Unlike in the morning when the Iron Breakers used their shields to smash the wooden door into pieces, this time the door was directly blown into powder. It was obvious that this was the effect of the runes.
Seeing the figure gradually emerging from the smoke and dust formed by the broken wooden door, Snorri thought to himself
"Damn it, is this the legendary bombardment? This door panel is too pitiful. I have to change it to an iron one. No, no, no, a meteorite door will be right! It also needs to be engraved with master-level solidity.
Rune!"
As the smoke gradually dissipated, Snorri also stopped thinking in his mind. Standing at the door was a dwarf with extremely distinctive appearance.
His beard has been dragged to the ground, but it seems to be a bit withered due to lack of maintenance. His eyebrows have dropped to the level of his nose, and his thin face is covered with wrinkles caused by time.
His remaining hair was tied up casually with a ring. His upper body was naked and he only wore an apron. His withered muscles were exposed. His lower body was covered by a beard that covered the floor, but he could tell that he wore a pair of trousers to block the heat of the stove.
I bought some insulating pants, and I looked like I had come straight from the workshop with this outfit.
In dwarf society, the older the dwarves are, the more they pay attention to respectability in cities or settlements.
A well-groomed and well-maintained beard, comfortable and decent clothing, jewelry that can properly show your financial strength but it is best not to have too much copper smell - compared to gold necklaces, gemstone rings, etc., those that are not bright in color but have runes engraved on them
more popular.
If a young dwarf is disheveled and disheveled, it can be assumed that he is working tirelessly to build a career and has no time to tidy up his appearance.
But if an old dwarf still makes himself like this, it is like telling the tribe that this guy did not work hard when he was young, neither accumulated wealth nor mastered skills, but wasted his time. If he has children,
Since dwarf women only account for half of the male population, it is difficult for an unsuccessful male dwarf to have a chance to marry and have children, and his heirs will also be humiliated.
However, these conventional judgment standards do not seem to apply to the slovenly old dwarf in front of him.
As the saying goes, "An expert can see the door, and an outsider can see the excitement." Both insiders and laymen can easily feel his extraordinaryness.
For a dwarf like Snorri who has mastered the power of runes, the old dwarf in front of him is almost the embodiment of rune magic in the mortal world. The surging rune energy in his body is constantly emitting to the surroundings like a beacon in the dark night.
Shining light.
As he approached, Snorri felt that the runic energy in his body became more active, and the charging speed of the runes carved on the surrounding objects also accelerated.
For dwarves who have not mastered the ability of runes, the objects in the old dwarf's hands are enough to attract attention.
He held a huge forging hammer in his right hand, and a relatively rare item in his left hand - a rune totem.
The rune totem looks like a cross, with various rune letters engraved on it. It can be used to carry runes densely, making it easy to store and use. However, due to the difficulty in making and almost no one using it, such items are almost
It only exists in legends.
This is because for most rune blacksmiths, it is good if the runes they master can be used to engrave all their weapons and equipment.
According to the rules of rune magic, each item can carry up to three runes. It is not difficult to accommodate more than twenty runes in one piece of equipment, from helmets to boots and accessories.
For rune masters who have mastered master-level runes, although each piece of equipment can only carry one master-level rune, if there are duplicate master-level runes in a piece of equipment, their effects will cancel each other out.
In most cases, the master-level runes mastered by a rune master cannot fill all of his equipment.
Even if the rune reserve is really extensive enough, it would be a more convenient and affordable option to carve rarely used seals on the anvil of doom.
Observing the forging hammer that blasted his door to pieces with one blow, Snorri understood that this was a truly legendary weapon.
"Hammer of the Harsh!" he muttered to himself.
In this world, the quality of weapons and equipment is generally divided into five levels:
The first level of ordinary quality is used by ordinary human soldiers. For the dwarves, a race famous for their forging skills, no one will use such things. They have a unified name among the dwarves - garbage;
The second level of fine quality is the steel armor equipped by ordinary dwarf warriors. Miners and dwarf warriors who are temporarily recruited will use them. For the human empire, only the elites of the level of great swordsmen and Rick Guards are required.
Opportunity to wear;
The third level of rare equipment is often made of meteorite, or high-quality weapons engraved with runes. The high-level dwarven units such as Ironbreaker Warriors and Hammer Guards will equip them, and some wealthy bearded dwarves will
You may also have equipment of this level. Only the empire's generals or demi-griffon knights are eligible to equip it.
The fourth level of equipment is called Jingjue. This level can be regarded as a treasure whose value cannot be measured by money. In dwarven society, they are made of master-level runes that are commonly found on meteorite equipment.
In Snorri's memory, the master strength runes and master strike runes often appear on weapons, or the master meteorite runes or master resistance runes often appear on armor.
Such equipment is often in the hands of dwarf commanders at the level of clan leaders or fortress lords. In the human empire, only the twelve rune teeth passed down by the electors as a symbol of power and a few enchanted equipment by the elven archmage reach this level.
reached this level.
The most exquisite equipment is called legend. These weapons and their users can almost leave their own stories in the long history.
For dwarves, only the master-level runes and the two ordinary runes that serve as auxiliary enhancements can be called legends if they work well together.
However, since almost all raw materials that can carry 1+2 rune combinations are unique, even if they are based on the same master-level rune, the rune combination that can achieve the best effect is not fixed and needs to be determined according to the equipment.
Adjust the original material. This requires rich experience and a certain amount of luck.
Most of this equipment was produced by the ancestor gods during the golden age of the dwarves, and only a small part was made by the most outstanding rune masters.
Many dwarf castles only have one or two pieces as heritage treasures, and only the most powerful dwarf castles have the conditions to arm their strongest warriors with a set of legendary equipment.
In human society, the hammer Gal-Malaz, which is a symbol of the imperial power of the emperor, is in this category. The rest may only be some powerful gods who can bestow sporadically on their believers through divine grace.
The Hammer of the Harsh, as the name suggests, is a weapon tailor-made for himself by Krag the Harsh. This is his most famous work.
The Krag rune on the hammer's surface, the head of the hammer, and the two runes on the hammer's handle complement each other. Not to mention the wooden door, even the meteorite iron will be shattered with one blow.
