chapter 8 Morning Star

Falborg is more than 700 miles away from the royal capital Rhine City. It is considered a large city with a population of 200,000. Due to its important strategic location, it is a second-line military town on the western border of the Rhine League. It also plays a role in preventing the monsters in the Demonic Forest from rushing into the fertile Paz Plain.

The surrounding area of ​​Falborg is flat, and the Pas River flows around the city. More than a hundred miles to the south is the Demonic Forest, so Falborg has become the most important supply battle for many adventurers and monster hunters. The area of ​​​​the Demonic Forest is almost equivalent to the entire Rhine League, reaching the Pyrenees Mountains in the west, the sea in the south, and covering the entire Red Rock Peninsula in the east, with a total area of ​​nearly one million square kilometers. Since there are few large-scale monster activities on the edge of the forest and many trade routes pass through it, it has become a paradise for thieves and bandits.

The "Hammer of War" weapons workshop has been open for a month. The reason for such a dwarf-like name was just to gain the reputation of a dwarf who was a natural craftsman, but now there is actually a dwarf craftsman Jin working in the workshop with his four apprentices. The weapons workshop occupies a three-story building located in the most prosperous neighborhood of Farr. The first floor below the small building is a weapons store, the second floor is an adventurer's paradise, and the third floor was originally intended to be used as a laboratory by Feiss, but everyone objected and gave up. It was used as a VIP room to receive some big customers, and the decoration was Put in some fine stuff made by Feiss.

A small building not far from the "Hammer of War" is where Roger Geping set his feet, and it is also where Feiss's workshop and laboratory are located. The largest laboratory is more than 200 square meters. At this moment, a huge and complex magic circle is painted on the ground, and colorful halos are shining in the magic circle. Blue-white magic flames sprayed out from the center of the magic circle, and several stainless steel knight armor pieces made by Jin himself were forged red in the flames.

Feiss carefully used iron pliers to pick out a piece of armor and placed the magic symbol made of magic silver in a specific position. A burst of flame flashed, and the magic symbols were firmly welded on the armor. Roger hurriedly handed over a small bottle of blue liquid, which was the blood of an adult Zveka. The flying Zveka is fierce, fast, and has good magic protection. It is considered to be the most difficult to deal with among the intermediate monsters. Many parts of its body can be used as magic raw materials, and its blood can slightly increase its magic protection. Magic silver is an indispensable material for making magic tools due to its very good ductility and excellent absorption of magic power. However, due to its relative rarity, it is also expensive. Generally, the price of magic silver is about ten times that of gold of the same weight.

The blue Zveka blood dripped on the prepared nail plate, and was quickly absorbed by the entire nail plate like a sponge absorbing water. The nails also turned into a light blue fluorescent light. Roger took the piece of armor and threw it into the magic flame. After all the armor pieces were processed, Feiss chanted a spell to the magic flame, and a pair of light blue wind wings gradually formed and flew towards the magic flame. The wind wings spun around the magic flames, spinning faster and faster. With a "boom", the flames surged like a tide. A white light flashed on the ceiling, and a barrier blocked the burst of magic flames. The fire storm came and went quickly, disappearing in the blink of an eye. Leave a few pieces of blue armor on the ground. After integrating this wind magic, the weight of the entire armor is reduced by 60% due to the constant support of wind magic energy.

At Roger's request, a little magic silver was added to each piece of armor, and Feiss once again simply cast a lighting spell on it. This time, the entire armor began to appear translucent light blue, and the magic symbols formed by magic silver just emitted a blue light.

"Hehe, this looks much more beautiful. Jin! You came just in time, I was looking for you. Make these armor pieces into a half knight armor, yes, it is the style of the most popular paladin armor this year. The connecting part The chain armor must be made of gold! And add more gold patterns to the edges of the armor. Call that boy Folan, he has a way with works of art!"Roger shouted happily.

Dwarf King disagreed: "This is not possible! The chain armor should be wrapped with high-quality steel wire! The most important thing about armor is protection! Protection!! I don't want to ruin my reputation!"

"Then wrap another layer of gold wire outside the steel wire! That's okay. In short, all chain mail must be covered with gold! The most important thing about this armor is money! Add this layer of gold, and you will have ten years of ale. It's all there! Tell Luns to pick out a cape that matches this armor. Ask for the best! Gold! You have to finish the armor the day after tomorrow!! If I can't see the armor, you won't have wine. !!By the way, this armor is called Blue Crystal Armor. Of course, it’s better not to engrave the name yet. You can engrave whatever name the guest thinks of! Ten gold coins per word.”

Jin muttered and carried A downstairs, finally choosing the latter between conscience and ale. What he cursed was: "Vampire!! Man-eating pig!! Scrooge! Old dragon in human form!!"

Roger only insists on selling high-quality and high-priced products, and the reason is very good: "Those who can afford these equipments don't care about money! As long as the goods are good, they don't care about more or less. What kind of people are our best customers?" ?? Not those adventurers who have money and know their stuff, but those aristocratic young men who have money and nowhere to spend it. Yes, those are people like Luns. #!$!%Don’t do it! Whose money will you make if you don’t make their money? ?So we don’t sell the right ones, only the expensive ones.”

Secondly, all of Roger's armors pay great attention to appearance decoration and some impractical gimmicks. For example, this blue crystal armor is extremely light in weight, only equivalent to the weight of a heavy leather armor. It has good physical defense and magic defense effects. It is a fine piece of magic armor. But the lighting technique, after fusion, only makes the magic armor have a translucent crystal effect, making the light softer and more attractive, but it has no practical effect at all. As for the decorations designed by Folan, they did not help in combat except adding weight. However, Roger said: "You can tell at a glance that this armor should be worn by Paladins. Is it sold to real Paladins? Of course not. Which Paladin would wear this? What we want to sell is those who want to wear it." Do you expect the sons of great nobles who have become paladins to actually venture into dangerous caves? They will only dress for hunting! So style and taste are more important, to make them look like heroes in front of ignorant girls. War God's Hammer does not intend to become a big arms dealer, but to become an aristocratic brand like Purple Angel Jewelry and Shanli La Hot Spring."

Everyone was speechless. From then on, the nickname Vampire Roger spread like wildfire.

The business of "Hammer of the God of War" boomed rapidly. Although it only sold one knight's long sword, one knight's war lance, and one set of knight's heavy armor in the past month (this was Feiss's entire production capacity), it not only sold The initial investment of 10,000 gold coins was recouped and a profit of 3,000 gold coins was made.

The afternoon sun shone lazily on the quietly flowing Pas River, and the wide river surface was coated with a layer of golden scales. A group of axe-lance knights with bright armor were leisurely patrolling along the river. The leading knight wore a dark green breastplate, and the rest wore khaki Farburg Knights standard cavalry breastplates.

The knight in the dark green armor is Kate. The armor is the black elf knight half armor that he has been proud of for a long time. It was soaked in the blood of the black elf and added with shield magic. It has various defensive powers. Very good, especially effective against dark spells. After Kate arrived at Farburg, Desolyn, the commander of the knights, took good care of him and asked him to lead the guerrilla cavalry squad. A team of Falborg guerrilla cavalry has fifty to sixty cavalry, and as Captain Kate, he can only lead twenty cavalry at most. Guerrilla cavalry is between heavy cavalry and light cavalry. They generally wear half breastplates. Their weapons of choice are mostly ax lances suitable for stabbing and slashing, so they are often called ax lance cavalry. The guerrilla cavalry usually patrols about three hundred miles around Falborg. Each time they are dispatched, they have to survive independently in the wild for about a week. When they encounter small groups of thieves and monsters during patrol, they gather together to annihilate them. When they encounter large groups of enemies, they return to the fort to report. However, Falborg has not experienced war for decades, and the guerrilla cavalry has become more of a training for cavalry.

Since arriving in Falborg two months ago, this is the third time Kate has led a Ranger team on a mission. The sun was shining brightly, there were several fishing boats floating on the river, and fishing songs were heard from time to time. There are green fields beside the river, and the Demonic Forest in the distance also looks peaceful and peaceful. Kate felt relaxed and happy. This was simply a trip. The only drawback was that there was no trace of the band of thieves. There was a scene of peace and prosperity everywhere. Kate calculated that it had been five days. She waved her hand and shouted: "Brothers, close the team!" A group of axe-gun knights turned around and walked toward Falborg.

The Knights of Falbao have a total of 7,000 people, including 2,000 cavalry, 4,000 infantry, and 1,000 handymen. After all, it is a second-line army. It has lived a lot of peaceful days, so the combat effectiveness of Lord Desolyn's knights is mediocre.

Roger and others have already adapted to life in Falburg, that is to say, they have learned about the local entertainment venues and taverns. There are also a few fights with adventurers, mercenaries and the like. In addition to Lord Drizzt, with Desolyn's backing, they were not afraid of offending anyone. In business, several pieces of high-quality magic equipment were sold, especially after the blue crystal battle armor was bought by a certain Duke's youngest son for 10,000 gold coins, the reputation of "Hammer of the God of War" quickly spread. Roger saw that the dwarves were too idle, and even coerced and induced them to make some equipment without magic blessing for sale. The dwarves' craftsmanship is naturally of high quality, and every batch of goods is sold out.

At this time, on the third floor of the "Hammer of the God of War", Roger was arguing with a small group of adventurers. There are 9 adventurers in this team, which is a standard adventure team configuration, including warriors, rangers, archers, magicians, priests, and thieves, which means there are only one or two of each. They had just returned from their adventure in the Demonic Forest, and were exchanging their adventure harvest for some equipment.

What made Roger eyes shine was a bag of magic silver weighing two kilograms, as well as some rarer metals and gems, such as a piece of ore. There were dots of shining stars in the deep black. Roger recognized it at a glance. It turned out that this was a piece of high-grade star gold ore. This kind of gold is different from ordinary gold, but has a mysterious correspondence with the power of the stars in the sky. It is extremely rare and is an indispensable raw material for making magic weapons related to space magic. As for the crystal nuclei and fur of the monsters, although they are also very precious, they are far less valuable than these metals. A piece of fiery red bird feather worn by the female magician in the team caught Roger's attention. With his spiritual induction, Roger discovered that this feather contained extremely obscure but smart fire magic fluctuations.

The adventurers took a fancy to an extremely exquisite magic bow (a common feature of all Hammer of War products), decorated with rose branches entwined with white gold and purple gold silk. Matching this bow were three light green magic-breaking bows. On the arrow, two white Zveka dragons made of pure magic silver were coiled on the arrow, and the four wings spread out to become the tail feathers of the arrow. The young female archer's eyes were shining as she hugged the bow and arrow tightly and refused to let go.

The female magician was fascinated by a magic amplification bracelet. Thanks to the superb skills of Dwarf and Feiss, the artistic taste of Folan, and the in-depth grasp of the dark side of people's hearts by Luns and Roger, this bracelet combines the Sky Stone with magic silver in an extremely ingenious way. The entire bracelet is completely transparent and dark blue, with little stars appearing and disappearing under the influence of magic power. Wearing this bracelet is like wearing the night sky on your body. The female magician's eyes became as deep as the night sky. Of course, simple inlay techniques can actually achieve the same magic amplification effect.

Women who are caught up in shopping desires have no reason to explain. Fortunately, although these adventurers are good in strength, they are not very good at recognizing goods. Roger was sweating profusely, his fat body was trembling (I don’t know since when, all of Roger’s fat body could tremble as he pleased), looking like he was in great pain, and he was slowly lowering the price. After adding two pieces of half-body armor, four long swords, and thirty armor-piercing arrows, the deal was finally completed, and the red feather became Roger's trophy.

To be fair, everything Roger sells is of high quality and worth the price. The main way to make money is to buy adventurers' trophies at low prices. For example, this time the star gold mine alone is a priceless treasure, far beyond what can be measured by hundreds of thousands of gold coins. That bag of magic silver was worth ten thousand gold coins, and as for the Warcraft, it was worth more than ten thousand gold coins. What's more, there are other unknown metals and that inexplicable red feather. Intuition told Roger that the more unclear something is, the more valuable it is.

Roger finally understood what "a horse will not gain weight if it does not eat night grass".

After finally seeing off these enemies, a few more people strolled into the VIP room, and Luns followed them with a nod and a bow.

Roger had just put on a professional smile and was about to say hello. The leader took off his hooded robe, and his blond hair jumped out, lighting up the whole room. His smile was as bright as the sun after the rain, and the light even stung Roger eyes.

He stretched out a hand and said:

"It's a pleasure to meet you again. I'm Orfilock. Feng. William."

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