Do you believe me when I say I’m not a dragon?

"In your career as a forger, what is the strongest metal you have ever known?"

Gulu was in a daze. He came back to his senses and looked at Rachel in front of him. He understood that what she said was completely different from what he heard, but the meaning was the same.

"...The Nirvana Stone."

After a moment of silence, Gulu replied.

The black dragon didn't speak, just stared at Gulu quietly, waiting for his next words.

"There is a metal called Nirvana Stone. It is an alloy made from the fusion of multiple metals. Because a violent reaction occurs during the forging of this alloy, people describe this scene as the nirvana of metal. Over time, it becomes It is called the Nirvana Stone by most people.”

Gulu took a deep breath and continued: "The requirements for its production process are very exaggerated. Plasticity can only be achieved during the fusion process of multiple metals. Once formed, it is difficult to reforge; but the strength is also amazing. It is said that wearing this kind of armor A person who can take a powerful blow from a natural disaster head-on."

"Oh?"

After hearing Gulu's words, the black dragon in front of him gradually became interested:

"In that case, there must be many humans who forge this kind of armor, right?"

"Very few, or rather, ridiculously few."

"why?"

"Because it is too heavy." Gulu replied: "Those who want to wear it must have the strange strength to carry the dragon on their backs and still move freely. This is really not worth the loss for hunters. Giving up flexibility for the ultimate defense will make The risk when hunting on their own increases exponentially, and because of the expensive forging steps, they are more willing to flexibly choose to use materials from beasts for targeted hunting.”

"very good."

Hearing these words, Gulu seemed to see the black dragon in front of him curl up his lips.

"——So, with your current skills, can you forge it?"

Chapter 162: Nirvana Alloy

"..."

As soon as he finished speaking, Gulu fell into a long silence. After a while, he nodded slightly, and then shook his head:

"I think I can, but I'll need a lot of forging tools... I'd like to ask, how many Nirvana Stones do you need?"

The black dragon pondered for a moment and replied casually: "Let me think about it...six years ago, didn't you offer me metal every month? Let's try ten times the amount first."

ten times?Nirvana stone?

For a moment, Gulu wondered if there was something wrong with his cognition. What he was talking about now was the Nirvana Stone, right?Aren't they some broken rocks picked up on the roadside?

"This..." Gulu was entangled for a long time. He half-opened his mouth. After a long time, he shook his head bitterly:

"If that's the case, I'm afraid there's nothing I can do about it."

"What? I said it was okay before, but now I can't?"

As soon as Heilong finished speaking, Gulu felt the other party's obvious displeasure.

Gulu felt that something was really wrong with him. At that moment, he really thought rationally about how many resources it would take to make such a quantity of nirvana stones.

"...Yes, because the materials consumed in doing so are too much..."

Before he finished speaking, Black Dragon's voice interrupted him indifferently:

"I think there's something wrong with your cognition, Gulu."

Yes, Gulu himself thought so after hearing this.

The next moment, Black Dragon's words rang out: "——What I'm asking you now is not whether you can do it, but how much I have to give you to do it."

"A lot, it really requires a lot of materials." Gulu simply gave up thinking and raised his head directly to answer: "Whether it's the manufacturing of the smelting furnace, the ultra-high temperature flames needed to forge the Nirvana Stone... or the skills that have The extraordinary talent, the time required for all the preparation steps... it’s just too much.”

After saying this, Gulu seemed to see the silence of the black dragon in front of him, and he quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

But before he could take a breath, Black Dragon's words came again:

"If I prepare all this, how long will it take?"

"...I...I don't know."

"Oh?"

"...I have never forged a Nirvana Stone before, and I only have an understanding of the steps for forging it. Without actual operation, I don't know how long it will take to complete, but I am sure that it is , the time required will be measured in years.”

"I understand." Mercer thought for a while and said, "When you go back, arrange for everyone to collect information on each position and write down all the materials needed to forge the Nirvana Stone. If there is anything missing, just tell me and report back next month. Give me."

"Now we are short of everything, and the accumulated ore has greatly slowed down our progress..." Gulu opened his mouth, trying to remind him of this.

"I know, that's why I asked you to report to me next month."

"...?"

Facing Gollum's somewhat bewildered expression, Mercer showed a slightly scary smile: "I only give you one week to prepare the container of molten iron, and the flame...I will take action myself."

......

A week later, Don Moser left the volcano and came to the mine where the blacksmiths were mining.

Since it was a newly mined cave, its volume was not very large. Even if Mercer stayed at the outermost edge of the cave, it felt a little cramped.

In front of him was a huge boiler.

Around the boiler, there are mechanisms made of iron chains for remote start, and below the boiler is a rectangular container that will later be used to hold molten iron.

Not far away, Rachel also followed with the support of Bobcat, and was present as Mercer's translator.

"For things like molten iron, it just needs to be kept at the right temperature and for the right time. It doesn't require too strong a flame..."

On the high platform nearby, Gulu explained these key points uneasily, but Mercer just glanced at him lightly, indicating that he was ready.

Seeing this, Gulu could only call for others to evacuate the cave, leaving only a few experienced blacksmiths left in it.

I have to say that this group of forging people is really powerful. In a week, they not only prepared the required containers, but also transformed the site. There is a vent with a fan above the boiler.

However, judging from the above connection, it is probably started by hand crank.

"Prepare!"

Along with Gulu's shouting, Mercer sensed that the two blacksmiths outside the cave began to turn the hand levers left and right, and then the fan at the vent began to rotate.

"That's enough, Lord Kami."

Gulu spoke, and Mercer opened his mouth, and flames spurted out, pouring into the boiler in front of him, and the flames shot out from the hole in the other direction of the boiler.

This is indeed a delicate job. Mercer cannot spit out flames as unbridled as before, but needs to control it within a range and not let the flames spill out too much.

A rolling heat wave hit us, filling the entire cave.

In the cave, the other two blacksmiths also started to turn the rocker, and the boiler in front of Mercer began to slowly rotate, driving the ore inside to rotate.

There are a lot of other substances in the boiler, the purpose is to react with the ore when the flame is burning, and only the molten iron is left after the impurities are discharged.

Gulu was the one closest to the heat wave. He wiped away his sweat and looked at the changes in the boiler. His breathing was already a little rapid.

"Smaller! Smaller!"

The flames almost melted the boiler, causing Gollum to yell in fright.

——The flame continues to burn. Fortunately, the time required to do so is not long, just one hour per furnace... But that being said, an hour of continuous spitting flames is enough for Mercer. It was a kind of burden. Although the capacity consumed by the current level of dragon breath was very small, in the long run, Mercer didn't know whether he could bear it.

woohoo-

Stopping one furnace, replacing it with new ore, and starting another furnace, Mercer breathed out flames in the continuous forging. During this period, he interrupted to go back to eat food, then returned to this place, and continued to breathe. Burning hot dragon flames.

Outside the cave, the thick snow has melted due to the high temperature inside the cave.

After going through the period from day to morning, there was still plenty of breath liquid in Mercer's body.

It was only tormenting those who stayed in the cave that Gulu had left the cave to rest three times, and the others were even more unbearable.

"This is the last furnace left..."

Gulu tiredly threw a box of ore into the boiler, leaned aside and said.

Mercer was unmoved and continued to spit out dragon flames, squeezing out the few breath liquids in his body.

——However, at this moment, the energy occupying Mercer's body suddenly changed.

Chapter 163: Ray Breath

The energy that was originally peaceful became restless and began to collide in Mercer's body.

The reason seems to be that some of the energy in the blood is affected by the breath and is taken out of the body along with the breath liquid.

This small fluctuation is like a butterfly effect, and a chain reaction occurs and begins to become manic.

"Roar--"

Mercer's pupils narrowed, and the red light in the cracks all over his body began to flash, as if it was a warning of some kind of sign.

Gulu, who was close to Mercer, naturally would not ignore this change. He looked at Mercer in surprise and felt the change in temperature in the air.

If he continued like this, he would become unknown. Mercer did not dare to take this risk and decisively closed his mouth, and the heat wave suddenly ended.The vision in front of everyone's eyes slowly recovered after a burst of white light, and the dim cave came into view.

In the darkness, only the red light on Mercer flickered unsteadily.

"God, God..."

Gulu opened his mouth cautiously, and was about to say something, but at that moment, Mercer's eyes widened and he couldn't help but open his mouth again.

Roar--

The dazzling light shone before their eyes again, and everyone who stayed in the cave couldn't help but close their eyes, with hot tears overflowing from their eyes.

Only this time, what spewed out from Mercer's mouth was no longer dragon flame, but a translucent red stream, which almost bombarded the boiler in front of him in the form of rays. As for what kind of material that stream was, everyone present No one knows.

"Roar!"

People can only hear the low roar of the black dragon, the sound of the rushing water, and the sound that seems to have penetrated something, coming from the ground.

boom boom boom...

This unexpected breath did not last long. When the light in the cave dimmed again, Mercer also closed his mouth and blew out streams of hot white smoke from the gaps between his teeth.

From the bright light and rumbling sound to the dead silence, only a blink of an eye passed. Everyone stared blankly in the direction of the boiler, but they had already disappeared. They only saw a huge pothole suddenly appearing in the black dragon. In front of you.

But the black dragon's mouth was hot and charred, and steam was constantly coming out.The originally glowing red cracks on his body have dimmed a lot, but if you observe carefully enough, you can still see that the light is gradually recovering.

Staring at the deep hole in front of him, Mercer was stunned for a moment, and finally looked at the people around him.

He withdrew his gaze, left the cave as if nothing had happened, and looked at Rachel.

"Ah..." She then reacted and said to Gulu and others: "God told me that He accidentally failed to control his power and let you continue the next work."

After saying that, Mercer climbed up the snow mountain and left here.

"...Okay, okay."

Looking at the traces in front of him, Gulu swallowed and could only nod his head.

He was habitually preparing to stroke his beard, but then he realized that his beard had been burnt under such high temperature.

After a moment of panic, the rest of the forging people entered the cave and gathered around the pit, looking at the scenery and whispering.

"What an amazing power."

"I'm afraid it didn't even penetrate the mountain..."

"It seems like it can accommodate people inside?"

......

On the other side, Mercer returned to the volcano, half-opening his mouth, revealing his charred mouth.

Under that blow, Mercer felt that his throat and even mouth were burned.

Thinking back to the breath of energy just now, Mercer still feels scared.

If an attack of this magnitude were released directly within the body...

Feeling some calm energy in his body, Mercer controlled the acceleration of the cells in his mouth.

He began to recall the reason for the accident just now.

All the reasons must be attributed to that energy. Everywhere in his body is invaded by this energy. In other words, that energy exists with his body as a carrier and constantly affects his body.

Every muscle, organ, and blood in Mercer's body contains that energy, as does the breath liquid.

Therefore, after the breath liquid is consumed to a certain extent, it will be like a spinning top shaking violently at the moment before it falls. Part of the energy that has lost the breath liquid as a carrier begins to restless, and along with other parts of the energy, it begins to be active in Mercer's body. got up.