Master the Abyss, starting from an apprentice priest.

Chapter 121 Mir: Huh?

——Creak, the door of the blacksmith shop opened.

The dwarf Mil poked his head out of the door. When he saw who the visitor was, the already impatient expression on his face became even more frowned.

"May the holy light bathe you forever, Master Mir." Luo Xiu greeted with a smile.

"Tsk." The dwarf Mir said, "Why is it you..."

This dwarf forging master still remembered vividly the experience of being severely bargained by Luo Xiu.

However, although Mil was impatient with Luo Xiu's arrival, he still opened the door of the blacksmith shop and let Luo Xiu in.

……

"Tell me." The dwarf Mir sat on a rattan recliner. He gave the recliner a slight push, causing it to rock back and forth at a constant speed. "What do you want to do this time?"

As the owner of the blacksmith shop, Mil almost looked down upon his guests with a very bad attitude.

Mir regretted very much his previous stupid act of selling the "Moon-Cutting Scythe" to Luo Xiu for only 60 gold coins.

He didn't know whether his head was caught in the door or something was wrong with him to have agreed to this deal!
This dwarf craftsman, who was not good at business, actually sold the things to others at cost price just for some inexplicable reason such as someone "knows the value of the goods"!
As a result, almost a month later, this turned out to be the only order he had sold!
"..."

Mir simply could not imagine that as a "Rune Forger" with "Triple Destiny" of [Intelligence], he had to eat dirt and drink northwest wind for almost a month.

Fortunately, the store of "Authentic Dwarf Blacksmith Shop" is owned by Mil and not leased, otherwise he would have to close the shop this month and hide under a bridge to cover himself with a quilt.

Sometimes, Mir almost doubted whether he was a true believer in "intelligence".

In the past month, the painful experience brought to him by "poverty" even made Mil have the illusion that he was a believer of [Ku Tu].

……

"I'm just an ordinary guest." Luo Xiu said with a smile.

“…You said the same thing last time.”

The dwarf Mir blew his beard unhappily and said loudly, "I can't possibly give you such a big leak like I did last time..."

"Don't worry, don't worry." Luo Xiu nodded and said seriously, "I understand, I am really just an ordinary guest."

Mir: “…”

But Mir didn't say anything more. After all, the "preliminary statement" had been made. So next, no matter how much the Holy Judge on the opposite side bargained, he was determined not to be moved!
He, Mir, is a famous forger among the dwarves! He swore to stick to the price and not give up!
……

Mir then led Luo Xiu to his underground storage room again.

Many of the same extraordinary equipment and weapons as last time were still quietly placed on the wall shelves. Although the wall shelves and walls were covered with a thin layer of dust, the surfaces of the equipment and weapons were wiped quite clean, reflecting a hazy light.

Those equipment and weapons are all well maintained.

Luo Xiu's gaze passed over the equipment and weapons placed on the wall.

Although the dwarf Mil rarely cleans his blacksmith shop, he takes good care of the weapons and equipment forged by his hands.

Luo Xiu saw it but didn't say much.

Luo Xiu walked past a glass display window, and his sight passed through the blocked glass window and fell on a piece of soft scale armor.

[Ghost Face Scale Armor (Blue Rare +)] is the name and quality of this inner armor.

It was a piece of light armor with a ghost face pattern on the armor surface. The base material used for forging was "Ghost King Snake Scales" - that was a material peeled off from the "Ghost King Snake", a "Madness-level" monster with a faint blood relationship with "Dragon".

As the main protective gear, [Ghost Face Scale Armor] can provide a large amount of "Constitution" and "Resistance" attribute value bonuses.

This piece of equipment forged from "Ghost-faced King Snake Scales" can also inherit some of the abilities of the "Ghost-faced King Snake" and has a range-of-fear effect.

Luo Xiu didn’t see this equipment when he came to Mir’s Blacksmith Shop before.

It should have been recently forged by Mir and no runes have been engraved on it yet.

That is to say, it has not yet been finalized and is only a semi-finished product.

Seeing that Luo Xiu's eyes seemed to linger on the "Ghost Face Scale Armor", Mir came over and said:

"…You like this?"

"I guess so." Luo Xiu said in a noncommittal tone.

"This is a good thing..."

The dwarf Mir suddenly introduced in a muffled voice:

"You should have heard of the 'Ghost Face King Snake', right? It is a 'Madness' level monster. It takes hundreds of its scales to forge a 'Ghost Face Scale Armor' like this..."

"Yeah." Luo Xiu nodded.

"In order to hunt such a 'Madness-level' monster, it seems that quite a few of the gray-named adventurers of the Adventurer's Association were seriously injured..."

"Yeah." Luo Xiu agreed.

"Those Gray-named adventurers later gave me all the materials they extracted from the 'Ghost-faced King Snake'. I dare say that in the entire Sina City, I am the only one who can really handle its materials well..."

"Yeah." Luo Xiu said perfunctorily.

"And this 'Ghost Face Scale Armor' that you like is exactly my masterpiece."

Mir's tone was somewhat proud, and he said to Luo Xiu passionately:

"You are a customer who knows what you are talking about, so I won't go into too much trouble. If you really want to buy this 'Ghost Face Scale Armor', I will only tell you a price."

As he spoke, Mil raised his hand and waved a finger in front of Luo Xiu.

"——One hundred gold coins, in cash."

"Deal." Luo Xiu said calmly.

"It's definitely worth the price!" Mir began to argue according to the prepared lines, blushing and thick-necked, "You can think about it again..."

"……what?"

There was no expected price-cutting.

There was no debate session as expected.

Mir always felt that something crucial was missing or that he had heard something wrong.

"What...did you just say?" Mil asked in a somewhat doubtful tone.

"I say, deal."

Luo Xiu smiled and replied, "This is a reasonable price. The equipment forged from the materials of a monster of the 'Mad Evil' level is indeed worth this price."

"In fact, I think the price you gave is too conservative."

Luo Xiu said seriously:

"I can advance you one platinum coin and pay you an additional twenty gold coins. However, I hope you can follow my instructions when drawing the runes for this 'Ghost Face Scale Armor'."

After saying that, Luo Xiu took out a small bag of money from his arms and handed it to Mil.

"..."

Mir was confused.

He was sweating for some reason.

Mir recalled that just before he took the young Holy Judge into the underground storage vault, he had secretly decided to "stick to the offer and not give in."

He never expected that the Holy Judge on the other side would, contrary to his usual practice, not bargain!
——He even raised the fucking price!

"..."

Mir was shaken.

What is "absolutely stick to the price"?

——Mil now just feels that it smells really good.

The young Holy Inquisitor on the opposite side only made one request.

That is, "carve the runes as he says." How could a [Glorious] priest who didn't even have the [Intellectual] destiny understand the knowledge of runes?

Mir thought about it.

He could just as well "listen one thing" and "do another".

He must give full play to his advantages as the second party!

Mir's confidence as a "Rune Forger" emerged from the bottom of his heart.

"...Okay." Mir nodded and took the purse from Luo Xiu.

Mir felt that he had made a lot of money.

……

Six hours later.

"Rune Forger" Mir, fell to the ground exhausted.

He no longer had the strength to stand up, walk to the bed and fall asleep.

"you you……"

Mil's bloodshot eyes stared at the young Holy Inquisitor who was stroking the "Ghost Face Scale Armor" above his head lovingly.

For the first time, he felt that he had never suffered such a big loss in his life!

During these six hours, the dwarf Mir, under the "guidance" of the Holy Judge, overturned and redrawn the "Rune Inscription" eight times!

And the runes that this young Inquisitor asked Mir to try to carve were actually all of the very difficult rune types among the "Experienced Rune Warlocks" of the triple destiny of [Intelligence]!

To completely complete any of the rune drawing, the price a "Rune Master" would ask would definitely be more than Luo Xiu's markup!

The rune drawing "guided" by Luo Xiu even contained a lot of rune craft knowledge that Mir had never heard of!
Under Luo Xiu's "guidance", Mir originally expected only "one grid" of rune slots, but Luo Xiu expanded it to "two and a half grids". Even the "half grid" of the rune slot was filled with extremely strange rune patterns, which made the quality of this "ghost face scale armor" sublimate from "rare" to "master"!
Mir felt that he seemed to be just a ruthless rune drawing tool.

He followed Luo Xiu's instructions, infused spirituality into the equipment, and completed the drawing of the runes. But he had no idea why it was like this, what was the meaning, or what the principle was.

Mir inexplicably began to doubt his life.

What he didn't know of course was.

Although Luo Xiu is a priest of [Glory], he certainly does not only understand the skills and knowledge of [Glory].

In his previous life, he also opened an [Intelligence] trumpet and practiced the "Rune Master" profession for a period of time.

Because the price of asking rune masters to help carve runes on the market was too high. Therefore, in his previous life, Luo Xiu simply opened a small account and "helped himself" to complete the rune engraving.

Therefore, Luo Xiu certainly knew what loopholes could be exploited in the process of drawing the "runes".

In the previous life, players with the profession of "Rune Master" called this "Rune Slot Utilization Rate".

It is to draw the "grids" as fully as possible, so as to occupy more "slots"!
In the eyes of players, the process of drawing "runes" is like a different version of "Tetris".

However, the goal of the players is not to eliminate those "blocks", but to find ways to "fill them up" as much as possible.

This gave rise to many famous "rune combinations".

How to make full use of "rune mosaic" to improve utilization rate is a difficult and serious academic discussion for the natives of the apocalypse world.

But it is easy to solve for players.

——Because players have something called a “panel”.

What Mir is even less likely to know is.

Just recently, Luo Xiu got a copy of "Side's Notes".

Although the knowledge of the "Black Rune" skills recorded in it is "forbidden knowledge", there are many aspects that can be learned and applied!

For example, the “Black Devouring Rune – Alienation and Sublimation” that only occupies half a slot!
That is a forbidden rune that can sacrifice some of the "equipment bonus" attributes to forcibly improve the quality of equipment in order to obtain a new rune skill slot.

Under the effect of "Black Devouring Rune - Alienation and Sublimation", the remaining rune slots of "Ghost Face Scale Armor" were increased from two to three!

Such a piece of "Ghost Face Scale Armor (Purple Master-)" equipment has three rune slots!
——It is equivalent to being able to "carry" three rune skills!
Looking at the finished product in his hand, which was finally completed under his "guidance", Luo Xiu smiled with satisfaction.

He offered an extra premium just to make the dwarf Mir work for him willingly.

The dwarf Mir is also driven by a strong desire for knowledge.

Although he didn't know why Luo Xiu gave such instructions, he would definitely try to review it afterwards to analyze the principles of rune knowledge that Luo Xiu applied.

This is also a mutually beneficial relationship of some kind.

Otherwise, even if Luo Xiu, who was not destined to [intelligence], knew all this, he would not be able to draw it himself.

This is the barrier between extraordinary professions.

At this time, the attribute panel of "Ghost Face Scale Armor" was appearing in the panel in front of Luo Xiu.

[Equipment Name: Ghost Face Scale Armor (Purple Master-)]

[Equipment Type: Armor/Extraordinary Equipment/Rune Equipment]

[Equipment efficiency: Damage reduction by 25% (excluding original damage)]

[Equipment bonus: Constitution attribute +8 (-5), Resistance attribute +8 (-5)]

[Equipment requirements: any third level of destiny, strength attribute 18+, constitution attribute 25+]

【Equipment Features List】

[King Snake Fang (Active Skill/Rune): Can be used to enchant handheld weapons with the "poison" attribute, causing an additional "poison erosion" effect and adding 10% "poison" attribute damage.]

[King Snake Scale (Passive Skill/Rune): Immune to "Poison" damage. At the same time, you can periodically gain a shield with a value of 5% of the upper limit of health every 10 minutes, and the shield lasts for 5 minutes.]

[King Snake's Shedding (Passive Skill/Rune): When receiving a one-time damage amount greater than 50% of the upper limit of health, the player will be immune to this damage. Cooldown time is 1 day.]

[Ghost Face Fear (Passive Skill/Inherent): Passively triggered, within a 3-meter range around you, creatures with intelligence and lower rank than you will be affected by the "Minor Fear" effect.]

[Alienation Sublimation (Equipment Characteristics/Black Devouring Rune): Forcefully improve the quality of equipment, and at the same time forcefully reduce the attribute value of the equipment by 5 points. 】

【…】

After carefully browsing the panel of "Ghost Face Scale Armor (Purple Master-)", Luo Xiu nodded with satisfaction.

Even though it was a premature "Purple Master-", this was at least the first piece of "Master" quality equipment that Luo Xiu had obtained!
And Luo Xiu got this master equipment for only 120 gold coins, which made him inexplicably happy.

...just a bit of a waste of Mir.

Luo Xiu glanced at the dwarf Mil, who was lying on the ground with a look of despair on his face.

After overloading the "rune drawing", the dwarf Mir has now fallen into a state of exhaustion.

His spirituality was temporarily sealed, and he could not perform any new forging or rune drawing work for a few days.

The transaction he just completed with Luo Xiu was probably the largest transaction he could complete in recent times.

But this is also Luo Xiu’s purpose.

Only when he was in front of Mil who was "unable to work" did Luo Xiu prepare to really start to dig out his secrets.

——The real secret treasure of the dwarf Mir that came from the "Home of Ancient Dragons - Broken Continent"!
"Master is worthy of being a master." Luo Xiu squatted down and praised Mir:
"Your forging skills are truly the best I've ever seen in Sina City..."

"...Come on." The dwarf Mil interrupted Luo Xiu's praise with a cold face.

He just felt that these compliments, which should have been pleasant to the ears, now seemed extremely noisy.

"If you have to fart, do it now." Mir remained indifferent.

"Okay then." Luo Xiu spread his hands.

"I want to buy two treasures from you. The Dragon Flame Sword and the Dragon Breath Scepter."

Luo Xiu spoke in a friendly and calm tone, smiling:
"Don't worry, 'price' is not an issue."

The code is exhausted, sleep qvq
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(End of this chapter)