Seeing that Kester was silent, Hammer smiled mildly and said, "It's a good thing that young people are ambitious, as long as you can remember me, a bad old man who once taught you a little fur, I am already very pleased." ”

Keith fixed his mind: "No, no matter what academy or place I go to in the future, you will always be my enlightenment teacher!" ”

"Good, good... What a good boy! Hammer's mood seemed to be much better because of Kester's words, but he didn't forget to get down to business: "Okay, okay, let's not talk about that, your dagger has been forged, try it and see how it works." ”

Kester nodded, and he also had great expectations for the off-hand weapon he had worked so hard to build.

Gripping his dagger tightly, Kester stabbed at a common stone beside him.

With a "pounce", Kester didn't use much force to stab the dagger into the stone.

"It's really sharp." Iron Hammer sighed and then said, "You still have a seal carving pattern before, right?" Let me see how it works,"

Kester nodded again, pouring a faint wave of divine power into the dagger. The already hidden divine pattern on the dagger lit up slightly, Kester's hand shook slightly, and a startling scene appeared. Originally, the dagger was only gently and skillfully inserted into the stone, but when Kester activated the divine pattern on the dagger, almost without warning, the stone split in half! The crack in the middle was as bright as a bluestone floor, and it didn't look like it had been cut by a dagger at all.

"It's... What kind of texture is this! "If the hammer was just an admiration at first, it is an exclamation now! His voice was an octave higher than before: "How is it possible, how can such a simple forging pattern have such a good effect!" "Although the hammer had vaguely expected the extraordinary armor-piercing god pattern before, when its true effect was revealed, the hammer was still shocked!

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As we all know, the more complex the forging pattern, the better the effect. A simple pattern like Kester's usually just makes the dagger a little sharper at most. In Hammer's prediction, even if such a pattern is activated, Kester will only be able to shatter the stone at best. But judging from the current effect, the simple texture effect of Kester's seal carving is simply against the sky!

In fact, all of this is related to the evolution of forging patterns, which are divided into gas patterns, magic patterns, and divine patterns, which are activated by fighting energy, magic power, and divine power, respectively. Different powers can also activate the pattern, but the effect will be greatly reduced. Since most of the forging patterns have been handed down since ancient times, any of the patterns in Acewell today have an unimaginable history of evolution. But they all have one thing in common – they get more and more complex.

Eswell does not have explicit intellectual property rights, so blacksmiths and alchemists will find ways to encrypt their creations. The easiest way to encrypt is to complicate a simple problem. It sounds like a mystical thing, but it's not difficult to do. For alchemists, adding herbs that have no effect on the properties of the alchemy medicine before it is baked is enough to keep their exclusive recipe a secret. For the forger, it is only necessary to add an innocuous stroke to the forging pattern that has already been completed.

Don't underestimate this soy sauce medicine and this soy sauce pen, it's enough to deter anyone who tries to spy on your unique skills. It is almost impossible for anyone to distinguish between the extra medicine and the extra one, except for himself. You must know that when an alchemist dispenses a medicine, many seemingly inconsequential ingredients have a decisive role in the final efficacy, and the same is true for the forge. Therefore, this very simple encryption method has lasted for tens of thousands of years and is still the common method of Eswell today. With it, alchemists dare to share their alchemy potions generously at the trade fair, and forgers dare to lend the results of forging that have exhausted half of their lives to other forgers to watch.

While this extra money protects the forgers' research from being stolen, it also brings trouble. Perhaps in the first few decades, the forging pattern was just a small plus. But a hundred years from now, people who don't know may add a second note to it in order to keep it a secret for themselves. At this rate, more than a hundred strokes can be added in tens of thousands of years, and the complexity of the useless secret pattern may become several times higher than the forging pattern from which it originated!

Although a small amount of useless lines will not have much effect on the original forging pattern, it is actually like carrying a school bag: there is a broken book in the school bag, and carrying it to school will not be affected in any way, when you have a hundred broken books in your school bag, sorry, it is better to carry it to school than to change to a new school bag. When there are too many useless lines, the quantitative change accumulates into a qualitative change, which is not as simple as secrecy, and the original effect of the forging pattern will also decrease.

The divine pattern used by Kester is a classic pattern that existed 10,000 years ago, and the encryption measures at that time were not so strict, and the encryption patterns in the divine pattern were so small that they were almost negligible. Therefore, under the same level conditions, the effect of the god pattern ten thousand years ago was much stronger than the current one! It is precisely because of this that the hammer is so surprised by this.

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"Well, I didn't expect that—" Kester is no longer the layman who doesn't know anything about blacksmithing. In fact, Hammer had already instilled in him a lot of basic theories and the current situation of the blacksmith. Compared to the elementary lines in his mind, Kester was indeed frightened by his results.

Iron Hammer was itching in his heart, but he also knew that the forging pattern was the most important and exclusive secret of every forger, and it was only passed on to apprentices, not outsiders. Hammer is already Kester's master, and it is obviously not the case to come back from another apprenticeship. Thinking of this, Hammer's heart was full of regret.

Kester didn't mean to hide it from Hammer, but after all, it involved Silver Serpent and Ike. As a person who is familiar with the equipment of the Knights of the Gods, once he tells him the specific god pattern, it is difficult for him to guess the origin of the pattern. In Hammer's current situation, knowing Ike's presence wasn't necessarily a good thing for him. After all, those Shadow Church guys don't know when they're going to emerge from the shadows. If they accidentally found out about Ike, with the tens of thousands of years of grudge between the Holy Knights and the Shadow Church, Kester would definitely be pushed to the forefront.

Looking at Kester's expression, the hammer knew that this pattern was quite deep, and he nodded very consciously: "Okay, I won't ask more, you shouldn't have used the limit of this dagger just now, to what extent can the strongest effect of this pattern be?" ”

Kester held his chin in his hand and thought for a moment, then went back to the basement to find the stone he had compressed when he had tested his talent. After Kester's forging, the hardness of the stone has increased a lot, and it can be compared to some rudimentary forged metals, which is just right for testing knives. Under the watchful eye of the hammer, Kester was imbued with divine power for the god crest. With a slight "thud", the blade of the dagger struck the compressed stone. This time it was not as exaggerated as just now, the dagger only slashed into the stone with a single blow, and slashed to a depth of nearly half of the stone, leaving only half of the handle still outside the stone.

"Whew, even if it wasn't split in half, such a proud result was enough to make everyone blush." Hammer said with a sigh of relief.

After all, this is only equipment made of fourth-order demon cores and seventh-order demonic beast teeth, and Kester is already satisfied enough with this. He pulled out the dagger from the stone and hid it inside the thick earth light armor. In this way, if you fall into the disadvantage in the battle, you can also use this dagger to slap people.

"And a dagger, what kind of god tattoo should I get?" After disposing of the first dagger, Kester looked back at the fangs of the second serrated wurm, "Break the demons?" It doesn't seem much of a need. Is it sharp? That's not bad, okay, it's up to you! ”

Hammer was still watching Kester's forging process, but not so lucky this time. Due to a mistake in controlling the temperature of the fire, Kester accidentally caused a mana leak when he was inlaying the magic core. Fortunately, he cooled down in time and avoided the explosion. But because of this, the core and the teeth of another jagged wurm were also consumed in the smelting furnace.

"It's a pity," Kester said with some regret, "this time is rare, and next time there won't be so many chances to get the teeth of the jagged wurm." ”

"Victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, and blacksmiths, like alchemists, are all money-burning professions." Hammer is accustomed to this: "If you need to build equipment of higher quality, I'm afraid the failure rate will be much higher." In the past two days, you have been able to successfully forge two pieces of three pieces of equipment, which is already a very proud achievement. What's more, both of these are good boutiques. ”

Kester was right when he thought about it, if he really didn't fail once, he seemed to be sorry for the name "newcomer". There are still times when there are still mistakes in the task of forging master level, let alone a novice like yourself who is new to blacksmithing? Thinking of this, Kester was relieved.

"By the way, the dagger from before, you better name it." Hammer reminded.

"Huh? Do you want to name it again? It's a hassle to come up with a name..."Kester figured out his dagger with a tangled face.

Hammer said with a serious expression: "We are not blacksmiths, every blacksmith should do when choosing a name for our work!" ”

"Alright," Kester said after a moment of thought for the dagger, "since it's made of serrated wurm's teeth, let's call it the Dragontooth Dagger." ”

"Dragon's tooth dagger? That's a good name. Hammer nodded.

"Alright, Grandpa Hammer, do we have a more important thing to do than the troublesome matter of choosing a name?"

"What's the matter?" Hammer Daqi.

"It's time for lunch!"