Path of Light.

Chapter 879 880. Armor Base Material
Master Maggs was wearing a pair of leather overalls, with his strong upper body naked, and his muscular arms were covered with scars from burns.

At this moment, he was hammering a piece of mithril shoulder armor with a square hammer.

Amid the clanking sounds, you can see a perfect arc on the shoulder armor. In order to ensure the sturdiness of the shoulder armor, it is even layered with additional layers.

After the shoulder armor is hammered out into a delicate outline with steel plates, a layer of wool felt is added inside, and then a layer of linen is sewn on to complete it.

Such armor will feel comfortable to wear. If the shoulder armor is made of magic metal, some magic patterns and runes can be engraved on the surface of the shoulder armor to give the armor some magical properties.

Generally speaking, these magic arrays will give priority to the strength and resistance of the armor.

In addition to this, it also enhances the user's strength and endurance.

The most common magic patterns and arrays are almost all able to release magic such as "protective shield", "ice shield", "fire shield", "strength enhancement" and "endurance enhancement".

Armor engraved with magic patterns and magic arrays is called magic pattern structure.

Of course, the magic pattern array cannot be replicated in the forging workshop.

These magic patterns and magic arrays are almost all carved on the surface of the armor by the inscription masters themselves. This kind of magic pattern carving is relatively difficult, but once it is made, it is not easy to damage. Even if the magic array is destroyed, there is a great chance that it can be repaired.

There is also a simpler method, which is for the inscription masters to engrave the magic pattern array onto the Warcraft leather, then trim the Warcraft leather into a specific shape, and finally adhere it to the armor, which can also achieve the effect of magic pattern construction.

However, this kind of magic pattern array drawn with Warcraft leather is easily damaged when stuck on armor...

Therefore, inscription masters who engrave magic runes prefer to use armor made of magic metal as the base material to make magic rune structures by themselves. This is also the mainstream magic rune structure in the magic market.

Occasionally, some armor parts such as wrist guards and greaves will also use magic pattern array patches made of Warcraft leather to enhance the functionality of the entire set of magic pattern structures.

Now the forging workshop is currently trial-producing this type of full-coverage heavy armor made of magic metal. This kind of heavy armor is called magic base material by inscription masters. Only the heavy armor with successful engraving can be called magic pattern structure. The heavy armor with failed engraving is just an ordinary armor with patterns.

The magic base materials created by the forging workshop can actually be directly put into the magic market.

In the Elven Continent, this type of white magic heavy armor can be divided into four categories: thorium, mithril, magic copper, and magic black iron. The elves love mithril...

There are two mithril mines in the Sudaso Mountains on the Pagisto Plateau, and Miss Qian Ning is the owner of these two mithril mines.

The topic has gone a bit off track, let’s continue talking about these heavy armors.

In fact, there are currently two ways to use magic metal to make heavy armor.

The first is to use Mithril to make a set of heavy armor. This kind of heavy armor is relatively expensive. In addition, Mithril is weak in defense strength. Inscription masters need to use "strengthening magic" to strengthen the armor.

The second type came from the dwarf kingdom. The dwarves would add ordinary metals to the magic metals. The alloy smelted in this way not only has extremely high strength, but also has good magic conductivity. The most important point is that the cost is greatly reduced.

Of course, the disadvantages are also very obvious, that is, the magic conductivity will be weakened, this type of armor cannot be used to make advanced magic pattern structures, and the magic effect of the magic pattern array on the armor will also be weakened to a certain extent. In fact, the half-blood elf warriors of the mine guard group were equipped with advanced standard mithril armor made by the Silver Moon Elf Kingdom.

Although these mithril armors also have some magical properties, they cannot be called magic pattern constructs.

The current development direction of Roy's forging workshop is to create heavy armor that can serve as the base material for magic and put it into the magic market of the Elf Continent.

At present, a simple set of magic pattern construction base materials in the magic market of the Elf Continent requires at least twenty magic crystals.

Roy had set his sights on this market, so he asked Mulin to select several dwarf forging masters to create this type of heavy armor base material.

Research in this area has been going on for a long time in the forging workshop.

During this period, a plane war broke out, and the forging workshop was fully focused on creating ordinary ring-type Siren armor, so the development of heavy armor had to be halted.

Now that the Dark Faceless Legion has been driven away by the Siren Legion, the Magic Heavy Armor has naturally been taken out for research again...

The one who made a breakthrough in this regard was Master Forger Mags. He made bold innovations in the selection of materials for heavy armor, forcing mithril plates and ordinary steel plates together to form a new high-strength composite metal plate, while also ensuring the metal plate's excellent magic conductivity.

This time, Mulin took Roy to visit the forging workshop. In addition to letting Roy understand the current scale of the forging workshop, he also wanted him to see the heavy armor made of this magical metal plate.

Everyone only looked at these silvery steel plates, but couldn't actually make out anything.

Master Mags put down the hammer in his hand, threw the unfinished shoulder armor aside, and took Roy to a small warehouse behind his workbench. The shelves in the warehouse were filled with sets of mithril armor without engraved patterns.

Master Mags said to Roy very angrily:

"Boss, please take a look at these ready-made heavy armors. They are made of mithril composite plates. There are more than twenty sets in total."

"I have been applying to have several inscription masters engrave these heavy armors into magic pattern structures to test the effects of these heavy armors, but until now, I have not received a clear answer..."

Roy glanced at Mulin and Jerome, the mine owner, and then said to Master Mags:

"Master Mags, I can take these magic pattern constructs with me. It will probably take at least a few months before the inscription master can give me any feedback."

"If successful, magic heavy armor and magic light armor will be the main products of the forging workshop for a long time to come."

"I came to the forge for another thing this time. I need you to design a set of armor suitable for the sirens to wear. Different from the ring-type siren armor, this set of armor is designed to provide them with a certain degree of protection when fighting with other siren warriors..."

When the dwarf craftsmen surrounding Master Mags heard that Roy was going to continue making the Siren Armor, they couldn't help but complain in a low voice.

(End of this chapter)