Warhammer: Should I also sit on the Golden Throne?

Chapter 132 Forged by the Fire Dragon

Zhou Yun bid farewell to Vulcan in Ulken, but to Zhou Yun's surprise, Vulcan did not lead him to his family's blacksmith shop. Instead, he led Zhou Yun through the town and straight to the woodpile desert outside the village.

"Vulcan?" Zhou Yun looked up at Vulcan, not believing that Vulcan would forget his promise from that morning.

Vulcan agreed to help Zhou Yun forge weapons.

"What kind of weapon do you want?" Vulcan asked, patting Zhou Yun's shoulder with his large hand.

"An axe, a pair of chainsaw axes, large enough for you to use."

"And swords, smaller ones, big enough for a twelve or thirteen-year-old to wield and use."

Zhou Yun gestured and roughly described to Vulcan the type of weapon he needed.

"It's important, isn't it?" Vulcan asked gently.

"Yes." Zhou Yun nodded solemnly.

"That's perfect."

The two passed through the town's thick granite walls and arrived at the gray-black wood-pile desert.

Although it's called a desert, what covers this place isn't golden sand, but thick volcanic ash.

People say that the volcanic ash never completely cools down; it burns beneath the desert, baking the entire desert to a scorching heat.

The Nocturne aliens are alright, but if it were people from other planets, they would probably have their flesh burned off just by touching the volcanic ash in the desert with their fingers.

Even in such a harsh environment, many resilient wild beasts still inhabit the area, and these beasts, like the minerals of Nocturne, are the source of materials for blacksmiths.

"A sawdragon wandered near the town and attacked many of the swamp roks that the herders were raising."

"That's our target this afternoon; it will also be the material we use to forge our weapons."

"Come on, use your abilities to find it."

Hearing Vulcan's words, Zhou Yun nodded slightly, squatted down, and placed his burned hands on the scorching volcanic ash ground.

Heat flowed through his fingertips, and the extension of his senses broadened his perspective, allowing him to see the shape of the heat energy and the traces left behind as it spread.

"Earth Shaman. Flame Vision"

This was one of the psionic techniques that Urken taught Zhou Yun, granting him thermal vision and the ability to sense thermal traces.

He turned his head and saw the orange-red heat trails stretching behind him, the heat trails left by Vulcan and him as they walked through the woodpile desert.

"Come this way." Vulcan led Zhou Yun to a spot not far away, under a giant rock jutting out from the desert. In the shadows beneath that rock grew some dark brown plants that could withstand the extreme environment of Nocturne. The town's herders often drove their livestock here to graze.

Zhou Yun saw that there lay the corpse of a Shaoluoke.

The animal's scaly body was completely severed, its horned, bull-like head was mostly bitten off, its brains completely devoured, and its body was covered with horrifying bite marks.

With his Flame Vision activated, Zhou Yun vaguely saw a huge orange-red heat trail, clearly left by the saw dragon.

The saw-saurus is a predator found deep in the Chalk Desert. It has a thick carapace and six sharp, knife-like legs, and usually lives in groups.

Aside from those creatures closer to mythology, their threat when gathered in groups is second only to the winged Darktillian among the fire salamanders, the Genor whale of the Sulfur Sea, and the lion and scorpion beasts of the Aridiana Plains.

His six sharp, knife-like legs could be considered a kind of ore, an excellent forging material.

"But how could the Saw Dragon wander around the vicinity of a town alone?" Zhou Yun asked Vulcan beside him while tracing the heat trail left by the Saw Dragon.

This is not in line with the habits of the saw dragon.

"That's what I'm worried about too," Vulcan said to Zhou Yun, holding a spear in one hand and a forging hammer in the other. "If a creature goes against its usual habits, it can only mean it's in danger... I'm worried that something is hunting the Sawdragon."

"Are there beasts in the Firewood Desert that can hunt the Saw Dragon?" Zhou Yun now understood why Vulcan was in such a hurry to hunt. He wasn't worried about the Saw Dragon itself, but rather the hunter behind it.

"An earthquake occurred at Longjianling a few days ago, opening up a mountain pass between the Chaidui Desert and the Alidia Plain. It is possible that solitary hunters from the Alidia Plain have entered the Chaidui Desert."

"A lion beast, or a scorpion beast?"

Dragons, lions, and scorpions are the most fearsome solitary hunters among the land animals of Nocturne. Among them, the dragon refers to the winged Darktillian fire lizard that lives in the Deadfire Mountain, while the lion and scorpion are the lion and scorpion beasts of the Alidia Plain.

"Whichever one it is, you have the materials to forge your weapon," Vulcan said with a smile.

They quickly found the answer: among a series of rocks eroded by hot winds and filled with sponge-like holes, they saw the carcass of the saw dragon.

All six limbs, enough to forge divine weapons, were broken, and the carapace, thicker than steel armor, was torn to shreds. And on the body of this dead saw dragon, a giant beast was lying.

The behemoth had a serpentine body covered with an exoskeleton and scales, with a pair of giant pincers extending from its torso and a short, venomous stinger hanging from its tail.

Scorpion Beast.

The scorpion beast lay prone, its stinger on its tail swaying gently with a hissing sound, while it opened its mouth, revealing sharp fangs, striking a threatening pose.

Zhou Yun's gaze first swept over the venomous stinger on the scorpion beast's tail, then its two pincers, and finally its fangs.

Like most beasts on Nocturne, the Scorpion Beast is rich in minerals from the planet's crust, which it reassembles, shapes, and condenses onto its teeth, pincers, and stingers, giving it a hardness that surpasses most minerals on Nocturne. In a sense, this Scorpion Beast is a biological furnace.

That's great... Zhou Yun's recent studies have led him to conclude that this scorpion beast is a good prospect.

"Ready." Vulcan lowered his body, gripped the spear and hammer in his hands, and the muscles on his arms, which looked like they were carved from basalt, rippled slightly, pumping power from his body into the weapons.

The scorpion beast clearly sensed the danger emanating from Vulcan. The predator's compound eyes stared warily at Vulcan, attempting to scare him away with a threatening posture.

But seeing that Vulcan and Zhou Yun still did not leave his territory, the beast's body tensed instantly, and then it shot towards Vulcan and Zhou Yun.

But almost at the same time, Zhou Yun slammed his burned arm down on the ground, and the dormant volcanic ash reignited, with raging flames rising from the ground and forming a towering wall of fire between the lizard beast and the two of them.

"Earth Priest. Flame Barrier" The scorching flames coiled around the scorpion beast's body, and the terrifying behemoth's movements slowed down instantly. Vulcan seized this fleeting opportunity.

The spear in his left hand pierced through the scorching wall of fire, heading straight for the scorpion beast's neck. Its hard carapace was instantly torn apart, and the metal spearhead pierced through flesh, slamming the scorpion beast onto the volcanic ash ground.

The scorpion landed with a thud, volcanic ash scattering everywhere. Vulcan raised his forging hammer high, his eyes gleaming with the light of the furnace fire.

The forging hammer struck, and it seemed as if the whole world trembled.

The forging hammer was lifted from the anvil, sparks flew beneath it, and the scorpion claws, heated to an orange-red by the scorching furnace fire, were shaped.

Vulcan grabbed Zhou Yun's arm, adjusted Zhou Yun's movements, and guided Zhou Yun to exert force.

"Sledgehammer down!" Vulcan's voice was louder than the sound of a hammer striking iron, and the sound entered Zhou Yun's head, seemingly infusing him with power.

So the forging hammer fell continuously, Zhou Yun and Vulgan taking turns hammering the pincers, teeth, and other parts removed from the scorpion beast.

The poisonous stinger continuously mixes in other minerals from the crust of Nocturne.

Meanwhile, Vulcan's adoptive father, En-Bel, was bent over a workbench made of basalt slabs, assembling gears, chains, and coils. Although the blacksmith, once the best in the town, was weakened by old age, his exquisite craftsmanship had become more refined with age. He was making the mechanical structure inside an axe and a sword.

The axe and sword, still scalding hot, were picked up by Vulcan. He held them high and plunged them into the water, sending up billowing steam that tempered the weapons' sharpness.

The scorpion's two pincers have now been shaped into two axe blades, while its stinger has been shaped into the blade of a short sword.

The teeth that Zhou Yun pulled out one by one from the scorpion beast's mouth were made into the teeth of a chainsaw.

Vulcan sat opposite Enbell, whose fingers displayed a dexterity completely disproportionate to his size, assembling an axe and sword in his hands.

Vulcan gently pulled the trigger on the axe handle. The axe blade whistled, and a crackling energy field flashed on the chainsaw teeth.

The same was true of the short sword; when Vulcan pressed the switch on the hilt, it was also enveloped in a bright energy field.

"The scorpion beast can decompose the air it inhales into energy and pump it into its pincers, teeth, and stingers, forming an energy field that is similar to a decomposition force field. This field generates a repulsive force when it attacks, pushing the molecules of the object it cuts to both sides, achieving the effect of cutting through iron like mud."

Vulcan brandished his axe and sword a few times and nodded in satisfaction.

"I preserved this characteristic during forging, and now it can generate the same energy field through the built-in coil, but it cannot provide unlimited power. To make up for this shortcoming, I installed a mechanism in the axe that mimics the organ in the scorpion beast that splits the air. When this axe strikes a person, it will pull the enemy's flesh and blood into the axe, splitting the flesh and blood into energy to power the axe blade."

"If the trigger is pulled three times in a row, the energy stored in the axe blade can be released all at once, releasing the energy field. This energy supply should be used with caution, as enemies hit by the energy field will be split into hundreds of pieces in the blink of an eye."

"Then there is the sword. This sword still retains the organs of the scorpion beast that produce toxins. With just a little electrical stimulation, the toxins will seep out from the metal. And when the energy field is activated, these toxin molecules will be engulfed by the energy field and seep into the enemy's body, disintegrating the human body from the inside."

At this point, Vulcan couldn't help but give a wry smile, realizing that the weapons he had forged were a bit too terrifying and ferocious.

But there was no other way; every time he forged something, his inspiration, his talent, and his skill would flow out uncontrollably, allowing him to do his best.

"You must use these weapons with caution," Vulcan could only advise Zhou Yun, then said, "Let's think of names for these three weapons."

Zhou Yun stroked his chin, looking at the three weapons, and a good idea popped into his head.

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