044 Enchanting Equipment
When passing the thirty floor, Gene saw the gray-robed servants busy.
Some of them walked around holding books taller than their heads, as if they were sorting out the library; some stood on high chairs, holding long-handled spoons and constantly stirring the powder and liquid in huge containers; the most lively one was in the first floor lobby, where many of the people working here seemed to be ordinary blacksmiths, carpenters and tailors among ordinary people, and were busy creating various utensils.
Sword and axe, arrows and bows, soft armor, helmets, shoes and boots, narrow staff...
Gene is no longer the frog in the well who just came to the Mage Tower and didn't know anything. He looked at the instruments with envy, watching them being packed in large wooden boxes, carried by two gray-robed servants to the top of the Mage Tower.
[Semi-finished enchantment!]
Jean is so jealous.
He had seen that in the middle section of the 31st to 50th floors of the Mage Tower, one of the daily homework for magic apprentices is to deal with these things.
Every afternoon, they took out an hour and carefully described these semi-finished weapons and armors with melted magic silver - of course, those who can do this are all junior and above magicians, and Blanche is not listed here - if they fail, the equipment will be split up, and then the only fate is to be discarded as garbage. Once they succeed by chance, a "price-profit" enchantment equipment will be freshly released!
The reason why it is said to be priceless is because Gene knows how expensive they are in the world outside the Mage Tower.
He once saw an enchanted bow in a travel vendor's carriage. The carriage owner was careful when displaying it, because it was his treasure of carriage, which was more expensive than other equipment hanging on all four walls in the carriage! Gene was lucky enough to see the real thing with the archer Eddie, but even Eddie couldn't afford it, or maybe he couldn't bear to bear it - it was sold for 300 gold towers!
This is already a sky-high price for a village family that only earns about 20 to 30 silver coins a year.
The "Golden Tata" is the largest denomination coin minted by Karl King's Court, and the value and silver sacrificial and copper cloth ratio are reduced in sequence in a hundred times.
Gene remembered that in addition to disappointment, he was also seriously puzzled, because the size of the "enchanted bow" was similar to that of his small wooden bow, and the rough texture of the craftsmanship was incomparable to Lord Eddie's gorgeous golden longbow. The only explanation may be that it is powerful, but how powerful it is, Gene has no intuitive concept!
His doubts were not answered until the small village of Dor was attacked by three mutant demons. Teacher Eddie used an "enchanted arrow" that could produce explosive flames.
The special arrow can produce violent flame explosions every time it hits, and the effect is simply exaggerated. Just two arrows force the mutant tree demon commander to let go of the intermediate warrior Orwell. The enchanted arrow is just a consumable... Gene later learned that the real enchanted bow can be reused all the time, and the effect is almost equivalent to carrying many enchanted arrows with him.
Of course, Gene was envious... He did not have the mark of awakening light yet, and he was actually not an adventurer archer, but if he had such a powerful enchanted bow and his own archery skills, he would not have to be afraid of Oliver anymore!
The young mage who lived on the forty-ninth floor of the Mage Tower had never given up teasing Jean during this period. His mocking and proud face was almost a nightmare for the red-haired boy.
"What are you thinking?" Blanche's voice suddenly came from his ears, pulling Gene back to reality.
"That's...oh, enchanting weapons! Are you interested?" Blanche quickly found the answer from the end of Gene's sight. She nodded slightly, "You are quite smart. If you really want to get an enchanting weapon, it is indeed a good idea to buy from the inside of the Mage Tower. You can only charge you a cost price here, but the price will increase several times from the moment they leave this Mage Tower!"
"So exaggerated?" Gene opened his mouth wide.
"Do you think the price is too high?"
"No... I didn't expect their cost price to be so exaggerated." Gene was shocked, "I know the price of enchanted weapons outside, but you said they only increased a few times. The cost of them is as high as dozens or hundreds of golden towers? I remember that the best-made iron bow and iron sword made by Grandpa Hans only sells three or four silver jiks! And the craftsmanship is much better than those made by these gray robes..."
"The primary magician uses the weapon embryo to make enchant weapons, and the success rate is no more than one thousandth, and those that are scrapped cannot be reused." Blanche said.
Gene understood after a little thought.
Not expensive...
"Outsiders think that magicians are mysterious and very rich. In fact, magicians can burn more money. Most of the income of this great wizard tower comes from selling enchanted weapons to the outside world, but it is still difficult to support many magic experiments..." Blanche sighed, "But it's okay to sell one to you at a cost price. Do you want to buy it?"
Gene blushed suddenly.
There is only a small bag of copper cloth in his luggage, which may not even cost 1 silver jack.
"No, no need... let's go in the future..." The red-haired boy looked back at the first floor hall reluctantly, and then was pulled by Blanche and out of the gate of the mage tower.
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The mountain wind blew from a distance, causing dark green waves to swelling the canopy of the forest. The flowing air brought a faint smell of grass and trees, making Gene cheer and quickly forgot the troubles caused by the shortness of money in his previous pocket.
Pine forest sea!
An endless sea of pine forests!
For a while, Gene looked at this endless forest of pine trees from the colorful crystal windows of the Mage Tower every day. He has always been used to wildness and is not used to living trapped in the Mage Tower. Moreover, it seems that this huge forest is naturally attractive to him, and he has been so suffocated!
Whoosh!
Gene climbed up a tree in a few seconds, hooked the branches with one hand and looked into the distance. He looked very good, and even saw the figure of a gray rabbit flashing a hundred meters away.
[Unfortunately, I didn't bring my bow down, otherwise I could have eaten some wild game...]
The red-haired boy thought happily.
Unlike Gene's monkey-like jump, Blanche was much quieter. She walked to a tall and straight Yunsong plant with a small pocket in her hand and squatted down.
Hurry...
She grabbed a handful of shiny things from her pocket, sprinkled them on the roots of the pine tree, and her pale little hands grabbed another layer of soil to bury it.
Then she leaned her head and leaned against the pine tree trunk, closed her eyes and sounded carefully.
"What are you doing?" Gene asked in surprise after jumping from the tree.
"Shh." Blanche made a gesture of silence, "I'm testing the magical transparency of this pine tree. I want to find a better pine staff for myself to practice fireball. Finding a better staff is also a compulsory course for magicians."
When Daren heard this, he couldn't help but hold his breath and look at a slender staff in Blanche's left hand.
It is actually a slightly crooked and slender wooden stick, made of pine wood, with circles of texture on the surface. One end of the wooden stick is slightly thin and the other end is slightly thick, and the other end is thick and four branches are split into shapes similar to "claws". In the middle is inlaid with a transparent crystal ball the size of an egg.
Gene, who often goes to chop wood, certainly knows that trees have annual rings. From the size and curvature of the annual ring circle, you can tell where a piece of wood is taken from the trunk.
Chapter completed!