Chapter 129: The Anvil of White Steel (Part II)
"To him?" said Jonah, looking uncertainly at Assai.
"Give it to him, give it to him. The Oriental encouraged, "I don't know what's the use of it anyway, let him see." ”
The third-level astrologer hesitantly pulled out the relics left to him by the ghost Bahamas from his bag, and the shopkeeper immediately snatched it, turned around and ran up the stairs. "Hey, hey!" the two men shouted and rushed to the second floor. On the second floor of the anvil of white steel was a blacksmith's shop, with furnaces, anvils, bellows, and pools in the corners, and in the middle of the room was a huge pile of weapons, a pile of steel consisting of hundreds of swords and spears of all kinds, most of which were rusty, and seemed to have no other purpose than to make steel.
Jonah and Arsay burst into the room to find the shopkeeper lying on a tattered workbench, intently observing the half-moon-shaped, crimson flake. Jonah was about to speak, "Shhhhh......h
Jonah and Assay looked at each other and walked over lightly. The shopkeeper puts on a monocular magnifying glass and uses tweezers to pick up a thin slice and look at the sunlight. The convex lens-focused light illuminated the flake almost transparently, and the two men let out an almost simultaneous "oh" as they could clearly see a black ribbon-like thing swimming inside the crimson flake, "What the hell is this?" Jonah asked.
"It's not something. The shopkeeper of the White Steel Anvil glared back at him, "This is a living soul, it is already extremely weak, if it continues like this, it will not be long before it will be completely dead, you two fools!"
"Huh?" the third-level astrologer froze, "You mean, living like us...... A living soul?" he suddenly remembered his old companion Jekong, who had gone a little insane, and the southerner had a bead containing a soul in his personal bag, and in it rested the soul of his lover Saru Aswati.
The Oriental man slapped his left fist with his right palm, and suddenly realized: "That's right! In the Eastern Continent, this kind of thing is called 'Horcrux', which is not very auspicious, and it is usually placed in a coffin to accompany the owner to be buried. ”
The middle-aged uncle who was blessed took off his little hat and solemnly held the thin slice: "This is not the soul of Zhang San, Li Si, a cat and a dog, but a once very powerful demonic beast, I don't know how long it has been hiding here, I only know that it must be the overlord of the sky and land in the era in which it lives, and it can make low-level demonic beasts and humans fart and pee at a glance!"
"Wow. The two men exclaimed, startled.
"And the material of this little thing is the dragon's reverse scales. Each dragon has such a crescent-shaped scale under its neck, and the reverse scale is where the blood vessels of the dragon's heart converge, and it is also the biggest taboo on the dragon's body. If a creature as powerful as a dragon were to hang up, it would usually be lifted up by someone and hurt the heart...... Judging from the size and color, this reverse scale belongs to a female fire dragon, and her age at the time of death will not exceed three hundred years old, which can be regarded as a young death. The fat on the middle-aged uncle's cheeks trembled with excitement, "The era of dragons has passed for too long, and now a piece of ordinary dragon scales appearing on the auction market can bankrupt a rich collector, you actually own a piece of reverse scales! There is also an ancient soul hidden in it, which is likely to be a dragon!"
"Oh oh!" the two men continued to exclaim.
"Oh. The uncle gently lowered the scales, stood up and walked to the steel garbage heap, "You have shown me such an amazing thing, and it will seem that I am a little stingy if I don't give you something to repay you...... Stand next to it and wait. ”
The shopkeeper began to rummage through the pile of weapons, and the corners of the Oriental's mouth were grinning to the back of his head: "Look! The character has exploded! First of all, let's say okay, if the weapon given to you is something you don't need such as a dagger knife, you must give it to me! Now I use 'gluttony' a little reluctantly, it would be nice to have a short sword to take advantage of!"
Jonah's face also glowed, "Of course, of course, I would prefer a belt with a defensive star array, like the one that Mr. Koshawar gave me back then." ”
"Do you think there's a cotton belt in this pile of broken metal?" said Arsai, raising an eyebrow and glancing at him.
"Yes, you see, and half a pair of cotton trousers!" the third-level astrologer pointed to the corner of the garbage heap.
"Hey...... really," the Oriental man looked at in amazement, "not only cotton trousers, but also two skeletal feet peeking out of the trouser legs...... Wouldn't it be a bit of a fuss if I said it was a dead man?"
A cold sweat ran down Jonah's forehead. The two of them were silent for a long time, and suddenly looked at each other tacitly: "Pretend not to see?"
I didn't see it at all. ”
With the astrologer's understanding of life, let alone a corpse, even if there are 10,000 corpses buried under the garbage heap, it has little to do with him, as long as there are no friends and partners of his own. The eyes of the two followed the shopkeeper's uncle to look around, and he didn't know what kind of material this middle-aged man's hands were made of, he was not afraid of the rusty blade at all, so he grabbed the sword and threw it aside, pushing towards the center of the garbage heap like a big mole.
“...... There it is!" Ten minutes later, a dirty hand reached out from the middle of the pile of weapons, holding a short blade.
"Yay. Asai made a gesture to celebrate the victory.
The shopkeeper's uncle walked out of the garbage heap in a dag and handed a dagger to Jonah: "Oh, take it, it's not for you, it's for the souls in the scales." ”
Jonah took the dagger and looked at it, "I don't understand...... Oops!" "Without noticing, his fingers were cut by the blade, and the rusty ochre-red blade was sharp beyond imagination. He took the bleeding finger into his mouth and returned the dagger, the handle of which was wrapped in a strip of black cloth and had a rusty copper groove at the tail that looked like it should have been inlaid with some ornament before.
The shopkeeper picked up the reverse scales, and with a "click" sound, they were embedded in the groove of the dagger, "The soul in the Horcrux needs to be nourished, although the reverse scales themselves have powerful energy, but after so many years, they have long been consumed. This dagger is a good thing, as long as it is used regularly, the soul can absorb the aura from the blade and continue to sleep. ”
The third-level astrologer stared at the short blade, always feeling a little familiar, and couldn't remember where he had seen it. The Oriental unceremoniously snatched the dagger and played with a smile: "Brother shopkeeper is right, this knife is a great work, I don't know what it's called?"
"How do I know?" the shopkeeper shook his head and added, "But this is not a long-term solution, I heard that there is a mysterious device that can talk to spirits in the 'Royal Star' mobile castle in the eastern part of the Vedic Kingdom, if you have the chance, try your luck, and it is also a merit to help it get rid of it as soon as possible." Alright, let's go. ”
Before he could ask what was going on, the owner of the anvil drove the two men down the stairs and pushed the door out of the shop, and Jonah staggered back and said, "I haven't had time to thank you, but your name is ......."
"Bang!" the door closed behind him, and it seemed that the strange-tempered owner had been out of business all day. Asseme wiped the dagger with his sleeve, "Don't look almost, this is a battle-hardened weapon, I don't know how many people's blood has been drunk." Maybe it won't be a few years before you can give birth to your soul and become one of the top famous swordsmen. Hey...... Going out shopping is really the right choice. ”
"That's, Scales......" Jonah said, clutching his bloodied fingers.
"I'll keep it for you first, and I'll give it back to you when we break up. With a flick of the Oriental's wrist, the dagger disappeared into his sleeve.
At this moment, the body of the third-level astrologer suddenly twitched nervously, and a deep uneasiness arose in his heart, and he looked around strangely, the Caliphate Street under the shade of oil palm trees was crowded, and the sun was bright and warm in the south, it seemed to be a pleasant and good day, and everything was normal.
"Assai, do you have ......," Jonah turned his head and said halfway through, "Bow down!" Assay yelled and pushed his head to the ground. A buzzing wind swept past the scalp, and the flying object cut an oil palm tree the size of a bucket in an arc, and the crown fell heavily in the middle of the street, and the severed hair slowly fell from the eyes, "Yes...... Enemy?" Jonah's eyes widened.
In some time, the streets had changed their sights, and the tourists had vanished, and the Caliphate Street where they were was only fifty yards square, and beyond the obvious dividing line was a gray and endless void. "It's the Enchantment Master! Don't step out of the boundary!" the red dagger appeared in the hands of the Dongfang, and with two clangs, the two rapidly spinning knives were blocked by him, and the extremely sharp flying blades were immediately pulled back into the hands of the sneak attackers by a thin chain, and the three enemies dressed in the costumes of the market merchants held in their hands the steam puppet guns that sneered at the steam puppet guns, and the frisbees with chains were the bullets fired by this strange gun.
This weapon Jonah had seen in his dreams, and in his vivid memories his parents had been killed by this invisible steam knife. "Red Brotherhood!" the cause and effect overlapped, and the third-level astrologer immediately guessed the identity of the enemy, and he raised his staff with a shout, "Now I won't back down, let you taste the wrath of the astrologer!"
...... The air was still. Nothing happened. The glow of the Mushroom Farm Trident didn't light up, and Jonah stared at the staff Silafina in amazement. He could not sense the presence of any starlines, the starry sky seemed to disappear in an instant, and the astrologer's spiritual world became empty, which had never happened since the day he first sensed the starlines.
"And the Seasealer...... Trouble ......" Asai stepped back to protect Jonah, squinting at the enemies that kept coming.