Volume 2: The Shadow of the Wailing Cave (Remastered) Chapter 12: Cres' Protective Barriers
For a master blacksmith, how to handle every material perfectly has long been as simple as breathing, but after he agreed, some of Yu Bin's requirements for equipment made Canos feel a little tricky.
In fact, Yu Bin's requirements are only three, the first is that this equipment must be a shield, the second is that the weight of this equipment cannot exceed 15 kilograms, that is, the requirement of 75 points of strength, and the third is that this equipment must be more than 7 strong.
The reason why Yu Bin put forward these three requirements is precisely so that this equipment can achieve the greatest effect.
First of all, players are the largest users of equipment in the world of Ntagre, unlike the natives, a piece of equipment is likely to last for years, starting with an apprentice and going into the realm of heroes. Players change their equipment very frequently, and the discovery of a new copy can even cause a large number of pieces of equipment to become obsolete, so the equipment created by Canos must meet the requirements of most players. Compared with the mage class, the warrior is the largest professional group among the players, among them, the powerful warrior who can face the enemy, that is, the commonly known tank, has naturally become the top priority, and the strength of the tank in a team directly determines what level of enemy the team can kill, and accordingly determines what kind of harvest they can get. And what could attract the attention of those powerful tanks more than a powerful shield? In his previous life, Yu Bin would often see a team bankrupt in order to buy a piece of equipment that could improve the strength of the tank.
Secondly, the weight of the equipment does not exceed 15 kg, which means that the strength requirement to use this equipment will not exceed 75 points (without counting the equipment bonus), which means that the range of players who can use this equipment has greatly increased.
Finally, the sturdiness must reach at least 7 points, which Yu Bin considered in order to ensure that this equipment has sufficient defensive effect. In the world of Entagre, the sharpness of the weapon and the solidity of the equipment will have different effects depending on the value, if the sharpness is less than 80% of the solidity, it will not be able to break the defense at all, and even if the attack damage is broken, it will not be able to cause any actual damage to the target; If the sharpness and solidity are similar, the attack will deal damage to the target after a certain amount of reduction, and will have different effects depending on the equipment area hit. If the sharpness exceeds 120% of the sturdiness, the attack will inevitably break the defense, and the target will take full damage from the attack, and at the same time, the equipment will be damaged or even destroyed due to the destruction of the equipment. A sturdiness of 7 points means that a weapon with a sharpness of less than 6 points cannot break the defense at all, and this sharpness includes almost all the blue refinement and even most of the red rare weapons, you know, even the black wing blade in Yu Bin's hand only has a sharpness of 8.3, which is an orange epic weapon!
Although there was some confusion about Yu Bin's request, because the orcs basically would not make similar requests, the only requirement of these strong warriors was that the weapon was heavy enough, big enough, and harder, so that they could cut deeper and smash worse, as long as it could meet these requirements, it was a good weapon. But Canos was a master blacksmith after all, and this small request was not too much for him.
He first rummaged through the scattered ores on the ground, and found a few pieces of dark iron from them, which Yu Bin recognized, which was obsidian iron that was often mixed with obsidian, as an associated ore of obsidian, which was used by blacksmiths as an important auxiliary material for its good sturdiness and magic resistance.
Then, Canos took out a few crimson stones from a large basket made of rattan in the corner of the room, which were dragon's blood stones, which were special stones formed after being watered by dragon's blood, and dragon's blood replaced the impurities in them, turning the originally loose earth element into a solid earth elemental essence, of course, the so-called dragon's blood was not the blood of a dragon, but the blood of a wurm, such as a wyvern or an earthly dragon.
Throw Kresh's back armor and a piece of mythril into the forge for simple calcination, remove useless impurities and water in the back armor, and let the mythril completely penetrate into the back armor, knock the uneven spikes into the same size, and then use melted obsidian iron to pour on the surface of the back armor, the cooled obsidian iron completely wraps the back armor, and gradually penetrates into it with the opportunity that the back armor has not cooled after being calcined, increasing the strength of the back armor from both internal and external aspects.
The Dragon's Blood Stone was violently smashed and mixed into the remaining obsidian, and then it was beaten into a semi-circular handle by Karnos, and thrown into the forge until it was calcined until the whole body was red, and then Karnos took it out and embedded it tightly on the inside of the back armor, and the vertical handle allowed the user to easily maintain the angle of the shield.
The velociraptor's tendons are simply heated and embedded in the edge of the shield to further increase the shield's maneuverability, and a small piece of Mithril melts and is pulled into an extremely thin line of Mithril that goes around the handle and edge of the inside several times.
The entire forging process lasted nearly two hours, and finally, a purple legendary-level shield appeared in front of Yu Bin.
[Kresh's Protective Barrier]: Purple Legendary Heavy Shield, Sturdiness 7.2, Weight 12.5 kg, Requires Strength 65 (for one-handed use)/45 (for two-handed use), Special Effect: Tough Shield Wall, Kresh's spirit lodged in this shield after death, the Mithril thread wrapped around the handle can awaken this powerful soul, and create an invisible soul shield wall on the surface of the shield, this shield wall is so hard that no attack damage below the hero level can break it head-on, When this invisible shield wall exists, you are invincible! The duration of the shield wall is 5 seconds, and after the shield wall is gone, Kresh's spirit needs a full day to recuperate in order to regain the power consumed.
"The materials I have at hand don't bring out the full power of this back armor, but even with the current effect, this shield is enough to be called a fine piece! If you can find better material in the future, I'd be happy to refine it for you! Canos said, wiping his sweat.
In the world of Entagre, if a piece of equipment is replaced or increased with auxiliary materials while keeping the main material unchanged, the quality of the equipment can be changed to a certain extent, and this behavior is called refining. Obviously, Canos was not very satisfied with the effect of this shield, it was related to the materials he used, whether it was obsidian or dragonbloodstone, it was not the top material, so he generously gave Yu Bin a chance to refine, for a master blacksmith, it was really a pity that he could not maximize the effect of a piece of equipment.
"Of course, I'm more than happy to! I don't know how much Master Canos will need me to pay, but I'd like to pay in gold for the time being, as I don't have the extra space to carry the ore you need. ”
Canos waved his hand: "The main materials are provided by you, I only spent some auxiliary materials, and these auxiliary materials are worth a little money except for Mithril, and the others are no different from waste in my opinion." 3000 gold, if you can guarantee to send me enough ore within a month, I can also reduce this price by half! ”
Orcs are more liked by Yu Bin, that is, they basically don't slander people, if it is a blacksmith of other races to forge this shield, Yu Bin estimates that it will cost 5,000 gold coins to base it.
"Don't know what ores you need?"
"The most undead of you are all kinds of iron ore, so I need at least five hundred kilograms of iron ore, one hundred kilograms of refined iron ore, fifty kilograms of copper ore, and the same weight of tin ore and silver ore, if you can provide me with cold iron ore, it will be better, not too much, as long as there are ten kilograms, I can waive the other half of the remuneration you need to pay!" Canos wiped his hands and said, for a master blacksmith, these ores can be said to be the most basic raw materials, but Canos can't get enough ore supply because of the exclusion of those orc compatriots, which makes Yu Bin feel worthless for the best blacksmith of the Warsong clan.
"Although the cold iron ore is more difficult to get, I will do my best, as for the other ores you need, I will have someone send it to you in half a month, do you need me to make an oath with you?"
Canos shook his head: "No, if you can get that piece of back armor, you are definitely not a nameless little guy, the original owner of that piece of back armor is not something you can easily deal with, and I remember your breath, don't underestimate a war song orc, anyone who betrays us will not end well, just like the demon lord who was hacked to death by us!" ”
"Of course! I'd love to have a good relationship with a master like you! Forgive me for taking the liberty of asking, since your countrymen are not willing to accept you, I wonder if you would like to run your forge elsewhere? Yu Bin thought about recruiting, "I forgot to tell you before, I still have a small territory, although it is not very prosperous now, but I believe that it will not be long before it grows, and it will never be much worse than Orgrimmar by then!" ”
"Hahaha, little one, your jokes aren't funny!" Canos didn't believe Yu Bin's words at all, there was a small territory that might be true, but to say that it would be better than Orgrimmar in the future would be bragging! Orgrimmar is a city that the orcs have spent tens of thousands of years and countless destroys and reconstructions to develop, how can it be compared to the territory of a small undead! "If there really is such a day, maybe I will consider it!"
Yu Bin just tried it, even he didn't believe that he could recruit a master craftsman like Canos, any master craftsman is an important person of the race to which he belongs, and it is not an exaggeration to call them the technical pillars of the race, the reason why Canos has fallen to the way he is now has a unique particularity. On the one hand, it was because Canos had not been settled here for a long time, his abilities were not yet known to the upper echelons of the orcs, and he himself was not a person who liked to brag about it, and on the other hand, because of the general discrimination and alienation of the Warsong Clan by the orcs, Kanos could not obtain enough materials to use his skills. Of course, the orcs' indifference to all kinds of crafts is also an important reason, otherwise these green-skinned beasts would not have taken tens of thousands of years to develop to this level, and even the undead with a shorter history than the orcs have achieved their current achievements, and we can know how much the violent nature of the orcs has affected this race.
Yu Bin didn't pay the 1,500 gold coins immediately, and Canos didn't ask for it, he hoped that Yu Bin could get him enough cold iron, and after agreeing on the place and method of delivering the ore in half a month, Yu Bin left the city on a goblin airship.
Those ordinary ores are not difficult to get, as long as Yu Bin doesn't care about gold coins, he can purchase them directly from those goblins, Yu Bin has calculated that to meet Canos's requirements, the gold coins he needs to pay are almost 1,000 pieces, as for why Canos is unwilling to trade with goblins by himself, on the one hand, because he doesn't have too many gold coins, and on the other hand, because this orc blacksmith looks down on the goblins' kind of wall-like existence, just like he is unwilling to deal with the undead.
As for the so-called use of forged weapons and equipment to offset the cost of purchasing ore, Yu Bin can be sure that with the stubborn and inflexible orc head of Canos, such a thought will not occur at all!
The shield forged by Canos is smaller and lighter than the previous whole back armor, because many uneven places have been treated by Canos, and a large part of the impurities in it have been removed by calcination, despite this, the full 45 points of strength when using both hands are not what Yu Bin can meet now, his current level is level 1 40, and of the 24 attribute points obtained, only 6 points have been invested in strength, which makes Yu Bin's strength only 37 points, There is still a long way to go from the requirement of 45 points.
Of course, he himself doesn't need this shield very much, although the special ability of the tough shield wall is very powerful, but Yu Bin already has an undead shield, although the effect is not as good as the tough shield wall, but the advantage is that it can be used many times, unlike the tough shield wall only has one chance. What's more, whether this shield is used or not, it will take up a lot of weight for Bin, causing Yu Bin to either choose to give up the plate armor or reduce the amount of supplies he carries, which is not cost-effective in terms of practicality.
But none of these problems are a problem for a tank! The Fortitude Shield Wall allows them to be "invincible" for at least 5 seconds against powerful bosses, which is enough to turn the tide of battle in a critical moment or save a companion who is about to die. As for the so-called weight, it is not something that the tank needs to consider, whether it is equipment or supplies, it can be handed over to the companions in the team to carry, and there will be no situation where the weight exceeds that Yu Bin is worried about.