Seeing that Luo Xiu's eyes seemed to be lingering on the "Ghost Faced Scale Armor", Mir came over and said:
"...You like this?"
"That's right." Luo Xiu said in a noncommittal tone.
"This is a good thing..."
The dwarf Mir suddenly introduced in a loud voice:
"You must have heard of the 'Ghost-faced King Snake', right? It is a 'crazy' level monster. It requires hundreds of its scales to forge such a 'Ghost-Faced Scale Armor'..."
"Yeah." Luo Xiu nodded.
"In order to hunt such a 'crazy level' monster, it seems that quite a few of the gray adventurers from the Adventurers Association were seriously injured..."
"Yeah." Luo Xiu agreed.
"Those gray adventurers later gave me all the materials stripped from the 'Ghost-faced King Snake'. I dare say that in the entire Sina City, I am the only one who can really handle its materials..."
"Yeah." Luo Xiu said perfunctorily.
"And this 'Ghost Faced Scale Armor' that you are interested in is exactly my proud work."
Mir's tone was a bit proud, and he said impassionedly to Luo Xiu:
"You are a discerning customer, so I won't tell you too many twists and turns. If you really want to buy this 'Ghost Faced Scale Armor', I will only tell you a number."
As he spoke, Mir raised his hand, stretched out a finger and waved it in front of Luo Xiu.
"——One hundred gold coins, cash settled."
"Deal." Luo Xiu said calmly.
"It's definitely worth the price!" Mir began to argue according to the prepared lines, with a blushing neck, "You can think about it again..."
"……ah?"
There was no expected bone-breaking haggling.
There was no expected debate session.
Mir always felt as if something crucial was missing and he seemed to have heard something wrong.
"What...did you just say?" Mir asked in a suspicious tone.
"I say, deal."
Luo Xiu smiled and replied, "This is a reasonable price. The equipment forged from the materials of a monster of the 'Crazy Era' level is indeed worth the price."
"In fact, I think the price you gave is too conservative."
Luo Xiu said seriously:
"I can give you a platinum coin in advance and an additional twenty gold coins. However, I hope you will follow my instructions when drawing the runes for this 'Ghost Faced Scale Armor'."
After saying that, Luo Xiu took out a small bag of money from his arms and handed it to Mir.
"..."
Mir was stunned.
He was sweating for no reason.
Mir recalled that just before, before he took the young Holy Inquisitor into the underground storage warehouse, he had secretly decided to "definitely insist on the price and not let go."
He never expected that the Holy Judge opposite him would uncharacteristically not bargain!
——He even raised the price!
"..."
Mir was shaken.
What is "Absolutely insist on the quotation and never let go"...
——Mier just feels that it smells really good now.
The young Holy Inquisitor opposite made only one request.
That is "the engraved runes must be done according to his instructions." How could a [Glorious] priest who was not even a [Intellectual] destiny know the knowledge of runes.
Mir thought.
He could "hear one thing" and "act another thing".
He must give full play to his advantages as Party B!
Mir's confidence as a "Rune Forger" emerged from deep in his heart.
"...Okay." Mir nodded and took the money bag from Luo Xiu's hand.
Mir felt that he had made a fortune.
…
Six hours later.
Mir, the "Rune Forger", lay down on the ground exhausted.
He no longer had the strength to stand up and go to the bed to sleep.
"You...you..."
Mir's bloodshot eyes were staring at the young Holy Inquisitor above him who was caressing the "Ghost Faced Scale Armor".
For the first time, he felt that he had never suffered such a big loss in his life!
In just these six hours, the dwarf Mir actually overturned and repainted the "rune inscription" eight times under the "guidance" of the Holy Judge!
As for this young Holy Inquisitor, the runes he asked Mir to try to carve were all very difficult types of runes among the "senior rune warlocks" with the third destiny of [Intellect]!
To completely complete any of the rune drawings, the asking price for the "rune master" would definitely be more than Luo Xiu's increase!
The rune drawing "guided" by Luo Xiu even included a considerable amount of rune craft knowledge that Mir had never heard of!
Under Luo Xiu's "guidance", Mir originally expected to only have "one square" of rune slots, but he forced Luo Xiu to expand it to "two and a half squares." Even the "half grid" rune slots are filled with extremely weird rune patterns, making the quality of this "ghost-faced scale armor" sublime from "rare" to "master"!
Meer felt that he was just acting as a ruthless tool for drawing runes.
According to the requirements given by Luo Xiu, he instilled spirituality into the equipment and completed the drawing of the runes. But I have no idea about "why this is so", "what's the significance", and "what is the principle".
Mir began to doubt life inexplicably.
Of course he didn't know that.
Although Luo Xiu is a priest of [Glory], of course, he does not only know the technical knowledge of [Glory].
In his previous life, he also played the [Intellectual] trumpet and practiced the "Rune Master" profession for a period of time.
Because the price on the market for rune masters to help carve runes is too high. Therefore, Luo Xiu in his previous life simply opened a trumpet and "helped himself" to complete the rune inscription.
Therefore, Luo Xiu certainly knew what loopholes could be exploited in the drawing process of "runes".
In previous lives, players of the "Rune Master" profession called this "Rune Slot Utilization Rate."
It is to draw the "grid" as fully as possible to squeeze out more "slots"!
In the eyes of players, the process of drawing "runes" is like a different version of "Tetris".
However, the purpose of the players is not to eliminate those "blocks", but to try their best to "fill" them as much as possible.
This gave birth to many famous "rune combinations".
How to make full use of "rune chiming" to improve utilization rate is a very difficult and serious academic discussion for the indigenous people of Apocalypse World.
But it is easy to solve for players.
——Because players have such a thing as a "panel".
And what Mir is even less likely to know is.
Not long ago, Luo Xiu just got a copy of "Said's Notes".
Although the "Black Devouring Rune" technical knowledge recorded in it is "forbidden knowledge", there are still many places that can be learned and used!
For example, the "Black Devouring Rune - Alienation and Sublimation" which only occupies half of the slot!
That is a taboo rune that can be used to sacrifice part of the "equipment bonus" attributes to forcibly upgrade the quality of equipment to obtain new rune skill slots.
And under the influence of "Black Devouring Rune - Alienation and Sublimation", the remaining rune slots of "Ghost Faced Scale Armor" have been increased from two to three!
Such a "Ghost Faced Scale Armor (Purple Master-)" equipment has three rune slots!
——It is equivalent to being able to "carry" three rune skills!
Looking at the finished product in his hands, which was finally completed under his "guidance", Luo Xiu showed a satisfied smile.
He gave the extra premium just to make the dwarf Mir willingly work for him.
The dwarf Mir will also be driven by a strong desire for knowledge.
Although he didn't know "why Luo Xiu gave such guidance", he would definitely try to review it afterwards to analyze the principles of rune knowledge applied by Luo Xiu.
This is also a mutually beneficial relationship.
Otherwise, even if Luo Xiu, who is not in the [Intellectual] destiny, can know these things, he will not be able to draw them himself.
This is the barrier between extraordinary professions.
At this time, the attribute panel of "Ghost Faced Scale Armor" was appearing in the panel in front of Luo Xiu.
[Equipment name: Ghost Faced Scale Armor (Purple Master-)]
[Equipment type: Armor/Supernatural Equipment/Rune Equipment]
[Equipment efficiency: 25% reduction in damage (except source damage)]
[Equipment bonus: Physical attribute +8 (-5), Resistance attribute +8 (-5)]
[Equipment requirements: any third level of fate, strength attribute 18+, constitution attribute 25+]
【Equipment Characteristics List】
[King Snake’s Fang (active skill/rune): Can be enchanted with the “poison” attribute on hand-held weapons, causing an additional “poison erosion” effect, and adding 10% of the “poison” attribute damage. 】
[Scale of the King Snake (passive skill/rune): Immune to "poison" attribute damage. At the same time, every 5 minutes, you can periodically obtain a shield with a value of 10% of the upper limit of your health. The shield lasts for 5 minutes. 】
[King Snake's Slough (Passive Skill/Rune): When receiving damage with a one-time damage greater than 50% of the upper limit of blood volume, you will be immune to this damage. Cooling time is 1 day. 】
[Ghost Faced Fear (Passive Skill/Inherent): Passively triggered, within 3 meters around you, creatures with intelligence that are lower than you in rank will be affected by the "slight fear" effect. 】
[Alienation and Sublimation (Equipment Characteristics/Black Devouring Rune): Forcibly improve the quality of the equipment, and at the same time forcibly reduce the attribute value of the equipment by 5 points. 】
【……】
After carefully browsing the panel of "Ghost Faced Scale Armor (Purple Master-)", Luo Xiu nodded with satisfaction.
Although it is the "Purple Master-" that is counterproductive, this is at least the first "Master" quality equipment that Luo Xiuxi has brought!
And Luo Xiu got this master equipment for only 120 gold coins, which made Luo Xiu inexplicably happy.
...just a bit useless.
Luo Xiu glanced at the dwarf Mir, who was lying on the ground with a hopeless expression on his face.
After the overloaded "rune drawing", the dwarf Mir was already in a state of collapse.
His spirituality was temporarily sealed, and he could no longer carry out new forging and rune drawing work within a few days.
The transaction he just completed with Luo Xiu is probably the largest transaction he has completed in recent times.
But this is also Luo Xiu's purpose.
In front of Mir who was "unable to work", Luo Xiu was ready to really start to dig out his old bottom.
——Coming from the "Hometown of Ancient Dragons - Broken Continent", the real secret treasure of Dwarf Mir!
"Master is indeed a master." Luo Xiu knelt down and praised Mir:
"Your forging craftsmanship is truly the best I have ever seen in Sina City..."
"...Come on." The dwarf Mir interrupted Luo Xiu's praise with an indifferent expression.
He just felt that these kind words that should have been pleasant to the ear now seemed extremely noisy.
"If you fart, hurry up." Mir remained indifferent.
"Okay then." Luo Xiu spread his hands.
"I want to buy two treasures from you. About the 'Dragon Flame Demonic Sword' and the 'Dragon Breath Scepter'."
Luo Xiu's tone was friendly and calm, and he said with a smile: "Don't worry, the 'price' is not an issue."
I'm exhausted, sleep qvq
(End of this chapter)