Master the Abyss, starting from an apprentice priest.

Chapter 138 Commission and Reply (4k6)

Looking at the expression on Mil's face, as if he had seen a ghost, Luo Xiu smiled indifferently.

"I'm just an ordinary guest." Luo Xiu said with a smile, "Is this how you welcome your guests?"

Mir: “…”

"Hmph, come in first." Mil snorted, and his short and strong body slightly turned to make way for Luo Xiu.

Luo Xiu walked into the shop, and Mir closed the door of the blacksmith shop.

……

"so."

Mir held the hammer in one hand and stroked the hammer head with the other hand. He asked with a stern face, "What do you want to do by coming to my place this time?"

"Let me make it clear in advance that I will never sell you anything above 'rare' quality at a loss again."

"And don't expect me to draw runes for you for free!"

"..."

Facing Mil's cautious gaze, Luo Xiu shook his head slightly.

"In that case, I'm leaving."

Luo Xiu said with a rather regretful tone, "Alas... I had originally wanted to ask you to help me make an 'epic' quality staff..."

"Since you don't want to, I'll find someone else..."

Having said that, Luo Xiu stood up and walked towards the store door.

At the same time, Luo Xiu was counting numbers silently in his heart.

——Three, two, one…

"--Wait a moment!"

Mir's voice suddenly came from behind Luo Xiu at the moment when the silent countdown ended.

Luo Xiu turned around and looked at him with a smile.

"……What did you say?"

Mir's tone was mixed with suspicion and excitement, and he asked in a confirming tone:
"You said you wanted me to forge an epic-level staff?"

"Yes." Luo Xiu nodded slightly and asked with a smile, "Are you tempted?"

"...That's what you said."

Mil snorted unhappily. Although he didn't admit it, the red glow on his face due to excitement betrayed his current state.

At the same time, Mil also showed a somewhat embarrassed look.

"I'll think about it... Hmm. But I don't have any 'epic' quality materials. I also don't have the channels or funds to purchase main materials of this quality..."

"So, if you really want to entrust me with forging, I will charge you a purchase fee in advance! It won't be too high... probably only 1,500 gold pieces..."

"Stop, stop."

Luo Xiu interrupted Mil's words. Facing Mil's dissatisfied eyes, Luo Xiu took out a silver square box for packaging from the storage bracelet on his wrist.

"I have 'epic' quality materials right here."

Luo Xiu smiled slightly and said, "Master Mir, you know, I have always believed in your craftsmanship."

"..."

Mir didn't say anything, his eyes were fixed on the silver square box in Luo Xiu's hand.

"..."

"You, you said you had 'epic' quality material?"

After a while, Mir finally said in a somewhat impatient tone:

"Quick, let me see!"

At this moment, Mil's eyes were constantly showing a deep light of excitement.

For this dwarven blacksmith, “epic” level materials are extremely rare.

Luo Xiu then walked to a long table and gently placed the silver square box on the table.

Mir came to the opposite side of Luo Xiu, and when Luo Xiu's hand left the square box, Mir reached out to take it, and opened the square box with a "click".

A brilliant green light instantly shone out from the box. A complete, regular dodecahedron-shaped dark green magic crystal entered the sight of Luo Xiu and Mir at the same time.

That is the [Epic] quality material - "Colorful Royal Spider·Crazy Demon Crystal"!
……

As Mil's eyes carefully looked at the "Mad Demon Crystal", they gradually became dull and straight.

In the eyes of the "blacksmiths", the regular dodecahedron crystal in front of Mir, which was flowing with deep crystal green light, was the most beautiful and perfect thing, far surpassing any other scenery.

……

After looking at it for a long time, Mil shook his head and shifted his attention away from the surface of the Crazy Demon Crystal.

"Oh my God……"

Mir couldn't help but exclaim in admiration, "This is a fairly complete Crazy Evil Crystal... Just by looking at it, I can imagine how beautiful the finished product made from it will be..."

"So?" Luo Xiu said with a smile, "Master Mir, do you have any thoughts on my commission?"

"..."

Mil pondered for a while, then he looked up and his eyes met Luo Xiu's.

"You said you wanted me to make you an epic quality staff, right?"

"Yes."

Luo Xiu nodded, "This is the Crazy Evil Crystal from a 'Colorful Royal Spider'."

"You don't need to worry about the source of the material being improper. This is a piece of spoils I got as the Holy Judge in my battle against the pagans."

"I think that using it as the main material should be enough to create a magic crystal staff of 'epic' quality."

"..."

"Believe me, it's more than enough."

Mir nodded, his eyes now filled with the determination and conviction of a warrior.

It was as if he was a soldier of the empire, preparing for battle and ready to go on an expedition for the glory of the empire at any time.

"You can leave it to me with confidence. I promise you that my craftsmanship will never let you down."

Mir said firmly, "Believe me, you won't find anyone else in the entire 'Sina City' who is more suitable for forging it than me."

"..."

"Of course I believe you."

Luo Xiu smiled and said, "This time, I hope you can use the best auxiliary materials as much as possible. With your vision, you should understand what kind of materials to choose in order to maximize the value of this 'Mad Demon Crystal'."

"Of course I understand."

Mir nodded, and under Luo Xiu's gaze, he closed and put away the silver square box on the table.

The dwarf Mil, his expression at this moment was full of anticipation, he was already rubbing his hands together, eager to try.

Seeing that Mir had accepted the forging commission, Luo Xiu took out five more platinum coins from the "storage bracelet" and handed them to Mir.

"This is the money for purchasing auxiliary materials." Luo Xiu said, "Please feel free to select those auxiliary materials. I will come again at this time next week."

"..."

Mir suddenly felt a little strange towards the familiar "Holy Judge" opposite him who suddenly became generous.

This "Holy Judge", when he came a few times before, he either bargained or got things for free, which made Mir form a fixed impression of him.

But this time, he actually paid five platinum coins at once...

This made Mir stunned for a moment. This was already more than the total amount he paid when he came here several times before!

"...Okay, I see, that's more than enough."

After a while, Mir nodded and took the five platinum coins from Luo Xiu.

"This time next week, you'll be here."

Mir said firmly:
"I will show you what real art is!"

……

……

After successfully handing over the forging commission of the "Colorful Royal Spider·Crazy Demon Crystal" to Mir, Luo Xiu returned to the "White Antelope Hotel".

Now, the total amount of money Luo Xiu has spent on Mil has reached more than 1000 gold coins.

This, combined with some of the equipment, materials and props that were purchased previously, has brought the total amount of consumption closer and closer to the goal of "3000" gold coins.

How to maximize the value of the epic quality material "Mad Evil Crystal" is what Mir should consider next. And Luo Xiu only needs to wait for Mir's news.

The reason why Luo Xiu chose to hand over the "Mad Evil Crystal" to Mir without any worries was because in his previous life, this epic quality material was also forged by Mir.

The epic quality light weapon, dagger "Poisonous Phantom Blade"! This is the finished product made by "Colorful Royal Spider·Crazy Evil Magic Crystal" in the previous life!

But this time, the direction of forging the weapon was changed from dagger to staff.

In addition, there is another, more important reason.

In Luo Xiu's memory, in his previous life, Mil, after successfully forging this "epic" quality material, was officially promoted to the great blacksmith of "Quadruple Destiny"!

This is a milestone for a "blacksmith".

It can be guessed that "successfully forging an 'epic' quality weapon" is Mir's promotion task.

In Mir's subconscious mind, he really wanted to forge an "epic" quality weapon by himself. When Luo Xiu mentioned it, Mir really showed great excitement.

This just proves Luo Xiu's guess!
Extraordinary weapons that meet the "promotion mission" conditions and are forged, equipment that has special significance to the blacksmith, will be given "special" entry abilities!

From "ordinary epic" equipment, it suddenly became "special epic"! This is just like the "template expertise" with the "special" tag, it is completely unattainable!

"Special Epic" equipment will gain additional, more powerful abilities compared to ordinary weapons!

Luo Xiu still clearly remembered that in his previous life, there was a player who obtained the "Poisonous Phantom Blade" forged by the "Colorful Royal Spider·Crazy Evil Magic Crystal". He dominated the regional player rankings for a long time.

This is because the effect of the "Poisonous Phantom Blade" weapon is too abnormal. One of them is that 50% of the damage caused by the "Poisonous Phantom Blade" is converted into "poison" attribute damage; and all "poison" attribute damage caused by the holder is regarded as "original damage", that is, real damage!
The player equipped with the "Poison Phantom Blade" was an assassin. At that time, the assassin used a special skill to convert all damage into "poison" attribute damage, and then used the "Poison Phantom Blade" to convert all the "poison" attribute damage into real damage.

Afterwards, this player stacked the assassin's high-burst buff, which was enough for him to completely ignore any shields and damage immunity, and directly kill almost all the extraordinary people of the same level who were not meat shield professions in one blow!
Therefore, this weapon was very popular in the previous life. And for Luo Xiu, a weapon like this must not fall into the hands of others.

Luo Xiu has the idea and the ability to reproduce the operations of the assassin player in his previous life.

According to experience, even if the weapon forged from "Colorful Royal Spider·Crazy Magic Crystal" is changed from a dagger to a staff, its basic characteristics will not change.

That is to say, assuming that the "Colorful Royal Spider·Crazy Magic Crystal" successfully forged an epic magic staff, it would still have the ability to convert part of the damage into "poison" attribute damage, and then convert all "poison" attribute damage into real damage!
In addition to the rare quality "Ghost Face Scale Armor" that Luo Xiu had bought from Mil before, its poison damage enchantment and "poison erosion" can form a relatively complete set of output methods!

……

Putting aside the tactical ideas surrounding the quasi-new weapon, Luo Xiu leaned back and lay down on the bed.

After handing the "Mad Magic Crystal" to Mir, the only thing left for the day was to meet up with Captain Anthony and his men at night to scout out whether the locations of the "Blood of Thorns" strongholds were true.

Luo Xiu knew in advance that this mission was basically not dangerous. Luo Xiu, who was keeping a close watch on the "Shadow of Slaughter", would try his best to avoid this most difficult enemy.

While waiting until night, Luo Xiu planned to learn the two newly acquired skill scrolls of [Holy Confinement] and [Holy Punishment], and simply use them to "create" some new [Glorious] destiny skills.

Now, there are four empty slots in Luo Xiu's skill bar, leaving two positions as backup, and he can also perform two self-created skills.

Before that, though.

Luo Xiu first took out the letter sent by his teacher "Priest Ivan Jimeier" from the storage bracelet on his wrist.

The slightly yellowed envelope had the wax stamp on the seal still intact, showing that it had never been opened.

Priest Leonard did not open it. However, with Leonard's ability, he did not need to open the envelope to examine it... Since the letter could be handed to him, the cautious old priest must have checked it in advance, so there was nothing dangerous or wrong.

Luo Xiu then found a letter cutter, cut the envelope open along the seal, and pulled out four folds of thin letter paper from the envelope.

Unfolding the letter, I saw Priest Ivan, who had written in a sloppy handwriting:

To Rossio Carlos:
I have received your letter regarding the Lord of Red Maple City, Rodif.

The only thing I want to say at this moment is...

Luo Xiu! You are such a good student of mine! You did the right thing!
Hahahaha! This is really satisfying! 】

【…】

[Who would have thought! The Lord of Lodifu, who usually looks down on others with his arrogant eyes, is actually a half-disabled person without any body!
You deserve it! You deserve it!

Luo Xiu, thank you for giving me a day, oh no, three days of good mood! 】

【…】

[By the way, about recent events.]

Everything is fine for me in Dawn Town now.

It's just that without you to drink with me, I sometimes feel a little bored...

But it doesn't matter, now more often than not, I have Ms. Xigwei to accompany me to drink. Yeah, so don't worry about me. 】

【…】

[Oh, there’s one more thing.]

There is a new piece of news, and I think you may be surprised when you hear it.

Mayor Rupert actually converted to our "Glorious Church" and became the most loyal believer of Zhurixuyou!
Thinking about how badly he treated us before, I think this is really amazing...】

【…】

【at last.

In case you don’t have enough money, I’m enclosing 20 gold coins with this letter.

May you be bathed in holy light forever, and may everything go well for you.

——Ivan Zimmer (Handprint)]

"..."

"This is really Teacher Ivan's style..." Luo Xiu shook his head with a wry smile.

When he saw the end of the letter, Luo Xiu grabbed the envelope and shook the seal downwards twice.

——Clank, clank, many gold coins fell out of the envelope, and after counting, there were twenty in total.

"Ivan doesn't know yet, but I'm already the Holy Inquisitor... My weekly salary is already fifty gold coins..."

However, Ivan's weekly stipend was only ten gold coins. In other words, Ivan was afraid that he would not have enough money to spend, so he sent half a month's stipend with the letter...

For a moment, Luo Xiu was actually somewhat moved. He then found new letter paper and envelope, wrote a reply to Ivan, and stuffed a platinum coin inside.

Although Luo Xiu knew that Ivan would probably use this platinum coin to stock up the house with wine.

But Luo Xiu felt that as long as Teacher Ivan was happy, it would be fine. After all, there was not much time left for him to simply enjoy a comfortable life.

……

After stamping the reply letter to Ivan with wax, Luo Xiu put the letter back into his bracelet, intending to hand it over to the church messenger when he went to church in the evening.

After that, Luo Xiu took out the scrolls of [Divine Confinement] and [Divine Punishment], paid a certain amount of experience points, and learned the two [Glorious] skills recorded in them.

"Then, next, it's time to create your own skills..."

While thinking, Luo Xiu took out a stack of blank scrolls.

After a brief thought, Luo Xiu unfolded a blank scroll and began to meditate on the skills and knowledge he was going to create.

……

(End of this chapter)