Chapter 5: A Xiu Encounters a Problem
Moore Town North District. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
This is the commercial area of the town, and the streets are lined with various shops. There are many kinds of goods, but many of them are related to magic products.
The streets are also crowded. The smallest human gathering place on the Continent of Parker is the town centered on the Elemental Research Council, and if it is small, the lack of protection may attract demonic beasts. So each town is no less in size than a small city.
As a marginal town, Moorish Town, like several surrounding towns, will also have a large number of adventurers entering and exiting the forest outside, so there are also many raw material collection shops, weapons, armor, and supply stores.
But none of that was Karn's goal at the moment, and at this moment, like a swimming fish, he walked through the flow of people, and at the mouth of a small alleyway, he calmly turned in.
Karn stopped in front of a small and inconspicuous shop called "Asho Repair Station".
Walking in, there is a small counter on the left, and a row of shelves full of groceries in the back.
On the right is an open maintenance room, where a man in a maintenance suit and a maintenance hat is working at a repair bench. In front of him was a medium-sized demonic artifact, divided into three parts, two identical black boxes were placed on both sides of the table, about half a meter high, and in the middle was a half-meter-long gray box, looking at the structure, it must be the core part of the entire demonic artifact. Adam is checking something at this core.
"Ashu!" Karn shouted at him when he saw that the man didn't realize himself.
"Oh, Karn is here, you put the stove on the shelf, and give it to you when the money is gone. Ah Xiu turned his head, revealing a young face, probably to look mature, and grew a mustache. He pointed to an empty space on the shelf and spoke to Karn at a very fast pace.
Without waiting for Karn to reply, he pointed to the corner of the maintenance room and said quickly, "Oh, by the way, your task today is to fix those machines. ”
It may be that he is busy, or he pays attention to efficiency, Ah Xiu's speech speed is very fast, and he can finish a sentence in one second, and ordinary people really can't understand it. Karn was not one of them, however, he was accustomed to Asho's style, and without further ado, he put the stove he had made on the shelves and went to the corner of the maintenance room.
In the corners are items such as the Magic Heater, the Magic Lamp, and the Magic Air Conditioner. The ones that need to be repaired by Karn have been marked, and there are five in all. Karn had repaired these things countless times, and he knew the road with ease.
Karn put on his maintenance cap, did what he was doing, and looked at the familiar surroundings, and couldn't help but sigh a little, he had been helping out here for more than five years.
Time flies!
This time it's time!
Because of Kant's reasoning, he learned the magic pattern relatively early, and the old Kant's knowledge of the magic pattern was not only very comprehensive, but also very systematic, and he taught Karn the basics of the magic pattern from the age of five.
Over the course of more than two years, Karn had learned countless types of magic patterns, low-level, intermediate, and high-level. The seven-year-old Karn then began to practice carving, unable to produce a magic pattern that would produce the corresponding effect, but only practiced the pattern repeatedly to hone his engraving skills. It took him another four years to practice all the magic patterns he knew.
Four years ago, when Karn was eleven years old. I don't know if it's because of his outstanding talent in magic patterns, Karn has hollowed out the knowledge of old Kant, you must know that this is a very incredible thing, the foundation of magic patterns includes pattern recognition, pattern recognition and painting, the system is huge, although old Kant may not have learned everything, but he said that it took him more than 20 years to learn the content. At such a young age, Karn had only studied for more than six years to fully grasp it, and Kant Sr. often praised Karn as a genius in patternmaking.
Marveling at Kahn's talent, the old Kant spent nearly half of his savings to buy a set of lowest-level pattern-making tools and some first-class energy furnace materials for Karn to practice making, but he didn't expect Kahn's level to surprise him again, at the beginning, the energy content of Kahn's energy furnace reached the standard, and the output of seven a day was comparable to that of ordinary carvers, and what surprised the old Kant even more was that Kahn's success rate was more than sixty percent, and it was increasing at a high rate.
But there was one question that stumped the two. No one wanted to buy Karn's personally crafted Grade 1 Energy Furnace.
The reason why old Kant chose to let Kahn make a first-class energy furnace is not only because the materials of the first-level energy furnace are relatively simple, relatively easy to use, and the failure rate is low, but also an important reason is that the vast majority of civilian magic pattern products are powered by the first-class energy furnace.
In other words, primary energy furnaces are the most in demand and are probably the easiest to sell. After all, they have to live, and making a stove needs to generate income, so easy to sell is the most important thing.
What the two of them didn't expect was that after running for a day with dozens of first-class energy stoves on their backs, none of them were willing to buy their products.
Some of them are suspicious of the small amount and frequently make troubles; some of them are distrustful of the two of them because they are dressed like beggars; some merchants deliberately lower the price and give them much lower than the cost; and some of them directly drive them out before they have finished listening to their words.
Just when the two of them were hungry with their chests against their backs and were about to give up, they came to the door of the "Ashu Maintenance Station".
Hearing the two of them say that they want to sell the first-level energy furnace, Ah Xiu is also hesitant, he also feels that he doesn't trust it very much, and the amount is very small. He happened to be repairing a simple artifact of the Magic Pattern, and when he detected that it was a Magic Pattern that was also used in the Grade 1 Energy Furnace, he asked Karn to try to repair the Magic Pattern.
From Ah Xiu, he roughly understood the difference between the lower pattern and the pattern, which was not difficult for Karn, who had been practicing the magic pattern for several years, and quickly repaired the magic pattern, which made Ah Xiu dispel his worries and believe in Karn's ability to make patterns.
It is important to know that it is difficult to make a pattern, which is carved on a blank main material, and many times it is carved in the case of interference of other lines.
But to buy Karn's Noh Furnace, Ah Xiu still made a little request, Karn helped in the shop two days a week, and he agreed to buy their Noh Furnace for ten rupees a piece.
Although it is one rupee lower than the market purchase price, excluding the cost of materials, a furnace can earn about one rupee.
Karn only felt that happiness had come too suddenly, and almost cried tears of joy. I agreed without even thinking about it.
Later, Karn learned that Ashu's father maintained this repair station alone, and when it came to Ashu, he added the business of selling groceries, so that a person was a little too busy, so he had long wanted to recruit a helper, and learned that Karn could make a Noh furnace, and the foundation of the magic pattern was also very solid, so he moved Kahn's mind to recruit Kahn as a helper, and he didn't have much interest in Karn's acquisition of the Noh Furnace, just a incident.
However, it was not long before Ashu discovered Karn's talent for demonic patterns. After more than two months of familiarization, Karn was able to find the problem of the bad product even faster than him, and when it came to repairing it, the magic pattern was also very solid. Powerful people are always more easily respected, so after three months, Karn only had to come to the store for one day a week to help. For another year, Karn would only need to come and help for half a day a week.
Four years had passed, and Karn had been adept at repairing broken demonic artifacts. Expertly dismantle the shell of the Demonic Air Conditioner and carefully inspect the Demonic Guide.
"Well, one of the gaskets was blocked by dust from the main magic pattern guide, and a broken pattern was found in one of the magic patterns. ”
Pick up the brush next to it to sweep away all the dust, then use a repair knife to repair the broken lines, install the shell, and turn on the switch.
"Buzz~" The Magic Air Conditioner started up normally......
Before noon, Karn had repaired five broken artifacts.
He stood up, thumped his aching back, and moved his lower limbs to relieve the discomfort in various parts of his body. Then I looked up and found that Ah Xiu was still busy working over there, and it didn't seem to have been repaired yet, so I took a closer look.
The half-meter-long box was opened and placed in front of Ah Xiu, and inside the box was layers of wooden planks. Through the grain of the boards, Karn could tell that they were made of gray wood with good energy conductivity, and that they were densely grained. This board is not cheap, it is generally used to make the main body of the first-class energy furnace and the first-class refining furnace, where can it be cheaper!
Ah Xiu was wearing a maintenance cap, looking through the amplifier on it to observe the magic pattern on one of the boards, holding a small tester in his hand, connected to the magic pattern, and the data on the display screen that popped up on it kept beating.
Karn watched from the sidelines, not making a sound to interfere with Ashur's work, and he silently read the data displayed on the tester.
"Well, this is an energy storage module, and the access rate is 92 percent, which is quite high, normal. This is an energy-conducting link and the connectivity is normal. ”
"Beep!" Just then, the tester sounded a siren.
"Hmm, the pathway rate is sixty percent, ah, it's the energy loss that exceeds the standard, hey, this is the energy gathering module?"
Karn actually saw the concentrating module here, this shouldn't appear on the civilian magic pattern products! Generally, civilian magic pattern products will try to use the magic pattern below the first level, so that the materials will be cheaper, and most of the materials below the first level have been artificially planted, and the price is much lower than that of wild nature. There is also an important reason, the magic pattern below the first level does not need to be carved by the pattern maker, and the price of the pattern maker is much higher than the material cost.
"Hey!"
At this moment, Ah Xiu sighed and slowly put the tool down, apparently disappointed that it was not repaired.
"Ahh
"Ahh
"Hey, why are you standing behind me silently, you're scared to death!" Ah Xiu stroked his chest and grumbled.
"I'm not afraid to disturb you, how can I talk casually!By the way, what is this??" Karn was a little heartless, and although he was startled by Ashu's scream, he recovered in an instant.
"Hey, this is a friend sent for maintenance, called a speaker, the price is relatively high, and I took it. But who knew that the damage inside was actually the Gathering Energy Demon Pattern, no telekinesis, how could I fix it, I tried more than 20 methods, isn't this still an excessive loss of energy. I really don't understand, who is so extravagant!" Ah Xiu stood up and grabbed his hair, walking back and forth, speaking faster, looking very agitated.
"Shaped Module, shall I try it?" Karn weakly suggested.