Chapter 5: The Rudolphs

"Wait, don't come inβ€”" Roy shouted quickly, standing in front of her.

Arya hurriedly put on her dress, and before she could zip it up, the furious guy at the door had already barged in.

This is a round little fat man named Harvey Rudolph, who is Roy's classmate and friend.

It was this bad friend who knew him well that was able to break into his bedroom without being polite and without scruples.

But it was clear that he had come at the wrong time.

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Harvey silently glanced at the panicked Arya behind Roy, then at the embarrassed Roy, and slowly retracted his round body.

"It's rude."

He politely closed the door.

Inside, Roy coughed lightly, took out a large old box in the corner of the room, and carried it on his back.

"You're busy, I'll go first."

He said hello to Arya and was about to leave, but before leaving, he seemed to suddenly remember something, and said seriously,

"I can understand how you feel, but I'm not that kind of person."

Arya stayed where she was, her little face flushing with shame.

……

Outside the door, Harvey saw Roy walk out with a black box on his back

Roy glared at him angrily: "If you talk all day long, sooner or later someone will kill you!" ”

Harvey didn't mean to reflect at all, he hugged his shoulders affectionately, and smiled cheaply, "Okay, brother!" I didn't expect you to finally open your mind and find a girlfriend! ”

"What kind of girlfriend, didn't you see her wearing a maid outfit, that's my family's newly recruited maid!"

"Oh, I thought you guys were role-playing......"

Seeing that he was already far away, Harvey looked back at Roy's bedroom, and then whispered, "How did you get involved with Arya?" ”

"Huh?" Roy Elemental perceived, "You know her?" ”

"Big brother!"

Harvey's eyes widened, "She's from the same school as us!" It's still the same grade! It's our school flower this year! It's right next door to class! ”

Roy rolled his eyes, he never paid attention to any of this.

Isn't it naΓ―ve, at what age did you start choosing a school? It's a joke that the body is not yet mature!

Harvey continued to himself: "But since I heard that something happened to her family, she herself hasn't come to school for almost half a month, I didn't expect to be abducted by you to play the golden house to hide Jiaojiao, it's really ......"

"What is it?" Roy looked sideways.

"Really...... A role model for our generation! Harvey's reverent tone did not seem to be fake.

"You don't know how many people have pursued Arya before, and I've tried to write love letters to her, but unfortunately they all fell to naught - but don't worry, since she's already yours, I'm sure I won't have any more ideas, after all, I have a girlfriend now."

As he spoke, he patted his chest proudly, seemingly showing loyalty, but in fact showing off.

Roy shook his head helplessly, these rich kids are really precocious.

Especially Harvey, who has successfully escaped Chu last year, thinking about his maternal and fetal SOLO in his previous life, he is really more human than human, and he is angry.

At the same time, he is also reflecting on himself, he has been obsessed with making weapons recently, and it is true that he has not paid attention to the news around him for a long time.

In the future, you still have to pay attention to it occasionally, otherwise you will run into the person involved in the news like now, and you are still out of the situation.

"But ......"

Harvey hesitated for a moment and said, "I heard that there is a big incident in Arya's family, aren't you afraid of getting into trouble if you take her in?" ”

"It's his father who is doing the crime, what's wrong with her?"

"That's what you say...... Forget it, no one knows where she is now anyway, you just hide her. ”

"Don't talk like I'm harboring criminals!"

Roy rolled his eyes, unable to complain.

But it also made him keep an eye on it. Harvey is already a relatively arrogant person, and even he has begun to taboo Arya's background, and it seems that Arya's situation is even worse than he imagined.

As they spoke, the two of them had already gotten into the carriage.

Harvey's Rudolph family is not a family of inheritors and has no noble status, but they have their own ranch on the first floor of the World Tree "Ellan Plains", specializing in raising pure-blooded Ellan horses.

And the opportunity to attract the two to become friends is that they are the only two people in the class who have awakened to become inheritors.

You must know that the number of inheritors is extremely rare, and in Sidnia, the number of people who have the qualifications of inheritors is far less than one percent of the total population.

With this rare commonality, coupled with Harvey's rather outgoing, the two quickly became acquainted.

"What's in there? That's what you've been tinkering with lately? ”

Harvey looked curiously at the black box that Roy brought, "You asked me to introduce you to a reliable blacksmith, is this what is this?" ”

"That's right. I'm going to commission a blacksmith to make a crossbow for me. ”

Roy didn't sell it either, and opened the black box directly.

Inside, there were several sample parts made of wood, as well as a stack of weapon blueprints.

He has always had a hobby, which is to make some bizarre and unpopular weapons and props.

The bookshelves in his bedroom are filled with books with strange drawings, such as "The Craftsman's Guide" and "A Detailed Explanation of Sidneyan Herbs".

It's hard to imagine a boy as young as 14 years old being able to read these difficult and out-of-the-box texts without the guidance of others.

At the same time, Roy also has another studio in his home, which is dedicated to crafting and storing weapons and props.

Over the years, he has managed to make his own miniature hand crossbows that can be mounted on the wrist, smoke grenades and flashbangs for surprise attacks or escapes, and colorless and odorless powders that make people fall asleep quickly.

Especially after awakening the inheritance and becoming the "Moon Shadow", Roy's passion for making props is even greater.

Because Moon Shadow is not a Legacy that specializes in frontal combat, it prefers to hide in the darkness and take out opponents by surprise.

At this time, certain bizarre weapons and props can be very useful.

Although he has another lineage, the Judgment, it is his last killer weapon, and he will not use it easily.

Under normal circumstances, Roy still intends to only show the strength of "Moon Shadow", supplemented by item battles.

And recently, he is preparing to make himself a high-precision composite crossbow for long-range sniping.

In Sidnia, the collective name for the crossbow is called the "crossbow", and the types of crossbows are roughly divided into: one-handed crossbows, which can be wound with one hand, and strong crossbows, which require hands, feet, and even a winch to pull the winding.

Among them, the range of one-handed crossbows is generally only about 50 meters, which is subdivided into the category of repeating crossbows, but the range of continuous crossbows is shorter, and the power of a single shot is also smaller.

The crossbow cannot be fired continuously, but the pound is higher, and the range can easily reach more than 200 meters.

But long-range crossbows usually have the disadvantage that they are difficult to wind.

This kind of pound crossbow often needs to be equipped with pedals to wind with feet, or use a winch tool to assist in winding, not to mention the extremely slow rate of fire, and it is very inconvenient.

Roy, on the other hand, borrowed from the modern composite crossbow design of his previous life, abandoning the traditional straight-pull winding and adopting torsional winding to reduce the force required for winding.

Through the application of mechanical structures such as pulley blocks, it is possible to wind the crossbow with one hand under the premise of ensuring the number of pounds, so as to ensure the rate of fire and its concealment.

The idea had been swirling in his mind for a long time, and after half a year of trial and error, he finally came up with a theoretically feasible composite crossbow blueprint.

However, when he began to make the compound crossbow, there were some problems that he still had to deal with.

First of all, the parts of the compound crossbow were extremely fine, and he was no longer up to the task of making a compound crossbow with his self-taught half-hanging skills.

Secondly, there is the lack of more advanced crafting materials around him.

Modern composite crossbows of previous lives are made of high-tech composite materials, the blades of the bow have high energy storage, fast rebound speed, and a long service life.

Roy experimented with several common materials for crossbows currently available in Sidney, but none of them met Roy's expectations.

Therefore, he had to turn to his friend Harvey to introduce him to a reliable blacksmith.

Harvey stared at the pile of drawings a few times, only to feel dazzled, and immediately lost interest in inquiry.

With a wave of his hand, he said heroically, "This time I will take you to meet Master John, he is a "Demon Blade", and he can be said to be the top blacksmith in Sidney!

"If even he can't help you, then there aren't many people in Sidenia who can help you."

The "Demon Blade" is the inheritance of the warrior class, and its natural ability is to sense and manipulate all basic elemental attributes.

They can manipulate the elemental content of materials, remove impurities, and enchant equipment, turning an ordinary mortal product into a priceless artifact.

As such, every professionally trained "magic blade" is a magician who transforms decay into magic.

Of course, it is not easy to invite a magic blade to help you craft a weapon.

As the young master of the Arnold family, Roy doesn't have a lot of pocket money, but because he often has to purchase some strange raw materials to make props on weekdays, he hasn't saved a lot of money.

Wanting to wield a magic blade is even more fantastic.

However, although he has no money, he has a rich friend - Harvey Rudolph!

Harvey knew that his "family was in dire straits", so he not only introduced him to a forger, but also covered the cost of making weapons this time.

Although Harvey's Rudolph family is not aristocratic, in terms of financial resources alone, the Rudolph family is much richer than the already down-and-out Arnold family.

You must know that a thoroughbred horse can easily sell for a high price of more than 200,000 soles, and Renault's annual exploits from the World Tree are converted into currency, which is only 300,000 soles.

An annual income of 300,000 yuan is actually a good level, and in the upper city of West Denia, the average annual income of an ordinary family is only about 50,000 or 60,000 yuan.

It's just that the Arnold family, as a nobleman, is not enough in the top circles of West Denia.

Because Renault is not the inheritor, with the strength of their team, they can only attack the first layer of the World Tree, which is relatively safe here, but they earn the least merits.

There are a total of 20 known small worlds in the World Tree, which are divided into 20 layers according to the difficulty of the strategy. The first layer is the easiest, and the twentieth layer is the hardest.

If you want to go to a high-level world to earn more merits, you need to be stronger.

The high-level world is a battlefield for the inheritors, and there is no room for ordinary people to set foot in.

And without the help of the inheritor, even if you have a well-trained team, you can only earn about 300,000 soles worth of feats in the first layer of the World Tree in a year.

The Rudolph family did not have a successor in charge, but they did not choose to fight, but smelled a business opportunity and started a ranch business on the first level of the Ellan Plains.

Today, their ranch sells more than a dozen purebred Ellan horses a year, and counting other business items, they start with a good annual income of five million soles.

In addition, Harvey awakened and became the inheritor, and was deeply favored by his father, and occasionally willful, it was still trivial to spend hundreds of thousands.

Not to mention......

Roy also knew in his heart, but there was no need to put this kind of thing on the table.

As the people of God, the inheritors are the strongest fighting force of Sidney, and they are also its privileged class, and each inheritor has an incomparably bright future.

As the inheritor, it is normal for the Rudolph family to want to befriend themselves.

Asking the Master Smith to come and help in order to gain the friendship of an inheritor, it is not even necessary to think about whether this transaction is a good deal or not.

However, Harvey has always been a big boy and very righteous towards others, so he probably didn't think about it so much.

Probably just saw that a friend had a problem and helped him, that's all.

The friendship between boys is probably so pure.