In theory, a senior blacksmith can take on three apprentices, but there are more than three busy players and NPCs in the shop. Coupled with the customers haggling on the side, the small blacksmith shop is already overcrowded.
"Hello guest, do you want to buy equipment or forge equipment?"
Sherlock squeezed for a long time and finally came to the counter. A lovely female elf asked gently.
There is actually no difference in appearance between NPCs and players in the game. Without skills, they can only be distinguished by their behavior and speech.
Although the female elf in front of me is very similar, an elf actually comes to work in a dwarf's blacksmith shop. When you think about it, you know that only players can do it.
Gold coins in Forgotten Realm are equivalent to real-life credits, so many people will also work in some shops in the game, or do some part-time jobs. If you work harder, you may not necessarily earn less than outside.
"I want to find Master Thorin!"
"Do you have an appointment?"
The elf girl's words made Sherlock question him. He never expected that he would have to make an appointment to meet an NPC. But when he thought about it carefully, it seemed quite normal. Since they had this rule, it was not easy for him to break it. He would wait a while.
Wait a while.
"Okay, help me make an appointment."
"Okay, please pay 100 gold coins first."
Well, he also said that he could barely accept the setting of paying for reservations. In reality, a senior blacksmith could be considered a senior engineer, so it was normal to charge a reservation fee.
"Let me ask how many people are in front of me."
"Let me take a look. There are 172 more in front of you. You can..."
Sherlock was just about to confirm the transaction when he heard this and quickly took the money back. If all 172 were used to build equipment, it would definitely not be his turn for seven or eight days.
And according to Newt, this NPC is going to play Hearthstone in the afternoon. With the character of the dwarves, you can't expect them to come back in the evening to continue building equipment.
Hearthstone, drinking, fighting, and forging. In their eyes, forging equipment is far less interesting than the first three.
"Friends, you have to pay for the tickets." A male elf suddenly came over and said: "I have a number 72 here. It will be there in two days. If you can't wait, I don't have any numbers ahead of me.
"
Why does this line sound so familiar to Sherlock? When did the scalper industry develop into games?
"Friend, No. 72 is only 1,100. This is a price that only I, Hongkou Asan, can afford. Let me tell you a little tidbit for free. This NPC can create excellent equipment."
1100 can buy a piece of fine equipment. He really wants to poke the elf in front of him and ask him if your conscience hurts.
Sherlock would never spend this kind of unjust money. It's not a question of whether it's worth it. The key is that it will make him very unhappy. Well, the key is that he can't part with it.
After rejecting the scalper's repeated promotions, he came to the elf girl again. There was no butcher Zhang, and he stopped eating pigs with hair on them.
"Sister, can you send a message to Master Thorin? Just say that I have just hatched a blue-feathered bird-snake. He should know."
"Sorry, guest, according to the rules, I am not responsible for delivering messages." The female elf player smiled and said sorry, adding an extra accent to the word "rules."
"I understand the rules, is this enough?"
"I am a very principled person."
"What about this?"
"Master Thorin is receiving two guests. I will make him angry if I enter without permission."
"This is my bottom line."
"Okay, just wait, right?" The female elf grabbed the gold coins on the counter and walked towards the room behind her.
Look at this, this is not the first time this person has done this kind of thing. It took a total of 100 gold coins to make the other party willing to help him spread the news. The money was so profitable that it made Sherlock want to work in the service industry.
.
But it's a pity that he doesn't have the capital either in reality or in the game. With his charm, if he walked directly into Thorin's forging room, he would definitely be blasted out with a hammer.
After a while, the female elf came out again and said with a curious face: "What exactly is the blue-feathered bird snake? As soon as Thorin, a perverted old man, heard this, he asked me to let you in immediately, even half-made
I almost didn’t care about the staff.”
At this moment, the female elf completely took off her polite mask.
"Guess!" Sherlock ignored the other party's entanglement, stooped and walked into the forging room.
The structure of the blacksmith shop is similar to that of a pharmacy. The outermost facade is where the products are displayed, and slightly inside is a hall. This is where the apprentices build. Inside is the owner of the shop, Thorin's forge and life.
District.
As for the forging rooms opened by players, they are all in the folding space and do not actually exist.
When Sherlock walked in, he saw two snake eyes floating in the air, surrounded by spell lines. As a dwarf chanted, the two were slowly merging.
Although he has never seriously learned blacksmithing, holding a hammer against a piece of metal is the way of forging in his impression. If this situation occurs, there is only one explanation, and that is that the other party is forging magic equipment.
According to the game background, magic equipment refers to equipment with spells. To explain, spells are a type of skill, but skills are not the same as spells.
Magical equipment sounds mysterious, but it is easier said than done.
Theoretically speaking, a magic prop can be formed by permanently imprinting a required spell into the same container using magic constancy. However, during the forging process, two or more magical energies must be controlled at the same time. For the forger's forging
There are extremely high requirements for level and magic control.
Unfortunately, the dwarves, including their blood relatives, who are best at forging, have no talent in magic, while the elves, who are born wizards, have no interest in forging.
Therefore, half of the blacksmiths, tailors, and craftsmen who are good at magic equipment in Faerûn are almost half-human halflings.
Unexpectedly, I had joked about the dwarf mage before, and now I have actually encountered it. Although the other party may only be able to imprint second- and third-level spells, but with the unique forging technology of the dwarves, the magic equipment created is definitely better than that of humans.
ah.
This made Sherlock attach more importance to this NPC. Newt's statement that his skills were good seemed to be an understatement.
However, what surprised him in this forging room was more than that. Seeing those two familiar snake eyes, he already knew who the two guests the female elf was talking about were.
It was Misaka Mikoto and Shirai Kuroko who had just met and left in a hurry yesterday.
