Chapter 142: Ian's Alchemy Workshop (2/3)
A piece of armor naturally can't do anything, and it is difficult to block the short bow and small arrows of the natives.
However, hundreds or thousands of armor pieces are connected in series to form a whole, but they can form an aether-armed external defense module, which can block the impact of the fangs and claws of the Demon Beast or the bullets of the alchemy firearm.
If you add the energy supply enhancement of the aether furnace, even the alchemy cannon can block it!
In the final analysis, it was the Governor of Port Harrison, Viscount Grant's strongest hole card to suppress the surrounding natives, and the more spare parts of this defensive module, the better.
Although theoretically speaking, this kind of rudimentary inscription defense armor can be made by anyone with the level of a junior inscription craftsman, but not everyone's hands can be so stable, and they can gain the trust of the viscount, and obtain this job that is obviously very crucial and cannot be mistaken.
What's more, it took Ian nearly half an hour to engrave such a piece of armor.
If you fight with a strong person of the same level, the speed at which the armor is consumed is probably several pieces per second.
"It's always harder to destroy than to create...... Without relying on the silver chip to assist, relying only on my own basic skills, I am afraid that it is close to the level of a formal inscription craftsman, and the assessment may be a bit difficult. β
After finishing this successful drawing, putting down the nail piece and lithography pen, Ian stretched: "Hmm~ Today's task is completed, and the progress is not very obvious." β
Looking sideways at his workbench, he couldn't help but complain: "It's still that the tools are too poor, and Port Harrison can't buy a full set of inscription tools for normal craftsmen." β
The young man who was not yet fully developed had a handsome face, a pair of light blue eyes, and waist-length hair braided into a long linen braid, which hung down from his shoulders to his waist.
He wore a black hooded off-the-shoulder vest, the white robe he was supposed to wear was wrapped around his waist, and the crocodile leather fanny pack was tied to a leather belt and seemed to hold a lot of things.
Even for the Terrans who are well-looking per capita, Ian's appearance is extremely stunning, and if Don highlights the unfamiliar place now, it will inevitably attract a lot of attention, so he usually covers his face with a hood when he goes out, so as not to cause trouble.
But fortunately, he does rarely go out, and even if he travels on weekdays, he acts quickly, and only when Bai Zhimin celebrates internal festivals and important gatherings, will he appear as a disciple of Elder Pude, a psyker who is gradually emerging and has a talent for alchemy inscriptions.
As an ordinary person, looking too good can bring a lot of trouble.
But as the future leader of a clan, he has outstanding looks and abilities, but can make everyone remember and provide significant cohesion.
At the very least, when there were many white people who didn't recognize all of their relatives, they all recognized Ian.
Memorable, even instantly recognizable faces, is also a kind of transcendent power.
"Today's schedule is complete, it's time to rest."
Packing away the armor and inscription carving knife, Ian put away the lithography pen with caution - despite the fact that the lithography pen was very old, it was actually the most valuable tool in his body today.
The crystallization of the ultra-high purity thunder attribute element at the tip of the pen alone is worth fifty thaler silver coins...... You know, a deerskin coat worn by a nobleman is only about twenty thalers.
On the pen body, the inscription array that can switch between different lithography knife thicknesses and sizes through different buttons is also worth dozens of thalers.
With just such a pen, you can buy most of the cows, and the price is comparable to the price of all the materials on a first-level demonic beast combined...... And after the optical nucleus of a thunder jellyfish is refined and processed into element crystallization, at least thirty nibs can be made.
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Ever since he realized the value of his pen, Ian had come to understand why Viscount Grant had gone to great lengths to train him to become a full-fledged alchemist, an inscription craftsman, and even a scholar.
Really, really too profitable......
Six years have passed since the boy awakened the memory of his past life, and the teacher has also left for four years.
Thanks to the dedication of Hilliard's teaching, and the silver chip left behind, Ian can easily go hand in hand even if he learns inscription and alchemy at the same time, two disciplines that ordinary people have already worked hard enough to learn, directly crossing the apprentice and junior professional levels, and moving towards the formal professional level.
In addition, his Sand Armor Apprentice's True Form Cultivation, as well as the Wave Singer's cultivation, have also accumulated a strong accumulation.
If you count the large amount of essentia stored in the ancient dragon's heart core, Ian's true combat power now is probably second only to the two second-level powerhouses in Harrison Harbor today.
Whether it was his own Elder Pud, or the two assistants of the viscount, or the mercenary leader LΓΌbeck, at most, he took out his hole cards and played a tie with him.
Even, it will be slightly inferior to him.
The entire Nanling redwood forest area, and the few holy places where the indigenous people enshrine the totem spirit totem lord are not easy to break into, and the other areas are simply flat for the teenager.
But Ian doesn't like fighting.
If he could, he would rather read a few more books, do an experiment, or memorize a few more inscriptions to improve his proficiency than waste his strength in battle.
His time is precious, he has a lot of research to do, and he has a series of plans and timelines waiting to be realized in the future, and he doesn't want to waste it on meaningless disputes.
Of course, this does not mean that Ian is a nice gentleman with a soft personality.
Conversely, this means that if Ian makes a move, his enemies will never have a chance to waste his time again.
However, in the last four years, Ian's life has been quite peaceful.
There was no long-sighted enemy who came over to waste his time, so that he was relieved to accumulate four years of knowledge and technology, and also made his body gradually mature, completely meeting the requirements of the Sand Armor apprentice's next advancement and continuing to practice.
It is also in the past four years that Ian has made a name for himself in the 'appraisal circle'.
Identifying the store relies on reputation, fame and hype, and then makes the money of the rich Kaizi at a high price.
With the support and recommendation of Viscount Grant, Ian relied on his psionic powers and the assistance of silver chips to identify ore herbs, unknown new Warcraft materials, and some ancient creations for many wealthy merchants and sublimators, and even alchemists.
In the Viscount's view, Ian's psionic energy is biased towards 'analysis' and 'perspective', and he can see the changes in some psionic fields.
This is a fairly advanced observation system spiritual ability, and with a little cultivation, it can exercise extraordinary eyesight.
And Ian didn't disappoint him.
In addition to several times that the identification of Warcraft materials was not completely successful, most of the natural ore herbs, and even the broken ancient relics, the young man was able to show their relevant attributes and possible effects one by one.
Especially for ores and ancient relics, because of his ability to see and decipher, Ian can even accurately deduce the internal structure of an unknown ore, and even discover precious essentia crystals hidden in the depths.
As for the ancient relics, because Ian could see the changes in the psionic field, he could always accurately judge all the essentia structures of the other party, and then deduce its possible effects with his knowledge of alchemy and inscriptions, with an accuracy rate of more than 80%.
This is something that many formal appraisers can't do.
Today's Ian is well-known in the entire southern identification circle, and his strength is certainly a part, but his youth and appearance are even more pluses.
There was even a wealthy merchant from Nauman City, after Ian found a piece of natural pure silver crystal among the many original ores, not only wanted to spend a lot of money to invite Ian to work in his chamber of commerce, but also wanted to marry his daughter to him.
Ian is not stupid, so he naturally refuses, and this rich businessman regrets it, but he also does not lose his favor, every time there is a need, he will always come to Ian for identification.
Nature.
These biases are all disguised.
In fact, with the ability to predict the horizon and the silver chip, Ian has nothing that he can't identify, a leak that he can't pick up, and it's impossible to make mistakes.
But who would be so stupid to show everything before they were young?
Therefore, he deliberately set several disadvantages and advantages for himself, such as the 'inaccuracy of the identification of animal things' and the advantage of 'inanimate things'.
The former is the disadvantage of all observant psionics who can observe the natural psionic field, while the latter, mainly because Ian wants to get more information about the ancient relics of the previous era, so he deliberately shows his advantages and allows more people to send more unknown ancient relics to him for identification.
In this way, he may be able to gradually piece together the whole picture of the former era Terra with the help of the silver chip's information base.
It's been a long process, and the four and a half pre-epoch relics that Ian has identified in the last four years are fragments of some kind of insulation facility, an alloy fruit knife from the pre-epoch - which even washed off the rust and the plating on the outside, and Ian really wanted to curse at the time - ordinary heating kettles, the rotating pedestals of ancient statues, and the fragments of an alloy structure of a large engineering artifact.
If these things are really useful, they won't be useless!
However, Ian was not impatient, and the truly useful ancient relics would not have been given to a novice like him for identification, and the holder would not have come to a place like Port Harrison.
All he needed now was fame.
Have a reputation, not afraid of not having a chance.
Just as Ian was about to pick up a book and do a few alchemical questions to relax his mind, he suddenly heard the sound of wind chimes coming from the door of the shop downstairs.
"Oh? Authenticated guests? β
Raising his eyebrows slightly, Ian naturally knew the intention of the person who came to his store and shook the wind chimes in advance.
The boy raised his head and smiled a businessman: "Hope is something interesting." β
Put down the book in your hand and go downstairs.
Ian greeted the tall visitor, "Long waiting. β