The Void Walker Starting from Xumi

Chapter 62, Gold (500+ additional chapters)

"Speaking of which, it's Alechino's birthday next. Do you want to give her something?" Xiamian asked Fugate.

"Well~how about the weapons?" asked Fugate.

He didn't have anything else to give her. After all, it seemed like Alecino had everything she needed. If he had to say what she lacked, it might be a best friend or something like that.

Fugate also investigated Alechino's past and knew that she once had a best friend, but in the end she killed her herself.

Or it can be said that she committed suicide. Fugate obtained two results through divination: suicide and being killed by Alechino.

If someone from this world, they might think that their divination was wrong, but the knowledgeable Fugate easily got the answer, which was that the best friend committed suicide with the help of Alecino.

"Good idea, but ordinary weapons are not as sophisticated as the ones she has. Your ceramic steel weapons are not enough." Xia Mian said.

Although Tao Gang's weapon is top-notch among four-star weapons, it is far inferior to the miraculous five-star weapons.

Because five-star weapons are also called artifacts in the world of Teyvat, at the very least they are weapons that are endowed with power.

The material itself may be ordinary, but with the blessing of power, even the simplest and most fragile substance has a strength that cannot be matched by ceramic steel.

What Alecino is holding now is the weapon that was once transformed from the skeleton of the Crimson Moon. No one knows where the Crimson Moon shape was found from, but as if it was fate, it suddenly appeared in Alecino's hands one day.

It usually looks like a spear, but once it comes into contact with the blood of the Red Moon Royal Family in Alechino's body, the entire spear is like being injected with chicken blood and directly turns into a huge sickle.

The powers attached to it are moon, blood, fire and harvest.

Of course, the shape of the red moon is entangled with not only power, but also a curse that is basically the same as the one on Alechino.

Fortunately, Alecino can now easily use psychic power to suppress this curse.

"I'm going to squeeze out some refined gold to make weapons for her." After mixing refined gold and ceramic steel in the best ratio, Fgate found that its quality was increasing exponentially. Just adding less than 10g of refined gold to one ton of ceramic steel could double or triple its various parameters.

The best ratio is to add about 1.3 kg of refined gold to one ton of ceramic steel. The specific amount depends on the purity of the refined gold and the performance of the ceramic steel. The higher the performance of the ceramic steel, the more can be added, and the higher the purity of the refined gold, the less needs to be added.

The alloy with the best ratio is just as Fgate had estimated before. As long as the person wearing such power armor does not directly break into the battlefield of the Heavenly Law level, then there is basically no need to worry too much about his own safety.

No wonder the metal like refined gold is so valuable (a 20kg brick of the highest purity refined gold is worth a Garden Planet, and a Garden Planet is approximately equal to three Forging Planets, and a Forging Planet is approximately equal to five Hive Planets).

Thinking of this, Fuget couldn't help but praise the emperor again. This big man was really generous. The gold bricks he gave were all smelted gold bricks of the highest purity. Fuget could use them directly, and he was given two pieces at a time.

"I seem to have heard the system say before that prayers can carry some information or something."

"I wonder if I can exchange some knowledge of other worlds for some gold bricks or something like that if I give them to you."

Fget sorted out his knowledge and found that the only things that could be used to exchange for refined gold were probably [Alchemy] and some potion formula principles he developed.

Especially [H Emotion Suppressant], it is estimated that it will be very popular among human forces in that universe.

After all, in that world, human emotions are equivalent to guiding the demons in the subspace.

If they are not careful, they will be bewitched by the evil god of the subspace. Obviously, they need something like [H Emotion Suppressant] which is cheap, easy to use and easy to mass produce.

However, there is also a problem, that is, after long-term use, it is easy to have emotional outbursts.

Fugate will also write this side effect into the document. I believe that the big golden guy should be able to improve the emotion inhibitor with his witchcraft wisdom.

After all, it is not a difficult thing, all it requires is some minor biological modifications.

If Fgate, who has some knowledge of the golden big guy's biology, can do it, the golden big guy can naturally do it as well.

Fugate rushed to the smelter.

Currently, the smelters are producing ceramic steel in full swing, but most of them still do not meet the standards. Only some ceramic steels smelted entirely by experienced workers can reach the level of standard ceramic steel.

Naturally, ceramic steel is not only needed by Fugate. Many people in the Hearth House also need it as armor and weapons, and the engineers of the Fontaine Science Academy need it even more.

So the ceramic steel that didn't meet Fugate's standards just flowed out.

You should know that after Cares got the ceramic steel, it had already attracted the attention of many engineers from Fontaine Scientific Research Institute.

Many Fontaine mechanical engineers who study machinery come to the smelter to order ceramic steel for their research.

There is also the largest machinery factory in Fontaine, Mello Petersburg, which also ordered a large amount of ceramic steel from Fugate.

It seems to be a place like a machine tool and a forging table that is intended to be used to upgrade the processing mechanism.

Well, it is not used to upgrade the guard mechanism, because ceramic steel is a bit too expensive.

Moreover, the design of the guard mechanism is already very mature, and a slight change will change its center of gravity, which is actually not good.

But none of this has anything to do with Fugate.

In his own forge, Fugate began to fuse ceramic steel and fine gold in the best ratio, without actually spending much fine gold.

Then the shaping and sharpening, spiritual energy blessing, runes engraving, and fine forging and strengthening are all done in one go.

"This spear is made of ceramic steel and refined gold, weighing about 40 pounds. Once elemental power is injected into it, a blade can be extended like the shape of the red moon." Fugate injected water elemental power, and then a high-density water element blade slowly extended from the spear. Together with the original spear, it formed a water-blue sickle.

Of course, injecting spiritual energy is also possible.

After Fuget dispersed the water elemental force and injected spiritual energy, although the spear did not change on the surface, the blade-like force field was actually extended.

Fugate experimented with the substandard ceramic steel.

It easily left scratches on the ceramic steel, and a full-strength attack even inserted the force field directly into the ceramic steel.

"Although it's just substandard ceramic steel, its power is still a bit excessive."

"But the invisible psychic field is a bit bad. It's easy to cause accidental injuries. Let's add some runes that reflect the color of the essence."

The main color of the spear in Fuget's hand turned into gray and purple-black, with some black and white patterned lines entwined, which looked very awkward. As for the blade, it turned into blue, the color of Fuget's psychic essence.

Fuget retracted his spiritual energy, and the spear instantly turned gray-gold.

This is the original color of the spear.

"I hope that guy will like it. Let the system identify it."

[Made-in-Gold Spear and Scythe, a five-star long-handled weapon, carrying the powers of solidity, tenacity, sharpness, and breaking laws]

"Power? I don't remember infusing it with power." Fuget asked curiously, "Where did this power come from?"

[As a four-star ultimate material, fine gold itself has certain powers. Your forging and strengthening of it by the Law of Teyvat (fine forging) only guide the power out of it. ]

"Okay, I don't even want to give it away." Fugate complained.

Although the Adamantite Spear and Scythe ranked last among the five-star weapons, Fuget was still very satisfied with it. After all, he was currently using the four-star weapon, the Slayer, which he had made casually. ······
"Did these little guys give you a 'gecko'? Do you want me to modify it?" Fuget said, holding the adamantium spear. "This is my birthday gift to you."

"A nice-looking and useful spear." Fuget said with a smile, "Fortunately I am not very good at using this kind of weapon, otherwise I would really be reluctant to give it to you."

"The transformation of the gecko is unnecessary, it is very heavy... but it feels very good, and it gives me the feeling that it is not inferior to the red moon shape." Alechino said in surprise, "Is this your latest achievement? Can it be forged in batches?"

"But you said you are not good at using this kind of weapon. I don't agree with that." Alechino's gun skills were taught by Fuget, and she knew very well that Fuget's gun skills were also excellent.

"Unfortunately, no." Fugate said, "The material is too precious."

This thing is up to standard ceramic steel, and to make ceramic steel that meets the standard requires a large amount of Fontaine's specialty crystal ore. This ore is a variant of crystal ore. This dazzling prism was once a gift from the messenger of the sky. The faint light that shines day and night is a symbol of the blessing of the white moon, giving people the authority to forge strange things.

The ore core containing a large amount of pure substances is the main additive material for Forgate forged ceramic steel. It is worth mentioning that the main material of ceramic steel is marcasite.

Of course, non-core materials are not wasted either. The condensed crystal ores from non-core materials are also better than ordinary crystal ores. These ordinary condensed crystal ores will be forged into a lower grade and cannot reach the standard of ceramic steel.

In comparison, ordinary crystal ore is much worse. There have been experiments in forging with crystal ore before, but unfortunately, the forged ceramic steel is very fragile and can only reach 63% of the standard at most. The limit of ordinary condensed crystal without the core is 87%.

Only the mineral core at the center of the condensed crystal can reach more than 98% of the standard, and at most 115% of the standard.

This fluctuating value represents the difference in skills and experience of the smelting master.

115% is the value achieved with the personal participation of Fuget, which has reached the limit of the material and the limit of forging by mortals in Teyvat.

The half-ton molten steel in the furnace was prepared by Fugate to be used to make some protection for the core areas of the power armor. After being mixed with refined gold, the performance would be amplified exponentially.

However, after that steelmaking experience, Fugate said that he never wanted to make another furnace of steel because it was so labor-intensive.

"Is there no way to solve the problem of material scarcity?" Alechino went to the training ground to experiment, and after destroying the Slayer in Fget's hand, he still couldn't help asking.

"No, well, the precious materials mixed in your spear are worth as much as the entire city of Fontaine." Fuget said sincerely.

This is based on the relatively high value of the world of Teyvat. If it were an ordinary planet, the materials contained in the spear would be worth enough for a medium-sized country.

Although Fugate was telling the truth, Arlecino still didn't believe it. After all, this kind of thing was beyond Arlecino's imagination.

So the matter was left unresolved.

"Let's change the subject. How is the financial situation of Hearth House these days?" Fugate asked.

"It's still relatively healthy. I plan to take some time out to go to Inazuma and take over the Hearth House forces there." Alechino said, "The person in charge of the branch there is a die-hard fan of the previous generation of servants, so I want to complete the process as soon as possible."

"Inazuma." Fuget was still very curious about Inazuma, so he said, "I heard that Inazuma has her own special forging method. I wonder if the forging method there can improve the output of ceramic steel."

"There is no improvement." said Alechino

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"Because Inazuma's specialty, jade steel forging, relies on the technology of Fontaine, which is relatively backward." Alechino said, "Because Fontaine has sent many engineers to help them inspect the smelting furnace core over the years."

"The magical materials they have are completely dependent on a special type of crystallized bone marrow. It is said that this is a special material that was extracted after the death of a demon god."

"As long as you pay attention to the relevant information, you will know about this kind of thing." Alechino complained that Fugate did not care about the relevant information about Fontaine.

After Alecino said this, Fugate immediately searched his memory bank using the key words.

This does seem to be the case, and the machine called the Imperial Shadow Furnace seems to be using technology improved by the doctor hundreds of years ago.

After hearing this, Fuget suddenly lost all desire to go and study Inazuma.

Fuget still recognized the doctor's mechanical level. Everything was good, except that it was a bit laborious. Well, literally laborious.

"When are you going to go?" asked Fugate.

"Let's prepare for a few more months. I heard that guy has prepared a very grand trap for me. Besides, Inazuma is different from other countries. That place advocates the use of force, and General Raiden happens to be a god who possesses absolute force." Alechino said.

"Then be careful." Fuget said, "But then again, doesn't that guy know your strength? Why are you so confident that you will be killed by his trap?"

"Hmph~ It's nothing more than the likes of [Rooster] and [Doctor] standing behind him." Alechino didn't care and basically told all the information he had investigated.

Alecino's [family members] are scattered throughout the Fatui. These [family members] will quietly collect intelligence from the entire Fatui, and then Alecino will summarize it.

Although the actions of [Rooster] and [Doctor] were very secretive, they still could not be hidden from Alecino's eyes.

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A few months passed in a flash, but the recent news from Inazuma made Alechino a little confused.

Alechino has already figured out the guy's arrangements and is preparing to teach him a lesson.

But at this time, something suddenly happened.

That is, Inazuma intends to close the country, and at that time she might mobilize the power of General Raiden to blockade the entire Inazuma. This news was brought by well-informed businessmen.

I'm afraid Inazuma has already started to lock down the country.

Although the Fatui have a way to pass through, that high-tech Fatui fleet basically belongs to the rich and the roosters, and these two people will not let her go to Inazuma to receive the power of Inazuma's Hearth House.

After all, they also need some suitable sacrifices to maintain their own interests.

Several other Hearth Houses had already been taken back by Arlecino, leaving only the one on Inazuma's side, and it couldn't be taken back again, so they blocked Arlecino's way, which was a convenient thing to do anyway.

Alechino originally wanted to go there by merchant ship, but unfortunately, there was now a national isolation order and no normal merchant ship was willing to go there.

His application to the Winter Palace for permission to board the Fatui's ship was rejected again, and now he can only stay in Fontaine and sulk.

(According to the time calculation, Arlecino was about 29 years old when she met the traveler, and Linny and Linnet were about 18 years old when they met the traveler. So six to seven years from the beginning of the Fontaine plot should be the time when Inazuma locked herself in the country.)
"Does that mean we can't go there?" Fugate asked. "Is there no other way except the Fatui's ship?"

"There are some. The merchant caravans of Inazuma's distant countries, that is, the shogunate's own merchant caravans, should be unimpeded." Alechino said, "But I will not be allowed to board the ships of distant countries. Apart from that, there are no other ships."

Alechino did not go to Inazuma alone, but brought a certain number of elite men with him.

Even many of their elite men have already gone there.

Thinking of this, Fuget said, "What about the people before?"

"I asked some children serving in the Fatui advance team to pass on the message and let them stay in hiding for a while." Alechino didn't have a good solution for this. It seemed that those elite troops would not be able to come back for the time being.

"It's good that it has been arranged. There are eight out of ten things in life that are not satisfactory... You should not take it too seriously." Fugate really didn't know how to comfort Arlecino.

"Alas, what a pity..." Alechino sighed in a low voice.

"Let's keep this account and settle with them later." Xiamian comforted him. "But Fugate, why did you come out again? Aren't you engraving runes on the power armor?"

"Uh~" Fuget scratched his head and his momentum instantly weakened. He said, "I'll go right away."

(End of this chapter)