Chapter 68: The Price of Enchantment
"Is this sword to your liking?" Andre and Eddie led Fed to Rodman's shop, the best blacksmith in the City of Honor, and Andre personally picked a two-handed greatsword and handed it to Fidel, who did not take the two-handed greatsword, but just shook his head.
"Didn't you mean to take me to check out the enchanted helmets of those MONOCULUS mercenaries, why did you come here to choose weapons?" Feder didn't stop at the various weapons in Rodman's blacksmith shop, he always took a random weapon.
Eddie chose a long, double-headed barbed chain, "Do you think Fielder would like this kind of weapon that is rarely used, this one also looks very sharp." He fiddled with the chain himself, and seemed to like it.
Andre told Fed not to be anxious, and after he put his two-handed greatsword back in place, he began to select other weapons.
"Oh, it's Eddie!" Rodman, the brown-bearded blacksmith, came out of the back room of the blacksmith's shop, his face still blackened, and his hands already calloused. He stretched out a hand to shake Eddie's hand, but Eddie didn't mind and instead walked up to hug him.
"How's that! those enchanted helmets are worth a lot of money!" Eddie asked kindly.
Rodman waved his hand and told the three of them to follow him to the back garden of the blacksmith's shop, where several enchanted helmets had been taken from the MONOCULUS mercenaries were placed. He casually picked up a helmet and said to Eddie, "No, this kind of half-finished product is a finished product, which is estimated to be made by Nathaniel, who has already sold his soul to the devil in exchange for these evil crafts!" Rodman picked up a sledgehammer and smashed the enchanted helmet in his hand.
Fed tried to reach out to stop Rodman, but was blocked by Eddie.
"What do you mean by that?" Eddie knew that Rodman was also a prestigious blacksmith, and he would not slander another famous blacksmith for no reason.
"You don't know, these enchanted helmets look like they are enchanted, but in fact they are very different from the actual enchanted products," Rodman picked up another magic eye helmet, and he dug out the small glass bead from the helmet with his fingernails and secretly stuffed it into his trouser pocket, "If enchanted weapons lose their magic power due to too many uses, then these enchanted helmets made by Nathaniel in batches will cost the user life." Rodman's words don't look like he's lying.
"Lost your life. When Fidel heard this, he remembered what the old blacksmith Gimon had said.
"I don't want you to learn about enchantment, it's going to change a person. β
AndrΓ© walked over to the pile of enchanted helmets, and he lifted one and tried to put it on his head, but nothing changed or felt strange.
"What's the downside of Nathaniel's enchanted weapon?" Eddie asked.
Rodman put down the sledgehammer in his hand, he found a wooden stool and sat down and said, "The principle of enchantment is originally the secret of the blacksmith, and every enchanted weapon consumes the effort of the maker," he picked up a large pipe on the table, smoked it violently, and then slowly spit it out, "So you will find that there are very few blacksmiths who live long, because they all go against the laws of this world, and there is always retribution." β
Andre and Feder watched Rodman say such superstitious things and didn't believe them, while Eddie pricked up his ears and listened attentively.
"But Nathaniel is passing on the price that should have been his own to the user!" Rodman slapped himself on the thigh as he said this, as if he had struck a hammer on a red-hot iron bar, "What's the difference between this and murder? He's a terrible murderer!"
The three people who heard this already clearly understood what Rodman meant. If you put these enchanted helmets from the MONOCULUS mercenaries on your own mercenaries, it will cost them their lives.
But from the way Andrei looked at those helmets, it was clear that he didn't want to give up this huge batch of loot because of this.
Rodman took another puff of his cigarette, he had already seen Andre's eyes, "Don't think about it, these helmets have already formed a 'contract' with the original user, it is Nathaniel's means to prevent others from obtaining the enchanted weapons he created, you wear them are just equivalent to ordinary helmets, so let's do it, these helmets will belong to me, you let your mercenaries come to me and choose any weapons you want." β
"And what are you keeping them for?" Feder asked coldly.
"I use it for research. β
In this case, AndrΓ© had to dismiss the idea, because he didn't like his mercenaries to wear such a bulky covered steel helmet.
"Nathaniel of the Mercenary Guild asked all his mercenaries to wear this enchanted weapon, isn't it going to sweep the world?" Andre touched the "silence" in his hand, this sword was the only thing his mother Josephine left for him, and it was also a rare enchanted weapon.
Rodman snorted twice, and said, "The higher the level of the enchantment, the more severe the impact on oneself, and soon someone will find out about the problem with these weapons, and sooner or later Nathaniel will die without a place to bury." He raised his sledgehammer and smashed the helmets one by one.
Eddie also said, "Since these are harmful things, it is better to destroy them." He meant to let Andre not feel distressed, after all, these things cannot be taken for himself, and even if he is taken for himself, it will be harmful to others and not to himself.
"Lad, don't you have your eye on the weapon you want?" Rodman asked Fid as he swung his hammer, and he could tell that Eddie had brought him in to pick out a weapon.
"Nope. β
Rodman was not surprised, he said: "Also, your black plate armor and gloves are very good enchanted weapons, especially this plate armor," his hammer hand did not stop, "It is an enchanted weapon that has been tempered thousands of times, and it is rare in the world." β
When Eddie and Andre heard this, they immediately turned to look at Fidel, and looked around his "black flash" carefully.
Rodman walked to a hut, took out a crystal clear triangle and said, "I heard that you killed the leader of the MONOCULUS mercenary group with your own hands, James, I will give you this now." He placed the triangular crystal on the table for them to see.
"What is this?" Eddie picked up the crystal, which was not as big as his palm, and there was a faint cyan light inside the crystal.
"This is called 'Light Crystal', and it's actually a kind of enchanted weapon, but it just attaches magic to the spar," Rodman didn't mind the others touching and taking it, "It was given to me by an old friend, he was the only one in the continent who could attach magic to the stone, but he was dead." β
"If it's called a light spar, it must make the user as light as a swallow?" asked Andre.
"That's right, I'm going to set this hedron on the black plate armor on you, young man, so that you will be as light as if you were not wearing armor. Rodman spoke with a divine expression, and Andre instantly showed an expression of envy - the reason why he had not been wearing armor was because it would reduce his agility, and this hedron made up for it.
Fei De didn't think too much about it, after all, it was a good thing to be able to lower his own weight, so he took off the black plate armor and gave it to Rodman, who said that he could set it back for Fei De now.
"By the way, if this hedron starts to get muddy, then you have to pay attention," Rodman said with the Black Flash, "This means that the plate armor enchantment on your body has been consumed, bring it to me when the time comes, and I will show you the way to bring it to life." β