Chapter 1: The Mechanical Alchemist

The sunset obliquely stretches the shadow of the tavern sign,

The stocky boss was behind the counter counting the wine bills,

The guests drank ale and looked at the stage,

The poet holding the harp is lazily singing:

“…… When all the legends write the first chapter

It turns out that the so-called heroes are just like us. ”

Xiao Ling likes Xiu Sistry's poem very much, this poem has a taste of rivers and lakes, heroes don't ask where they come from, and the term hero is just an honorific title for a person by a group of people, the so-called hero is actually no different from ordinary people.

Xiao Ling was holding a dog's tail grass in her mouth, lying on the old willow tree outside the town of Braka Davijin, leisurely spending the afternoon, she was too tired from mining recently, and it was rare to take a break. Towards dusk, the setting sun lazily casts a red glow over the town, and the evening breeze blows, kicking up a faint yellow dust.

Men and women come and go in the town, mages and priests in magic robes, paladins in silver and white armor, barbarians, elves, and humans, busy creating value for game companies.

They were either gearing up or seeking to form a team, shouting loudly, and the whole town of Viggin was bustling with activity.

"The thirty-fifth level all-purple suit high-output fire mage seeks to form the ash forest, and some of them are dense."

"Level 40 High Defense, Thick Blood, Berserk Barbarian Warrior Seeks to Form Elasi Swamp 、、、、、、"

"The level forty elite team needs to heal 500+ priests, and some of them roar."

Looking at these busy players, Xiao Ling was envious, when would he really start leveling, when did he think of the experience of just entering the game, he was depressed, among all the professions, the warlock is a marginal profession, and the last thing that is needed for major tasks is the warlock, because the damage output of the warlock can never be compared to the mage, and many control skills are only effective for some mobs. Moreover, Warlock is a demonic class, and NPCs in other places are reluctant to issue tasks to Warlocks except Bracada.

Although Warlock is on the edge, some tasks still have a demand for Warlocks, and some skills in the three classes of Demon Warlock, Doom Warlock, and Pain Warlock are very useful in the task, and if the Warlock player's consciousness and reaction are good, and the equipment is not bad, the role played is no less than that of a mage who is called the soul of the battlefield.

Moreover, the three-line warlock is the god of solo training, and the leveling speed when leveling up alone is not inferior to the thief who is known as the king of the wild.

Also as a warlock, an alchemist is the edge of the edge.

Alchemists are further divided into potions alchemists and mechanical alchemists.

Potions alchemists increase their strength by refining various potions. Their spell damage is very low, and they can barely reach 80%-90% of the spell damage of ordinary warlocks after drinking potions, but the potions they refine are extremely expensive.

In the home city of Edins, Bracada, a high-level potion alchemist could sell for a high price of one or two thousand gold coins.

If the Potions Alchemist is still of some use, the mechanical alchemist chosen by Xiao Ling is the waste of the slag.

The mechanical alchemist's magic damage is only about 40% of that of a normal warlock.

The talent of the mechanical alchemist is engineering, and it can create mechanical golems, and each mechanical alchemist can carry a mechanical golem, and the mechanical golem also has a certain combat power. For example, the most basic first-order mechanical imp has a spell damage output of about 80% of that of the mechanical alchemist, which can make up for the mechanical alchemist's low spell damage to a certain extent.

A mechanical alchemist and a mechanical golem can add up to as much spell damage as an ordinary warlock, and if the mechanical golem is high enough, then the mechanical alchemist is enough to be proud of any legal profession.

At the beginning, Xiao Ling also entered the game with such a fantasy, and also enthusiastically learned the four production skills of mining, metallurgy, forging, and engineering, and prepared to create his own exclusive mechanical puppet.

But the illusion was quickly shattered, and after more than a month, many players had risen to more than forty levels, entered the major dungeons, and put on high-level blue and purple suits, Xiao Ling's level still stayed at the first level.

Without a mechanical golem, a mechanical alchemist is a waste of slag and cannot level up at all.

But it's not that simple to make a mechanical golem.

Impact metallurgy needs money, forging needs money, and engineering needs money, and the money Xiao Ling earns from mining ore every day is smashed into this bottomless abyss.

In a month and a half, Xiao Ling's four production skills have been greatly improved, but the level has not been upgraded by the first level.

Mining: Grandmaster, skill proficiency 307/500

Metallurgy: Advanced, Skill Proficiency 175/300

Blacksmithing: Intermediate, skill proficiency 102/150

Engineering: Beginner, skill proficiency 47/50

Xiao Ling's only thing to be proud of is his skill level in mining and metallurgy, at present, in addition to Xiao Ling's grandmaster-level mining technique, there are only two high-level miners in the entire server, and it will take time to train to be a grandmaster-level miner.

There are fewer metallurgy, there are only three intermediate ones, and only Xiao Ling is a senior one.

If anyone could dig in the junior mine outside Bracada for a month, working more than thirteen hours a day, and with luck like Xiao Ling, digging three pieces of purple gold in succession, he might also be able to become a grandmaster-level miner.

If anyone can risk failure to throw three pieces of purple lazuli into the smelting furnace without hesitation and successfully smelt them into purple gold nuggets, he may also be able to become a high-level metallurgist.

But no one has such good luck, and no one dares to do it.

With the professional recognition certificate given by the system, Xiao Ling can get a good position in any big guild and get an enviable salary, but Xiao Lingzhi is not here. His goal is to become the first person in the game, not the first person in the production profession, but the first person in rank and strength.

If it weren't for grandmaster-level mining and high-level metallurgy, Xiao Ling would probably have deleted his number and re-practiced a long time ago, and he wouldn't have been so up-to-earth.

Xiao Ling stroked the smooth surface of the purple gold nugget, like caressing his lover, and the dazzling light of the smelted purple gold nugget was Xiao Ling's hope.

Purple gold: a third-order rare ore that can be used for metallurgy, forging, and engineering.

It is said that in the auction house of Bracada, there was a piece of unsmelted purple gold ore that had been sold for a high price of 2,000 gold coins, and only one piece appeared. Xiao Ling had to sigh his luck, that day he was digging in the primary mine, and found a piece of lilac ore, and shoveled down three mines in a row, a series of system prompts made Xiao Ling blind, and the miner level jumped directly from the high level to the grandmaster level, and the three purple ores in the package made Xiao Ling very excited.

You know, it's a rare ore.

The ore is divided into three levels: ordinary, rare, and treasure, each level is divided into five grades, the ordinary one is more common, the rare ore is quite rare, and the third-order rare is even rarer. Xiao Ling had never seen rare ores above the third order, let alone treasures.

What if you refine the Purple Gold Nugget into a mechanical golem?

Three purple gold nuggets are enough to refine a mechanical golem.

But trouble also followed, only after training the engineering to the intermediate level can you make the most basic puppet mechanical imp, Xiao Ling estimated that it would take about 3,000 gold coins to hit the intermediate engineering, and after the impact to the intermediate engineering, you also had to buy the drawings for making the mechanical puppet, and a second-order mechanical ghost drawing sold on the market cost 2,000 gold coins.

In other words, if Xiao Ling wants to make a mechanical imp, he needs at least five thousand gold coins.

That's 5,000 gold coins! Xiao Ling rolled his eyes, he was bored and mined, and after digging for more than a month, not counting the value of three pieces of purple gold, he earned about three thousand gold coins, and he was very lucky. It is also possible for a grandmaster-level to mine for a day and earn only more than ten gold coins, after all, mining has a lot to do with luck.

Ordinary intermediate miners can earn about twenty gold a day, senior miners can earn fifty gold, as for the grandmaster level, no one has counted it yet, Xiao Ling thought about it, there should be no problem with earning more than a hundred gold a day.

Xiao Ling had to spend more than a month to forge a mechanical imp, and by that time, I am afraid that many players would have already risen to more than fifty levels.

Xiao Ling glanced at the human world rankings, and the highest rank was a barbarian warrior named Crazy Dragon, who had reached level forty-nine, leaving everyone far behind. The second place is a priest named Hua Wu, who is only forty-seven, but it is not easy to enter the second place on the list as a female pastor. Xiao Ling guessed that she should be a Shadow Priest, otherwise it would not have been possible to level up so quickly.

Compared to them, Xiao Ling was a little embarrassed, Xiao Ling had tried to go out to fight monsters, but he couldn't even beat the most basic skeletons in the skull forest outside Vigin Town, let alone upgraded. And Xiao Ling is used to being alone, has no friends, and disdains to be an experienced baby, because of his profession, his own strength is too weak, and no one is willing to group him at all.

A mechanical alchemist without a mechanical golem is scum! Xiao Ling finally made this clear. So no matter what the cost, be sure to get the mechanical puppet out!

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