Mercenaries and Adventurers

A few days later, Kendall City-Artisan District-Weapon Workshop.

Zhao Ji was gesturing with a strange long steel sword in his hand. He was wearing new clothes at this time, because there was an autumn rain that lasted for several days in the local area a few days ago, which caused the temperature near Kendall City to drop sharply. Zhao Ji, who didn't go out to hunt slime monsters, was terribly cold. The clothes given to him by the chamber of commerce in summer couldn't resist the temperature after the temperature dropped in autumn. He had to spend money to buy a thick suit from a clothing store Fall and winter clothes.

The whole clothes are sewn with layers of thick linen, stuffed with some animal hair, which are clothes worn by people with a little spare money among the common people, and most of the common people sew clothes at home, with warm stuffing Things are also what they pretend to be. His shoes also changed from wooden shoes to a pair of rabbit fur boots. In fact, Zhao Ji likes his wooden shoes quite a bit, except that his feet are always sore. The current clothes are actually not very warm. When it snows in winter, a sheepskin or dog skin coat is added to resist the winter wind and snow in Kendall.

Zhao Ji was very satisfied with the long sword in his hand. It was of suitable length and smooth in shape. The surface of the blade had forged and heavily pressed lines like fish scales. The weight of the whole sword was about half that of other long swords in the shop. Very powerful, balance and center of gravity can also be done, and it can also use strength well when gesturing, the blade is sharp and tough. The weapon craftsman nearby also recommended Zhao Ji to buy this long sword, saying that this sword was carefully crafted by the best craftsman in the shop.

According to the craftsman, the craftsmanship of this long sword is the whole-body forging school that was popular in the west of the kingdom decades ago. The whole sword is made by compressing and forging a whole piece of fine steel. The craftsmen repeatedly hit the sword embryo material with a heavy hammer of water conservancy machinery, and discharged the excess material little by little to make it like this.

The scabbard of this sword is also made of excellent hardwood in the northern forest of Kendal County. The overall level of craftsmanship is already the highest near Kendal.

Seeing that Zhao Ji was hesitating, the craftsman said that if Zhao Ji wanted a better weapon, he could only go to a big city far away to find a craftsman with some magic skills. But there are very few works by such craftsmen, even in the royal city, most of the weapons are all kinds of weapons forged from fine steel.

After asking about the price, Zhao Ji hesitated. The price of this sword is one gold coin. In the past two days, he has received the settlement of four slime monster envelopes given by the chamber of commerce, but he has paid off the envelope processing fee of the leather shop and some other miscellaneous expenses in the past two days. He also has about fifteen silver coins in cash.

But this long sword costs one gold coin. To be honest, Zhao Ji actually likes this long sword quite a bit. Compared with the long swords in other weapon shops, the weight of this sword and the feeling of swinging it are different. Zhao Ji asked the craftsman next to him about his doubts. The craftsman looked at Zhao Ji and explained that the weapons made by this whole-body forging school are stronger and heavier than those made by other normal forging methods. Fight against beasts and monsters.

When the kingdom was newly established, wild beasts and monsters were rampant throughout the kingdom. In order to fight against them, the ancestors suffered a lot. People found that the weapons in their hands were the weapons of the original empire. Although they were effective against those monsters and beasts, they were not easy to use. Therefore, after absorbing some technologies from the ancient elf ruins found throughout the kingdom, the weapon craftsmen of the kingdom developed this weapon forging technology and promoted it to all parts of the country.

Hearing this, Zhao Ji weighed it. Although other steel long swords are less expensive than it, they are not cheap. Most of them are between five and eight silver coins. This price is determined by the complexity of the long sword and the length of the long sword, and even the appearance of the long sword Packaging is determined. In comparison, the long sword in his hand was only two or three silver coins more expensive than the others, and he planned that after finishing the whole set of equipment he had planned, he would not use it again for a long time. changed,

This is based on the effective counter equipment he obtained from hunting monsters.

The main weapon such as the long sword is not easy to replace. After thinking about it, Zhao Ji reluctantly took out ten silver coins and handed them to the craftsman, and took the new weapon to the armor workshop next door.

Zhao Ji had inquired that the craftsman in the armor workshop was named Tao Liante, who came to Kendall City a few years ago. The armor of the guards in Kendall City is the standard guard armor specially ordered by the local lord from the provincial capital, and it is not the work of this Taurient craftsman. The apprentices inquired by Zhao Ji said that the Taolian craftsman claimed to be proficient in all kinds of iron armor forging, and he came to Kendall City only to avoid disaster temporarily. He will leave here and return to his hometown after a few years. For this reason, the lord specially asked the artisans in the artisan area to send people to learn the skills of the Taolian artisans. After he left, Kendall City also had its own professional armor craftsman.

But who would have thought that, except for the metal armor of the knights themselves, which can be maintained by Taurient craftsmen, other guard leather armors and fragmentary personal leather armor maintenance are taught by Taurient craftsmen to teach apprentices to learn to maintain, and he himself He didn't do it at all, saying that only metal armor allowed him to do it himself. After a long time, all the apprentices ran away, and there was only one person left.

The armor that Zhao Ji planned for himself was leather armor. He thought that it might not be made by a formal craftsman, but could only be made by an apprentice. He was a little hypocritical. Can this apprentice's craft work?

Regardless of whether they can do it or not, seeing Zhao Ji coming in, the two masters and apprentices who are idle have already set their sights on Zhao Ji. Craftsman Taurient pointed at his apprentice, beckoning him to entertain him.

The apprentice had no choice but to come to Zhao Ji and ask Zhao Ji what was the matter, whether there was something wrong with the previous shield.

Unexpectedly, this apprentice still remembered Zhao Ji. Zhao Ji's shield modification was the hand of this apprentice. At that time, he added leather to Zhao Ji's shield. Zhao Ji still remembered the clumsy feeling.

Although he didn't want to, Zhao Ji took out a few pages of paper and told the apprentices in front of him of his idea of ​​building a pair of leather armor.

Unexpectedly, the apprentice was very excited, and took a few pages of Zhao Ji's paper to read. Zhao Ji introduced some of his armor ideas to him, and the apprentice nodded frequently, and couldn't wait to agree, expressing that he would go all out to make the guest's armor well.

Zhao Ji scratched his head, wondering if this apprentice thought that Zhao Ji recognized his skills because of the previous shield modification. He, Zhao Ji, didn't agree. If it wasn't for his master Tao Liante craftsman who couldn't bear to help him, he might have to tinker for a long time to get it done.

There is no way, seeing the apprentice's master stop moving because he heard it was leather armor, Zhao Ji had no choice but to hand over this work to the apprentice. The two exchanged names, and when they heard that Zhao Ji was the slime monster hunter that people in Kendall City occasionally mentioned recently, the apprentice immediately became happier, thinking that the armor he made for the first time was for a warrior Forging is his luck, and he must thank the God of Craftsman for his favor.

Zhao Ji felt that this apprentice was lucky, but his misfortune, he had no choice but to rely on him.