Chapter 8: The Morning Star

Fahrburg is more than 700 miles away from the royal capital of the Rhine, which is considered a large city with a population of 200,000. Due to its strategic location, it is a second-tier military center on the western border of the Rhine League, and it also serves as a hindrance to the monsters in the Demon Forest from rushing into the rich Paz Plain.

The area around Falburg is flat, and the River Paz runs around the city. More than 100 miles to the south is the Demon Forest, so Falburg has become the most important supply battle for many adventurers and monster hunters. The area of the Demon Forest is almost equivalent to the entire Rhine League, with the Pyrenees Mountains in the west, the sea in the south, and the entire Hongyan Peninsula in the east, with a total area of nearly one million square kilometers. Since there are few large-scale monsters on the edge of the forest, and many trade routes pass through the area, it has also become a paradise for thieves and bandits.

The "Hammer of War" weapon workshop has been open for a month. At the beginning, such a dwarven name was just to give a little light to the natural artisan dwarf, but now there is really a dwarven craftsman Jin working in the workshop with his four apprentices. The Weapons Workshop occupies a small three-story building in the busiest neighborhood of Farr. The first floor of the small building is a weapons storefront, the second floor is an adventurer's park, and the third floor was originally intended to be used as a laboratory, but everyone objected to it and gave up, and it was used as a VIP room to receive some big customers, and put some boutique products made by Feiss.

A small building not far from the "Hammer of the God of War" is where Rog Ping settloed, and it is also the workshop and laboratory of Fez. The largest laboratory is more than 200 square meters, and at this moment, a huge and complex magic array is painted on the ground, and a colorful halo of light is shining in the magic array. In the middle of the magic array, blue-white magical flames erupted, and several pieces of stainless steel knight armor made by Jin himself were forged red in the flames.

Faith carefully pinched out a piece of armor with his iron tongs, placing the magic symbol forged from magic silver in a specific place. A burst of flame flashed, and the magic symbol was firmly welded to the armor. Rog hurriedly handed over a vial of blue liquid, which was the blood of an adult bipedal wyvern. The bipedal wyvern is fierce, swift, and has good magic protection, which is considered to be the most difficult to deal with among the intermediate Warcraft. Many parts of its body can be used as magical ingredients, and its blood can be used to slightly increase its magical protection. Magical silver, on the other hand, is an indispensable material for making magic utensils due to its very good spreadability and excellent absorption of magical power. However, due to its relative rarity, it is also expensive. The price of ordinary magic silver is about ten times that of the same weight of gold.

The blue wyvern's blood dripped on the prepared armor piece, like a sponge absorbing water, and was quickly absorbed by the entire armor piece. As a result, the nail plate became a fluorescent glow of light blue. Rog took the armor and threw himself into the flames of magic. After all the armor pieces had been processed, Faith chanted a spell at the magic flames, and a pair of light blue wind wings gradually formed, flying towards the magic flames. The wind wings swirled around the magic flames, turning faster and faster, and with a "boom", the flames swelled like a tide, and the white light flashed on the ceiling, and an enchantment blocked the burst of magic flames. The firestorm came and went as fast as it came, and disappeared in the blink of an eye. Leave a few pieces of blue armor on the ground. After fusing this wind magic, the weight of the entire armor is reduced by 60% due to the support of the wind magic energy at all times.

At Rogge's request, each piece of armor was added with a little magic silver, and Faith once again simply cast a light spell on it. This time, the entire armor began to take on a translucent light blue, and the magic symbol formed by the magic silver just emitted a blue light.

"Hehe, this looks so much prettier. Kim: You've come just in time, and I'm looking for you. Make these pieces into a half-length knight's armor, yes, this is the style of the most popular paladin armor this year. The chain mail that connects the parts must be made of gold!And add more gold patterns to the edges of the armor, and call Franco the boy, he has a set of art!!" Rogge shouted happily.

The dwarf Jin disagreed: "This is not good! The chain mail should be wound with high-quality steel wire! The most important thing in armor is protection! I don't want to ruin my reputation!"

"Then wrap another layer of gold wire around the wire! All in all, all chain mail must be covered with gold! The most important thing in this armor is money! Add this layer of gold, and you will have ten years of ale! Tell Lens to pick a cloak worthy of this armor, and ask for the best! Gold! You must get this armor in order the day after tomorrow!! I can't see the armor and you don't have a drink!! By the way, this armor is called the Blue Crystal Battle Armor, of course, the name should not be engraved first, whatever name the guest remembers, you can engrave whatever name! ”

Kim muttered and walked downstairs with Armor in his hand, finally choosing between conscience and ale. The curse in his mouth was: "Vampire!! Man-eating pigs!! Scrooge!Old dragon in human form!!"

Rogge only insisted on selling high-quality and high-priced products, and the reason was very good: "Those who can afford these equipment don't care about money! As long as the things are good, they don't care about more or less." What kind of people are our best customers?? Not the rich and knowledgeable adventurers, but the aristocratic sons who have money and nowhere to spend, yes, Lens. #!$!%Don't do it!Don't make their money, who makes their money?So we don't sell the right ones, only the expensive ones. ”

The second is that all of Rog's armor is very focused on cosmetic decoration and some impractical gimmicks. For example, this blue crystal armor is extremely lightweight, only equivalent to the weight of a heavy leather armor, and the physical defense and magic defense effects are good, which is a boutique in magic armor. But the illumination technique, after fusion, only gave this magic armor a translucent crystal effect, and the light was softer and more attractive, but it had no practical effect at all. As for those decorations designed by Franco, they did not help in any way other than to add weight. However, Rogge said, "This armor is what the paladins should wear at a glance." Is it sold to real paladins? Of course not. Which paladin would wear this? We're going to sell the sons of the great nobles who want to be paladins, do you expect them to actually venture into some dangerous cave? They will only wear them to hunt! So style and taste are more important, so that they look like heroes in front of ignorant maidens. The Hammer of the God of War is not intended to become a great arms dealer, but to become an aristocratic brand like the Purple Angel Jewel and Shangri-La Hot Springs. ”

The crowd was speechless. Since then, the nickname of Vampire Rogge has spread far and wide.

The "Hammer of the God of War" business quickly exploded, and although it only sold a knight's sword, a knight's spear, and a set of knight's heavy armor in the past month, (this is the entire production capacity of Fez), it not only recovered the cost of the initial investment of 10,000 gold coins, but also earned 3,000 gold coins.

The afternoon sun lazily shone on the quietly flowing Paz River, the wide surface of which was gilded with scales of gold. A group of brightly armored axemen patrolled the river, the leader wearing dark green cuirass, and the rest in the khaki knighthood of the Falburg Knights' standard cavalry cuirass.

The knight in dark green armor is Kate, and that armor is the black elf knight half-body armor that has made him proud for a long time, which is made after being soaked in the blood of the black elves and blessed with shield magic, and all kinds of defense are excellent, especially for dark spells. When Kate arrived at Fort Fal, the head of the Knights, Lord Winnington, took good care of him and let him lead a squad of guerrilla cavalry. A squad of Falburg guerrilla cavalry had between fifty and sixty cavalry, while Kate's squad leader could only lead twenty cavalry at most. Guerrilla cavalry is between heavy cavalry and light cavalry, generally wearing half-body cuirasses, and the weapon choice is mostly axe and spear, so it is also often called axe cavalry. The guerrilla cavalry generally cruised around Falburg for about 300 miles, and each time they went out to survive in the field for about a week, they would gather and annihilate the thieves and monsters of the squad when they encountered the patrol, and they would return to the fort to report if they encountered a large group of enemies. However, Falburg had not been at war for decades, and the guerrilla cavalry became more of a training for the cavalry.

This is the third time Kate has led a team of Rangers in the two months since she arrived in Falburg. The sun is shining, there are several fishing boats floating on the river, and fishing songs are heard from time to time. The river is surrounded by green fields, and the Demonic Forest in the distance is also peaceful and peaceful. Kate was relaxed, this is simply tourism, the only fly in the ointment is that the shadow of the thieves group has not seen one, and there is a scene of peace and prosperity everywhere. Kate has been working out for five days, waved her hand, and shouted: "Brothers, it's time to close the team!" A group of axemen turned around and staggered towards Falburg.

The Knights of Pharbao had a total of 7,000 men, including 2,000 cavalry, 4,000 infantry, and 1,000 miscellaneous soldiers. After all, it is a second-line legion, and the peaceful days have passed a lot, and the combat effectiveness of Lord Winnington's knight order is mediocre.

Rogge and the others had already adapted to life in Falburg, that is, they had figured out the local parties and taverns. There are also a few fights with adventurers, mercenaries, and the like. Except for Lord Trist, with Winnington's backing, they are not afraid of offending anyone. In business, the fame of the "Hammer of the God of War" quickly spread after several pieces of excellent magical equipment were sold, especially after the blue crystal armor was bought by the youngest son of a certain duke for 10,000 gold coins. Seeing that the dwarves were too idle, Rogge even forced them to build some equipment that was not blessed with magic and sold it. The craftsmanship of the dwarves is naturally high-quality, and every batch of goods comes out, they are all snatched up.

At this time, on the third floor of the "Hammer of the God of War", Rogge was fighting with a small group of adventurers. There are 9 adventurers in this team, and it is a standard adventure party configuration, with warriors, rangers, marksmen, magicians, priests, and thieves, that is, one or two of each. They had just returned from an adventure in the Demon Forest, where they were trading their adventure gains for some gear.

What lit up Rogge's eyes was a bag of two pounds of magical silver, as well as rarer metals and gemstones, such as an ore with a sparkling Venus in the deep black, which Rogge recognized at a glance as a high-grade piece of stellar gold. This kind of gold is different from ordinary gold, but has a mysterious correspondence with the power of the stars in the sky, which is extremely rare, and it is an indispensable raw material for the manufacture of magic weapons related to space magic. As for the crystal nuclei and furs of the Warcraft, although they are also very precious, they are far inferior to these metals. The flaming red bird feather worn by the female magician in the team caught Rogge's attention, and with the help of mental power, Rogge found that this feather had extremely obscure but agile fire magic fluctuations.

Adventurers took a fancy to a pair of extremely beautiful magic bows (a common feature of all Hammer of War), decorated with rose branches entwined with white and purple gold threads, and matched with three pale green Demon Breaker Arrows, two white wyverns made of pure magic silver coiled around the arrows, and the four wings spread out to form the tail feathers of the arrows. The young female archer's eyes lit up, and she clung to the bow and arrows, refusing to let go.

The sorceress was fascinated by a magic amplification bracelet. Thanks to the skill of Dwarves and Firth, Franco's artistic taste, and Lance and Rogge's deep grasp of the dark side of the human heart, this bracelet is a masterful blend of Sky Stone and magical silver. The entire bracelet is a completely transparent dark blue, and the starlight appears and disappears under the influence of magic. Wearing this bracelet is like wearing the night sky on your body. The sorceress's eyes became as deep as the night sky. Of course, a simple setting technique can actually achieve the same magic amplification effect.

The women who are caught up in the hope of shopping have no reason to talk about it. Fortunately, although the strength of these adventurers is good, they are not very good at knowing the goods. Rogge was sweating profusely, his fat was trembling (I don't know when it started, all of Rogge's fat could shake as he wanted), he looked extremely painful, and he killed the price little by little. With the addition of two busts, four swords, and thirty armor-piercing arrows, the deal was finally completed, and the red feather became Rogge's trophy.

In all fairness, what Rogge sells is a fine product, and it's worth the price. The main place to make money is to buy the booty of adventurers at low prices. For example, this time, the Star Gold Mine alone is a priceless treasure, far from being measurable by hundreds of thousands of gold coins. That bag of magic silver is worth 10,000 gold coins, and as for the magic beast, it is not only 10,000 gold coins. Not to mention other unknown metals and that inexplicable red feather. Intuition tells Rogge that the more he can't figure something out, the more valuable it tends to be.

Rogge finally understood what it meant to "horses don't eat night grass and don't get fat".

It was easy to send off this group of wronged leaders, and a few more people walked into the VIP room, and Lance nodded and followed up.

As soon as Rogge put on a professional smile and was about to say hello, the leader took off his robe and jumped out with blonde hair, lighting up the room, and the smile was as bright as the sun after the rain, and the light even stung Rogge's eyes.

He held out a hand and said:

"It's nice to see you again, I'm Ophorok. Feng. William. ”

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