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Chapter 679 "Hephaestus"

The largest and strongest blacksmith faction in the city, the Hephaestus family.

There is no need to explain the family's technology and level in forging. Since Finn intends to seek cooperation with the blacksmith faction, it is only natural that he would think of them.

However, there is another important reason why Finn wants to cooperate with the Hephaestus family.

That is, as a large faction with many high-level blacksmiths, the blacksmiths of the Hephaestus family not only have superb forging skills, but also have higher combat capabilities than ordinary high-level adventurers.

There is no way, if you want to become a senior blacksmith, you must learn the development ability of "forging", and the necessary condition for acquiring the development ability is to upgrade.

Under such circumstances, many blacksmiths with excellent forging skills are actually superb fighters. For example, Tsubaki, as the strongest blacksmith in the city, is a first-level adventurer at Lv.5.

Finn judged from this aspect, thinking that even if members of the Hephaestus family went to the deep level with his family, they would not easily encounter accidents and accidents, let alone hold them back.

Therefore, Finn will designate this faction.

Li Ge was well aware of these considerations.

After all, Finn made the same choice in the original book.

"........."

Li Ge thought about it, but in the end he didn't intervene in this decision.

In fact, if you only want weapons, if you want to deal with those worm-shaped monsters and the tricky corrosive liquid, now Li Ge has a lot of ways.

He can use the structural magic of Akasha Continent to make weapons. With his current magic attainments, even if the weapons he makes cannot reach the level of first-grade weapons, they will definitely not be inferior to second-grade weapons.

He can also use magic to strengthen and bless the weapons of Finn and others, and even make their weapons magical. Not only will they not be corroded by corrosive liquid, but they can also increase their power.

He can also apply protective magic to everyone, so that even if they face female-shaped monsters and worm-shaped monsters, they don't have to worry about the corrosive liquid splashed out when the monsters self-destruct, and they don't have to worry about being injured.

He can even open the [Transportation Gate] and teleport all the companions of the family to the 58th floor in one go, avoiding unnecessary battles and wasting time in the early stage.

As long as he is willing to make a move and use those rank magics that have somewhat terrifying effects in this world one by one, most of the problems during the family expedition can be solved.

But can he make a move?

At least, from Li Ge's point of view, it's best for him not to get involved in such things casually.

The reason is very simple, the expeditions and adventures of the family are not only for honor and success, but also for greater strength.

Just think about it, if Li Ge solves all the problems, how can adventurers take risks?

And if they can't take risks, how can they accumulate experience points and even the great achievements of high-level experience points?

Even if Li Ge opened the [Portal Gate] leading to the 58th floor and sent his family companions there, avoiding unnecessary fighting and wasting time in the early stage, what would be the final result?
Obviously, the low-level members of the family will lose a lot of adventure opportunities and accumulated experience points, so they will stand still.

Cadres including Burt, Tiona, Tione and other first-level adventurers, if Li Ge solves the problems they encounter with his omnipotent magic ability and successfully reaches the 59th floor, then they want to pursue Catch up with Aisi, catch up with Li Ge, and the wish to be promoted to level 6 will be completely shattered.

If it becomes like that, I am afraid that not only will Li Ge not be thanked by them, but he may even be blamed by them.

This point, when Li Ge showed [Magic Hammer], a foul-level magic that has the effect of level-upping yesterday, Finn and others also reminded him.

"Although this magic is powerful, if it is not necessary, you'd better not use it at ordinary times."

"That's right, even if you use magic to forcibly increase your power, even if you can overcome all difficulties, it will take away the possibilities you should have had."

"The adventure that would have allowed you to achieve great achievements, if you use level sublimation to easily solve it, then the advanced experience points you should get will be sharply reduced."

With years of experience and keen insight, Finn, Grace, and Riveria discovered the real drawback of [Magic Hammer].

The real drawback of this magic is not a time limit, let alone a cooling time, but it will take away the possibility of becoming stronger from those who need to take risks.

Naturally, Li Ge knew this disadvantage best.

He is now restricting himself in order to accumulate high-level experience points and achieve great achievements. If the level is not too high and the strength is too strong, why is it here?

Therefore, Li Ge naturally would not lose sight of the small, and accepted all the advice from Finn and the others, nodding in agreement.

For the same reason, he can't take away the possibility from the companions of the family now.

In view of this, Li Ge decided to stand by and watch the expedition. Even if he could easily solve various problems and make the family's expedition easier, he was not prepared to intervene and let Finn and others do these roundabout troublesome things.

On the contrary, Li Ge took out a big sack and handed it to Finn.

"This is?"

Finn was puzzled for a while, then opened the sack and saw the scene inside.

"Pfft!" Loki glanced curiously, then spit out his saliva, and shouted, "Where are so many precious stones and gold and silver treasures coming from!?"

Yes, the sack is filled with all kinds of precious stones and gold and silver treasures, making the inside of the sack emit bursts of dazzling brilliance.

"This is the reward given by the mysterious magician who entrusted Aisi and me to go to the 24th floor to solve the phenomenon of monster surge." Li Ge smiled slightly and said: "I only took two magic books, and the rest The next one is for Ais, and the rest are here."

"I discussed it with Ais, and these things will be given to the family members for the funds needed during the expedition."

"The loss caused by the failure of the last expedition was not small. This time, we have to prepare so many magic swords and non-destructive weapons. Selling these things should be able to fill some of the funding gap, right?"

Needless to say, weapons with non-destructive attributes are extremely expensive. The minimum price of each piece must be more than ten million mana, let alone a first-level product that is prepared for first-level adventurers. It takes nearly [-] million fares to buy one, but the family members are going to prepare one for almost all the cadres. Doesn't it cost nearly a billion fares?

As a special weapon capable of instant magic bombardment, the magic sword is also not cheap, and it costs millions of mana. If it is of good quality and powerful, it is a high-end product that can threaten even first-level adventurers. , if it doesn’t sell for more than tens of millions of fare, it will definitely be a big sale at a loss. However, this thing is still a consumable with a limited number of uses, and Finn is obviously planning to buy it in large quantities, so he has to throw in hundreds of millions of fare.

In addition to the other supplies, among other things, let’s talk about the most effective and highest-quality panacea. The retail price of this thing in the Dean Kite family is 50 fares a bottle. During the expedition, Loki The family members buy these things, basically in bundles...

To sum up, it is impossible for the Rocky family not to spend billions of mana on supplies and equipment for this expedition.

By the way, the main armaments of Finn, Grace, Burt and others in the last expedition were also dissolved. If it is rebuilt, it is estimated that it will cost another sum of money.

However, this is a weapon for personal use. Usually, it is not prepared with the help of the family members, but prepared by myself, so it does not need to be included in the loss of funds for the expedition.

However, even so, if the Loki family, which suffered huge losses in the last expedition, had to prepare so many supplies and consume so much money in this expedition, the family assets accumulated so far may be completely successful. Even bear huge debts.

So, when Li Ge went to Ais with the entrusted reward, Ais said, just give them to Finn for the funds needed for the expedition.

"Ooh! This is such a help!"

Understanding this, Loki danced happily.

"That's great, that's great, we thought we were going to sell collectibles this time, it's a solution to our urgent needs!"

Next to him, Finn also smiled, without refusing, and put away the sack full of gems, gold and silver.

"The members of the guild still have money, such a large amount of wealth, and they will take it out as soon as they say it. I have never seen them be so generous when they issue entrustments before."

These words are also very meaningful.

"Hmph, aren't those fellows in the guild extremely rich?" Loki snatched the sack, picked up a gem to play with, and grinned and said, "That's the only producer of magic stone products, monopoly The official organization of all the magic stone business is lacking, except money."

"Forget it, let's not talk about them." Finn shook his head, turned around, and said to Li Ge: "Since you are going to the Hephaestus family, then go with us."

"it is good."

Li Ge naturally did not have any opinions.

Immediately, the two of them left the family headquarters together and headed for Northeast Avenue.

…………

As the magic stone product manufacturing hub that Olali is proud of, Northeast Street is still the same as when Li Ge came here before. Because of the prosperity of the manufacturing industry, it is a standard male factory atmosphere in broad daylight.

Li Ge, Finn, and Loki walked on the street, talking while walking, and soon came to Chun's workshop.

Here, a person arrived early and was waiting for Li Ge and others.

"Hey! Feifei! Let's go!"

As soon as he saw that person, Loki immediately raised his hand, stretched his limbs, and greeted him vigorously.

"Long time no see, Loki."

The man also turned his head and looked this way.

She has bright red short hair, her appearance is more heroic than beautiful, she wears a big eye patch that can cover the right half of her face, and the remaining single eye is the same fiery red color as her hair , as if burning a flame, it takes your breath away.

"Long time no greeting, Goddess Hephaestus."

Finn bowed respectfully to the other party.

This one-eyed red-haired woman is the main god of the largest blacksmith faction in the city, the Hephaestus family.

She is the goddess of forging.

She is the goddess of fire.

She is Hephaestus.

"I have seen the goddess Hephaestus."

After confirming that the other party was the person (god) he was looking for, Li Ge also saluted.

"Huh?" Goddess Hephaestus looked at Li Ge, first sized Li Ge with her exposed left eye, and then seemed to see something, said: "Could it be that you are the most powerful magician in the city?" Swordsman, the new monster that the Rocky family is proud of, is that Rieger Brihott?"

The other party saw Li Ge's identity at a glance.

"You recognized it so quickly? Feifei!"

Loki giggled, as if very proud.

"Because Tsubaki mentioned him to me." Hephaestus smiled sweetly, that smile was still full of heroism, and said: "This is the child who has been praised by the head of my family and even dedicated the greatest masterpiece of his life to him. , I've long wanted to see you."

"That's right." Loki put his hands in his pockets, and said without a straight face: "This kid seems to have something to do with you, Feifei. If you don't mind, let's chat with him later."

"What do you want from me?" Hephaestus was taken aback for a moment, and asked in confusion, "What do you want to do from me?"

"Well, I'll let him talk to you later." Loki waved his hand, and asked casually, "Let's talk about business first, okay? Boy Rigg?"

"Of course." Li Ge said with a faint smile: "Let's talk about the expedition first, I can talk about my affairs anytime."

"Okay." Hephaestos could only nod, and said, "Then go in first, Tsubaki is already waiting inside."

With that said, a group of people, led by Hephaestus, walked into the workshop together.

Tsubaki's workshop is still the same as before, looking messy and disorderly.

Tsubaki himself was the same as last time, staying in the forge deep in the workshop, beating a piece of metal vigorously.

"Tsubaki, here we come."

Finn called her out, and she came back to her senses and found a group of people standing outside the forge.

However, the most powerful blacksmith in the city focused his attention on Li Ge who was at the side, and rushed over.

"You boy, finally come to my side!"

As soon as he came up, Tsubaki said such words in a very angry tone.

"...I didn't offend you, did I?"

Hearing Chun's tone and seeing Chun's attitude, Li Ge was also a little stunned.

"That's not true." Tsubaki still looked sullen, and even glared at Li Ge, saying: "But since you took away my highest masterpiece from me, for nearly two months, you have not Come here and show your face, do you know how anxious I am?"

"Even if you bring the sword here and let me sharpen it for you and maintain it, that's fine!"

"That's the best weapon I've worked so hard to create, at least let me see how it's being used!"

Tsubaki lost his temper for such a reason, causing Finn and Loki to look at each other in dismay.

"Tsubaki, you..."

Hephaestus also sighed.

"Uh……"

Li Ge was speechless for a moment.

For this reason?

It can only be said that he is worthy of being a blacksmith.

(End of this chapter)