Chapter Ninety-Six: Crafting Equipment
A high-level blacksmith can theoretically take three apprentices, but there are more than three players and NPCs busy in this shop, and with customers haggling on the sidelines, a small blacksmith shop is already overcrowded.
"Hello guest, do you want to buy equipment or forge equipment?"
Sherlock squeezed for a long time, and finally came to the front of the counter, and a cute female elf asked gently.
There is actually no difference between the NPC and the player in the game in terms of appearance, and if you don't use skills, you can only distinguish them by their behavior and way of speaking.
Although the female elf in front of her learns quite similarly, but an elf will come to work in a dwarf's blacksmith shop, and when you think about it, you know that only players can do it.
The gold of the Forgotten Realm and the real credit are equivalent to each other, so many people will also work in some stores in the game, or do some part-time jobs, and being diligent does not necessarily earn less than outside.
"I want to find Master Thorin!"
"Do you have an appointment?"
Sherlock was asked by the elf girl's words, he never thought that he would have to make an appointment to see an NPC now, but it seems to be normal when you think about it carefully, since people have this rule, he is not easy to break, wait a while, just wait a while.
"Okay, make an appointment for me."
"Okay, please pay 100 gold coins first."
Well, he also said that he could barely accept the setting of asking for money for an appointment, and the senior blacksmith is also a senior engineer in reality, and it is normal to charge some reservation fees.
"I'll ask how many people are in front of me."
"I'll look, there are 172 more in front of you, you can ......"
Sherlock was just about to confirm the transaction, and when he heard this, he quickly collected the money, 172, all of them were to build equipment, and he would definitely not be able to take his turn in seven or eight days.
And listening to Newt, this NPC is going to play Hearthstone in the afternoon, and with the dwarf personality, you don't expect them to come back at night to continue crafting equipment.
Hearthstone, drinking, fighting, and blacksmithing, in their eyes, the fun of forging equipment is far less than the first three.
"Friend, the ticket is going to be cut down." A male elf suddenly came over and said, "I have a number 72 here, and it will be there in line for two days, if you can't wait, I don't have a number in front of it." ”
Why does this line Sherlock feel so familiar, when has the scalper industry developed into the game?
"Friend, the 72nd is only 1100, and this price can only be given by my Hongkou Ah San, I will tell you a little news for free, this NPC can create excellent equipment."
1100, you can buy a good piece of equipment, he really wants to poke the elf in front of him and ask him if your conscience doesn't hurt.
This kind of unjust money Sherlock will never be spent, it's not a question of whether it's worth it or not, the key is that it will make him very unhappy, well, the key is that he is reluctant.
Rejecting the repeated sales of scalpers, he came to the elf girl again, there was no Zhang butcher, and he didn't eat hairy pigs.
"Sister, can you send a message to Master Thorin, just say that I just hatched a blue-feathered bird snake, he should know."
"I'm sorry, guest, according to the rules, I'm not responsible for passing the word." The elf female player smiled and said sorry, and added an extra accent to the word rules.
"I understand the rules, is this enough."
"I'm a very principled person."
"So what?"
"Master Thorin is hosting two guests, and I will make him angry if I enter without permission."
"That's my bottom line."
"Okay, you wait, Bluefeather Bird Snake." The elf grabbed the gold coins on the counter and walked to the room behind her.
Looking at it like this, it's not the first time this person has done this kind of thing, and it took a total of 100 gold coins to make the other party willing to help him spread the news, and this money is really easy to make, so that Sherlock wants to go to the sea to engage in the service industry.
But it's a pity that he doesn't have this capital in either reality or in the game, and with his charm, if he walks directly into Thorin's forge room, he will definitely be the result of being hammered out.
After a while, the female elf walked out again, and said with a curious expression: "What the hell is the Blue Feather Bird Snake, as soon as Thorin this old man heard this, he asked me to let you in immediately, and I almost didn't even care about the half-made staff." ”
At this moment, the female elf completely removed the polite mask just now.
"Guess!" Sherlock ignored the other party's entanglement, and bent down into the forge room as soon as he was short.
The structure of the blacksmith shop is similar to that of the apothecary, with the outermost façade being the place where the goods are kept, and a slightly inner hall where the apprentices have built, and inside is the owner of the shop, Thorin's forge and living quarters.
As for the forging room opened by the players, it is all in the folding space, and it does not actually exist.
When Sherlock walked in, he saw two snake eyes floating in the air, surrounded by spell lines, slowly merging with a dwarf's chant.
Although he didn't learn forging seriously, holding a hammer against a piece of metal was the way he remembered forging. There is only one explanation for the current situation, and that is that the other party is building magical equipment.
Magical equipment according to the background of the game, refers to equipment with spells, to clarify, spells are a type of skill, but skills are not the same as spells.
Magical equipment sounds mysterious, easy to say, and difficult to do.
Theoretically, as long as a required spell is permanently engraved in the same container with magic constancy, a magic item can be formed, but two or more magical energies must be controlled at the same time during the forging process, which has extremely high requirements for the forging level and magic control of the forger
Unfortunately, the dwarves who are the best at forging have little talent for magic, including their blood relatives, and the natural mage elves have no interest in forging one.
Therefore, the blacksmiths, tailors and seimen who are good at magical equipment on the continent of Faeron are almost half humans, half humans.
I didn't expect to joke about the dwarf mage before, but now I really encountered it, although the other party may only be able to engrave two or three order spells, but with his dwarf clan's unique forging technology, the magic equipment created is definitely better than that of humans.
This makes Sherlock take this NPC another level more seriously, and Newt's statement that the technique is good seems to be a conservative statement.
However, there was more to him than that, seeing those two familiar snake eyes, he already knew who the two guests the female elf was talking about.
It was Mikoto Misaka and Kuroko Shirai, who left in a hurry as soon as they met yesterday.