Wasteland Lord: Starting from Thirty Days to Live

Without further ado, Vittorio got straight to the point.

"You know woodworking, right?"

Ethan raised his eyes, looking half-dead.

"Yes, I can, but I haven't done it in a long time. Who told you that?"

He paused for a moment, a look of disgust on his face.

"Could it be that Edmund guy...?"

Ethan was one of the few people in the camp who showed Edmund absolutely no respect.

However, Vittorio wasn't paying much attention to these things, and he immediately interrupted Ethan.

"It has nothing to do with Edmund. I came to see you because I want to show you something."

Vittorio pulled a roll of parchment from his pocket, on which he had already drawn the blueprint in his mind.

Ethan glanced at it twice and then dismissed it with disdain.

"Ordinary farm tools? You want me to make them for you? Sure, that's simple, but we don't have any iron in our camp. We can only use wood, and the finished product will be very poor."

Vittorio gave a subtle smile, offered no rebuttal, and then pulled out the second drawing.

When Ethan saw the drawing, his brows furrowed and his expression became serious.

"These are... blueprints for weapons and armor?"

"The weapon is alright, but the structure of this armor is so ingenious, I've never seen anything like it before."

Vittorio curled the corners of his mouth into a smile.

Don't even mention Ethan, I'd never seen anything like this before today.

The second blueprint Vittorio produced was the blueprint for making armor from an exoskeleton, which he had obtained from the system.

Because the blueprint uses animal bones as its raw material, its construction is in the form of woven armor.

The so-called braided armor is made by dividing the raw materials for making armor into small pieces, and then weaving them together with soft rope knots to form a full-body armor.

Vittorio rummaged through his memories, combined with his observations of the guards around him over the past two months.

He confirmed that armor-piercing technology did not appear to have been developed on a large scale in this world.

Rather, like in medieval Europe, people here preferred chainmail.

Chainmail is a type of armor made by stringing together iron rings one by one to form a series of small iron rings, which then cover the entire body.

This chainmail looks like a soft iron bodysuit. Its advantage is that it is very effective against light attacks such as slashing and thrusting, allowing these attacks to slide off the chainmail.

However, its drawbacks are also very obvious. This type of chainmail is not tough enough and is helpless against heavy attacks, such as hammer blows and blunt force strikes.

Therefore, the chainmail here generally adopts the form of inner plates and outer chains, with large-scale plate armor as the inner lining for the bottom layer of defense and chainmail as the outer layer for light defense.

Although Vittorio didn't know how to make armor, he had common sense.

He knew that the production of this armor required high-grade iron ore and high coal production in the local area.

The presence of this armor indicates that the Neo-Augustus Kingdom was rich in iron and coal mines.

However, this process cannot be replicated in Vittorio's territory.

Because there are no blacksmiths or large-scale iron smelting facilities here!

Just recently, he was worried about the lack of iron in his territory, which led to outdated agricultural tools and insufficient weapons.

But now the emergence of the system blueprint has given him a new direction.

If iron is not available, bone can be used. If plate armor or chainmail is unavailable, woven lamellar armor can be crafted.

The system, through analysis of the bone bear's skeleton, had already explained the characteristics of this skeleton to him.

[Alien exoskeleton: High strength (close to steel), low toughness (easily cracks), lightweight.]

In other words, this type of bone has too little toughness and is not suitable for covering a large area of ​​the body like plate armor.

If it were worn like plate armor, it could split open in the middle if subjected to a blunt force trauma.

On the contrary, if a lacquer armor is used, this weakness of low bone toughness will be weakened, and the advantages of high strength and light weight will be amplified infinitely.

And the most, most, most important step is that the lamellar armor is relatively simple to make.

All you need is a basic hammer and axe to break the bone pieces, carve out the approximate shape, and then use sandpaper to grind the bone pieces into uniform sizes before weaving them with rope knots.

In conclusion, braided armor is the optimal method currently available from the system for using this skeleton.

In fact, this kind of woven lamellar armor was the most popular armor technique in ancient East Asia in the past. It was a pinnacle of armor art developed by people in the era of cold weapons, when they were limited by iron and coal resources.

Therefore, when these blueprints appeared in Ethan's eyes, Ethan immediately perked up.

He was no longer the nonchalant, even indifferent person he once was; his eyes were fixed intently on the blueprint, as if he wanted to bury his head inside it and study it carefully.

"What do you want to use to make this armor? We don't have iron in our River Bend area."

"Of course it's those bones, they're displayed outside the castle, you should have seen them last night."

As a craftsman, Ethan quickly grasped the intricacies of the matter and a subtle smile appeared on his face.

"That's interesting."

But his smile quickly faded, because Leo immediately pulled out a third blueprint.

"besides?"

Vittorio slammed the third drawing onto the table with a "thud".

If Ethan was completely mesmerized when he saw the second blueprint, then seeing this third blueprint now is enough to make him stop breathing.

"What...what is this?"

"Recurve compound bow."

"Recurve compound bow?"

Ethan is a carpenter. Don't let his current appearance fool you; he is indeed an excellent carpenter.

Making farm tools and furniture was child's play for him; in fact, making bows and arrows was what truly showcased his abilities.

Almost all the bows and arrows in the camp were made by him.

Although he was reluctant to admit it—even the one Edmund often used was made by him.

Limited by his vision and technical limitations, the bows and arrows he made were all single-piece straight-draw longbows.

When the bow is placed naturally, it only shows a slight curve; it only bends when fully drawn.

The speed and power of this bow and arrow depended entirely on the strength of the wood used to make it; it was not actually a very advanced form of weaponry.

Ethan also tried to improve this traditional bow and arrow, but before he could complete the improvement, monsters attacked the Reach.

His improvements were forced to stop, and for the next thirteen years he lived a life of aimless wandering.

But at this moment, today, he sees a completely disassembled composite bow blueprint right in front of him, with every component and every step thoroughly analyzed.

He never imagined that what he had dreamed of for the first half of his life, which he had completely given up on, would come back to him in this form.

Ethan's eyes widened, and his whole body trembled with excitement.

He looked up at Vittorio as if he had seen a ghost.

"Where...where did you get this kind of thing?"