He promised to become a knight, but what the heck is Astartes?

He really can do it!

After putting the carcass of the blood-haired mad lion into his hunter card, Luo Xia began to survey his surroundings and spread his life magnetic field out completely.

To craft weapons and armor, the first thing you need to find is the materials.

The entire Black Wasteland Forest, which has enabled the Dark Elves and Troll tribes to survive for so many years, is certainly not lacking in materials.

Luo Xia's black rock magnetic field slowly seeped into the ground, carefully sensing the direction of the surrounding mineral veins.

"There is iron ore, but there are too many impurities, so what is finally made is just an ordinary weapon."

Sensing the ground beneath his feet, Luo Xia shook his head slightly.

Even in the hands of the most skilled dwarves, these ordinary iron ores could not be transformed into something magical, capable of piercing through second-tier magical beasts.

"Let's venture deeper into the area, and find a lake, so that the weapons can be quenched after they're forged."

Luo Xia walked quickly, heading deeper into the Black Wilderness Forest. If he encountered any low-level mutated magical beasts along the way, he would kill them to increase his points.

Two hours later, Rorschach finally found a murky stream. When his life magnetic field sensed the fine sand and pebbles churning in the water, Rorschach's eyes lit up.

He immediately stopped, squatted down, and scooped up a handful of sand from the murky stream.

"Black flame."

Luo Xia's heart stirred, and black flames suddenly ignited in his palm, burning the black sand.

Under the intense heat of Rorschach's Black Flame, the black sand rapidly melted, emitting a plume of black smoke, leaving only a tiny, rice-grain-sized metallic particle that shimmered with a dark golden luster.

"As expected, it's high-quality black iron ore..."

Rorschach's eyes lit up slightly. This black gold iron ore was a high-grade material used to forge knight armor and weapons. His black Templar armor, forged by the War Spire, was partly made of this black gold iron ore.

"This gravel flows down from upstream, so it seems there's a vein of black iron ore here!"

Without hesitation, Luo Xia immediately headed upstream, traveling upstream for about half an hour.

Luo Xia finally discovered large, shiny black-gold ore exposed in a crevice in a rock wall.

"really."

With a firm resolve, Luo Xia clenched his fists without hesitation. The figure of the Black Dragon Eternal Silence slowly emerged behind him, and then roared as black earthen dragon scales covered Luo Xia's fists.

"boom!"

Luo Xia slammed his fist into the rock wall, sending large chunks of rock flying and exposing even more and larger pieces of black iron ore inside.

"Boom boom boom!"

"Ora ora!" Rorschach pounded away with his fists until he had completely chiseled out dozens of head-sized pieces of ore before stopping.

Then Rorschach used his palm as a furnace to melt away the impurities in the ores and burn them into dark golden molten iron.

"If we say it's homemade, then we absolutely won't go back on our word."

Luo Xia planned to first make a forging hammer and anvil. He first dug out some black clay from the stream and shaped it into the shape of a forging hammer. Then he took out the hardest leg bone of a mid-level mutated magical beast from the Hunter Card to use as a handle. After that, he poured molten iron into the mold and waited for it to cool down on its own.

Thus, the forging hammer was forged.

As for the anvil, it's even simpler. Just find a hard rock, heat it into a square shape with black flame, pour molten iron onto it, and after it cools, you have a very basic anvil.

"All ready, now it's time for our salamander's traditional crafts."

As evening approached, the anvil and forging hammer had cooled down, and Rorschach took off his coarse cloth shirt, revealing his bronze physique with eight well-defined abs, ready to begin his forging endeavor.

"Jingle bells! Jingle bells!"

The crisp tapping sound echoed through the silent forest, startling a large flock of birds.

Rorschach swung his forging hammer, striking the red-hot blank again and again.

With time running out and the task at hand, Rorschach decided to forge the simplest spear possible.

This would allow us to recreate the scene of the great Second Empire's warlord, the Lion King, hunting in Caliban.

Who knows, the other party might be in a good mood and give a small tip.

Luo Xia's expression was extremely serious as he continuously piled up the iron in his hands and hammered it.

To harden the spearhead to the point where it could pierce a second-tier mutated magical beast, black gold ore alone was not enough, so Luo Xia also added two hard bull horns from a Frenzied Blood Demon Bull.

But that's not enough. Luo Xia's current goal is to forge this piece of iron into a thousand-layer forging process, so that with the support of his own strength, it will have the possibility of piercing through a second-tier mutated magical beast.

Time passed slowly, and night completely enveloped the entire Black Wilderness Forest.

But at this moment, the firelight from Rorschach's weapon forging was exceptionally bright in the darkness.

"Sizzle~"

Luo Xia held a spear shaft made of high-grade beast bone coated with a layer of black gold iron, and plunged the red-hot spearhead directly into the cold stream water beside him.

A large amount of white steam suddenly rose up, the water surface boiled violently, accompanied by a piercing quenching sound. Luo Xia slowly pulled out the tip of the spear and examined its sharpness.

"Good gun."

Rorschach gripped the gun barrel, casually twirling it, and a piercing whistling sound filled the air.

"Tsk tsk tsk, this is Master Luo's forging skill. You should go and learn it."

Luo Xia smiled as he examined the masterpiece of his forging skills.

This is a dark gold spear that is 2.8 meters long. Both the shaft and the tip are made of high-level magical beast bones and high-quality black gold ore.

Furthermore, its surface is covered with natural dark patterns, adding a touch of mystery to this spear.

Although its strength and power are far inferior to the Storm Greatsword and the Life Source Artifact 'Battle Abyss', it still surpasses the weapons that ordinary Great Knights forge from ore.

At the very least, Rorschach was certain that Anderson's sword and shield were not as strong as his own spear.

"Since this is the first weapon I've ever crafted, I'll give you a name."

Luo Xia stroked his chin thoughtfully, then suddenly a smile appeared on his lips as he said:

"In that case, let's call him Dark Angel!"

Chapter 117 Blood Sacrifice to the Dark Angel, Crimson Descent (Seeking monthly votes, thank you!)

"Shh, keep your voice down!"

"Did you see that? There's a fire ahead!"

"Ignorance is bliss. They actually dare to light a fire and set up camp in the dark forest at night?"

Rorschach sat by the murky stream, skewering a piece of meat from the thigh of the Blood-Haired Demon Lion he had caught that day onto a skewer with his 'Dark Angel' and grilling it over the campfire, the aroma of the meat filling the air.

This is a special opening ceremony. Rorschach wants to integrate the lion's aura from the blood-haired demon lion into the dark angel, so that the dark angel spear can be considered truly born!

"Ha, so he's just a quasi-knight!"

As if sensing the life magnetic field emanating from Luo Xia, the five people several hundred meters away also quickly approached Luo Xia.

"It smells delicious, really delicious! You've got some good cooking skills, kid."

The bald, burly man leading the group took a deep sniff and stared greedily at the sizzling, oily roasted lion meat in Luo Xia's hand.

"Oh, he's actually a blacksmith."

A scarred man behind him also arrogantly stepped forward, and his eyes lit up when he saw Luo Xia's dark gold spear with its exquisitely crafted grilled meat.

It was truly the blessing of the god of light that allowed them to encounter a lone aspiring knight, who was also a blacksmith who had forged a decent weapon.

This should be their opportunity.

"Kid, we're taking this place. If you know what's good for you, hand over your belongings and hunting card, and we, the Seven Devils of the Black Wasteland, will spare your life!"

The bald, burly man, clearly the leader, shaved his head with his large machete and grinned menacingly at Luo Xia.

They were a group of wandering mercenaries from the nearby Black Wasteland City, who spent their lives on the edge of a knife and treated the Black Wasteland Forest as their own home.

Therefore, they are also known as the Seven Monsters of the Black Wasteland.

They had planned to make a big splash in the winter hunting competition, but unfortunately, after landing in the Black Wilderness Forest, the seven of them encountered a blood-red, fat monster. They barely managed to escape after losing two of their lives.

They fled from day to night, but they gained nothing today.

But little did I expect that surviving such a calamity would bring good fortune, and that a new path would open up before me!

At first glance, the group thought they had encountered a master when they saw the flames, but after sensing the life magnetic field, they discovered that he was just a quasi-knight.

Although the other party looked no more than seventeen or eighteen years old and was clearly a genius youth from a powerful force, who cared about that at the moment in the Black Wilderness Forest?

If someone is killed, who can find the murderer?

They even killed a kid, and didn't even need to dispose of the body; the mutated monsters of the Black Wilderness Forest simply devoured the bones.

"You don't recognize me?"

Luo Xia sensed the strength of the group: one novice knight and four quasi-knights. How dare they provoke Khorne with such strength?

Upon hearing Luo Xia's words, the bald, burly man was taken aback and carefully examined Luo Xia.

This kid is tall and handsome, but there's no doubt about the life magnetic field fluctuations of the quasi-knight on his body!

With such strength, alone in the perilous Black Wilderness Forest, wouldn't he be nothing more than a walking piece of fat meat?

Who do you think you are? Do you think I need to know you?

"Even if he were the young master of a noble family in Adelaide City, it wouldn't be of any use in this Black Wilderness Forest!"

The bald, burly man spat, his expression incredibly arrogant, and pointed his large machete at Luo Xia:

"Stop talking nonsense, hand over the stuff and get out of here! Otherwise, I won't mind taking another pretty boy's life."

"I see."

Rorschach touched his cheek, finally realizing that he had taken off the brass Khorne mask, which represented his identity, long ago to make it easier to forge iron.

"And now?"

Rorschach sneered, slowly putting on the brass Khorne mask. He pulled the Dark Angel from the campfire and carried it forward.

"Do you recognize me now?"

Luo Xia's voice was icy cold. A black flame serpent slowly coiled out from behind him, and black flames immediately rose from the Dark Angel Spear in his hand.

An extremely high temperature spread out in all directions.