A sword embryo—let's call it a sword embryo, though only the shape of a very abstract sword could be seen—rested on a stand made of Augin, in a miniature furnace, surrounded by clusters of exuberant magical flames of magnificent hues. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Now that the Aojin Bracket has been used as a support, the magical flames in the furnace must have been extremely hot, but the sword embryo was only roasted red on the outside, and there was no sign of melting and deformation, as if the flames were only to scorch its surface to maintain its current state, rather than calcining it as it seemed at first glance.

And it is.

Now in Avis's independent workshop, the group was quietly looking at the sword made for Ye Guyun in the furnace - well, it was still barely enough to call it a sword swordsmanship.

After a long time, Catherine said, "Tell me, what kind of design idea is this sword?"

Derotan, who had been holding his hands, immediately turned his head, rolled his eyes like black beads, glanced at the girl, and said with disdain: "Hey! You are a mage! No matter how powerful you are, you are only a mage!

"Give me less!" Catherine replied with a faint threat, "patience is limited, and I don't mind letting this place turn to dust." ”

Aviston was in a hurry: "Hey, this is my place!"

Catherine clasped her hands, raised her eyebrows, pursed her lips and chuckled: "I don't care~!"

How do you think that Derotan's eyes widened, and he shouted: "What's the hurry? ruin it, destroy it! Just send the bill to Saphius——quack~~! I have found a way to deal with this witch! In the future, as long as she dares to spill again, it will be good to find her man! I can't help her, can't I help her man? Saphius has always been there! Coaxing, haha~~!"

For a moment, there was dead silence all around. Then, laughter began to erupt. Sambi laughed so much that he could see him leaning back and forth in an exaggerated manner. Even the tall Avis couldn't help but cover his mouth and twitch his shoulders again and again.

This time, Catherine was choked completely speechless, which is very rare, and what is even rarer is that there is not even a little annoyance and anger in her heart, to be precise, there is shame, but there is no annoyance, but there is an inexplicable sweetness, the corners of her mouth do not want to show that she is angry and droops, but she can't help but want to go up, which is to express her joy-

"Oh~!What's wrong with me?Okay、I'm so embarrassed...... What should I do?....... Yes, angry!"

Therefore, Catherine knew that she had to behave at this time, even if she was pretending to be annoyed and angry, and she was unreasonable, so she felt a terrifying electric light appeared in her palm when she looked at it, and "Very good! You can just send him a bill!!"

"Calm down! Calm down!"

"Tell that old dwarf! Let's get down to business!"

One persuaded the other, and Evis and Sambi finally calmed down Catherine, who was "about to riot".

Situation reset.

Relieved, wiped his sweat, and glared at the innocent sneering Derotan - God knows when this old dwarf had the poison tongue attribute?—— turning his head and looking at the sword in the furnace, Avis began to say: "This is definitely the most unique longsword I have ever worked on, and maybe not one ...... yet"

"Uh-huh, unique, how unique?" said Sambi, very competently.

"The simplest of the requests, but also the most complicated......" Avis looked at Catherine, "Your man only made three requests from beginning to end, uh......" He shook his head, "I'm not sure if that's a request or not......"

"What request?" Catherine replied.

"Sharp, strong and tough. Derotan replied in a muffled voice, but immediately roared furiously, "What kind of requirement is this? Isn't it the most basic quality of some weapons? Whose long sword is not pursuing this?

It only shows that Saphius does not have high requirements for weapons. Sambi said.

Derotan shrugged: "It's really not high, an ordinary steel sword in your hand can satisfy that guy." However, this world was no longer the world he was familiar with, and an ordinary steel sword was definitely not enough to support him to continue to dominate his opponents in the way he was familiar with......

Avis continued: "So, Saphius needs a better sword worthy of him, at least it must not be an ordinary steel sword, it can't be an ordinary steel sword that can be easily destroyed by common energies such as fire and acid, and it can't be an ordinary steel sword that can be easily cut off by the opponent's magic weapon...... That's why Frank invited us to build this sword, and he was even more interested in it than Saphius himself—he's a wonderful friend. ”

Sambi frowned when he heard this: "So, where is the so-called 'complexity'? With your level, you can easily create a high-grade magic sword that satisfies the simple requirements of 'sharpness, sturdiness, and toughness', and I don't understand why its progress is so slow......"

"Haha! I knew you'd ask!" Drotan stroked his beard and laughed, "The reason is naturally the guy!" Turning to Catherine again, "I guess you know that little about your man, right?"

After a moment's deep groaning, Catherine said, "You mean, the suppression of the arcane elements by Qi?"

"Yes, that's it. Avis nodded slightly, "Saphius is simply a spellbreaker from the Otherworld! Oh! I should say, he is much more clever than a spellbreaker! he can easily resist most negative spells, unlike the latter, who relies heavily on bloodlines and equipment!"

"Phew!" Derotan shook his head disdainfully, "but it will also make any magic weapon in his hands indistinguishable from an iron rod!"

Sambi's face was full of disbelief: "What? Iron rod? What do you mean ......?"

"That's it!" replied Drotan in a furious voice, "as soon as he wields the inexplicable energy he wields, he will suppress the arcane elements around him extremely strongly, and even the magic weapon in his hand will not be spared......! No matter how clever and ingenious you are, all of them will be useless! It's like they've all been erased all at once, and it's like they've never existed! Anyway, no matter how good a magic weapon is, in his hands it will be no different from an ordinary weapon on a tabula rasa!"

The conjecture was confirmed, and Sambi's eyes were wide open and his mouth was wide open......

Avis continued, "As you know, the reason why magic weapons have far superior performance over ordinary weapons is because they are blessed with magical powers attached to them, for example, the most commonly used, which can be used to maintain a constant "sharpness" to provide extra sharpness......" He spread his hands, "but obviously, this set does not apply to Sephoeus. ”

"So we'll have to find another way," said Avis, smiling bitterly with a little embarrassment, "there's no clever 'other way'! We can't think of it......! Spell materials. ”

He looked at Catherine: "Using a series of rare materials with excellent performance, creating a longsword with excellent performance enough to compete with most magical weapons is the most basic design idea we have set for this sword. ”

"But now it's going to change again," Derotan pouted, "It's going to be 'Jinmang' again! It's an artifact! It's a real artifact! Hey, this is to make us build a weapon that can match the artifact! Mom, I'm going to have a headache! I'm going to faint! And let me faint for a while~~!"

Avis couldn't help but smile bitterly and nodded: "It's really a little difficult......"

How hard is it?

They all understand what is going on, they all know what the difficulty is, and they all know that they are not optimistic.

As a result, the scene froze for a while.

Catherine folded her hands and pursed her lips, expressionless, silent—she had spoken very little since the beginning, and had been silently thinking, not knowing what she was thinking.

After a long time, it was Sambi who broke the silence first, pointed to the sword embryo in the furnace, and asked, "So, that lump of things inside must be something amazing?"

"Haha!" Derotan immediately laughed, tilted his head to the ground, and was very happy, "Indeed! It's a great thing—— hey! I have to say, it's good to have your thighs on it! Look, you can get this kind of amazing thing casually when you get the thighs of the Duke's Palace!

Sambi rolled his eyes: "You're telling me what the hell is wrong with it!"

Derotan was stunned, so embarrassed: "Ahhh Ahem, yes, this thing, it's actually a big piece of meteoric iron! Hey, I know you're going to say, 'Meteorite isn't a very rare material, so what's the point?' Then I have to tell you, this one is really different! It is indeed very rare! In fact, it is not even a product of the main plane, but a piece of otherworldly meteorite that I don't know which master brought back from which plane!"

"Its properties are much stronger than ordinary meteoric iron!Hey, I won't go into details, you just have to look at the situation inside the furnace and feel it!" Derotan pointed to the sword in the furnace, his eyes lit up, "Look, the flame in the furnace is already a level 8 magic flame! It can't melt a layer of skin yet—— I don't know where the Grand Duke got this good thing!"

Sambi was stunned: "Then why do you still put it in it and roast it?"

Drotan replied: "Maintain the state, easy to process! Heh, you don't know how much energy and time it will take to re-melt it from the cooling state, it is better to keep the current state of melting unmelted, which is convenient and economical." ”

Sambi opened his mouth, blinked, and said with envy, "That sounds amazing! The weapon made from it must be very powerful!"

"Needless to say?" Drotan replied proudly, "I can guarantee that it is superior to most magic weapons in terms of material properties!"

"Then I'm struggling again......" Sambi frowned, "because of Saphius, you probably don't have any magic attached to this sword." In other words, such a good material can only be made into a conventional longsword with conventional forging techniques...... Ouch, why do I sound like a pity?"

Ha ha!

Laughter rang out, Drotan laughed, and so did Avis.

"It's not just you, anyone who knows the goods will feel extremely sorry to hear this!" Avis smiled and waved his hand reservedly, "So we must not let this kind of violent thing happen!"

Sambi reacted quickly this time, and immediately understood the meaning: "So there will still be all kinds of magical and powerful magic arrangements in this sword?"

"Yes," Ives nodded in confirmation, "of course, given the special situation of Suphius, we have to ...... some special treatments."

He looked at Catherine, "This brings us to our specific, further, deeper design ideas for this sword......

Catherine was dissatisfied: "You guys have been talking nonsense just now?"

Ives spread his hands: "I thought you could understand the difference between 'basic' and 'deep'......"

Without dwelling on it, he began to explain: "We are going to divide the sword body into two parts, the outer part is a sharp blade made of this otherworldly meteorite as the main material, and the inside is a sword core made of a variety of our original special alloys, and all the magic arrangements will be placed on the sword core, and what enchantments, magic circles, and seal carvings are all in it to avoid the suppression of the strange energy carried by Saphius......"

Drotan interjected, "You're glad that that guy's energy can't penetrate the golden stone after all......! Whew!"

Avis continued: "Regarding the choice of enchantment, again, because of Saphius, he will not choose any active combat enchantment effects, but will only choose passive and secondary ones, such as self-healing, sharp, permanent, evil-breaking, soul-breaking, illusion-clearing, magic barrier-breaking, spell-disarming effects, etc. Oh, there's a pretty special one, a change of form. ”

With that, Ives turned to his desk and pulled out some drawings.

Catherine took a look at it, and the drawings depicted a sheathed longsword with a unique style, as well as ...... A cross?

Sambi looked at it and said, "It's so special! It's simple and simple, and it has a unique charm, but it looks thicker and heavier than the most delicate elven sword...... I can't imagine that a strong man like Saphius likes to use such a long sword......"

Hearing this, Derotan snorted sullenly: "It's just this ghost, and he meows to be divided into two parts, inside and outside, think about it, you can know the difficulty!"

Catherine's eyes were focused on the cross, and she asked, "What is this, and why did you choose this?"

Able to grasp what Catherine meant, Ives smiled, and replied, "Obviously, the cross." Saphius says it's a religious symbol of his hometown — oh, there are several others here (hexagram, taiji yin-yang fish, and swastika). You can feel that the shape of the cross is the most suitable as an ornament, so he chose this as the second form of the sword, so that he can carry it with him as an ornament, although he does not believe in the religion marked by the cross at all, and even dislikes it...... However, I don't think he cares about it at all, and this picture is completely random, forcing me to refine it according to his style......"

So, this is an oriental-style cross?

Nodding and thinking about it, Catherine looked at Avis, pursed her lips and chuckled, and asked, "So, is there anything else you haven't said anything important?"

"I can't hide it from you~!" Avis shook his head and laughed dumbly, "Having said all that, there is always one of the most critical things that needs to be solved first - how to make Saphius, a user who is basically insulated from the arcane, activate all the functions attached to the sword......"

After a pause, Ives said emphatically: "The plan I gave is, machinery. ”

"Mechanical?"

"Yes! It does not rely on the user's own guidance, but relies on the contact and separation of the machine to activate and stop various functions, for example, press a button to turn the sword into a cross, and press a key again to make the cross turn back into a sword......"

"Great idea!" was the blurt out of praise from Sambi, who was listening quietly.

"I know it's a good idea, too! "Excellent!" replied Avis, smiling, a look of self-sufficiency on his face, which immediately made Derotan very upset, "Boom!

Ivis ignored him, turned to Catherine, and said, "Well, as you can imagine, building this sword is almost the same as your mage making a most sophisticated magical device - I think you can also appreciate its complexity and difficulty! This is the main reason why this sword is progressing so slowly......"

"Of course, it's harder and slower to raise it to the point where it can fight artifacts now......"

"You know what I mean?"