Clang! Clang! Clang!

The collision between the huge hammer and the red-hot iron threw dazzling sparks, and as the hammer continued to fall, the sparks kept blooming like fireworks.

"Hoo ......"

Zheng Shu took a deep breath to recover some of his strength, picked up the hammer again and continued to hit the metal in front of him.

Under the blow of his terrifying power, the metal fixed by the position on the anvil was also taking shape little by little. Affected by the aftermath of the power released by Zheng Shu, the blazing magma was shaken and splashed out from around the crack in the ground.

"The effect is good, and I will continue to beat it for about fifty strokes." Hephaestus, on the side, nodded in satisfaction as he leaned on his detector.

"Okay!" Hearing this order, the corners of Zheng Shu's mouth twitched and raised the huge hammer in his hand, and slammed it on the red-hot metal in front of him again.

Clang......

Another heavy hammer fell, and there was another riot in the magma pool next to him, Zheng Shu did not dodge or dodge, and let the hot magma splash directly on his body.

In addition to the fact that these magma could not break through his defenses, there was also a very important reason that Zheng Shu was close to exhaustion, and he even felt that he had a feeling of dizziness for the first time in a long time.

Bang dang!

The hammer slipped from Zheng Shu's hand and slammed into the ground. Zheng Shu leaned on the anvil on the side a little weakly, feeling that his consciousness was a little blurred.

"Not bad." When Zheng Shu's physical strength was exhausted, Hephaestus finally nodded with satisfaction and took over the rest of the processing.

Picking up the hammered metal block and putting it into the forges on the side to maintain the temperature, Hephaestus nodded to Zheng Shu, who was already tired like a dead dog: "Okay, take a rest!" ”

I said...... Dear Lord Hephaestus, do I have to do this iron myself? Or if it really doesn't work, let's change the hammer. Zheng Shu didn't care about the hot environment around him, he sat on the ground and gasped for breath.

In fact, Hephaestus's hammer is not that heavy, or rather, with Zheng Shu's current strength level, the density of the hammer that wants him to feel fatigue may be close to that of a neutron star.

The reason why Zheng Shu consumes so much physical strength is because this hammer does not rely purely on physical impact to forge metal.

Every time Zheng Shu used this hammer to hit the metal, the hammer would absorb some of his physical strength and magic power, and infuse it into the metal for deeper strengthening.

This hammer's demand for energy is like a bottomless pit, Zheng Shu's almost inexhaustible physical strength after strengthening Hercules' strengthening template finally found the limit after encountering this hammer, if an ordinary person gets this hammer, he may be sucked dry by the hammer and die of exhaustion before he swings it.

"This can't be done, ordinary metal can't exist in the power of the gods at all, even if the materials you bring are good, but that's just the base, and it can't be made into a god's armament without enough tempering." Hephaestus smiled and picked up the hammer that had fallen next to Zheng Shu.

Waving it, feeling the weight of the hammer in his hand, Hephaestus's eyes showed a hint of nostalgia: "This hammer has been with me since I was conscious, whether it is Zeus's lightning, Poseidon's trident, or Hades' helmet, Apollo's chariot, in this region, almost all the gods you can hear of are made with this hammer."

As far as I know, it has been rumored among my followers that this is a hammer that only a god can wield, and that it is a kind of tempering for mortals to just pick it up. Although this statement is an exaggeration, if you use your own power to forge with this hammer, you are indeed tempering yourself when you swing it. ”

"Well, thank you very much for your kindness, but do I really need to do it myself? I've never learned the art of striking iron before, and during this time, a lot of materials have been damaged just to help me learn how to forge metal blanks correctly, haven't they? Zheng Shu took a few more breaths and turned his gaze to a corner next to him.

There are already piles of damaged metal embryos, these are the "tuition" that Zheng Shu knocked out during this time.

Because there is no concept of day and night here in Hephaestus, Zheng Shu has forgotten how long he has been in, he only knows that each piece of metal embryo has to be hammered tens of thousands of times by himself, and in that corner, the damaged metal embryo has been piled up into a small mountain.

Recalling the life he experienced during this time, Zheng Shu couldn't help but shudder: "And it looks like I've been here for a long time, although I've made a little progress now, but I feel like I've wasted a lot of your time Lord Hephaestus for this." ”

"There is no need to worry about the loss of materials, even if the metal blanks are broken a little, they can be reused as long as they are re-smelted. And as the god of flame and forging, I can still afford this material loss. ”

Hephaestus put his hammer on the anvil and squatted in front of Zheng Shu: "As for the time, you don't have to worry, as a god, this time is not as long as it took me to take a nap." ”

"Ahaha, okay......" Zheng Shu smiled awkwardly, and didn't dare to refute it anymore.

"Okay, I'm not going to tease you." Hephaestus walked to the side of the seat and sat down, and a large barrel of wine immediately appeared on the table next to him, "If you really want to calculate it, this should actually be your own pot, because you want to make armor, so you can only choose this way." ”

Hephaestus poured a few sips of wine into his mouth, wiped his lips and continued to explain: "If you choose a weapon, because the production process is not complicated, and you have prepared the base material, it is not very troublesome to make, and it does not require much energy. But the armor is not the same......"

Hephaestus shook his head and continued to take a sip of wine: "In particular, your armor also needs to have protection against rule-type skills, so the energy required will be greatly increased. If it was before, it would be better to say, with Kaos providing us with collective strength, I don't need to worry about energy. But in my current situation, it is still too difficult to make armor-type god weapons alone. ”

"I see." Zheng Shu rested for a while and felt that his physical strength had recovered, and he struggled to get up from the ground, "So do you need my energy as a subsidy......

"That's right, it's not just you, you also used their energy when you helped Zeus make weapons." Hephaestus put down the empty barrel in his hand and breathed a long sigh of relief, "Especially the most important weapons on their bodies are the weapons of the gods that are made by combining the energy of several main gods. ”

"That sounds really exciting, but will my armor be able to reach this level in the future?" Zheng Shu's face was full of excitement, and the fatigue he had been feeling was swept away.

"Hmm...... It shouldn't be too bad. Hephaestus touched his chin, "Although it is certainly not as good as Zeus's thunderbolt or Hades' helmet, but because it takes long enough to make, the energy you pay is not less, and the strength of the finished product should be much stronger than that of ordinary god weapons."

In addition, your god armament is a type that completely abandons other aspects of specialization, so it will definitely not be inferior to the top god armaments in terms of targeted effects...... There is even a possibility that it will be exceeded. ”

Hephaestus, who usually seemed taciturn, seemed extremely talkative when it came to topics related to his priesthood, and even gave Zheng Shu the illusion that the other party was a different person.

"In that case, let's continue forging!" Zheng Shu stretched his body, and his physical strength had almost recovered at this time.

The rapid recovery physique of the three generations of the dragon world has made a great contribution in this process, and theoretically as long as there are enough nutrients, Zheng Shu can keep moving like a machine.

Coupled with the fact that the concentration of magic power in Hephaestus' temple far exceeded that of the outside world, with his current rate of magic absorption, it is no exaggeration to say that Zheng Shu can simply live by breathing in this place.

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……

Before I knew it, a long time had passed.

Zheng Shu didn't know exactly how long it had been since he came to this temple, he only knew that his iron-striking skills had gone from being unfamiliar at the beginning to now costing almost an entire mountain of metal materials.

After the iron-striking technique reached a certain level, Hephaestus re-smelted Zheng Shu's scrapped metal block and asked him to re-forge it.

So Zheng Shu spent a lot of time reforging the mountain-like metal scrap into the batch of metal blocks in front of him.

With so much metal and the raw materials the size of a millstone that Zheng Shu had brought with him at the beginning, under the influence of magic, divine power, and Hephaestus's hammer, only ten metal ingots that looked like the size of a human head were finally forged.

"Ten pieces of God's metal, not bad! Although it may be a little inferior in quality, it already surpasses the amount of materials used in forging Zeus's lightning. Hephaestus looked at Zheng Shu, who was slumped on the ground, "Your perseverance is really beyond my imagination, I thought you would be at the limit if you made five or six pieces at most." ”

Zheng Shu was already lying on the ground due to exhaustion at this time, and he didn't want to speak at all, but he raised one of his arms tremblingly, and barely stretched out a thumbs up to make a gesture of thumbs up.

"Get some rest, the armor should be finished by the time you wake up." Hephaestus smiled.

Hearing the words of this forging god, Zheng Shu finally closed his eyes with peace of mind and fell into a deep sleep.

The huge amount of magic energy converged around him to form a huge vortex of energy, recovering Zheng Shu's almost dry body.

Hephaestus waved his hand, and the floor in the temple moved automatically, moving Zheng Shu to a recliner next to him to rest.

Turning his head to the ten glowing pieces of god's metal suspended over the magma pool, Hephaestus closed his eyes and adjusted his spirit.

When he opened his eyes again, a huge amount of divine power poured out of his body, and the rules of the world changed according to his beliefs.

The lava in the magma suddenly erupted and wrapped the divine metal above, and the divine metal, which originally looked incomparably hard, was instantly transformed into a flowing liquid under the action of divine power, and with a brilliant light, ten torrents shot out of the gushing magma, converging in the center of the temple in a vortex.

Looking at the fluctuating metal vortex above, Hephaestus opened his palm, and only a walnut-sized ball of top-grade divine metal flew out of his palm, slowly merging into the fluctuating metal vortex.

With the fusion of the last piece of top-grade god metal, the metal vortex above the temple also began to slowly condense, forming a cluster of energy light that radiated brilliant light.

Hephaestus spread his hands, and the entire temple resonated with his will, and countless rays of light of different colors shot out from all parts of the temple, hitting the energy light directly above.

If the observer's eyesight is strong enough to shine through the bright light, they can see that the light is transforming every particle inside the energy cluster.

As time went on, even Hephaestus felt fatigued, because a lot of computing power was consumed, and the detector on his eyes had even begun to show a red light that represented high heat, which meant that the excessive power consumption had caused the instrument to fall into a state of overheating.

And this high-power operation continued for a long time, until the ground around him showed signs of melting due to the heat emanating from his body, and Hephaestus slowly stopped.

The temple, which had been resonating all along, fell silent, leaving only the mass of metal directly above the temple that had become like white jade, exuding a warm and divine sheen.

"The embryo is ready, and it only needs to be fixed one last time." Hephaestus breathed a sigh of relief as he looked at the weapon embryo above the temple.

At this moment, the detector on his eye suddenly erupted in bursts of fire.

Bang!

With a slight explosion, the black detector burst open, revealing Hephaestus' covered eyes.

"Exploded? It seems that the load this time is not small......" Hephaestus habitually touched the broken detector on his eye, "It takes a lot of time to regenerate like this, and I can take a break at this time." ”

His eyes were now fully exposed, leaving only a black mechanical residue next to his temple that seemed to merge with his skin.

And as time passed, the mechanical remnants that had been motionless suddenly flashed again, and it seemed to be ...... Grow.

(PS: There is one more chapter)

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