People in the Ark, Dimensional Blacksmith

"Need." Jeanna moved her arm lightly: "But Soros can choose the price himself - he can directly consume the same kind of metal equal to the quality of his parts when assimilating, or directly consume the assimilated metal." parts.

"And I'm the latter."

Jeanna told the truth that is difficult to understand only by superficial observation. Her arm is no longer simply sealed in metal, but actually turned into metal.

This kind of process is horrifying, and what is revealed between the lines is also the pain of bruising.

"Soros assimilated my arm with red source crystals. This metal can interfere with the stability of origin stone skills, and such a number of red source crystals can already make me a disabled person who cannot use skills."

Silber raised his head to look at Jeanna, then reached out his hand to pick up the strands of hair hanging from her shoulders, and looked towards her neck.

He looked at the needle hole on Jeanna's neck, and asked softly, "Is it a heavy metal metabolism drug?"

Jeanna shook her head: "High-concentration analgesics, I have checked a retired royal doctor, these metals have already participated in my internal circulation, not only will not diffuse heavy metals, but will also automatically absorb them in the body Heavy metals are accumulated in the hands."

Her metal arm didn't look in harmony with her upper arm. Originally, Silber thought it was the result of metal infusion, but now it seemed that it was just the multiplication of the absorbed heavy metal.

But Jean Na's words also revealed another terrifying thing.

Silber raised his hand to cover Jeanna's eyes, and then tapped her right index finger joint with his knuckles: "I'm tapping where is your arm now?"

"The second joint of the index finger of your right hand, by the way, you can use a little more force. I just feel a little itchy there, and I haven't scratched it for a long time."

Jeanna's joking words could not conceal the reality that she could still feel her metalized arm, and her perception had been alienated, so that she needed an analgesic to suppress it.

Because metals do not self-proliferate, microorganisms and even normal reactions will consume the metal itself. For Jeanna, this kind of consumption is keratin shedding for normal humans, which is tantamount to having countless bugs Lie on every corner of the arm, and then began to devour his own flesh.

This kind of pain, even a person who is no longer afraid of pain, cannot bear it.

"A good news or a bad news, which one do you want to hear first?"

Silber moved the magnifying glass away from his eyes, sat down in front of Jeanna and asked.

Jeanna didn't even think about it, and answered directly: "Bad news, I always like to hear sad things first."

"Well, the bad news is that it's been harder than I expected to do the renovation and it may take more time to prepare."

Jeanna waved her hand, looking indifferent: "I've waited long enough, I don't care about this, so what's the good news? Bring it here."

From the storage cabinet under his workbench, Silber took out a piece and Jeanne's arm

The exact same Chiyuan crystal, he held it up in front of his eyes, and said quickly:

"The good news is that your future fingers will still have any of the same senses, although it will take some time to get used to your fingers without muscles and skin; another good news is: although you have lost your Originium skills, you will Gain new abilities.

"Have you ever heard of... Fantasy Killer?"

The craftsman showed a slight smile: "Both of your arms will have the ability to break the Originium technique."

Jeanne was taken aback for a moment, and then showed the same smile as Hilber.

At this moment, she understood the meaning of the other party's words.

"Then tell me, if I directly break up Soros's Originium skills when he uses his assimilation skills~"

Hilber's face straightened immediately: "Then you can recommend him to me then, so that I can earn money for a second palm."

Jeanna immediately rolled her eyes at him, but the smile on her face couldn't be stopped no matter what.

And what could be more delightful than revenge with a broken tooth and double repayment?

"By the way, due to the activation properties of your arm, I need to call a doctor to install [Eternal Violet] on you."

Silber stretched his waist, stood up and prepared to open the shop and start the day's work: "Her medical skills are at the forefront of the world today, and only she can guarantee the success rate of your surgery, but her practice of medicine is never cheap. You have to be mentally prepared to be cheated by her."

The Princess of Gaul's face turned down again: "But I really don't have any money with me..."

"I don't like your pretending to be pitiful, but don't worry, that doctor is the same as me. What she pursues is not money in the normal sense."

Silber pushed open the window of the smithy to let the sunlight in.

"What she will ask for is your contribution to this era."

"The era...is contributing to the flames?" Jeanna was a little puzzled, and it was the first time she had come into contact with the concept of this kind of compensation: "Then who is this doctor?"

Silber thought for a while, but it seemed that he couldn't find a famous title to put on the doctor's head, so he could only sigh and say the doctor's name.

"You can call her Dr. Kelsey."

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Chapter 14 Newborns

"Dr. Kelsey..."

This is a name that is relatively unfamiliar to Jeanna. Even as the princess of Gaul, there are still too many unknowns when facing this world.

However, the profession of a doctor is quite respected in this land where Originium disease is rampant. After all, to be able to practice medicine in such a chaotic area, even a quack doctor must be quite capable.

Otherwise, it is easy to be beaten to death by those deceived patients. For the same reason, even a normal doctor must have some self-defense strength.

Because in this terminally ill wholesale land, the relationship between doctors and patients has shown two extremes, and it is impossible to expect all patients to have a very high quality.

Originally, Rangna was unwilling to believe how superb the medical skills of this doctor called Kelsey was, because after being persecuted by the Blood Rose Grand Duke, she also went to the royal family's physician.

Although the various ministers had already started to stand in line at that time, after all, the doctors were benevolent, and there were still a large number of highly skilled imperial doctors who remained neutral. Some doctors even learned about Rang Na through their colleagues. , and took the initiative to come to the door, not afraid of the possibility of being targeted by Grand Duke Blood Rose in the future.

However, none of these imperial doctors found a cure, not even a means to suppress Rang Na's pain.

In the end, they could only continue to inject Rangna with analgesics to relieve the bone-biting feeling, and judging from the current state, this method can only be said to be better than nothing.

Under such circumstances, Jeanna is destined not to expect to trust a doctor she has never heard of. A tenured professor in the school?

But since she is a doctor who can cooperate with Silber, Jeanna still gives her a certain amount of trust.

In this aspect, it can be regarded as a manifestation of soft power. If Silber could not easily crack the detonator and produce such a quality war machine design, then Jeanna would not trust Silber too much. introduce.

And now, when Jeanna is thinking about things, she will also subconsciously think about one more premise—this is what was recommended by Silber, and it is endorsed by an authority.

Although Silber is not yet a recognized authority.

This topic ended soon. Rang Na, who was excited about the existence of Titans, didn't have much curiosity about the doctor. She just changed the topic after a brief understanding.

Silber also followed the other party's words and asked some things about the Gaul front line.

In fact, Silber doesn't care about the siege that Gaul is currently trapped in. The existence of the Anti-Gallic Alliance has not only appeared in recent years. This alliance even existed during the Fourth Uca War Take shape.

Gaul's strong strength and overwhelming desire for external expansion made its surroundings

Neighboring countries have always maintained a high degree of vigilance against it, and in those more distant years, Gaul had annexed many cities and territories of neighboring countries. Under such a major premise, the surrounding countries joined forces It is also a matter of course to target Gaul.

But the problem is that the people in this alliance are not so unanimous. Not to mention the feud between Ursas and Casimir, even Victoria has a certain feud with Letania.

It is conceivable that unless Gaul set off another wave of aggression, the alliance will still maintain the existing loose structure, and will fight among themselves from time to time.

Of course, this does not mean that the top military leaders of those countries are people who cannot see the overall situation clearly. At least those marshals and generals still have absolute dominance in the country-to-country sand table. After they find an excellent opportunity, Regardless of the opinions of the domestic doves, they brazenly launched a war against Gaul.

Moreover, when the flames of war are ignited, other countries in the alliance will also show a tacit understanding that they don't need words at that time.

Right now, this excellent time seems to be advancing little by little.

But until that opportunity comes, countries will maintain their current chaos.

What Silber cares about is also a corner of this chaotic situation.

"You said before that you came from the west of Gaul, so do you know the current situation of the war on the Western Front?"

The craftsman asked, and Jeanna heard something unusual in his tone: "Do you have relatives on the Western Front?"

Silber shook his head and vetoed, "It's not a relative, it's just one of my students participating in the battle there."

"Gauls?"

"Victorian."

Jeanna raised her head slightly, she was not particularly clear about Silber's origin, and the answer given by Silber now can be regarded as an answer to this question from the side.

"When I left my original city, new troops had begun to be mobilized to the cities on the Western Front. As far as I know, the Victorians are now fighting the Ursas, and the fighting is quite fierce, but there is no Drag other countries down."

Jeanna recalled what she saw and heard at the time, and then said with a tone of uncertainty: "It's just that I can't say whether these troops are a cover-up. Over the years, the nobles have often mobilized troops on various defense lines, but in the end It will not be ordered to participate in the war.

"But one thing I'm sure of is that half of the transfers of these troops are made by the generals to ask for military expenses."

When Jeanne said this, she used an undisguised mocking tone: "My ancestors built iron cavalry for this country. On the battlefield, these iron cavalry can overwhelm Victoria's steam armored soldiers; The firepower of the Sass heavy artillery, confronting their famous Wendigo Corps; can tear apart the rain of natural disasters summoned by the Letania Warlock Brigade.

"And now, the descendants of those marshals have become self-respecting warlords. The current marshal, Grand Duke Blood Rose, is involved in the power struggle within the royal family, and other nobles are planning to set aside land for self-government. They are like blood-sucking worms, eating It is the vitality of this empire—do you know how high the military budget is now?"

Silber shook his head. In Victoria, the army's budget has always been tight, and the upper-class nobles have always maintained great restraint in dividing the budget in batches. At the highest point, it was only about 3.3%.

"10%, last year's military budget accounted for one-tenth of the total expenditure."

Jeanna raised a finger, and said the figure that shocked people like Silber who didn't know much about military expenditures:

"A large amount of the economy has been swallowed up by the army, but it has not been converted into real combat power. Gaul is now using its past heritage to support the current situation, but such persistence will not last long.

"The brain drain is getting worse, the construction of people's livelihood has been suspended for a long time, the warlords are gradually gaining momentum, and the soldiers on the front line can't even use the armor just produced this year."

The Gallic princess grinned, revealing a ferocious smile: "After understanding all this, I realized that I have never hated this country so much."

Silber raised his eyebrows lightly: "Aren't you going to save it?"

"Save? Ha! This country is not worth saving." Jeanna knocked on each other with her hands, and the arms that turned into metal made a dull sound: "Everything I have witnessed and experienced in the past few years has been told. For me, being a tinkerer, tinkering around the country is a stupid thing to do.

"I'm going to burn all the old things in this country, and build new things on the ashes.

"And at that point, I'm going to give that new baby a big name.

"Call it—France."

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Chapter 15 Spark

Countless possibilities are finalized at this moment, no matter what the future is, but at least Gaul has once again entered the doomed ending from this moment.

And such an ending is also a choice made by the country itself.

Jeanna seldom talks about erratic possibilities, because for a person like her who is constantly hit by reality, it is too much like a fairy tale that is so beautiful that it is disgusting.

but maybe at the moment

Unable to restrain the excitement in her heart, perhaps in order to shorten the relationship between herself and Silber, after naming the new country she wanted to create, she said in a slightly joking tone: