Earth Player chapter 30

 Irish Town (12)  

First gold coin income

     First, Ye Mo bought a batch of ore raw materials from Miranda Craftsman. The weight was over a thousand pounds, enough to make dozens of swords and bows. She spent all the copper coins in her pocket.

     "Melting, forging, milling, planing, grinding..."

     While checking the equipment, Ye Mo occasionally muttered some incomprehensible words, but Miranda Craftsman saw that she was also very carefully checking the safety performance of the equipment and tools. Knowing that this little girl was 100% serious, she felt relieved.

     Everything is ready.

     Start working!

     Working for Master Ian and doing it all by yourself are two different things. At least the first step Ye Mo did was not forging iron, but one of the preliminary preparations - making molds for casting.

     Molds are indispensable tools in modern industrial technology. They come in a variety of styles, some are rough and some are high-precision. The design requires an accurate database and considers the assembly of the overall product. In the Goblin world, the mold is just a preliminary transition product. Basically, they are square, rectangular, spherical, and elliptical. They must be processed, forged, and polished after casting.

     It is mainly caused by some power and human factors. Goblins are much stronger than earthlings.

     It is a very complicated process to improve it. First of all, we need to find materials that can be used based on the materials in this world and make a new series of equipment.

     Ye Mo just forged a sword. She didn't have a few years to bring industrial reform to the Goblin in this world.

     She honestly made two rectangular molds of different sizes, one for Goblin and one for ordinary humans.

     During the production process, thanks to Miranda's words that woke her up, otherwise Ye Mo might have forgotten that the goblin's bow and arrow are different in size from those of ordinary people.

     While waiting for the mold to be fired, Ye Mo mixed the raw materials containing iron, tin, mithril and other minerals in proportion, and then further smelted and processed them to remove the impurities contained in the raw materials.

     Add a little element catalyst in the process.

     The most important thing in this step is not the operation, but the understanding of the characteristics of the material.

     For example, if there is more tin, the result may be very brittle, even worse than a small wooden sword. When this world have more material than Earth, Master Ian's diary becomes very important.

     Despite this, Ye Mo's experimental time is limited, and she still uses the mainstream formula of this world, and secondary innovation is not counted.

     Pour the solution into the mold, cool and solidify it into shape, and a most primitive rectangular basic blank is completed. Simply test its performance, which is a little worse than expected.

     Put it aside for use.

     Ye Mo adjusted the formulation twice and finally made a batch of good rectangular blanks.

     The next process is the process of working in Master Ian's workshop, forging, quenching, scraping, grinding, etc., and the sword body is taking shape little by little.

     The first difficult part is quenching.

     Quenching is a heat treatment process that heats the surface of the workpiece quickly, makes the surface reach the quenching temperature before the heat is transferred to the inside, and then quickly quenches it to obtain an unbalanced structure.

     This process can improve the hardness, wear resistance and fatigue strength of the sword body, and the toughness of the sword heart.

     The difficulty lies in controlling the fire.

     The second most difficult grinding has been repeated countless times in Ye Mo's mind, and the stone carving has been repeated at least ten times. No other auxiliary tools are needed for carving, only a black crystal stone knife.

     Mental control provides perfect assistance, and the whole process is very smooth.

     If there was still a little doubt about Ye Mo before, now when Miranda saw this carving process like flowing water, she had to admire that there was really a super genius.

     Anyway, she couldn't do it, and she couldn't imagine that she could do this at this age.

     It's amazing.

     The smoother the process, the shorter the carving time. Ye Mo carved three different wind magic circles in a row before stopping, closing her eyes to rest for a while, and then continuing to repeat the carving work.

     Drank another bottle of high-level magic potion.

……

     Magic processing is the last step.

     Solvents are not a problem, but it consumes a lot of crystal cores. Poor Ye Mo not only plans to go the boutique route, but also plans to go to the small workshop next door to rent a magic array they are working on.

     Miranda stopped her: "Wait!"

     The little boss Miranda, who couldn't stand it, planned to invest in a magic array to process these low, medium and high quality swords, and then extract rewards from the products.

     Ye Mo said sincerely: "Thank you."

     "You're welcome. Your strength shocked me. You are worthy of my investment, Maria." Miranda praised sincerely.

     Three different clover plant solvents are matched with three different purple marrow mineral solvents. Clover plant solvents tend to make sensitive weapons, and purple marrow minerals prefer power weapons.

     Magic array configuration: 1 5th-level wind crystal core, 5 3rd-level wind crystal cores, and 20 1st-level wind crystal cores.

     Ye Mo took the first sword and thought it was pretty good, so she chose a medium-concentration clover plant solvent to soak it.

     Put it in the array.

     Hold your breath and wait.

     "Success! The first wind-type light sword is intermediate, very good." Miranda clenched her fist happily. It felt good to see the weapon completed bit by bit.

     Ye Mo's mouth corners rose 30%, "It's just intermediate, it's far behind Master Ian and his team."

     I couldn't help but stab the sword.

     'The strength attribute ⊕1 and the agility attribute ⊕3 are much worse than Master Ian. The pattern on the sword is a bit ugly, and there is a hook on the engraved magic array that is not round enough. The scabbard has not been made yet! '

     There are a lot of self-complaints in my mind, but I can't suppress the smile on my face. I'm really happy!

...

     The second time, Ye Mo tried to soak it in a high-concentration purple marrow mineral solvent, but after the sword entered the array, it couldn't withstand the magic power and broke into two pieces, which meant that she failed to forge the advanced sword.

     There was a little disappointment, but there was no frustration. This result was already good.

     Ye Mo still reflected on herself: "It shows that I have a lot of room for improvement. Keep up the good work!"

     Swords were produced one by one.

     The best sword has reached the upper-middle level, 3 intermediate swords, 7 primary swords, and while the magic power of the monster crystal core is still there, 1 intermediate sword and 3 primary swords were quickly made.

     The magic power of the monster crystal core was really squeezed out without a drop left, it was really very economical.

     Miranda: "..."

     Compared to the sword body, the scabbard is much simpler to make.

     Ye Mo, a patient with strong syndrome, used a mold to make some dark patterns on the scabbard that have no special function, purely for beauty, so that the crystal core is not wasted and can be inlaid as a decoration.

     While testing the sword, Ye Mo silently counted the data.

     Primary swords can often only increase one attribute value (strength ⊕ 1, or agility ⊕ 1). Intermediate swords may increase one attribute value (agility ⊕ 3), or rarely two attribute values (agility ⊕ 3 and strength ⊕ 1), and begin to have a little bit of wind attribute.

     "..."

     Miranda, speechless, answered the current market price of weapons: "High-level swords are 15 gold coins or more, intermediate swords are 5 to 10 gold coins, and primary swords are 1 to 3 gold coins."

     Very reasonable price.

     The upper-middle-level sword worth 9 gold coins is just the size of a goblin, so Ye Mo kept it for himself. A mid-level sword worth 7 gold coins must also be kept because of its size.

     Except for the cost of magic processing (2 gold coins + 255 silver coins + 243 silver coins ≈ 7 gold coins), the rest are all sold to Miranda together. The price will certainly be cheaper than the market price of the store.

     In short, 18 gold coins were obtained in the end.

     It must be emphasized that——

     During the test, Ye Mo also found an important problem. The system can stack the attribute points of the same equipment up to three times. If the number exceeds three, the three strongest equipments are taken. The equipment of the remaining weapons can be used, but the attributes will no longer be increased. 

     For example, dagger, fire axe, and spike shoes are exactly three equipment. Now sword, bow, and dagger can also be combined into three. Sword, bow, dagger, and spike shoes are combined. Only three of them are taken, and the remaining attributes are not superimposed, which is equivalent to ordinary weapons and equipment. 

     "It's the limitation of the system's cheat code."

     This is a foreseeable and understandable thing. Otherwise, Ye Mo can dress herself up as an equipment box and stack power infinitely. Then the battle in the dungeon is a competition of weapons.

…

     Strike while the iron is hot.

     Ye Mo drank the last bottle of high-level magic potion, bought a batch of new ore raw materials, as well as 1 5th-level wind crystal core, 5 3rd-level wind crystal cores, 20 1st-level wind crystal cores, etc.

     Start making wind bows and arrows.

     The bows and arrows must be made separately and then combined. Separating the bows and arrows separately is not simpler than the swords at all, and the difficulty of this combination is greater than 1+1.

     Therefore, Ye Mo spent twice as much time as making the sword.

     Finally, she made 1 intermediate bow (agility attribute ⊕ 3), 5 primary bows (agility attribute ⊕ 1), 5 intermediate arrows and 12 primary arrows, and a bunch of ordinary iron arrows without attributes.

     The coordination between the bow and arrow was all above good, and Miranda praised her talent in combining weapons.

     As for the bowstring, the most common one is the tendon of Magic Beast. Ye Mo spent 1 gold coin to buy a 4th-level magic tiger tendon from the goblin. She planned to keep the intermediate bow and intermediate arrows for her own use, and buy relatively better tendons.

     She kept 6 primary arrows and a small half of ordinary arrows, and sold all the remaining 4 primary bows and arrows of normal size.

     Although the results were a bit low this time, the market price of the bow was a bit higher than that of the sword, so at least she didn't lose money. After adding and subtracting the gold coins Ye Mo got in the end, she now has a total of 23 gold coins in her deposit.

     Miranda checked the two weapons and found no problems. She praised: "Maria, you will definitely have your own workshop soon!"

     "Miranda, the craftsman, I am very happy to receive your praise."

     Ye Mo was not yet overwhelmed by the gold coins. The equipment of the Goblin workshop is usually completed by craftsmen themselves, or by senior craftsmen. It is not possible to build it with 18 gold coins. She has only been in this world for 100 days, so it is not cost-effective to build a workshop.

     "I hope we can cooperate again if there is a chance."

     "If my equipment is empty, I will definitely tell my friends and all the neighbors that we have a little Goblin genius recently." Miranda nodded with a smile.

     The rest is unnecessary.

     Ye Mo: "...Thank you."

...

     Ye Mo went back to the small dark room and had a good sleep.

     The next day, I was woken up by my neighbor Lina, "Maria, Uncle Peter said that someone from the ground came to the shop to look for you."

     Ye Mo, with messy hair, blinked twice, and then her mind came to her senses. She realized that she was talking about Peter, the owner of the craftsman shop on the ground, and the people on the ground should refer to the Wild Wolf Mercenary Group.

     Ah, it has been four days since I separated from them, and I have no time to learn swordsmanship and archery.

     "I heard that Maria, you have become a qualified craftsman, so amazing! I want to work hard too!" Lina's eyes are very big. If you look closely, they are actually very clear, and the admiration and envy revealed are obvious at a glance.

     Ye Mo asked: "Did Uncle Peter tell you?"

     "No, no, no, it was Aunt Miranda." Lina shook her head quickly, "Aunt Miranda told Uncle Brant, Uncle Brant is the administrator of Living Area 1, he told everyone in Living Area 1, and the others..."

     Isn't this no different from the gossiping behavior of the aunts, and uncles in the alleys of Beijing in the 1980s?

     Lina also learned from Miranda that Ye Mo had made weapons to match the goblins. When she thought of Maria's parents, tears welled up in her eyes.

     She hesitated to speak, and finally did not ask anything, but said: "Maria, keep going!"

     "...Thank you."

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