After dark, Angel once again left her cozy little home on Red Rose Street and took the subway that runs until late at night to the West End, where she visits Ms. Carvey, the craftsman of "Old Acquaintance" and "Heart of Machinery".

When approached at the port of Enmat, the lady claimed to be only a Sequence 7 appraiser, so she became a target for Thomats seeking promotion, but by this time, judging by her frequent "production" of extraordinary weapons, it is likely that she had been promoted again and became a true "craftsman".

This made Angel look forward to this meeting.

Before leaving the house, all the extraordinary materials she had collected had been put into a small compartment in the basement that she had recreated, not the original one in the study, although the previous tenant, the Fursack who had been captured by the gang before quitting the rent, was probably dead, but to be on the safe side, she no longer used it.

Due to Savilea's "generosity" in providing the hair of the Banshee, the only remaining items on the potion recipe are the real mummy ashes that she has not yet collected, but after the experience of being deceived, she no longer dares to buy them at will, but is ready to wait for the gathering of the Extraordinary to be held and purchased there.

At this time, she visited Ms. Kaveh, she actually wanted to buy a powerful weapon similar to "Thirst for Blood", after all, the gold pounds that were originally intended to be used to buy extraordinary materials were no longer useful.

After getting off the subway, Angel took a horse-drawn carriage to Green Park Street in the West End, which is not an industrial area, but close to the original West Bailang Dockyard, and there are many small factories nearby, mainly for precision machining and custom parts and other functions.

She looked in the direction of the Tasok River, and could faintly see the towering cranes along the river, which looked like giants hiding in the crimson moonlight.

It is the West Byron Dockyard, which has been nearly abandoned due to the gradual relocation of most of the factories to the East and Dock areas, where labour costs are lower, and is said to be ready to be rebuilt to cope with the gradual expansion of river traffic.

Rather painfully paying the 5 suckle fare, Angel regretted accepting the "master key" as an extra reward for helping Father Utrafski, these days in order to avoid getting lost, she hired a carriage for close to 10 pounds, and as she often traveled to and from the West End and Queens, which were far away from home, the cost of transportation was increasing rapidly, and her savings had been visibly reduced.

"When the issue of promotion is resolved, I need to find a time to meet with the priest of Mother Earth Goddess and have a good 'talk' about the fare......

She grumbled under her breath, forcibly correcting her involuntary steps down an unknown alley, and returned to Green Park Street to a church.

"Lever Church" is the only church of the Steam Church in the West District, because most of the believers of the church are not wealthy, busy during the day, and even on weekends can not rest, so they can only pray and confess at night, the major churches will open the church until the early hours of the morning, at this time it is more than 8 o'clock in the evening, and there are still many believers in and out of the Lever Church, most of them are dressed as workers.

Angel went across the street from the church and quickly found the "Carvey Watch Company", a shop that was more beautifully decorated than its predecessor in the port of Enmat, and looked like it had only recently been renovated.

Seeing that the lights were still on inside, Angel knocked on the door a few times, then pushed the door and walked in.

Angel was quietly relieved to see that the "craftsman" Kaveh, who had helped him and saved the other party's life, was sitting behind the counter fiddling with a pocket watch in his hand.

Fortunately, it's not a duplicate name......

Then she thought of the battle in the watch shop in the port of Enmat, and the white-haired old man who died in Tomats to protect Kaveh, the defector of the "Heart of the Machine", and sighed in her heart.

Hearing the door open, the woman in her thirties, with her long brown and yellow hair messily draped behind her back, raised her head, wearing a monocular glass with multiple overlapping lenses with a magnifying function in her right eye, and her bare left eye showed a hint of doubt.

"What's the matter?"

"I want to buy a pocket watch and give it away, just look at it."

Angel replied casually, walked into the watch shop, and looked at the pocket watch in the transparent window.

They were all dull under the spiritual vision, they were not magical items, and there was no outward manifestation of spiritual escape, they were obviously ordinary mechanical watches, and she suddenly lost interest.

"These watches are not very good, can they be customized for special ones? And I mean the kind of custom items that have extraordinary abilities. ”

Carveh sighed, put down the pocket watch in his hand, removed the monocular magnifying glass, walked to the door and turned the "Close Shop" sign on it to the outside, and then looked back at Angel.

"I said, how can anyone come to see the pocket watch on a big night...... Who introduced you? ”

She apparently didn't recognize the acquaintance wearing the "Ring of Madness".

"A lady at the 'Eyes of Wisdom' party, she asked me to come to Kaveh the 'Artisan'."

Angel replied.

"I see, she told me about you, the one who sold her the formula." Kaveh gave a look of surprise and sat down behind the counter, "My name is Kaveh, and I'm what she calls a 'craftsman', but custom weapons aren't cheap, and you'll probably need to provide materials...... What type of weapon do you want? Daggers, revolvers, or special-purpose items? ”

"What if I wanted to customize other types of pistols? Instead of being fed by a revolver, but by a magazine? ”

"Magazine feeding, you say it's similar to a rifle?"

"Yes, magazine feed, double-action bolt action, side-thrown cartridge casing......"

"Heh, I thought it was a new design," Carveh sneered instead of being surprised, "the pistol you're talking about has been in all sorts of whimsical designs that Russell had drawn since before he went from Archon to Emperor, and you know, it was even before the revolver. ”

Yes?

Angel heard the name of this familiar traverser senior, and secretly said something was wrong.

Russell the Great really didn't give latecomers a way to live in all directions......

"Due to the large number of pistol parts and complex design, the production process at that time could not meet the requirements of use, and it was frequently jammed or malfunctioned, and it was eliminated by the revolver not long after, so that more than a hundred years later, the revolver still occupies the mainstream, and only the military rifle gradually absorbed the design ideas of the former and became the current style."

As he explained, Kaveh quickly assembled the pocket watch in his hand, quickly put the internal parts in place, closed the lid, and threw it into the box next to him.

"Of course, now that the manufacturing process is improving, there are people who have proposed this kind of pistol with a large supply of ammunition and quick reload, and it is said that a craftsman on the Segall side has made a new prototype, using a bridge clamp to load ammunition, although it is not as good as a magazine feed, but the design is simpler. It's a pity that those shortcomings still exist, jamming, bullet failure, will make the pistol not work. ”

Angel listened a little big, she didn't expect that with the current manufacturing process, the revolver would be the best choice.

Although the revolver can only hold a few rounds and the reload speed is also very slow, it is better to be reliable, when the bullet fails and cannot be fired, as long as the trigger is pulled again, you can skip the stink bullet and continue shooting, for the extraordinary, reliability is often more important than a few more rounds.

"Then let's make a custom revolver."

She reluctantly compromised.

"I'm glad we came to an agreement," convincing the "client," and a small smile appeared on Kaveh's face, "Next, it's the choice of weapon effects, what attack characteristics do you want, or rather, which targets do you want?" ”

"It's powerful, you can use special bullets, and it's best to enhance the effect of the bullet itself, well, the negative effects don't affect the battle." Angel describes her requirements in terms of the effect of "thirst for blood".

The craftsman nodded, pondered for a moment, and replied, "Is that a 'real' magical item?" ”

"Is there anything else that isn't so true?"

Hearing her statement, Angel asked curiously.

"Of course, most extraordinary weapons are actually made of spiritual materials, and they have an effect until the spirituality of the material is completely gone, but they usually only last for 1-2 years, and the advantage is that they are relatively cheap and cost-effective, like those sold at the Extraordinary's gatherings," Kaveh patiently explained, "And your request, especially the effect of special bullets, can only be achieved by extraordinary weapons made with extraordinary characteristics that can be called magical items." ”

It turns out that the 500-pound weapons sold at the gathering of the "Eyes of Wisdom" can only be considered a "cheap version......

Angel was pondering the price of the "original" when the craftsman showed her familiar sly smile and said:

"It just so happened that I had in my hand a revolver that had already been made, which was custom-made by another customer, but he had not appeared for a long time, and according to the agreement, if he did not show up by the end of the month, I had the right to dispose of it myself.

"It only costs £3,500."

(End of chapter)