Chapter 12 "Under the Bronze Armor"
For Huey, the helmet, cuirass, and heavy armor boots were not too much of a problem, but what frustrated him the most was how to build the handguards and leg guards.
When he was in the Holy See, he used linen, cowhide and cow tendon to build his hand guards and leg guards. And the linen and cowhide in it are used to ensure that the handguards will not wear out the backs of the hands, and no one wants their hands to be worn out by their own handguards before they have even started fighting.
If someone really wears out his hands by the gauntlets he created, then he himself will resign from his job in the Holy See, as an old alchemist, he can't afford to lose someone who wears out other people's hands.
Although, he is only a beginner-level alchemist, not a middle-level, high-level alchemist.
Among the three auxiliary materials, beef tendon is very important, it has many functions, such as it can prevent the gauntlet, not to be snatched by the enemy in the fight, but also so that it will not fall from the arm inexplicably, the most important point is that the beef tendon is more resistant than the cloth strip, and the knot is not easy to loosen.
But now there are no three of these things here. Although, without linen and cowhide, the handguards would not wear out Shuy's bony hands, but how can the handguards be fixed in the hands now?
Thinking of this, Xiu Yi couldn't help but have a little headache, of course, this is a metaphor here.
He was thinking about how to do it, when he suddenly seemed to think of something, and looked at the bucket of golden sand with some discomfort. It is true that the gold is a soft metal that is as soft as leather as long as it does not reach the thickness, and it can be used to fix the gauntlet, but doing so will cause the gauntlet to not be removed, of course, for an alchemist like Xiuyi, this problem is nothing, but in addition, there are two problems with how to do it.
The first problem is that the amount of gold in Xiuyi's hands is completely insufficient to create a pair of handguards, and the handguards of heavy armor are different from the handguards of ordinary leather armor and chain mail, and they are not only to protect the part of the hand to the elbow joint, but to protect it together with the upper arm.
Now the gold in the barrel, it looks like a lot, but in fact there is not much, these gold, are the golden sand, is a solid particle, and the liquid state of the copper is different, the granular structure of the gold, so that these gold sand, in the barrel looks full, but in fact, after the barrel of the golden sand, you will find that the barrel still has 10% of the space, and it is not used!
It's just because of the granular structure of the Styx Sands that there are some tiny voids between the Stygian Sands, although they are tiny voids, but these voids add up to 10%.
However, the second problem, which is the biggest headache for Xiu Yi right now, is, of course, still a metaphor.
The problem is that Huey has never forged the peculiar soft metal.
Although I have seen it and know how to forge it, it is a challenge for anyone to do something that has never been done before.
Not to mention, now he has a bit of a problem with forging the dark copper, so let him forge the dark gold, and he has no bottom of his psychology.
But, whether it works or not, you have to try it to know that you have to start everything from scratch, just like no one is born to speak!
If the quantity is not enough, then make one first, anyway, the undead have no shortage of time, it's a big deal to wait a few days, it doesn't matter.
Xiu Yi gritted his teeth and made up his mind to make a handguard first.
He stood up, walked to the small bucket containing the Stygian Sands, hung his hand made of bones above the Stygian Sands, and began to use his mana to change the order of the basic magical elements that make up the Stygian Sands, so as to melt the Stygian Sands.
Unlike the Copper, the Copper is composed of 8 fire, 2 earth, 4 water, 1 light and 9 darkness, and the 4 water elements make the melting point of the gold much lower than that of the same 8 fire elements.
Like the Stygian Copper, the magical elements that make up the Stygian Metal, except for the darkness, do not give the Stygian Gold anti-magic power, therefore, the Stygian Gold is the same as the Stygian Copper, and has excellent anti-magic ability for death, darkness, curses and other magic.
However, the gold and copper are always two different metals, and Xiu Yi can easily melt the copper, which does not mean that it can also be gold.
The 4 water elements of the Stygian Gold made Xiu Yi have no idea where to start. The fire element must be placed at the end of the order, otherwise, the metal will not melt, but, wherever the water element is placed, Xiu Yi thinks it is inappropriate, and placing it in the front will cause the gold to become finer particles, and if you put it in the middle, it will make the gold not melt. In the end, after trying for a long time, Xiu Yi tried to make the dark gold melt in order: dark, earth, water, light, dark, water, earth, dark, dark, water, dark, water, dark, 8 fires.
Xiu Yi looked at the quietly staying in the barrel, the melted Styx Sands, a little annoyed, when he was learning mana forging, although the teacher had taught the forging method of the Stygian Gold, but the order of the Immortal Gold that could be melted was used as the bottom of the pressure box, and he kept a hand, this one didn't matter, but Xiu Yi was miserable, and he tried it for a long time before he tried it.
However, now is not the time to think about this, the first priority is to forge the gauntlets.
A little bit, little by little, using mana to turn the liquid stygian gold into a cylindrical shape, and then a little bit, little by little, changing the order of the magical elements of the liquid stygian gold back to the original order and turning it back to solid.
After all the liquid gold was solid, a soft metal sleeve made of gold appeared in Xiuyi's hand. The two bone fingers rubbed carefully on the sleeve of the dark gold, and felt that the sleeve was thick in some places and thin in others.
As soon as Xiu Yi noticed that the thickness of the sleeve was different, he immediately melted a part of the thick part of the sleeve, put it in the thin place, and then turned it back into a solid, and so on several times, Xiu Yi forged the gold into a soft metal sleeve of about the same thickness.
This sleeve forged from dark gold is the first step in forging the gauntlet, and later, there is the forging of gloves, and the armor inlaid with dark copper on the sleeves and gloves.
Gloves are obviously much more difficult than sleeve forging, in order to ensure that the fingers can move flexibly and quickly when wearing the gloves, and it is impossible to put the whole hand into the glove.
When forging gloves, Xiu Yi first put a sleeve on his right arm, connected the sleeve to the cuff of the cuirass on his body, and then covered his right hand with the liquid of dark gold to forge it.
This avoids problems such as the inability of the glove to move with the movement of the fingers and the inability to put the hand inside the glove.
However, even so, Xiu Yi failed several times, and when he didn't know how many times he failed, Xiu Yi completed this sleeve glove soft armor.
As long as the sleeve gloves are completed, the rest of the things will be much easier.
Turning the Liquid Bronze into pieces of plate armor, inlaying them into the Sleeve Glove, connecting them together, and turning the Liquid Bronze back into solid, a heavy armor gauntlet will be completed.
The style of the gauntlet is the same as the breastplate, which is the style of the Holy Judgment of the Holy See of Light, and on the armor on the back of the hand, there is a Holy Cross pattern of the Holy See of Light.