The Legend of Fangren

Chapter 169 Enchanting Platform!

After setting up the wool tent, Fang Shi could still set up some things outside to do business. He only needed to leave a gap in the curtain so he could curl up inside, put on a bed, and leisurely read a book while pondering enchantment in his mind.

In the game, you can enchant with an enchanting table and place bookshelf blocks around it to significantly increase the enchantment level. However, for a long time in the game, bookshelves were just decorative blocks. It wasn't until later versions that bookshelves were used to actually display books.

Simply place the bookshelf near the enchanting table, and you'll see many runic characters float out and converge onto the enchanting table. In the game's lore, these are all spell runes.

If this were applied to reality, wouldn't the power of an enchanting table be to draw upon the contents of books in the surrounding bookshelves to apply corresponding bonuses to the weapons on the table?

If that's the case, then the scope of enchantment is very broad. For example, enchantments on magical artifacts are energy pathways, while those on magical robes are magical runes.

To conduct this experiment, Fang Shi bought six books, enough to fill a bookshelf block, but—the only problem is, crafting an enchanting table requires diamonds!!!

He had considered simply putting the books and weapons on the anvil and working on them, but that would make the enchanted books disposable. Despite his extravagant spending, each copy cost several thousand dollars, which wasn't cheap.

He even found a real-world version of the lapis lazuli needed for enchanting on the enchanting table. In the class just now, Lao Liu mentioned that after the air channels are carved, special stone powder needs to be filled in to stabilize them.

After all, although it is called a Qi channel, the carved gaps are not empty. The air flow is unstable, making it a very bad carrier for the transmission of Xuan Qi, far inferior to a specially selected solid substance.

Fang Shi glanced at the so-called stone powder and saw that it ranged from light blue to dark blue and then to dark black, with the main element being water. Just like blood vessels in the human body, the circulation of water corresponds to the function of qi circulation.

Let's be frank and say this: if this isn't lapis lazuli, then what is? It's a valuable material, so we didn't buy it until we secured a diamond.

"Oh, diamonds, where are you?"

Since its name is diamond, it must be a stone or something similar, and its element is earth. Diamond is also known as adamantite, and it is famously hard. Therefore, ordinary crystals and spirit crystal cores can only be broken down to obtain crystals, not diamonds.

So, in the end, is it simply a matter of insufficient hardness? What if those crystals were fused together?

"Mistaken?" Fang Shi, who was lying on the bed, had a flash of inspiration. He threw down the book in his hand and took out the crystal core he had obtained from the cave secret realm.

Back then, the stone monster incorporated a whole bag of crystals into its core, gathering them into a ball. He originally intended to give it to Luohe for refining weapons, but later jade became a better option.

Since we're just keeping this thing anyway, we might as well give it a try. Fang Shi immediately took out the gray iron pickaxe, placed it on the ground, and started hammering it away.

Although the dissolution process is somewhat slow, it's at least visible to the naked eye, estimated to take only ten seconds or so, unlike the stubborn obsidian.

Speaking of which, after the cooled magma was poured into obsidian, he was unable to dissolve it into items and put them in his backpack. He also had to use a pickaxe to hammer out those jade stones without using the power of dissolving, which made his hands ache.

"Please, please, with such a high-purity crystal core, how can you not give me four or five diamonds in return?"

boom!

The crystal core, unable to withstand the burden, was finally dissolved and disappeared from the spot. Fang Shi hurriedly looked at his backpack and saw a multicolored crystal lying inside, which made him overjoyed.

It's done!

Even if you only get one diamond from the solution, you should know that in the game, nine diamonds are needed to make a complete block. In terms of size, they are definitely not much different from one. So, if the crystal core is the same size as your head, you will only get one diamond from the solution.

"Wait—one."

Damn it, the enchanting table costs two diamonds!

What kind of feeling is this? Fang Shi's face turned red, feeling like he was about to release water but had to hold it in—the legendary challenge of holding back his breath!

Without saying a word, he rushed out of the tent and bustled between the various stalls. The vendors were startled by his imposing manner and asked him questions.

"Is your crystal core hard?"

"Of course, what crystal core isn't hard? Let me tell you, mine—"

Before the vendor could finish speaking, Fang Shui threw a handful of money at him and bought it without even haggling over the price.

"Hey~ What's the rush to use this crystal core? Just buy it, why ask if it's hard? Hmm—are young people these days so extravagant?" The vendor scratched his head, sighing that he was getting old and his thinking couldn't keep up.

"Come on—" Back in the tent, Fang Shi tried to decompose the smaller crystal, but only managed to get a few crystal items.

Oh dear, the goods are not as described.

Crystals that were accidentally fused with the core of the spirit were already hard to find, so he could only try his luck. He went out and bought some more – some white and some blue. White ones correspond to the metal phase and are generally harder, while blue ones are similar in color to diamonds in the game. He was just trying his luck again.

Unexpectedly, the white one didn't yield a diamond, but the blue one did. However, Fang Shi clearly felt that the white crystal was harder.

"It seems the actual nature of diamonds is still debatable. Blue is associated with water and energy circulation. Perhaps the standard for diamonds is that the crystal nucleus contains abundant energy, along with some hardness. Moreover, since they can be used as materials for enchanting altars, it means that diamonds must also have good conductivity for mystical energy. In that case, looking for water-elemental crystals is the right thing to do."

Having found a direction, he went out and collected some more. Sure enough, he could knock out object shapes from slightly larger water-elemental crystals.

He closed the tent flaps, brought in the goods outside, then lay down on the bed and entered his spiritual space.

First, make a diamond pickaxe with three diamonds. Even though pickaxes are now simplified in reality and are classified by grade rather than material, obsidian is hard and takes a lot of time to dismantle, even a pickaxe of the same grade. A diamond pickaxe would be much faster.

Once you have four pieces of obsidian, arrange them in an inverted T shape in a 3x3 grid, place diamonds on either side, and put a book on top in the center to create an enchanting table.

"Um?"

To Fang Shi's surprise, the materials were already being combined when they were halfway placed on the worktable and the book had not yet been put on.

"Hmm—in the game, a book floats on the enchanting table; this seems rather mystical in real life."

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Now that the source of the diamonds has been found, why not try to see what we can get? So Fang Shi put away the book, synthesized it directly, and got an enchanting table without the book.

Releasing it, though it looks strange, actually makes the enchanting table without the book fit the concept of a "table" better.

He'd wanted to complain for a while now. In a game, without right-clicking to open the enchanting interface, he wouldn't know where to put the enchanted weapons. Now it seemed the weapons were on this table, but what about that book—

"Oh~ Since the grinding wheel has the ability to be transformed into an enchanted book, why can't the enchanting table also have the ability to perform targeted enchanting?" Fang Shi understood, took out the weapon pattern book from the fish bucket, and placed it on the table along with the weapon.

As expected, the inscription on the weapon magically floated up when placed on the platform, and the patterns and characters on it turned into phantoms that scattered out and fell onto the platform like snowflakes, covering the weapon.

Adding lapis lazuli now would likely trigger the enchanting ability of the enchanting table.

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