The Chamber of Thorns is just an episode.

After leaving there, the days of rushing were still boring, but Delkora stopped shouting all day - thanks to the Ancestral Branch, Delkora was busy enough now that he spent most of his time and energy carving branches.

Satya and Assas were also happy to see it. After all, it wasn't easy to silence this noisy magician.

For normal blacksmiths and magicians, carving a staff is definitely a delicate job, and all outside distractions must be excluded as much as possible. But now Del Cora didn't care about that at all - he was on his way with a carving knife in hand, and mistakes were unavoidable. But whenever something went wrong, he would rip off the wrong part entirely, then stick the stick into the ground, and watch the wounds heal slowly - the ones that had been carved were infused with his elemental power and the healing rate was slow, so he could control the progress of the entire staff carving.

Honestly, this kind of behavior is enough to make any blacksmith furious and scold this little magician who wastes materials, but because this material is so special, the law-level life force and healing power are enough for him to squander without worrying about wasting it. The little magician hummed a song and hurried away, carving the precious artifact materials, and watching a low-level staff gradually take shape in his hand—

It's heart-wrenching.

Further north, the terrain of the Great Plains is no longer gentle, but has a pronounced slope. It's still part of the Great Plains in a broad sense, but geographically they're hilly — the ecology seems to be better than the Great Plains, with forests and lakes everywhere, and it's not uncommon for docile herbivores to bump into the trio and stop to look at them curiously. The animals here look like they haven't been in contact with humanoid life for a long time.

Of course, there are traces of Warcraft activity here.

"Fire, condensation, plural, burst!"

Countless small fireballs rushed over, followed by a series of explosions. The enveloped target didn't even let out a whimper before it was engulfed in flames and smoke.

After calming down, only a mangled reptilian corpse remained.

"Sometimes I think I should rest, how good it would be for you to go and fight," Delkora gathered away the wisdom of fire and looked at the broken lizard on the ground, "what a pity, the whole lizard skin worth five silver coins is gone." ”

"If you really cared about those five silver coins, you wouldn't be so wasted on the precious Ancestral Branch. Satya's figure emerged from the shadows, the dagger she was carrying was still oozing with blood, "And where are you going to put the bloody leather? I'll tell you beforehand, I don't want my shadow space to be stained with blood—it's hard to clean up." ”

"Don't be serious, Satya, I'm just bringing in the perspective of a 'normal mercenary'," Delkora shrugged, "If we were normal mercenaries, we should be celebrating the harvest at this time." After all, a three-headed demonic beast, even a low-level demonic beast, is worth at least twenty silver coins. ”

"From the moment you decide to carve artifact materials into low-level staffs, you're doomed to be out of the ordinary. Asshas also put away his sword and walked over, dragging the corpses of two soil lizards in his hands, "The reality is that the more you have, the harder it is to find happiness." ”

"I don't want to give up everything I have for ethereal pleasure. Delkora shrugged, pulled out her scalpel, rolled up her sleeves, and cut three dusty hedrons from the bloody heads of the three corpses, "Look, magic crystals." ”

"The worst kind, the earth lizard is just the lowest-level demonic beast. Assas glanced at him casually, "What do you want to do?

"Honestly, it's not worth it. Delkora condensed a water ball and cleaned it up with the crystal, "but I've found that using the crystal to install a core on an undead creature can make it last longer and absorb more death energy." I'm going to make a few attempts, and I'm going to collect magic crystals of all kinds of levels and attributes. ”

"Why don't you just manipulate corpses?" Assas wondered, "and, seriously, undead creatures with flesh are easier to manipulate than purely skeletal ones—and materials are easier to obtain, aren't they?"

"......" Del Cola pouted, looking at him with disgust.

Ashas subconsciously touched his face, "What's wrong?"

"I'm also clean, okay? Watching a dead corpse drag its scattered internal organs back into motion, that picture is too much, isn't it? Why do you think no one has learned my necromancy skills? Our psychological pressure is already great enough, okay?!"

“...... It's you, Assas," conjured the image, and Satya's face was a little green, "I don't want to see that—never." ”

Assas was speechless.

In the end, they only took the three magic crystals, and did not dispose of the remaining lizard corpses. In fact, the main reason is that the flesh of the soil lizard is not delicious, and the rest is not attractive to them - sadly, the three of them can deal with the monster at this stage, the expected harvest is quite useless. So, except for being hunted by passing predators like this time, they tried to bypass the demonic beasts along the way as much as possible.

After all, this kind of battle really makes no sense to them.

This hilly area, marked on the official maps of the three major countries, is called the Sunset Mountains. The name is not due to the fact that the mountain range is located in the western part of a city-state (in fact, the Sunset Mountains are located quite near the center if you look down on the entire continent), but because it is an active volcano that is still surging - several eruptions have been recorded here with such great sounds, like the sun falling on a mountain pass, hence the name Sunset Mountains. According to some later geologists, this was a weak point in the period of geological change in the Great Plains, where the power of the leylines erupted – even now that the geology has stabilized, there are still occasional records of small volcanic eruptions near the Sunset Mountains.

But nature is just that. Volcanic eruptions that can devour all life, but the volcanic ash they bring is the best breeding ground for life, and after each eruption, the Sunset Mountains can usher in a new round of life reproduction.

The trio team navigated the jungle without letting go of the Ancestral Branch—a low-level staff of necromancer had taken shape as he worked tirelessly day and night, and now it was only one final step left to set the gem.

So it's really heart-wrenching......

At another lunchtime, Delkora was finally relieved, and raised the branch of the Ancestor Tree in his hand, which had been unrecognizable: "Dangdang! Welcome the birth of another artifact in the Lanman Continent! It will become the ultimate weapon in the dreams of all necromancers in the continent, the real undead master!"

"This is a compliment to the Lord of Death," Arthas debunked him without hesitation, "and it's just a low-level staff—even if you set it with the Twilight Gem, it will only support you up to the Silver Tier." ”

In the current Lanman Continent, the classification of weapons and equipment is very vague, because "quality" is a matter of opinion, and weapons and equipment have their own advantages and disadvantages, so it is difficult to classify all weapons with a quantitative fine level system. Basically, all weapons and equipment are divided into three tiers: low, medium, and high, from oak to bronze, silver, gold, and master. The weapons used by the higher-level, saint-level powerhouses are called artifacts, which means weapons given by the gods - anyway, as long as the weapons in the hands of the saint-level are considered artifacts, at this level, they have their own characteristics, and they are ever-changing, and there is no definite conclusion.

Anyway, there are a lot of artifacts on the mainland now, and people are fooled by the auction every year. But there are still many people who flock to artifacts.

Someone once proposed to call the weapons involved in the law true artifacts or something, but because the sample was so small, only those three or five weapons in the entire continent met the standard, so it was not enough.

"The artifact itself is just a high-level piece of equipment, and they are only strong enough because the user is strong enough and willing to pile all kinds of precious materials on it. Give me a few dragon scales, and I'll make you an artifact shield on the spot!" - Sothoth Furnace, "The Mad Blacksmith".

But there are always exceptions to everything, and maybe the mad blacksmith back then would not have thought that someone would deliberately use the worst methods to deal with the most precious treasures - the rough staff in front of him, although it used the two artifact-level materials of the Ancestor Branch and the Dusk Gem, but the inferior methods of the forger really limited their play, or rather, with the half-hung wand carving method of Delkora, it was a miracle that the staff could finally be formed.

Thank you for the selfless dedication of the Ancestral Branches.

So it's nothing short of tyrannical......

Del Cora raised the handle of the staff and solemnly joined it with the purple translucent Evening Gem. With a slight flash of light, the fixed circle at the top of the staff's handle smoothly absorbed it into the reserved groove. The many magic arrays nested in the rings finally had their own operating cores, they flickered and operated on their own, and the death energy was attracted by them, gathering around the staff one by one, absorbed by it, and then moving along the solidified magic pattern, transforming into controlled energy stored in the Evening Gem.

Purple energy poured in, and tiny cracks began to appear visibly on the handle of the staff, and Delkora plunged it into the dirt just in time. Under the strong healing power of life energy, the damage that death energy can cause is limited to a minimum, and the material used by Delkora to draw the pattern is doped with adamantite gold, this precious metal has the best known magical affinity and elemental absorption, it greatly neutralizes the destructive nature of death energy itself, thus ensuring the safety and stability of the staff itself-

Then, it finally stabilized.

The magic link on the staff became invisible after a steady operation, and the death energy attracted around it gradually faded. Delkora pulled it out of the dirt, and the dying energy that followed a fixed path no longer eroded the branches of the Ancestral Tree. When he held it in his hand, he could clearly feel his affinity for the energy of death, and the improvement of his control over the undead-

"You're my first commemorative artifact," Delkora looked at it eagerly, "and from now on, you'll be called the Bone Assembler." Sing the death salute to the skeletons that sleep underground!"

"It's really just a low-level piece of equipment," Satya slapped her head, "The lowest-cost weapon ever built in the Lanman Continent has been born......