Chapter 9: The Pavilion of the Soldiers
Huang Hao squinted at Nie Bingbing while drinking porridge, with a strange expression, and asked, "Why are you here today, it's still so early, and you finally don't go to class, you don't stay at home?"
Nie Bingbing took a bowl of hot lean porridge handed over by Lin Yuming, blew on the porridge noodles with his small mouth, and said: "Grandpa heard that we are about to enter the Spirit Master Hall to start training, so he gave me a VIP card of the Spirit Soldier Pavilion, let us go and purchase equipment, grandpa said, this can make us safer during the experience, and he can rest assured."
"Oh?" Huang Yunqing was surprised for a moment, and then he was puzzled: "Old Man Nie is really thoughtful, but the money purchased by Huang Hao and Yu Ming is still out of our family." β
Nie Bingbing swallowed the porridge in his mouth and hurriedly said: "No, no, grandpa said, Huang Hao and Yu Ming are like his own children, he has watched them grow up since he was a child, just a little bit of equipment, so it should be a gift for the two of them to congratulate them on successfully passing the assessment." β
"Oh well. Huang Yunqing nodded helplessly, put down the empty dishes and chopsticks in his hand, stood up and said, "I'm going to strike iron, the three of you will go out to pay attention to safety in a while!"
"Got it!" the three of them said in unison.
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On the main street west of the city, this is the most prosperous street in the commercial development of the city, and it is full of various shops as far as the eye can see. Of course, since it is the capital of the Seitetsu country, which is famous for its blacksmiths, many of the storefronts on this shopping street are shops selling weapons.
Lin Yuming, Huang Hao, and Nie Bingbing were walking on this street, straight forward.
Huang Hao touched his stomach with one hand, walked forward while burping, and turned his head to ask Nie Bingbing: "Bingbing, the Spirit Soldier Pavilion is the largest weapon shop in Star Iron City, or the largest one among the Spirit Soldier Shops, we are just going to buy the most basic spirit master equipment, can we go there to buy it?"
Nie Bingbing followed Huang Hao's usual appearance, squinted at him, looked at him with contempt, and said: "Of course, even if it is the most ordinary spirit master equipment, you can buy the best from the Spirit Soldier Pavilion, although the price is a little higher, but the quality is the most important." Also, the Spirit Soldier Pavilion can also buy spirit charms that can't be bought in other spirit soldier stores, grandpa told me to go to the Spirit Soldier Pavilion this time to buy a few volumes of spirit charms for the three of us, in case of emergency, you have to thank me, stained with my light!"
Hearing the words "spirit charm", Huang Hao seemed to be a person who hadn't eaten for a few days, and when he heard that there was a free provision of delicacies from the mountains and seas, the corners of his mouth kept flowing, and his eyes were straight.
When Nie Bingbing saw him like this, his face was even more contemptuous: "Look at you like that, it's not a shame." Tell you, with our current realm, we can only buy a few volumes of second-order spirit charms, and then buy a third-order spare, and they will not be easily used unless they have to, not only is the spiritual power weak, and the urging spell consumes too much spiritual power, but also the price of buying a spell is too high. β
Huang Hao nodded hurriedly, with a dog-legged look of "everything you decide", looked at Lin Yuming on the side and felt very funny, and asked strangely: "What is the spirit charm you two are talking about?"
Nie Bingbing looked clear and explained: "The spirit talisman belongs to a kind of special spirit soldier made by a spell master in the branch of the spirit craftsman, you haven't learned the skills of the spirit master from Uncle Huang, and you don't know these small classifications. β
Huang Hao nodded again and again on the side, and continued to explain to Lin Yuming: " My dad is a spirit craftsman, although he hasn't made a spirit soldier for a long time, just forging ordinary iron weapons to sell to make a living, but he used to be a very powerful spirit craftsman, as for the spirit spell, Bingbing has already said, it is a kind of spirit soldier made by the spirit master branch spell master, he can use some spirit spells engraved on special spells through special methods, and they can be released and used at critical moments, and there is another spirit spell that can directly input various forms of spiritual power, and then detonate it, so that some spirit masters who are not good at attacking can gain attack abilityγ β
Although Huang Hao's explanation is cumbersome, it is very careful, don't look at the current situation of the Huang family, it doesn't seem to be how wealthy, but Huang Yunqing, who used to be good friends with characters like Lin Yuming's parents, is not just a blacksmith, the ancestors of the Huang family have produced countless spirit master masters.
As they spoke, the three of them had come to the central area close to the West Street of Xingtiecheng, and as far as the eye could see, there were high-rise buildings and countless shops located here, all of which were luxuriously decorated and splendid.
Nie Bingbing led the two of them to one of the elegant bamboo buildings that was slightly simpler than other shops, and Lin Yuming looked up at the plaque hanging on the bamboo building: Spirit Soldier Pavilion.
Walking into the bamboo building, Lin Yuming only felt a burst of fragrance blowing on his face, this is a spacious hall, countless small bamboo shelves in the hall, which are full of all kinds of weapons, although the appearance is the same as ordinary weapons, but as the three spirit masters, although the realm is not high, they can feel the spiritual power condensed on these weapons.
Huang Hao exclaimed: "It is worthy of being the largest spirit soldier shop in Star Iron City, all of them are medium-to-upper color spirit master equipment, and there are some high-end goods!"
At this time, there were not many customers in the hall, a young man who looked like a waiter was wiping the bamboo frame on one side of the hall, and when he saw the three people entering the door, he hurriedly stepped forward and said with a smile: "Miss Nie, what kind of wind blew you here, and these two young masters, welcome!"
Nie Bingbing's face was a young lady's style, and he waved his hand casually: "Let your craftsman customize a batch of spirit soldiers for us, so that we can use them, and by the way, take us to see what second- and third-order spirit charms you have." β
"Okay, several, come with me. The young waiter, making a gesture of please, led the way in front of him, and led the three of them towards the stairs in the inner hall to the second floor.
The three of them came to the second floor, which was different from the hall on the first floor, where various spirit soldiers were placed on shelves for customers to choose at will, and the price was clearly marked. It was a long hallway, flanked by small rooms, each with a small sign on the door indicating the purpose of the room.
The waiter led the three of them to the door of a room, and the wooden sign on the door was engraved with the words "Customized Room". He knocked lightly on the door and whispered, "Old Yu, Miss Nie brought two friends to customize the spirit soldiers. β
Only guests with a VIP card of the Spirit Soldier Pavilion can come to the second floor and ask the full-time spirit craftsman here to customize their own spirit soldiers, and the customized specifications are limited to the seventh-order spirit soldiers below.
Spirit soldiers are also divided into ten levels like spirit masters, from low to high, one to ten levels, simple and clear, different levels of spirit soldiers must have different levels of spirit craftsmen to manufacture, the first order of spirit soldiers can be forged by the first order of spirit craftsmen, and so on, the higher the level of spirit craftsmen is rarer, and the high-level spirit soldiers will be coaxed by the spirit master as soon as they appear, and the spirit soldiers and spirit craftsmen of the tenth order have not appeared in the world today.
"Come in. An old voice came from the custom room, and just by listening to the voice, you knew that it was a very old man.
The waiter gently pushed open the door and motioned for the three of them to enter the door, Nie Bingbing walked in first, with a light step and cautious, changing the previous style of the eldest lady, seeing that she was so careful, Huang Hao and Lin Yuming were even more respectful and restrained.
It is an incredibly simple room, with only a pair of bamboo tables and chairs against the wall, and a shelf similar to that of the hall on the first floor, on which all sorts of strange utensils are placed.
At this time, an old man was facing away from the door, his arched back showing his old age, sitting on a bamboo chair, his hands were fiddling with something on the long bamboo table in front of him, and he heard the sound of several people entering the door, and turned his head.
It was an old man with gray hair, and the skin on his face was already covered with wrinkles, except for a pair of eyes that were narrowed, and when they were occasionally opened, there seemed to be an unusual glimmer of light in them.
"Oh, it's the little girl of the Nie family, is your old man in good health?" Yu Lao said with a smile, his face full of amiable smiles.
"Grandpa Yu, my grandfather is in good health, my grandfather asked me to come today, help me and my two classmates customize a few spiritual soldiers, so that we can better participate in the next main hall experience, Grandpa Yu, let me introduce to you, this is Huang Hao, this is Lin Yuming, they are all my classmates. β
Yu Lao stepped forward, touched Nie Bingbing's hair, and said with emotion: "In a blink of an eye, your little girl has graduated from the academy, it is really unforgiving, come, take out the weapons you usually use, so that I can have a reference, and these two young men, bring your weapons to me to see, if you have any requirements, you can just say." β
As he spoke, the old man walked back to the table, patted the table, and motioned for the three of them to put their weapons on it.
Nie Bingbing took the lead and stepped forward, the light in his hand flashed, and he took out his soft sword from the storage.
Lin Yuming also hurriedly stepped forward and took out the stainless steel short sword, and Huang Hao also took out the weapon he was carrying, which was a pair of leather fist gloves, and several iron thorns were inlaid in several places covering the knuckles, which were extremely sharp.
The old man looked at the weapons on the table, turned his head to look at Lin Yuming among the three, and asked, "Young man, I don't think you look like a martial spirit master, do you? Do you want to customize a spirit staff? Are you a sorcerer or an illusion master?"
Nie Bingbing was afraid that Lin Yuming would not break the cost to customize another weapon, so he preemptively said: "Thank you, Grandpa Yu, he is a spirit master, just help him customize another spirit soldier according to the style of this short sword, and then help him make a spirit staff that increases spiritual power." β
Lin Yuming really wanted to open his mouth to refuse, because the expenses were all paid by Nie Bingbing's family, he didn't have so many requirements, as long as he could make a spirit soldier in the style of this small short sword that he carried with him for self-defense, he would be satisfied, but since Nie Bingbing had spoken, he couldn't say anything.