Shadow Covenant

Chapter 101 "+1 Natural Shrine"

Although it was expected, Woody was slightly taken aback when he heard Angelina's message, and then sighed.

This is the path she chose, and thinking about it differently, if his siblings who are dependent on each other are in danger, he can't do it all indifferently, hoping that others will rescue them from the danger.

But she has been able to achieve the state of "entering concentration" during meditation, so there is nothing he can teach.

For her, the specialty of "Heart Like Still Water" is a matter of course as long as she persists in training according to his method in the future.

The only thing to worry about is the safety below, but according to what my aunt said, there is a legendary strong man in the Underdark. If he is there, at least the whole army will not be wiped out, and the danger should not be high.

What's more, if the legend can't thwart Drow's conspiracy, then he, a professional who is not even a level 5 demon hunter, will just add another human ration to the spiders in the Underdark if he follows him.

After the monk girl left, Woody's melancholy only lasted for a few minutes, and he began to concentrate on potion crafting and polishing of the shrine. things after the land.

At this point in time, are there any major events with clearer memories from the previous life on the road?
While recalling the areas he passed through on the way to the Northland, Woody was doing the pre-processes such as drying and boiling the herbs that he was already familiar with. Before actually configuring the potion, every alchemy herb or monster material, Both require tedious and complicated processing techniques, and it is not possible to put a big iron pot and stew it randomly.

The most common plantain also needs to go through four processes, soaking, drying, grinding, and boiling.

Only in this way can the medicinal juice be completely squeezed out, so as to make the necessary neutralizer in the potion.

It's not that it can't be shoddy, but only God knows how effective the medicine will be.

Although the role of the demon hunter he played in the previous life was just a short memory fragment of his playing "Saint", but such a complicated production process and pre-war preparations are unique, and the memory is especially deep and unforgettable.

After all, sometimes, in addition to the persuasion effect, hardcore also has a deeper sense of substitution than ordinary professions.

For example, Exalted Paladin is such a hardcore class.

Regardless of good or evil, in order to abide by their oath, they rigidly and almost paranoidly abide by their own moral bottom line. As long as they are a little more flexible and changeable, they may lose the strength and belief originally gained by the oath.

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In the next few days, due to the weather and the busy things at hand, Woody spent most of his time in the underground alchemy laboratory and his own cabin, occasionally wielding weapons, in the open space outside the house, at the top Facing the gloomy sky and the misty drizzle after the storm, he practiced the fighting skills he had mastered against the wooden stakes with several layers of iron sheets, so as to relax and breathe.

This month is such a bad weather, but the entire west coast is like this, unless you cross the hills, follow the northeast trade road, and go all the way to the city of Novaldo, the next underground station in the north, you will see that place again. It's cool and warm in November, about half a day away from Palermo.

On the way, he also went out with Verando, in order to go to a high-end tailor shop that specializes in customizing clothes for nobles, and ask the shop owner to help make a set of close-fitting leather armor from the skin of the shark lizard beast. He is still a body of flesh and blood, and the necessary protection can save him a lot of worries. At least when facing a large number of monsters in the wilderness, he doesn't have to worry so much about the flying stones shot at various parts of his body.

"Good armor is the third life of an adventurer, and the second life is a weapon! ——An ancient motto engraved on the bulletin board in the guild, and there is a vaguely next sentence, most of which have been blurred."

The defense of most good armor equipment depends on the thickness of the raw material. If you just want to use a piece of wood or the fur of an unknown animal to make an armor with amazing defense, it is impossible. Even the spell "Mage Armor" follows the most basic conservation of magic power, not to mention the material conversion that is countless times longer than the duration of the spell.

Due to the fame of the Edith family in recent days, most people in Palermo who are close to the aristocratic circle have smelled the change of wind direction, so Woody's leather armor production has not been troubled too much, and even Much faster than he imagined.

On the third morning after he and Verando went to the tailor shop.

Woody then received the small wooden box from Cromwell, inside which was a set of tailor-made leather armor with a color close to black.

Its shape is not so much like the adventurer's attire put together by Kuhaha mercenaries, this set of leather armor is closer to the exquisite hunting attire worn by noble children. In addition to the thick texture, the sleeves and trouser legs are also thickened. It has a gorgeous pattern, and because it is the skin of the shark lizard, the fabric is smoother than the cloth, like high-grade silk, which looks full of high-end.

There are also a pair of mountain boots, a pair of sharkskin gloves, and a hooded shark-lizard cape of the same standard in the wooden box. There is also an additional item that Woody did not mention, but the most popular style of denim in the aristocratic circle. The hat should be pieced together from leftover materials, and it can be said to be extremely thoughtful.

Moreover, this speed and efficiency are astonishingly fast. In previous lives, they could only be enjoyed in cities with extremely high prestige.

In Woody's retina, the attributes of this armor made of shark lizard skin soon appeared.

——"+1 Shark Lizard Animal Leather Armor."

——"Item Effect: After wearing it, gain +3 defense, and due to the smooth movement of the shark-lizard animal skin, when facing grappling, breaking free, and passing through narrow obstacles, the extra immunity value will be increased by +1."

——"The shark lizard can move quickly through the compacted land like a fish, and jump up high without any effort. Many people think that its skin is very important in this, I don't know if it is right , but it can indeed sell for a good price. —— "In a word, let your adventure never miss good things!""

Woody was a little surprised when he looked at the attributes. Not to mention that the defense of +3 is almost comparable to light armor of the same level. It can resist the arrow damage of ordinary militiamen, and it also comes with grappling and breaking free, which is equivalent to solidifying the leather armor. Although the effect of "Grease" is not as strong as that of spells, but in the face of some snakes or monsters that can use entanglement and grapple, this leather armor can save some poor adventurers a bottle of adventure smear "Grease" on armor.

Pretty good!
Even with Woody's eyes, he is impeccable. After all, you get what you pay for, and the materials are there. Being able to produce such high-quality leather armor is enough to satisfy him.

Since the apprentice from the tailor shop was still waiting for his feedback outside the manor, Woody tried it on and moved around. After feeling no discomfort at all, he asked Cromwell to tell the waiting apprentice , I have no opinion, no need to modify.

After all, this set of leather armor was completely made according to his current size, without considering various factors such as growing taller and getting fatter in the future, and it fit perfectly.

However, Woody didn't indulge in the equipment he just got for long. He quickly took off the hunting suit and put it away, and began to complete the unfinished shrine last night with all his heart.

Now the outline of the natural shrine is clear, and most of the details on it are decent. It can be said that it is already a semi-finished product. Now that the lines are drawn, it can even be directly turned into a finished product.

In the past few days, except for a short sleep and going to the alchemy room to process the commissioned herbs and monster materials, he spent most of his time on this, so he naturally wanted to keep improving.

Soon, when the No.12 bell in Palermo rang, a dainty oak statue appeared on a desk littered with bone waste.

——"Sculpture is successful."

——"After several days and nights of careful polishing, your sculpture skills have been improved, and you have comprehended the skill "focus"."

——"Sculpture +2, Concentration +1."

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"Focus!"

Woody was slightly taken aback, that's okay, but then he thought of the day and night of these days, and he understood,
This is a necessary skill for mages, not only because concentration can effectively improve the player's reading speed and learning efficiency, but also the level of concentration is linked to the success rate of casting spells. Many mages' super magic feats require super high concentration.

For example, the reason why most mages cannot wear light armor or even heavy armor to fight like warriors is because the burden of heavy armor on the body makes them unable to concentrate on casting spells with peace of mind, which affects the success rate. The elves are naked when casting spells and important ceremonies. In their mouths, this is called the beauty of nature and innocence, which can effectively improve concentration and greatly increase the success rate of the ceremony.

However, it was gradually replaced by more effective magical artifacts, but such characteristics were still inherited in rituals to please the gods.

For example, there is a god called "Dark Maiden" in the plane of Terra. This is a rare kind god believed by drow on the surface. The teaching is to protect all weak and weak people with a long sword in his hand. He also has the identity of Luo, the Queen of the Spider God. Si's daughter.

And his believers like to be naked under the moonlight, waving the long sword in their hands, and praise this noble lady who liberated the drow from the ground, because they think this can best make the song of the drow , dance, swordsmanship, moonlight, and the goddess of beauty feel their piety and belief.

However, as the retina's data was flushed, Woody's attention quickly turned to another matter.

The freshly baked one in his hand is a natural shrine made from the skull of a shark-lizard beast.

With the orderly arrangement, the azure blue data with neat fonts appeared in the retina in an orderly manner.

——"+1 natural shrine."

——"Item effect: When placed under a forest, the singing speed when praying to nature is increased by 3%, the idle slot of the spirit hunting oath is +1, and your will will get an extra +[-] immunity value near the shrine."

——"The demon hunters who offer sacrifices will, under the watchful eyes of nature, take up the weapons in their hands and fight for their beliefs in accordance with the oath for thousands of years! —— "History of Demon Hunters""

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"Whoo~"

Looking at the attributes of the shrine, Woody finally breathed a sigh of relief, the hard work these days was finally not in vain.

With this natural shrine of excellent quality or above, at least he can add three replacement slots in addition to the slot for the spirit hunting oath every two levels, although compared to various complex and difficult battles The factors are a little less.

But for him who just opened three slots at the fourth level of the Spirit Hunting Oath, he is already very good. You must know that he originally thought that he would be successful if he could only have one free slot, but now he has three, which is far beyond Woody. expected.

After the matter of the shrine came to an end, Woody's time was freed up. After all, although the process of potion is complicated, most of the time is in the process of brewing and accumulating. His fragmentation time is actually quite a lot, and Taking advantage of this gap, Woody also had time to go to the blacksmith's shop to check the progress of the curved knife that he gave to the blacksmith's shop before leaving.

……

When entering Wagner's blacksmith shop again, except for the warmth that is rarely seen in winter.The knocking of the hammer and anvil was endless.

Compared to the winter attire worn by passers-by who wanted to cover their faces together, the blacksmith Wagner still looked like summer, with his upper body naked, and was concentrating on beating a long iron bar that was fixed and already had the outline of a machete.

The iron bar is bright red, obviously it has just been roasted at high temperature. Most metals have extremely high melting points, so they can only be forged in a high temperature environment. Every strike brings countless sparks.

Woody, who has asked others to customize and manufacture weapons countless times, and even forged weapons by himself, naturally knows that it has been almost a week, and the curved sword in front of him has also reached the stage of "scraping and pondering" in the second half of casting. stage, the purpose is to make this material closer to the proportion of the drawing given to him by Woody and to make the surface smooth and smooth, in preparation for the next step of "hardening and sharpening".

Generally speaking, if this step is achieved, it will not take long for the weapon to take shape.

……

Because of his concentration, Wagner didn't notice Woody's entry, and he was still the most industrious gardener with a dull head, building this curved sword mixed with various rare ores and materials.

Until he proudly raised the polished curved knife in his hand, he was the only one left to install the hilt and sharpen the blade, and blew a whistle.

"As expected of Wagner's heir! Another extraordinary weapon!"

After discovering Woody's arrival, Wagner, who had a strong desire for performance, couldn't wait to show him the machete.

However, Woody didn't show satisfaction, but was a little confused, because while observing Wagner forging weapons, he found that this blacksmith shop seemed to lack a very important process.

——"Quenching."

The so-called quenching is to put the beaten weapon on the fire to burn red, and then immediately dip it in cold water to let it cool down suddenly.Repeat this several times, and the weapon will become tough and flexible. The enchantment properties of many weapons are added layer by layer during quenching.

Woody told Wagner his doubts, and the steely man shook his head and said.

"I haven't heard what is called quenching?"

"Is it a forging process from another area?"

"Well, this increases the flexibility of the weapon and also makes it tougher."

Woody didn't intend to hide his secrets, he was building his own weapon, so naturally he had to make it perfect.

But what he didn't expect was that his words made the blacksmith in front of him fall into a state of silence, and he just sat there blankly, looking at the unfinished curved sword in his hand, as if he was thinking.

Just when Woody thought he hadn't understood and was about to tell it again.

Wagner suddenly said something.

- "I see! I finally understand!"

Wagner looked suddenly enlightened, and his eyes were quite excited. After all, this is a problem that has troubled him for many years, why his weapons are always not up to his satisfaction.

After more than ten years of hard work, he never expected to wake up because of the words of an adventurer.

——"Don't worry, everything is on me!"

This time, the way Wagner looked at Woody was no longer the transactional gesture as before, but a sincere thank you from the heart.

(End of this chapter)