Earth Player chapter 29

 Irish Town (11) 

Interest is the best teacher for learning!

     After noting down the address of the training ground of the Wild Wolf Mercenaries, Ye Mo and Captain Hook parted ways, leaving the mercenary street and coming to the Magic Chamber of Commerce, which is also quite famous in the Irish town.

     The castle of the Magic Chamber of Commerce is different from the magnificent Mercenary Association. It is built entirely of dark red stone, with magic patterns of different meanings engraved from the inside to the outside, looking delicate and mysterious.

     The nature of the Chamber of Commerce is also different from that of the Magician Association. Not only magicians and magic apprentices come and go here, but anyone with crystal coins and gold coins can buy any magic item here.

     There are also many high-level Goblin craftsmen products here, which are more ornamental than practical.

     Ye Mo walked around the spacious castle.

     She saw many magic items or weapons that she wanted to buy but couldn't afford. The most attractive one was the alchemical puppet, which could talk, work and fight. It was the pinnacle of every mechanic's dream.

     I really wanted to disassemble the alchemical puppet to see how it was different from modern artificial intelligence. Unfortunately, they are quite expensive!

     You can only take a look and enjoy your eyes.

     The Chamber of Commerce's purchase price for Magic Beast Crystal Cores is the same, 1st-level Magic Beast Crystal Cores are between 10 silver coins and 15 silver coins, 2nd-level Magic Beast Crystal Cores are doubled in price, and 3rd-level Magic Beast Crystal Cores are tripled on the basis of 2nd-level.

     After a round of bargaining, Ye Mo's 11 Magic Beast Crystal Cores were exchanged for a total of 4 gold coins and 18 silver coins, and this is also the price obtained because the Mini Fox Core is relatively uncommon.

     By the way, there are still 20 silver coins and 98 copper coins left in my pocket, which seems to be a rich man again.

     With the blessing of 3 3rd-level Magic Beast Crystal Cores and 1 2nd-level Magic Beast Crystal Core, this is much more than Ye Mo originally estimated.

     What is the next task?

     According to the original plan-

     First, if the safety factor outside the Magic Beast Forest is within an acceptable range, go up by yourself.

     Second, if the safety factor outside the Warcraft Forest is out of control, go back to the Goblins to work and earn gold coins, and then cooperate with the mercenary group, repeating many times until the mission is completed.

     Now completely exclude the first possibility, the danger factor outside the Magic Beast Forest is N times higher than she imagined.

     The second plan is not able to keep up with the changes. The destruction of the system-produced fire axe is an unplanned variable. The current fire axe is only equivalent to an ordinary sword worth 10 silver coins.

     Completely useless.

     Is it a big profit to have the reward of "4 gold coins, 30 silver coins, and 98 copper coins"?

     Illusion!

     Serious illusion!

     The attributes of the fire axe are scrapped. Ye Mo wandered around the Chamber of Commerce and found many suitable swords, even stronger than the fire axe, but she couldn't afford it, and those that could be afforded were not good enough.

     The main difficulty is still the size problem. There are really very few weapons suitable for goblins. Master Ian's dagger is the most expensive weapon on her, but the dagger cannot replace the long sword.

     This wave of comparison is still a loss.

     But there is always a way out. Compared with going back to continue working as a coolie, "4 gold coins, 30 silver coins, and 98 copper coins" have opened up a new path.

     There are still 92 days and 12 hours left to survive. As a new Goblin Craftsman, Ye Mo can try to "do it yourself and have enough food and clothing".

     This is her advantage in identity.

     If Ye Mo, who has mental control skills + mechanical engineer certificate + senior craftsman teaching and notes + goblin talent, can't even make a sword, she will really doubt whether her IQ is normal.

     Another important point is that craftsmen have a certain chance to break through the mental attribute value and strength attribute value when working.

     After a trip to the Magic Beast Forest, Ye Mo deeply understood that her combat power was too weak. The risk coefficient of killing Magic Beast alone was very high. Killing Magic Beast with other mercenary groups was uncertain and unknown.

     In short, finding ways to improve one's own strength is the key to survival.

     Not only in one or two copies, but also in the future N copies.

…

     With coins and plans, go to the bookstore.

     The magic bookstore is on the third floor of the Chamber of Commerce Castle, and it uses extended space magic.

     As soon as the door is opened, under the bright magic lights, the reddish-brown cherry wood bookshelves look endless, and books are neatly placed on the bookshelves.

     It is a bit similar to a school library.

     The books are all light yellow animal skin paper, and black magic potions are mainly used on them.

     The books in the bookstore are divided into several large blocks, about the history of the Celtic continent, elemental spells such as wind, electricity, fire, ice, and water, magic plants, low-, medium-, and high-level magic beasts, magic potions, etc.

     Very complete.

     Perhaps due to the threat of magic beasts, this world seems to have a spirit of educational inheritance. People are not afraid of "teaching apprentices and bad masters", but only hope that there will be more and more strong people.

     It's just that some knowledge cannot be learned by reading books by yourself, and some things will never be learned without talent.

     After Ye Mo roughly flipped through the history of the Celtic continent, she came to the magic array area, where there are books such as "The Production Process of Alchemy Dolls", "High-level Defense Array", and "Detailed Explanation of Advanced Magic Array".

     I want all the books.

     Unfortunately, she has limited time in this world, so it is impossible for her to learn every kind of magic.

     Ye Mo picked up a book called "Basic Magic Circles", which contains more than 1,000 magic circle drawings, which can be perfectly combined with Master Ian's craftsman notes to try to forge a variety of weapons.

     But craftsmen are just craftsmen.

     To be honest, in Ye Mo's opinion, Master Ian's craftsmanship is already very superb, and in many aspects it is better than alchemists, but there are still some shortcomings, such as the lack of magic theory.

     Knowing the results but not the reasons.

     Because goblins are born as magic insulators, they don't delve into magic circles. Craftsmen lack essential innovation. It would be more perfect if they could combine with alchemists.

     Ye Mo is essentially a mechanical design engineer, not a senior technician.

     So, she picked up another book called "Basic Principles of Alchemy".

     This book is very thick, the kind that can hit people on the head. Most of the first half is profound magic-related theories, and there are some typical cases in the back.

    

      "..."

     The book seller in the bookstore was a magic apprentice, who looked at the goblin in front of him with a strange look.

     The book "Principles of Alchemy" is said to be compiled from the notes of a legendary alchemist thousands of years ago. At that time, there were many people who were chasing after it.

     But the rather boring content deeply hit the confidence of the fans, and now even alchemy apprentices will not choose it.

     "1 gold coin and 50 silver coins."

     Magic books refuse to bargain.

     But you should save what you should save and spend what you should spend.

     Ye Mo gritted his teeth and paid the money. Now she had 2 gold coins + (50+18+20=88) silver coins + 98 copper coins in his pocket. She put 2 of the gold coins into the subsequent reserve fund.

     Left the Magic Chamber of Commerce.

     Passing by the Goblin craftsman's shop, she bought hundreds of kilograms of heavy iron ore, copper ore, stone, black crystal knife, blank paper and other materials for engraving arrays, and then returned to the underground world with a lot of bags.

     She let out a long breath. The world without light unexpectedly gave me the illusion of home. The goblins with green eyes, green skin and green hair were so friendly!

…

     Although it was unnecessary, the candles were still lit in the small dark room.

     Ye Mo felt that this was more ceremonial. She walked to the only small chair in the room and sat down, unfolding "Basic Principles of Alchemy", "Basic Magic Circles", and Master Ian's notebook one by one.

     First of all, to make a weapon, you have to come up with a design first, right?

     Ye Mo wanted to make a wind-type light sword and a wind-type bow first. The reason was that the cream-yellow wind-type mini fox gave her a lot of inspiration. Good product design requires inspiration.

     Before drawing, she first opened the more than 200 wind-type magic circles in "Basic Magic Circles". Different magic patterns have different effects, functions, biases, etc., which are recorded in detail in the book.

     Why didn't you write it?

     Ye Mo pulled out her strong curiosity from another book "Basic Principles of Alchemy", took out the black crystal knife and stone, and while carving the array, she searched and understood what was in the master's notes.

……

   【Survivor Ye Mo has broken through the critical value of spirit, and her spirit attribute is +1. 】

     After an unknown amount of time, Ye Mo has carved stones all over the floor, and the design drawings are a thick stack. The magic array has given too many inspirations, some are swords, some are bows, and there are more waste paper.

     When the design drawings are ready, to be honest, Ye Mo is a bit like modern computer software.

     Now she can only simulate the formation process of the weapon in her mind based on her own memory and Master Ian's diary, and write down the detailed procedures, list the required materials and equipment.

     Thank you Master Ian again.

     Although her notes did not directly record the basic characteristics of the materials, according to the forging process, Ye Mo can transform them from practice into clear data tables.

     It's just that the process is particularly brain-consuming.

   【Survivor Ye Mo has broken through the critical value of spirit, and her spirit attribute is +1. 】

     "Fortunately, the weapon has few parts, not to build a car or design a magical device, otherwise that would make me crazy."

     It's a bit crazy. But when Ye Mo successfully solved a problem, figured out a doubt, or drew a blueprint, the feeling of happiness could not be described in words.

     The evidence is that she drank the precious potion for this - the advanced magic recovery potion.

     Interest is the best teacher for learning!

     When the attention is focused for a long time, the mental strength is also the easiest to break through the threshold value.

     Three points have been added, right?

     It's faster than going to the Magic Beast Forest to fight for life and death.

...

     After everything was done, Ye Mo carried some materials and blueprints, bypassed the winding aisles, came to the goblin work area, and looked for workshops of all sizes.

     Even if the high-level craftsmen's workshops are not operated by themselves, many are still not idle, hiring junior craftsmen and craftsmen apprentices to work for them, mainly because they can't afford to rent.

     Ye Mo set her sights on the intermediate and junior goblin craftsmen, and discussed with them the issue of renting equipment.

     It's time to start the reserve fund of 2 gold coins. If it doesn't succeed, you have to be a "coolie" again.

     Despite this, Ye Mo still received many rejection messages and sincere advice from goblin seniors. After all, this model is very new to goblins and they have never encountered it before.

     And most goblins are not short of money, and 2 gold coins are not much.

     For this reason, Ye Mo shamelessly brought out Master Ian's evaluation of herself, and attached "carving evidence", adding a finished product and more than ten drawings.

     After six consecutive refusals or direct rejections, a female goblin craftsman named Miranda finally agreed.

     But there was a condition that Miranda had to watch and supervise her production process.

     Ye Mo answered firmly: "Yes."

     Perhaps she was a little skeptical and uncertain at the beginning, but as she faced more and more setbacks, it aroused her long-lost competitive spirit and completely awakened her confidence in her mechanical professional skills!

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