Chapter 58: Raphael the Blacksmith
"Bell, bell, bell, ——"
In a crisp metal knocking sound, Luo Ning pressed the door of his head, which was still a little swollen, and opened his eyes with a grin.
He looked around and saw the smoky forge room. An old furnace with a red flame sticks to the left corner, staining the surrounding walls black. On the opposite side of the wall on the right are four or five racks of equipment, scattered with a dozen pieces of elaborate equipment. Luo Ning took a look and found that none of these equipment were mortal, and the lowest level was also a rarity.
As for the source of the sound, it was a stocky old man who was pounding metal blocks in the middle of the house. The old man, with his unkempt gray hair, his dirty gray cloth shirt, a pair of brown leather gloves on his hands, a towel on his shoulder, and a dark sweat stain on his back, had obviously been busy in front of the anvil for a long time.
Xu heard the movement behind him, and the old blacksmith threw the glowing metal strip into the sink beside him, turned his head, and said, "Are you awake? Then don't lie down anymore! Hank didn't recommend you to sleep well! Let's have a rule here: Work and eat, be lazy and eat fart! If you feel hard, no matter how talented you are, fuck me off as soon as possible! My Sandy Raphael doesn't raise idlers!"
A reddish complexion like a jujube, long thick eyebrows that fly diagonally into the sideburns, and a short gray beard that stands straight like a steel needle around the chin. Luo Ning subconsciously saw the shadows of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei from this blacksmith old man who was very strong in words and deeds.
"Ho ho, what a fierce temperament! This old man grew up eating gunpowder, right?" he muttered in his heart, got up and got out of bed, and by the way, he wanted to find out who this old man with Jiang Gui's nature was.
"Wait, you just said... Hank recommended me?Master Hank?Oh, by the way..."Ronin remembered something, and took out the letter that Master Hank gave him before leaving: "Strange, this letter has not been opened, how did you know about this? and... Why am I here?"
The old blacksmith wiped his face with a towel, and his mouth was really unforgiving: "It's strange, Hank obviously told me that you are extremely smart, and you learned to enchant in two or three days, why are real people so stupid? Of course, that stinky boy himself came to tell me! Otherwise, what else could it be? Did I guess with a ** child? As for why you came here, of course that old frog tricked you over! Hmph, you can't do such a thing, and you want me to invite him to drink and dream!"
"Old frog, poof!" Luo Ning couldn't help laughing, "You're talking about the blue-hat uncle, right?
The old blacksmith sneered, his long narrow eyes narrowed into two thin slits: "What a fool! If he hadn't dispelled your magic power, with your talent, how could you have passed that kind of joke-like test!"
Luo Ning suddenly said: "Dispel my magic power! Hey, it turns out that the old guy is really a ghost! Who is he, he, so arrogant, even the test of Morrowind Academy dares to make a ghost?"
The old blacksmith said solemnly: "He's a leper dog who plays with cards, a timid and arrogant nastyman!"
"Haha, I see. I thought he was a hidden academy tutor!" Luo Ningle was happy, this old man didn't say anything else, his mouth was really stinky. It's stinky and poisonous!But after such a fuss, he also guessed the identity of the other party - Master Hank's mentor Raphael, who taught the blacksmiths!
"So you're Master Raphael, now you've met Master Hank, then this letter of recommendation is useless!" Ronin tore up the envelope and threw it into the furnace flames.
This move won the old blacksmith's approval: "Well, you have a bit of a brain. By the way, although I promised to teach you the art of blacksmithing, you don't have to call me a teacher or a master. Just call me by my name. Hmph, respecting the teacher and respecting the old antique bullshit rules can only raise Hank's kind of waste that has nothing to grow. ”
"Hey, hey!" Ronin was a little angry, "Give me enough to stop! Master Hank respects you very much! Even if you are not satisfied with him, you don't need to insult him like this, right?"
Raphael brought a box of ore materials of different shapes from the wall, and threw more than a dozen weapons on the ground: "Even if I praise Hank to the sky, it won't change the fact that he is a waste!
"Practice what?"
Raphael kicked the wooden box full of ores and other materials: "Here are thirty-seven commonly used enchantment materials. On the wooden table in the corner of the wall is a notebook of mine. Give you three days to memorize their enchantment effects through hands-on work, and then complete at least fifteen qualified enchantment equipment!If you can't even do that......"
"Then I'll leave by myself!Don't you come and bomb me!" Luo Ning thought that Raphael was going to embarrass him, but he didn't expect to memorize the effect of the enchanted materials and then make enchanted equipment. Not to mention anything else, Luo Ning is good at these two things! You must know that Luo Ning has already opened a skill tree of naturalism, and the basic skills are used to speed up memory. Not to mention the role of thirty-seven materials, even seventy-three! Luo Ning wasn't busy that night in Jinshui City. He calculated that he only needed to craft seventeen more pieces of equipment, and his "Beginner Enchanted Equipment" was an initial skill that could be upgraded, and by the way, he would also unlock other skills in the "Blacksmith" skill tree. So Raphael's arrangement can be said to be right in his hands.
"Hmph, your mouth is quite hard! You better pray that your hands are as hard as your mouth!"
"Don't worry about it!" Luo Ning picked up the hammer that was leaning against the furnace, and without saying a word, he picked out seven or eight commonly used enchanting materials from the wooden box and placed them next to him, and then beat them with a clatter.
Raphael didn't care at first, but when he noticed that Ronin's enchantment was indeed as unusual as Hank said, and then picked up a finished iron bracer that Ronin had casually left at his feet, the old blacksmith's face finally changed.
"Take 10% damage when you're attacked!Well, you're barely qualified, please continue!'s equipment is enough!" Raphael muttered and turned to walk away, the tangled look of wanting to find fault but having nowhere to open made Ronin feel a little refreshed.
So he didn't respond after hearing this, but immediately devoted himself to the follow-up work after a second of coolness. The only thing left in the forge room was the sound of the fire burning and the hammer pounding.
More than an hour later, Luo Ning was just about to pick up the 98th piece of equipment that needed to be enchanted, when a quick and impolite knock on the door suddenly sounded first.
"Open the door!" Raphael commanded as he sat on the bed, fiddling with a piece of purple ooze and without raising his head.
Luo Ning glanced at him, and said in his heart that this old man said that he didn't need to respect the teacher, but he was so skilled in arousing people!
"Here we are!" he threw the hammer and opened the door, revealing two mages, a man and a woman, standing in the doorway. The young male mage's face was already full of anger and impatience!