Chapter 22: Artifact One
When Lu Yuan came to his senses, he found that he had been in the Friendly Arm for another month.
This left him confused.
He came out in search of adventure, but adventure doesn't seem to seek him?
I didn't see anyone jumping out and stepping on him very cheaply, everyone would try to talk a few words when they saw the mage, Lu Yuan was a project manager in his previous life, and he could talk to anyone casually. Over the course of a month, the Friendly Arm liked him up and down, and he made a lot of friends.
"How is it that I am getting farther and farther away from the life of the enemy? This, if you don't go through the test of life and death, how can you break through quickly?! He was also very distressed to complain.
In essence, two months after leaving Baldur's Gate, he broke through to the fifth level of magician, and his progress was amazing enough. After several years of apprenticeship, he was like a clay pot filled with water, thick and thin, and after becoming a full-fledged mage, his mage level has been rising rapidly. He already felt that he was about to break through to level six soon. This momentum may not slow down until he enters the intermediate mage and becomes the fourth or fifth ring mage.
He came to the Friendly Arm with the intention of seeing if he could participate in the main line of that game.
The game "Baldur's Gate" tells the story of the love and killing of the sons of Baal.
Years ago, the harpist Grion led people to attack the temple of the fallen evil god Baal, where they rescued a son of Baal who was sacrificed, and the child was brought back to Candlefort to be raised by Grian, who was the main character, "Chanem".
However, it was the two brothers who were sacrificed at that time. The younger brother was rescued, and the elder brother Shaflok himself escaped from the temple of the evil gods, and later he met Rita, a great merchant from Baldur's Gate, who became his adopted son.
After Safflok mastered his power, he chose to cooperate with the church of Baal, and tried to kill all the sons of Baal to complete the plan for the resurrection of the evil gods. To this end, with the help of the Iron Throne's strategy, he attempted to set off large-scale killings, launching waves of conspiracies in the Baldur's Gate area, forming a large number of adventurous missions...... Ahem......
In fact, under William's introduction, he met Shavlok at a party, and also inquired about him because of the game. To be exact, Lao Sha is a good person. It's really good. Charismatic, sincere, knowledgeable, likes to quote books and is eloquent!
When Lao Sha was a teenager, he explored the Troll Mountains of Baldur's Gate, and ruined the trolls' plan to plunder Baldur's Gate. After that, he became the leader of the adventure group, and he liked to rush to the front every time, he was good at commanding and liked to charge.
At a time when many thought he would join the Flame Fist and become the Flame Fist Commander in the future, he became a member of his father's Rita Merchant Group and joined the Iron Throne Business Alliance.
It's a mix of politics and business! He didn't choose to do it for twenty years in Flame Fist and then go to the top. Instead, he chose to lead an existing force that challenged the old system of Baldur's Gate, including his adoptive father, Rita. So a large number of talented young men, middle and low-level mages, and oppressed small merchants, rallied around him, forming his own backbone within the Iron Throne.
Lao Sha is like an idol in the minds of the young people of Bodemen. William was also inspired by Lao Sha, so he actively worked hard to become a councilor. On the contrary, look at those old guys, who are still arguing and hesitating, not being sure whether to suppress the Iron Throne, it is really stupid.
If you look at the story of the game from a different perspective, you will find that after entering Baldur's Gate, Chanem and his party received various helps, both overt and covert, so that he finally overthrew Safflok and the Iron Throne and achieved heroic prestige. He has become a steel knife that the old nobles slashed at the Iron Throne and Safflok. They don't know about the Evil Gods' schemes, the Sons of Baal, Balabala, and the like, they just want to bring down the Iron Throne and the aggressive Shaflok!
Anyway, the rootless "Chanem" took some gold and magic items from the Iron Throne at most. After they left, the feast really began. The estates, shops, estates, debts, recipes, trade routes, shipping routes, trade agreements, ships, factories, etc., owned by the Iron Throne, are the main body of the Iron Throne's wealth.
A real value!
Lu Yuan is not interested in fighting for power and profit, he has done a lot in his previous life, and he has successfully overthrown a top position.
What he loves now is magic and alchemy. Exploring the world of magic and casting infinite magic is like a childhood dream, very beautiful and very happy.
Remember the spell he cast to amuse Jill Girl? It was a combination of a one-ring spell and several zero rings, and if a mage saw it, he would be shocked, because it involved several advanced subjects such as spell casting and material freeing, spell silentness, spell instantaneous and non-stop casting. Although all the magic involved is the lowest zero ring and one ring magic, the technical content and prospects in this are very, very scary......
Therefore, the boss of the Friendly Arm, Mirror Shadow, will be so polite to him. Bantri Mirror is a level 10 illusion mage of the dwarf race, and in his early years, he often performed illusion shows to please customers, and he understands the difficulty of that performance.
Similarly, the alchemy and forging process that creates one wonderful item after another are also Lu Yuan's favorites. You can see a crystal ball in the distance, a paper airplane that can fly on its own, a hanger that will help you fold your clothes...... He studied this stuff and had really fun!
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Looking at the mountains of digging insect shards in front of him, Lu Yuan carefully sorted them one by one. These nail pieces were all ground by the hands he hired, and let him do it himself, and he couldn't finish grinding so much in ten years.
The Friendly Arm has a large number of low-end rooms and an ample supply of supplies, so it has become a distribution center for adventurers from the north.
Adventurers are actually not a very good profession, how can there be so many treasures in the world? Most of them are still doing tasks such as escorting caravans and clearing goblins. It is not uncommon to be hired by local lords to participate in farm work when the farm is busy. There are not many city guards who are completely out of production, let alone mercenaries who earn their own money to eat.
Therefore, Lu Yuan said, "Are you idle to go to the tavern to spend money, or do some small work to make money by the way?" "A large number of laborers were brought in. Each of them took a few worm shells and grinding stones back, and grinded off the excess according to the lines drawn to get a few gold coins...... These rough-processed armor pieces were then handed over to the blacksmith for fine grinding, and they became Lu Yuanyao's armor pieces.
Pick up a piece of carapace from the insect's leg, which is the size of a thumb and bent into a bowl. Pinch the edge and squeeze it hard, the shell is flattened inward, and when it is released, it returns to its original shape. This piece of armor, which is only about two millimeters thick, has amazing elasticity and toughness. Lu Yuan didn't think of what this kind of small armor piece could do before, but he subconsciously grinded it out.
Now after pinching it twice, the bottom of my heart is open, lightweight, tough, and strong, because it is a chitin carapace, whether it is against chopping, smashing or bowing and arrows, it cannot be damaged. On the contrary, it is a drill bit, which can easily drill a small hole out. This is simply the material that was born to make dragon scale armor! Abbreviated as Tiancai! He directly categorized the foot of the digging worm......
After looking at the number, it was enough to weave a dragon scale armor for himself and Twilight, which was really good news.
"Meow~", Nini suddenly appeared on Lu Yuan's shoulder and screamed softly. Now Nini is still the same size as before, a petite black kitten, but with an extra pink collar around her neck. That's not what Lu Yuan used to tie Nini up. The collar came with a small space where Nini's food was stored, because Lu Yuan would forget everything once he was busy...... He could starve himself to death, let alone Nini? Therefore, Lu Yuan prepared a food bag, which also came with a "cleaning technique" three times a day, which could help Nini take a bath.
"Someone's coming, isn't it?" From Nini's thoughts, there were a few people in robes who walked towards his room, and there seemed to be no malice.
"Xie Lu Xie Nini", Lu Yuan scratched his chin affectionately, and Nini raised her head comfortably. Nini doesn't just say "Nini" anymore, she learns to express some simple meanings, and under Lu Yuan's "correction", she will make a cute meow. You'll be the Moe King in the future, too!
"Then let's entertain the guests."
Lu Yuan beckoned, and the armor piece was received into the secondary space bag. Then there is a teapot with self-boiling water and six self-cleaning teacups......
"Please come in, Lady Alona's followers." As soon as the leading man in a green robe knocked on the door, Lu Yuan opened the door, said to them, and made a gesture of invitation, and in the room, the teapot happened to make a whining and boiling sound.
The leader looked at Lu Yuan a little and looked satisfied.
It was a very old man, with white hair and an astonishing imposing appearance, wearing a green robe made of dragon skin, and a long sword hanging from his waist. Aside from the unicorn emblem around his neck, there are no decorative items. The four people who followed behind, a middle-aged man, seemed reluctant to speak, and the other two young women were very active, and after entering the door, they first stared at Lu Yuan, and then their attention shifted to the mess of various experimental objects in the room—such as the rotating model of the solar system, and the sun was still shining.
Well, a leader in decision-making, an expert in technical skills, and a young woman who enlivens the atmosphere, this is a standard negotiation team. Lu Yuan complained in his heart.
"You may be seated, you're welcome." Lu Yuan first invited a few people to sit down, and then poured tea one by one, and the delicate aroma began to fill the small room. The two girls took the lead and sat down happily, tasted the tea a little, and then showed their excitement, and exchanged elbows with each other. But the leaders did not speak, and they obviously did not dare to speak. After the wooden middle-aged man saw some of Lu Yuan's semi-finished products, his eyes lit up, picking up this and not putting down that, everyone couldn't put it down, obviously he was also obsessed with this and was not good at communicating with people.
The old man in the lead coughed awkwardly twice and said, "Hello, Mr. Lu Yuan, I am Lady Alona's servant and Twilightstar's master, Baishu Fiteri. ”
"Ahh Lu Yuan immediately stood up again, the demeanor just now was thrown aside, Twilight's master is the ranger who raised her since she was a child, is this the rhythm of meeting her parents?!
"Well, you're here this time, aren't you?" Lu Yuan said embarrassedly, thinking that I was pushed backwards, and I wouldn't be beaten by the old fist. I've heard that Twilight's master is close to legendary.
Seeing that Lu Yuan was still a "simple boy", the master was also relieved. This time I came to the door, and it didn't sound good, that is, I wanted to steal someone else's unique armor-making technique, Frederick had never done such an embarrassing thing in his life, let alone Twilight's lover. Even if Lu Yuan saw it for the sake of Twilight Star and offered the craftsmanship of the Digging Worm Armor, if he held a grudge against the church because of this, it would affect the feelings of the two people, which was also something that the master didn't want to see.
If it weren't for the divination with the help of the goddess, he would not have come at all if he found that the trip would have gone very well.