From the Abyss Invasion to the Blasting Star.

Chapter 250: Competition in the Three Major Fields of Quenching, Forging and Inscription

In the jewel workshop.

Su Muyu sat in front of the workbench, holding a gem in his left hand and an inscription pen in his right hand, concentrating on engraving a rune circuit.

But there is one thing that is very strange.

She kept her eyes closed while doing the inscription.

Yes, both her eyes were closed, which was very strange.

Behind her, a double-headed bird stood there, its scarlet energy feathers floating gently, and it was also focused and motionless.

When Lu Heng saw her expression, he immediately understood what was going on.

Her initial talent is [Summoned Creature Vision], which is the vision of the double-headed bird, which is the same as her own vision.

Moreover, the Chongming bird has stronger eyesight.

In front of the Chongming bird, there is an eyepiece specially designed for micro-carving.

The function of the eyepiece is to magnify vision. Combined with the Chongming bird's already strong eyesight, it can see the fine lines on the surface of the gem clearly.

The engraving skills of the inscriber are somewhat similar to an original human skill, that is, micro-carving.

They all carve the most detailed patterns on the surface of the gemstone, and ensure that the rune circuit is complete.

This process is difficult.

The inscription master is required to have very high perception.

Moreover, the rune circuit to be engraved on the entire gem is very complex. If there is even the slightest mistake, the entire gem will be scrapped.

At the beginning, Su Muyu's failure rate was a bit high, but as his skills became more and more proficient, it gradually improved.

Lu Heng knew the inscription master very well and knew that he must not be disturbed when he was engraving the rune circuit.

So Lu Heng stood quietly at the door, looking at her profile.

It feels so familiar. Su Muyu was also an inscription master in his previous life, but he did not become an inscription master at this point in time, but half a year later.

She was indeed talented in her secondary profession as an inscriptionist and could sit quietly for a whole day.

When Lu Heng leaned against the door frame, waiting quietly.

Master Guru suddenly ran over and said happily: "Miss Su, please ask Lu Heng to show you the Aurora Blade. We have forged a magic weapon."

After he finished shouting, he turned around and ran out, telling everyone he met that he had forged an S-class magic weapon.

There was no longer any of the longing and composure that he had just had in the inheritance room.

Lu Heng thought Su Muyu would be frightened and the gem in his hand would be ruined.

As a result, she gently took back the inscription pen, put the gem back into the box, picked up the ballpoint pen and made a mark on the inscription drawing, preparing to come back and continue later.

She packed up her things, stood up, rolled her eyes at Lu Heng, and asked, "You've been standing behind me for so long, why don't you say anything?"

"I'm afraid of disturbing you." Lu Heng spread his hands.

"I saw it a long time ago." Su Muyu has the reconnaissance ability of the Chongming Bird, and every move around her is under her monitoring.

She saw everything, including the look of Master Guru running over excitedly.

She smiled and asked, "Didn't you forge an S-level weapon? Why don't you take it out and show it to us?"

Lu Heng flipped his palm and took out the Aurora Blade and handed it over, saying, "It's better than expected. But I used up both dragon horns, and I wanted to leave one for you."

Su Muyu raised an eyebrow and said, "It's good enough to be able to forge it successfully. I also want to save materials. I'm not in a hurry for my weapon."

Relatively speaking, she pays more attention to gems that can increase attributes.

She glanced at the attributes and her eyes lit up: "This Dragon Breath Slash is a new ability, right? It's so powerful, it's on par with Solar Wind."

At this moment.

A voice called out from downstairs: "Lu Heng, come down quickly and try the power of the sword. I've called everyone together."

Lu Heng walked to the front yard of the castle and saw that Gollum had called everyone from the Quenching Castle over.

Most of the Tempering Masters who have obtained the Quenching Fort pass are here.

Gao Yuankui, Yuan Hecheng, and Yuan Hecheng's daughter Yuan Yaoyao happened to be here today and were all called over by Guru.

With the appearance of a second quenching furnace in the Lionheart Empire, the furnace in the Quenching Fort is no longer unique.

In order to improve the competitiveness of Quenching Fort, Lu Heng asked the Fire Emblem Club to expand the scale of recruiting Quenching Masters, so now the number of Quenching Masters in Quenching Fort has exceeded twenty.

Except for eating and sleeping, these people spend almost all their time in the Quenching Fort.

Now everyone was called to the front hall by Guru, waiting to watch Lu Heng test the sword.

When Lin Zeyu heard the news, he ran back excitedly from outside.

"How is it? How is it? Has it started? Is it really S-rank?"

Guru began to direct everyone's positions: "Stand back, stand back, don't go beyond this line, otherwise you will get hurt."

Everyone present looked at each other in bewilderment, as they had already retreated to the corridor.

The vestibule of the Quenching Fort is quite large, about four or five hundred square meters, but from what Gulu said, it is dangerous to stand so far away.

After driving everyone to the corridor, Guru waved to Lu Heng: "Okay, come here quickly and give it a try. Aim at the stone man in front."

In the courtyard of the castle stood a stone dummy with a sword stuck in it.

Lu Heng was not sure how powerful the Dragon Breath Slash was, so he glanced at Su Muyu, signaling her to pay attention to her defensive skills later.

Su Muyu understood, nodded, and stood in front of the crowd.

Lu Heng took three steps forward, raised the Aurora Blade high, took a deep breath, shouted loudly, and slashed out with the sword [Dragon Breath Slash].

Roar!
The shadow of a purgatory dragon appeared behind Lu Heng and let out a terrifying roar.

A burst of dragon's breath flame burst out from the sword blade, forming a sword light that slashed out horizontally.

In an instant, the dragon flame engulfed the fan-shaped area twenty meters in front. The rocks, ground, and walls were reduced to ashes in the sword light of the dragon flame.

The terrifying dragon's breath heat wave swept over. The people in the corridor were clearly not within the range of the dragon's breath, but the oncoming heat wave almost set their clothes and hair on fire.

"call!"

Everyone exclaimed, with expressions of shock on their faces.

Su Muyu quickly raised his hand and released the [Prism Force Field] to block the heat wave of the Dragon Breath Slash.

After the [Prism Force Field] ended, the heat wave of Dragon's Breath Slash had not yet ended, and other psychics hurriedly used defensive skills to resist the incoming high temperature.

What shocked everyone was that this heat wave was not the power of the Dragon Breath Slash, but the residual power that spread out.

Just the residual power of the Dragon Breath Slash has such a terrifying temperature. If you are within the attack range of the Dragon Breath Slash, wouldn't you be reduced to ashes like those stones?
The heat wave from the Dragon Breath Slash lasted for three minutes before being blown away by the strong wind created by the psychic.

After the residual heat dissipated, the entire lobby of Quenching Castle was completely unrecognizable.

Guru was not angry at all. Instead, he clapped his hands excitedly: "Great. The Black Iron Tribe has finally forged a magic weapon."

Several of the onlookers who were present were filming with their cell phones.

When this news gets out, Quenching Fort will surely become the focus of world attention once again.

Lu Heng looked at the castle's front yard that was burned beyond recognition, frowned and said, "We should try somewhere else."

Gollum didn't want to leave Quenching Castle, so he chose to stay here.

He waved his hand and said, "It's okay. This little damage is just a small matter for the Quenching Fort."

Lin Zeyu replied, "Master, rest assured. I will find someone to repair it right away. I guarantee it will be more beautiful than before."

"Then I'll leave it to you. I'm going to go back and continue studying forging technology." Guru was now full of confidence. He turned around and ran back, ready to continue studying forging technology and reach a higher level.

……

The next day, the news that Quenching Fort had forged an S-class magic weapon swept the world like a storm.

A video of the Dragon Breath Slash was exposed online, and its terrifying power was even stronger than that of the Fire Class ability.

What’s even more terrifying is that this is a divine skill that comes with the weapon.

In other words, it does not occupy a class or skill slot and is extremely powerful.

The weapon itself has this feature alone, which makes it priceless.

For the old money in the ASE All-Seeing Eye Alliance, money is just a number, and any combat power that can be bought with money is immediate combat power.

If it is a class or skill crystal core, there are restrictions on the ability of a psychic to obtain it.

For example, in terms of job rank, a psychic can only have one job rank at the same level.

The same goes for skill slots, which limit the number of skills a psychic can acquire.

But weapons are different, you can use them as soon as you get them.

Moreover, a psychic can have multiple weapons.

This is the characteristic of weapons and equipment.

After this news spread, those world-class tycoons began to look for channels and spend money to forge weapons.

This caused the price of forging materials to soar again.

However, these tycoons discovered that even if they spent a lot of money, they could not forge an S-level magic weapon, and even an A-level one was difficult to produce.

It seems that only the Quenching Castle can forge S-level magic weapons.

In fact.

S-class divine weapons need to be forged with divine materials. Even Master Gollum cannot forge an S-class divine weapon without materials like the Infernal Dragon Horn.

Therefore, no matter how much money these chaebols spend, the result will be the same.

This has led to more and more chaebols wanting to invest in the Fire Emblem Club, and some chaebols have even offered sky-high prices to acquire the Fire Emblem Club.

Lin Zeyu even wanted to sell it. After all, he was selling the Fire Emblem, not the Quenching Fort.

He talked to Lu Heng about this matter.

Lu Heng found it too troublesome, so after selling the Fire Emblem, he had to set up a new club, which was time-consuming and laborious.

Now that you have mastered the three major secondary occupational systems of quenching, forging, and inscription, you will make so much money in the future that your hands will be numb. Only by saving time can you focus on improving your combat effectiveness.

Only by mastering power can you keep this immense wealth.

If Lu Heng and his two companions were just small minions of level 10 or so now, Quenching Fort might have already changed its name.

"Will you still accept the forging orders? I've increased the price tenfold, and those chaebols haven't even frowned." Lin Zeyu came from a good family and had seen the world, but he had never seen anything this big.

Lu Heng has thought about this matter.

"Bundle the forging orders and quenching orders together, and allocate quotas for forging and quenching in proportion. Those who disagree will not be accepted." Lu Heng proposed this plan.

Lin Zeyu raised his eyebrows and asked, "What do you mean..."

"Yes, squeeze out the quenching market of the Lionheart Empire." Lu Heng nodded in agreement.

The quenching furnace of the Lionheart Empire was stolen by the bandits from the Dark Iron Dwarves.

This matter is rather subtle.

Since the Lionheart Empire is a follower of the White Eagle Federation, from their perspective, taking back the quenching furnace is helping the development of human civilization.

This matter is one where the head is determined by the butt, and the boundary between right and wrong is no longer clear.

Because from the perspective of civilization, human civilization and Dark Iron Dwarf civilization are two different civilizations.

Therefore, the bandit behavior of those countries will be recognized by many people.

Let’s not talk about right or wrong.

Lu Heng has no favorable impression at all on the business practices of Western countries.

Because in the previous life, after the Lionheart Empire obtained the quenching furnace, it began to use various means to compete for the Daxia quenching market.

They even resorted to such despicable means as assassinating the Tempering Master.

After monopolizing the market, Western countries began to control market prices and reap wealth.

last life.

Due to the loss of the quenching market in Daxia, some quenching masters were assassinated.

As a result, many hardening engineers in Daxia chose to join foreign hardening companies when invited by the chaebols of the ASE Alliance.

This further led to the quenching industry in Daxia becoming a desert with no market and no talent.

Knowing what those robbers would do, Lu Heng did not want the same thing to happen again, so he had to establish Daxia's dominance in the quenching field.

Lu Heng added: "After the inscription market develops, I will also bundle inscriptions together. I will establish a dominant position in all three fields. If the Academy of Sciences wants to get involved, we can cooperate. You can handle these matters."

When Lin Zeyu heard this vision, his eyes lit up.

He didn't think so much before, he just thought about how to make money and how to improve his strength.

As for what will establish the dominant position in the quenching field, this seems a bit far-fetched.

However, he could understand why Lu Heng did this, and asked, "You haven't told Guru the origin of the quenching furnace in the Lionheart Empire yet, right?"

Lu Heng nodded and replied: "Yes, I haven't told him yet."

Lin Zeyu scratched the back of his head and complained:

“When I saw the photo of the quenching furnace in the newspaper before, I felt that the quenching furnace in the Lionheart Empire was very similar to the one in the Quenching Fort, almost identical.

"It turns out that both quenching furnaces were built by Dark Iron Dwarves. They look exactly the same."

When the Lionheart Empire started promoting the quenching furnace, it made a huge fanfare and spent a lot of money to recruit quenching masters.

At that time, media from all over the world were reporting on this quenching furnace, and photos of this quenching furnace could be seen in every newspaper.

So the nature of this matter is a bit delicate.

It is equivalent to the Lionheart Empire stealing a quenching furnace from Gollum's people, which is not much different from robbing him.

Lu Heng hasn't figured out how to tell Guru about this, because this matter is difficult to handle.

In any case, it is necessary to first establish Daxia's dominant position in the quenching field.

Currently, there is only one forging master, Guru, in the forging field.

It would take time for an apprentice blacksmith among human superpowers to reach the level of Guru.

Relatively speaking, in the field of inscriptions, foreign psychics are competitive.

According to the time calculation, around this time, inscription masters will appear one after another.

Currently, there is only one inscription master in Quenching Castle, Su Muyu, and he is only an apprentice inscription master, on the same starting line as inscription masters from abroad.

So the competitive pressure will be greater.

Lu Heng had already considered this matter and arranged: “Use the name of Fire Emblem and Quenching Fort to recruit inscription masters. I want all three fields.

"In the early stage, use forging and quenching to raise the inscription master. Don't save on inscription materials. Raise the inscription master's level.

“It’s not enough to rely on Mu Yu alone, so we need to recruit a group of potential inscription masters.

"With the Fire Emblem brand here, it will definitely be attractive to inscription masters."

Lin Zeyu wrote them down one by one: "Okay, I'll do it when I get back."

He remembered something and asked, "By the way, last time I talked about acquiring Cyber ​​Batteries, I bought a batch and the price really went up. Those psychos really bought whatever I bought, and the premium was extremely high."

Lu Heng had just said it casually before: "The purpose is to teach them a lesson. Don't worry too much about how much you earn."

Lin Zeyu clenched his fist and said, "We have to cut them hard so that they will feel pain. Well, at what price should we sell them?"

"Five or six times is about right. If it's higher, those chaebols might become alert," Lu Heng replied.

"Okay, when the price reaches a certain level, I will sell this batch of cyber batteries and make some money first. What should I buy next?" Lin Zeyu now really wants to reap the benefits of those who have crossed over to the chaebols. If he can succeed, he will wake up laughing in his dreams.

"You decide based on the situation. Anyway, if they dare to follow us, we will cut them off until they are afraid. When they stop following us, we will take what we want. If we come a second time, we can get the Abyss Black Iron Ore. There is a lot of this ore, so we can go bigger." Lu Heng replied.

"Okay, let's go for the black iron ore next time." Lin Zeyu nodded in agreement.

……

As the news of Quenching Fort forging an S-class divine weapon spread, the Fire Emblem, representing Quenching Fort, began to recruit top temperers, blacksmiths, and inscriptionists.

When accepting business orders, the three types of orders are bundled and allocated proportionally.

This dealt a heavy blow to the quenching industry that the Lionheart Empire had just invested in, and quenching orders began to concentrate in Binhai.

As the number of quenching orders increased, the level of Daxia quenchers also rose rapidly.

Lu Heng’s professional experience as a senior hardener has also increased to (2250/3000), and he is getting closer to promotion.

Due to the continuous supply of inscription materials, Su Muyu's professional experience as an apprentice inscriber increased rapidly.

In less than half a month, he had gained enough professional experience as an [Apprentice Inscription Master] and was upgraded to become a formal [Inscription Master].

After being promoted, she asked for Lu Heng's [Mental Resistance Ring].

Two days later, Lu Heng received a new ring with an energy crystal inlaid on it, and the properties of the ring also changed.

【Mental Resistance Ring】

[Item Level: C-level]

[Specifications: diameter 20mm, weight 19g]

[Attribute: +2 Spirit]

[Inscription: +10% Fire Power]

[Special Effect: Mental Resistance]

[Mental Resistance: Increases resistance to mental attacks and mental pollution. When subjected to mental pollution or mental attacks, the effect is reduced by 50%.]

The level of the ring has been upgraded. In addition to the original mental resistance effect, it has added 2 points of mental attributes and an additional 10% increase in fire power.

This means that the power of Dragon Breath Slash has increased by 10%. The already terrifying power is now even more terrifying.

Seeing the improved attributes, Lu Heng asked with a smile, "Is this an upgrade for the secondary profession?"

Su Muyu showed a smug expression on his face, nodded and said: "Well, this is a gift for you. When I become a senior inscriptionist, I will help you replace the energy crystal with a dragon eye gem. Your current level is not enough."

"Come on." Lu Heng encouraged, put on the ring, felt a wonderful feeling flowing into his mind, and then saw that his mental attribute increased from 83 points to 85 points.

At this stage, even among psychics, there are not many whose mental attributes can reach 85 points.

Lu Heng is not a psychic, but he obtained a psychic skill [Mind Control] as a reward for a previous world quest.

To use this skill, you need to conduct a mental check with the target. The higher the mental attribute, the stronger the skill effect.

Therefore, these two points of mental power greatly enhance this skill.

When Su Muyu is promoted to a senior inscriptionist and inlays the dragon-eye gem into the ring, the added spiritual attribute will be 8 points, which is a greater improvement.

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